儚くない (Shangri-La Frontier OP1)

SUPER BEAVER arrive with their signature brand of direct, unadorned rock — drums front and center, guitars that chop with rhythmic precision, a bass that anchors everything with warm, rolling momentum. "儚くない" opens with nervous energy that immediately releases into a driving pulse, the kind of song that makes your chest feel larger from the inside. What distinguishes SUPER BEAVER from their contemporaries is their insistence on sincerity — no ironic distance, no sonic posturing. The vocalist Ryuta Shibasaki pushes his voice into an almost conversational urgency, as if he's making an argument directly to the listener rather than performing for them. The lyric philosophy here is defiant optimism: a refusal to accept that beautiful things must be temporary, a pushback against the Japanese cultural aesthetic of mono no aware. This sits firmly in the late-2010s/early-2020s resurgence of Japanese alternative rock that prizes emotional directness over technical complexity. As an opening theme for a show about a gamer grinding through virtual worlds, it reframes obsessive effort as a form of joy. You'd reach for this running uphill, or at the start of something difficult you've chosen to embrace fully.