"Homura" and Ukraine and Russia

Do you have a favorite song?

The song is good. It's the height of the culture that Lillin gave birth to.

And while chewing on the clichéd lines, the songs are so diverse.

Even if you listen to the same song, the way you feel may be completely different depending on the environment at that time. When you listen to a song that moved you to tears, there are times when tears that are completely different from the tears you shed at that time flow.

These are tears that have come from beyond even the will of the person who created the original song.

In other words, tears that arise only when the person who makes the song and the person who listens to the song come together.

This time, when I revisited a song, I thought about the tears I felt.

Hang out with Ossan's feelings.

Re-listen to "Homura"

My target this time is "Homura", the theme song of Demon Slayer Mugen Train.

No, it's such a major song that no one has heard it anymore.

if you listen to it normally, you will hear it as a song by two people, Tanjiro and Purgatory Kyojuro.

Certainly, I think that the lyrics of No. 1 are traced to the words of Tanjiro
The lyrics of No. 2 are traced to the words of Kyojuro.

Purgatory, and I think that the song was actually written with that in mind. On the premise that that understanding exists. Why don't you listen to it again?

In light of the situation in Ukraine.

Imagining the Battle in Ukraine

I think you feel it in the news every day, but I think that the people who continue to fight in Ukraine are not only Ukrainian people, but also Russian people are spending their time with very intense emotions.

When we hear the stories of the generations of people who have experienced war firsthand, I think we can feel a kind of awe.

There must have been people in our predecessors who were exposed to the scorching emotions that we could only experience in our imaginations.

Almost certainly. In the face of that overwhelming presence, we have no choice but to bow down. Because I've never had that feeling.
That's why we desperately imagine the emotions of people who have experienced the situation of war.

I want to understand that person.

Destroyed and exhausted buildings behind the monitors.
Corpses that can only be left miserably neglected.
An injured child and an old man.
Those truly harrowing landscapes are enough to inflict anger, sadness and suffering on us at the same time.

Listening to "Homura" with imagination

And, then.

I listen to it with that cruel imagination.

"Homura"

What does it sound like?

Can't you see?
Soldiers who believe in the future of Ukraine and are fighting.

Can't you see?
The bewilderment of the Russian soldiers who were brought to the battlefield for no apparent reason.

Can't you see?
The image of an old man witnessing a soldier who gave his life for them.

Can't you see?
A single irreplaceable world that is crumbling with a thud.

Anymore. I can't stop crying.

We're not.
I don't think I was really interested in Ukraine.
I think there were some people who were doing research as experts, but I think that the people who Japan directly interacted with people in Ukraine and Russia were in the minority.

I think there are people who have something to do with Russian people, but I think they are an overwhelming minority compared to people who interact with the United States and China.

This is despite the fact that Russia is a neighboring country.
The Internet is supposed to connect the whole world, but we still can't even imagine what kind of people in the world are thinking and in what way.

I think there are probably a lot of people in Japan who wouldn't even know where Ukraine was if it weren't for the current situation.

That's why our imagination is sadly poor.
That's why. Shouldn't we listen to "Homura" now?
"In order to move forward "to the far end.

What do you think?

Do you think we can use the power of music to think about a lot of people?