A Fragmented World (feat. Arai Akino)

Mirai Kodai Orchestra, known for "Wasureji no Kotonoha (Forgotten Words)" with over 100 million viral streams on YouTube, presents their highly anticipated single, "A Fragmented World." The guest vocalist is Akino Arai, a singer-songwriter who has graced countless anime and game works, and who helped pioneer the very current of "fantasy vocals" with her dreamlike musical world: a true wellspring of that lineage.

For Mirai Kodai Orchestra, a unit that inherits the legacy of Japanese game music and weaves "fictional ethnic music" under the concept of "Ancient Music of a Millennium Hence," drawing from ethnic traditions across the world, this collaboration with Akino Arai stands as a declaration of the lineage they themselves carry forward.

What is mere "trash" to one person can be an irreplaceable treasure to another. Knowing that all things will someday be lost and fade away, one still walks on, holding what cannot be thrown away. This is a song for those who chose not the freedom of having nothing, but the act of carrying something. Akino Arai's delicate voice gently scoops up the sorrow of loss, and the faint hope flickering within it.

"Let us live together, in this trash heap we call a world." A prayer-like ballad that longs to keep living, even within a perishing world.