#tear drop

[meowkusunoki]

Yuno Kashiki's Lover - An Analysis

I apologize for any typos or wonky wording; English is not my first language.

Yuno has stated in Trial 2 that she never had feelings for the people she was going on dates with. However, that contradicts with Umbilical, because these–

–are not the words of someone who's just in it for the fun or for the money. So, I'd like to propose something else: Yuno, before becoming a rental girlfriend, had a partner whom she genuinely loved, and that person is the one who she (nearly) had a child with.

TW: abortion and pregnancy talk

PART 1: Yuno's Personality (+ Haruka Connection)

Yuno is a very cynical person, and has stated that she hates "cold"– this can also be seen in Umbilical (Just me alone, the warmth starts to fade / Let's reload the warmth) (Just me alone, it really is lonely / Let's reload the warmth) and Tear Drop (The fading warmth makes me anxious again / Tear drops succumb and fall)

Despite this, she has stated in her second voice drama that her family life is stable, and often mentions playing with her brothers in MINIGRAM.

Something worth taking note is that she also states she found compensated dating to be something she felt was "necessary"– likely to stave off the "cold".

But if such traits didn't come from her home life, where did they come from? I believe it was from disillusionment in a relationship.

I'd also like to present a new theme to connect her and Haruka: abandonment.

PART 2: Umbilical

2.1: The Towers

During the MV, there can be seen towers composed of a spiralling stairway: at first, there is one. Then, a second one is introduced. Those two come together to form one, and so there is only one left. That tower crumbles. In the end, we can see that there are more towers in the background.

They represent Yuno and her lovers.

Up until the end of the first chorus, there is only one tower: Yuno's. She is then seen staring at a second, more distant tower. This is her partner.

On the second chorus, they are together. Yuno can be seen on hers, but the other is empty; we can, however, see someone's shoes left on it. They seem to be men's shoes, so not Yuno's.

It's as if someone is supposed to be there, but they've left, or Yuno now refuses to acknowledge them.

In this scene, they both come together; this is either when the pregnancy happens, or when Yuno tells them about it (I messed up, I found out)

Also, the shoes are now gone, meaning they have left her completely.

In the third chorus, we see Yuno's tower again, alone.

Fourth chorus, the tower crumbles; this represents Yuno's old self "breaking". She, however, grabs onto the balloon (which we will discuss later) and saves herself.

(Alternatively, the tower that crumbles could also represent her child and its death.)

At the very end, she stares off at new towers in the background. This is when she started to be a rental girlfriend; she is looking at her possible suitors.

PART 2.1: The Balloon

I've heard the theory that it represents her body, and while I think that is possible, I'd like to present something new: it represents her feelings/her mind.

In the beginning, it's empty: she hasn't caught feelings. As the song progresses, it becomes full of other balloons, one even shaped like a heart: those are her newfound feelings.

Eventually, the pressure becomes too much, and her mind "bursts"; this happens right before her tower crumbles and right after the pregnancy.

When she falls, she grabs onto a now-empty balloon, which represents a mind that's free of feelings. She is saving herself from death by grabbing onto numbnees, by rejecting the feelings that got her here in the first place.

Something else that's interesting: during the "fu fu" part, she is hiding her face behind an empty balloon; hiding behind a stoic face.

PART 3: Tear Drop

I don't have much to say about Tear Drop, since I agree with most of the fandom about it. I'd like to mention, though, that Yuno is very adamant about not being a "naive little girl", and following this theory, it makes sense.

She had to build herself back up from the ground and, judging by the multiple Yunos in the MV, it looks like she did it by herself. To reduce her to someone pitiful would be insulting, after she went through so much trouble to lock her old self away.

Still, in a brief moment of vulnerability, she shows that once the cold starts to seep in, she's still hurting.

#yuno kashiki #milgram #milgram analysis #umbilical #tear drop

[smallestgalaxylemon]

MILGRAM • Tear Drop

#yuno<3 #this mv was very pretty #but I just like yuno mvs in general #(it's because of the pink-) #milgram #yuno #yuno kashiki #milgram tear drop #tear drop #milgram gifs #milgram tear drop gifs #tear drop gifs

[2amtechnicolor]

some thoughts about guilty yuno...

ok so yuno's crime is obvious. she had an abortion.

the fandom seems to see her choices as "is abortion good or bad" but i think that may be...over-simplifying things a bit?

let me preface this by saying i am pro-choice, it's not my decision what someone else does with their body, they need to do what's best for them.

that being said...being pro-choice also means accepting the choice not to have an abortion.

i feel like yuno's story is the most oversimplified simply because the majority doesn't see abortion as something morally wrong. but we're missing the fact that yuno does.

"I have no intent to say abortion isn’t murder. I’m a respectable murderer."

"But if you refer to the law, regardless, I can't be accused of murder."

Yuno wanted to be voted guilty. But why?

"Kotoko is someone I would never want to make my friend, though. She’s the type who picks a conclusion from the very beginning and won’t actually talk with you."

"[The audience] Arbitrarily deciding that I’m pitiable. Arbitrarily making up a backstory for me. Creating a personally idealized version of me. Creating an acceptable version of me."

In Yuno's first MV, most people picked up on the fact that she's doing compensated dating and that it resulted in an abortion. She outright confirms it in her second VD. But then we the audience decided what her reasons were because the majority of people who get abortions don't regret them.

I don't think Yuno wanted to get an abortion.

When you look at her from that angle, a lot of her contradictory behavior begins to make sense, and you begin to see how she fits into Milgram's moral dilemmas. Her story is still a story about choice...but instead of being about her choice to get an abortion it's about her choice to decide to keep her child.

There's a lot of reasons why someone in Yuno's position wouldn't want to have a child.

She's 18.

She's not in a stable relationship with whoever the father would be.

She doesn't have a steady job besides comp dating that we know of.

It was really easy for the audience to come to the conclusion that "she got an abortion because she didn't want to be pregnant." In that case, she's innocent right? She did the best choice for her, so she did nothing wrong.

But if Yuno did want her child...It's no wonder why she's so disgusted with her innocent vote. She was pressured into an abortion she didn't want, and has learned everyone thinks it was for the best. That we know what's best for her, and not herself. If she was voted guilty, I don't think it would be punishing her for the act of having an abortion...but the act of folding to someone else's demands.

If I was in Yuno's position I would abort. But I am not Yuno. I have no right to decide what is best for her. And if we look at the lyrics of Umbilical...I genuinely think she wanted her child.

Verse and Chorus 1 read to me from the first time I heard it as her singing to her child.

"Just the two of us I feel a little tingle inside Our love links us together Just me alone, the warmth starts fading away Let’s reload the warmth"

Verse 2, is her to the child's father, who wants her to abort.

"Am I a bad girl? Please don’t answer What do you want to do? Please tell me"

"Just the two of us I finally found it The lies are endless Just me alone, it really is lonely Let’s reload the warmth"

She's lying about her true feelings to become what this guy wants her to be. But she wants a child.

In Tear Drop, there's a scene where lights flash behind her. Pink, blue, pink, blue, pink, colors associated with child genders. A tear falls from her face, before the final flash. And the final flash is?

Four negative pregnancy tests.

This seems to me to parallel the balloon in Umbilical.

Four round balloons, but one heart. Four failed pregnancies, and one successful one.

She blew up this balloon herself. She wanted these balloons. And when she's falling at the end of the MV, it's her balloon that saves her.

We didn't listen to her. 

Yuno doesn't think she's a bad girl for having an abortion. She thinks she's a bad girl because she killed the child she wanted.

#milgram #kashiki yuno #pro choice #abortion tw #teen pregnancy tw #this also makes her foil haruka more easily #boy not wanted by his mother / girl who really wants a child #lux talks #also imagine how traumatic it would be to abort the kid you wanted #only to have everyone else call you a girlboss for doing it #yuno bby i am so sorry #tear drop #umbilical #deco*27 #luc.txt

[pen-the-pierrot]

Milgram October 2023

Day 4: Tear/ Vampire

#milgram #milgram project #yuno kashiki #kashiki yuno #milgram yuno #art #milgramtober2023 #vampire #tear drop #deco 27

[accirax]

LOVING the discrepancy between the first Trial 2 MVs

#milgram #ミルグラム #haruka sakurai #yuno kashiki #milgram trial 2 #all knowing and all agony #tear drop #drew this immediately after watching tear drop #YES QUEEN YUNO SLAY #i don't know if i can say that a milgram MV has ever made me in-universe HAPPY before but like. go off #and haruka... he saddens me :( glad his vote is trending guilty though i think it's the right move #unlike yuno who's getting the overwhelming innocent she deserves #props to the animators for drawing that lingerie btw it is so complicated i can't imagine trying to animate that #here i am yet again with another media property on my acct. when will it end #fanart #digital #my art #drawing

[asherenjoysbeingtransparent]

“Tear Drop” (One scene) — Yuno Kashiki

#asher is trans… parent! #transparent #milgram #mv scene #yuno kashiki #tear drop

[puffballspeakerbox]

#bfdi #bfdi gijinka #tear drop #bfb era

[baby-meringue]

tpot 4 be like

#bfdi #bfb #tpot #tpot 4 #gardening zero #death pact again #madagascar #the strongest team on earth #ice age #the s #2001 a space odyssey #team8s #into the woods #just not #rango #are you okay #slender man #tear drop #marcel the shell with shoes on #bfdi meme #posting at 3am #spoilers #object show community #funny stuff

[yerumeruii]

#art #artist #artwork #yillowmimez #yerumeruii oc's #Tear Drop #doll #dollcore #dollette #softette #coquette #yami kawaii #menhera #morute #yumekawaii #jfashion #decora #kawaii fashion #goth #pastel #pastel goth #creepy #creepy cute #scary #eerie #horror art #macabre #scary art #creepy art #surreal art

[milgramoutofcontext]

Here's a happy Yuno for your dashboard!

#milgram #MILGRAM out of context #yuno kashiki #Tear Drop

[2amrainbow]

"Where'd you get your half-baked sense of justice?"

#milgram #milgram project #yuno kashiki #tear drop #milgram 2nd trial #fanart #digital art #scribblux

[savage-rhi]

Massive Attack - Teardrop (Official Video)

I get massive Death Stranding vibes from this video and from the music.

#death stranding #music #house md theme song #massive attack #tear drop #watch this and tell me you don't think about the game #especially with the funky fetus #Youtube #bb death stranding #louise death stranding #lou #bb pod

[disease]

EURO ZERO ZERO MASSIVE ATTACK [TEAR DROP SGL, 1998]

#audio #massive attack #trip hop #downtempo #90s #rare #euro zero zero #tear drop #electronic #music #u

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: Undead Unluck [2023]

#undead unluck #fuuko izumo #tear #tear drop #splash #beautiful

[cafe-con-navi]

So like,, the second this trial MV dropped i was like “i’m dropping everything and covering this Right Now. and then i did. and then i got too lazy to make the art and video for like half a year

BUT IT’S REAL NOW IT’S OKAY!! Here’s a cover of Tear Drop that i’m super proud of :”)

#tear drop #teardrop #milgram #yuno milgram #tear drop milgram #youtaite #milgram cover #Youtube

[asherenjoysbeingtransparent]

“Tear Drop” (two scenes) — Yuno Kashiki

#asher is trans… parent! #transparent #milgram #yuno kashiki #mv scene #tear drop