Cry Baby [Tokyo Revengers OP]

The Tokyo Revengers opening announces itself with a surge of distorted guitar before the rhythm section locks into something that has more in common with garage punk than with the piano balladry the band made their name on. This is HIGE DANdism operating at higher velocity, the production leaner and more combative, Fujihara channeling urgency rather than vulnerability. There's still the signature harmonic sophistication beneath the surface — chord progressions that would feel at home in jazz — but it's buried under layers of adrenaline. The lyric wrestles with the instinct to collapse under grief versus the refusal to stay down, mapped onto the anime's theme of a boy hurling himself back through time to save his friends. It functions as a thesis statement before an episode of violence and loyalty. You'd reach for this while warming up for something that requires nerve — a competition, a confrontation, a run where you need the last kilometer to feel like a fight worth having.