Odore (Dance)

[Lady Tatsh]

I generally don't go for this kind of song, but when I first heard it I got goosebumps. After a while I completely ignored the MoNoNoKe video that went with it and listened to the song.

The video in question (because it's pretty awesome too):

Odore (Dance)
By Micro

You dance over to my happiness
When you’re feeling melancholy I cry
There’s no stopping this loneliness
And I grieve at the unhappiness I find today again

But we’re not able to do anything
As feelings of helplessness assault us
The opposite of love isn’t hate
It’s resigning yourself to be indifferent

Dance, sadness
Move, take it all off
Dance, so you can protect it

When someone wins, someone else loses
When someone cries, someone else laughs
I’ll take down that system
I won’t stand for that, I’m for the justice

The devil inside me whispers
Muttering where no one can see
Weakening my sense of judgement
A heroic battle between good and evil, light and shadow

This day and age now is still in need of hope
Let’s go find that piece of our heart
Where is this star headed?
We’ll watch and judge with unclouded eyes

Other than people who’ve experienced
The anxiety of those who struggle and scream
No one else can ever understand
You may think “so what?”
But I just want to raise up in rank a little
So if you’re suffering to achieve that
Please share a little of that pain with me

Dance, sadness
Smile, go through it all
Dance, so you can make it there

For you, sweating single-mindedly
In a place where no one will notice you
Hooray, hooray, to your heart
Into the gray, gray cloudy sky

In this chaotic world
Even the fact that I met you
Strangely becomes a passing rain

Tomorrow, be a clear day

[Groks]

Wow...I really liked it! The music was amazing and the animation was beautiful. Roxie kept saying she wants to watch the series now while I was listening.

[Lady Tatsh]

I'm not even sure how I ran across the video, just that it caused me to spiral into MoNoTripping again XD I dug it up and found out it's an opening to a J-drama about... A restaurant!

As far as the video goes. It's definitely an awesome series. The pale man with the wavy hair is named Kusuri-uri, which is more of a joke because it means "Medicine Seller", but he doesn't have any other name so they call him that. He first showed up in the last three episodes of Ayakashi: Japanese Horror and because he was such a popular character he got his own series, MoNoNoKe.
Tell Roxie if she wants the episodes, I have them and would be more than willing to share ^^. The art style reminds me a lot of Ookami, and the concepts for the characters were done by Yo****aka Amano (the guy who did all the Final Fantasy concept work).