AiNA THE END Shares Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of Rage Theme Song Music Video

The official YouTube channel for Japanese singer AiNA THE END has started streaming a music video for her latest digital single song "Hana Muso" ("flower's full glory"). The magnificent ballad tune featuring a gentle and flowing piano melody and string sounds was newly written as the theme song for Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of Rage, the second film in the animated trilogy that continues the stories of the Medicine Seller from the 2006 TV anime Mononoke, which opened in Japan yesterday. Her 20th digital single song "Love Sick" was also featured as the theme song for the first film, Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain, released on July 26, 2024.The music video was directed by Yoshiharu Seri, known for his MV works for male idol group King & Prince, Ae!

The official YouTube channel for Japanese singer AiNA THE END has started streaming a music video for her latest digital single song “Hana Muso” (“flower’s full glory”).

The magnificent ballad tune featuring a gentle and flowing piano melody and string sounds was newly written as the theme song for Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of Rage, the second film in the animated trilogy that continues the stories of the Medicine Seller from the 2006 TV anime Mononoke, which opened in Japan yesterday. Her 20th digital single song “Love Sick” was also featured as the theme song for the first film, Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain, released on July 26, 2024.

The music video was directed by Yoshiharu Seri, known for his MV works for male idol group King & Prince, Ae! Group, SixTONES, and SUPER EIGHT. It consists of two parts: a drama scene of many couples who are not afraid to connect with each other and love each other, and singing performance scenes of AiNA THE END who is afraid to do so.

AiNA THE END “Hana Muso” Music Video

“Hana Muso” Animation Music Video

Along with the film’s ending song “Katsubo” (“Craving”), “Hana Muso” digitally released on March 14, 2025.

AiNA THE END Shares Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of Rage Theme Song Music Video — “Hana Muso” digital single jacket

The TV anime Mononoke aired in Japan for 12 episodes from July to September 2007. The first part of the trilogy film series, Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain released on July 26, 2024, then the second part Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of Rage followed today on Mach 14, 2025. As reported, the third and final chapter, subtitled “Hebigami” (literally means “Snake God”), is set to releases in the spring of 2026.

Crunchyroll currently streams the 2006 Mononoke TV anime and describes it as follows:

In feudal Japan, evil spirits known as mononoke plague both households and the countryside. Only one person has the power to kill them where they stand: the Medicine Seller. But in order to draw his spirit-slaying sword he must first understand the Form, Truth, and Reason of the mononoke. Armed with sharp wit, he wanders from place to place striking down the evil spirits in his wake.

Source: AiNA THE END official YouTube channel