Every Shade of Kawaii かわいいにも色々ありまして

Crybaby, sore loser, bedhead, klutz. “Every Shade of Kawaii / かわいいにも色々ありまして” is a song that gently steps away from calling only neat shapes kawaii. Its voice, telling you that you don't have to force yourself into someone else's idea of “kawaii,” sounds less like bright self-affirmation than a release with deeper roots.

What the lyrics line up are crying faces and bravado, days that don't go well, smudged colors, lines that run over the edge. Not fixing what's missing, but accepting even what looked like flaws as color. That sense is what lets this song stand as a first step. For Mel:Chroma, kawaii doesn't head toward one right answer; it multiplies, mixes, and changes.

Green sounds here not as a gentle, natural color but as a color that proliferates. As the words “no name needed” and “a color I've never seen” suggest, kawaii is born first, before it can be classified. This song offers that widening in its most honest form.

If the Crayon Rush Mix is a track that runs over the lines, the original redraws the lines of “kawaii” itself. Crying faces, clumsiness, bravado: each one is a color of its own. That is why one kind of kawaii is never enough for Mel:Chroma.