生きることに迷いながら (Crayon Shin-chan Movie insert)

Yoko Hikasa has spent years voicing characters who carry more than they show, and that accumulated weight is fully present here. The song opens in near-silence — a single piano line, the kind that pauses between notes as if uncertain — before the voice enters carrying the full burden of its title: wandering about whether living is worth the effort. This is not a despairing song, but it refuses easy reassurance, which gives it a moral seriousness unusual for anime tie-ins. The production is chamber-small, intimate in a way that feels almost intrusive, strings entering only where the vocal needs them. Hikasa's lower register has a roughness, a human grain that her more polished anime roles sometimes sand away, and here it's left fully exposed. The Crayon Shin-chan films have always been willing to look at adult grief through children's eyes, and this insert occupies the exact emotional geography where a parent or grandparent's unspoken exhaustion becomes briefly visible before the comedy resumes. Listen to it alone, probably at dusk.