#nilfruits mv

[enananhearts]

⚠︎ TOXY! ⚠︎ ⚠︎ TOXY¡ ⚠︎ ⚠︎ TOXY! ⚠︎

[diamandarinas]

When the empty tomorrow is over, please do break me down Miku-Nina 🧡

Ironina inspired Miku + alt Nina

[daredevil-vagabond]

Someday, I'll head to the other side. - Hi Φ CLUB, Nilfruits + Bakui

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[raincandyy-u]

Shama

[brighteyesredfire]

Ameri (2023) by NILFRUITS with art by Bakui

[hiirenvirnas]

⚠️ Federation agents, Jaiden & Foolish ⚠️

[starapture]

for dear life

[socks-wizard-money-gang]

I'm done being miserable

[kiwi-does-stuff]

Friendship with UMG copyright ended, Moonguys is my new best friend

[0unfortunately0]

Baron!!

[stardoopy]

we've gotten 2 new MVs before the Firelifly MV even got a release date this is sick and twisted

[daredevil-vagabond]

On a night of a full moon, an inviting scarecrow.

"What you're looking for is behind the door."

- Hi Φ CLUB, Nilfruits + Bakui

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[nineriddlersbf]

AHH check out this selfship comm I got from @ spicapudica on twitter! It's so cute..I asked specifically for something summer themed with vibes based on Dizzy Dizzy which is another one of my favorite vocaloid songs and mvs. They're on a trip

[jthealien]

me when I combine two of my biggest interests (c!jack manifold and vocaloid)

[strangeispowerful]

Things you (probably) missed in the For Dear Life MV

Because i’ve watched it at least around thirty or more times now, and have spent several of those watchthroughs analyzing frame by frame, I thought I’d show some of the things I’ve noticed!!

lengthly analysis below cut!!

1) The chinese character 不 is written on the back sides of Narrow’s drafts. 不 as an adverb is simply “no”, but can be used as a noun to mean “failure”.. we can assume these are either rejected drafts or works in general.

It’s also interesting that the character here is chinese, but makes sense when considering the mentions of jiāngshī later in the song. But more on that later!!

2) The en translated lyrics here-

“..and because I don’t follow the directed dosage, I’ve only got a single pill left.”

As was pointed out in a niconico comment I found, pills like this are usually meant to be taken in sets of two. However, if the dose is increased to three, there will end up being only one left due to the odd number.

Another translation of this line I saw was, “and because I don’t follow the directed dosage, it’s just the lonely pill and me.”

In my opinion this is a more accurate translation due to the english word “me” being included in the original line: “bocchi no jouzai to Me”

3) Narrow isn’t only a visual artist!

It can be seen in this frame here that he’s stressing over what looks like an error message in a DAW—or a Digital Audio Workstation. Common DAWs include garageband, audacity, and so on, so it’s safe to say that Narrow also either composes or produces music.

Similarly, these three shots of his characters each seem to showcase a different art form. Pine is a visual artist with a canvas, Chocolate seems to be puzzling over writing/editing, and Gummy is a musician playing the piano and standing in front of an audio wavelength.

4) Thanks to these two stills, we can conclude that the For Dear Life mv takes place during January, and that Narrow mostly works at night, seeing as the phone reads 10:19PM (though this is pretty easily assumed).

The text on his phone also reads “there are no new notifications”.

5) The silhouettes of Flurry and Welter can be seen in the background of the second prechorus.

6) Narrow rapidly transforms between Gummy, Chocolate, and Pine when punching the hand guy.

7) During the "jitter, butter, step, you" sequence, there's actually an animated step on the word "step".

8) "Jitter, butter, step, you" actually sounds suspiciously like the Japanese phrase じたばたしてよ, "jitabata shite yo".

Please correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm not sure of this—but looking up translations of this phrase I believe it's an idiom that means something along the lines of "stop panicking/being so flustered". I tend to use ChatGPT as a translator, because it makes the most grammatically correct translations I've seen—but am aware that it's not always accurate. If someone could fact check that, that'd be super cool!!

Nonetheless, here's what I got after putting in the prompt to break the phrase down for me.

This little play on words is pretty clever too, seeing as he's described as "seeing pink elephants"— or actively hallucinating at this point in the MV. Of course a common Japanese idiom would sound like gibberish or complete nonsense.

9) After Narrow passes out in the bridge, the person who discovers his body is actually his younger self.

Shortly afterwards, we can also see Narrow briefly transform into his younger self for one frame before switching between his present self, Gummy, Chocolate, and Pine.

(Young Narrow compared to present day Narrow)

10) When Narrow smashes the award to the ground, he actually sheds tears.

It's just really sweet. good for him.

11) During the final chorus, the hand guys have little bandages on their hand heads—presumably because Pine punched the shit out of them.

12) And of course, more on the mention of jiāngshī:

The en translated lyrics here are: "If I remove the amulet, I'm Jiang Shi until death" or "I’m a hopping vampire to the bone if you rip off my talisman."

On jiāngshī, also called "hopping vampires" from Chinese folklore: “It is typically depicted as a stiff corpse dressed in official garments from the Qing dynasty, and it moves around by hopping with its arms outstretched. It kills living creatures to absorb their qi, or ‘life force’, usually at night…” (wikipedia, march 2024)

I definitely have something to say here about the symbolism of Narrow comparing himself to a reanimated corpse, and drawing parallels from such a thing to burnout and etc... but my thoughts aren't too organized on that yet, so I'll leave it for another time.

I think it's clever though that Narrow's antipyretic pads or fever patches are being used as a symbol for the fulu talisman seen on the foreheads of jiāngshī.

[phantome29]

"Even if the night passes, another night will begin again."

Night Rule redraw with OCs Phaedon and Ennio! I think the emotions they share are similar but still a little different from the characters in the original MV 🎈

MV originally by buōy