#yuka note

Credit to Ma-san’s amazing analysis and Yuka-san’s translation!

Attending the religious university, Ma-san wondered whether Fling Posse’s symbol is the sun cross🜨. So (s)he did some research… and the result was impressive.

The sun cross, or the cross-in-a-circle was interpreted as a solar symbol(although in modern astronomy, it represents the Earth rather than the sun. ☉ is the actual symbol for the sun, since it’s the center of our planetary system) derived from the interpretation of the disc of the Sun as the wheel of the chariot of the Sun god. For this analysis, (s)he interpreted the Sun god to be Apollo, the greek god of Sun, light, oracles, knowledge, healing, diseases, music, poetry, and songs.

Apollo is written as Ἀπόλλων in Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek. And guess what? λ is a lowercase lambda, or in Japanese English pronunciation, ramuda! This 11th letter in Greek alphabet indicates the wavelength of any wave in physics, electronics engineering, and mathematics. Meanwhile in 「KNOW YOUR ENEMY SIDE F.P VS M」drama track, Hifumi called Ramuda as Sigma - the 18th Greek alphabet letter whose uppercase letter Σ is most well known as the summation operator.

During TDD era, Ramuda’s (oversized) sweater had an uppercase lambda Λ in lime green. And doesn’t the arrangement of Dice’s belt resembles the lowercase lambda λ?

Back to Apollo: Animals sacred to Apollo included wolves and snakes (referencing Apollo's function as the god of prophecy). We know wolves are officially associated with Matenrou麻天狼, since the team name contains the character for wolf狼, right? And read the last several posts to find out how Jakurai is associated with snakes (in the name of medicine). Medicine and healing are also associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius(which is the point that can be tied back to Jakurai). Yet Apollo is also a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague with his arrows-

Which the Greeks highlighted by associating Apollo's name with the Greek verb ἀπόλλυμι (apollymi), "to destroy" most often. On the other hand, Plato in Cratylus connects the name with ἀπόλυσις (apolysis), "redemption", ἀπόλουσις (apolousis), "purification", ἁπλοῦν ([h]aploun), "simple", in particular in reference to the Thessalian form of the name, Ἄπλουν, and Ἀειβάλλων (aeiballon), "ever-shooting".

Remember the title of the first drama track released for the new season?

「Me Against The World」

-Stella- The Analysis

[Midsection verses]

- 宇宙は塞がり

閉じ篭った暗がり

星が落とす薄明かり

照らし出す不思議な繋がり

再びを願う心だけがじっと伝わり

熱をくべる篝

羽化していく蛹 -

The sky rising forth

Tenebrosity stuck in the reservoir

Luminosity of glimmer fallen from the star

The bizarre connection reflecting

The desire to meet again still can be heard

The heat rising from the hearth

A chrysalis growing wings

Once the lonely scientist Ramuda joined Dice and Gentaro, now the trio sails toward the new goal: finding Ramuda’s hometown. The sky is rising like an ocean and only the dark blackness surrounds them. Then the glimmer, fallen from the star they do not know the name of, lights their way. That ray shines on the trio, who don’t seem like they would ever interact during their lifetime.

「The king from the tattered star who dreams of restoration」

「The thief who struggled from the boredom」

「The scientist who wants to learn love」

Although everyone has different goal, you can feel their desire to reunite with something precious to them. Now the hearth is heated, and the chrysalis spreads its yet-dry wings to prepare for the journey of beautiful butterfly after the long time of patience. The trio with bizarre connection, who once proceeded toward the faraway star, once again continues on their connection in Shibuya after the endless time has passed.

When you listen to each division’s piece, although it contains the introduction of all members, the overall atmosphere is strongly contrasting.

{Buster Bros!!!}

Come along and follow us!!

{MAD TRIGGER CREW}

This ain’t the place for you.

{Fling Posse}

We’ll paint you with our colors♥

{Matenrou}

…You’re laughing?

{Buster Bros!!! : IKEBUKURO WEST GAME PARK}

Come along with your voices, let’s go beyond the furthest of the limits!!

Yamada household’s three brothers’ theme song is the best piece to lighten up the atmosphere. Fast hip-hop beat and lyrics that encourages people to sing along. If you’re enjoying the concert with Buster Bros, you might be actually able to yell beyond the furthest of your limit.

{MAD TRIGGER CREW : Yokohama Walker}

This isn’t a place where nothing happens all day

They’re saying Yokohama might seem captivating, but actually is a dangerous place with loads of yakuzas and hooligans. Rap lyrics narrated over serene R&B melody creates the peaceful atmosphere unlike the actual meaning of lyrics.

This song makes you confused whether Yokohama is actually safe or not.

{Fling Posse : Shibuya Marble Texture -PCCS-}

I want to wander on top of the palette, so take your time

As if the song is taking a fluttering step over cute and soft melody, Posse’s piece has the charm that seems to lure people. Their music almost makes the listeners to follow them without noticing-right, just like the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

{Matenrou : Shinjuku Style～Don’t Make Me Laugh～}

Don’t interfere, get out of the way.

Singing along rock melody almost like spitting out the chewed lyrics. This is the song that shows the totally unexpected yet true side of Shinjuku division.

It is the story of adults who have tasted every bitterness of society as they age. In Shinjuku, you should not joke around.

…You laugh?

(Illustration from second collaboration with Sweets Paradise buffet restaurants)

Buster Bros!!! is 「macarons」

MAD TRIGGER CREW is 「frosted sugar cookies」

Matenrou is 「cake slices」

Fling Posse is 「donuts」

Can be as small as a bite size or as big as a child’s palm. Colorful, crunchy, sweet and pleasant coque. Garniture of your taste melt off on your tongue!!

Macaron makes you happy whenever you eat it!

You can draw any shape you want!

Just a pretty but tasteless decoration? Nonsense!! No other dessert can beat its sweetness!!!

It seems simple, but it actually requires more effort than you think-frosted sugar cookies are the canvases of desserts!

Standard steady seller for tea time.

There are various possible ingredients, and the recipe is the composition of hundred of techniques and experiences!!

Young children cannot copy the adult’s elegant art of delicate taste of the cake!

Colorful frostings♡

It can be chewy!! It can be soft!!

It’s cute and create various flavors!!

You can eat it while you’re walking too!

Although the base remains unchanged, the completed donut can have thousands of variations of flavors-why should it not be the friend of free-spirited young people?

※Attention※

-Stella- The Analysis

<Parts of the solo verses>

「※This is solely my personal interpretation.」

Dice

-死に至る猛毒とは理想の主張か

なればこそ人を説くようだ-

Is the assertion of ideal the annihilating venom?

Maybe that is why it sounds more like a sermon

Dice is NOT the person who moves according to the ideal or assertion. Rather, the one who moves toward the ideal outcome is Doppo, the business man, an individual of the society. He’s saying that listening to what the ideal claims is same as drinking down the poison. He’s also pointing about that ideal is not always an answer. He tries to persuade people, who all proceeds toward the ideal, to reach out for the outcome other than that.

Gentaro

-妙に洒落たナリの客人だな今夜は

堕ちた先がここじゃツキも落ちたようだな

元王様か何か知らんが盗賊には

盗賊の流儀があると知れ-

Why, tonight’s guest is quite stylish.

If you’ve fallen right here, guess your luck has now vanished

I don’t care if you are the former king or whatever

But us thieves got our way of thriving, please remember

The stylish guest is Hifumi. Looks like GIGOLO paid Gentaro a visit tonight. Hifumi has now fallen at the planet of crystals and sand. Guess your luck has now vanished, He’s mocking that Matenrou’s victory was due to their fortune, not by their skills. He has no need to mind whoever the former king was-Fling Posse got their way toward the next throne!

Ramuda

-迷宮の果てにあるマテリアル

永久を糧に咲く白いカメリア

真理の前には倫理の叫びなど枷(かせ)になる-

Materials at the labyrinth’s extremity

White camellias blooming from the infinity

Cry of theory is nothing but a shackle In front of veracity

『Wound』

{Buster Bros!!!}

The team who would treat the wound and cheer up each other to continue proceeding together

{MAD TRIGGER CREW}

The team who would ignore their wounds and charge forward

{Fling Posse}

The team who would hide their fester with clothes and continue to proceed

{Matenrou}

The team who would cure the festered wound

{Buster Bros!!!}

As a leader, Ichiro would treat the wound and cheer up his two brothers to continue proceeding together, but he would be the only one who is unaware that himself is the most hurt one.

He doesn’t care about how his brothers will feel, who would be forced to witness their eldest brother becoming a mess right in front of them yet cannot comfort and forced to follow him…

{MAD TRIGGER CREW} 

Ignoring whatever wound they earned, they will continue running to achieve their goal.

Right. Just like the moths those were lured by the bright light and throw themselves to the fire, not knowing it will burn them to death…

And when they finally realize their body burning, it would be too late to escape safely.

{Fling Posse}

As if they don’t care about their wound, as if it wasn’t there since the beginning, they would hide their fester with clothes and continue to proceed as usual.

It’d be like covering the red paint sprayed on the clean paper with the white paint and then drawing with the color you want on top of it.

Even if they added hundreds of layers, the original paper will be…

{Matenrou}

No matter how festered the wound is, they will cut it open and cure it.

They will cure any kind of wound, both the newly gained one and the one from past.

They’ll even cure the wound that began to feel like the part of themselves,

As if it was not there since the beginning,

If you take a closer look on Matenrou Member’s face, you’ll notice familiar facial expressions of the opponents they faced just before.

Doppo’s facial expression reflects Dice’s recklessness

Hifumi’s facial expression reflects Gentaro’s calmness

And Jakurai’s facial expression reflects Ramuda’s rage.

As if Fling Posse is saying

'You guys stepped on us to go to final battle, so we won’t forgive you if you guys lose'

Just like you said, Fling Posse’s emotion is clearly reflected on Matenrou’s face.

Doppo, who never smiled, now smiles, as if enjoying the thrill of battle like Dice does,

Hifumi, who always enjoyed the battle with a smile, now faces the opponent seriously like Gentaro does,

From Hifumi’s lyrics from Death Respect, once again you can see Hifumi’s 「obsession」 toward fashion and aspiration.

In BATTLE BATTLE BATTLE, he dissed Gentaro’s fashion as that from the wrong era and Gentaro himself as the one who is living in the past, in the Meiji era(1/25/1868 ~ 11/9/1912).

Now in Death Respect, he mocks Rio’s fashion: navy uniform.

Rio’s navy uniform is the symbol of former navy, whom the current government had eradicated. Rio hopes for the revival of military, to the point where he camps out alone in the middle of the forest.