Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Shibuya Survivor is track 33 on NEO: The World Ends with You Original Soundtrack. It has lyrics and vocals by Mai Fukui. It plays during the Iris Cantus boss fight and acts as an overworld theme during Week 3.
The first lines are real-world estimates of how many people cross the Scramble Crossing on average daily. The world population stat is the one for 2020, hinting at when the lyrics were written.
The song can be seen as Ayano Kamachi's battle theme because it plays during her boss. Ayano said she hated Shibuya and could not adjust to it, a perspective once shared by Neku Sakuraba, which may be what the song title means, as Ayano found living in the city a miserable experience, as if she were "surviving" it. The song lyrics can be interpreted as Ayano's loneliness and isolation in the city, finding it difficult to make connections around her, which makes Shoka Sakurane trying to save her during the fight significant.
Lyrics
500,000 people a day
2,500 cross at a time
Here we are at the busiest city in the world
What would you do to make yourself stand out
They preach whatever they want
To say but I can't
Listen to everything
So I don't care
I see the boy singing all the party songs
He likes to sing along
But he don't know what it means
I see the girl singing all that she feels
She don't care about evaluation
'Cuz that's what she is
126 million people in Japan
7.795 billion in the world
There are so many different people in the world
What would you do to find the one to trust?
Everyone has two sides
And the back of the back
The more you try to know it
The less you understand
I see the boy talking so sweet to me
I know he wants me
But it might be a true love
I see the girl helping an elderly
She's carrying a heavy bag
But she can't just break the chain
I see the boy singing all the party songs
He likes to sing along
But he don't know what it means
I see the girl singing all that she feels
She don't care about evolution
'Cuz that's what she is
Shibuya Survivor is track 33 on NEO: The World Ends with You Original Soundtrack. It has lyrics and vocals by Mai Fukui. It plays during the Iris Cantus boss fight and acts as an overworld theme during Week 3.
The first lines are real-world estimates of how many people cross the Scramble Crossing on average daily. The world population stat is the one for 2020, hinting at when the lyrics were written.
The song can be seen as Ayano Kamachi's battle theme because it plays during her boss. Ayano said she hated Shibuya and could not adjust to it, a perspective once shared by Neku Sakuraba, which may be what the song title means, as Ayano found living in the city a miserable experience, as if she were "surviving" it. The song lyrics can be interpreted as Ayano's loneliness and isolation in the city, finding it difficult to make connections around her, which makes Shoka Sakurane trying to save her during the fight significant.
Lyrics
500,000 people a day
2,500 cross at a time
Here we are at the busiest city in the world
What would you do to make yourself stand out
They preach whatever they want
To say but I can't
Listen to everything
So I don't care
I see the boy singing all the party songs
He likes to sing along
But he don't know what it means
I see the girl singing all that she feels
She don't care about evaluation
'Cuz that's what she is
126 million people in Japan
7.795 billion in the world
There are so many different people in the world
What would you do to find the one to trust?
Everyone has two sides
And the back of the back
The more you try to know it
The less you understand
I see the boy talking so sweet to me
I know he wants me
But it might be a true love
I see the girl helping an elderly
She's carrying a heavy bag
But she can't just break the chain
I see the boy singing all the party songs
He likes to sing along
But he don't know what it means
I see the girl singing all that she feels
She don't care about evolution
'Cuz that's what she is
