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"If you hadn't changed."

- Gumina Glassred

The Portrait Glassred Drew is a song released by Akuno-P on January 31, 2015. It concerns Gumina Glassred following the Venomania Event, reflecting on her past as she draws the face of Duke Sateriasis Venomania.

Plot
Sometime after the Venomania Event, Gumina Glassred paints the face of a man she can't see again on her blank canvas. She ruminates on how their story could have ended differently if he had stayed as he was, but acknowledges that the person in her picture is already gone. She continues to paint the man's face until his portraits fills her room, admitting that she had wanted the true him, even if they both didn't realize it.

Gumina recalls how the man had burnt his past portrait, and how he had changed after she foolishly made fun of him. She notes how she had believed it would be okay regardless, as long as he was happy; she says that while change isn't bad, what he really needed was to accept his unchanged self too. As she paints, Gumina remarks that he still lives through her painting and that she had already known what he was trying to say in the end. Acknowledging that she liked that about him, Gumina fills the room with memories of her lost friend, shedding a tear at the fact neither of them realized they wanted to love the real him. At the end of the PV, the purple rose she wore is shown left on a new, blank canvas.

Composition
The song is composed in the style of a ballad. The primary instruments used are a piano, electric guitar, and drums. Immediately, a piano instrumental opens the song. At 0.10, a spoken line from GUMI is uttered, then flows into a guitar riff and the main melody of the ballad. The opening riff lasts until 0.32, when the first verse begins. A pre-chorus begins at 0.54, followed by the chorus beginning on 1.22. The chorus lasts until 2.02, when a refrain of the opening refrain plays. The second verse begins at 2.24, preceding another pre-chorus at 2.45. The second chorus begins at 3.13, later ending at 3.58 for a guitar solo. The bridge later begins at 4.22, followed by an acoustic refrain of the chorus at 4.47, and later gaining accompaniment from the other instruments. The chorus ends at 5.31, and the opening guitar riff plays until 5.52. The song closes with a refrain of the opening piano instrumental until the song's end, 6.00.

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The Lunacy of Duke Venomania
The song is set a year after the end of the Venomania Event portrayed in The Lunacy of Duke Venomania, with Gumina reflecting on her experiences with Sateriasis while brainwashed as a member of his harem.

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Conceptualization and Origin

 * The song's title is derived from its central character, Gumina Glassred, and her portraits.
 * While commenting on the song, mothy cited that, while he didn't understand the psychology of a woman, being a man, he tried hard to do so, wanting to tell the story from the perspective of a "normal person".

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