[1] While the album was originally released only in Japan, a 2017 reissue on Palto Flats and WRWTFWW Records widely increased its availability outside of the country while attracting new attention and critical acclaim.

[5] Padua compares the title track to Japanese folk music, noting its "dreamy marimba" and "minimal rhythms" which "set up a foundation for brassy jazz figures and dissonant background fills".

"[1] Both Resident Advisor and Bowler consider "Semi Tori No Hi" a highlight of the album; the former notes the track "alternates between placid new age vibes—shimmering chimes, strummed harps—and soulful horn bursts.

In Bowler's review for Record Collector, he gave the album a four-star rating, noting its meld of genres and similarities with the acclaimed Utakata No Hibi (1983) by Mariah (of which Shimizu was a member).

"[5] In Padua's review for Spectrum Culture he states that "on any given track, Kakashi is likely to shift from ambient to jazz to Japanese folk to some hybrid impossible to label, and that is part of the joy of such music.