"Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra" is a musical group in Japan, consisting of two members, Nene Akagawa and Yuni Minami. Our song features characters such as "Alice Schach" and we express various stories using our own language called "Alician". One of the main features of the group is that it is self-produced, with the members themselves taking charge of a wide range of aspects such as songwriting, arrangement, performance, video, and design, while inviting illustrators and animators for each song.
From what it looks like to me, Alice Schach is part of a long line of mages, but when her family was targeted by a witch hunt, a child pulled her along by the hand, either to help her flee or leading her away from her family so that the mob would get them. Alice is the only survivor, the last living member of the Schach family, doomed to be alone until the end times. However, the black cat came along, perhaps summoned as a result of Alice casting a spell from that book at the end to attain a familiar to cope with the pain of loneliness and the loss of her family.
I know the actual message is a story but the imagery of their father being a monster and the deep seated low self worth from guilt of ruining their mothers life feels so close to home it’s like someone reached deep into my brain to pull this out
1:27 look at the woman without the shirt in the picture I think that ties into maybe the man in the picture right next to that sa her without protection, and she gets pregnant, and like becomes really depressed after she gives birth, and she ends up, killing herself
The confusion begins... Was every single character just in her head? Is this Alice's perspective on what is happening? Are the characters real, or just a trick of the mind, a product of her imagination? Are each character independent, or a part of her? Or maybe this whole time (if counting the pre-Schach and post-Schach), Alice was the only one? The song of denial is here now.
It has to be He'oR's tragic past. No different than Alishka, nor Salatoga, nor Alice. Looks like He'oR was born to a terrible father, and her mother paid the price. The whole religious imagery involved seems like the underlying cause of suffering for the four characters we know. 3:25 - The answer to "Life in a Plastic Bag". It seems the drugs were a way for her to deal with her father's abusive nature. Despite missing out on the tracks, the train of tragedy remains ongoing. The extratones are coming in hot again, despite mixing with rock.
Extratone and speedcore in 2023... and I missed out. This one hits, despite focusing again on Alice (The "I am always wrong" might connect to this one too). It's so maddening you lose yourself, who you are, and if every bit of you is a flaw, hence the distortions in Alice.
my theory is that the mother died during pregnancy the child was then raised with her abusive negligent father. he sends her to a doctor with a "this will fix her" mentally. the doctor prescribes the child pills and the child longing to get away from he father and missing her mother commits suicide and in the end joins her mother in heaven
After watching and re-watching this a few times, here's what I believe is happening: - The protag's mom didn't die during childbirth, the umbilical cord is actually meant to represent the strength of their bond. - The mom hung herself after falling into despair over the abuse of her partner, the protag's father, who seems to be a violent alcoholic (he's even shown to "change" into a monster), and the fact that her prayers weren't helping her. - The protag was likely told by others that "the angels took her" to soften the trauma, but she may very well have found her mom's body (or alternatively, the father told her exactly what happened, and blamed her for it, which may be represented by her strangling her mom with the umbilical cord, and also by angels slicing her to pieces in her dreams + her growing wings in her hallucination). Understandably, the protag's feelings towards God, His angels and the like aren't exactly positive. - The father doesn't want her around, and likely didn't want a kid in the first place, which is mainly why I think that the mom didn't die during childbirth (along with the family photo of all three we see on the wall) - I don't see the father providing for the kid beyond the bare minimum, so the mom was likely who was taking care of her before her death. - The protag ODs at the end, likely on the medication she's been prescribed. :( - BONUS: Maybe the mom is just a petite woman, but it kinda looks like she was a teen when she entered into a relationship with the father (who himself looks like an adult). Could they have met through a church, since the mom seems to have been religious to some degree, or was it somewhere where a rebellious teen (since her alt style contrasts with the repeated scenes and frames of her praying, so perhaps she's a teen that was trying to pull away from a religious upbringing, but fell back into her teachings when the abuse started) could potentially meet an adult (like at a party)?
"No hay vuelta atrás" Mi brujula se ah roto o talvez ya estaba rota no lo se pero todo está lleno de ruido y destellos ni siquiera puedo escucharme me mata lentamente y ahora estoy varado aquí
Did anyone else notice that the damage to the left eye wasn’t just for the cigarette scene, but a repeating image? Even two of the photos in the hallway portrayed some sort of viscous fluid falling over the eye/discoloring that eye. Any guesses as to what this could mean?
My theory is that this song is about an accepted denial, when in a big group of people(around the size of an village or a small town, where the old for us phones are still new for them), something happened or still happening, that would make the group seen in a bad light, they try to make it seen like it didn't happen or just ignore like it's an everyday thing, and gaslight the involved in that bad incident, that whatever happened in that moment, just didn't. My thoughts: At the start of the song, "the people around me are always correct, that is the unmistakable truth, i am always wrong", already says that the denial happened a long time ago, around when they were small children, and when they start to ask questions about the tabued situation, they were forsed to believe that what they seen and feel, is a lie, just a fantasy that they imagined. The next few phrases, "skipping around the circuit, i wandered into a dimly lit room, a distorted figure depicted in terrifying colors, is that me...?", are about walking through all that chaos of laughable misinformation, that is coloring the victim's perseption of their self like they're the ones who did bad, not who caused the problem, and when they look into a mirror, they only see a monster. Next is the denial that they feel nauseating, feel scared, feel bad at whatever happened, and the glitching happened, meaning that the memories about it got overwritten, and like mantra telling themselfes that they just imagined it, that what they seen, think and feel - is wrong. Then goes the dark part of the song, "eventually, ****** disappeared, and before long, ####### was gone too, one by one, we were thrown into an empty universe" says about people they know died from suicide or getting murdered by someone everyone fears; "but i'm not lonely, i just have to fill everything with falsehoods, look, even the torn blue bird is singing fantasies" says about the lie they have made to believe, when they see a body of who's story they knew by heart, won't continue anymore, and get to be hidden by everyone. The "without knowing it, i was lost in a daydream, strange reality doesn't exist anywhere, but why does my heart feel so heavy?" means that they fully forget about all that, but what they feel and endured, can't disappear with a puff, so the glitching happens again, the mantra repeats, but continues with "if distorted memories surface, i should stomp them down and kill them all, even if something appears dirty to me, it's only because there's something wrong with my mind", meaning that the denial turned into a destructive form, erasing all the memories that shows what truly happened, and everything that is logically cruel and damaging, are now considered as normal and respectful, just because everyone says so. Explanations: I'm saying "they" as any of main characters, as well as possible real people, who endured something similar. Because even if that didn't happen in history, can happen in the future, ancient people won't write about it after all. And it's still a theory, so if creators says that what I written is false, the fellings and the possibilities are still true. (*looks at the time, it's 3 am*...welp, whatever reaction I get, at least I finally mentioned it, even with grammar mistakes)
I might be wrong, but if each character represents an organ/body part, I'm assuming: Alice: None? Salatoga: Hand? Alishka: Eye? Heor: Mouth? I'm just assuming due to a lot of the imagery, themes and lyrics in the songs that the characters appeared in. Then there's Heart, Ears and Nose that may match the unknown/unrevealed fifth, sixth and seventh characters? Their silhouettes can be seen in "Fushigi Chan." Again, this might not mean anything, just something I wanted to comment on! Putting all that aside, these songs are oddly comforting to me, I don't know if it's because I'm mentally ill and have autism or some possible undealt with trauma that's kind of a hindrance or what, but I appreciate these songs a lot. Looking forward to seeing what the future has in store :>
I like to think that the protagonist thought the mom killer herself because of the child, but I feel like it’s more like the father killed the own mother and made it look like a suicide
