Emi Okamoto -- Bokura truth（僕らtruth）

Another sunny Sunday out there and a little unseasonably cool, but that's perfectly fine with me. I was never a huge fan of heat and humidity, and seventeen summers in Japan taught me that.

I'm completing a covering of a trilogy of recommendations that I was given from a commenter on the Kirinji（キリンジ）article for "Ai wo aru dake, Subete"（愛をあるだけ、すべて）. The connecting thread among all three of them is the composer Yasuyuki Horigome（堀込泰行）, formerly part of the band itself. The first couple of songs were for seiyuu-singers Saori Hayami（早見沙織）and Maaya Sakamoto（坂本真綾）, but this third one, "Bokura truth" (Our Truth) is for singer-songwriter-bassist Emi Okamoto（おかもとえみ）who is also the vocalist for the pop band Friends（フレンズ）.

"Bokura truth" is a calming mixture of soul and dreamy pop by Horigome with a lot of appropriately calming blue in the video, although that bass synth does come in with a stomp sometimes. Okamoto provided the lyrics which seem to speak of a love that hasn't quite come to fruition quite yet but at least one of the potential pair is fairly hopeful. You know...when I heard this for the first time, my impression was that this was Kirinji in its current form: cool, contemporary and spacey at the same time. Going back to that video, I think that it could also be used for a psychoanalysis session.

The song belongs to Okamoto's first solo album "gappy" which was released in October 2019. As some trivia, Okamoto was responsible for naming her band Friends. In addition, both of her parents are illustrators, Hideo and Yoshiko Okamoto（岡本英郎・美子）, and she has a love for pickled plums and zombies. Yes, she loves zombies.