karanoah Made you the Villain of Their New Song

Everyone's lost an argument with themselves. karanoah (カラノア) just turned that exact feeling into a song, and handed it to a samurai anime as its new ending theme.

"ばけもん Bakemon" is the official second-season ending theme for TV anime Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers. The refrain "Bakemon vs Bakemon" literally translates to monster against monster, but karanoah isn't writing about two different creatures fighting. They're writing the same conflict from both sides at once, protagonist and adversary, hero and villain, running the same emotional script without either one realising it. That's a far harder song to pull off than a standard character theme, and a far more interesting one to sit with.

It earns the drama. Traditional flutes, Wadaiko drums and sword-slashing samples get pulled straight from the show's world, then dropped into a modern arrangement sharpened by karanoah's own audio-slicing production style, dense, fast, built to move. Loose, conversational phrasing runs underneath all of it instead of the usual grand character-song language, which is what keeps the whole thing feeling like a real person talking, not a theme song performing at you.

The rollout isn't stopping at the song. A music video for "ばけもん Bakemon" lands 14 July, and karanoah isn't stopping there either: the band just confirmed their one-man live show in a while, also titled "Bakemon vs Bakemon", on 23 September at Shinjuku SAMURAI, a venue picked deliberately because Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers is set in Shinjuku. Title and location, locked together on purpose.

Whichever side of the fight you're on, karanoah's betting you'll recognise it.