Oh, I understand the last frames now... for those like me who didn't get it at first this is what I thought: Each member of the circus was normal at one time, but got lured in by the flier like Meiko did. When they visited the circus they got lured in even more and were captured by the chairman and were turned into the hardly-human-creatures they are now. And now, Meiko became trapped as well and is trying to gather more members like Rin and Len were in the beggining.
I like to think that those frames are simply a hypothetical of if the children were born the same as everyone else, how their lives would be different. If the children weren’t disabled they wouldn’t be trapped in the circus. I don’t think the song is just a surface level story about a circus, I think it truly represents how society outcasts and treats people with disabilities
the imagery, tune of the song and lyrics of this video make the song really powerfull. i just love the "drop by to the dark woods" part at the end...really mysterious, sometimes i just wish that vocaloid songs could be fully animated xD
This song is so sad. It reminds me of all the children trapped in human trafficking who just want to be free. It hurts so bad to know they are stuck in such a painful situation. These kinds of things are happening right now in 2013 and we need to work together to try and stop them.
It saddens me that in ten years we've made more scapegoats for child abuse than progress in fixing... anything. I can't think of a single political figure who has said "think of the children" and actually meant it. :/
The story behind this is really sad. During the Edo period of Japan, there were several people who needed money because of a war going on. People would kidnap children and purposely make them deformed for people's entertainment. They would do things like melt their faces with acid, cut up body parts and reattach them and sometimes the owners of the circus would rape the children to entertain. So the story is Miku was raped, Len and Rin became the result of them cutting up body parts, Kaito I'm guessing was forced to eat body parts and Meiko possibly has her face deformed by acid (the flowers representing deformity)
This song makes me shiver, and I stare out at the forest behind my house, I seem to see the circus lights flickering in the distance. Maybe I shall join them...
The chairman is a fanmade character. The white haired one, Haku, was made for songs were the person doesn't tune the program right and so she's called the "drunkard" fan character. The other, the side-pony tailed blonde woman is also a fan character. The Hanging Clown I do believe is yet another character named Teto which was released by the company who made vocaloids as a "joke" product. If that helps any, they aren't -actual- vocaloids but they are fake vocaloids.
I love this song so much, it's so sad yet so awesome. ;; The sad thing is it's based off a true story about what people use to do in circuses years ago. The terrible fate these children had to suffer...it's just so horrible. -cries forever-
notice how rin doesn't have any flowers on her face? and then she's the only one who actually says that the circus is fun? it's because she's behaving herself so that she doesn't get hurt like miku or len
Don't listen to the older comments, this song is NOT based on reality. The story told in this song is FICTIONAL. Edo Japan was known for being an incredibly peaceful era with a flourishing economy. There were some acrobatic circus groups in the North called "karuwazashi", but they looked nothing like Western freak shows. Entertainment was mainly a farmer balancing on a 20ft tall pole. Bad things happened in history like how disabled people were and are still treated. But there is ZERO evidence of children being kidnapped and tortured to be freakshow acts during the Edo period. And one more thing, this is song is the 2nd song of a FICTIONAL vocaloid series by horror Vocaloid producer Machigerita-P. There are 5 songs total with some album exclusives. Also, Widespread Knowledge of Late Night Madness is not part of this series. Learn to research things and gon't believe every youtube comment section you read on the internet kiddos.
.....this is the best vocaloid song ive seen in a long time.........maybe best ever. fanatastic video and such a powerful song in my opinion. gave me shivers....LOVE IT!!!!!!
Omg... I heard this a while back from my friend's iPod, then yesterday I remembered Alice of Human Sacrifice - and now I'm watching this. I feel so sick and...... weird. I don't know why, but I'm starting to love Vocaloids. And I don't even know any Japanese. Incredible song, anyway. And the fact that this is based on actual events :(
I think I can interpret this story: The dark woods circus is a strange circus found in a forest outside of the city. It was built by the tall humanoid cat-like entity known as the ringmaster (or chairman). He lures kids to his circus where he captures them, deforms them, and forces them to perform there. Flowers will grow on their bodies if they try to escape or defy his orders, which can worsen their suffering. The first of his victims are vocaloids miku, Len, rin, kaito, haku, neru, and Toto. Miku became a deformed diva, with her legs replaced with that of a goat’s, Len, and rin are fused together, kaito becomes a savage cannibal, haku and neru become tall performers, and toto becomes a clown who later hangs herself as she couldn’t handle her suffering. That woman in the red dress may look like meiko, but it’s not. That’s the ringmaster assuming the form of a human. Len and rin are also tasked with passing out flyers to lure other kids to the circus. Meiko receives a flyer from them and is lured there, where she discovers its dark secret. The ringmaster captures her, but he doesn’t deform her. He instead just brainwashes her and tasks her with Len and rin’s job of passing out flyers. If you want my advice (I’m just saying this for fun): No matter how tempting it is, stay away from that circus!
"I WANT TO DIE" "I WANT TO DIE" "CANT SOMEONE GET ME OUT OF HERE PLEASE" "IM AFRIAD MY DEAR THATS IMPOSSIBLE" " I CANT HELP BUT FEEL SOMEONE SAID THAT TO ME ONCE..." those are the correct lyrics to the end and it makes much sense too because meiko is shown saying that to her at 3:00 and it makes much sense too
My god, I recall when I was consumed by this song. I am not a man of religion, but I lie prostate with prayer that the infatuation will not reach me again. It will not, for I have evolved.
Gave me chills...I think the people who visit this circus are taken and deformed, right? At the end, it showed Len and Rin as "normal" and wandering into the circus and then a flash of them as one person with two heads. Also, the girl at the beginning suddenly gets transformed at the end D: So sad and scary...
You know, I've always been afraid of circuses. This is why. But I love the song. The song itself is.....wonderful for scaring everyone else with manical laughter at the end. :D
I don't know if this has been stated before, but if you notice, the poster says "Machigerita", so when the dialogue says "Drop by and see him" They mean Machigerita.
I'm utterly speechless about this song. It's very hard to describe what this makes me feel. It's so incredibly beautiful that I just can't seem to get too many words out. So I guess it would be too beautiful.
I hate when someone goes just enjoy it, y'know, it's a complicated saga of songs for a reason, so we get an enjoyable story, learn some lessons, and think about the characters presented to us. Artist spend many hours putting in a lot of work to make these things for us to interpret, and you just wanna shut it out and blankly listen.
You know, you don't HAVE to care about the story. Just ignore it. I do that many times with songs, even in saga's I enjoy. If it bugs you that much, just avoid the comments section...
I usually listen to music while doing something (puzzles, gaming, etc.) I'm not gonna stop in the middle of a boss fight to wonder "man I wonder what dissolve my eyes mean" and then write an entire essay.
I listen to the music dancing though my ears all the lonely misunderstood beings.... i am hypnotized by it's sound it's hurts to watch yet this liquid in my eyes keeps wetting my shirt some people just don't understand how music can make you feel
Gamer Girl honestly this is just me but what makes masa-p songs scary is very different than what makes this scary. they’re two super different kinds of horror and this to me is still more disturbing than any of masa’s songs
Honestly, I don't like Kaito's voice I'm going to get so much hate, but his voice just doesn't sound natural. Miku's, Len's and Rin's sound like possibly existing voices
Such a beautiful melody Heart wrenching lyrics that send chills down your spine I don't know if i'll ever stop watching this (i probably will...eventually LOL)
How is Wide Knowledge of late Madness not related to this song. It explains her horns and as for the edo child tent, that really fit in to the song's background and obsures the song's point.
if you watch the video enough times, you'll see that the hands that are holding each other are fake ^_^ (since the legs are fake, you can assume the hands are too?)
I feel the exact same way. :0 I've been trying to do some deep research about this, and asking people where they got their sources from! and I am currently reading through ALL (from the very first comment!!) to see if it is just some story that they came up with over time, and assumed it was true because it made sense, or if they actually have some reliable sources. I normally wouldn't obsess over it this much, but I listen to this song EVERY DAY!! I just have to find out the truth behind it! xD
@EmoMichie At the end the little girl is passing out flyers, she looks up and her eyes are red -she was turned into one of them, but she stays behind to tell others of the circus.
"Rotten fruit, to dissolve my eyes..." I think it means how you much infact see what is going on inside the circus as if you do it will no longer seem all that much fun.
@chesiregirl Pause at 3:01. While her face isn't shown, it's obviously a taller woman in a red dress that's similar to Meiko's in Evil Food Eater Conchita. I believe this is the only time in the video that the Ringleader is shown as human-like. All of the other times the Ringleader's been shown has it as the tall thing with the big eyes. Dunno if that's symbolic or not though. And, if Kaito, Meiko, Rin, and Len can be watching the show that their freak selves are in I think Meiko can be the RL.
@QueenRendonThe1st Yhey are a whole series of this song. But well, this song is about a circus that kidnap children (or get them in some other way) and deform them and/or makes them to freaks. Then they show up them at the circus and people laugh at them.
@Strayjane look at her legs, they're reverted, her knees are pointing backwards. it's a deformation called girl-hen or something like that because of the way they're constricted to walk, like birds.
This is awesome. Amazing artwork - it matches the song perfectly xD The only thing that bugs me is that some of the subtitles go by so fast that I can't read them lol. But other than that, this is incredible.
well if youve ever seen the song before this you may know that they were all from a phyceatric ward (sp?) and they all were made to be like this. Mikus legs were cut of and replaced and the twins were swen togather and im not sure but i think Kaito was forced to eat the remains of other people...idk
I'll assume what you are asking is what does the song represent; children were abducted (or sold) to the circus. The owner would punish disobedience by throwing acid on them, adding to the deformity. They would be treated with extreme cruelty, beaten and purposely deformed (by the owner) to attract more customers. This is the shortened version at least.
@castcoon97 its because shes the one who put miku there in the first place its a sad series the first song is steel cage princess followed by wide knowledge of the late night madness then dark woods circus after that its blue ice castle and finally red swamp bottem hoped this helped
1. Yes, this is based on real events, I think it was during the Edo-Period in Japan. And 2. I think the flowers symbolize the acid that the circus director threw into their face if they didn't do what they should do.
This actually did happen but it happened a long time ago. It's not big because people weren't allowed to take pictures. Besides, taking one would be hard, the visitors never went inside the tent, they viewed the show from peep holes like the one Meiko looked into
The part starting with "Does anyone wish that I were alive" and ending with "It's impossible for anyone to say and feel" just impaled me in the heart
I think it's cos Miku genuinely sounds like she's in tears whilst she's singing
Oh, I understand the last frames now... for those like me who didn't get it at first this is what I thought: Each member of the circus was normal at one time, but got lured in by the flier like Meiko did. When they visited the circus they got lured in even more and were captured by the chairman and were turned into the hardly-human-creatures they are now. And now, Meiko became trapped as well and is trying to gather more members like Rin and Len were in the beggining.
I like to think that those frames are simply a hypothetical of if the children were born the same as everyone else, how their lives would be different. If the children weren’t disabled they wouldn’t be trapped in the circus. I don’t think the song is just a surface level story about a circus, I think it truly represents how society outcasts and treats people with disabilities
Correct, and luka will later follow; the song circus monster is a spin-off for this
何年経っても鳥肌が立つ曲
the imagery, tune of the song and lyrics of this video make the song really powerfull.
i just love the "drop by to the dark woods" part at the end...really mysterious, sometimes i just wish that vocaloid songs could be fully animated xD
ah yes
the beginning of my dark descent into the weaboo phase
Remember
A very creepy song, and actually very sad too. This has got to be my favorite vocaloid song.
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This song is so sad. It reminds me of all the children trapped in human trafficking who just want to be free. It hurts so bad to know they are stuck in such a painful situation. These kinds of things are happening right now in 2013 and we need to work together to try and stop them.
Now, it's 10 years later.
It saddens me that in ten years we've made more scapegoats for child abuse than progress in fixing... anything. I can't think of a single political figure who has said "think of the children" and actually meant it. :/
@@cutieDogyssweet0038 and now, it's 11 years ago. It's pretty fast
The story behind this is really sad. During the Edo period of Japan, there were several people who needed money because of a war going on. People would kidnap children and purposely make them deformed for people's entertainment. They would do things like melt their faces with acid, cut up body parts and reattach them and sometimes the owners of the circus would rape the children to entertain. So the story is Miku was raped, Len and Rin became the result of them cutting up body parts, Kaito I'm guessing was forced to eat body parts and Meiko possibly has her face deformed by acid (the flowers representing deformity)
jfc that's horrible
Kaitos brain was replaced by a dogs brain
LittleMissMusic$tar ಠ_ಠ ......
Yeah...
LittleMissMusic$tar im not scared by it but its still horrible good god... * ~ *
This song makes me shiver, and I stare out at the forest behind my house, I seem to see the circus lights flickering in the distance.
Maybe I shall join them...
BRO????
You good
...😨
Jesus christ bro are you still there
DONT
I've heard the song many times before, but you really can't appreciate the mood of the song without this video. The art is enchantingly beautiful.
Vocaloid songs are all non-professional. It's rare that someone releases a CD.
But if you want more of this composer's work, search "machigerita" :)
The chairman is a fanmade character. The white haired one, Haku, was made for songs were the person doesn't tune the program right and so she's called the "drunkard" fan character. The other, the side-pony tailed blonde woman is also a fan character. The Hanging Clown I do believe is yet another character named Teto which was released by the company who made vocaloids as a "joke" product. If that helps any, they aren't -actual- vocaloids but they are fake vocaloids.
Haku Neru and Teto eh?
@@Erai-keeps-getting-haunted2172 14 year old comment my man. this info is outdated as hell.
Also, the chairman isn’t human
@@Erai-keeps-getting-haunted2172neru doesn't have a voicebank, teto is an utau/synth v, idk anything about haku though
I love this song so much, it's so sad yet so awesome. ;; The sad thing is it's based off a true story about what people use to do in circuses years ago. The terrible fate these children had to suffer...it's just so horrible. -cries forever-
notice how rin doesn't have any flowers on her face? and then she's the only one who actually says that the circus is fun? it's because she's behaving herself so that she doesn't get hurt like miku or len
The reason why she’s acting like that is just a front. She too wants to be free.
Don't listen to the older comments, this song is NOT based on reality. The story told in this song is FICTIONAL. Edo Japan was known for being an incredibly peaceful era with a flourishing economy. There were some acrobatic circus groups in the North called "karuwazashi", but they looked nothing like Western freak shows. Entertainment was mainly a farmer balancing on a 20ft tall pole. Bad things happened in history like how disabled people were and are still treated. But there is ZERO evidence of children being kidnapped and tortured to be freakshow acts during the Edo period. And one more thing, this is song is the 2nd song of a FICTIONAL vocaloid series by horror Vocaloid producer Machigerita-P. There are 5 songs total with some album exclusives. Also, Widespread Knowledge of Late Night Madness is not part of this series. Learn to research things and gon't believe every youtube comment section you read on the internet kiddos.
.....this is the best vocaloid song ive seen in a long time.........maybe best ever. fanatastic video and such a powerful song in my opinion. gave me shivers....LOVE IT!!!!!!
the artstyle in this video is so nice…
..i want it.
I wanna eat it 🙂
Law of talos PFP spotted
@@TheSillyArsonistwait what is law of talos i have never heard of that before
@@palameno so basically
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Omg... I heard this a while back from my friend's iPod, then yesterday I remembered Alice of Human Sacrifice - and now I'm watching this. I feel so sick and...... weird. I don't know why, but I'm starting to love Vocaloids. And I don't even know any Japanese.
Incredible song, anyway. And the fact that this is based on actual events :(
and this is based on a true story. oh god
wait wHAT
omg it is?? what's the story?!
oh nvm i found it XD sorry
i dont know the story by heart but
Mingyuyuyu telllllll usssssssssssssss
I'm so incredibly obsessed with this song. Thank you so much for uploading it. 83
I love this song~ the sad story~ artwork, sounds, and the lyrics are EPIC!
"likes to eat things out cold"..huh.when connected to kaito,does that means ice cream?and who's the "Deformed Diva"?
im late but i think the deformed diva was miku and the two people stitched together were len and rin
The staticy sound actually sounds REALLY good with the song! 8DDD
This video is simply amazing. No other word for it. And the music goes so well :O
この歳になっても全て理解できないのが最高
I think I can interpret this story:
The dark woods circus is a strange circus found in a forest outside of the city. It was built by the tall humanoid cat-like entity known as the ringmaster (or chairman). He lures kids to his circus where he captures them, deforms them, and forces them to perform there. Flowers will grow on their bodies if they try to escape or defy his orders, which can worsen their suffering. The first of his victims are vocaloids miku, Len, rin, kaito, haku, neru, and Toto. Miku became a deformed diva, with her legs replaced with that of a goat’s, Len, and rin are fused together, kaito becomes a savage cannibal, haku and neru become tall performers, and toto becomes a clown who later hangs herself as she couldn’t handle her suffering. That woman in the red dress may look like meiko, but it’s not. That’s the ringmaster assuming the form of a human. Len and rin are also tasked with passing out flyers to lure other kids to the circus. Meiko receives a flyer from them and is lured there, where she discovers its dark secret. The ringmaster captures her, but he doesn’t deform her. He instead just brainwashes her and tasks her with Len and rin’s job of passing out flyers.
If you want my advice (I’m just saying this for fun): No matter how tempting it is, stay away from that circus!
超ステキ!
かわゆい!
"I WANT TO DIE" "I WANT TO DIE"
"CANT SOMEONE GET ME OUT OF HERE PLEASE"
"IM AFRIAD MY DEAR THATS IMPOSSIBLE"
" I CANT HELP BUT FEEL SOMEONE SAID THAT TO ME ONCE..."
those are the correct lyrics to the end
and it makes much sense too because meiko is shown saying that to her at 3:00
and it makes much sense too
3:00 that is not meiko. It’s the cat entity in human form.
My god, I recall when I was consumed by this song. I am not a man of religion, but I lie prostate with prayer that the infatuation will not reach me again. It will not, for I have evolved.
Gave me chills...I think the people who visit this circus are taken and deformed, right? At the end, it showed Len and Rin as "normal" and wandering into the circus and then a flash of them as one person with two heads. Also, the girl at the beginning suddenly gets transformed at the end D: So sad and scary...
I’d say brainwashed, not transformed
Stuff like this did actually happen. ......a long time ago.
Vocaloid actually have some of the scariest songs that makes your skin crawl, some are sad, like this one...
You know, I've always been afraid of circuses. This is why.
But I love the song. The song itself is.....wonderful for scaring everyone else with manical laughter at the end. :D
I don't know if this has been stated before, but if you notice, the poster says "Machigerita", so when the dialogue says "Drop by and see him" They mean Machigerita.
Omg this makes me so sad
sinitaiyo sinitaiyo
And the part where Rin is singing about it's so fun so fun is so creepy
I LOVE IT
Rin may sound like she’s enjoying herself, but that doesn’t mean she’s happy. She’s only saying that so to avoid punishment.
I'm utterly speechless about this song.
It's very hard to describe what this makes me feel.
It's so incredibly beautiful that I just can't seem to get too many words out.
So I guess it would be too beautiful.
This was my first Vocaloid song......ahh memories
lmao that’s what they get for literally forgetting about me in most of the songs that they apparently all sing, or for killing me in some songs.
This song is very dark, but enchanting because of it.
The beginning is all rin/len, and the part where Miku's segment in the video is actually her singing :)
i love vocaloid lyrcis they always makes you want to know the story behind it lol.
This is so beautifuly dark, I cant not love any of it, I can watch it over and over and over again.
1:47 he hit puberty!!
LMAOO
This video has the most gorgeous and emotional art I've seen. Love it. :D ~
I hate when someone goes just enjoy it, y'know, it's a complicated saga of songs for a reason, so we get an enjoyable story, learn some lessons, and think about the characters presented to us. Artist spend many hours putting in a lot of work to make these things for us to interpret, and you just wanna shut it out and blankly listen.
You know, you don't HAVE to care about the story. Just ignore it. I do that many times with songs, even in saga's I enjoy. If it bugs you that much, just avoid the comments section...
I usually listen to music while doing something (puzzles, gaming, etc.) I'm not gonna stop in the middle of a boss fight to wonder "man I wonder what dissolve my eyes mean" and then write an entire essay.
the weirdness factor gets it a 10/10 and a fav
i keep hearing this song when im asleep....... and i cant stop listening to it.....HELP
I love this-
3:40 Why the fuck is Rin built like that
This video is beautiful. I just love it.
I listen to the music dancing though my ears
all the lonely misunderstood beings....
i am hypnotized by it's sound
it's hurts to watch yet this liquid in my eyes keeps wetting my shirt
some people just don't understand how music can make you feel
"With wide knowlage of the late madness"
The asylem where the peple staying there become circus attractions
I so sad! T.T But- I did see some MikuxLen in there! :D
THE BEGINNING MUSIC TO THIS SOUNDS JUST LIKE THE ENDING MUSIC OF "Wide knowledge of the late, madness" O.O
this...this is just depressing
i haven't listened to this in forever and i actually can't believe i haven't listened to this in forever. ;-;
am i the only one who thinks this is related to “alice of human sacrifice”
more related to wide knowledge of the late madness
Every time I listen to this song, shivers are sent up my arms.
To those who think this is scary, please watch Masa - P's songs,
Good day.
Agreed
Gamer Girl honestly this is just me but what makes masa-p songs scary is very different than what makes this scary. they’re two super different kinds of horror and this to me is still more disturbing than any of masa’s songs
love the drawings :D
This has become my absolute favorite vocaloid song.
You did an alright translation!
Honestly, I don't like Kaito's voice
I'm going to get so much hate, but his voice just doesn't sound natural.
Miku's, Len's and Rin's sound like possibly existing voices
+RAZ0RSHARP I agree actually
Such a beautiful melody
Heart wrenching lyrics that send chills down your spine
I don't know if i'll ever stop watching this
(i probably will...eventually LOL)
most of the comments are just people talking about the song as if it was a real thing, its vocaloid it doesn't have a meaning
Some Vocaloid songs are based on real life events. The dark woods circus is a creepy pasta. It unknown if it's a mist or not.
You should watch wysteria..
+Karma The murderer I agree Wysteria is very creepy and slightly disturbing. It's based off of real events of a child rapist murder and cannable(?)
Lucy Parra I know, I've seen it
What about secrets of wysteria
first song thats EVER made me cry. new favorite vocaloid song
Why did I see this since I was more young- (I loved vocaloid and utaloid at that time lmao)
@adsweaty that's true, my original translation was wrong. Thanks for pointing it out.
I love this song ~
"Does anyone wish that I were alive, so undesirable I am in this body?"
Deviant Art.
How is Wide Knowledge of late Madness not related to this song. It explains her horns and as for the edo child tent, that really fit in to the song's background and obsures the song's point.
Jelly 1010 Super late but LITERALLY at the end of that song the beginning of this song played.
I love this video !
^^
omg.......i have no words.....this is amazing......macabre but sensible at the same time...
I like these types of songs
if you watch the video enough times, you'll see that the hands that are holding each other are fake ^_^ (since the legs are fake, you can assume the hands are too?)
I feel the exact same way. :0 I've been trying to do some deep research about this, and asking people where they got their sources from! and I am currently reading through ALL (from the very first comment!!) to see if it is just some story that they came up with over time, and assumed it was true because it made sense, or if they actually have some reliable sources. I normally wouldn't obsess over it this much, but I listen to this song EVERY DAY!! I just have to find out the truth behind it! xD
@EmoMichie
At the end the little girl is passing out flyers, she looks up and her eyes are red -she was turned into one of them, but she stays behind to tell others of the circus.
The circus is actually still in the forest
I watched this to gain inspiration for some scary monsters but now I'm just sad.
thatd be so amazing!!
"Rotten fruit, to dissolve my eyes..."
I think it means how you much infact see what is going on inside the circus as if you do it will no longer seem all that much fun.
@chesiregirl Pause at 3:01. While her face isn't shown, it's obviously a taller woman in a red dress that's similar to Meiko's in Evil Food Eater Conchita. I believe this is the only time in the video that the Ringleader is shown as human-like. All of the other times the Ringleader's been shown has it as the tall thing with the big eyes. Dunno if that's symbolic or not though. And, if Kaito, Meiko, Rin, and Len can be watching the show that their freak selves are in I think Meiko can be the RL.
That wasn’t meiko. It was the ringmaster assuming a human form. It’s true form is a tall cat-like entity
thank you
the prequel is on you tube, just type in dark crcus prequel in the search box and i'm sure it will show up.
@QueenRendonThe1st Yhey are a whole series of this song. But well, this song is about a circus that kidnap children (or get them in some other way) and deform them and/or makes them to freaks. Then they show up them at the circus and people laugh at them.
@Strayjane look at her legs, they're reverted, her knees are pointing backwards. it's a deformation called girl-hen or something like that because of the way they're constricted to walk, like birds.
This is awesome. Amazing artwork - it matches the song perfectly xD The only thing that bugs me is that some of the subtitles go by so fast that I can't read them lol. But other than that, this is incredible.
well if youve ever seen the song before this you may know that they were all from a phyceatric ward (sp?) and they all were made to be like this. Mikus legs were cut of and replaced and the twins were swen togather and im not sure but i think Kaito was forced to eat the remains of other people...idk
I'll assume what you are asking is what does the song represent; children were abducted (or sold) to the circus. The owner would punish disobedience by throwing acid on them, adding to the deformity. They would be treated with extreme cruelty, beaten and purposely deformed (by the owner) to attract more customers. This is the shortened version at least.
@castcoon97 its because shes the one who put miku there in the first place
its a sad series the first song is steel cage princess followed by wide knowledge of the late night madness then dark woods circus after that its blue ice castle and finally red swamp bottem hoped this helped
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS
"ooh, the deformity!" O.O
1. Yes, this is based on real events, I think it was during the Edo-Period in Japan.
And 2. I think the flowers symbolize the acid that the circus director threw into their face if they didn't do what they should do.
I don't know very much about it, but as far as I know, there really was a circus like this
"Their shaking tongues...."
you left out "shaking", but other than that, your correct
(i was magically able to pause at the right milli-sec)
If you check 0:46-0:49 you'll see that two of the legs (and probably two of the arms) are fake.
This actually did happen but it happened a long time ago. It's not big because people weren't allowed to take pictures. Besides, taking one would be hard, the visitors never went inside the tent, they viewed the show from peep holes like the one Meiko looked into
The gray haired girl is Yowane Haku, the blond haired girl is Akita Neru
And the hanging clown?
Not a problem :) I'm a bit of a history buff so this is right up my ally!
Yeah ^_^ I already figured it out for the most part by watching a few different fandubs, but it's still nice to have someone explain it.