IA - The Garden of Beginnings (始まりの庭)

Headphones highly recommended for the superb instrumentality. Tie-in with a novel project here ( It’s not done, so I don’t know the meaning behind everything in the song, either. The only salient facts are that it’s a polluted world uninhabitable for humans, with an android city called (surprise!) Eden. The boy, Haru, is looking for the person who saved his life, and in the process finds himself a wanted criminal. And the whole origin was probably triggered by a scientist who wanted to protect something very dear to him/her, and paid a price for it, hoping it was the right decision. Lyrics, Composition, Arrangement, Bass, Mix, Mastering: Mashiro Shirakami (白神真志朗) Guitar: Nanou (ナノウ) Drums: Yumao (ゆーまお) Drum Recordings: Tamanoi Mitsunori (玉乃井光紀) Illustration: Yori (ヨリ) Movie: YumaSaito Special Thanks to Jin/Shizen-no-Teki-P (じん（自然の敵P）) and Shimizu Junichi (清水準一) (Cocorono Beat Studio). Reprinted from Nico Nico Douga (hajimari no niwa): Off-vocal: