Neo Dream Traveler is a Vocaloid pop album created by Japanese musician Harumaki Gohan. It is Harumaki Gohan's second album, and it was released on December 26, 2018.
The album features 13 unique full songs, which focus on unrelated stories about young girls facing various issues, with recurring themes of dreams, the end of the world, and sentience within robots. Many of the songs in the album were previously released as singles, such as "Melty Land Nightmare"
, "Aster", and "Dreamless Dreams", among others.
On November 23 and 24, 2019, a two-part concert called "Neo Dream Cinema" was held which expanded the lore of the songs in the album, with a specific focus on Seventina and Melty Land Nightmare.
Neo Dream Traveler Official Trailer
Neo Dream Traveler contains examples of:
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: The protagonist from “Kitto Yume no Naka ne”, who berates her father for making her move far away from her friends.
- Chromosome Casting: All of the songs are from the perspective of female characters, as is typical of Harumaki Gohan’s works.
- Dying Alone: The final lyrics of Melty Land Nightmare can be interpreted this way, with Melty’s world disappearing as the blue girl wakes up, remembering nothing about her dream.
- Imaginary Friend: Melty is the blue girl’s imaginary friend who she visits in her dreams when she’s struggling in the real world. Additionally, Tina is an imaginary friend invented by Dango.
- However, it’s revealed in the “Their Conclusion” live show from the Futari No album, also made by Harumaki Gohan, that Melty and the Melty Land actually exist.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Melty pleads with the blue girl not to forget her when she wakes up. This effort was futile in the end, as it’s suggested that the blue girl forgot about her.
- Stuff Blowing Up: The explosions which are ever present in Aster, and, to a lesser extent, the fireworks in Dreamless Dreams. Harumaki Gohan has mentioned that he likes drawing explosions.
- Third Eye: One of these opens on the girl from Aster’s back.
