Blythe Oblivion's video: VOCALOID Subbed

I couldn't really call it 'English Translations' because most of the translations weren't done by me. They were done by Kaga, with some edits by me to match the video, or to make it more literal to the original lyrics. Video was ripped from rediakaikai and I replaced the original Hatsune Miku audio to the cover done by Touyu (I think male vocals fit this song better ^^), and I have got to say, the plot for this song is endlessly interesting and sinister. The art is cute as well, kinda reminds me of Kyoto Animation's style (I think this is getting pretty common nowadays .__.). Despite all the gore, I pretty much enjoyed this video all the way through. ^^ Also, the reason why I didn't make a karaoke version: something told me I would have a hard time timing the thing, so I decided to just go with the good-old 'translations-only' subs. ^^; Until someone who really wants a karaoke version pops up, I'm leaving this one as it is. My interpretation of the video and song: Clearly, what we see here is a story of a pair of lovers (never specified, but you would only sacrifice yourself for your love, no?) stuck in the looping world of 14th and 15th August. There is really no hint of how it would end, but it repeats whenever one of them dies. So you can suspect that the end is either having both of them dying, or being saved. Also, because we see that the first time the boy sacrificed himself and dying ended up with the girl waking up and saying that she "failed again", it's probably safe to say that the first person to die was actually the boy. Most probably, in the events before what we see here, the girl had to go through much more pain and sorrow... The 'heat-haze' of the title is represented by a black and red boy in this video (in contrast with the main boy who is in white). Technically, the 'heat-haze' of the original song can be seen as something from the narrator's imagination, laughing at his inability to save the girl. Or it could even be something inside himself, slowly convincing him that everything was real and happening, and that he should man up and do something about it (which is probably why the black boy in the video looks like the narrator). While we see that the 'heat-haze' is laughing at the narrator, at the end, we come to realise that he was actually crying the whole time, having liked seeing the pair together (directly shown in the video, but only slightly hinted in the song; you can also see that the boy died first because of the pole incident, but this was never mentioned in the song). Shortly after, a female counterpart of the 'heat-haze' arrives, looking much like the narrator's love, and in white and blue (in contrast with the black girl). There's no mention about this new girl in the song, so I suspect the video maker to actually have added her there to make it balance with the black 'heat-haze' boy. Of course, I've seen theories about how those two cats in the video could actually be the counterparts of the 'heat-hazes' in the real world, which seems quite reasonable. If that is the case, and we sum up everything, we can probably create the plot that the black cat caused the boy to die in the first world, leading someone (the white cat, perhaps?) to create the loop so that the girl can save him. And then the girl finally succeeds in saving the boy --- by sacrificing herself. Yet, the loop continues because someone still died / is still alive, so the boy wakes up on 14th August, believing everything is normal, until the next day......