Hidden gems of Japanese love songs. Recommended popular tracks.
If you’re starting to feel that the love songs you always listen to aren’t quite enough anymore, why not try some hidden gems?
I’m sure you’re very familiar with the songs that make it onto the hit charts.
But what about everything else?
There are surprisingly many songs by artists you know that you just haven’t listened to yet.
So in this article, we’ve gathered hidden masterpieces of love songs that you should hear at least once.
You might just find a wonderful classic you didn’t know before somewhere on this list.
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Our world for twoaimyon
An early love song by Aimyon included on her first full album, “Seishun no Excitement.” Aimyon is known for her exquisite, modest metaphors, and the straightforward expressions in this song are also captivating.
The way it portrays ambiguity within brightness is superb, conveying the atmosphere and temperature of a relationship slipping into monotony.
When you spend time together, you inevitably see parts you’d rather not, but there are also kinds of happiness you can only see with that person.
EsperanzaNishino Kana
Esperanza, a hidden gem among love songs by one of the queens of the genre, Kana Nishino.
The cool, Spanish flair gives it a fresh feel that’s different from her usual sound! The title “Esperanza” means “hope” in Spanish.
The song’s protagonist falls for someone who already has a partner, and the hope she clings to is, of course, that he’ll turn his eyes toward her.
The lyrics convey a frustration-like feeling: what am I lacking compared to his girlfriend, and if I love him more, why won’t he come to me? The lyrics and melody are bolder than Nishino’s usual style, but those who’ve been in the same situation will probably find it highly relatable!
I can’t love anyone but you anymore.KinKi Kids
A classic love song by KinKi Kids that sings of a profound love for one person, carried by a beautiful piano melody.
Released as a double A-side single with “Natsu no Ousama” (“King of Summer”), this track was used as the opening theme for the drama Tenchi ga Kieta Machi, starring Koichi Domoto.
Many songs declare, “I’ll keep loving you no matter what,” but this one goes even further, expressing a love even greater than that.
It’s a love on a global—no, cosmic—scale.
A number that will surely make you wish to be loved with such unwavering devotion.
Hidden gems of Japanese love songs. Recommended popular tracks (11–20)
About loveSuga Shikao
Suga Shikao’s love song “Ai ni Tsuite” can even feel like a marriage proposal.
It was one of two demo tracks he sent to a music production company before his major debut, and it became his fourth single, released about nine months after his debut.
While wondering what love really is in the end, he suggests that if the two of them could deepen their thoughts about it a bit more, they would surely be able to stay together forever.
He seems to waver between wanting to be together despite feeling anxious about living life as a pair, and being overwhelmed by that very anxiety.
Even so, the song overflows with a love that wishes to stay together until the very end.
There will be love there -A Place with Love-the brilliant green
A love song by the brilliant green, fronted by Tomoko Kawase, who also performs as Tommy february6 and Tommy heavenly6.
The lyrics convey a profound sense of love, expressing that being together with the person you cherish is, in itself, a place filled with love.
The song was used as the theme for the drama “Love Again,” starring Atsuro Watabe, and as the ending theme for episode 9 of the anime “ReLIFE.” It reflects the anxiety felt in the empty time until the next meeting, and the darkness one carries within.
Breaking free from such shadows, it expresses the desire to dedicate one’s love to a single person and live for them.
It’s a song that prompts you to rethink what it means to love someone.
A Tiny Love SongŌhara Sakurako
A number that played as an insert song in the film The Liar and His Lover, in which Sakurako Ohara herself appears as the heroine.
Included on the album HAPPY, this track portrays someone in love who, despite overflowing with affection, keeps a slight distance.
Even without saying the straightforward words “I love you” to the person who brought light to their life, the song is filled with an abundance of honest, overflowing love.
While hoping that their feelings will reach someday, they still put that person’s happiness first.
It’s a slightly bittersweet love song.
HallelujahMr.Children
A love song in which Sakurai conveys, through every expression uniquely his own, the vow to keep loving you for life, forever, no matter what happens.
It’s included on the 2000 album “Q.” It begins with a gentle, calm melody that, before you know it, swells and flows as if an overflowing love has been unleashed—beautifully evoking a boundless affection.
Even with age, even if something happens to the Earth, no matter what may come, the feelings for you will never change—I will go on loving you.
Encountering a love this immense is something we can only hope for!