School of Magic: Enchantment

This song is about the famous Japanese author Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫), a endlessly fascinating contradiction of post-war Japan. Lauded in Japan and the West for novels like Confessions of a Mask and After the Banquet, Mishima committed suicide in spectacular fashion in 1970 while attempting a coup to overthrow the government and restore the Emperor.

Mishima was a walking paradox: a bodybuilder and fascist who wrote beautifully fragile prose, a gay romantic who started a far-right militia to depose the government; a military fanatic who never served himself.

Pallett previously sung about Mishima on the song Adventure.exe.