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• Member: Valanne
• Studio: SakuraZuka Studios
• Title: The Shape of Seishirou's Heart
• Premiered: 2006-04-27
• Category:
  • Character Profile
• Song:
  • Sting Shape of my Heart
• Anime:
  • Tokyo Babylon
  • X (OVA)
  • X (TV)
• Comments:
  *WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS*
  
  I've always wanted to do a Sakurazuka Seishirou's profile, but a fitting song was hard to find, not to mention the lack of footage (he appears in a few episodes, sadly). Then I saw a beautiful movie, Léon, which featured this song by Sting, and I started planning the video in my mind. The song contains metaphors as "diamonds", "clubs" and so on, so I decided to show my idea about their meaning in the specific context. The "spades" contain a in-joke, as it's another way to call the "pentacles" both Seishirou and Subaru use. I tried to focus on his work as a Sakurazukamori, hence the intro, when he kills his mother and inherits the title of Sakurazukamori.
  
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  SHAPE OF MY HEART
  (Sting)
  
  He deals the cards as a meditation
  And those he plays never suspect
  He doesn’t play for the money he wins
  He don’t play for respect
  
  He deals the cards to find the answer
  The sacred geometry of chance
  The hidden law of probable outcome
  The numbers lead a dance
  
  I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
  I know that the clubs are weapons of war
  I know that diamonds mean money for this art
  But that’s not the shape of my heart
  
  He may play the jack of diamonds
  He may lay the queen of spades
  He may conceal a king in his hand
  While the memory of it fades
  
  I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
  I know that the clubs are weapons of war
  I know that diamonds mean money for this art
  But that’s not the shape of my heart
  That’s not the shape, the shape of my heart
  
  And if I told you that I loved you
  You’d maybe think there’s something wrong
  I’m not a man of too many faces
  The mask I wear is one
  
  Those who speak know nothing
  And find out to their cost
  Like those who curse their luck in too many places
  And those who fear are lost
  
  I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
  I know that the clubs are weapons of war
  I know that diamonds mean money for this art
  But that’s not the shape of my heart
  That’s not the shape of my heart
  
  ----
  
  A few notes:
  
  - "The Queen of Spades" usually represents Death, that's why I chose Setsuka.
  - "a king in his hand": Seishirou's role as a Dragon of Heart is minor than his role as a Sakurazukamori, and I tried to show it here, the only scene where we can see all the Dragons of Earth together.
  
  Feedback is always appreciated.