With the OP of the anime adapation of Tales of the Abyss being BUMP’s Karma, I was hoping for the ED to be something done by BUMP too. Hence, when I learned that the ED, Bouken Suisei, will feature the vocals of Enomoto Kurumi, I felt a little disappointment.
However, on closer inspection of the song’s background, I realised that BUMP is actually somewhat involved. Fujiwara Motoo, who writes all of BUMP’s tunes and almost all the lyrics, plays the role of a co-producer of the song. Together with MOR, whom I have no idea who that is, they’ll compose the tune as well as craft out the lyrics.
I’ve never played the game since I never owned a PS2, so I shall not speak of what I lack knowledge of. However, I can confidently say that I’ve looped through its theme song, Karma, for at least a few hundred times ever since I started listening to Bump of Chicken back in 2006. I was quite surprised that the anime adaptation’s using Karma as the opening theme song too. With this, Bump of Chicken will now have 2 songs out of their entire discography related to anime. In case you’re wondering, the other song is Sailing Day, which was the ending theme song for one of the One Piece movies.
Since my computer’s in my bedroom and it’s on most of the time, I’ve this habit of queuing a long playlist and starting the playback just before I retire for the night. This probably explains why my power supply unit blew up a couple of months back.
So far, I’ve tried out different kinds of songs, but as I’m quite a light sleeper, BGMs are the only one that can successfully get me to dreamland. Most of the songs with vocals in them often keep me awake instead, and I end up sleeping even later than I should have.
If you listened to the entire single release of Toshokan Sensou’s OP, Atashi no Machi, Ashita no Machi, you would have noticed that there was a B-side named mother’s car. I never paid much attention to it as it was the least catchy tune out of all the 3 songs.
One thing I like about albums that consist of the artiste singing their versions of songs done by other artistes is the exposure to songs from the past which you might not have heard of.
An example was Shimokawa Mikuni’s Reprise album released last December, with half of it featuring many classic anime theme songs. Although most of them were brought over from her 2003 Review album, there are a couple of new cover songs.
Ever since I came across the original Macross TV series and movie, I’ve always loved the classic 愛・覚えていますか. However, it was only with the recent release of Nakajima Megumi’s latest single 星間飛行 (Seikan Hikou) did I realise that there were actually quite a number of versions of the song out there.
I’m not sure if I managed to cover them all, but here’s all I’ve found.
Hurray, yet another Bump of Chicken release. This time, it’s an album with all their past singles’ B-sides compiled. Running at 13 tracks, the last song, Present, is a totally brand new track.
I never knew of Takahashi Hitomi until the day of I heard this song in Toshokan Sensou’s OP. I’m really hooked on her voice and this song to an extent that I’ve tried to the very best of my moonspeak linguistic abilities to translate this song. After all, it doesn’t seem like anyone’s going to do it, since she isn’t exactly popular.
Pardon my mistakes, as I have only picked up Japanese for less than a year, 9 months to be exact. Also, the only person who has checked through this translation is me, since I couldn’t get anyone else. There’s always a first time for everything, I guess.
Corrections and suggestions for improvement are greatly welcomed. よろしくね。
Not the whole series, but just episode 7. The 20 odd minutes revolve around some loser violinist who hires Golgo13 not to kill his rival, but instead, to snipe the G string of his violin so as to embarrass him during his solo. And to think he’s paying big bucks for such a act. What a buffoon.
Anyway, the G string was sniped because the tune played was Air on the G String. I’m totally not knowledgeable regarding anything related to classical music, and have totally zero musical background. Still, I think understand the bare basics of appreciate a good piece of music.
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