Emo songs recommended for junior high school students: A roundup of classic and popular Japanese tracks!
There are moments when anyone feels like laying their sadness and sorrow directly over music.
Especially in middle school, emotions are delicate, and you’re often drawn to lyrics that sink into your heart or melodies tinged with melancholy.
Songs that stay close to those feelings—so-called “yami songs” (songs steeped in emotional pain)—can be precious sources of empathy and comfort.
This time, from tracks with fragile sensitivity to more intense songs that cut deep into the heart, we’re introducing yami songs recommended for middle schoolers.
You’re sure to find a track that resonates with your heart.
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Recommended emo songs for junior high students: A roundup of iconic and popular Japanese tracks (31–40)
Dawn BeatFujifaburikku
Dawn Beat, known as an insert song in dramas and films.
If you’re truly feeling that your current situation is the dead of night, why not listen to it to fire yourself up before you take action, with hopes of breaking through? You just might make it through at full speed.
dancertsubakiya shijuusou
Student days can really throw your emotions into turmoil.
You might clash with your parents or friends and feel shredded inside.
There may be times when you feel like you’re just being made to dance in someone else’s hand.
But in reality, there are times when you’re the one dragging the other person around.
By the time you realize it, though, it might be too late.
Fight! What for!? For life!Kinniku Shoujo Tai
Inside the classroom, it’s a girls’ war.
Entrance exam study is a death match.
Every day, to defend their own positions, the girls wage survival-strategy battles, phones in hand.
Listening to these repeated words, isn’t this the perfect track to prep for tomorrow’s fight?
ANTI-HEROSEKAI NO OWARI
Famous as a movie theme song.
Those on the dark side are probably engrossed in it, aren’t they? Even the destruction carried out to maintain balance seems understandable when you’re listening to this track.
What is it that you must protect? Be careful not to get your priorities wrong.
idolYOASOBI
YOASOBI’s songs are loved by a wide range of generations! This particular track was used as the opening theme for the TV anime “Oshi no Ko,” so it’s been a huge talking point.
With a 166 BPM technopop sound composed by Ayase layered with ikura’s clear, crystalline vocals, it’s incredibly catchy.
The lyrics portray both the strength and vulnerability of being an idol, as well as the desire to be loved and to love, and they’re sure to resonate with listeners.
Since its release in June 2023, it’s become popular among many middle school students.
It’s a perfect song to listen to on the way to school or to sing at karaoke.
Be sure to give it a listen!
Recommended “yami” songs for junior high schoolers: A roundup of classic and popular Japanese tracks! (41–50)
Easy★RiderOkuda Tamio
A song I want to keep on a page of my precious youth.
Even when we run into difficulties, how will we overcome them together with our friends? I believe that, later in life, how we solve problems becomes crucial.
Value balance in everything, envision a future that’s not overly greedy, and make it yours.
You don’t listen to rock.aimyon
A coming-of-age song released in September 2017 by singer-songwriter Aimyon.
Told from a male perspective, this portrayal of the ache of unrequited love became a major hit, receiving heavy rotation on radio and surpassing 100 million streams.
Moments like trying to share music on a dust-covered record evoke a heartfelt desire to convey feelings through rock.
Aimyon herself is said to have written the song after being deeply moved by a Spitz concert.
It’s the kind of track that will stir your emotions even more when you hear it at a school or cultural festival.
A must-listen for students who feel the frustration of not being able to get their feelings across to someone they like.