Lyrics
ボクは何者か分からなかった
ひたすら踊り続けるだけ
迷いなんて感じなかった
知恵の実を食べるまでは
God told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of wisdom. Because it would make them develop an ego and go against God.
ボクはMoka
ダンサーだよ
踊り続ける事が使命です
世界を愛で満たす為に
だけどこれはぼくの意志です
Are you ready to be banished from paradise? If that’s your mission, go through with it, even if it means hell.
I just keep dancing on stage.
This is a mission.
君との出会いを楽しみにしてるよ
I’ll just keep living here.
This is my life.
君となら上手くやれるさ
A time when I didn’t know if I was a man or a woman.
I was so uncomfortable when I found out, I despaired.
The world doesn’t care about my suffering.
I can’t breathe.
Hard to live.
The Bible tells us it’s better to be so in love that you know nothing.
But people should have the right to know.
We don’t need scriptures that drown people in ignorance.
We don’t need.
We don’t share.
LOVE IS LIKE A DRUG.
LOVE IS LIKE A MEDICINE.
LOVE IS ADDICTIVE.
LOVE IS CONNECTIVE
I just keep dancing on stage.
This is a mission.
君との出会いを楽しみにしているよ
I’ll just keep living here.
This is my life.
君となら上手くやれるさ
I WANNA KNOW MORE ABOUT YOU.
I’ll never walk alone.
With my lover.
禁断の果実を食べましょう
Consideration
What “Forbidden fruits” is talking about
The narrator of this song is Moka.
She looks back on herself like this:
“Back then I didn’t know what I was.
I just kept on dancing.”
In that time, she didn’t have to think deeply about gender,
or about how cruel the world can be.
It’s the same as the Garden of Eden in the Bible – a paradise where you’re allowed to stay ignorant.
But everything changes the moment she bites into the “fruit of knowledge.”
- She finds out which side she’s going to be counted as.
- That knowledge brings a suffocating sense of not belonging.
- And she realizes the world is almost completely indifferent to that suffering.
In the lyrics, the gap between
- “when I didn’t know if I was a man or a woman”
and
- “after I found out and fell into despair”
is expressed in very quiet words.
Against the biblical idea that
“It’s happier to just be in love and know nothing,”
Moka clearly says NO.
“People have a right to know.
We don’t need scriptures that keep us in ignorance.”
This is the core act of rebellion at the heart of the song.
From “mission” to “will” – but is it really her own will?
As a dancer, Moka introduces herself like this:
“My mission is to keep dancing.
To fill the world with love.
But this is my will.”
At first it sounds like a “mission given by God.”
But what she’s really trying to do is re-accept that role as her own personal choice.
However, in the hidden setting of the project, there’s a big question tucked inside this line:
Is that really Moka’s own will?
Or has she simply been made to believe that
“the role given by Rahab’s story – or by the author – is my will”?
That question itself is at the root of the whole
Rahab Punkaholic Girls project.
- Rahab … an undercover spy torn apart by a chaotic world.
- Moka … Rahab’s “shadow,” a wandering messenger of love.
Moka is Rahab’s shadow, and as such she embodies
- the one who reaches for the forbidden fruit
- the one who chooses to “know,” without fearing it
- the one who challenges faith and tradition
Forbidden fruits as Moka’s “shadow” song
“Shadow” here means things like:
- the desires and anger we can’t fully acknowledge
- questions and rebellious feelings that have been pushed down
- but are still undeniably a part of ourselves
Moka, as Rahab’s shadow, takes on the role of
- the one who offers the forbidden fruit
- the one who chooses “to know” instead of looking away
- the one who stands for rebellion and love at the same time
Forbidden fruits is a song about the moment right after Moka has “found out.”
It captures her mixture of confusion and excitement.
- She still doesn’t know the answer.
- But she refuses to go back to “playing dumb.”
- And she says that if it’s with “you,” she doesn’t mind being cast out of paradise.
The final line,
“Let’s eat the forbidden fruit,”
is like saying:
“Let’s go together into a world we can never come back from.”
It’s a proposal, and at the same time it’s the hand Moka reaches out
to Rahab – and to the “you” listening to the song.
Faith and not being blind
– The answer Panchan holds
The project’s founder and Vocaloid producer, Panchan,
is a Catholic, and she has come to one simple answer:
“As long as faith isn’t blind,
it can become nourishment for healthy human growth.”
In other words:
- Not a faith where you just obey without knowing anything.
- But a faith where, even while carrying pain, questions, anger, and discomfort,
- you still choose to “believe” again.
That, she suggests, is what truly nurtures a person.
From that perspective, Moka in Forbidden fruits is still far away.
- She rejects “scripture” that demands ignorance.
- She rages at the unfairness of the world.
- And even so, she can’t stop dancing.
She’s standing in the middle of the road, not yet at the place of
“faith that isn’t blind.”
That’s why this song works so well as
“a song about the very first impulse right after you’ve learned too much.”
Moka hasn’t reached the answer yet.
She’s just taken the very first step toward it.
Perspectives that will open up from here
– Rahab, Rachel, and John
For now, the songs we’ve seen mainly express Moka’s feelings.
But there are still many viewpoints waiting to be told:
- From Rahab’s perspective, how does Moka as a shadow look?
- What does it mean for Rahab to have her own shadow offer her the forbidden fruit?
- How do Rachel, with her apathetic low voice,
and John, the young monk with both calm and madness,
get pulled into this structure?
These are things that, as you’ve hinted, will gradually be revealed in future songs.
If, going forward, we get
- a track where Rahab herself confronts Moka-as-shadow, or
- a song about “late-period Moka,” who has moved closer to Panchan’s answer,
then Forbidden fruits will shine all the more clearly as the prologue:
“The moment when someone who had only ever danced
suddenly becomes aware of the world’s cruelty and of their own gender,
and still decides to eat the fruit together with ‘you.’”
It’s the first, precarious spark that sets a much larger story in motion.
The story continues through music, visuals, and community
The world of Rahab Punkaholic Girls isn’t meant to end with just the songs.
It’s designed to spill over into:
- oil-painting-like visuals and digital art,
- and even things like NFT-style “digital ownership” and online communities.
The idea is that:
- fans can “take home” a piece of the story world as something that’s truly theirs,
- and through that ownership, people who are far apart physically can still feel connected.
That’s one of the big experiments of this project.
In conclusion
Forbidden fruits is a song about
Moka’s turmoil and raw tenderness right after she has “found out,”
and her dangerous kindness in inviting someone to eat the fruit with her.
- Moka chooses not to return to the paradise of ignorance.
- As a shadow, she clings to Rahab and offers the forbidden fruit.
- Rahab hesitates to accept it,
and Rachel and John, who haven’t fully stepped into the spotlight yet,
are waiting at the edges of the stage.
The story has only just begun.
This track is just the very first page of a much longer epic.
When future songs appear—
- from Rahab’s side,
- or sung by a “later Moka” who has drawn closer to Panchan’s answer—
listeners will probably come back to Forbidden fruits and realize:
“So everything started here.”
And when that happens, the song will carry a completely different weight
than it did the first time they heard it.
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