This song topped my rewind for the year I rediscovered it and probably will again. It has a feeling of.. incredible vastness? Without the cozy comfort you can usually find. I really associate it with storms, and a feeling of abandonment when you’re caught in one on a big road or at the airport, where I always already feel lost and overwhelmed. You know that something is off this time, in this situation, but it’s so bright you can’t figure out why that is. And then it’s already over. Also, I’ve lived this story. In the official English captions there’s an argument in the second verse about holding onto pain to find a brighter future past it, and that is.. the exact same argument I had with my single closest childhood friend, right down to our roles matching one of the characters consistently through the whole song. We had this huge collaborative world that completely filled my consciousness at the time, and it was pretty rough when things fell apart between us. We had known for a long time before that we were very different people and it probably wasn’t fated to end well, but we kept going. It really does capture that “Inevitable (?)” quality.
I learned about this song after I just put a yt recommendation playlist with vocaloid songs when I was pretty sick from pneumonia. And I was mostly listenning for rus covers of the songs, like Party Party, Monster, Vampire or Bitter Choco Decoration. I was still able to recognize songs, but all was just a bit too mushy for me to remember them. When I got better, I was even more into music than before, and yt recommendations from that sickness time actually helped. I found a lot of songs and authors, like Ado, Syudou, Kanaria, etc big figures. But I remembered one song in particualr. And it was Inabakumori's. I remember that the thing that caught me was the animation. Remade animation. I got to Lagtrain through russian cover by Sati Akura, and I listen to both to this day for over a year now. I feel like they are the 2 differenr songs. They have different, but similar and great energy. Original always felt to me like much more melancholic and tame piece, and the cover changed some instruments and added a fricking guitar that also made a huge solo in the middle of the song, and I really enjoyed that come together to create even more catchy and joyful song, combined with an anmazing voice of Sati that still made the song melancholic in a way that she feels much more lost in the fast world that the song refers to? Idk. But I just can't stop thinking that that cover is eprfect. That cover really feels like Lost Umbrella to be honest, which is also an incredible song. Sati Akura spun the song in a way that made it feel different, but still recognizable and just as great as the original. And I would like for others to give that cover a listen. Cuz it is damn good.
I came across this video about a year ago, and it has caused me to be absolutely obsessed with J-pop. I found both ippo.tsk and harumaki gohan through your videos and they've become my favorite artits. Thank you for making this video, i don't think i would have found either of those artists without it!
The second of lagtrain that I could try to make a 10 minute analysis of is the slight dissonance/pitch shifting at the end of the last bridge before the final chorus. (It starts with "nai") it's just beautiful
Tbh what I love about inabakumori is its perfect melancholy literally everything in their songs makes me remember my love for rain the greyness of songs the sad tone some songs were even about the rain nothing reminds me of rain as much as inabakumori it's like a silent sorrow kinda sad but not too much
Thank you so much for mentioning additional memory, I started listening to it and now it is in my top 2 songs all time. The ado cover of it was also pretty good, but i think it was to high pitched.
