Weekly Question #18 by Tsuki~

[xxkonokisekixx]

Okay. So for this week's question, I personally feel like people can connect to the answer, but at the same time, I think it'll make you guys think. It's a question that's been on mind for a while now.

What kind of person do you see Nino as through his song lyrics?

If you can, try to forget the things he says in interviews and how he presents himself

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Let's see, I actually don't tend to look up translations for his lyrics, but, I'll stick myself higher than i should be, I do understand them while listening, and I listen over and over and over and over and over ... you get the idea xD
The thing overall that I get from his lyrics is his romantic innocence. It's adorable really. They aren't really always the happiest lyrics, but he gives the idea that he doesn't ask for nor expect much from anyone, not because he doesn't want to get so intimate, but because for him a relationship should be easy going, and simple over all.
For example in Niji, the entire song is about what he does when he sees that his girlfriend is upset. He does small things in the song, and he isn't expecting anything in return. He just wants to continue a simple existence.
I tried not to look at your answer before writing because I don't want it to influence me, but you used all the songs I was thinking of anyway xD
Rakuen also shows the simple existence hypothesis I have. There's the fantasy that you can just go away with your loved person and not be bothered because you love each other. He does realize that there will be outside antagonizers, but that there must be a place they can go to escape them
I think by the time we get to Gimmick Game, Nino really kind of let go of that innocence, because I think he realized that the antagonizers can be the lovers as well. Gimmick game, as I'm sure we all know by now, is a song about cheating. And revenge to a small extent.
Nino definitely records his mental and emotional growth in his songs, and also in the music he has arranged for them. But I think that the romantic innocence will stay with him, simply because he seemed to really have believed in it when he was younger, and that doesn't go away.

I'm stabbing my brain now because I know there's more I could say, but my thoughts just won't cohere to each other in a way that I can express. I love his music, he's a damned poet, and I enjoy his work because of how much he puts himself into it. He can say whatever he wants about curry and dirty fingers, the thoughts have root inside, and his way of expressing himself is truely magical.

[xxkonokisekixx]

Ah! That's an interesting way of seeing it. Romantic innocence does seem to fit Nino. I think his childhood is a huge influence on his music and who he is today. I feel like that stuck to him the most throughout the years.

I really wanted to use Gimmick Game, but my mind didn't work non-perverted when I was trying to answer. D8 Dirty fingers. ♥

Thanks for taking the time to answer~ :D

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I think anyone's childhood would have a huge influence because that is what forms our ideals i the first place. I think that people who can hold to their childish innocence are the most pure, and in a way, Nino is exactly that, a very pure soul growing up in a world that can be sad.

you could have looked at the meanings behind the words xD

Any time sweetie! <3