Message

Message is the first ending theme of Gyakuten Saiban: Sono “Shinjitsu”, Igiari!, the Ace Attorney anime adaptation. It was used from The First Turnabout to Turnabout Promise, for a total of 13 episodes.

The song was performed by Rei Yasuda.

Synopsis
The ending sequence begins with the head of a sunflower slowly spinning counterclockwise toward the viewer, with two petals becoming dislodged in the process. As the sunflower comes to a stop, the petals come together near the center of the flower to form a shape reminiscent of a pair of lips, which then turn a pink color. As a grayscale image of an unhappy Maya Fey appears in the center of the flower, the "lips" are initially superimposed where her own lips are, but fade away as she appears. The only source of color in the image of Fey is a stick of lipstick in the same shade of pink as the now vanished petal "lips". Fey begins to apply the lipstick to her lower lip, only to accidentally slip up and leave a streak of pink across her lower face. A tear wells in her right eye, which falls down to a watercolor background of pinks and blues below.

Fey's tear then becomes a sunflower petal, which blows about in the air as a blue watercolor image of her being unhappy appears, while a white silhouette of Phoenix Wright with his back to her is visible behind. The petal moves to the right, revealing a blue watercolor silhouette of a dying sunflower. As the petal returns to the left, another blue image of an unhappy Fey appears, this time hunched over a white box-like object. The view switches to a closer image of Fey as the petal begins to move closer to her. Suddenly, the wilted head of a sunflower appears, which is glowing while Wright's hands hover on either side of it.

When the scene returns to Fey, a transparent, but fully-colored, version of her sits up from the hunched blue Fey like a spirit, and follows the sunflower petal with her head. After the view briefly returns to Wright cradling the wilted sunflower in his hands, the "spirit" Fey becomes opaque, stands up, and reaches out for the petal with her hand, only to just miss grabbing it.

A beam of light then splits the screen and gradually becomes wider as a kaleidoscopic Fey slowly falls from above while blue, yellow, and pink colored petals rise up around her from below. One yellow and one red Fey then appear while the light continues to shine, colorful petals whirl around them, and colorful sunflowers spin. Aside from their waist bows and magatamas, the two Feys are naked and slowly move toward each other, with the view switching just before their lips meet.

Profile images of the two Feys then merge together to create a fully-colored version, who turns just as the petal reappears, touches her lips, and disappears, leaving lipstick on her lips in the process. As the camera pulls back to reveal that she is in the middle of a sunflower surrounded by other colorful sunflowers, Fey wipes away the lipstick and smiles at the viewer.