hello world

Tokei Nano’s debut single: a song about saying goodbye, beginning again, and carrying every part of your past forward.

In the chorus, Nano cries さよなら (sayonara, “goodbye”) over and over—but here, a farewell is also the beginning of an encounter. Goodbye and hello are two sides of the same door.

She sings at 33: after work, after loss, and after making peace with her past and her dreams, she picks up her voice again. 涙も笑顔も鞄へ (“Tears and smiles into my bag”)—she does not deny her past; she carries all of it forward. 私の星はそこにない (“My star is not there”)—leaving the expected path does not mean rejecting it.

The song was written and composed by a creator the same age as Nano—a corporate worker reclaiming the music he has loved since childhood, as a first step toward redefining himself. In a way, Nano is his projection.