This song is really epic (in my opinion). It’s one of my favourite songs from Impact Exciter (the album) and it really gives off this feeling of Japan as the traditional empire with emperors and dragons. You can also hear traditional instruments within the music. It just made me think of a dragon empire, and the lyrics also mention elements such as history, an empire, dragons and war. So that is how I came to draw my very first dragon. It is a cute one, though and it is asleep.

It features Chihiro as some sort of Dragon Princess (which it says on her huge collar). The place is some sort of a meditation hall or resting space, including lanterns with the words ‘ansei’ (‘rest’ or ‘quiet’) and ‘kaiki’ (‘recovery’). I imagine the dragon being her pet and she rests with it once a day.

(You will be able to find my English translation of the song in ‘Nice Music’ > ‘Nana Mizuki’ > ‘Impact Exciter’ > ‘Dragonia’)