#hiimagu goto

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in my break i watched the cubase interviews with hiiragi magnetite & first of all the amount of effort they put into marshall maximizer to get it from the demo ver to the finished ver is all the proof i need that every sound design choice in their songs is intentional & part of the story telling (also. at 5:09. please listen to the maximizer demo when they say they remixed it to suit kafu better they werent kidding its like a whole other song)

now im saying this with the utmost respect for their skills but everything else about them is like. wow. truly anyone can be a vocaP. for those of u who havent seen their work space before. behold.

they keep using this notebook bc they "have everything on it and it would be inconvenient to move everything to a new one."

if that wasnt bad enough they always say they use like 140-200 tracks in any given song, in maximizer i they said it was like 145. they dont color code anything bc they think its inconvenient so everything in maximizer is gray. they also rarely use folders so theres like two whole folders they dont even remember making. they also rarely retitle things even if they "have no clue what any if it means" so for those of u not going to watch the video that means their project file looks like this

they also said they never really studied music theory so everything they do is based off mood/vibe

also i like how they did a whole 2 part interview the latter part involving an aru sekai series song but only showing off the first half of it so they STILL have yet to address the series as a series

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OMG HIIRAGI MAGNETITE FAN!!!!! yessss hiimagne is my fave producer rn so cool

MAGU FANS UNITE!!!!!! they have such a nice sound in their works & their word choice is so deliberate & fun(or painful) theyre just so good. they can be so funny too omg easily my fave producer too

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[tweet from hiiragi magnetite]

Hiiragi Magnetite: Please allow me to work here!

Yubaba: Hm, Hiiragi Magnetite...? That's a bit of a lengthy name, isn't it?

Hiiragi Magnetite: No.

Yubaba: From now on, your name is "Hiimagu." That's better, "Hiimagu."

Hiiragi Magnetite: It's not. If that's how it is, then your name is now "Yu."

Yu: ……………What?

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my esteemed audience, She

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[posts my propaganda and leaves]

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may i offer u a tenshi

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3/22 tweets translated u guys will also get to enjoy hiiragima's story of ditching class to buy coffee

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i want to throw a tea party for them in the same way a 6 year old would & watch them become friends

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why is this bitch my comfort chara. who let u in my house.

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so while i dont have much idea where exactly kyuuyaku hankagai, kugutsu ashura, and shuuen touhikou happen in the timeline i think it’s reasonable to say marshall maximizer, oumen mokushiroku, canon, and unplanned apoptosis are all 1) directly related 2) the most current event we’ve been shown so far and 3) all from members of the same team (minus the angel i dont think she's affiliated with anyone directly)

marshall maximizer i think happens first. they have the experiment started, the whole team’s together, this isn't their first attempt or at least it’s not the first attempt that’s happened i can't say for sure when they joined the cause & started fighting. there's also the 「旧四ロンド」”past four rondo” part of the lyrics but whether that’s saying the world’s died 4 times before or just referencing it’s part of the same story as the last 4 songs i don't know for sure. maybe both even. the chara in this one is pretty committed to their cause, maybe even the group lead, since maximizer is their song & that’s who is being talked to & called upon when things start going wrong. & i think there’s links to other songs here too. 「気が狂うヒトの振りをしているキミを観ている」”observing you who’s pretending to have gone mad” and 「気が狂うヒトの真似をしているキミへ」”to you who’s imitating a mad man” i thought were perhaps criticisms of how far this person is willing to go for a chance at saving this world, but these lines aren't in quotes so im leaning more towards it’s their thoughts on another character they’re working with and i think it’s the unplanned apoptosis character since their whole song is the circumstances catching up with & overwhelming them. and of course there’s 『「無間地獄へ堕ちる！堕ちる！」』”’falling to the depths of hell! falling!’” which, you know, they’ve severed themselves off from the angel, heaven’s not going to help them and they know this.

in fact we have oumen mokushiroku to really show this off.『 祈るように―「私じゃない！私じゃない！」』”as though praying— ‘it wasn't me! it wasn't me!’” i think is both sides. you have the angel begging them to believe it’s not her fault for starting this and you have the team denying it’s their fault for the state of things as though if they weren't involved maybe then she could save them. and she really does want to help but it’s past the point of miracles & hope & there's really nothing she can do except watch as it all fades away again.

meanwhile theres unplanned apoptosis who is kind of being blamed for it going this badly. the whole time they are working with the team but at the same time they know it’s happened before & they just really don't see the point in it. they don't care. and because they think it’s pointless they keep thinking like why am i doing this i’ve got so much to live for but i’m here wasting my time doing something that doesn't even matter. they even admit they're being selfish about it. out of anyone i think they’ve been doing this for more than one time especially with the 『一体どうして、みんな気づかない？「いつも通り」と今日は終わった』 ”how the hell hasn’t everyone noticed? today ended ‘as usual’” like no wonder maximizer would think they’re acting insane. they pretty much are at this point. like any sane person would say 「自分を殺して 試験は終わった」”killing myself, the test ended” like. they're dying in more than one way. they aren't just ending their life again and again just to see if maybe once it’ll work and save the world. at this point they're suppressing and giving up on everything they want to live for, everything they once enjoyed, just so they keep working with their team, and in the end their feelings are catching up with them & their works getting messier & sloppier and not what it used to be and everyone else is noticing. 『「じゃ、またね」 最終拠点を壊して渡って結く 昨日も 過去も 何も無くなってしまっていた』 “‘Well, see ya’ Going around securing the broken final base Yesterday and the day before, it’s all gone to naught” the ja mata ne is like the sayonara byebye mata ashita in kyuuyaku hankagai it’s not “well we worked hard today see u early tomorrow” like your average job this is “i see we failed again, we’re about to die, and next thing we know we’ll be right back to this point again” but they can't bring themselves to give up completely either. they still want to live that carefree life they’ve been dreaming of.

which leaves us with canon who’s the last of the group we have right now. they’re also exhausted but they handle it differently than apoptosis. it starts right out with 「さよならも言わないで　——もういいよ。」 “don't say goodbye, too ——that’s enough.” so you don't get a second to doubt it. they’re tired. they don't want this to happen anymore. they know things are failing, and they just hope it’s not bad enough to kill everyone this time. different from shuuen touhikou it’s said they tried leaving, too, but 「走らない逃亡者」 “a fugitive unable to run” i think the text pulls on this 「雨のにおいが少し残った夏空の下で、私はひとり、はじめて見るその景色に、ただ圧倒されていた。」 “Under the summer sky, where the smell of the rain remained just a little, I was alone, taking in the scenery for the first time, simply overwhelmed.” as though they’re coming back from one destruction, only to realize it’s about to happen over again, so they can't run and go back to helping. and they know everyone else is getting tired too and they know it won't end well but they can't do much if anything about it. 「誓った集団と痕二回隔った十三度 雑踏 嫌々嫌々 暴走してい 唖々、要らない妄想だ」 “I swore to the group / Any traces would be twice removed thirteen times / The crowd, ever so unwillingly, rushed recklessly into it / Ah, that's a delusion we don't need” they found something they knew wouldn't help, wouldn't end well, and tried to cover it up, only for the group to try it anyway not seeing any other options & they hated that. & they watched as everyone’s actions “broke the glass” like. the exact imagery of the windows between oumen mokushiroku and unplanned apoptosis, it’s literally explaining exactly what happened that the angel can't do anything to help and they know that's only making the situation worse, but they can't do anything either. and in the end they have to say that goodbye they’d been dreading.

so in conclusion marshall maximizer, oumen mokushiroku, unplanned apoptosis, and canon together have the most complete story arc in aru sekai shoushitsu we have yet.

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An entire novel in one song!!! I remember you mentioning how some Hiiragi Magnetite fans are just there for the music and not the story…I completely understand the annoyance. This is a lot of work and dedication to ignore wtff.

Btw is there an actual order in a timeline? Or is there mostly snippets of specific events…does anyone remember anything when the world ends or are these people just dead now? (Literally or figuratively?) They’re all different people now? I can understand the concept of time overlapping and repeating but it does bring up a lot of questions. (Swampman is funny eheh) aND whats the deal with miss angel from oumen mokushiroku? You draw her often! I could keep going with the Q’s but I’ll stop there…actually I already asked a lot I am sorry asgkdgkdj _(:3 」∠)_

i love all hiiragi magnetite fans but im extending friendship to anyone who cares about plot bc those are kind of few even on the jpn side of things

in terms of timeline the one thing i can say for sure is kyuuyaku hankagai is the furthest is the past, though i dont think it's the start of everything. the rest of the timeline im not quite sure about and its not posted in time order.

aru sekai shoushitsu is more of an objective overview im not sure i'd put it on the timeline or if i did it'd be near the end since they know of everything that's happened. so we'll start with kyuuyaku as the oldest. the next place could go either shuuen touhikou since i dont think the chara's clothes or the fact katanas are mentioned so often are exactly modern, though they also have technology so it's not too ancient OR kugutsu ashura since they seem to be so heavily implied to be related. everything else seems to be more in present day so to speak. i think i'd say marshall maximizer → oumen mokushiroku → canon → unplanned apoptosis is the most likely order, but they're all from different chara's perspectives so its a little hard to say for sure since theyre all in different scenarios. these all seem to be in the same instance of the world too for the most part.

im not sure how much they remember between repeats. it hasnt been shown off much that i've noticed. there is a line in the text of aru sekai that's like "she closed her eyes, and i softly opened mine, that world had disappeared" so i think that means they're pretty aware of what's happening & they remember what they've tried before in order to tweak it and try again. i think they're at least vaguely aware that they died & i guess in a way theyre all the swampman in that sense.

there's actually nothing special about the angel in oumen mokushiroku i just think she's neat. she wants to help but due to things (whatever happened in canon i think) she cant actually reach out and do anything about it so she's just as distraught as everyone else. she's not even the one we have a possible clue on her name (a friend and i think the kyuuyaku girl might be named layla possibly even layla kyuuyaku bc kyuuyaku is in fact a valid last name & we cant figure out any other meaning for レイラ in the aru sekai lyrics for kyuu) as of right now all the names are secret as said by hiiragi magnetite themself though. she's got a lot of symbolism in just her art alone though with the whole broken umbrella and everything. like she's supposed to be everyone's protection and she cant even do that one thing. i just like her

u can absolutely keep asking questions i love this series theres so much going on its fun to try explaining

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ive got a grasp of up until the ou lines of aru sekai since oumen mokushiroku was the last song we got that tied in with the aru sekai lyrics. i can guess about the rest but man everything makes so much more sense when we have context for it

kyuuyaku hankagai, shuuen touhikou , and oumen mokushiroku tie in directly to aru sekai shoushitsu itself

unplanned apoptosis is a direct counterpart to oumen mokushiroku

marshall maximizer is a little more blurry. to me it feels like a "present" version of kyuuyaku hankagai since kyuuyaku is the "past". the doctor mentioned in the text is, i think, the same one from aru sekai shoushitsu text though the narrator is different i think

canon links a few songs we have aru sekai name dropped in the first line, it seems to mirror marshall maximizer in theme, the lines about breaking the glass describing the events between & related to both oumen mokushiroku & unplanned apoptosis, 絡まり戻っていく fits in with the mood of shuuen touhikou, theres lines that feel like kyuuyaku references, etc etc

kugutsu ashura is the ONLY song that does NOT have the nami no ne wo motif from aru sekai shoushitsu in it. this bothers me immensely i feel like it has to be somewhere. it does however have motifs from kyuuyaku hankagai if u listened to both in a row u could easily pick up what i mean which is really interesting given the themes of two different religions across them. theres minor references to other songs too. aru sekai and i think shuuen touhikou & marshall maximizer iirc

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time loop is the easiest way to get across the concept of whats going on in aru sekai shoushitsu but its made very clear time does pass (we have a whole song about how this has been going on since way in the past thats what the kyuu in kyuuyaku hankagai is for) & that each iteration of the world is slightly different from the last. the term that always comes up is toroid not circle or sphere (except in canon they mention a triangle but thats a but of a different concept. just to make this clear) so a donut shape isnt exactly a perfect loop of things. the differences might be minimal but they are there

& to make this even clearer we have a whole paragraph in the middle of aru sekai shoushitsu about a hypothetical man. this man walks into a swamp is struck by lightning and dies. lightning strikes the swamp again and reacts with things and the man lives again. everything is essentially the same, same atoms, molecules, memories, etc, but he's now the swampman. & it poses the question that though the two are basically they same, can they really be called the same person since such a major change occurred, even if the man doesn't remember it.

it kind of seems out of place at first & the concept of a swampman is really funny at least to me, but that whole story is explaining exactly what's been happening to this world. it lives, something happens, it dies, it restarts like nothing went wrong in the first place. only unlike the swampman, that world has this happen on repeat instead of just once

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aru sekai series is about time loops and saving the world? :0 oooooo so what happens in shuuen touhikou when they try to run for it? If its not too much to ask

asking about this series is never too much & im always happy to talk about it

shuuen touhikou is an escape idealization song as u might guess from the title being demise escape/flight from demise which ever u feel like using. important to note while it does have its ties to the fight or flight concept it kind of mixes both

the song itself builds on the "end" lyrics from aru sekai shoushitsu taking 『終・ヴァイラ 被覆は依然慰労「共生」/胸に青を基調と見えよ』"end: vira the coating is still in recognition of 'symbiosis'/ make the blue in the chest a keynote and watch it" and 『終・間 気流は塞ぐ音像裂開「共生」/胸に青を犠牲と捉えよ』 "end: space the airflow is the 'symbiosis' of closing the stereo audio fission/ sacrifice the blue in the chest and catch it" & just in case u didnt catch on to that from the title those lines are repeated at the end of the text in the opening of shuuen touhikou. aru sekai is more of an objective look at things where as shuuen touhikou is from a specific person's perspective from the middle of everything thats happening.

this person kind of complains throughout the song about the things theyre told, not believing them and thinking doing anything else would be better than sitting there waiting. quite literally 『祈って 只待って居ても/何も変わらない？其んな事は理解している！/依然 「償いは枷になる」と/然も、悔しそうに。』 "praying, and just staying here waiting/nothing's changing? well I can understand that!/ yet it was said 'recompense will become restraints'/ really, it's so frustrating." this person's had enough, devoted so many resources that they're running out of, and in the end no one's going to know if it worked until it's too late and the world starts to end again. its happened so many times in the past and they know this

so they weigh their options. they cant stand around waiting anymore. there has to be another way & they'll do anything, go anywhere to find it. their ideal manifests in the "city in the canyon" they talk about going to in the song but its pretty clear its less of an actual town and more of a fantasy safe place. nevertheless they take off running one night hoping to get there willing to go as far as they need to to find it (the song says 4 quintillion ri! which is way more than the circumference of the earth! apparently this is an actual journey that happened once but i lost the video hiiragima linked to without getting to watch it properly.) they've put all their effort into saving the world but now they're fighting with what energy they have left to escape it. they even relate it to a lottery, like they might get lucky by running away and really find a safe place.

in the end though it catches up with them, it wasn't enough, they never made it out & it starts raining (rain being the typical sign of the end in this series) & the song ends with them praying the whole thing could finally be over

it kind of seems like they expected that outcome anyway with the whole 「見切って逸そ、逃げてしまえたら。」 which is like "we'll never see the end of it if we could flee." the lines before talking about cause & effect of their actions so basically they know if they run they arent going to know what's been done that's worked or not and they're giving up their own chance at sharing that ending. & the running (ha) theme between the text & lyrics is the conflict between personal choice & what seems like an inescapable fate & if they'd been trying so hard time and time before, maybe breaking that chain would be enough to change fate but nothing worked so it doesn't really matter it's all just another repetition of the world

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both emimin & i are like. there are so many similarities between kugutsu & kyuuyaku. hiiragima is way too good to not know what theyre doing with this they have to be linking kugutsu & kyuuyaku together in this way. & its not just "well thats their style" bc their style is like. varied. they're not a victim of "the same song but different" problem. like it has to be intentional. i just dont get 1) how i could miss the link to aru sekai itself when ive been listening to it literally since it was posted 2) how it could be linked Just to kyuuyaku which is a sub part of aru sekai in and of itself. its not like another chapter in the story. unless they are going for a branching story line (considering we have the angel in oumen as opposed to asura in this one. unless theyre going for even if every religion banded together they couldnt save that world but anyway) but that feels kind of early considering we havent seen everything the current one (assuming everything up until this point has been linear. it might as well not be.) has to offer. though quite honestly the whole thing has been about going in loops would it even make sense to tell a linear story. not to mention we have sena yuta back doing the art like in the beginning (i love asa too but) so it feels like a key song again with a whole new character and then everything in the lyrics just. screams its part of aru sekai like saikikan (災機関) screams aru sekai all the parts about looping, circles just fits right in, at the end the ata e urufu thats the same uru as aru sekais ame hodo no uruoi wo and that made me point fingers like that has to be in reference to aru sekai & a lot of it just feels like themes and motifs from kyuuyaku it just has to be part of the series but i still cant pick out anything else to tie it together. even apoptosis that was clearly directly related to oumen had the nami no ne wo melody in it but i just cant place it in kugutsu

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What is aru sekai about? The plot I mean.

first of all thank u for enabling me anon

i hope u dont mind me talking about aru sekai as a series since aru sekai shoushitsu itself is more of an overview than an actual look into the plot

so we need to know there's a world & this world exists as a sort of perpetual motion machine where every time it ends it restarts itself. the second thing is the emphasis on the concept of fractals, repetitions that appear similar to each other with minimal differences across each iteration

as of right now we dont have an exact timeline or duration for it, but disaster keeps striking the world, it ends, and then everyone wakes up like it never happened only for it to start all over again.

there's at least one group of people that are aware this is happening & are actively trying to stop the cycle. they've tried running (shuuen touhikou), seeking religious help (oumen mokushiroku, kugutsu ashura), and various science related attempts (marshall maximizer, canon, & im going to say unplanned apoptosis as well) kyuuyaku hankagai kind of fits into both of the latter. none of these have gotten anywhere close to fixing the problem, in fact, a bunch have actively made the problem worse. despite this they keep trying to save the world no matter what it takes.

its kind of similar to time loop stories i guess but its made clear time passes since theres a definite "past" & a few other little details id have to go look for. also its not a single person stuck in a loop its the entire world.

tldr; people are stuck in a loop of the world ending & are trying to end that loop