TOMOO -- LUCKY

 

Although it didn't have quite the distinct flavour of life within an inner city shopping mall in Tokyo, I enjoyed my time shopping and eating in my neighbourhood of Minami-Gyotoku（南行徳）, which is basically a suburb for Tokyo in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture. Metro Center Minami-Gyotoku is the mall right under the subway station and whenever I didn't really want to cook, I ate out at the local Subway, Tonki tonkatsu eatery and the patisserie across the corridor. In the pre-digital camera age, I also used to drop my film off at a camera shop there, and of course, there was the supermarket at the eastern end of Metro Center.

Back around ten days ago, I posted an article about the opening theme song for the current anime "City The Animation", "Hello" by singer-songwriter Furui Riho. I noted that there was something rather 70s and nostalgic about the song. Well, I get the same vibes for the song adorning the closing credits (nice Claymation, by the way). This is "LUCKY" by singer-songwriter TOMOO who I've also written about starting with her August 2021 single "Ginger". In that article, I also noted that she had some Motown influences, and so, I think she was quite ideal to take care of the ending for "City The Animation".

Written and composed by TOMOO, her July 2025 "LUCKY" has that feeling of music from a few decades ago, thanks to that electric piano, the horns and the overall arrangement. What seals the deal is the music video which has the singer enjoying a stroll (and a final mass choreography) in the type of peaceful and friendly neighbourhood that I enjoyed living in for seventeen years. Indeed, I was lucky.