HIBANA (song by Hatsune Miku)

"HIBANA" (ヒバナ) was released on August 4, 2017, and is written by DECO*27. While its title’s translation is "Spark", the official English title remains as "HIBANA". HIBANA reached 1 million views on Nico Nico Douga on October 19, 2017, and, at the time, was the 17th Vocaloid song to have reached this achievement.
HIBANA currently has over 4 million views on Nico Nico Douga and 21 million views on YouTube, making it one of the most viewed Vocaloid songs on the platform, as well as one of DECO*27's most notable releases and one of Hatsune Miku’s defining songs of the late 2010s. Fans noted how its production, including the use of English, was masterful and showed DECO*27's progression from his earlier works to this release, and it has an overall highly positive like-dislike ratio of (86%) on YouTube.
HIBANA was DECO*27’s 42nd song and was featured in Hatsune Miku's 10th anniversary celebratory compilation album "HATSUNE MIKU 10th Anniversary Album 'Re:Start,'" as well as in the albums Vocalostream and DECO*27's Android Girl. Additionally, the song has also appeared in the concerts Hatsune Miku Magical Mirai (2019) and MIKU WITH YOU (2019).

Song Information

DECO*27 (music, lyrics)
Hatsune Miku (VOCALOID)
Mes (chorus, English lyrics supervisor)
Rockwell (arrangement)
83 /HASSAN (illustration)

Lyrics

Kanji	Romaji	Translation
「未完成」だって何度でも言うんだ	"mikansei" datte nando demo iun da	I’ll say it as many times as it takes, we’re incomplete
NOを空振った愛の中で	NO o karabutta ai no naka de	Amidst a love that doesn’t try to say “No”.

Lyrics: DECO*27
Composition: DECO*27
Published by Sony Music Publishing C Division under JASRAC
JASRAC Works Code: 718-5173-9

Interpretation

While some theorists find connections to Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege in the song lyrics, they’re mostly references, rather than the song’s theme. Across the lyrics, many instances of dissatisfaction can be found, the protagonist in the lyrics wants to be hurt more, wants to feel more insecure, they’re in a relationship without a risk or any negatives, which make it incomplete. Their lover doesn’t acknowledge any complaints or fragility, doesn’t respond with any interest in their conversation, only bringing up uninteresting topics and jokes, then pressing for affection, a ‘wall that comes to kiss me’.
There isn’t anything wrong per se, but it is lacking in flavor, one could say. A perfect relationship without anything negative, but that comes from neither participant of it actually voicing their thoughts and opinions, discarding their ‘no’ in order to continue sailing smoothly. “Choose both, destroy both”, they won’t make any choices that could compromise anything, they won’t risk disagreeing with each other.
The ‘Spark’ which is the song’s title may refer to sparks that fly when objects collide with each other, but also the spark of love. In this relationship, they don’t crash or argue, there’s no spark from their disagreements, nor is there a spark to set their passion aflame.
The aforementioned Rainbow Six references are present in many aspects of the song: The illustration of its video features Miku under the aim-sight of a gun, Rainbow Six being a first-person shooter game. Hibana is the name of playable character in the game, which is enough for some people, when paired with the song’s early verses, which mention “Recapturing Matches”, one of the competition modes present in the game, a Flash, which could be associated with the flashbangs used by operators, and Mute, yet another character of the series. An English segment halfway through the song mentions “end this game” and “throw your MP5 away”, MP5 most likely standing for Maschinenpistole 5 (submachine gun). Putting all of this together, it is believable to think there was an influence, but it is inconclusive as many of these could too be considered stretches of the imagination.

Links

【Hatsune Miku】Hibana【Original Song】 - Nico Nico Douga
【Hatsune Miku】Hibana【Original Song】 - YouTube
HIBANA - Hatsune Miku Wiki (atwiki)
ヒバナ (Hibana) - Vocaloid Wiki | Fandom