Sheesh Y’all, It’s More Than Just Anime
Just a random thought when I was listening to Sakamoto Maaya’s latest single, Triangler.
Listen to the 2 audio samples, with the first being Sakamoto Maaya’s Triangler, Macross Frontier’s OP , and the second being being Porno Graffitti’s Melissa, Full Metal Alchemist’s first OP, and see if you find them somewhat strikingly similar.
Continue reading ‘Triangler And Melissa - Why Do Their Endings Sound Similar?’
One thing that I really like about Major are the theme songs. Specifically, the opening theme songs. I realised that I always skipped the ending theme songs for a two reasons. They don’t sound good on the first hearing, and I’m too impatient to wait an extra minute or so before I go on to the next episode.
Actually, this post is going to be mostly on Road of Major, the band which performed the OPs for the first three seasons of Major. After all, I did say that I skipped most of the EDs, so I can’t really say much about them.
Genshiken 2 is really slow paced, and too serious. It’s lacking far too much in the humor department. I wouldn’t really know how fast or slow the pace is, as I stopped reading the manga at where the OVAs ended so that I could fully enjoy the series. After all, the previous season and the OVAs were faithful to the manga. Looks like I might just pick up the manga and finish it instead of waiting for the anime.
Anyway, speaking of which, the one and only thing which I felt was decently interesting would be the opening animation. The ending sequence of Genshiken 2 was too similar to the previous season’s ending animation.
Anyway, here are some screenshots of the new opening animation. Continue reading ‘The only thing in Genshiken 2 which is worth my attention so far…’
There are many anime out there, and together with the various series are the many opening and ending songs. So, with so many anime OP and ED songs out there, how do you judge what’s good and what sucks?
Anime Songs are in fact Japanese Pop songs, so the way to judge them is rather similar.
There 3 basic components that make or break a song, regardless of what genre of song it is.
I’m not any music guru, nor have I learnt anything about music before. Heck, I can’t even blow the recorder properly. But, I feel that the 3 points stated above are the foundation for a song. It’s pretty much common sense, but it seems that many artistes don’t have it.
For anime songs however, I feel that there’s another component which should be included so as to decide how great a song it is. This, however, is a bonus section. If the song fails the previous 3 basic points, it fails, even if it does well in this section.
I don’t think I expressed this properly, so let me give you an example.
A song which I feel is has scored in all components would be “Tomorrow”, which is the OP for Full Metal Panic, sung by Shimokawa Mikuni. Why?
Continue reading ‘Anime OPs and EDs: Examples of what’s Good and what’s Crude’
I was listening to the Ghost in the Shell : Stand Alone Complex OST 2,and when I heard the song Rise,the current ODEX fiasco came to my mind.
For those who do not know, Rise is the OP song for Ghost in the Shell : SAC 2nd GiG.It’s not in Japanese,but still cool. For those who have not heard it,please do. It’s quite addictive and catchy,even if you don’t know Russian.
Anyway,this is the part.
Save your fears
take your place
save them for the judgement day
fast and free
follow me
time to make the sacrifice
we rise or fall
This is the second part of the song’s chorus.
Don’t you think that it suits the current situation quite aptly?
And the sacrifice…
Continue reading ‘Song lyrics which would suit the current Odex situation’
