Tower of Sunz (English Sub) 

there is something sad about old vocaloid songs like these. knowing that back then, 13 years ago, this song was probably one of vocaloid's best. now everythings more advanced and we forget about old songs like these. or maybe its just me, vocaloid was a HUGE part of my childhood, it just fills me with nostalgia thinking of it

The future becomes the present, and the present becomes the past. You idolize the person you *want* to be, and despise the person you *were* and the person you *are* now. You aren't the person you wanted to be in the past. The cycle of hate and hope spirals onward, and suddenly you realize you've forgotten who you wanted to be in the first place. The Tower of Sunz.

The Tower of Suns is a building built by a Japanese artist in 1970 for an expo, it's silhouette is shown a few times in this video. The tower has 3 faces, the top being the future, the front being the present, and the back being the past. Inside the tower is an exhibit called The Tree of Life depicting the evolution of lifeforms. My interpretation is that Miku is trying to escape her regretful past, it shows many scenes where she is contemplating or shown killing herself. Her struggle to climb the tower is representative of her trying to improve or 'evolve' beyond her past selves and attain the will to accept her past and move on.

11 years later, I still find myself coming back to this song and video. Something so hauntingly beautiful about it.

I really love the part where the happy singing and the colorful art end abruptly and she snaps back into the monotonous beat of the rest of the song... the effect is just great.

8 minutes of mind-fuck.

Fun fact: this song is based on both the Tower Of The Sun and the book ''Ten Nights Of Dreams'' by Natsume Souseki.

To me this song symbolizes self loathing at failing to accomplish your life goals, so you feel as though your past self is always hunting you down and blaming you for failing them, failing you both.

My idea is that it's about how Miku regrets many things she has done in her life, and wishes that she could change them, but the more that she tries to, the more she realizes she's is just fighting with herself. The regrets are making her turn into someone she isn't, and when she figures this out, she fights with all of the the other 'hers' (her inner self) before finally breaking out and realizing that she can still live even if she can't change what she regrets.

This is honestly one of the most unnerving vocaloid songs I've listened too.

Personally, I get the feeling of Miku's self-loathing battling the desire to care for herself. Like the two main Mikus shown through the majority of the video. They go from strangling each other (2:40) to then following each other around (3:49) and then to reaching out to the other and trying to hold hands (4:18). Also towards the end some of the Mikus were caring for the child Miku and following each other up the tower. Kind of reminds me when I was going through depression. I despised myself and would beat myself up, emotionally and physically. Then I'd kind of nurture the wounds as a way to show I still cared about myself. It's like an abusive relationship with yourself. Strange, I know, but I went through it. Kind of the vibe I got from this video. I really connect with it. It's a pretty song and the art is pleasant. I love it. :>

I love the emotionlessness of this song. It sounds emotionless to me except for the part near the end.

I love listening to this song. It reminds me of the atmosphere in my dreams. In about half of my dreams, I'm in a labyrinth that takes the form of a dormitory, hotel, mall, school, mansion, complex, etc. Travelling through those hallways, encountering various people, feels a lot like this. Although the dreams that take place outdoors also feel like this. It's just a very strange, cool song.

Combination of Rolling girl and Dark Woods Circus.

This feels so 13 years old. A bit like music from a flash player indie horror. I love it

It reminds me of the same thing it reminded me of back then. Depression. As someone with depression, it actually gets me tense watching her climb the tower, only to sigh with relief as she gets out. The water in the tower is the overwhelming loathing. Each miku is some period of life or some version of herself she's surrendered to it, or a relapse into it. And the scene at the end. The only person who can help you is yourself, even when you really think you deserve to suffer, or fight against yourself every day.

This song deserves to be more popular

Well everyone all spoke about how this song represents Miku getting past her past selves, trying to aim for her idealised future, however no one speaks about the end so here my input on the end. As mentioned by others, Miku is trying to reach the top of the tower, the i proved and better her. However the top of the tower of sunz is exactly as it was in the bottom. Miku works so hard to become who she wishes to be, but in the end she finds out that the her on the top of the tower is still her and no matter how much she struggles, the past cannot be changed. The future her will still hold the burdens of her past. The reason why the tower always gets bigger and the reason why it is endless is because the more she tries to work to overcome her past, the more past that gets added to the tower and with attempts comes failure. Even if Miku reaches the top of the tower, she will be forced to restart everything in the end, since time is evergrowing and last she has overcome has become replaced by a new past. The cockrel could represent many things, such as cowardice. Realising she has to restart and “chickening” out as you would put it, whilst the now present miku has already remade herself to conqure the tower again. The poet who write the original tale has mpd, and some people with mpd, instead of holding many persona’s at once, instead reform their persona, thus remaking who they are completely and changing who they are to fit a situation. Chicken miku’s could also be associated with her suicide attempts, each other miku persona trying to stop the “chickens” from running from the situation upon realising that they are getting nowehere. In the end, tower of sunz is endless, for time is ongoing until you die. Miku wants to die but other sides of her won’t let her. Thus she is forever stuck climbing the tower od sunz until her future becomes a chicken or until the tower crumbles on her

The art style is very pretty. The song is deep. Everything is awesome.

This song makes me feel like an empty shell.

Has it already been 10 years?? Woah! A decade! I remember first listening to this song. My brother came out of his room asking I've been listening to this weird thumping sound for 7 minutes. lol

It's pretty easy to figure this out. Basically shes running from herself. The staircase is a swirling vortex of hostility created by her past. She is living in the past (the chicken, little girl, etc). Her and this subconscious other form of her both have equal control and rules, like baseball which they use as a metaphor to explain the situation. The stairs she climbs is never ending- until she faces her past and moves on. At the end shes does, and regains control of herself and is in reality.

Theres something so meaningful not only about the song but the artwork as well, this truly stands out from other vocaloid songs.

I feel I'll keep revisiting this one for a long time. There is nothing here, at least that matters to me, or that I understand. But that makes it the more important to me, I guess.

Happy 13 years to this video

Love this smooth instrumental.

0:53 chiken

Okay, officially the best Miku music video ever

I stumbled upon this video by chance now after so so long, it's been 6 years since the last time I've seen this. Back then I was too young to understand the meaning, but I liked the mystery of this song. Now I find the meaning relatable. It's also fitting how this, a song which portrays the past and the present miku in opposing sides, also is one of those things that acts as a link between the current me and my past self 6 years ago.

FINALLY! i understood the song as a story line! it really isn't part of dark wood circus it's actually a positive PV. Not depressing

Her life is a spiralling dream, a ghastly nightmare.

So many vocaloid, such a hopeless sound

I love this so much ^_^ The way that I have interpreted it is that (as her sombre uniform could allude to) she killed herself by jumping off the ship at the masquerade party and now exists in a sort of confusing limbo like place where her life continues to flash in front of her eyes (so to speak) and she is forever reliving events with a certain chaotic, dreamlike quality and seeing versions of her life if things had gone differently at different stages (such as the blind versions) but it focuses in particular on the masked ball as it was her final moments, where her confusion and remorse was at it's peak. I think she killed herself because she was so full of her own self hatred, and as a result, the only way for her to now 'save herself' is to learn to accept and love herself, however she still struggles with this and is still cold towards herself and so forever trapped in a stage of melancholy and grief. However, this is just my view, the great thing about strange and wonderful videos like this is that it the possible storylines are endless

I'll show this PV if anyone asks me what depersonalization feels like (I have a perceptual disorder)

love the art style!!!😊

Like David Lynch.

It's been 10 years since I last heard this song Hits differently now, makes more sense

The tower was already something that freaked me out. Now I discover this. Thanks Yuuki-P for making my disturbed emotions a reality👌

TOWER OF SUNZ Kimi ni misetai keshiki ga atta hazu nanoni Itsunomanika hashigo wa hazusarete shimatteta Ima boku wa kimi no osoushiki wo shite iru no Omowaseburi wa mou yamenasai Iitai koto nado naindarou ? Kimi to boku no owari no konai tasuuketsu Itsu no hi ni ka te ni iretaina kahansuu Kinou no boku ni nerawareteru Rasen no tekii ga uzu wo maku Hineri ni hinette ageku no hate no straight Miokurarete komatte iru no three Lalala Lalala... Kimi to boku no owari no konai tasuuketsu Manjouicchi ichi tai ichi zero Kinou no boku ni nerawareteru Rasen no tekii ga uzu wo maku Noboreba noboru hodo toozakatte yuku Kinou no boku ni nerawareteru

Thought I should point out that this is NOT part of the dark woods song series! Same artist, not same series.

@Bernardthecheesecake The art is amazing, it may just look like messy lines to you, but it takes alot to do something like this. The artist has done some of the best depictions of Miku in PVs I've ever seen.

The tension was intense in this one. Also this feels like I'm gazing into somebodys dream for some reason.

I love the circus part. It's great, with all the voices in sync together. 3:25

I don’t see how this is actually creepy, it’s just the art style. I find it really intriguing though.

I love the surrealism of this song, the only thing I've ever heard like it is The Ghost of Romantic Transciever. They have quite similar sounds actually, both Miku songs with simplistic yet really good PVs, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking for something similar. I love both songs to bits.

I feel like something else is going on here, but I can't tell what

7:55 long, 271,752 views. Doesn't seem like that many, but that's 4 years of view time, give or take. That's long enough to graduate, including all the eating, sleeping, and playing video games.

I’m in love with this song it’s been years

This song makes me feel nauseated with deep sadness but.... I still love it 😄🎶

This song was actually based off a poem written by a man with dissociative identity disorder, or multiple personalities. The more you know.

13 years... Seriously...

I always feel compelled to cry when I hear this song. Miku didn't deserve to go through any of this. It's not fair that she did.

Guys I’m still sad that it’s not on Spotify 2years later

Im really needing this on Spotify

no matter how confusing or hard to understand this song is...I feel like I understand it. the meaning feels deep and nostalgic.sort of creepy and mysterious.

very kino and avante garde

If anyone is wondering who the artist is: piapro.jp/my_page/?pid=cube_lab&view=content_relation Took me while to find them because I didn't read the original video description on NND lol and im ashamed but 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Yes, at 3:24 Miku is about to throw a paper airplane -im guessing just to past the lonley time in limbo- but she sees herself from the past, and she is suddenly remembering everything she was trying to forget. The part when all of the DWC characters are together is that they are all in heaven - remeber they didnt kill anyone, they were all killed by Miku- and miku is stuck in solitude.

This song is so damn trippy. I love it!

This make me feel in a way that I have never felt before, and this feeling is very hard for me to describe...

I get the feeling that the pulses throughout the video are the sound of her heartbeat.

Who woulda known this guy (sunzriver-P) made reverse rainbow

best accidental click of my life

The artist is also the person who did the art for dark wood circus

12 years later it’s still great. Also rip wowaka…

I love the art work for this.

This song reminds me of yume nikki

This reminds me of a dream I had while on a sugar/caffeine rush... Trippy... :|

My first vocaloid song, 5 years later i still love it : )

PLAYING SIDE ORDER REMINDED ME OF THIS SONG SO I AM BACK AFTER YEARS :-]

thanks for the closed subs! really such a beautiful video, very nice that i can understand it a bit now.

And 'my past is aiming at me' virtually gives the game away.

@Commisama This is suuuuuch a good video!! Thanks for posting this!!! And congrats on all the views!

when i want to feel mysterious i think of/play this song

Subs! *-* at last! I was loosing hope someone will ever translate it :/ thank you so much for sharing it! the translation is awesome :D

I think this is about the stages of grief and she is constantly seeing the events that lead up to that moment, that it was her fault, memories of her and that person's past. Or i also thought that this was a sequel to Dark Woods Circus where she died and is struggling to be reborn.

that whole video is absolutely beautiful. i love that kind of art, it reminds me of dark woods circus at 4:05 :3 and that song is so...dunno..mystic :D truly beautiful :33

I listened to this song a couple of years ago and now I'm coming back to it, I forgot how much I loved it

Haven't listened to Vocaloid in forever... ....How did i ignore this for so long??? Wonderfully cryptic stuff :)

I can never finish reading the lyrics to the song because this song always ends up putting me into a trance

@Gardaint Ah that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for filling us in on that ^^

Probably my favorite Vocaloid song/video... ...so amazing. It messes with your mind.

Chasing herself could be her staying in her comfort zone and avoiding the outside world, but that habit ended up leading to her hiding away and being alone and depressed again.

I dont know but that sounds very nice

The more I listen to this the more lovely and beautiful the music and video get. I could listen to this on repeat for hours.

Thank you for your sub work

Literally NO ONE will be here but does anyone know any other songs like this and Banshee Strikes? They sound very different but there’s just this feel they give off

Those occasional strange guitar sounds... especially when they get increasingly higher in frequency at around 6:45, I can't help but be reminded of the sound effects of nuclear detonations in " Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto". It probably wasn't done on purpose but even the last one reminds me of the final detonation in that video.

I still consider this part of the Dark Wood Circus as Miku's reincarnation trial

In love with this

Yuuki-P's illustrations are so unique.

So I think that Miku is trying to leave behind the old her and become something new,but her past keeps nagging at her and she keeps trying to break free.Around the end of the song,you see one miku trying to break free of a bunch of other mikus.The "funeral" part was an old habit dying.When she was climbing the stairs she was running away from her past.At the end she is finally becomes who she wants to be.The rooster might symbolize her bottled up past...or maybe the people around her.My opinion!

Fun fact: the sketch at 7:53 is of the Tower of the Sun made by Taro Okamoto.

English sub? I love you. And it's not just added with youtube! x3 I really love you. XD

In or out of context, the lyrics to this song are pretty mind-blowing. And that's why I love it. xDD

(stares) ..... (applauds) That is one of the best interpretations I've had heard so far! :D I applaud you, Philosophical Genius! XD

im not the person i could think i am, i'm me and the me who've i've yet to see is the same, so i'll trust both past, present, and future til time doth end.

they look so innocent so misunderstood all they want is to escape this perpetual hell thats in the form of this spiral staircase thats going to flood and kill them all

Many MIKUS of the Sunz

I love the...mood, this song has to it. Like I couldn't focus on anything else but this... o.o