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Anew, Part 1
あにゅー / Anew (2025) is the band's most recent album and its most argumentative in years. Meidai stages the age as a courtroom - 原告, 被告, 横行, もぬけの殻 - DASAI DAZAI runs on probabilities and losing well (降水確率, 駆け引き, 美学), and Tamamono piles up the reference-shelf words: 統計学, 占星術, 参考文献, 道理.
Vocabulary
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 幼気 | innocent and touching, pitiably young (いたいけ) | 幼気な子犬が箱に入っていた。A pitiably small puppy was in the box. |
| 狂気 | madness, insanity (きょうき) | その計画には狂気じみたところがある。There's something deranged about that plan. |
| 稀 | rare, seldom (まれ) | これほどの大雪は稀だ。Snow this heavy is rare. |
| 横行 | running rampant, being widespread (おうこう) | 偽情報が横行している。Disinformation is running rampant. |
| もぬけの殻 | empty, completely deserted (もぬけのから) | 部屋はもぬけの殻だった。The room was completely deserted. |
| 開き直り | brazening it out, turning defiant (ひらきなおり) | 彼の開き直りには呆れた。I was appalled at how he brazened it out. |
| 輪廻 | the cycle of death and rebirth (りんね) | 輪廻の考え方は文化によって違う。Ideas about rebirth differ by culture. |
| 神隠し | being spirited away (かみかくし) | その村には神隠しの伝説がある。That village has a legend of people being spirited away. |
| 端的 | direct, to the point (たんてき) | 端的に言うと予算が足りない。Put bluntly, the budget is short. |
| 両想い | mutual love, being in love with each other (りょうおもい) | 二人はようやく両想いになった。The two finally found their feelings were mutual. |
| 片想い | unrequited love (かたおもい) | 三年間の片想いがようやく実った。Three years of unrequited love finally paid off. |
| 犠牲 | a sacrifice, a cost paid (ぎせい) | 多くの犠牲の上に成り立っている。It rests on many sacrifices. |
| 名言 | a famous saying, a memorable line (めいげん) | その一言は名言として残った。That remark survived as a famous saying. |
| 瓦礫 | rubble, debris (がれき) | 地震で街は瓦礫の山になった。The earthquake reduced the town to piles of rubble. |
| 廃墟 | ruins, a derelict building (はいきょ) | 廃墟となった工場を撮影した。I photographed the derelict factory. |
| 心意気 | spirit, willingness, pluck (こころいき) | その心意気は買いたい。I do appreciate that spirit. |
| 美学 | aesthetics, one's sense of style (びがく) | 彼には彼なりの美学がある。He has an aesthetic of his own. |
| 駆け引き | manoeuvring, bargaining (かけひき) | 交渉には駆け引きがつきものだ。Negotiation always involves manoeuvring. |
| 埋もれる | to be buried, to languish unnoticed (うもれる) | 才能が埋もれたままだ。The talent remains buried. |
| 歓喜 | delight, jubilation (かんき) | 優勝に会場は歓喜に包まれた。The venue was wrapped in jubilation at the win. |
| ふさがる | to be closed up, to be blocked | 傷がようやくふさがってきた。The wound is finally closing up. |
| 慌てふためく | to be thrown into a panic (あわてふためく) | 知らせを聞いて慌てふためいた。They panicked on hearing the news. |
| 丸呑み | swallowing whole, taking in uncritically (まるのみ) | 蛇が卵を丸呑みにした。The snake swallowed the egg whole. |
| 惰性 | inertia, force of habit (だせい) | 惰性で続けているだけだ。I'm only carrying on out of habit. |
| 華麗 | splendid, dazzling (かれい) | 華麗な演技に見とれた。I was captivated by the dazzling performance. |
| 反逆 | rebellion, revolt (はんぎゃく) | 彼は権威への反逆を試みた。He attempted a revolt against authority. |
| 統計学 | statistics (as a discipline) (とうけいがく) | 大学で統計学を学んでいる。I'm studying statistics at university. |
| 道理 | reason, logic, what stands to reason (どうり) | 彼の言い分にも道理がある。There is reason in his argument too. |
| 一か八か | all or nothing, taking a chance (いちかばちか) | 一か八かやってみることにした。I decided to chance it. |
| 尻尾 | a tail (しっぽ) | 猫が尻尾を立てて近づいてきた。The cat came over with its tail up. |
| 爆音 | a roar, blaring sound (ばくおん) | 爆音で音楽を流していた。They were blaring music. |
| 生き延びる | to survive, to live on (いきのびる) | 厳しい冬を生き延びた。They survived a harsh winter. |
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