Talk:Benzene Series/@comment-121.54.54.125-20140119113531

hello guys

I have a theory concerning the red asterisks in Toluene and whether they have been arranged properly all this time.

There are images in the link above, but I'll write the theory again here anyway.

At the end of the PV, we see seven stanzas, with four lines of ten asterisks each.

However, what Luka sings is different. Seven stanzas total, two with four lines and ten kana each, and five stanzas with four lines and twelve kana each. The last of which is written in perfectly understandable Japanese.

Is the PV misleading us? Is there really a mismatch?

There are 7 x 4 x 10 = 280 asterisks total, and 2 x 4 x 10 + 5 x 4 x 12 = 320 sung syllables.

If you eliminate the last verse from consideration because it's in understandable Japanese, it's 272 syllables. Closer, but we're still missing 8.

However. The verses are not the only thing written in asterisks in the PV.

Toluene is too.

トルエン. Four kana, repeated twice? That's 280.

The only catch I see here is that Toluene is written as **** not twice, but thrice in the video.

Still, what if we could match the kana to the asterisks and find meaning in the kana in red?

Can someone confirm or deny this for me?

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