Sheesh Y’all, It’s More Than Just Anime
November’s a great month for music releases!
BUMP’s R.I.P/Merry Christmas single and Sleepy.ab’s Paratroop album will be out on the 25th, and the HIATUS’ Insomnia single will be out on the 18th. Now, AJISAITOWN will be releasing their new single, 錯綜リアリズマ, on the 16th, and it’s only going at 500 yen for 4 songs! The way I see it, this release is more of a mini-album as compared to a single release.
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Just 2 hours ago, the first airing of R.I.P, one of the 2 A-side songs from BUMP’s new soon-to-be released single, was aired on School of Lock. I tried tuning in to the online streaming, but failed to do so. So, I decided to wait for someone to upload it on the net. Sure enough, within an hour, it’s up. Just bear with the noise. As soon as I can find a new upload with better quality, you’ll see it here. Thanks to Hyou for the link to the better quality upload.
Honestly, after a 2 year wait, I’m somewhat disappointed with R.I.P. I was really expecting something more mind-blowing, but I guess this will be like another 花の名. Hopefully, I’ll grow to like it after more listens. Now, I just hope that Merry Christmas will be impressive.
Hurry, 25th November!
Finally, after nearly 2 years, a BUMP OF CHICKEN release. And what more, on 25th November, my birthday. It’s probably the best “birthday present” I have received to date.
It’s a double A-side single, not that it matters since BUMP’s songs are all good. Currently, there are no other details regarding what the songs will be like. Looks like it’s going to be a long impatient wait for the songs to appear on the radio for me.
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.
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