" The Reluctant Heroes " A Song for The Heroes

If you were or are looking for a song that could touch your deepest heart, it would be this song. Why must be this song? This song has a deep meaning, a special song for those who have to die for something what they fought for.

The Reluctant Heroes is one of the Original Sound Track of a Japan anime, Shingeki no Kyojin or also known as Attack on Titan. 

The story of this anime is the struggle of a boy named Eren Jaeger to fight the giants or known as Titan that come from somewhere unknown and for the reason that has to be found. The struggle is not only coming from Eren Jaeger, but actually the whole civilian of a nation that live inside the wall. But the main role for this anime, Eren Jaeger has a bad experience with those Titans, he watched by his own eyes the moment a Titan had eaten his mother. So he turned into a brave and diligent boy in order to revenge the death of his mother.

The song was matched really well with the plot. But for my opinion, it was not only matched with this story but also the story of the colonized nations all over the world. The anime was originally made by Japanese animator, and aired for the first in Japan, but this song is fully arranged with English, so I chose this song. Here are the lyrics as I copied from Attack on Titan - Wikia.

Day by Day

We have lost our edge

Don't you know?

Forgotten is the life we led

Now it seems

You don't care what the risk is

The peaceful times have made us blind

Can't look back

They will not come back

Can't be afraid

It's time after time

So once again

I'm hiding in my room

The peaceful times have made us blind

"So you can't fly if you never try,"

You told me, oh, long ago

But you left the wall

Outside the gate

So more than ever, it's real

It was like a nightmare

And it's painful for me

'Cause nobody wants to die too fast

Remember the day of grief

Now it's strange for me

I could see your face

I could hear your voice

Remember the day we met

And it's painful for me

'Cause nobody wants to die too fast

Remember the day we dreamt

And it's painful for me

I could see your face

I could hear your voice

Song for reluctant heroes

Oh give me your strength

Our life is so short

Song for reluctant heroes

I wanna be brave like you

From my heart

Song for the reluctant heroes

Oh give me your strength

Our life is so short

Song for the reluctant heroes

I wanna be brave like you

Can't look back

They will not come back

Can't be afraid

It's time after time

So once again

I'm hiding in my room

The peaceful times have made us blind

" So you can't fly if you never try,"

You told me, oh, long ago

But you left the wall

Outside the gate

So more than ever, it's real

It was like a nightmare

And it's painful for me

'Cause nobody wants to die too fast

Remember the day of grief

And it's strange for me

I could see your face

I could hear your voice

Remember the day we met

And it's painful for me

'Cause nobody wants to die too fast

Remember the day we dreamt

And it's painful for me

I could see your face

I could hear your voice

It was like a nightmare

And it's painful for me

'Cause nobody wants to die too fast

Remember the day of grief

Now it's strange for me

I could see your face

I could hear your voice

Remember the day we met

And it's painful for me

'Cause nobody wants to die too fast

Remember the day we dreamt

And it's painful for me

I could see your face

I could hear your voice

My Favorite Parts

The peaceful times have made us blind.

And the sudden attack from the Titans really messed the outer side of the nation. Because nobody ever imagine about the possibility of this situation gonna happen, except Eren himself. 

Can't look back, they will not come back.

It means that whatever happened in the past, just walk forward toward the future because what happened can't be back whatever we do. And this also refer to those peacefulness feelings of the civilian in Eren's town that pierce into nothing but the scream of fears.

" So you can't fly if you never try," you told me, oh long ago.

This song is basically  a song, sang for a hero to the singer. So the hero told, " So you can't fly if you never try," long ago before the mess happened. That means that you will never know 'till you have tried. How could you see any result if you don't even try to make it happen. In this anime, Eren told everybody in that town that they will not live peacefully forever. The time will come, the time when the most scared species waiting outside the wall rushed in the town.

Then the singer realized years after that what the hero said was not nonsense at all, when the mess came to the peaceful place, in this case was when the Titan came inside the wall at 845 century.

So more than ever, it's real (but) it was like a nightmare.

What will you feel when the things that you never imagine come true. What happen if it were the things that you hope would never happen the most. The real things happened right in front of you and it were just like a nightmare that you really wish not to be true. 

'Cause nobody wants to die too fast.

It was just true that nobody wants to die too fast. In this situation every single person try to gain the most benefit and chance to surviving without even care the other. But, still, Eren was willing to be part of Reconnaissance Corps which is the most dangerous part of military. It was like committing suicide without having to shot himself. But all he wanted was to revenge the death of his mother and to come outside the wall where the wide world exist.

Song for the reluctant heroes

It is the base of this song. It is the meaning of the song which is for the reluctant heroes. Reluctant means unwilling and hesitant, close meaning to forced and the reluctant heroes mean they are the heroes, but they were also not willing to be it. It has a deep and strong meaning that the heroes have to fight, but also don't want to die.

I wanna be brave like you.

The braveness of the heroes really touched the 'singer's heart, and so then,

From my heart, song for the reluctant heroes.

It means that the singer sing for the reluctant heroes from his deepest heart.


About The Manga : Shingeki no Kyoijin (Attack on Titan)

As wikipedia said, Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人 Shingeki no Kyojin^?, lit. "Advancing Giants") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated byHajime Isayama. The series began in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on September 9, 2009, and has been collected into 15tankōbon volumes as of December 9, 2014. It is set in a world where humanity lives inside cities surrounded by enormous walls as a defense against the Titans, gigantic humanoid creatures who eat humans seemingly without reason. The story initially centers onEren Yeager, his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman, and their childhood friend Armin Arlert, who join the military to fight the Titans after their home town is invaded and Eren's mother is eaten. However, as the story progresses and the truths about the Titans are slowly revealed to the reader, the main narrative shifts, centering increasingly more around Historia Reiss, one of the top soldiers from the Survey Corps and the youngest child of the ruling family within the walls, of which the long-kept secrets are directly connected to the origin of the Titans and the lost history of the world.

A spin-off light novel series began in December 2011, and has received a manga adaptation. An additional light novel series and three additional spin-off manga series are also being serialized. A television anime adaptation produced by Wit Studio and Production I.G aired in Japan on MBS between April and September 2013 and a second season is confirmed to be released in 2016. Four video game adaptations developed by Nitroplus staffers in collaboration with Production I.G were announced to be released as bonus content for the third and sixth volumes of the Blu-ray Disc release of the anime, with another game developed by Spike Chunsoft for the Nintendo 3DS. A two-part live action film adaptation is also in production and set to premiere in 2015. Attack on Titan and three spin-off manga are published in North America by Kodansha Comics USA, while the novels are published by Vertical. The anime has been licensed by Funimation Entertainment for North America, by Manga Entertainment for the United Kingdom, and by Madman Entertainment for Australasia.

Attack on Titan has become a commercial success, with 45 million volumes in print as of November 2014.^[5] The release of the anime also saw a boost in the series' popularity, with it having received critical acclaim for its atmosphere and story. Although it also gained fame in neighboring Asian countries, the series' themes have been a subject of controversy.

The Reluctant Heroes is the original soundtrack of Attack on Titan anime in an album Attack on Titan

アニメ「進撃の巨人」オリジナルサウンドトラック / Anime Shingeki no Kyojin Original Soundtrack, released on 2013.06.28.

About The Singer : Hiroyuki Sawano (澤野 弘之)

copied from Wikipedia.

Hiroyuki Sawano (澤野 弘之 Sawano Hiroyuki^?, born 12 September 1980) is a Japanese composer and musician best known for his work on many anime, TV series, and movies. He is currently represented by Legendoor.

Sawano was born in Tokyo, Japan. He began playing piano in elementary school. From the age of 17 he studied composition, arrangement, orchestration, and piano under Nobuchika Tsuboi.^[1]