MY WAY

MY WAY is a five-track CD that ASTERISM announced as a collaboration EP, with a release date of 2 December 2026 on SME Records as SECL-3375, priced at 2,500 yen. The title song is the ending theme of the television anime Reborn as a Space Mercenary, which began airing on Tokyo MX and other channels on 4 October 2026. HAL-CA wrote the lyrics and the band composed and arranged the music, and the song came out ahead of the CD as a digital single on the day of the first broadcast. The theme was announced on 5 July 2026, together with a preview video of the ending. According to the band, they pictured themselves setting off into space alongside the hero, Hiro, a man thrown into a new world, and wrote the lyrics from his point of view. The same day they announced the song's first live performance anywhere, at AnimagiC 2026 in Mannheim, Germany, from 31 July to 2 August. The second track, "What’s my life?", is a new song arranged and sound-produced by MEG (MEGMETAL). Two collaborations follow. "GYUTTO!! (w/ Marty Friedman)" was written with the former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman, who became close to HAL-CA after they appeared together on the television programme ROCK FUJIYAMA; they sprang it on the audience at Guitar Monsters Japan vol.2 at Daikanyama UNIT in Tokyo on 8 March 2025 and released it on 30 April, the day THE FIRST TAKE published their one-take performance of it. "Metal Gandhara (w/ Pineapple Express)", made with the fusion band Pineapple Express from Bangalore, was ASTERISM's first collaboration; it came out on 27 December 2024, and its video, shot in Bangalore, followed on 20 January 2025. An instrumental version of the title song closes the disc. First pressings come in a paper sleeve with a wide cap sticker bearing the anime's artwork.