Tower of Sunz (English Sub)

[@Jimmawww]

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.

[@SerenityM16]

As nice and as well composed as this song is, it seems to take a very long time to repeat that point XD

[@wingardiumlachancla9078]

Have you got the link to see this building, please ? =D I'm really interested

[@wingardiumlachancla9078]

Oh thanks ! That's a very weird building... I figure out the "arms" of the town are the middle part (= present) and the "head" is the upper part (= future) :)

[@Katandusty]

Jimmawww but this a tower of sunz :p

[@user-ov3wr3fh5m]

Jimmawww Actually this is based on a poem by someone with disassociative identity disorder or as many usually call it multiple personality disorder. But cool idea!

[@theadorabletk]

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.

[@dingledorfbones6527]

Mind. blown. *Pwoof*

[@Michelle-wd1sy]

i love this concept

[@TheSimplyDivineBlack]

This is a simple but also the best and most direct interpretation. I love it 10/10

[@Silly_Sulky_Seli]

"you realize you've forgotten who you wanted to be in the first place" ooh so fitting

[@bork2256]

TKHikaru13 a

[@WaifuVoorhees]

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

[@Shadowbane509]

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

[@raspberrymewie991]

Spectral Dragon it just gives off that feeling of hopelessness that makes you wonder if you're awake or in a twisted nightmare

[@witheredx6354]

Listen to okaasan

[@toxicsugarart2103]

@@witheredx6354 I feel like they have really different vibes. Okaasan is pretty openly spooky from the beginning, whereas this one feels like an unclear buildup to something that doesn’t actually come. Not that okaasan isn’t still unnerving, but what makes each song scary won’t necessarily affect everyone in the same way. Am I thinking too hard about it? Probably lol.

[@witheredx6354]

@@toxicsugarart2103 you are so right

[@toxicsugarart2103]

@@witheredx6354 ayyy thanks

[@dihuixing]

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.

[@HungryHungarian09]

8 minutes of mind-fuck.

[@azeenanj9185]

exactly

[@fuzzyjusttoomuch]

Domi Shimito Yep

[@vi0let831]

Domi Shimito 8 minutes describing my life. (I'm depressed basically.)

[@lampshadethisforshadowthat1050]

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.

[@le_roi_renard]

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

[@BlueBead]

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. :>

[@wingardiumlachancla9078]

There are sometimes when you _need_ to be mean towards yourself.... because the recovery after is always better :)

[@kuroneko4125]

This was exactly the vibe I had gotten from this video as well. I always felt it was centered around Miku dealing with this endless cycle of depression... and the way you described how you went through your own depression reminds me of how I am now, it's something I'm still trying to overcome. It's exactly how you described, an abusive relationship with myself. Thank you for sharing your insight, somehow reading it made me feel a bit better, I guess just knowing others have gone through the same struggles.

[@andreah9587]

Wingardium Lachancla Fuck no. Beating yourself up physically and hating yourself so much that you get depressed and/or want to die is just toxic and harmful. Trauma doesn’t make you a better person, it just breaks you.

[@andreah9587]

BlueBead Damn, this interpretation is spot on and I relate to it more than any person should. I’m glad you’re in a better place now, and I hope I will be too.

[@BlueBead]

@@andreah9587 I'd forgotten about this comment of mine until your notification :0 Watching it now, it feels like a metaphor for climbing out of past negative thinking. "I am aimed at by the me of yesterday" and the "stalemate" meaning Miku's unable to win out against something like past guilt, trauma, or negative thoughts, faced with a seemingly endless tower, or unbeatable mental illness. But at 5:00 she passes right by the Miku representing her past self, and tries to climb anyways, passing other Mikus on the way-- possibly a representation of her changing over the years? I still don't get the scene at the end where she reaches the top and vanishes, just leaving the rooster she was carrying, but hey! She made it to the top! Because as long as you keep "climbing" you'll make it out some day, or at least end up much higher than you started. So I'm gonna be cliche as heck here and say just keep climbing! It's been 6 years since my original comment, and I've improved a ton in the mental health department. It was slow, and I'll probably always struggle with anxiety and depression to some degree, but my attitude's better, I have better coping mechanisms, I've gained some self confidence, I don't self harm anymore, I have a friend group that I love, and so on. I hope someday you can look back down your staircase and appreciate how far you've come too C:

[@inksoldier5544]

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

[@BakaSurvivor100]

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.

[@ASHERUISE]

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.

[@karasuhana]

This song deserves to be more popular

[@mightytaco123]

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

[@sakurafan771]

Combination of Rolling girl and Dark Woods Circus.

[@Sophieperky]

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

[@lyrablack8621]

Fyi it's did not mpd, because multiple personality disorder is a dissociative identity disorder, not a personality disorder such as SzPD or ASPD

[@mischocobo8927]

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

[@KnightJent]

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

[@Hanhan.i.guess.]

Happy 13 years to this video

[@iiSeaQueen]

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.

[@Nawer_Rapter]

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.

[@redflower220]

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

[@VocaloverXD]

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

[@rinrinring]

This song makes me feel like an empty shell.

[@joanthemad5894]

Same, exactly how I felt when I first saw this video in my freshman year of highschool in 2009

[@mistickitty8]

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

[@Yoooo3823]

0:53 chiken

[@leafrustling6821]

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

[@ghostboy7076]

Yes! I was thinking just that. Happens to me as well

[@-nick.montee1135]

love the art style!!!😊

[@eddiezuniga1268]

Go check out dark wood circus

[@-nick.montee1135]

Tsundere Boy oh ive seen that too. Ive always like the different art styles in these vids

[@gameronna8600]

Her life is a spiralling dream, a ghastly nightmare.

[@gummyguts1829]

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

[@jessagant3418]

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

[@snap4latkes]

Okay, officially the best Miku music video ever

[@sofitssofi]

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

[@lifeline7371]

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

[@talizorahvasnerd]

The hair always reminds me of stained glass ❤

[@Rene99999]

One of the coolest vocaloid songs ive ever heard. A masterpiece. So glad to have found it again.

[@spaghettiking7312]

You just can't get stuff like this these days.

[@svalerie.001]

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

[@lunarelegance425]

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

[@itzmehgachaluver2068]

Lunar-Elegance it is connected as u can see in 3:48 it was when miku went to the circus and got captured. 7:22 the deformed miku from dark wood circus

[@user-ov3wr3fh5m]

@@itzmehgachaluver2068 Actually its just because the same artist did the videos for both. It was a reference, not a direct connection, and was confirmed as such. I see where you'd get confused though

[@letticeherma2228]

@@user-ov3wr3fh5m What's the artist's name? I've been trying to find out who they are to see their other work for years. And did they say this somewhere? I don't disagree, but I'd like to see a commentary about this song. I never did fully get it.

[@user-ov3wr3fh5m]

@@letticeherma2228 Actually, this was made by a different producer entirely by the name of sunzriver-P. Dark Woods Circus and the other songs connected are by Machigerita-P.

[@letticeherma2228]

@@user-ov3wr3fh5m Oh! So it's not the same person that drew for both?

[@sceetherthenadder]

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

[@Gravistry]

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

[@andeggbreaks]

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.

[@andeggbreaks]

If anyone has any other recommendations like these songs, please tell me!

[@h3m0cyt3]

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

[@brentpeterson918]

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

[@xXJelly11Xx]

So many vocaloid, such a hopeless sound

[@Silly_Sulky_Seli]

this one is still a greatest of all time or shall I say it's goated, because it's 2024

[@mischocobo8927]

Im really needing this on Spotify

[@RosasEnLaPrimavera]

Going to drop in and recommend one of my favorite songs/PV which is Tower or Sunz. Also I know it's a Miku expo but seeing the red made me hope that it's a Meiko cosplay

[@Coananlover]

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.

[@Asdayasman]

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.

[@Asdayasman]

Shut up nerd.

[@Fakerheart]

I don't know why, but I like this song. it like a lullaby

[@shunkaidou69]

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

[@S3r0t0nin]

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

[@44Anifreak44]

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.

[@mightytaco123]

This song reminds me of yume nikki

[@jumamei]

I agree

[@samwindlove6844]

wOAH IT DOES.

[@mightytaco123]

Anarah I would of except I sold my wacom incuos drawing pad for 80$ (CAD) I always wanted to be an artist since I was young, but I sold my dreams for beer and cigarettes. life really is cruel. this is what I learnt long ago, and what yume Nikki is telling me now. life is cruel

[@mckornjacaofficial1424]

I'm not the only one with that opinion, I see.

[@max_mix_poyas]

Like David Lynch.

[@Deathistheonlyexit]

People, isnt it obvious? The song is about your past self dragging your future down, and you trying to free yourself from it So that you could go on. That is why 'hostility spirals in a vortex'. The endless struggle between what you were, and what you will be.

[@Aahhvq]

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 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@mdalsted]

This song is so damn trippy. I love it!

[@Coughie_]

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

[@Lunarrbase]

wowaka didnt make this????????? it's by sunzriver-P...

[@MintyRainbow]

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

[@danielpadilla7601]

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

[@hind__]

13 years... Seriously...

[@palmfish1]

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

[@thirdaccount7314]

very kino and avante garde

[@_fussyfangs]

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

[@Rinrinribbon]

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

[@Dorodevil_]

Wow this song is trippy

[@Deathistheonlyexit]

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

[@AaleenMurtezaa]

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

[@TheUnheardSoul23]

I love the art work for this.

[@Otaku_Sama]

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.

[@gothiloli]

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

[@watermellon452]

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

[@horonigai1068]

@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.

[@FutureEve]

I dont know but that sounds very nice

[@paraumbralin]

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.

[@44Anifreak44]

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!

[@juLailgun]

Yuuki-P's illustrations are so unique.

[@starmekasmith4583]

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

[@DHGWHISKEY117]

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

[@Kukitea]

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

[@EternaMidnight]

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.

[@swan__song__]

In love with this

[@LOLTOSANIME]

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

[@mistickitty8]

I think the idea is that shes jumped off a boat and is now dead or in a coma and she cant escape, shes only got her own company, and no matter how many times she tries to kill herelf she just cant die

[@redmoonrise6507]

ITS A PART OF THE DARK WOODS CIRCUS??? I KNEW IT WHEN I SAW THE FLOWERS

[@CherryCherub97]

No, it's just the same artist for the PV. This song was made by Sunzriver. DWC was made by Machigerita.

[@ClichedNameFTW]

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

[@MEGHAPSEY]

Author's internal struggle with himself, decision making and deadlines. All of the past selves are always in mind, down to the child self, and even five minutes back, the self relating to the child self. The feeling of climbing an endless tower meaninglessly other than the fear of drowning by lingering too long. At the top is the present self, waiting for the rooster to announce morning, or the phone to ring. Self loathing and wish for escape from the past and the every day. That's how I see it.

[@Mickey687]

Well, that was... really freakin' trippy.

[@Nyasahi]

Everything about this song is beautiful.

[@VocaloidRules101]

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.

[@blarg2429]

Quinlan McMillan The visuals are by the same artist who illustrated Dark Woods Circus, but the song-writer is different. So it's not part of the series.

[@RomyLikezCuppycakes]

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

[@anantasya2172]

Owh. This song is really cool with emotionless miku. Love it!

[@TheWhiteSkunk]

I think shes stuck in a loop where everything repeats itself into a new destiny but she fails and fails then she goes bonkers when she sees her future self and she just feels the pain again.

[@SickTwistedQueen]

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

[@rosdoritoman9096]

best accidental click of my life

[@sinful0writer]

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.

[@prettypetite]

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

[@mitzirocker]

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