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Tired As Hell (Itadori Yuji Playlist)
Somehow Yuji's playlist ended up hurting my heart, but maybe that's just because I know the context. Manga SPOILERS ahead.
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1. Heart ni Hi wo Tsukete ("Light a Fire in Your Heart") - 9mm Parabellum Bullet
Chosen by Gege Akutami. Oof, sounds like being trapped with Sukuna.
So light it aflame,
light my heart aflame,
so this'll never disappear again.
Burn the loneliness,
burn the secrets,
won't they turn to ash,
won't they turn to ash,
see?
You and I are stuck to each other,
bound tightly together,
we just simply can't be alone.
You and I are stuck to each other,
lying to each other,
two tongues tangling up, deeper into the night.
2. Remember the Name - Fort Minor
First and foremost, Yuji is a kickass shonen protag.
This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name
3. Cursed - Codeko
Always feeling like I'm different
Is there a cure for my condition, can't find one
Cause I'm cursed
Yeah I'm cursed [...]
///
I've learned to laugh at myself,
But I'm getting tired as hell,
I'm bad at asking for help, even when I need it
Every day, it goes the same,
Feels like, I can't catch a break
I'll try again tomorrow
4. lies - Sion
Getting a mix of Sukuna toying with Yuji even while Yuji is just. suffering.
Tell me a lie I can believe
'Cause everything you say right now seems like gibberish to me (la, la)
///
Are you afraid that I would harm you if you tell me you would leave
Na-na-na oh, leave, na-na-na
Tell me a lie for my relief
Could you stop being ruthless stepping right onto my deepest points?
5. Bring Me to Life x Just the Two of Us - The Gregory Brothers
A mashup that gives Evanescence a nice upbeat fluttery feeling. (Mashup is not available on Spotify so it's pure angst on the Spotify playlist.)
(Wake me up) wake me up inside
(I can't wake up) wake me up inside
(Save me) call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up) bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up) before I come undone
(Save me) save me from the nothing I've become
6. Itadori - roseboi
7. New Invention (feat. Tessa Violet) - IDKHOW
Kenjaku made Yuji after all.
The girl is like an architect
And I am just a new invention
I am just a new invention
I am just a new invention
You've got to choose between your faces
Feels like you're running out of holy places
And now the room is getting quiet (shh)
Oh, what a shame
Nobody taught you how to read and riot
Oh, bless my soul
I'm losing control
8. bury a friend - Billie Eilish
Shibuya arc இ௰இ
Step on the glass, staple your tongue (Ahh)
Bury a friend, try to wake up (Ahh-ha)
Cannibal class, killin' the son (Ahh)
Bury a friend, I wanna end me
I wanna end me
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna end me
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna–
What do you want from me?
Why don't you run from me?
What are you wondering?
What do you know?
Why aren't you scared of me?
Why do you care for me?
When we all fall asleep, where do we go?
9. Strawberry Fields Forever - Jim Sturgess
When Yuji regains consciousness after Sukuna wrecked Shibuya.
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
10. Happy Endings (feat. iann dior and UPSAHL) - Mike Shinoda
Did Yuji's grandpa put a curse on him? Why'd he get a hero complex? ┗( T﹏T )┛
Hey, at least in my mind
I'm feelin' like I'm the hero that saves me
There, I hold my head high
Get everything right
Delusional maybe
If I'm pretending, why not write happy endings?
Where I'm better than we both know I could be, oh
Still, at least in my mind
I'm feelin' like I'm the hero that saves me
11. overwhelmed - Royal & the Serpent
I say this playlist came out more angsty than I expected. It's all because of Yuji's subtle self-loathing post-Shibuya I've been picking at here.
I get overwhelmed so easily
My anxiety creeps inside of me
Makes it hard to breathe
What's come over me?
Feels like I'm somebody else
12. Would Look Perfect (feat. Rxseboy) - Powfu
Yuji, prone to loneliness. Despite Yuji being Yuji, a warm extrovert, ride or die friend, he doesn't appear to have really fit in back home?
See you with your friend group, lonely like I always am
Gave a silent wave but, I don't think you noticed it
Thinkin' of what happened as I continue my walk
I grew up in this town, but somehow I'm feelin' lost
Wishin' I was cool, why does everybody fit in?
13. XO Tour Lif3 - Lil Uzi Vert
All my friends are dead, push me to the edge
All my friends are dead, yuh, push me to the edge
All my friends are dead, yuh, all my friends are dead, yuh
14. Fight Again - Chica, Hiroaki Tsutsumi
JJK season 1 OST
15. Occult Phenomenon - Paranom, Aztech, Hiroaki Tsutsumi
JJK season 1 OST
16. Your Battle Is My Battle - Chica, Hiroaki Tsutsumi
JJK season 1 OST
17. Learn The Lesson - Kasper, Aztech, Hiroaki Tsutsumi
JJK season 1 OST
18. Kimi wa Dekinai Ko ("You're a Useless Child") - Kikuo
Yuji to himself.
You are a useless, useless useless child
The most useless child in the whole world
///
La la la
Monster, ghost, invisible human
A vase, an urinal, being truant
With a dry mouth, under your breath
You utter slander
Let's listen to the monotone squeal
Yet months and days pass and pass
You're a child with not enough time nor brains
Now it's too late, you're mentally retarded
You cute child, good child, you belong to me
19. Boys Will Be Bugs - Cavetown
Back before he realized he was just a cog, Yuji was the typical teenage boy.
I'm a dumb teen boy
I eat sticks and rocks and mud
I don't care about the government
And I really need a hug
I feel stupid (stupid), ugly (ugly)
Pretend it doesn't bother me
I'm not very strong, but
I'll fuck you up if you're mean to bugs
///
Just turned 14
And I think this year I'm gonna be mean
Just turned 14
And I think I know everything
Just turned 14
And I think this year I'm gonna be mean
Just turned 14
And I think the world revolves around me
Don't mess with me, I'm a big boy now, and I'm very scary
I punch my walls, stay out at night, and I do karate
20. Two Face - Jack Daniels
A little more literal with Sukuna.
Lately, I've been talking with a ghost
He tells me all the places I should go
He makes me paint my face so that I know
That I'm not the only person in my soul
He tells me that a monster lives inside
And when it gets too angry I should hide
'Cause if I were to try to pick a fight
I would barely stand a chance and I'd die
21. Nosedive - BoyWithUke
I was thinking of Nanami at first, but the vibe was more from a young adult. Well, Yuji's bound to have picked up some things from him.
We're all grown up, we're all so lost
Nothin' has prepped us for this life
It's like we don't know why
Nosediving from the high
22. idtwcbf (friends) - BoyWithUke
Regrets on Megumi, what happened, etc. There's also an asura/mythological vibe I'm digging.
I just wanna stop, had enough, out of love and out of luck
I don't wanna give a fuck about my feels, dulls enough
Emotionally uninvested, resting for the day to come
Try my hardest not to run away from everything I've done
But I'm looking back, ignoring facts
I see two moon, but walk six paths
Inside my head, I'm going mad for you (Oh, oh)
23. A Better Son/Daughter - Rilo Kiley
Yuji, his feelings, and his mom.
Sometimes in the morning, I am petrified and can't move
Awake, but cannot open my eyes
And the weight is crushing down on my lungs, I know I can't breathe
And hope someone will save me this time
And your mother's still calling you insane and high
Swearing it's different this time
And you tell her to give in to the demons that possess her
And that God never blessed her insides
Then you hang up the phone and feel badly for upsetting things
Crawl back into bed to dream of a time
When your heart was open wide, and you loved things just because
Like the sick and the dying
24. Hope - XXXTENTACION
Tired but hopeful.
Said I wanna die, yuh
No, I'm not alright, yuh
I might start a riot
I'm so fuckin' tired, yuh
So what's up? What you say?
Feelin' good, I'm feelin' great
Tired of the fuckin' hate
Stackin' cheese all on my plate
So outside of my misery, I think I'll find
A way of envisioning a better life
For the rest of us, the rest of us
There's hope for the rest of us, the rest of us
25. Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
Wasn't sure to include this. Honestly, you can't forget that even after all the misery Yuji goes through, in the end he pushes through with his unrelenting ability to shake it off.
But I keep cruisin'
Can't stop, won't stop groovin'
It's like I got this music in my mind
Sayin' it's gonna be alright
26. Stressed Out - Twenty One Pilots
Ugh, that scene where the first-year trio is just hanging out and Nobara spills coffee on Gojo's shirt-- then the hard cut to Nobara dead is devastating EVERY TIME.
Wish we could turn back time
To the good old days
When our mama sang us to sleep
But now we're stressed out (oh)
27. SAD (Clap Your Hands) - Young Rising Sons
Continuing on a more upbeat tune. Todo coming to Yuji's help in Shibuya.
If you're sad and you know it
And you don't want to show it
Clap your hands
If you are sad, that's okay
You can clap it all away
Just clap your hands
Come clap your hands
We're all a little sad
28. mercy - KING MALA
Aaand back to the self-hatred. Because things just got worse post-Shibuya.
I've been getting so tired
Starting so many fires
I always find a way to burn
Now I'm begging for mercy
From everyone that I've wronged
I've done more harm than I thought
///
I'm begging mercy
Is there any good inside of me?
29. Antarctica - $uicideboy$
With blood and whatever
Drag you outside, let you rot in the weather
I don't think I can explain any better
I'm $carecrow the Terror
I live for the lesser, my birth was an error
I am the lord of loneliness
I'll hold my breath, just spoke with death
He said he hopes for the best
Told him I'm roping my neck
Then I woke up choking from the hole in my chest
30. It's Alright - Mother Mother
It's hard to pick out just a few sections of the song, so really the whole thing is just... perfect for Yuji. I can imagine the scene post Higuruma vs. Yuji trial.
It's alright, it's okay, it's alright, it's okay
You're not a monster, just a human
And you made a few mistakes
It's alright, it's okay, it's alright, it's okay
You're not gruesome, just human
And you made a few mistakes
It's alright
Ooh, it's okay
Ooh, it's alright, oh
Goddamn
I throw a brick right through the window
My life ignored the signals
I'm high and drunk on ego, can't see straight
So I just feel my way around and
I'm touching and I'm grabbing
Everything I can't be havin'
I am broken down in shame
31. Kaibutsu ("Monster") - YOASOBI
Wanting to be stronger and not succumbing to darker feelings.
Over and over again, I sink my teeth
Into my weak self
Because in this world riddled with mistakes
I want to make sure you can smile
I don't want to lose anyone anymore
And that's why I want to get stronger, even stronger
So that I can stay myself
I just want to protect you - and that's why
I'm running, running, running
So that I can overcome the "me" inside myself
32. Kaikai Kitan - Eve
The very first JJK OP. Yuji-coded.
Can't you see I'm a mess?
This is the current, pathetic me
Just a dead corpse that achieved nothing, go on and ridicule me
Yet I quit just running away from everything before my eyes
Repeatedly depicting the fantasy in my mind
Go to the far side of your imagination
Exorcise the darkness, exorcise the darkness
Once the veil of darkness descends, that's our cue
After the tit-for-tat, leave all the circular battle front line
And such nonsense away
Don't stop yet, it hasn't ended yet
To search more keenly than anyone else for the truth bred in the streets
Now only imagine my future being cursed with a curse
Running and falling
I'll embrace this pain that won't disappear
The world is quietly waiting
For this moment
33. Itsuka Dokoka de (Someday, Somewhere) - KUCHIRORO
Second song chosen by Akutami. Long, winding, and whimsical. Not available on Spotify.
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