User blog:Count Kamui/About Gallerian's Theatre and song PVs

Introducing the theory:
“When that theatre deep in the forest was forgotten by everyone,

the clockwork started to come alive with an echoing singing voice.

The ‘Collectibles’ are creating a story with their own hands”.

(from Heartbeat Clocktower’s PV)

I began to develop this hypothesis because of this little piece of text from Heartbeat Clocktower’s PV, when I was re-watching the video to confirm another thing that was on my mind and it seemed reasonable. At first I thought it was just another pointless connection, but I myself was startled when I started my research on the topic, as it made WAY too much sense. At least for me. So I thought I could share it with you~

My theory is that the songs for the Seven Sins and their PVs, along with some other songs and PVs which are directly linked to one of the sin songs, are actually movies made to be screened on Gallerian’s Theatre and presumably written by Ma and Gammon Octo.

Now, please calm down, take a deep breath, don’t flip your table and read this goddamn long piece of text before freaking out. I will list the things I found out in the order I got them, so I hope you can follow my track. (:

Heartbeat Clocktower and other evidences: 

“A lonely man; the ‘Collector’. Just before he died he built a small, small theatre.

There was only one film showing. A documentary that introduced his ‘Collectibles’”.

(from Heartbeat Clocktower’s PV)

First of all, we have the newly constructed Theatre. Gallerian and Ma just finished it and took Gallerian’s collection (some of the still dormant sin Vessels) there. The only movie showing in the theatre is a documentary that introduces Gallerian’s collection = the dormant Vessels of Sin he owned (I’m still working in which song this documentary could be, though).

But then, the dormant Vessels begin to awake (the Clockwork Doll/Master of the Court had been already Awakened by Gallerian’s fatherly love, fueled by Venomania's bloodline curse, towards her) and we have this:

“When that theatre deep in the forest was forgotten by everyone,

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center;">the clockwork started to come alive with an echoing singing voice.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center;">The ‘Collectibles’ are creating a story with their own hands”.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center;">(from Heartbeat Clocktower’s PV)

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Most of the inhabitants of the Theatre have specific tasks linked to movie production: Master of the Court is the director, Ma is the playwright, Waiter has the leading part, while Gammon takes care of the chores (I’d say he’s the janitor or something) and sometimes helps Ma with her scripts, all of this according to Chaban Capriccio, Heartbeat Clocktower and the Evils Court booklet.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">We can also assume the documentary stopped showing, as the Vessels awakened and aren’t Gallerian’s “Collectibles” anymore. Also, the second text from Heartbeat Clocktower’s PV states that the inhabitants of the theatre (former Collectibles) are creating their own story: but, in a movie theatre, having movie-related tasks, what could they be creating aside from movies?

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">But at this point I had a problem. I knew there was something new showing in the Theatre but Heartbeat Clocktower doesn’t give much more clues. So, I had to search elsewhere and found something interesting.

<h2 class="MsoNoSpacing">Many PVs feature plenty of typical movie aspects, specially cast lists: <p class="MsoNoSpacing">

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">By “many PVs”, I mean “a great part of the songs/PVs whose story and placement in the EC timeline allow for it to be a movie in the Theater”.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The most striking examples are Akujiki Musume Conchita, Akutoku no Judgement and Shiro no Musume. I will divide this section into topics as there is more than one aspect I’d like to mention and not all of them appear in every PV.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">And yes, I checked mothy’s whole profile on NND, but if there is something missing, please notify me.

<h3 class="MsoNoSpacing">a) Casting lists

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Please note “casting lists” are not the same thing as credits, altough both mention the Vocaloids’ names.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The thing in these casting lists is that they only feature the Vocaloids appearing in the song and do not cover credits and music/video human staff.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">There are casting lists in (in the order the videos were released by mothy): Akujiki Musume Conchita, moonlit bear, Enbizaka no Shitateya, Shiro no Musume, Saigo no Revolver, Venomania Ouyake no Kyouki, Nemurase Hime Kara no Okurimono, Akutoku no Judgement, Chaban Capriccio and Escape of Salmhofer the Witch.

<h3 class="MsoNoSpacing">b) A “fin”

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The old mute, black and white movies would often end in a black screen with “fin” written in white, representing the end of the movie.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">There is a “fin” in: Aku no Musume, Aku no Meshitsukai and Akai Kutsu no Parade.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">(I’m not very sure about item B, as “fins” are not that uncommon in Vocaloid PVs in general. But, as Aku no Musume and Aku no Meshitsukai were released before mothy actually started working in The Evillious Chronicles, both videos/songs are kind of loose and hard to fit into theories, so I’m sorry if it’s stretched too far)

<h3 class="MsoNoSpacing">c) Division in scenes

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Akutoku no Judgement is divided in four Chapters, each one named after their specific themes inside the story.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Shiro no Musume is divided in five Scenes, each one named after their location (six if you count Scene 3.5: Revolution, which is into Scene 3: Urban).

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Also, not really a video, but one of mothy’s newest albums is “Original Sin Story –Act 1–“. An act is how a part of a theater play is called. Both songs from this album which have official PVs released have casting lists.

<h3 class="MsoNoSpacing">d) Complete and independent stories

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">These songs are: all of the Seven Sins stories until now.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">An interesting aspect that is unique to the Seven Sins songs are the way the stories are completely independent. They do not cling to other songs and don’t need knowledge about the series to be understood, as the references they make are few and not essential to the plot (for an example, before we knew about Irina’s part in the Venomania event, we could understood Venomania’s storyline almost perfectly fine). Actually, most of us got into The Evillious Chronicles because of a Sin song.

<h3 class="MsoNoSpacing">e) Direct references to movie elements

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">This topic covers everyting that shows up only on Akujiki Musume Conchita.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">First of all, Conchita’s PV feature a long cast, staff and even sponsor list. The staff list includes: “Hatsune Miku for propsman; Megurine Luka for costume designer; Kamui Gakupo for miscellaneous tasks”. (Gammon’s chore boy job in the Theatre is mentioned way too many times for my taste, I’m starting to get suspicious. First Chaban Capriccio itself, then Samurai from Gobanme no Pierrot, then this)

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The sponsor list is: “Foods: Hatsune Agricutural Associations, Megurine Fishing Associations; Location: Foundation Yellow Country”.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Also, the revised version’s video features a moving film reel frame during the whole PV.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">But what does it all mean, after all? Well, only mothy and his twisted mind know...

<h2 class="MsoNoSpacing">About the novels:

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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I’m not saying the facts told in the movie-songs didn’t happen and are made up by Ma (the playwright), like some may think. If they didn’t happen, the Theatre wouldn’t even exist. The point is that the songs mentioned are just someone’s (probably Ma’s) point of view about those facts, hence the songs not giving a complete report on the stories.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">But then, what’s the real story, after all?

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">My bet is on the novels. Aside from the fact they’re much more detailed, they exist inside the story itself, at least the Story of Evil main books, as they were even written by Yukina Freesis and shown to Gallerian Marlon by Ma. Think about them like our real-life History books.

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">(Back to the inhabitants of the Theater, they are the actors who play the movie-songs, aside from producing them. If we take a look, there is no Vocaloid featured in a movie-song without a counterpart in the Theater, while the novels and mangas feature lots of other characters).

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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Whew, that was tough. I authorize you all to flip your tables over now. XD

<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I hope you liked my theory and I apologize for the goddamn long text, but I had to point out everything. There’s probably still stuff missing as my evidence list was really long and I must have forgotten something halfway through the text, so I’ll come back to edit and maybe add a bit more later. I’d also like to have written a better text but the idea is still too raw for me, so it’s the best I could do right now. Thanks for reading~

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