10 Days of Memories: Underwater ASMR

Meetings and partings, death and rebirth. I'm writing this after listening to this work and then reading the accompanying text file as well. While listening, somewhere in my mind I kept thinking things like "Lala will probably be saved after all" or "let's continue this from now on, the end," expecting there to be some kind of salvation for "Lala's life." But there was no such thing—the two truly part ways. Listening to tracks 10 and 11, my eyes welled up with tears. "Ah, this really is a farewell..." And then, what should those left behind do? Surely the best thing is to accept the wishes and feelings of the one who passed on and continue living. The protagonist experiences two major partings, but before each parting there was a meeting, and what he experienced up until then doesn't simply disappear. I thought that perhaps it's the mission of those left behind to always treasure those experiences as memories. I'm not expressing this very well, but I wanted to try to put it into words somehow, so please forgive me. I wanted to listen to it all in one sitting, so I made sure to set aside enough time to listen straight through. The scenario and characters that draw you in—it was just too much... I'm really bad at conveying this, and I'm sorry, but I just wanted as many people as possible to listen to this. Of course, there was also ear cleaning, sleeping together, ear blowing, and heartbeat sounds. All of it was great. And the underwater ASMR had great sound too.

A story of meeting → falling in love → days spent together → and then parting. Apparently I'm surprisingly weak to this kind of story. I expected it might end this way, but even knowing that, it was still heartbreaking. But miracles don't happen easily. That's just how it is— it's called a miracle precisely because it doesn't happen. The fact that Lala said to forget about her seems to show she really did have a heart. And then, the maid android simply shuts down, as expected. Her functions may have stopped, but the feelings remained. The CV was Mikoshiba Izumi-san. The emotionally flat, matter-of-fact way of speaking really suited a maid android, and the voice was easy to listen to.

Ear cleaning, ear blowing, underwater sounds, heartbeat sounds, and a robotic voice—as a 330 yen ASMR work, it was more than satisfying. As for the drama part, it turns out to be a rather rare, bittersweet story where Lala ultimately shuts down—reaching what would be called her lifespan, in human terms. But for the husband, who lost his wife and likely would never have come to love someone new again, and for Lala, who otherwise would have simply waited to break down doing nothing, these 10 days truly seem to have been a kind of "salvation" for both of them. Personally, even if she shuts down, I don't think I could bring myself to dispose of her—I'd want to love her as her own individual person, not as a substitute for the wife. But when I think about Lala's final message, the late wife, and the author who hardened their heart to write this scenario, I can't quite reach an answer as to whether that would be allowed. Also, the illustration of Lala as a sorrowful long-haired maid is very much to my taste.