Song : ç”æ«ăźćŸźçŹ - Shuumatsu no Bishou - Doomsdayâs Smile
Singer : Hana
Composer : szak
Kanji:
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ćăăćșăă性ăăȘèł
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Romaji:
Kuroi neko haibiru no chĆjĆ kara
Mitsumete iru yo zankyĆ sabiiro no omocha
Matataku ma ni ochiteyuku onna no ko
Kasoku suru kioku ga hazeru zakuro no kajitsu
Kieru zaiakukan
Kuroi neko ga sabiiro no kajitsu wara inagara
Kamu sasu ooki na mimi
ShĆjo no omocha wo neko wa warau hi de
ăAkai naa watashi no uragawa wa maru de
   Shuiro no garasutama ga kudake chitta...ă
Ochite yuku  kĆfuku dake tsutsumareru watashi
ZetsubĆ nado muen'na
Akai yƫhi kirakira ni shite
Garasukusu kuroi mimi
Kuroki nikukyu senritsu to inori
Kuroi neko ni dakare kami kudakare
Haikyo no bohyĆ de mukuro ga tenshi to kawaru
Translation:
At the top of a building, there's a black cat
Staring at the echo of a rusted toy
In a blink of an eye, a girl falls down
Accelerating memories are like burst open pomegranates
My vanishing guilt
The black cat laughs at the rusted fruit
Chewing, stabbing, his big ears
At the sunset, the black cat laughs at the girl's toy.
Itâs red... My back is like
A shattered red glass orb
I'm falling, wrapped in happiness
Free from despair
The red sun is sparkling
Waste glass, black ears
Black paws, melody and prayers
Embraced by the black cat, then smashed
Forsaken gravestones, corpses turning into angels
- The ED of the 3rd (I believe ?) route of Subarashiki Hibi, a great visual novel.Â
- Possibly one of my favorite song of all time. I really love szakâs guitar.Â
- I actually tried to âtranslateâ it a couple years ago when I didnât know jack about the game or japanese. Needless to say, it was a complete failure.Â
- Thereâs a fan translation of the game itâs from. GUESS THE GAME IS ON STEAM I DIDNâT KNOW WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
So, Iâm currently reading Subahibi one more time, now that the gameâs available on Steam, and I may have more insight. Iâm going to spoil the game hard, so skip that part if need be.
- The black cat may be a metaphor for Megu and Satoko, the two girl bullying Zakuro. The day after Zakuroâs drugged and forced to masturbate in front of camera (among other stuff), she goes back to school, and come across her bullies. Things happen, Zakuro snaps, and she starts picturing them as two black beasts, with âmassive earsâ and âblackened pawsâ, âtearing into the fruitâ.
- The part about memories and pomegranate is obviously referring to Zakuroâs suicide. âZakuroâ is japanese for âpomegranateâ. Which makes even more sense, considering the cat is said to be âtearing into the fruitâ
-Â âDisappearing guiltâ is also from the game, but itâs in the Kimika route of Looking-glass Insects (*). Kimika was a girl bullied by Megu and Satoko (and the rest of the class too) before Zakuro came. Zakuro, being naive and nice and stuff, tried to be friends with Kimika, and got ostracized too as a result. Kimika felt guilty about it (among other things), and tried her best to push Zakuro away, to stop her from being targeted by Megu and Satoko, which would make her âguilt disappearâ. I donât know how it works here since they never have that conversation in the route where Zakuroâs suicide happen, but eh.Â
- I have absolutely no idea what âtoyâ is referring to. Maybe itâs about the dolls Zakuro is dropping from the roof ? Maybe itâs about the little strap Kimika gave her ? Maybe itâs something else entirely.Â
- The part between ă ă is probably about the state of Zakuroâs body after jumping ? I think Zakuro was referred as âCrimson Hyperspaceâ or something at some point, so the color matches.Â
- The last part is pretty straightforward. The âcorpses turning into angelsâ is probably about how Zakuro and her friends are supposed to get their angel powers back through a near-death experience. Well, we know how it turned out.
* "Looking-glass Insects" is the third part of Subahibi, where we see the events of the first weeks of July through Zakuro POV. At some point, you can choose to either help Kimika stand up against Megu and Satoko, or just leave her. The former choice brings you to Kimika route, where sheâll talk about her feelings of guilt, and where everything ends âwellâ. The bullies are gone, and Zakuro and Kimika get their happy ending. The latter brings you to the true end of the chapter. Zakuro commits suicide, just like in the previous chapters.