[English song]Scarlet Spider Lily - Yoshiwara Rose theme(Opiumud)

This is an HMV adapted from a novel and a 3D animation. The story follows a girl born and raised in Yoshiwara from childhood, who dreams of finding someone who truly loves her and escaping Yoshiwara together with him. However, even after passing the prime of her youth (the "flower season"), her wish never comes true. In the end, she takes her own life.There is no official novel source for the Opiumud "Yoshiwara Rose" series:\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wh5GceoVoHpAJm7syMg8gtlsCWjmm6XkT2D_F_bkSIQ/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0The Yoshiwara Rose animation and its 4K version are available in my Discord server, in the channel opiumud-all-work.Story Essence: Desire, Objectification, and LiberationThe Cage of DesireThe lyrics open directly with the theme: “Desire is a cage you\'ll never escape from.”\nThe protagonist\'s beauty and body become a prison for others\' desires; she cannot escape her fate of being consumed and abused. Here, “desire” refers not only to sexual lust, but also to the desires for power, control, and objectification.Objectification and DehumanizationThe protagonist is stripped of her humanity, referred to as a “whore,” “cum dumpster,” or “sow”—terms that emphasize her non-human status in the eyes of her abusers.\nHer pain and cries instead serve as tools to excite the abusers, highlighting an extreme sadomasochistic dynamic.The Contrast Between Illusion and RealityBy day, she is the “top courtesan,” coated in thick white powder and rouge—an illusion crafted for male desire.\nAt night, after removing her makeup, she reveals a “plain face”—her forgotten true self.\nThis contrast exposes society\'s double standards toward women: they hold value only when conforming to male fantasies; once outside that role, they are worthless.The Only Path to Liberation: DeathThe protagonist chooses suicide, imagining herself in a “bridal kimono” in death—symbolizing the purity, love, and dignity denied to her in life.\n“Finally married… in the world beyond the lantern light” suggests that in death, she finds the “wedding” that belongs to her alone: liberation and rebirth.\nThis ending reflects rebellion born of despair: when reality cannot be changed, death becomes the only “freedom.”Deeper Social CritiqueExploitation of Sex Workers: The lyrics expose the historical (and ongoing) reality of sex workers being objectified and subjected to violence—their bodies and souls ravaged by desire and money.Women\'s Powerlessness: The protagonist\'s tragedy stems from her inability to control her own body and fate; her “beauty” becomes the very shackle that binds her.\nThe Relationship Between Desire and Power: The abusers assert power through domination and humiliation, while the protagonist\'s suicide serves as her ultimate negation of that power.\nSummaryThrough extreme imagery and stark emotional contrasts, these lyrics tell the story of a woman imprisoned by desire who seeks liberation in despair. At its core, it is a critique of objectification, desire, power, and the fate of women:Desire is a cage: The protagonist\'s beauty and body become tools for others\' desires, from which she cannot escape.\nThe only path to liberation is death: Denied love and dignity in reality, she can only imagine a “pure” wedding in death.\nAn indictment of society: The lyrics lay bare the brutal reality of sex workers being exploited and dehumanized, as well as women\'s powerlessness in a patriarchal world.\nThe final line—“Finally married… in the world beyond the lantern light”—is the heart of the song: in death, she finds the “love” and “dignity” that the real world refused to grant her.Early Sections (Third Person / Second Person: "She" "You")The lyrics use "she" and "you" to describe and humiliate the girl from a cold, detached viewpoint.\nThe listener feels like part of the crowd in Yoshiwara—standing among the abusers, mocking her, destroying her together with them.\nThis distance makes the violence and degradation feel even more brutal and impersonal, like watching a public execution.The Sudden Switch to "I"\nThe turning point comes in this line: “While fucking her, they keep mocking me”\nAt this moment, the pronoun abruptly shifts from "you" to "I"—the female protagonist suddenly takes the microphone and begins singing in the first person.\nFrom here:\nThe "she/you" who was being gang-raped and humiliated suddenly becomes "I."The listener is forcibly pulled from the perspective of the abuser/spectator into the body of the victim.\nAll the cruel descriptions from earlier now land directly on the listener themselves, creating an explosive sense of identification.\nThe repeated lines like “Cry louder, the more you cry the better it feels” and “Good girl, suck daddy’s cock” now become words she is forced to repeat—either echoing what the abusers said to her, or her own self-objectification in total breakdown.\nFinal Confirmation in the Closing SectionLines like “Please let me finish telling the story…” and the part about marriage fully confirm that the "I" is the girl who was destroyed. She sings her own destruction in her own voice, ending with her suicide—imagining herself "marrying" in a pure white bridal kimono as she hangs herself.\nThis is the song\'s most devastating twist:\nFor the first 80% of the song, it lets you feel pleasure as the abuser; in the last 20%, it suddenly reveals—you are the prostitute who was raped to death.\nThis 180-degree pronoun flip is a god-tier writing technique in dark doujin-style songs. It instantly turns arousal into suffocation, climax into horror. Many listeners get chills or even break down emotionally the moment they hit this shift.\nIn short, it\'s not an error—it\'s deliberately designed to make you switch from "the one doing the fucking" to "the one being fucked," and that\'s the song\'s true killing blow.Song name-The Spider Lily (Higanbana) typically blooms around the time of the autumnal equinox (Ohigan, the Japanese season for honoring ancestors), coinciding with rituals for the deceased. For this reason, it is regarded as the “flower of the underworld” or the “guiding flower along the path to the afterlife.” Legend has it that it grows along the Sanzu River (the Japanese equivalent of the River Styx), guiding departed souls to the next world.\nEternal Farewell and AmnesiaIt is said that the flower’s fragrance causes people to forget their previous lives, symbolizing “final parting” and “never meeting again.” It is often used to express irretrievable separation or lost love.The Yoshiwara Rose series has a total of two episodes. All 45 of my videos, including the 4K versions, are available in my Discord server in the "opiumud all work" channel.subscribestar.adult/opiumudboosty.to/opiumudopiumud.fanbox.ccpatreon.com/opiumudapp.unifans.io/opiumudopiumud.fanbox.cc