about the ending song

Nov 16, 2024 2:27 AM

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Here I dare to mention a song I don't like. Although, I feel contradictory in that I can't hate it.

In Japan today, pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s are being actively reevaluated. This ED track is made in pursuit of the taste of those days. So in that context, it is one of the realizations of the latest trends.

It is cheap, sentimental, melodramatic, wet, sticky, and evocative of the smell of a stale and a sour atmosphere and ephemeral pleasures.

If I had to sum up my impression of it in one word, it would be “embarrassing.”
For older Japanese, this sound is like being touched on the delicate tissues, as if one's weaknesses, shame, and unwillingness to face the truth about oneself are being exposed.

It is a mahjong anime. In the 70s, when this kind of music was all over town, video games were still in their infancy, and mahjong sets were commonplace in the home. Like the retro songs, mahjong is now being touted again as “the best educational game for elementary school children.” The recent funny, healthy mahjong anime are driving this trend.

However, this series depicts the world of illegal gambling mahjong and outlaws in the age of smartphones. Although mahjong and illegal gambling should have nothing to do with each other, these associations are inseparable.
There are bare desires and emotions at stake.

Mahjong is a world-wide game. Although the setting is Japan, the characters are mostly can only be described as “nationality: underworld,” those who related to international criminal organizations.
For Japanese viewers, the feature that the main character is a Japanese boy is a good starting point for emotional involvement, but even so, as the series progresses, his screwed-up gambler's true nature is revealed, we nearly happen to sway out of the course by the no-return thrills.
It is almost as if we no longer care about whether something is with Japan or not.

In such a dizzying and unusual circumstance, this song grabs our hearts from our ears and could be a killer tune that “stabs” only to the Japanese losers who cling to the past.
If you are swallowed by this song, you may already be one on this side of the world.

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