[Ajikan] A roundup of ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION’s popular songs [Latest & Classics]

UnderstandASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION

Understand – ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION

It’s a classic, crowd-pleasing rock tune at live shows.

The lyrics don’t come across as sentences so much as words that directly and honestly sink into your heart, and that word sense feels very ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION.

Easter / Resurrection FestivalASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION

ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION 'Easter / Resurrection Festival'

It’s a single released on March 18, 2015.

The lyrics are notable for telling people living in major cities like Tokyo that they can do whatever they want.

While laced with irony, the song also carries a desire for listeners to recognize what truly matters.

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ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION 'Blackout'

This is a song included on the album “Fanclub,” released on March 15, 2006.

It’s a song that sounds an alarm to people who, with the spread of cell phones and television, can now obtain all kinds of information through images and sound, yet fail to realize that they haven’t actually experienced or understood it.

Loop & LoopASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION

ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION “Loop & Loop”

It’s the fourth single, released on May 19, 2004.

It was used in the SUZUKI “Choinori” commercial and as the theme song for the Yomiuri TV drama “Dame Nari!” It’s a song for people who, despite repeated doubts and inner conflicts, are trying to move forward.

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moonlight

A four-piece band, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, who built a new standard for Japanese rock on a foundation of emo and alternative rock.

This track appears on their 2006 album “Fanclub,” and is notable for its piano intro that quotes a classical masterpiece.

Though it runs over six minutes and twenty seconds, its dramatic structure—shifting from silence to intense sound—draws you in so completely that it never feels long.

The lyrics, which evoke the stillness after a sudden downpour and the loneliness of harboring feelings that don’t reach their destination, seep deeply into the listener’s heart.

Embracing a sense of loss while striving to live on, the song is imbued with earnest emotion.

If you sing it with feeling in its subdued atmosphere, it’s sure to leave a profound afterglow in the air.

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ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION 'Haruka Kanata'

A track included on the album “Houkai Amplifier,” released on November 25, 2002.

It was used as the opening theme for the TV Tokyo anime “NARUTO.” The song is memorable for its cool, fast-paced melody and lyrics about giving your all to convey your feelings to someone special.

After DarkASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION

ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION 'After Dark'

It’s a single released on November 7, 2007.

It was used as the seventh opening theme for the anime Bleach.

The song seems to urge someone who feels powerless in the face of the tragedies happening around the world to “take action.” The music video has a unique premise: when the main character, a salaryman, wakes up in the morning, wings have grown on his back.