Learn Japanese with Ado
6 sets · 194 words · meanings in English
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Singles 2024–2025. Between the album Zanmu and her 2025 greatest-hits release, Ado put out five standalone singles: "初夏", the Hatsune Miku collaboration "桜日和とタイムマシン", "Episode X", "エルフ" and "わたしに花束". They are her most direct songs — thanking someone, admitting frustration, asking to be told what to do. This set gathers the everyday vocabulary of that stretch: yesterday and tomorrow, courage and resolve, searching, changing, and saying goodbye.
Zanmu, Part 2. The back half of Zanmu (残夢) runs from the warmth of the drama theme "向日葵" through Natori's late-night "MIRROR" and the USJ dance song "唱" to the album's closing "0", written by 椎乃味醂 after a conversation with Ado about how she was actually doing. The vocabulary turns inward here: pain and waking up, lies and worth, contradiction and prayer, and the plain words for looking, blooming and getting tired.
Zanmu, Part 1. Zanmu (残夢), Ado's second album from 2024, is her most tie-up-heavy record: the first half alone holds the SPY×FAMILY opening "クラクラ", the film insert "リベリオン", a Lotte chocolate campaign song and a late-night radio drama theme. The register swings from Pinocchio-P's self-mocking "アタシは問題作" to the quiet exhaustion of "抜け空". This set covers what those songs are made of — crying and accepting things, protecting and surrendering, freedom, fate and nerves.
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