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The Girl Series ("Shoujo Series" / "少女 リーズ") is a series of songs composed by Hayakawa-P, and illustrated by various producers from Piapro. The song consist of six songs with Kagamine Len being the main vocals of each (with several parts sung by Kagamine Rin).
It's an eccentric series with six different stories and approaches, of Len encountering a girl (Rin).
Background
Part 1
文学少女と窓際の関係 (Window-side Relationship with the Literature Girl)
Sung by Kagamine Len
Song by Hayakawa-P
Illustrated by Himekoma
霊能少女の繁栄と衰退 (The Rise and Fall of the Psychic Girl)
Sung by Kagamine Len
Song by Hayakawa-P
Illustrated by yakon
This is the most notable song of all in the series; and also the most mylisted. In this song, Len fell in love with a girl (Rin) who is "obsessed" and believes in mythical creatures such as ghosts, spirits, etc.
It all started when Rin gave her a note which reads "You can see them too, can't you?", she was then introduced as "the Psychic Girl", the president of the library club. Rin was quite famous as the "psychic girl", saying, she can see ghosts, and have been invited to TV shows once.
By the end of the song, Rin told him that she secretly doesn't want to see, but can see all the things no one couldn't. Len, who at first didn't care of all the "stories" and "myths" comforted her.
A famous interpretation to this song, is that Len doesn't really exist or is just a ghost that only Rin can see, as said by him in the line "I can only watch over you", though interpretations are open to this.
A relatively popular fanmade PV by Nazyo and Suzu have a similar type of interpretation to this song.
- Main article: 霊能少女の繁栄と衰退 (The Rise and Fall of the Psychic Girl)
科学少女への憧憬と現実 (The Longing for Reality of the Science Girl)
Sung by Kagamine Len
Song by Hayakawa-P
Illustrated by Gureisu
- Nicovideo broadcast
- YouTube broadcast (with subs)
Part 2
少女カナリアと煉獄 (Purgatory and the Canary Girl)
Sung by Kagamine Len
Song by Hayakawa-P
Illustrated by Rakeru
- Nicovideo broadcast
- YouTube broadcast (with subs)
In the Purgatory and the Canary Girl; Len is a rich nobleman who could buy anything, and lives with the fact, assuming you can buy everything with money. He later met a singer (Rin) who loves to sing. To Len, she was wearing a cheap dress and perfume, however many loves her singing voice.
Later he asked her to sing for him, for everyone, for the money. Eventually, for an odd reason, "everyone" abandons Len, and only Rin was left. She never eats anymore, she never sings anymore, even though as stated in the beginning "anything can be bought with money".
The girl noticed him crying and she smiled, however it "disgust" Len to see that. He whispered "I love you" to her, and set the (presumably) mansion on fire, showing him how he was in rage (hell in my heart) the whole time.
And in the end, from the very beginning, he is alone.
少女探偵 奇矯にして酔狂 (Making it Bizarre and Weird, the Detective Girl)
Sung by Kagamine Len
Song by Hayakawa-P
Illustrated by Sama
- Nicovideo broadcast
- YouTube broadcast (with subs)
In this song, Rin is introduced as the "Red-eyed girl detective". Len noticed how she grins around cases, around shrieks or cries, treating it as some sort of challenge and not as a "life". Len thinks that the sight of everything is sad, however Rin seemed "happy".
"To the tragedy of the rich boy", and also "the tricked girl" may be a reference to the other songs in the series, it's as if they live in the same timeline. (Purgatory and the Canary Girl; died in the fire).
In the end Len said "all I do is write strange file cases for you" hinting, that he may somehow be culprits of several cases. Following the Girl Series' pattern where Len "falls in love" (though not stated in this song) with all the "girls" in the stories, the reason to his killings (assuming he did) is to make her happy.
少女ノワールあるいは悪徳の栄え (The Glory of Sin, or, perhaps, the Noir Girl)
Sung by Kagamine Len
Song by Hayakawa-P
Illustrated by Kirico
External Links
- YouTube Playlist - Translated songs of the Girl Series