Review: The GazettE - Zakurogata no Yuuutsu

Just note that I really hate how this is spelled. It’s a pet peeve of mine. It looks weird with three u’s in that word but that’s how you spell it. Translated roughly, Zakurogata no Yuuutsu translates as A Pomegranate Shaped Melancholy. For the rest of this review, I shall refer to it as Zakurogata to save time.

01. ザクロ型の憂鬱

This song really sounds like a demented circus...

Just a concern with the video: is there something wrong with Ruki’s eyes? In all seriousness, I have not seen that man stare straight ONCE when he sings and when he’s in this video he looks like he’s inspecting his eyelashes for dirt instead of staring at the camera or away from the camera or something. His eyes just creep me out when I can see them. As for the video, as I might as well tackle it here right now: it fits in better with the lyrics than Zetsu did. The video is still all over the place, but it gives off the message of the lyrics better than Zetsu did. It’s still disorienting, but it’s manageable. I’m keeping in mind their low budget allowance for music videos so I’m not going to slam it at all.

This is my least favorite song from the release campaign that they held. To me, the song sounds all over the place and incoherent. It’s also betrayingly upbeat for the message that Ruki sings about and the tone of the guitars doesn’t match the lyrics at all. It also doesn’t fit into the soundscape of Disorder musically as much as it does conceptually (it’s the “loudest” of the three, if you can catch what I mean). Now this doesn’t mean that the song is bad. I just don’t like it as much as the other two (I’ll get to Miseinen tomorrow) and it has annoying special effects all throughout the song (like the beginning and the end, although they complement each other.). What really kills it for me is that annoying trumpet or whatever instrument in the background. I just think it’s set a tad too loud for my ears, and the whole song a bit disorienting, as Amorias so nicely put it.

My favorite part of this song would have to be the solo. Out goes the annoying noise and in comes the nice, clean guitars. It’s also pretty badass and leads right back into the chaos nicely. The part where everyone pauses later on in the song is also pretty cool, as I find Ruki really, REALLY nasal in this song and it grates my nerves. As for the lyrics of the song, I believe it’s about someone with a fatal disease of sorts and the memo certainly sounded like said person’s lover had killed himself to offer up his organs (or some other body part) in order to save the one he loved. This is such a sad story and the upbeat, slightly messy tune doesn’t show the seriousness of the lyrics or any emotion to any extreme at all.

Is it a good single? In my opinion, it’s just average. The GazettE can and has done much better than this, but it’s not that bad of a song. Pick it up and try for yourself, or just buy Disorder and stop being a download whore. It gets a 3 out of 5.

Lyrics

naite naite nakiyandara egao no mama de iyou
naite naite egao kuretara boku no soba ni zutto

madobe kara sasu asahi ga itsumo to chigaku mieta
ki ga omoi no ha saki ga mieta kara darou
kabin ni yureru mimai no hana ga kareru koro ha
kimi wo nokoshi subete wo sutete dokoka tooku he
kimi ha itsumo hagemasu you ni fuzaketemite
akaruku sesshi jibun no koto yori mo boku wo…
saiwai desho? konna sugata wo miteru no ha
tsukareta to sunao ni ieba ii no ni
kimi ha iya na kao hitotsu sezu tada yasashikute
boku wo dakishimete naite kureta

ikitai yo, shinitakunai. omou tabi namida kobore
ikitai yo, kimi no tame ni nani hitotsu shite ageretenai

shibaraku neteshimatteta you da
tonari ni ha kimi no kaori dake ga nokottete
nandaka munasawagi ga shitetan da fuan ga komiageru
soshite hi ha tachi kaeri matsu boku ni todoita
ichimai no memo ha kimi kara de kisareteta jijitsu ni kotoba nakushi
yabureta you ni nakisakenda

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[memo]

gomen nasai
katte na koto shite
tada anata wo tasukete agetakatta no
anata no tame ni shineru no nara
sore ga watashi no shifuku na no..

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boku no naka de kimi ha itsumo mimamotte kureterun da ne
me wo tojite kimi wo omoeba egao datte wasurenai you ne
kore kara mo zutto onaji keshiki wo mitsuzukete ikite ikou
madobe kara sasu asahi to shiokaze ni fukare nemurou
moshi mo futari ga mezamenakute mo

Translation

cry and cry, and when the tears have stopped,
let’s keep a smile on our faces
cry and cry, and if you smile to me, ever by my side

the morning light coming from the window
looks different than usual
this ill air is because I’ve seen what lay ahead
when the get-well flowers in the vase wilt
I’ll leave you, discard everything and go somewhere far away
you always kid around to cheer me up
cheerfully showing me kindness, caring more about me than yourself…
It must be tough. Seeing me this way.
why don’t you just come and say you’re tired?
you never made a sour face,
you simply held me gently and cried for me.

I wanna live, I don’t wanna die. everytime I think of it, the tears spill
I wanna live, there’s nothing I can do for you

it seems like I’ve been asleep quite awhile
next to me only your scent remains
I felt a bit uneasy, the fear welling up within me
and the days go by, a memo came to me
as I waited fro you to come home. It was from you.

I was left dumbfounded by what was written
I cried out as if I’d been broken.

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(the memo)

I’m sorry.
for acting without your consent
I just wanted to help you.
If I could die for you
nothing would make me happier…

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you’re always watching over me from within me
when I close my eyes and think about you,
I can’t forget that smile.
from now I’ll live my life looking at the same background over and over
blown by the seabreeze and the light coming from the window
I’ll fall asleep.
even if we never awake again.