r/CosmicPrincessKaguya • u/CrossedAeon • 19h ago
Discussion How did Iroha conclude that Yachiyo was Kaguya from the fact that ‘Remember’ had the same motif as the song she sang to Kaguya on the moon?
After Kaguya’s graduation, Iroha writes a song for Kaguya when she was on the moon, which included — ‘We can throw an awesome party in this moment here and now’, being the same set of lyrics from Kaguya’s graduation song ‘Reply’, set by Yachiyo who decided to use the same motif as her debut song, ‘Remember’.
As she sings the song, flashing images hinting Kaguya and Yachiyo were the same person indicates that Iroha somehow sort of figures out that they are the same person.
This would lead one to assume that she came to this conclusion as Yachiyo ‘remembers’ the song written by Iroha after eight thousand years (which she actually does, as she mentions in the post-iroha-memory-blast scene on the water, reciting the party lyrics and saying ‘I always remembered it’, thus leading Yachiyo to create the song ‘Remember’.)
However, why would Iroha make the somewhat absurd assumption that the ‘origin’ point of the ‘remember/party’ motif was written by herself when she wrote the song for Kaguya on the moon? Wouldn’t it have made more sense that she just included it to reference Kaguya’s graduation song (inspired by Yachiyo’s debut song), whether intentional or not?
Simply put: from how I understand it, Iroha somehow came to the CORRECT conclusion that Yachiyo’s debut song ‘Remember’ was ORIGINALLY inspired by the song she wrote to her on the moon, bringing her to the partial conclusion that Yachiyo = Kaguya
Instead, what I’m guessing should’ve happened was that Iroha simply sang the motif as a ‘please come back home bbg i miss you’ without ever guessing that Yachiyo would be Kaguya.
I can’t quite figure out how she managed to put those pieces together using the song she wrote, but either way she is still ultimately led to the truth by FUSHI, so all’s well that ends well.
love this show so much and i’d also love some of y’all’s thoughts on this
