Four minutes long and it leaves a mark. V.W.P run this like a relay, five witch voices handing the melody off one after another until the stacking stops sounding like a pop single and starts sounding like a group refusing to accept an ending. Yuusaku Kumagai treats it as a film rather than a promo, so the images argue with the lyric instead of just decorating it. Then you remember where the song landed: the opening of Muv-Luv Alternative, a story about a kid thrown back again and again into a war he already lost, which turns "a song to fight against fate" from a tagline into the whole thesis. The TV size never gets to the part that actually breaks. Put headphones on, watch it alone, and see how the story ends.
Reincarnation, known in Japanese as Rinne, is a single-episode music video set to the second single from V.W.P, short for Virtual Witch Phenomenon, with Yuusaku Kumagai at the helm. The track centers on resisting fate, and the video invites viewers to see where its story ends up. The result is a short psychological and supernatural music video. The same song was also used to open the anime Muv-Luv Alternative.
Streaming Reincarnation legally, as of the last catalog refresh. Availability changes by region.
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