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To someone who creates the visuals, a song's title is very important for deciding on an image. When I took on responsibility for this song, I first researched the meaning and composition of the character 禊 ("misogi") before starting on production. The modern "misogi," as used amusingly on television or YouTube, is often treated as a "reflection" or "punishment" for when you do something wrong. However, it was originally a Shinto ritual that used water to exorcise impurities. It's... it's burning... the flames of my desperate youth are burning! During my university days when I was working as an assistant to become a manga artist, I studied Shinto a little bit out of curiosity. I unraveled the materials from that time again and filled out the images. I took apart the kanji in “misogi”, looked up the meaning of each one, and spiced it up with a bit of fantasy. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that I put everything into the song's visuals to set up the characters with the kanji at the end. Since the song was put together very dramatically, I set out to make the visuals have a narrative-like structure overall. Despite being Japanese, the beginning is very fantasy-like. This too, is one of the elements of that.
To someone who creates the visuals, a song's title is very important for deciding on an image. When I took on responsibility for this song, I first researched the meaning and composition of the character 禊 ("misogi") before starting on production. The modern "misogi," as used amusingly on television or YouTube, is often treated as a "reflection" or "punishment" for when you do something wrong. However, it was originally a Shinto ritual that used water to exorcise impurities. It's... it's burning... the flames of my desperate youth are burning! During my university days when I was working as an assistant to become a manga artist, I studied Shinto a little bit out of curiosity. I unraveled the materials from that time again and filled out the images. I took apart the kanji in “misogi”, looked up the meaning of each one, and spiced it up with a bit of fantasy. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that I put everything into the song's visuals to set up the characters with the kanji at the end. Since the song was put together very dramatically, I set out to make the visuals have a narrative-like structure overall. Despite being Japanese, the beginning is very fantasy-like. This too, is one of the elements of that.


Please enjoy the cool, beautiful sounds of divine Japanese music to your heart's content.  
Please enjoy the cool, beautiful sounds of divine Japanese music to your heart's content.


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===【Appendix】===
===【Appendix】===
※The content is pretty dark, so read it only if you're interested!<br>
※The content is pretty dark, so read it only if you're interested!<br>
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