Masterpieces of poignant anime songs. Recommended popular tracks.

Message of RougeArai Yumi

Rouge's Message – Yumi Arai (Yumi Matsutoya) (Full)

Rouge no Dengon is a famous early song by Yumi Arai.

The song was used as a theme in Studio Ghibli’s smash-hit anime Kiki’s Delivery Service.

It’s a lively love song that makes you want to dance, but when you read the lyrics, the content is actually very heartbreaking.

WALTZryūgūjō

WALTZ

Guided by a waltz-like, otherworldly melody, this is a fleeting yet beautiful song.

As the first installment of Ryūgū-jō’s anime tie-in projects, it will be released in April 2025.

It has been chosen as the ending theme for the anime Black Butler: The Green Witch Arc.

Its poetic, multilayered worldbuilding and dramatically unfolding soundscape are all captivating and immersive.

Producer Ave-chan’s deft touch truly shines here.

It’s a track that makes you feel as if you’ve slipped into a different world from the one you know.

My Neighbor TotoroInoue Azumi

♪ My Neighbor Totoro / Azumi Inoue

Azumi Inoue’s “My Neighbor Totoro” is a song that is especially popular among young children.

It’s the theme song of the well-known Studio Ghibli hit anime “My Neighbor Totoro,” and it’s often heard being sung cheerfully by children at kindergartens and nursery schools.

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It’s the ending theme of Anohana.

Like the anime itself, the lyrics are heartrending and moving.

The simple, unadorned vocals further heighten the sorrow, and it brings me to tears.

I can’t help but see my own childhood in it.

I think it’s a top-tier song in the “moving/tear-jerker” category.

single bedSha ran Q

Sharam Q “Single Bed” (Music Video)

This heartbreak song is extremely well-known and hugely popular, but in fact it was used as the ending theme for the anime “D·N·A²: Aitsu no Daiji na Aitsu” (DNA² ~Aitsu no Daiji na Aitsu~).

The lyrics, which express a poignant male perspective on heartbreak, are very striking.

Just one wishKomatsu Miho

Detective Conan ED - Only One Wish - Miho Komatsu - Detective Conan Ending

Because we fell in love, the breakup hurts all the more.

This is a heartrending breakup song that gives voice to emotions that well up uncontrollably.

It’s a track by Miho Komatsu, a singer-songwriter from Hyogo Prefecture, released in 1998 as her third single.

Chosen as an ending theme for the anime Detective Conan, it became a hit.

Many of you might feel a wave of nostalgia when you listen to it.

Perhaps it’s the arrangement and the overall tone, but somehow… the image of a setting sun drifts across my mind.

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This is the song that was used as the ending theme for the anime Anohana.

No matter when I listen to it, I feel a pang of sadness.

It really feels like the end of summer…