Thank you for your reaction to ado. I don't watch TV so I don't know what kind of drama Dr. X is, but this song seems to have a fairly Buddhist theme. I took the opening line of the song to mean, "All humans have monsters inside them that sometimes go wild and cause a storm of emotions to rage, which can be troubling, but these monsters are no different from you - indeed they are you yourself, so rather than trying to suppress/oppress them by force, it's important to find a way to get along with them. That's actually what life is all about." Ashura is the Japanese pronunciation of Asura, the Hindu god of war in ancient India. Asura was later adopted into a certain group of Buddhists, maintaining his original character as a god of war. This group of Buddhism has spread to Japan. Statues of Ashura can be found in several temples in Japan. Buddhism is a religion that aims to achieve peace of mind, so it does not naturally go well with a god of war, but as it is unreasonable and may cause distortion to expect perfect peace of mind to imperfect humans, Asura may have the role of absorbing that aspect of the distortion.
I really like your interpretation of the first line, kinda reminds me of Jung's shadow integration concept which I love. My knowledge of Buddhism is quite surface level so I appreciate you explaining that to me.
@@oddsamurai1 I think that also Christianity and other religions have the idea of forgiving people who have this kind of monster inside them. There may be stories some angels might have fallen to the opposite side of the God(s). As long as we expect perfection from imperfect humans, there must be a continuous process of dealing with the contradictions arising in the mind constantly.
@@oddsamurai1 Since I don't know much about the contents of the drama Dr.X, I'm beginning to worry that my interpretation of the opening is too biased toward Buddhism and may be off the mark. So I searched on RUclips and found a video of a conversation between Neru, the song's composer and lyricist, and Ado, in which they also talked about Ashura-chan, so I'll write a bit about that in another comment later. This text was translated by Google, but this time I posted it without making any edits. The recent developments in machine translation technology have been amazing.
(I will write an English translation lator) 阿修羅ちゃんの作詞作曲をした Neru さんと Ado さんの１時間くらいの対談動画が RUclips にあり，その中で，Neru さんが「阿修羅ちゃん」のことも，延々と説明されていました，動画のタイトルは Ado × Neru 対談 【 Ado LOCKS! 】 です．阿修羅ちゃんの話はその中の，13:00 - 29:33 あたりです．日本語が分からないと聞くのは辛いと思いますので，次のコメントでほんの少しだけ会話の内容を書きます． There is a video on RUclips of an hour-long conversation between Neru, who wrote the lyrics and music for Ashura-chan, and Ado, in which Neru explains Ashura-chan at length. The video is titled Ado × Neru 対談 【 Ado LOCKS! 】 The part about Ashura-chan is from 13:00 to 29:33. It might be hard to listen to for the people who don't understand Japanese, so I'll just write a little bit about the conversation in the following comment.
(日本語が分かる人は対談動画を聞けばよいので，英語でだけ書きます．) Those who understand Japanese can just listen to the dialogue video, so I will only write in English. First of all, Dr.X is a drama about a female surgeon named Daimon Michiko who is strong-willed(stubborn and unyielding?). The reason why Neru chose the title of the song "Asura-chan" is that Asura is a god in Buddhism, but originally a Hindu war god, and although he is a good god in Buddhism, he has a bad image in society today, and it seems that his image (dark hero/heroin) overlapped with that of the main character, Daimon Michiko. Furthermore, Neru added "-chan" because he thought Ado was cute ("-chan" is a respectful title given to a little cute person (child). The childish-version of "-san"). Furthermore, in the lyrics, there is a phrase that says "hold hands with the daemon," which was said to be an association with the main character "Daimon" to "Daemon." If I write too much, it will be a spoiler, so I will limit it to these two.
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Thank you for your reaction to ado. I don't watch TV so I don't know what kind of drama Dr. X is, but this song seems to have a fairly Buddhist theme.
I took the opening line of the song to mean, "All humans have monsters inside them that sometimes go wild and cause a storm of emotions to rage, which can be troubling, but these monsters are no different from you - indeed they are you yourself, so rather than trying to suppress/oppress them by force, it's important to find a way to get along with them. That's actually what life is all about."
Ashura is the Japanese pronunciation of Asura, the Hindu god of war in ancient India. Asura was later adopted into a certain group of Buddhists, maintaining his original character as a god of war. This group of Buddhism has spread to Japan. Statues of Ashura can be found in several temples in Japan. Buddhism is a religion that aims to achieve peace of mind, so it does not naturally go well with a god of war, but as it is unreasonable and may cause distortion to expect perfect peace of mind to imperfect humans, Asura may have the role of absorbing that aspect of the distortion.
I really like your interpretation of the first line, kinda reminds me of Jung's shadow integration concept which I love.
My knowledge of Buddhism is quite surface level so I appreciate you explaining that to me.
@@oddsamurai1 I think that also Christianity and other religions have the idea of forgiving people who have this kind of monster inside them. There may be stories some angels might have fallen to the opposite side of the God(s). As long as we expect perfection from imperfect humans, there must be a continuous process of dealing with the contradictions arising in the mind constantly.
@@oddsamurai1 Since I don't know much about the contents of the drama Dr.X, I'm beginning to worry that my interpretation of the opening is too biased toward Buddhism and may be off the mark. So I searched on RUclips and found a video of a conversation between Neru, the song's composer and lyricist, and Ado, in which they also talked about Ashura-chan, so I'll write a bit about that in another comment later.
This text was translated by Google, but this time I posted it without making any edits. The recent developments in machine translation technology have been amazing.
(I will write an English translation lator)
阿修羅ちゃんの作詞作曲をした Neru さんと Ado さんの１時間くらいの対談動画が RUclips にあり，その中で，Neru さんが「阿修羅ちゃん」のことも，延々と説明されていました，動画のタイトルは
Ado × Neru 対談 【 Ado LOCKS! 】
です．阿修羅ちゃんの話はその中の，13:00 - 29:33 あたりです．日本語が分からないと聞くのは辛いと思いますので，次のコメントでほんの少しだけ会話の内容を書きます．
There is a video on RUclips of an hour-long conversation between Neru, who wrote the lyrics and music for Ashura-chan, and Ado, in which Neru explains Ashura-chan at length. The video is titled
Ado × Neru 対談 【 Ado LOCKS! 】
The part about Ashura-chan is from 13:00 to 29:33. It might be hard to listen to for the people who don't understand Japanese, so I'll just write a little bit about the conversation in the following comment.
(日本語が分かる人は対談動画を聞けばよいので，英語でだけ書きます．)
Those who understand Japanese can just listen to the dialogue video, so I will only write in English.
First of all, Dr.X is a drama about a female surgeon named Daimon Michiko who is strong-willed(stubborn and unyielding?).
The reason why Neru chose the title of the song "Asura-chan" is that Asura is a god in Buddhism, but originally a Hindu war god, and although he is a good god in Buddhism, he has a bad image in society today, and it seems that his image (dark hero/heroin) overlapped with that of the main character, Daimon Michiko. Furthermore, Neru added "-chan" because he thought Ado was cute ("-chan" is a respectful title given to a little cute person (child). The childish-version of "-san").
Furthermore, in the lyrics, there is a phrase that says "hold hands with the daemon," which was said to be an association with the main character "Daimon" to "Daemon." If I write too much, it will be a spoiler, so I will limit it to these two.