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What made you climb that high? Eddie: (laughing) Yes I was high.

Eddie Vedder at the Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, Holland, 1992.

Eddie - 1992

“no stop” “oh no i didn’t mean to do that” “wRONG LAYER” “wait go back” “what line is that?!” “cAN YOU– [irritated noises]” “oh you…bastard” “what..layer is that on??”

Hey there anon! Sorry for the late response I was very passed out when you sent it

To answer your question, to my understanding the song and the manga aren’t connected to each other…for what I can gather they just happen to share name

I don’t remember if it was explicitly said or if it’s something that was said on one of the discord servers but there was a reliable source to it? It’s been so long since the manga came out so I don’t remember lmao I’m an old woman, tho I can say there’s something similar like how at the beginning of the song the “MC” talks about getting used to their new room and how surprised they are about how loud the city can be…to me this feels like this “MC” just moved in to a new place and, just like how the rest of the song implies, how unfamiliar for them it is. Eve has said many times before he used to move in to different cities bc of his parents’ jobs so maybe the song is about that experience? As someone who moved out of the country I do relate way too much with it tbh so maybe that could be the meaning?

I say this bc, as we know, Rei just moved in to Tokyo at the beginning of the manga and we can see how anxious and stressed he’s about the whole experience (something I can say it’s also in the song) but other than that I don’t really see more relation? Maybe the more the manga progresses more similarities could be shown

(Chapter 15 spoilers so if you haven’t gone that far ahead go read it and come back) I think the reason why the manga is called like that is bc the title can be translated to “memory of the void” or “empty memories” which relates to the fact that Rei has an amnesia of some sorts. Bc of this void in his memory (hehe) we should consider him an unreliable narrator and not really take at heart the fact that he just moved in bc he probably doesn’t remember he actually lived in Tokyo and if he did then he wouldn’t share that similarity with the song’s “MC”