Kagerou Days: Kousuke Seto

Konnichiwa~

Reviewing another song from the Kagerou Project! Today its Seto's song Shounen Brave. I was planning on saving this song for when the PV came out, but Summertime Record is officially the last PV Jin is going to make. It was an amazing video and a better ending to the project than Outer Science, but I really wished they had given Seto his video! Apparently Jin had planned on making the PV shortly after the album had been released, but he cancelled it because the video would've had too many spoilers. But song itself is still amazing, so lets begin:

Seto has been bullied since he was a young child; he was small, timid, and an abandoned  child. The first few lines are about him being bullied, about how scared he was and how he felt he had no courage. The next few stanzas are about an abandoned dog, a dog he feels can sympathize with him. He was his only friend, hugging him was probably the only warmth and affection he had as a child before meeting Ayano and the rest of the early Mekakushi Dan. He loved this dog, he wish he could talk with it; since dogs can't talk he wished he could somehow communicate without words. "But there was a tragedy waiting for me": Some sadistic, idiotic kids threw his dog friend in a river. Seto dived in and attempted to save him, that's when he came into contact with the Kagerou Daze and was possessed by the snake of the "Stealing Eyes", meaning he's more or less telekinetic, he can hear people's thoughts and feelings just by looking at them. But when you have that kind of power, you're head becomes crowded with noise. "They're so dirty", "Let's play a trick" "I hate you" "Just die already" Those types of thoughts yelled inside his head; Suffocating, loud, and frightening. One day he can't take the hateful voices of the crowded city anymore, so he begins wandering a quiet forest. Then he hears Mary, Mary who wants to change tomorrow, Mary who's lonely and wants someone to help her. So he approaches her cabin and enters. When he see's a cowering Mary, he wonders if he could save her, just like heroes do in pictures books. He decides to protect her, to save her. He wonders if having a "heart that rescues hearts, could be called 'courage'". At the end of the song he says:

"As I start to move forward today, as I do every other day, 

I can longer hear the voice from outside the door"

Since the day he met Mary, he can block out the voices that had tormented him. Since he's met Mary, he's had the desire to protect someone, the desire to become strong so that he can protect her. They saved each other which I think is very adorable! I love them as a couple, both of their personalities are just so cute! And I really love that this song shows how similar they actually are. I really wished this had been made into a PV, but hopefully it'll come out in anime and manga. Alright, bye-bye

~Nadeshiko-chan