Ok... In my past experience this kinda thread never lasts long...
There was a day when I watched an ep of .hack//SIGN on CN.
I liked the story... sure, not much action, but i didn't mind.
(I still haven't finished it, for lack of even basic cable and that
anime DVDs are expensive)
In any case, on to my real point. I fell in love with the music in
.hack//SIGN. I got the soundtrack, and Yuki Kajiura became my
musical goddess. lol
Kajiura is probably the one that introduced me to more anime,
cuz I went looking for more stuff done by her. Let's see, how did
it go... (Madlax, Noir, Mai-HiME, Tsubasa Chronicle, Elemental "Gelade"
(Liked "Gerad" better...), Mai-Otome) And absolutely loved Akatsuki no
Kuruma in Gundam SEED.
Who else, oh, Yoko Kanno! Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, GitS:SAC....
Love it.
And no... I haven't ignored the OP and EDs. While songs by See-Saw and
FictionJunction would fall under Kajiura, I like the songs by KOTOKO and
I've Sound.
Before this gets too long and I run out of things to say, I'll let you all keep
the thread moving. Music (or lack of) is a key part of anime. You can't
ignore it! ^^
Asian Kung-fu Generation, Le~Arc~en~Ciel, T.M. revolution, SEE-SAW, and the woman that sings the 4th ending theme of inuyasha ^_^
KOTOKO (does music for a ton of dating sims), Ali Project (good music, a little too gothic lolita for my tastes), and Triomatic (I'll give you a hint: Mahoromatic ending) are all good.
If you like KOTOKO, I highly recommend all the other artists from I've Sound.
Those artists seem to be moving out of the dating sim world and into anime. Kawada Mami's Hishoku no Sora from Shakugan no Shana, and Eiko Shimamiya's Higurashi no Naku Koro ni from... Higurashi no Naku Koro ni! XD;
At Anime Expo 05, I saw KOTOKO in concert. I had never heard of her at the time, but I love the catchy trance tunez. ^^
you've been to anime expo?!? *bows at your feet* you lucky lucky person ;013
QuoteIf you like KOTOKO, I highly recommend all the other artists from I've Sound.
Hmm...that gives me an idea.
*Runs off to Limewire*
Gotta download...gotta download!
*Thinks*
WOO HOO 900 POSTS!
muahahar
twice, my friend.
And I can't wait to go next year. .....unless my family plans a trip somewhere... :P
lol, I got a crazed guy with 900 posts going to download stuff. Control, please advise.
your soooo lucky. although i am going to animemazment next year. My first con!!!!
QuoteMy first con!!!
Just remember to keep your story straight and remember not to call the mark the mark.
*thinks*
Oh. An Otaku Convention. Forget everything you just heard!
Quotelol, I got a crazed guy with 900 posts going to download stuff. Control, please advise.
I feel like I know where that is from, but I can't remember!
i know where it's from! it's from SleepyD's last post ^_^ *feeling smart*
yay! I kinda wish my first con experience was in a small con. I was so lost and confused. lol
Where/when is animemazment? I don't think I've heard of that one... google doesn't seem to give me much info...
To stay somewhat on topic,
I missed the Yuki Kajiura Concert by 1 year! AX04. ;_;
(in case you haven't figured it out,
<---this guy == crazy Kajiura um... fan. boy? XD;)
QuoteI feel like I know where that is from, but I can't remember!
Uhh.... I dunno, it came to mind at random. Police talk maybe? ^^
Quotei know where it's from! it's from SleepyD's last post *feeling smart*
Good for you. You deserve a cupcake. lol
me love cupcake o_o and animazment is in Durham-Raleigh, NC
I know why google didn't give me anything! You spelled it wrong!
AnimazEment
have a pebble. lol
....*attempts to stay somewhat on topic*
You know how people wave around lighters at concerts? At the KOTOKO concert, during a piano interlude and the subsequent slow song, people waved around cellphones. Having never seen this before, I found it quite amusing and pulled out my cell with everyone else. ^^ (I even spotted a PSP. lol)
QuoteYou know how people wave around lighters at concerts? At the KOTOKO concert, during a piano interlude and the subsequent slow song, people waved around cellphones. Having never seen this before, I found it quite amusing and pulled out my cell with everyone else. ^^ (I even spotted a PSP. lol)
That reminds me of the time my history teacher and several other teachers impersonated the Beatles at a school assembly. So many memories...
That reminds me of the time my history teacher and several other teachers impersonated the Village People at a school rally. So freakin funny...
Really they did. I was laughing too hard to be able to do the Y-M-C-A arm movement thingys. lol
hard to keep this on topic. lol
Anime music plz to anyone else. The Original Poster requests it. ^^
Village People have a handful of really catchy songs. *nods*
As for anime music, I mostly know only the openings and endings of the series I've watched, and in some specific cases also some of the soundtracks in general and in the most ultimate cases the singers.
My personal favourite anime song voices are those of Rie Tanaka, Naomi Tamura (I mostly know her from the two marvellous MKR openings songs Yuzurenai Negai and Hikari to Kage o Dakishimete), Mitsuko Horie (often very strong voice) and last but maybe most importantly, the late Ritsuko Okazaki who tragically died earlier the same month I originally fell in love with her songs.
In soundtracks, I value the ones specifically high in Martian Successor Nadesico and Hanaukyo Maid Tai La Verite (for some insane reason, I've found this series to be one of my favourites in many aspects, despite its err... lacking plot and rather stereotypical characters). Michiru Oshima is responsible for the soundtrack in the latter mentioned, but I cannot recall the respective person for MSN at this moment.
Headache destroying my concentration... can't focus any longer. -_-
Hm, some of my favourite artists....
Well, Yuki Kajiura, Origa and Youko Kanno to name a few.
He has Amiga-chan for an avi AND listens to Origa!!!
Dagnammit!!! Why hasn't anyone given Bob his sainthood yet?!!! ^0^
ORIGA ROCKS!! ;010
Another medal for the 22nd XP right here~!!! ^v^
"La Ronde Lunaire" is THE BEST!!!! ^V^
(and helped me draw PTS-DOS-chan too.... ^.^)
Borrowing my mom's cd...
what?
She's cool!
She listens to Nine inch Nails!!
And Rob Zombie!
And Dresden Dolls!
And Disturbed!
Those are her cds!
I have They Might Be Giants and Barenaked Ladies!
STOP LAUGHING AT ME!!!!
Quote
Borrowing my mom's cd...
what?
She's cool!
She listens to Nine inch Nails!!
And Rob Zombie!
And Dresden Dolls!
And Disturbed!
o_o your mom f-ing rocks!
Quote from: "Silentbob"Hm, some of my favourite artists....
Well, Yuki Kajiura, Origa and Youko Kanno to name a few.
Silentbob, you rock so much. ^^
E~to....I don't how this came into the topic(We are in the Anime/Manga section...) ...but eh. Brings something else up. Anyone know of Western music entering the anime world?
All I can think of is "Do You Want To" by Franz Ferdinand in Paradise Kiss's ED.
One song that i think any anime otaku should hear is Lost Heaven by Lââ,¬â,,¢arc-en-Ciel. Also, I'm a sucker for anything from Full metal Alchemist.
i'm basically a YUI fan!!! long live YUI!!! :/
and of course there is azumanga soundtracks. from sora mimi cake to raspberry heaven and everything in between
and of course larc is really great!!! ;047
haf u heard of JYONGRI? i like her song Possession. ^^
i've heard Shimatani Hiromi-Dragonfly, but cudnt find any place wher i cud get the song T-T
currently my no.1 fav. song is CHU-LIP-Otsuka Ai....hahahah the PV is weird too.
Kotoko, Kukui, Ali project, Horie yui, rie tanaka...
those are for me but my fav one is kotoko.. she sounds so cute when singing her song
Has anyone listened to berserks OST?
It is brilliant.
Highly recommended especially the forces track
Hmmm...i like UVERworld, Yuki Kajiura, Sakamoto Maaya, Aya Hirano, and don't forget L'arc en Ciel.
Anyway, did you know Bump Of Chicken ? I try to find their song (the song name is Karma, an OP song in Tales of Abyss game) by searching with google, but i haven't find it...can anyone help me >
haha, wow, someone revived my music thread.
Yay, another Kajiura fan! XD;
sorry, I fanboy when it comes to Kajiura. haha
Motoi Sakuraba's work fits perfectly with the games they hire him for. I love the music at the end of Tales of the Abyss.
of course, there's always I've Sound. A lot of their stuff is pretty good. ^^
Ah, I almost forgot. I shall introduce you to people on youtube who play music from various anime/games.
first, TAMMUSIC, a Japanese music guy who had another account with more stuff that seems to have disappeared... in any case, he plays violin and piano, does music from Air, Kanon, Touhou, and I think there's a Haruhi vid in there somewhere.... http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TAMUSICSKY
Another is an American improv guy, does his own renditions of anime/game music. Lots of music on there, great stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kyle556
I wonder, is this thread only for anime/game music?
If that is the case then I shall list my favourites here.
Yuki Kajiura, I fell in love with the Xenosaga OST's
Motoi Sakuraba, he strangely resembles Frédéric Chopin, the orchestrated works he does are often not so good, but the piano music is genius!
I liked the music in Dynasty Warriors, MASA, Toru Hasebe and Kenji Nakajo.
Also Jón Hallur the one who made the music for Eve-online, those who play it know.
As for anime there's Shiro Sagisu, my all time anime composer favourite.
Konishi Kayo
Kondoo Yukio
Mitsumune Shinkichi
Toshihiko Sahashi
Yasushi Ishii
Ooshima Michiru
Yoshihisa Hirano
and Hideki Taniuchi
Hah! I just burned the a CD with lots of jPop to my 7-year old countryside-living cousin. She's engrossed with it, and it's all my doing. Beat that!
i really like the ED from bleach season II
Quote from: "Gummster"I wonder, is this thread only for anime/game music?
If that is the case then I shall list my favourites here.
Yuki Kajiura, I fell in love with the Xenosaga OST's
Motoi Sakuraba, he strangely resembles Frédéric Chopin, the orchestrated works he does are often not so good, but the piano music is genius!
I liked the music in Dynasty Warriors, MASA, Toru Hasebe and Kenji Nakajo.
Also Jón Hallur the one who made the music for Eve-online, those who play it know.
As for anime there's Shiro Sagisu, my all time anime composer favourite.
Konishi Kayo
Kondoo Yukio
Mitsumune Shinkichi
Toshihiko Sahashi
Yasushi Ishii
Ooshima Michiru
Yoshihisa Hirano
and Hideki Taniuchi
wow, you've listened to quite a few. ^^ I've bolded the ones I know, and all I like. :3 Toshihiko Sahashi did the music for Gunslinger Girl and Gundam SEED, which I enjoyed listening to. ^^
huh, never thought about Sakuraba's music like that... I do adore his piano stuff...
let me add Kenji Kawai and Tenmon.
Kawai's stuff include Higurashi, Fate/stay night, GitS2: INNOCENCE, Ringu, and Ringu 2. ^^
Tenmon famously does music for Makoto Shinkai's movies, and the strings in The Place Promised in Our Early Days (aka Beyond the Clouds) is epic. ^^
Quote from: "SleepyD"Toshihiko Sahashi did the music for Gunslinger Girl and Gundam SEED
And FMP if I may add. Plus the works he does that aren't for anime or games are as well brilliant.
I don't know if it's necessarily a favorite of mine, but one song I absolutely can't forget is "Tank!" the opening song from Cowboy Bebop...it's kinda stuck in my head, XD
Yes, Yoko Kanno is great to! The music she did for Stand Alone Complex never seizes to amaze me. The Cowboy Bebop and Darker Than Black music she did I liked very much although none of those even compare to the music she did for Romance of the three kingdoms!
hack sign wasnt much of a action anime but it was a good anime.
though the bonus episode was strange, helba invites everybody to
netslum for a party? that is weirddd!
the music is pretty wsome for the serie. the first time i heard it i was
mesmerize. i though wow did yoko did this? but no..
i watch wolf's rain cos the composer name is yoko kanno. after seeing
escaflowne and cowboy bebop. i realize the music makes mi come back
for more.
you know what i haven't listen to for awhilke?
Le Vent Vertâ€"Le Temps Bleu by ORIGA, XD
I heard of Yuki Kajiura before Kanno. ^^;
.hack//SIGN was one of the first serious types of anime that I've seen, and it appealed to me greatly. The music was amazing, and I think it's still one of Kajiura's best.
Kanno is great too. ^^ If I listened to Kanno before Kajiura, I might be a Kanno fanboy instead of a Kajiura fanboy. haha.... composer fanboys... don't hear that very often.
I've Sound is beginning to make themselves known. You all know about KOTOKO, but there's Kawada Mami (Shana OP) and Shimamiya Eiko (Higurashi OP, Higurashi Kai OP)
any thoughts?
Hmmmmmmm~
*empties mind*
COOKIES!!! :D
Thoughts are stick with Mami Kawada! She's good, if you like j-pop. She paired with if I remember correctly Kotoko when doing soundtrack for Onegai Teacher and Twins.
Shimamiya Eiko this one, I have never heard of.
Classic...Second Flight and Shooting Star remain among some of my favorite anime songs ever! However, nothing can compare to FLOW's COLORS (the Code Geass OP1) or Bouken Desho Desho (Haruhi OP). Those will always have a special place in my heart...
Quote from: "Gummster"Thoughts are stick with Mami Kawada! She's good, if you like j-pop. She paired with if I remember correctly Kotoko when doing soundtrack for Onegai Teacher and Twins.
Shimamiya Eiko this one, I have never heard of.
EIKO is less on the pop-y side and more.... slow? serious? ...ballad? XD; I can't find a good description. maybe... mature vocals? ah, I give up.
Her vocals fit perfectly for Higurashi. ^^
And right now, I'm enjoying Uninstall from Chiaki Ishikawa. Now, if only I got this CD signed at AX.... *kicks self for not getting her autograph*
One question - what is the best legal way to obtain anime mp3's besides ripping CD's? I hate to keep having to use LimeWire to get anime mp3's. It seems to never have what I need...
Well there's always buying them...
QuoteEIKO is less on the pop-y side and more.... slow? serious? ...ballad? XD; I can't find a good description. maybe... mature vocals? ah, I give up.
I see. Is it possible to compare her with the Minawo duo? Or perhaps Shimokawa Mikuni?
ahaha, ok, I think I missed the mark by a liiiitle bit. XD; just a little bit.
erm... I had a good night's sleep today, let's see if I can come up with a description:
Her songs tend to be slower than other I've sound songs. Her songs have a sad feel, but it seems stronger somehow...
Actually, now that I think about it, I'm starting to think the difference between EIKO's songs and the artists you mentioned is because of the bass. It gives her music that "oomph"
I've sound loves their synth, right? :3
Her Higurashi music is a bit different from her other songs. But you can still get an idea of her music, I guess. The Higurashi Kai OP is closer to her past music with I've.
YouTube:Higurashi, Higurashi Kai OPs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlnH7vPeWfY)
Edit: I just listened to her song VANILLA, and she can pull off ballads like those from the artists you mentioned. ^^ She's not that well known, and I'm only now listening to her music. ^^;
So it's a sort of light gothic, mainly? Or just all around?
But after hearing that I get the feeling that I must listen to more of her works, and watch this 'Higurashi'
Quote from: "Gummster"So it's a sort of light gothic, mainly? Or just all around?
But after hearing that I get the feeling that I must listen to more of her works, and watch this 'Higurashi'
I highly recommend Higurashi. And I'm sure other guys here do too. ^^
*nodnod*
So it's that good hah, I now hate my internet connection even more.
By the way, I listened to some of Eiko's songs, and I'm left with a woah.
I don't know if everyone like this, but since here are so many haruhi-fans and in my opinion it is a well-made- AMV
( Anime Music Video) from Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIjsPFYdkZY
Wow...that was great! I didn't realize that J-Rap was that good!
I'm not really a fan of hip-hop or rap and I probably wouldn't have liked that song if I would have heard it with out the video.
I've been listening a lot to Hiroyuki Tsuji (Samurai Deeper Kyo) and I think that he would be great if he would lay down sound effects a bit, in the fusion rock he does that is. I have nothing to say about his music that is on the calm side, I find it to be 'brilliant' as they say.