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this may be a bit of a weird request, but i'm throwing a powerpoint presentation with my friends and i decided to do it about vocaloid's seven sins saga, but then i realized there's much more to it than i thought. i read your Evillious world and history explanation and i found it very well written and clear, so i was wondering if youd be willing to do the same with the plot of each one of the seven main songs? because im having some trouble getting the story right. thank you so much in advance!

Since you're specifically asking about the songs instead of the novels based on them, I'll try to avoid any major spoilers exclusively from the book plots in my summarizing (but I will be supplementing with some of the worldbuilding info from them). So just note that there's WAY more to each of these stories than what I'm sharing here, and many of them have plot twists that you wouldn't see coming from the songs alone.

As a quick note--I am going to write these in chronological order so you can get a feel for the timeline (most of them take place at least 100-200 years after the previous one), but as I've stated elsewhere the Daughter of Evil series comes first in narrative order and the novels are best read that way (ex, the Lunacy of Duke Venomania novel starts with assuming that the reader is already familiar with a lot of concepts from the DoE novels, and so doesn't take the time to explain them). The songs were also not always released in chronological order.

Lunacy of Duke Venomania: The so-called "Duke Sateriasis Venomania" (played by Gackpo) is a Beelzenian noble that rules over Asmodean as one of the "Five Dukes" of Beelzenia (the Beelzenian empire, at this point in time, has conquered much of Evillious). This is sort of early-medieval Evillious. The story centers around his stint as a serial kidnapper building a harem of women for his own enjoyment. Specifically, he has contracted with a demon that gives him various powers, one of which is to magically brainwash anyone of the opposite sex into thinking that they are madly in love with him--usually his modus operandi is that he'll visit somewhere, use his powers on the prettiest women he can find, and then wait for them to come to his mansion on their own under the influence of the brainwashing. He keeps them in the mansion's fully furnished basement. Though he starts off small (his first victim is a simple tailor), he eventually escalates to kidnapping queens and princesses from other countries, which sews quite a bit of political turmoil, as you can imagine. Nonetheless, he escapes detection for a while before he's caught.

Of note is that Venomania was not always so attractive--he was born with a physical facial deformity that led to severe abuse, neglect, and bullying in his youth (which is what motivated him to make the contract). This includes being rejected by a noble girl by the name of Gumina (played by Gumi), who was actually his childhood crush and friend. She is the member of his harem who created the picture that he burns in the PV (and, incidentally, the subject of "The Portrait Glassred Drew", which is the "answer song" to this one). She actually does love him, but their relationship is a little too complex to go into here.

Eventually it turns out that one of his victims (the queen of Marlon) had a lover named Karchess (played by KAITO) who goes to rescue her. He goes in disguise as a specific woman that Venomania was looking to kidnap, and--being a man--the brainwashing power has no effect on him. He pretends it does to get closer to him, however. He stabs Venomania with a special dagger that can kill demon contractors, and in so doing frees all of the women from their mind control, leaving Venomania to die alone.

Evil Food Eater Conchita: This is set in Beelzenia proper this time rather than a subservient country (I believe Asmodean has declared independence already iirc, as a note). Imagine it as sort of late medieval period. The main character in the song is Banica Conchita (played by MEIKO), and she is another one of the "Five Dukes" of Beelzenia, having inherited the position from her father. She is a gourmand who was initially something of a local hero, having revitalized Beelzenia's food culture after studying the cuisine from countries around the world. Unfortunately, due to abuse in her childhood she had an unhealthy relationship with food herself, which through various circumstances led to her contracting with a demon that would allow her to eat anything and everything without getting sick from it. Her downward spiral into becoming a monster is the focus of the song. The Rin and Len characters that sing the bridge to the chorus are Arte and Pollo, her twin servants and best friends.

Now, she does have a key relationship that is almost entirely exclusive to the novel, but shows up in "Drug of Gold", the answer song to this one. Essentially, as a teenager she was engaged to a prince of Marlon, a sickly young man named Carlos (played by KAITO). The engagement was broken off when she was triggered into a PTSD attack at her engagement party, and they don't reconnect until after she's already contracted with the demon. He's the chef that she eats. It makes sense in context.

Eventually, after driving her province to ruin, she eats everyone in the house and then herself, getting the last laugh in the end.

Daughter of Evil: This and the other songs in the DoE series center around the political upheaval of the Kingdom of Lucifenia and its ruler, Princess Riliane (played by Rin). Imagine the French Revolution and you'll get the gist of the setting. I'll try to keep it brief. For context--Lucifenia was built into a prosperous kingdom through the bloody expansion wars perpetrated by the much-loved former king, Arth, alongside his queen Anne. Arth died when Riliane was 6, and Anne dying led to Riliane becoming monarch at just 14 years old. I cannot talk about this song without talking about the answer song, "Servant of Evil", which is from the perspective of Alexiel (played by Len), Riliane's twin brother who was separated from her when they were children to avoid a succession crisis among the nobles using the twins as pawns. His name was changed to Allen, and, after being raised by the captain of the guard, he was installed in the palace as a servant to look after his sister (no one remembers him due to reasons explained in the novels).

Riliane is a spoiled, selfish tyrant. Lucifenia goes through a famine and she hordes the food to herself. The captain of the guard steals food from the palace stores to help the people and she has him killed. She discovers that her betrothed has broken off their engagement to pursue a woman from the kingdom of Elphegort (the only neighbor they have a good relationship with) and proceeds to declare a practically genocidal war against them to snuff out this mystery woman. Etc etc. Now--eventually it's revealed that she was possessed by a demon of Pride that whole time, but this is only obliquely hinted at in the first novel.

The people have enough, and are eventually led through a revolution by the daughter of the captain of the guard. They capture the princess and have her executed. It's revealed in Allen's song, however, that they actually switched places, and it was him who died at the guillotine while she escaped to repent for her cruelty and lead a peaceful life at a monastery.

Gift from the Princess Who Brought Sleep: This takes place in Elphegort (by this point Evillious is sort of quasi-Victorian era), centering around the town of Toragay and Margarita (played by Miku), wife of the local Marquis and daughter of a doctor. What you need to know about Margarita is that she maintains a variety of delusions about her life and her husband, Kaspar (KAITO). He wastes their money, sleeps around on her with other women, and is in general a pretty awful person, but she convinced herself that they're in love because they made a marriage promise as children. Margarita has also reportedly never slept one night in her life.

Now, while it doesn't show up in the song, it does show up in the PV and the "answer song" Fifth Pierrot, so it's important to know that at this time in history there is a criminal organization operating in Evillious called "Pere Noel". Margarita was approached by one of its members and asked to refine the recipe for a poison called "Gift", which puts people to sleep. Permanently. She uses this on her husband, and then on her father, and then progressively on more and more people (developing and changing the poison recipe each time) until finally Toragay is a ghost town. Then she uses the poison on herself, so that she can at last finally sleep.

The Tailor of Enbizaka: Enbizaka is a town situated on a hill in the island of Onigashima, which is part of the nation of Jakoku--basically fantasy Japan. I've said it in my other information post but just fyi Jakoku is NOT part of the region actually named Evillious. Enbizaka is unique in that it's one of the only places in Jakoku that foreigners are allowed to live, and this is right around its version of the Meiji era. This song is about a hard working and modest woman called Sudou Kayo (played by Luka), who is known as a tailor in Enbizaka. Now, in the novels it's explained that Enbizaka went through a fire a few years back, which is relevant to plots in the novel but explaining them would be too much to go into here.

The plot of the song is that Kayo sees her husband cheating on her with a bunch of women, and it's strongly implied that she murders these women and steals articles of clothing from them (a kimono, an obi, and a hairpin). She then goes to confront her husband while wearing these items, at which point it's revealed that he is not her husband at all--she is a stranger to him, and they have never met before. Their relationship was a delusion on her part, and she kills him. There is…a LOT more to the story than that, but again, that's all in the novel.

Some further context--after she committed these murders, she turned herself into the authorities and was executed shortly afterwards. The answer song for this one is from the perspective of a monk and someone who knew her in life, who both pray for her upon visiting her disembodied head (which was put on display because she was a criminal).

Judgment of Corruption: This is set during Evillious' modern era (think 1920s-1940s), primarily in the country of Levianta to the north. At this point in time, Evillious has multiple international organizations governing it, including the Union State of Evillious. Gallerian (played by KAITO) is the head judge of the USE's highest judicial authority, and the legal system is modeled off of the one in Japan, which means there is no jury and as judge he has complete control over guilt and sentencing. Gallerian uses this authority to extract bribes from the accused, deciding trials solely over which gets him paid more.

Gallerian does this because he needs money. Essentially, he had a wife and daughter who he loved very much (the daughter, I mean, not his wife). Both of them were on board a ship called the Titanis when it sank. The wife died, and the daughter…also died but you're not supposed to know that in this song (other songs make clear that what he thinks is his daughter is actually a doll that looks like her)--in this he just believes she has been confined to a wheelchair. He was led to believe by a woman called Ma (a playwright and also sorceress) that if he collected all of the vessels of deadly sin (the items that hold demons inside them), it would grant him his wish to cure his daughter's illness. He needs the money to track down the vessels.

Ultimately, Gallerian's actions result in a major political faction (called the "Tasan Party" but that's not important right now) forming to oust him from power, and when he pardons a general guilty of massacring a village it leads to a civil war breaking out. His house is set on fire by the revolutionaries and he's murdered by Nemesis (who isn't in this song but we will talk about later). This leads to the final sequence of the song where he's in the Hellish Yard.

Some more context: The Hellish Yard is basically hell in this series, with a few key differences. The fandom has never entirely agreed on what specifically happened for real in this scene, because Gallerian's POV here is unreliable. The person he meets--the Master of the Hellish Yard--IS a real character and that is what she looks like, and he does have dreams about meeting her before his death, but their conversation about him relinquishing his fortune if he wants to be saved is the one he has with with Nemesis (who is NOT the same character) before she kills him (again, we'll get to her in a minute). To simplify the matter--his soul goes to the Hellish Yard after he dies and and is trapped there, waiting for a time when he can try to rebuild a better world for him and his daughter.

The Muzzle of Nemesis: This song was made much later than the others and requires the most novel context to understand, but I'll try to keep it only to necessary details. This song actually takes place around the same time frame as Judgment of Corruption, so unlike the others it is NOT after a significant time period has passed, nor is it limited to a specific location. Nemesis (played by Gumi) actually showed up in a prior song called Last Revolver (which is about an assassin who falls in love with her target, kills him, then kills herself). The narrative for this one jumps around quite a bit and has a lot of reveals, but to put the facts in order--she is Gallerian's illegitimate daughter with Ma, the playwright. As far as she knows he abandoned her and her mother (in truth he had no idea she existed), and she was raised in a life of poverty. During this time she was contracted with the demon of wrath without her knowledge. She fell in with the wrong crowd and it turns out she's the one who sank the Titanis that killed Gallerian's wife and put his daughter in a wheelchair, using the help of her pet octopus (though she didn't know his wife and daughter were on the ship at the time).

In order to avoid getting prosecuted for her crime, Nemesis was forced to join an organization called Pere Noel. This is a separate organization from the previous Pere Noel, and has slightly complicated political reasons behind its formation and naming scheme, but all you need to know is that Gallerian is technically the boss of it. It's worth emphasizing that Nemesis' existence and her identity as an assassin in Pere Noel was kept secret from him, but she doesn't know that. Anyway, it's while she works for this group that she ends up having to kill her lover and then tries to kill herself. Her suicide attempt fails due to her demonic contract.

Nemesis then resolves to get revenge on Gallerian for everything. She joins the Tasan party and becomes its highest ranking member, leads the charge on his estate, confronts him, and then when he refuses to atone for what he's done and continues to obsess over the doll in his arms rather than the daughter standing right in front of him, she kills him in a rage using the vessel of wrath (the golden bullets in her gun).

It's not a part of this song, but after this point Nemesis goes on to become a dictator and eventually destroys the world after a few more traumatic events occur.

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