Futari No

* Limited Edition
* Regular Edition
* Yakusoku Jacket
* Himitsu Jacket
* Suisei ni Nareta Nara Jacket
* Melty Land Nightmare Jacket
* Seventina Jacket

*This page is about the album. For the song, see Futari No (song).*

**Futari No** (ふたりの) is an album by Harumaki Gohan released on August 26, 2020. It contains 22 songs on 2 discs. The album follows two girls, named Nana and Lili, who were separated at a young age, and their journey to reunite.

The limited edition features an exclusive art book written by Harumaki Gohan that details the story and the making of the album. It has 4 original jackets, featuring Reunion, Secret, Promise, and If I Could Become a Comet. There are also 2 extra jackets featuring Melty Land Nightmare and Seventina.

On November 15, 2020, a live concert called Futari No Ketsuron / Their Conclusion was held at Shianagawa Intercity Hall, Tokyo. This was the final Futari No related work to be released.

## Song List

### DISC 1

Disc 1 contains the Harumaki Gohan vocal versions of the songs. It also includes two extra songs: a self cover of Poka Poka no Hoshi, and a self cover of 1 percent.

1. Futari No (ふたりの / For the Two of Us)
2. Yakusoku (約束 / Promise)
3. Himitsu (秘密 / Secret)
4. Nana (ナナ / Nana)
5. Suisei ni Nareta Nara (彗星になれたなら / If I Could Become a Comet)
6. Yoma (夜魔 / Night Devil)
7. Saikai (再会 / Reunion)
8. Tanjou (誕生 / Birth)
9. Ketsuron (結論 / Conclusion)
10. Poka Poka no Hoshi - Self Cover (ぽかぽかの星 / Cozy Planet)
11. 1 Percent - Self Cover

### DISC 2

Disc 2 contains the Vocaloid versions of the songs. It also includes two extra songs: the Vocaloid version of Poka Poka no Hoshi, and a remastered version of his 2015 song We of the 22nd Century.

1. Futari No (ふたりの / For the Two of Us)
2. Yakusoku (約束 / Promise)
3. Himitsu (秘密 / Secret)
4. Lili (リリ / Riri)
5. Suisei ni nareta nara (彗星になれたなら / If I Could Become a Comet)
6. Yoma (夜魔 / Night Devil)
7. Saikai (再会 / Reunion)
8. Tanjou (誕生 / Birth)
9. Ketsuron (結論 / Conclusion)
10. Poka Poka no Hoshi - Vocaloid ver. (ぽかぽかの星 / Cozy Planet)
11. 22 Seiki no Bokura wa [2020 Remaster] (22世紀の僕らは / We of the 22nd Century)

## Story

**Warning**

This section contains spoilers. Proceed with caution.
Futari No is about the journey leading up to two childhood friends reunion. It takes place on the Blue Planet, with its population slowly decreasing as people board airships and leave for a new home. The Blue Planet has two types of humans: humans as we know them, and another type known as adults, who resemble robots. In the present day, adults make up the majority of the population.

The main characters are Nana and Lili, two young girls who form a close bond. When they first met, Nana had never seen a human child who resembled her before, as she seems to have grown up around adults. After finding out that Lili's family was moving to the Northern Capital, the two of them made a promise to stay children forever so that they could meet again one day, planning to reunite when the indigo bell at the airship tower rings.

At some point between ages 7 and 16, Lili became the imperial princess of the Northern Capital, and was presumably part of an arranged marriage with an adult. After finding out about this, Nana attacks the adult with her globe, beheading them. Although she and Lili got to see each other again, their reunion was short-lived. After the next time skip, Nana is alone again, and what happened between ages 16 and 19 remains ambiguous.

Eventually, the sound of the indigo bell rang out, and by this time the two of them had both turned 21. With their watches times synchronized, they both ascend the tower and jump off the top, falling into a white void where they finally reunite. Their bodies dissolve into nothing as they reach out for each other.

In the final music video, Nana is playing the piano within the white void. The shadow of a large whale flying overhead washes over her, and Lili walks up to the piano and begins to play the piano alongside Nana. Eventually Lili pulls her own hand back, choosing to stand by Nana’s side and listen along.

## Theories

### The Adults Aren't Actually Bad

This theory proposes that Nana is actually wrong about the adults, and that they are just as human as her and Lili. Nana talks about them from such a negative standpoint because she is biased against them for taking Lili away from her. If the story was told from Lili's perspective, then there wouldn't be nearly as much complaining about them. This is supported by the Great Librarian being heavily implied to be an adult. Despite what Nana says about his kind, the Great Librarian is very kind towards Nana and clearly displays human emotions in the song Futari No. Furthermore, in the Gohan no Otomo newspaper, Macaron Joe, Master Akuriru Tsukuru, Master Onigiri Nigiru, and the old man in the Dream World Denial Faction all seem very passionate about what they do and their opinions, despite likely being adults given what we know about the Blue Planet.

### Neo Dream Traveler

Before the full story of Futari No was revealed, some thought that Saikai was a sequel or prequel to Melty Land Nightmare, although fans who knew more about the artbook canon speculated that Lili was Tina, not Blue Girl. While this was debunked when the album was released, some things lead people to think that Harumaki Gohan had actually originally intended for Futari No to be directly connected to Neo Dream Traveller, but later scrapped the idea.

The main reason that many believe this is because of Nana and Lili's designs. Nana looks extremely similar to Melty with her hairstyle, outfit, and pink motif, while Lili looks extremely similar to Tina with her hair being a more natural-looking version of Tina's, as well as the colors of her bow and hair being inverted from Tina's hair. Her hair is yellow and her bow is blue, instead of the other way around.

Another reason some people believe this is because of the parallels in Saikai's MV to both Melty Land Nightmare and Seventina's MVs. The opening scene is very reminiscent of Melty Land Nightmare due to the Origins flying around the airship tower. Additionally, in Lili's MV, the scenes of her falling are very similar to the scenes of Tina falling in Seventina, due to the yellow streams of light trailing behind them.

Additionally, the artbook reveals that Lili was originally supposed to wear a school uniform, but this was later changed. Finally, the main motif of the album sounds similar to the backing piano in Seventina.

If this is true, then it's unknown why Harumaki Gohan scrapped the idea. Perhaps he wanted to expand on the Blue Planet more, but couldn't due to the restrictions of making a direct sequel or prequel, or he found it too difficult to connect the events of Futari No with the stories of Melty Land Nightmare and Seventina. He also could have simply lost interest in the idea of making a sequel/prequel to Neo Dream Traveler and decided to make Futari No its own seperate story.

## Trivia

* Included in the limited edition DVD is an animated short called "Macaron's Kitchen", in which Macaron attempts to surprise Nana by cooking for her and ends up burning their house down.
* Futari No means "Their" in English. This is meant to precede the titles of each song. E.g. Their Reunion, Their Secret, Their Birth.
	+ Of course, except the first song.
		- Note that with this interpretation, not every instance of "Futari no" takes the possessive meaning "Their". Since in Japanese "Futari no" can also indicate instead that the noun being modified has a number of two, the title of Track 6 is best translated as "If (We) Could Become Two Comets" (with "comet" personified, since "futari" is a numeral for people).
* Harumaki Gohan stated in his episode of Art & Tech that Nana and Lili were created by splitting himself up into two people, giving them each different traits that he has.