I think I’m really slipping out of sync with anime. Seriously, when even my sister who started watching anime under my influence begins to ask me about some current season series which I have totally no clue about, it seems my otaku level is taking a plunge. In fact, I think that she watches at least double of my current watch list.
It wouldn’t be strange if my sister usurps this blog, since I think she does write about anime somewhere out there in cyberspace, in her small blog which I recall spotting on her laptop’s screen a couple of times. I have no idea what the url is though. But then again, considering how lazy she is to write, the chances of that actually happening are pretty low. So I’m safe, I suppose.
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.
