[OOC] Aku no Monogatari (Story of Evil)
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The Aku no Monogatari (悪ノ物語) or Story of Evil is a collection of five songs created by Mothy via the Vocaloid programs, which are singing synthesizer application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation. There is a novel (still to be translated) and a manga (still releasing) to come.
There are many PVs (illustrations/animations to the song, basically making the song a mini movie) to the Aku no Series, but here are my favorites:
#1) Aku no Musume / 悪ノ娘 (Daughter of Evil)
The Princess of the country of Yellow, is a 14 year old girl named Rillianne Lucifen d'Autriche (voiced by Rin Kagamine). She is an evil princess who falls in love with the Prince of the Blue country, Kyle Marlon (Kaito). The Blue Prince is in love with a girl from the country of Green, named Michaela (Miku Hatsune). The Yellow Princess orders her army to raze the Green country to the ground and kill the girl the Prince loves. In retaliation, the Blue Prince teams up with a Red Swordswoman named Germaine Abaddonia (Meiko) and plans to take down the Yellow Princess. They storm the castle and arrest the Yellow Princess, and later behead her.
#2) Aku no Meshitsukai / 悪ノ召使 (Servant of Evil)
Allen Abaddonia (Len Kagamine) is a servant to the Yellow Princess. He is her twin brother, but this is kept a secret from the Princess. The Servant falls in love with the girl from Green, but his Princess orders him to kill her, so he does. When the Blue Prince and the Red Swordswoman come for the Princess, the Servant decides to trade places with her. They are twins so the switch goes off without a hitch and it is the Servant that is actually beheaded.
#3) リグレットメッセージ (Regret Message)
The Yellow Princess turned Peasant lives in a town by the sea and looking back on the events of her childhood, she realizes how selfish she has been and how it is her own fault her brother is dead. She sings, prays, and wishes by the sea that if she and her brother are born again, they can be twins once more.
#4) Shiro no Musume / 白ノ娘 (Daughter of White)
A girl named Clarise (Haku Yowane) is another girl in Green country is shunned because of her white hair. She makes friends with another girl with beautiful green hair. Clarise and Michaela go to work for a wealthy merchant named Keel Freesis (Kiyoteru Hiyama). A Blue Prince visits and falls in love with Michaela. The Yellow Princess finds out and has her armies kill everyone in Green country with green hair. This leaves Clarise all alone. She comes across a young girl singing at the beach and when the girl exposes herself as the Yellow Princess, Clarise readies to stab her. However, the girl seems so lonely that Clarise feels badly for her, and after seeing an illusion, she decides to befriend her instead.
#5) Re_Birthday (not officially part of the story)
The Servant waits out his punishment in the afterlife. However, someone's song comes to him and leads him to his next life to be reborn.
Written Summary
--from the wiki
In their childhood, the princess Rillianne (Rin) and the prince Allen (Len) of a kingdom called Lucifenia were playing on the beach. As the sun was setting, they tried to rush home because they might be eaten by a hungry "demon". Allen, feeling sorry for the demon since it said that it would be still hungry even if it ate a half of world, offered it his snack. The demon in gratitude told Allen, an old legend, a secret about the ocean. Allen later told it to the princess.
After King Arth, who built the Lucifenia Kingdom with "Three Heroes", died, Queen Anne (Sweet Ann), ruled over the kingdom. However, a power struggle started among leagues when their twin children Rillianne and Allen were six years old, and Allen was supposed to be dead in the political combat. In fact the Commander of the Royal Guard (and one of the "Three Heroes"), Leonhart Abbadonia (Leon) secretly saved him and took him out of the palace. Leonhart raised Allen as his own alongside his adopted daughter, Jermeille (Meiko).
This left Rillianne, who had grown up in luxury, to rule the kingdom. When she started to rule the kingdom after her mother's death, she imposed heavy taxes on her people and started ruthless purges. Later, Allen returned to the palace as a servant, but Rillianne did not remember that he was her twin brother.
A famine started, and Leonhart and lieges who supported him decided to smuggle food from the palace to the hungry. Rillianne, noticing a lack of food, ordered her servant to kill the hero. Leonhart died at the hands of his adopted son. As the hero died, Jermeille (clothed in red) intended on revenge.
Visiting the Kingdom of Elphegort, Allen met Michaela (Miku Hatsune) and Clarise (Haku Yowane), two maids for a wife of a wealthy merchant named Keel Freesis (Kiyoteru Hiyama). Clarise, unlike the other citizens of the kingdom, had white hair. She had lived as an outcast because of this, but by "one-thousand-year tree" she had met Michaela, who had befriended her. Michaela was beloved by many, and had a beautiful singing voice; even the King of the Marlon Kingdom (a prince in the basic plot story), Kyle Marlon (Kaito) was in love with her. She had met him through Keel, who was a friend of the king. Allen also fell in love with her. Rillianne, however, was in love with Kyle, and sent a formal marriage proposal to Kyle. Kyle, however, responded that he was already in love with another girl. Realizing this, Rillianne told her ministers that if they could not find out which girl Kyle was in love, they should destroy the entire the Elfegot Kingdom and kill all of the green-haired women. Keel hid away Michaela in a well and told Allen where she was. Allen kept it secret from the princess, however the princess found it out later. Allen was passed over a message in a glass bottle from her telling him to kill Michaela. After that, Michaela was killed in the well (it is not described distinctly who killed her and how she was killed. There is a scene, someone asking "Who, are you?" to a stranger, just before she found dead in the novel. "Who, are you?" is a line given in the original video of "Servant of Evil -velvet mix-" as a dialogue of "Maiden of Tree").
Soon after, the rebellion troops and the people of both the Lucifenia Kingdom and the Elphegort Kingdom led by Jermeille and a mysterious man with blue hair in a mask came to rebel. The man in the mask was King Kyle. Allen, wanting to protect his sister, offered to switch places with her, allowing her to escape and for him to die in her place. His plan worked, and Rillianne was able to escape safely. Before Allen let her escape, he revealed himself as her twin brother.
Rillianne fell unconscious near a cloister and was found by Clarise, who became a nun there recently. Clarise wanted revenge on the "Daughter of Evil", whom she knew had caused the death of her friend. Of course, she was unaware that the girl she found was actually the "Daughter of Evil" herself, but one day she overheard Rillianne's confession in the confession box which revealed to her that she was the princess who ordered the destruction of the Elphegort kingdom. Later, Rillianne, filled with regret over the death of her brother, went to the harbor and set a bottled message into the sea. With this, she hoped that it would allow her wish, "If I could be reborn, I would like to be with [him] again", to come true. Clarise, in a blind rage, snuck up on Rillianne and tried to stab her with a knife, but decided not to when she saw how lonely Rillianne was and an illusion of a young boy. Clarise eventually forgave Rillianne, and apologized to Michaela for not having been able to avenge her. Also, Clarise became curious about the illusion she saw.
FanSongs
Kind of like fanfiction to the original songs, these songs are made by fans to fill in the gaps of the story with their own ideas.
These songs are NOT considered to be canon to the Aku no Series.
Daughter of Evil's Road Roller
Daughter of Evil ~Happy Version~
Servant of Evil ~Happy Version~
Regret Message ~Happy Version~
Story of Evil (Instrumental version)
Prince of Blue
Daughter of Vengeance
Daughter of Green
The Aku no Monogatari (悪ノ物語) or Story of Evil is a collection of five songs created by Mothy via the Vocaloid programs, which are singing synthesizer application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation. There is a novel (still to be translated) and a manga (still releasing) to come.
There are many PVs (illustrations/animations to the song, basically making the song a mini movie) to the Aku no Series, but here are my favorites:
#1) Aku no Musume / 悪ノ娘 (Daughter of Evil)
Click to viewThe Princess of the country of Yellow, is a 14 year old girl named Rillianne Lucifen d'Autriche (voiced by Rin Kagamine). She is an evil princess who falls in love with the Prince of the Blue country, Kyle Marlon (Kaito). The Blue Prince is in love with a girl from the country of Green, named Michaela (Miku Hatsune). The Yellow Princess orders her army to raze the Green country to the ground and kill the girl the Prince loves. In retaliation, the Blue Prince teams up with a Red Swordswoman named Germaine Abaddonia (Meiko) and plans to take down the Yellow Princess. They storm the castle and arrest the Yellow Princess, and later behead her.
#2) Aku no Meshitsukai / 悪ノ召使 (Servant of Evil)
Allen Abaddonia (Len Kagamine) is a servant to the Yellow Princess. He is her twin brother, but this is kept a secret from the Princess. The Servant falls in love with the girl from Green, but his Princess orders him to kill her, so he does. When the Blue Prince and the Red Swordswoman come for the Princess, the Servant decides to trade places with her. They are twins so the switch goes off without a hitch and it is the Servant that is actually beheaded.
#3) リグレットメッセージ (Regret Message)
The Yellow Princess turned Peasant lives in a town by the sea and looking back on the events of her childhood, she realizes how selfish she has been and how it is her own fault her brother is dead. She sings, prays, and wishes by the sea that if she and her brother are born again, they can be twins once more.
#4) Shiro no Musume / 白ノ娘 (Daughter of White)
A girl named Clarise (Haku Yowane) is another girl in Green country is shunned because of her white hair. She makes friends with another girl with beautiful green hair. Clarise and Michaela go to work for a wealthy merchant named Keel Freesis (Kiyoteru Hiyama). A Blue Prince visits and falls in love with Michaela. The Yellow Princess finds out and has her armies kill everyone in Green country with green hair. This leaves Clarise all alone. She comes across a young girl singing at the beach and when the girl exposes herself as the Yellow Princess, Clarise readies to stab her. However, the girl seems so lonely that Clarise feels badly for her, and after seeing an illusion, she decides to befriend her instead.
#5) Re_Birthday (not officially part of the story)
The Servant waits out his punishment in the afterlife. However, someone's song comes to him and leads him to his next life to be reborn.
Written Summary
--from the wiki
In their childhood, the princess Rillianne (Rin) and the prince Allen (Len) of a kingdom called Lucifenia were playing on the beach. As the sun was setting, they tried to rush home because they might be eaten by a hungry "demon". Allen, feeling sorry for the demon since it said that it would be still hungry even if it ate a half of world, offered it his snack. The demon in gratitude told Allen, an old legend, a secret about the ocean. Allen later told it to the princess.
After King Arth, who built the Lucifenia Kingdom with "Three Heroes", died, Queen Anne (Sweet Ann), ruled over the kingdom. However, a power struggle started among leagues when their twin children Rillianne and Allen were six years old, and Allen was supposed to be dead in the political combat. In fact the Commander of the Royal Guard (and one of the "Three Heroes"), Leonhart Abbadonia (Leon) secretly saved him and took him out of the palace. Leonhart raised Allen as his own alongside his adopted daughter, Jermeille (Meiko).
This left Rillianne, who had grown up in luxury, to rule the kingdom. When she started to rule the kingdom after her mother's death, she imposed heavy taxes on her people and started ruthless purges. Later, Allen returned to the palace as a servant, but Rillianne did not remember that he was her twin brother.
A famine started, and Leonhart and lieges who supported him decided to smuggle food from the palace to the hungry. Rillianne, noticing a lack of food, ordered her servant to kill the hero. Leonhart died at the hands of his adopted son. As the hero died, Jermeille (clothed in red) intended on revenge.
Visiting the Kingdom of Elphegort, Allen met Michaela (Miku Hatsune) and Clarise (Haku Yowane), two maids for a wife of a wealthy merchant named Keel Freesis (Kiyoteru Hiyama). Clarise, unlike the other citizens of the kingdom, had white hair. She had lived as an outcast because of this, but by "one-thousand-year tree" she had met Michaela, who had befriended her. Michaela was beloved by many, and had a beautiful singing voice; even the King of the Marlon Kingdom (a prince in the basic plot story), Kyle Marlon (Kaito) was in love with her. She had met him through Keel, who was a friend of the king. Allen also fell in love with her. Rillianne, however, was in love with Kyle, and sent a formal marriage proposal to Kyle. Kyle, however, responded that he was already in love with another girl. Realizing this, Rillianne told her ministers that if they could not find out which girl Kyle was in love, they should destroy the entire the Elfegot Kingdom and kill all of the green-haired women. Keel hid away Michaela in a well and told Allen where she was. Allen kept it secret from the princess, however the princess found it out later. Allen was passed over a message in a glass bottle from her telling him to kill Michaela. After that, Michaela was killed in the well (it is not described distinctly who killed her and how she was killed. There is a scene, someone asking "Who, are you?" to a stranger, just before she found dead in the novel. "Who, are you?" is a line given in the original video of "Servant of Evil -velvet mix-" as a dialogue of "Maiden of Tree").
Soon after, the rebellion troops and the people of both the Lucifenia Kingdom and the Elphegort Kingdom led by Jermeille and a mysterious man with blue hair in a mask came to rebel. The man in the mask was King Kyle. Allen, wanting to protect his sister, offered to switch places with her, allowing her to escape and for him to die in her place. His plan worked, and Rillianne was able to escape safely. Before Allen let her escape, he revealed himself as her twin brother.
Rillianne fell unconscious near a cloister and was found by Clarise, who became a nun there recently. Clarise wanted revenge on the "Daughter of Evil", whom she knew had caused the death of her friend. Of course, she was unaware that the girl she found was actually the "Daughter of Evil" herself, but one day she overheard Rillianne's confession in the confession box which revealed to her that she was the princess who ordered the destruction of the Elphegort kingdom. Later, Rillianne, filled with regret over the death of her brother, went to the harbor and set a bottled message into the sea. With this, she hoped that it would allow her wish, "If I could be reborn, I would like to be with [him] again", to come true. Clarise, in a blind rage, snuck up on Rillianne and tried to stab her with a knife, but decided not to when she saw how lonely Rillianne was and an illusion of a young boy. Clarise eventually forgave Rillianne, and apologized to Michaela for not having been able to avenge her. Also, Clarise became curious about the illusion she saw.
FanSongs
Kind of like fanfiction to the original songs, these songs are made by fans to fill in the gaps of the story with their own ideas.
These songs are NOT considered to be canon to the Aku no Series.
Daughter of Evil's Road Roller
Daughter of Evil ~Happy Version~
Servant of Evil ~Happy Version~
Regret Message ~Happy Version~
Story of Evil (Instrumental version)
Prince of Blue
Daughter of Vengeance
Daughter of Green