Original Music
Soundtrack
25 songs to guide the journey — click any track for lyrics & audio preview
Kabu Theme Song
By: Battle of the Bards
Anime Theme Song
The show's opening theme — a rousing anime anthem that sets up the world, the curse, and Kabu's drive in about ninety seconds flat.
Battle of the Bards
Call of Adventure
Kids vocals, orchestral score
Kabu's attempt to get his best friend to come adventuring with him. He runs through the legends of every hero he's ever read about, and the logic of the song is that if they could do it, how hard could it be? Kabocha is not convinced, and comes anyway.
Kabu & Kabocha
A Witch's Bargain
By: Crow Witch
Upbeat villainess song, mischievous
The Crow Witch's upbeat warning about the cost of using magic to solve your problems, illustrated with everyone who came to her before Kabu and Kabocha and got more than they bargained for. Every lyric is technically fair warning, and it's sung so cheerfully that nobody hears it as one.
Crow Witch
Mistakes Have the Power
By: Ume
princess ballad, musical, uplifting, playful, encouraging, optimistic, comforting, whimsical
Ume's introduction song. She's just watched Kabu and Kabocha bumble a corn demon encounter and finds it wonderful — proof that mistakes are data, and data leads to discovery.
Ume
The Forest Has Ears
By: Kinoko
orchestral score, elderly baritone voice, Broadway
Kinoko's introduction number. Ostensibly about unity and the mushroom network. Actually about surveillance. He's delighted either way.
Kinoko
First One Down
animated musical, kids voices, playful duet, quick-paced, conversational, comedic, back-and-forth banter, catchy chorus, dynamic energy
Kabu and Kabocha celebrate beating the corn demon on the road to the next town, sure they have this whole hero thing in the bag, and argue in song about who did the real work. By the end they're starting to wonder why it was so easy, and whether the seeds have more magic than they know.
Kabu & Kabocha
Stand Tall
By: Matsu
Les Misérables, musical, Revolutionary anthem, slow build, harmonies, triumphant brass, horns, inspiring
Matsu's first and most important song. Slow build through quiet acapella verses, then a triumphant brass finish as the village rallies. He doesn't sing often. When he does, it matters.
Matsu
Blade and Will
By: Kabocha
princess ballad, kids song, female vocals, hopeful, aspiring, adventurous, orchestral, taiko drums, string swells, driving rhythm, empowering
Kabocha's heist rallying number — the moment she takes command. Taiko percussion drives an ascending melody as she outlines the plan with crisp confidence.
Kabocha
Pleasure Doing Business With You
By: Lady Kussho
Smooth, sly, cabaret-tinged villain number
Lady Kussho's sales pitch to the team, sung on the tour of her estate. Kussho: "Now, tell me, children. What makes a truly excellent cup of tea?" Kabu: "Um... the leaves?" Kussho: "Oh, darling. The margins."
Lady Kussho
One Bad Apple
By: Kabu
Kids vocals, orchestral score
Kabu, alone and frustrated after the team splits, untangles what Akane has whispered to him from what he actually knows about his friends. The melody starts dark and finds its way out, landing on the truth: they aren't working against him, and they need to come together to beat this.
Kabu
Apple a Day
By: Akane
Upbeat villain song
Akane sings as she sells her apples, though nobody is really there for the apples. The whole town is addicted to coming to her for information, and the catchiest song in the season is her cheerfully admitting what she's been doing to them while Kabu, in a daze, doesn't notice.
Akane
What Are We Missing
By: Ume
animated musical, princess ballad, curious
Ume's season-arc song — sung as the team helps the noodle families and she starts to question whether they truly understand the curse they've been undoing.
Ume
A Taste of Rivalry
By: Ensemble Cast (Noodle Clan of Morioka, Kabu, Kabocha, Matsu, Ume)
animated musical, ensemble cast, playful, upbeat, theatrical, comedic, storytelling, orchestral, lively percussion, plucked strings, dynamic energy, whimsical, lighthearted, rhythmic, cinematic
The three sibling noodle chefs argue their case simultaneously while Mugimichi-sama watches. Kabu, Kabocha, Matsu, and Ume each learn something different from a different noodle dish.
Ensemble Cast (Noodle Clan of Morioka, Kabu, Kabocha, Matsu, Ume)
What It Takes to Be a Hero
orchestral score, musical theater, pop
A three-way debate song in which Kabu, Momotaro, and Kabocha each argue for a different definition of heroism — and gradually, uncomfortably, realize all three of them are partially right.
Kabu, Momotaro, Kabocha
Names Left in Dust
By: Saru
animated musical, punk-folk, Japanese folk instruments, taiko drums, forge sounds, raw vocals, rebellious energy, fantasy feudal Japan setting, bitter lyrics about unseen labor and stolen credit
Saru's long-suppressed resentment given voice. Not a villain song — a tired song. He isn't angry at Momotaro. He's angry that doing everything right wasn't enough to be seen.
Saru
Dance of the Hidden Heart
By: Hiroaki
Drag queen, playful cabaret, jazz influences, rising beats, triumphant finishes, clapping rhythms, piano runs, vibrant horns
Hiroaki's self-acceptance number — sung the night the team finds him across the river in full performance costume. The first time both audiences see him whole.
Hiroaki
The Forest Has Ears (Cautionary)
By: Kinoko
orchestral score, elderly baritone voice, Broadway, eerie, ominous
A reprise of Kinoko's Episode 2 introduction song — same mushroom-network imagery, same smiling delivery. But the team now knows enough to hear what it actually means.
Kinoko
What's Left of Me
By: Kabocha
orchestral score, young Broadway, princess ballad, bright clear vocals
Kabocha's internal reckoning — the seed splinter is growing and she's terrified she is becoming the thing they've been fighting. A confession she can't make out loud to anyone.
Kabocha
Starry Nights Forever
By: Duet (Orihime & Hikoboshi)
Ethereal, orchestral, whimsical
The Tanabata star-crossed lovers given their own song — sung by the episode's destined couple after Musubi-sama's spell is broken.
Duet (Orihime & Hikoboshi)
A Gentle Path
By: Matsu
animated musical, koto, shakuhachi flute, soft taiko drums, light strings, steady rhythm, flowing melody
Matsu's quiet counterpoint to Ume's insistence on the scientific explanation. Sung directly to her — a patient argument that faith and fact can coexist.
Matsu
Carried in the Wind
By: Kabocha & Crow Witch (duet)
Female duet, harmonizing, theatrical pop, princess meets villain, soundtrack
Kabocha walks away from the team. The Crow Witch finds her. Two voices harmonize toward opposite conclusions about what freedom actually means.
Kabocha & Crow Witch (duet)
Where Shadows Take Wing
By: Crow Witch
villain song, female, haunting, theatrical, commanding, dark, dramatic, elegant, mysterious, powerful, ominous, sultry, rich, menacing, regal, foreboding, textured, emotive, sophisticated
The Crow Witch's full-arc song, in Episode 11's backstory sequence. Begins as a menacing set-piece; transforms halfway through into something close to a lament.
Crow Witch
Echoes of Adventure
By: Kabu
Acoustic cover, kids vocals, reflective, cinematic, emotional journey, energetic finale, heartfelt, uplifting anthem, triumphant, playful crescendo, joyous transformation, dynamic build
A callback to Track 2's opening number, now sung by Kabu alone to Kabocha. Same melody as 'Call of Adventure.' Every lyric has changed.
Kabu
No One Talks About the Ending
By: Ume
orchestral score, emotionally rich, princess ballad, melancholy, emotional finale
The season finale song. Ume's quiet reckoning with what heroism actually leaves behind. Draws on real Japanese folklore heroes — Tawara Tōda and Kintarō — to ask what comes after the legend ends.
Ume
The Forest Has Ears (Reprise)
By: Kinoko
villain song, elderly baritone voice, minor key, Broadway
The third and final version of Kinoko's signature song. No comedy, no warmth. The mushroom network was never a metaphor for community. It was always a map of everything he planned to take.
Kinoko