There are days when you feel exhausted before the day has even begun. There is a lot to prepare for, yet body and mind rarely keep up. Beneath the light title of "Neko Reset," that fatigue is captured with surprising specificity. You might wish you could shake it off like a cat and start over, but in reality, you are carrying both the demands of making a living and the weight of expectations all at once.
A Morning When You Wish for a Restart Button
The heavy head and tangled hair at the beginning depict the physical state of someone facing a new day. It seems like a quick tidy-up should suffice, yet things keep going awry. The wish to refresh one's very existence, much like a cat casually straightening itself out, is understandable.
Yet the reset in this song doesn't sound like a spell that erases the past. Obligations keep repeating themselves, and even when confidence dips, schedules don't wait around. The more the lively sounds overlap with the hurried chatter, the clearer it becomes just how exhausted the person is beneath all that busy exterior.
Dreams caught between guitar strings and the cost of a meal
Staring at the waveform and picking out headphones, guitar strings appear side by side with food costs and transit fares. Even a passion is built from such small expenses and labor in daily life. What might seem like nothing to others carries time, money, and the energy of an entire day for the person who made it.
In the scene where swallowing food overlaps with tears, that weariness sinks close to the body. One may soothe oneself by believing that things will eventually hold value, but it is impossible to be certain of that right now. For this reason, the hope in this song feels less like an optimistic slogan and more desperate. It resembles the heart of someone who cannot easily discard their efforts and so tries to look forward a little to tomorrow.
My strength, sorting through what I have scattered
In the second half, it becomes difficult to divide everyone into enemies or allies, and a sense of fatigue lingers over quickly offering answers. In a place where the criteria for victory/defeat and compromise are tangled together, the speaker wants to adjust their own strength. It sounds less like a declaration to endure more fiercely, and more like a wish to directly decide in what way to continue.
By the end, the frantic motion that had been pouring out earlier shifts into a sweeping, tidying gesture. Not every problem has vanished, but the way of handling a scattered day has changed just slightly. A reset in the sense of the title feels possible at that level—not becoming an entirely different person, but clearing away today’s spot just enough to be able to move again tomorrow.
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“Neko Reset” was released as an audio track and music video on December 2, 2021. It is a song from the “Shin'ya no Shigoto de Ii noni.” project undertaken with Indeed, and its music video featured creators from various fields. The track later appeared on the mini-album 「伸び仕草懲りて暇乞い」 released on February 16, 2022. The specific texture of daily life in the lyrics surrounding work and creation is worth reading alongside this production background.
Jittomayo official release notice and Universal Music production background
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