Sunday 25 July 2004

Pic of the day: Screenshot from the intro to the anime Nanaka 6/17. The magic is, of course, all in her imagination.

"I love you" song

I found myself once again humming a song that I could not remember. This time however I remembered the last three words. But they were not exactly unique: "I love you!"

The rest of the song was in Japanese, this much I knew; I did not remember a word of that, of course ... I only know perhaps 100 words or so of Japanese. But I knew it was an anime song, at least. I mentally went through the crop of this summer: DearS, Girls Bravo, Sanctury ... could be the end song of Sanctuary, but probably not, I thought. I remembered the others. Definitely not Pugyuru! I went as far back as to Midori no Hibi to no avail.

An hour or more later, in the bathroom, I remembered. It seems to always happen when using the bathroom. Anyway, it was an older series, that was lisenced this summer: Nanaka 6/17, the series about a 17 year old girl who loses her memories after she was 6, and gets a second chance at growing up. Sort of. She learns that growing up is about more than getting good grades, that responsible relationships with other people are also important.

The intro song to each episode is almost certainly not made for the show, but eerily fitting in some places. And it ends like this: "Even if this magic be dispelled, still I love you."

I guess that's right. Love is not so easily dispelled. But that's OK. Even if love really is forever, that's OK. Love is not painful. It's dispelling the illusions that's painful.