Namae wo Yobu yo (Jujutsu Kaisen S2 ED1)

"Namae wo Yobu yo" finds King Gnu in their most tender register, a departure from the angular art-rock and falsetto theatrics that made them Japan's most ambitious mainstream band. Built for Jujutsu Kaisen's second season, it trades bombast for hushed intimacy: gentle piano, brushed restraint, and Satoru Iguchi's voice floating in a fragile head-tone before the band blooms underneath. The title — "I'll call your name" — is devastating in the context of the arc it scored, an elegy for the lost dressed as a lullaby. Daiki Tsuneta's writing shows his classical and gospel instincts, voicings that resolve into aching suspensions, a chorus that lifts without ever shouting. The mix is spacious and modern, vocals close and dry against reverberant keys, every breath audible. There's grief threaded through it but also gratitude, the sound of memory held gently rather than mourned violently. Emotionally it occupies the space after loss when you're still speaking to someone who can't answer. King Gnu's genius is making sophisticated harmony feel like raw feeling, and here that craft serves pure catharsis. It's a song for the drive home after bad news, for staring at a ceiling, for anyone learning that calling a name aloud is its own kind of refusal to forget. Quietly monumental.