A new single with a Japanese sound and Meilia's Japanese kimono, GARNiDELiA's confident work is now available!

GARNiDELiA will release "Promise code-", the second ending theme for the TV anime "Qualidia Code", on August 17, 2016. The song is an aggressive song that is typical of them. Furthermore, a major feature of this single is its Japanese taste. Not only the title track "Promise code-" but also all of the songs on the album have a Japanese feel to them, and in the jacket photo, Meilia is wearing a bewitching Japanese kimono. We interviewed Meilia and TOKU, who said they were very enthusiastic about their first single in about a year.

This is our first single in about a year, and we had a lot of thoughts we wanted to convey to everyone.

─ The jacket of the new single "Promise -Promise code-" is very glossy.

Meilia Thank you very much. I put a lot of effort into it. I had always wanted to try my hand at a Japanese taste, and then I heard about the ending theme for "Qualidia Code. The main character in the Kanagawa version that we are in charge of fights with a Japanese sword, so we thought we could arrange it in a Japanese style. Around the same time, a Japanese dance song called "Gokuraku Jodo" was released on the Internet. Since it was decided to include this song as a coupling track, I decided to make the entire single, including the jacket photo, Japanese-inspired.

─ ─ Kanagawa is a female duo, with Maihime Amagawa at the top and Hotaru Rindo at the bottom, isn't it?

Meilia: Yes, they are the only female duo in the three cities, and since they often use the word "promise," I decided to use it as the title of the song. We wrote the lyrics to express their feelings toward their fans, as well as our own feelings toward GARNiDELiA. It is a song about "promise" that begins with the words, "Let's go see the world that you can't reach alone.

toku We did a lot of live performances between the last album and this one, so I think I was able to incorporate the feedback from those performances into both the lyrics and the sound. I thought that if I wrote songs like this, people would get into it, and if I wrote lyrics like this, people would sympathize with me. This is true not only for "Promise code-" but for all three songs in this single.

Meilia: I was influenced by my interactions with the fans, and from the beginning, I had a strong desire to write songs that would get people excited at live performances.

toku We've been doing more live shows overseas, and people like the Japanese taste. With that aspect in mind, I thought it would be interesting to push for a Japanese style in both sound and visuals this time around.

─ ─ "Promise -Promise code-" is the ending theme, and it is up-tempo.

toku: The anime side ordered us to use an upper tempo for the ending. So I decided to use a strong song that is typical of GARNiDELiA. The Japanese scale is composed of five notes, so the range of the tune tends to be narrow. I thought about how to arrange the song so that the listener would not feel that way, and it became an aggressive song with the fastest BPM of all the GARNiDELiA songs. The band's performance is also very hard, just like a sport. I think the hardest part is the singing.

Meilia It's intense (laughs).

toku I was particular about the melody, and I wanted to write something that would not be defeated no matter how it was arranged. I think I was able to write a melody that scored high points in my opinion, because even at such a fast tempo, it still manages to convey the message.

─ Was it difficult to record the vocals?

Meilia: Not only was the tempo fast, but the structure is dramatic, and there were parts where I felt like I was running through the song at a dizzying pace, and other parts where I had to pull it out quickly, so the song has a lot of tension fluctuations. It was difficult, but I did my best to sing it.

─ ─ It is true that the structure of the song is complicated.

Meilia: The A melody has a rhythm, but in the B melody, it turns around and opens up with just piano and singing. I was conscious of the difference in nuance.

toku The ending of "Quadrídia Code" changes depending on how the story unfolds, so I thought about how to make the song memorable in the small number of times it is aired.