My Will

The second ending theme for Inuyasha, "My Will" became one of the most beloved J-pop ballads of the early 2000s, largely through Ichikura Ibuki's extraordinary vocal performance—a voice of unusual depth and emotional directness for an artist who was seventeen at the time of recording. Day After Tomorrow worked in the space between J-rock and adult contemporary, and "My Will" shows the group at their most accessible: acoustic guitar as emotional anchor, clean production, arrangement that builds with patient inevitability toward a chorus that arrives feeling both earned and unavoidable. The song's lyrical content maps beautifully onto Inuyasha's central tension—love across impossible circumstances, the determination to move forward despite uncertainty, choosing to act rather than wait for fate to decide. The phrasing is memorable enough to have survived as earworm for decades; entire generations of anime viewers can sing the chorus from memory. There is something in the key change approaching the final chorus that still functions as an emotional event, the moment the song's full intention becomes clear. Culturally, this song belongs to a specific era when J-pop and animation shared a genuine artistic relationship rather than a purely commercial one. Best heard while driving toward somewhere you haven't been before.