[Tenjiku Rounin] REQUIEM (DRESS MOON)

The Marionettes were promised stardom, but their manager made the truth plain from the start: they were here to make money, not music, and the duo who swore it only had to be 'just us two against the whole world' soon learns what that promise costs. A woman in military dress arrives with a riding crop and a tube of cream that is far more than shaving lotion, and once the drug takes hold the two naked singers are shaved, mounted, and shared with dogs while every degrading second rolls on video to claw back the money owed from their sale. As their minds shatter and their sweat-slick bodies are passed between beast and handler alike, the song they once made together curdles into exactly what the title promises — a funeral requiem for two souls, ending on a haunting final portrait of the duo standing hand in hand.