Douse Nakunaru dake

"A rather fragmented piece whose auditory factors do not match with the quality of the animation and its visual tale"

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Straight off, the English translation of Takayan's *Just Disappear* shows lyrics that shoot pellets in the air in hopes that the target of resentment is given vivid impact from the words. Trigger happy, the singer's rage is all over the verses. Tying up the threads to find connections becomes tedious and we're forced to accept the breathless barrage that wants to make all things make sense under a brief amount of time. For instance:

*Let’s live at our own pace.*
*Capture “Past”, “wish” and “yourself” in your ... eyes.*
*Hatred and resentment, they change people.*
*Don't want to think anymore, goodbye.*
*Forget about time, just want to say goodbye now.*

I do not understand how the first line belongs here. It follows with this:

*(I want you) Fed up and I don’t give a damn about complaints or betrayal.*
*(I love you) Confused, but still living desperately, you are the best!*
*Easy-Peasy! Be greedier!*
*I think I am going to shut down myself .*
*Don’t need to hurry,*
*It’s not scary, let’s cross together when the light turns red.*

Who speaks those words on the parentheses? Why is the affirmation of one's overall conduct coming from another outlet as concluded by the usage of "you", when first-person pronouns precede and succeed it? This might just be a victim of awkward translating, or the source of weird aura comes from the way the song is lyricized. *Just Disappear* would not be the first song to be placed in that box. It makes me inclined to think that it is a translation problem, at least I hope it does.

As it contains video, which is directed and animated by Rabbit MACHINE, its aspects need to be reviewed. The complaints I have with the lyrics heavily disrupt my overall experience with this song, and on that note, the steady hip hop tune does not have the force to be the hefty fist of grit and rage that the lyrics suggest. What whips it up from the depths of ordinariness is the story the visuals tell.

The bogged-down lead wears heavy eye lids, walks with a gait that looks forceful, almost with the sudden transition of one that is limp, yet two legs uninjured, sports long sleeves that cover half of the hands and knee high socks under a long skirt to fully fashion up a woman whose flesh is pretty much covered, and is affixed to an intact heart with jagged lines on her mouth. With societal consciousness evident by the mention of people's incomprehensible tendency to be aligned with what pollutes happiness through inappropriate behavior and the continuous bearing of unpleasant traits, the details become finer, the picture more complete, and *Just Disappear* can be interpreted as a tale of a woman in the modern times struggling due to a predatory society not only from a feminist standpoint, but also due to a general concern for the entire populace to be happy not being fulfilled in the slightest.

Three separate versions of the woman were brought into play to flesh out her hardships. The child bullied by her peers, the Internet-savvy, with a calm demeanor, flocked by forward men and willingly publishing her cleavage to social media, and the high schooler reduced to a sycophant who tends to men's fiery blaze of lust. The mouth becomes a pertinent trace to the source of meaning: in the child, it is her inability to fight back, to be silenced against the verbal swords of her peers that know no more; in the Internet-savvy, the mouth is a useless thing in a still image with a body that can talk with allure; in the high schooler, it is a means to get closer to erotica; finally, in the lead herself, it becomes a way to fight back. Though still wrapped with a touch of positivity on other accounts, the jagged lines still present a balancing contradiction.

This empty life drills a gaping hole into the heart, exacerbated by the loss of a mother, and the burden of acute awareness to everyone's unhappiness are the subjects of immediate disappearance. Yet what prevails is the knowledge of systematic issues; the malevolent dragon of negativity manifests not in the vessel of one singular man, but within the urban environment itself. She fights back despite acknowledging her ills.

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*Just Disappear* is a rather fragmented piece in a sense that the auditory factors do not match with the quality of the animation and its direction.