Hitsujibungaku share ‘Oshi No Ko’ theme ‘Burning’: “I wanted to inject the characters’ unfulfilled emotions into the song”
nme.comindie rockers Hitsujibungaku have shared with NME insights into their recent singles, including ‘Burning’, their brand-new ending theme to the second season of hit anime, Oshi No Ko.
Read on for the interview.Spearheaded by guitarist/bandleader Moeka Shiotsuka and steadily backed by drummer Hiroa Fukuda and bassist Yurika Kasai, the band first emerged in Tokyo’s indie rock underground over the late 2010s.
With Shiotsuka’s soaring, delicately expressive voice and an elegant, concise guitar-centric sound, they’ve established themselves as one of Japanese indie’s premier acts with releases like ‘Dear Youths’ and ‘Zawameki’.Following their signing to a Sony Music sublabel, the trio have gone from indie darlings to chart-scaling stars.
After gaining national attention with their Christmastime hit ‘1999’, the group gained steam with a slew of albums and anime themes – but none rivalled the splash generated by ‘More Than Words’, the band’s slow-burning ending theme of the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen.
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