”Miku hidden dormant inside a clock and key” are the words I searched in hopes of finding the name of this forgotten Miku song I wanted to revisit again.
It’s been years since I last listened to this song and it took me WAY too long to find it again. Soooo I was on Youtube listening to my personal Vocaloid playlist and saw that a lot of the videos I had saved have been either removed or put on private. This makes it so hard to go back and look for the song elsewhere since youtube no longer keeps the title of the video at least. After listening to Melody by Miku it hit me! “What was that song where Miku was hidden in a grand clock and had a keyhole on her back?” I searched EVERYWHERE and nothing, clockwork clown kept coming up instead but then I entered a combination of Clock Girl Miku and there it was. Just by looking at the thumbnail I knew this was the video I had watched years ago and loved everything about it. The lyrics, story, illustration, and sounds made it such a great Miku song. Definitely up there as one of my top Vocaloid songs.
The story is so captivating that I’m surprised no one has made a fan-made comic inspired by this sad story which we only get a watered down version thru the MV. Reading some of the comments makes me even more eager to learn about this world and its characters. Commentors speculate that the clock maker had been hired to create a massive clock and some other secret technology. This project was only known by a select few and once he was done with the job he was no longer needed and ordered to be killed. Miku is a doll like companion who does not age and has been there for the clock maker since he was a young boy, and it looks like they both have a thing going on. Another theory is that it seems like he was ill and weak when he was young and with the help of Miku he was able to regain his health back and became quite the talented engineer. Because of this talent he was hired to build a time machine. This brought the attention of the cloaked figures which some speculate to represent death. He was almost killed during the first encounter with the cloaked figures but was blinded until the next encounter left him helpless to defend himself. Miku sings how cruel time is (get it, Cruel Clock) and no matter how much she wishes for time to stop it only keeps going. In her last desperate attempt she runs to destroy the clock he had been working on hoping time will stop and give her a chance to enjoy the company of her friend again. This is where she also feels emotions for the first time and starts to cry, questioning if “these drops are what they call tears”.
There is a ton of opportunity to dive into this world and explore Miku, the clock maker and the cloaked gang some more. Who created the Miku doll? How is she able to not age? Who locked her in the clock and where did the key come from? Did the clock maker inherit the key? Where is his family now? Did he propose to Miku and give her the ring she was holding? Whats up with the ending, did they survive and meet up or is this some sort of afterlife meeting? So many questions that I would love to see answered in a comic.
Chris the illustrator is on pivix and twitter but has not expanded on the story yet. And the producer Kounan-P has since passed away, not sure if this is true or not but RIP legend. Your music lives on and continues to inspire people like me.