Unravel Song Review

Awesome opening for an average anime

English Translation:

Oh, won’t you tell me,

won’t you tell me how it’s supposed to be?

Who is it that I see; who’s there inside of me?

I can’t be anything but broken,

broken on this earth;

And you don’t see a thing, just laugh for all your worth

I’m already all broken down,

and my breath starts to seize;

I pull, but it won’t come apart and you can see the truth freeze

Breaking apart, but I can’t drop;

I’m going mad, my mind can’t stop;

Then finding you made something pop

This world is so twisted and tangled around me,

I’m drifting and fading until you can’t see

Please, just leave me lost; no, don’t look back at me. No, don’t look at me

I never chose this world that someone decreed;

I just wanted you to be safe here from me

Just keep me in mind; the way I used to be, when I shone vividly

The solitude creeping around in strands until I’m weighted down,

Remembering in innocence my laughter in the distance

I can’t get free; no, can’t get free; no, can’t get free, no can’t get free; no, can’t get free, no, can’t get free;

it’s unravelling the world

My life here was stifled,

But somehow changed forever

The two of us are joined, but might die when we’re together

Breaking apart, but I can’t drop;

I’m going mad, my mind can’t stop;

You won’t be a blemished prop

This world is so twisted and tangled around me,

I’m drifting and fading until you can’t see

Please, just leave me lost; no, don’t look back at me. No, don’t look at me

In this lonely trap someone built I can’t be free

Before all the future unravels ’round me

Just keep me in mind; the way I used to be, when I shone vividly

Oh, don’t forget me;

please, don’t forget me;

please, don’t forget me;

please, don’t forget me

The fact that I’ve changed somehow leaves me paralyzed,

In this world I can’t control, this stranger’s paradise;

Just keep me in mind; yes, please remember me.

Oh, won’t you say;

oh, won’t you say;

oh, won’t you say;

who’s there inside of me?

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I have to say, this opening was one of the coolest I've ever heard in an anime. Despite the anime being really mediocre, the opening blew my mind. The song starts first in an unusual way. The singer was whispering the lyrics in a tune. Then the music gets all catchy after that. What surprised me the most was the english translation of the song. It is a beautiful lyric poetry with a sense of loneliness and anxiety. The song somewhat tells us of the main hero already. He become's one of the enemies, is scared of hurting his loved ones in the process and then decided to live in solitude. In the song, there was a part that was asking the listeners what was inside of him. This can mean the 'ghoul' or the enemy in the anime series that lived in the protagonist's body in the first episode.

Sure this song does tell a lot about the anime itself. Oddly, I still find the anime mediocre but the song itself was just beautiful. In the song it shows that he's slowly loosing his sanity as he slowly dives into the depths of madness. He may soon turn into another person but he still wants everyone to remember him as who he really is. I think that it's called unravelled most likely because he's 'unravelling' the world. He's knowing more of the world that he soon will forget about himself. Some things in the world might change his opinion or views on one point or another but just as he said back then to remember him, he wants people to know his 'past'-self rather than who he is now. Probably because he might have depicted that his own future wouldn't turn out to be the best.