Retrospective 53 Minutes - The Purest Sky and Sea

(Backup video from Youtube [Originally Uploaded by: Yuuka Kazami])
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Track 11 of ZUN's CD Album: 卯酉東海道 ～ Retrospective 53 minutes
Original Title: 最も澄みわたる空と海
Released on: 2006-05-21 (Reitaisai 3)
Original CD Track Story:
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A journey of the mind along the Boyu Line.
-The Tokaido Subway is the most Japanesque subway in Japan.
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--The Purest Sky and Sea--

Even the highest dynamic range images,
and the most Japanesque scenery,
are not better than the true color of the sky.

Nowadays, nobody would believe something as old-fashioned as that.
Virtual sensations stimulates people more than real ones.
Just as they cannot distinguish between dreams and reality, and humans from butterflies.
It's common sense in these days that these two elements can never be separated.

Needless to say, virtuality is the essence of human.

Though my body has vanished with flowers,
:My spirit flies with its fragrance.

They came above ground and left Bo-Tokyo Station, continuing their non-altruistic 53-minute conversation.
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Afterwords from ZUN
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Something like "Nice to meet you." I'm ZUN.
This Boyu Tokaido ~ Retrospective 53 minutes has neither development nor ending. It's the story of someone who managed to eavesdrop on a meandering conversation between the two girls of the Sealing Club. In a way, it's a happy ending.
There are a few little quips the person listening to their conversation inserted mentally.
These quips are the narration. Really?
The two girls seem to be just slightly smarter than most their age. Smart girls are cool.
The theme of this story is same as my previous work, Changeability of Strange Dream. It's about the virtual and reality.
Please let the virtuality now advance a little more within your mind. You can relax while listening to (reading) this CD more than CoSD, right?
Anime and games are always singled out whenever some bizarre crime occurs. How it usually goes is "Separate the virtual from reality." "Just who do you big shots think you are?" "Isn't it obvious?" "What kind of excuse is that?" But it's all meaningless, since that shouldn't be the case to begin with.
They say that genius comes to people in dreams. They said that the mind can abandon its body and go beyond reality. That knowledge and experience will never go to waste. The difference between the virtual and reality is like that of software and hardware. It is impossible to separate them.
That is true, isn't it?
Otherwise, music would never affect anybody.
And it's possible to play back virtual music...
As long as I create music, I want to continue the activity of recognizing the impossibility of separation between the virtual and reality.
--Team Shanghai Alice: ZUN (I want to go on a trip)