TRiDENT Trivia — 14 Entries
14 sourced facts about TRiDENT.
Trivia
TRiDENT run a show called Oji Matsuri that only men aged 35 and over may attend. It began in 2023, devised by the members themselves, out of a wish to make a place for a generation that carries responsibility both at work and at home. The third edition took place at Daikanyama UNIT on 20 September 2025 and drew 350 of them. From the stage ASAKA told the room she wanted them to find growing older something to look forward to, and named a goal of one day staging Oji Matsuri at the Ryogoku Kokugikan.
The move to King Records was announced on 23 August 2025, at a headline show at Daikanyama UNIT. The show was billed as "Continue." — the word the band started from, with a full stop added. Late in the show, after "be with you," a film played in which the members said they were putting a full stop to the TRiDENT that had begun with the song "Continue," and stepping off in a new direction. NAGISA has said the ominous-looking title was chosen precisely to catch the audience out, and that the announcement came as a surprise. The show sold out, with around 500 people there.
The lead track of the major-label debut EP, "Reimei no Uta," was written for TRiDENT by Nob of MY FIRST STORY. It came out of an after-party. The band had been naming him as an arranger they wanted to work with, but had never met him, and on the night they hesitated over whether to go and say hello before deciding to. By Nob's account, over drinks they told him they liked a song he had done for Wagamama Rakia, he offered to write one for them on that basis, and they accepted on the spot. From their side, they had gone over expecting nothing.
On 15 July 2026 JPU Records, the British label specialising in Japanese music, announced that it was putting TRiDENT's digital single "Candle" out across Europe and North America. Pre-orders opened the same day for an international CD edition of BLUE DAWN, which the label describes as that record's first international CD release. "Candle" was written as the theme song for the Japanese television drama 35-sai, Ima Sara Koi toka Arienai; ASAKA wrote both words and music, and Shota Horie arranged it.
ASAKA explained the name in a 2021 interview. TRiDENT means a three-pronged spear, and the idea behind it was that the three of them should become a single spear rather than three people each firing off in their own direction. Under the previous name, Girls Rock Band Kakumei, she has said the feeling was of each member throwing what she wanted to play at the others; as TRiDENT the weight shifted toward the three of them building one song together properly.
In November 2019 the drummer of the previous band told them she wanted to leave; the departure itself came in March 2020. The band kept it quiet until February 2020, on the reasoning that if word spread and reached the audience, the shows they still had to play would take on an awkward air. Asked who the next drummer should be, ASAKA and SERINA said a name on a count of three and both said NAGISA. She was in a band called Quince and they knew her from shared bills, which made her awkward to approach — until word reached them that she herself wanted out of Quince, at which point they asked.
The first song written as TRiDENT was "Continue," put together by ASAKA and SERINA in December 2019, after the previous drummer's exit had been settled. The decision to change the band's name was taken at the same point. The lyric came last. While the band was on hold ASAKA had seen people reacting as though losing the drummer who anchored it meant the band was finished, and she has said the words came straight out of how galling that was — a plain "just watch me."
On the EP BLUE DAWN, "Koi no Magic Potion" is a cover of a 1991 song by Sukanchi, used as the opening theme of the TV anime Potion, Waga Mi wo Tasukeru — a tie-up that turns on the word "potion" appearing in both titles. Sukanchi's ROLLY played on it, sang backing vocals and produced. The band cut it live, all together in one take for the sake of the groove, rather than tracking parts separately as they normally do. ASAKA sang the lyric, written from a man's point of view, in the original key.
The ending theme on the same EP, "MIRACRAID," is the first song NAGISA has written for TRiDENT. When the major deal was settled, the band decided that writing should not be left to ASAKA alone, and this was one of the pieces NAGISA produced then. She has said she asked around about how to get it down to the ninety seconds an anime slot needs. ASAKA wrote the words, having read the whole of the original novel first, from the point of view of its protagonist, Kaede Yakumo.
"Bite the bullet" was adopted as the song backing the Japanese players at the esports world final Six Invitational 2024. According to King Records, it was the song TRiDENT opened with at Oji Matsuri 2025 in September of that year.
Under the previous band there was a rule against backing tracks: while they were playing small rooms, the three of them would carry it on their own instruments. As TRiDENT that changed and backing tracks came in. ASAKA has put the reason plainly — the goal they have set themselves is the Tokyo Dome, and getting there without backing tracks is not on the table. The first time the new line-up went into a studio together, though, they used none at all and just played as a three-piece.
BLUE DAWN carries a second cover: the Japanese "Country Road," known as the theme of the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart. It was chosen because all three had known it since childhood and all had memories tied to the film. The original and the Japanese version are both gentle in tone; TRiDENT took it all the way over into melodic hardcore. NAGISA has said the test was how well she could put across a melodic-hardcore two-beat, and that of everything on the EP this was in fact the hardest. It was the first time TRiDENT had played melodic hardcore at all.
The EP title BLUE DAWN was settled before the lead track "Reimei no Uta" had its own name; the word for daybreak came first, and the lead track and "NEW ERA" followed from it. ASAKA has explained that reimei describes a sky that has not fully lightened yet, which is where she felt TRiDENT stood. Their song titles had mostly been in English until then, and she says Nob told them the kanji made a refreshing change. The stage clothes were made blue to match.
On BLUE DAWN, "NEW ERA" was arranged by Shota Horie of PENGUIN RESEARCH. By SERINA's account, anything Horie arranges turns out hard on the bass, and each one arrives as a kind of test. Up to now practice had always been enough; on this one she ran into the size of her own hands, and it took her longer to record than anything before it.