Yuransen Interview: Stepping Confidently into Adulthood with Their Latest Release

A Growing Urge to Connect from Childhood to Adulthood

The album begins with “Intro: Good Morning, This Is a Navigation to Nowhere” and closes with “Waiting for the Sun (Reprise),” essentially reversing the structure of your previous album MY REVOLUTION, which opened with “Waiting for the Sun” and ended with “Good Morning.” Also, the lyrics of “Tabun Akuma ga” seem to connect thematically with “Waiting for the Sun,” giving a sense of continuity and story across the album. Was this structure something you planned from the beginning of production?

Uchimura: That flow wasn’t set from the very start of production.

Motomura: Right. It was actually Sunai’s idea around the midpoint of making the album. So while the connection to the previous release is clear, the reasoning behind it is something only Sunai can explain [laughs]. What’s unusual about this album is that we didn’t really share these conceptual ideas among the members very much.

Uchimura: Exactly. The “ambiguity” theme I mentioned earlier didn’t appear until after we finished recording the vocals. I knew that the chorus of “Tabun Akuma ga” connected to “Waiting for the Sun,” but I didn’t realize the A-section lyrics were also linked. A lot of it happened unconsciously. And the idea to end the album with “Waiting for the Sun (Reprise)” came from Sunai too. We finalized the track order toward the end of recording and recorded that final track in one take on the last studio day. After that, Sunai stepped back and looked at the album from the outside, reflecting in a self-critical way, thinking, “So what exactly was this album about?”

Motomura: Sunai is a fascinating person. He’s a creator, but he also has a critical eye and a wide range of perspectives. Even if the person making something isn’t aware of it, he can see connections to history or to the place it was born — what you might call a “meta perspective.” He can make those unseen connections visible.

Because Sunai took the role of overseeing the whole, the album ended up with that perspective strongly present. If everyone worked from that meta view, it probably wouldn’t be as compelling. But in Yuransen, some members take a meta approach while others dive deeply into the creative process — that balance is really characteristic of the band.

If we imagine MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE having a protagonist, how do you think that character has changed from MY REVOLUTION to this album? I’d love to hear both of your thoughts.

Motomura: I think the revolution probably happened in the previous album, but the protagonist hadn’t yet reached a truly optimistic place. MY REVOLUTION had a somewhat unreal, fantastical foundation. This album still has surreal elements, but I feel it’s much more grounded in reality.

So, if I had to answer, “How has the protagonist changed?” I’d say they’ve grown up. Time has moved forward. But even as time passes, the protagonist stays “there,” waiting for something. They’re passive in that sense. There’s a sense of waiting, and I really like that.

What about you, Uchimura?

Uchimura: Yeah… the song “Childhood’s End” expresses a feeling of, “I’ve reached 30, it’s about time.” It’s like saying, “My childhood is over.” Sunai composed this song, and when he gave me the melody, these lyrics naturally emerged. I hadn’t set out to write them that way, but I was kind of pleased thinking, “Oh, so this is the kind of words that come out of me now.”

Motomura: It feels very real. I think it’s about how life just keeps moving forward.

Uchimura: Yeah, I’d say it has a strong sense of reality.

The track after “Childhood’s End” is “Letter to Flowers.” The album cover also features a bouquet—what does the motif of “flowers” mean in the context of this album?

Uchimura: Ah… ultimately, it’s more like something you give to someone. Even before we started production, we talked about wanting to make something open, something that could be shared. Musically, it didn’t end up exactly like that, but we wanted the album to feel airy and transparent, as if it had been recorded in one take.

Motomura: And tying back to what we were saying about social awareness, I think compared to our previous works, there’s a stronger feeling of wanting to reach out, to send something outward. In that sense, flowers as something to give or send naturally connect to this album.

Uchimura: Exactly. I think that desire to “deliver” is something that has grown within the band itself.

Yuransen 3rd Album『MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE』

Release Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025
CD Price: ¥3,300 (tax included)
Catalog Number: KAKU-223
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Tracklist (13 tracks):
1 Intro: Good Morning, This Is a Navigation to Nowhere
2 Tabun Akuma ga
3 Departure
4 Crack Up!
5 Shōsō
6 Blue Line
7 Carry Me to Heaven (Accelerated)
8 Thank God I’m in Heaven, or Transmission from Behind the Moon
9 How dare you?
10 after nightfall
11 Childhood’s End
12 Letter to Flowers
13 Waiting for the Sun (Reprise)