@gr1nm

1 year ago

Based on the diary entries, Tame is dissatisfied with herself for not being able to get good grades no matter how much she tries. When she sees Nana dancing with a stranger and their eyes meet, she wakes up suddenly. She keeps trying to have the dream again just so she can see Nanamiya look at her again. The final entries are of her telling her classmates to shut up and that she's finally become the abnormality, the butterfly. I mean, she may have committed suicide, as you can see a vase of flowers on the desk (1:39) she was napping on. It may appear that she is uninterested in what others think about her and that she eventually accepts herself, but she is actually distraught to just be "abnormal" (perfect), in such a way that she acknowledges that while being alive implies she will never be perfect (this is the reason she tends to leave the mirror dirty at the end), and instead ends up killing herself in order to become an eternal abnormal butterfly. The final entry, "I became a butterfly," means she's committed suicide. When she envisions herself as a butterfly, she's surrounded by either chairs or shoes; both are often associated with suicide. She's always sleeping; the entries note her wanting to sleep constantly so that she could be noticed and loved in her dreams by the classmate she's obsessed with. It's quite sad, and it exemplifies the pressures in Japanese culture to be perfect and exceptional. Also, the morpho butterfly has been mentioned to have wings much larger than its own body, making it have a distinct flight pattern from other butterflies because of it. This could be interpreted as a unique aspect or maybe even a sort of abnormality in a sense compared to other butterflies. Even in Hima's drawing for the song that they posted on Twitter for the release of the song, the Morpho butterfly was shown within it. The morpho butterfly could be representative of Tame's longing for abnormality being so big in the end, most likely that the weight of it, in a sense, is so big that she can't support herself any longer for that desire. In the end, she ends up straying far away from being normal, though it's not too apparent with it, but I would just point that out since no one seemed to really do so. Edit: More details Edit 2: Why tf do I have so many likes that I don’t deserve- Edit 3: Thanks to the person that told me that Tame went insane before committing suicide. I don’t know how to put it in, so I guess the people that read all these edits know. edit 4: help my comment has 1.2k likes and is the top comment what do i do 22/03/23 edit: Why? WHY DOES THIS HAVE 2.3K LIKES I- 04/04/23 edit: 7 month anniversary 09/04/23 edit: why is this getting more likes i- 20/4/23 edit: fun fact: at 1:40, Tame has a butterfly on her left chest. In Japanese culture, if I'm not mistaken, symbolizes death.

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