| 6:50am | Gokusen : Original Soundtrack Review | | | | Album Title:Gokusen : Original SoundtrackDrama Title:GokusenArtist:Ooshima MichiruCatalog Number:AVCD-17124 Release Type:SoundtrackRelease Date:June 19, 2002Purchase at:CDJapan Tracklist [[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]] Review: After listening to enough drama OSTs, you come to realize that... |
| 6:50am | Gokusen : Original Soundtrack Review | | | | Album Title:Gokusen : Original SoundtrackDrama Title:GokusenArtist:Ooshima MichiruCatalog Number:AVCD-17124 Release Type:SoundtrackRelease Date:June 19, 2002Purchase at:CDJapan Tracklist [[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]] Review: After listening to enough drama OSTs, you come to realize that... |
| 9:00am | Anime Instrumentality to Become J-Drama Instrumentality | | | | After nearly four years of writing about anime soundtracks, we at Anime Instrumentality have collectively come to a realization that in order for us to continue our evolution as J-music fans and hone our insights and analysis, it is necessary for us to explore other media. The only criteria is that... |
| 6:46am | Monday Melodic Musings: Michiko to Hatchin – Paraiso | | | | zzeroparticle: I don’t really quite know what happened to Michiko to Hatchin. As in, I didn’t really quite finish the series and since then, I haven’t really heard much of a peep about it from the broader anime community, making the chances of me picking up that series and seeing... | | |
| 10:07am | 2nd Annual Anime Music Awards – The Best of 2011 | | | | 2011 wasn’t just a very solid year for anime. On the anime music front, we were treated to a considerable number of soundtracks and opening and ending themes that left an imprint upon our collective subconscious. While heavy hitters like Puella Magi Madoka Magica’s soundtrack rocked our... | | |
| 4:28am | Monday Melodic Musings: Tytania – Andante Grandeioso Kokka | | | | Soundtrack music’s goal, first and foremost, is to evoke the emotions running through any given scene and help immerse the viewer in the going-ons. Good soundtrack music will do that so well that one can simply let the power of the music convey the scene in its totality. And for those who are... | | |
| 4:28am | Monday Melodic Musings: Tytania – Andante Grandeioso Kokka | | | | Soundtrack music’s goal, first and foremost, is to evoke the emotions running through any given scene and help immerse the viewer in the going-ons. Good soundtrack music will do that so well that one can simply let the power of the music convey the scene in its totality. And for those who are... | | |
| 11:18am | Data Mining the 50 Questions Posts in Relation to Anime Music | | | | Over the last couple of weeks, there has been a trend in the anime blogosphere in which bloggers answer 50 questions about anime and about themselves. To my delight, Ace Railgun, who started this trend, did put a few questions related to anime music, and because so many took on the challenge of answering... | | |
| 9:01pm | Monday Melodic Musings: Mouryou no Hako – Mouryou no Hako ~main theme~ | | | | The convoluted chronology. The discussion of spirits that lasted one and a half episodes. And, of course, Kyougokudou’s (Akihiko Chuuzenji) dramatic reveal at the end as the disparate components of the mystery finally flow together into a coherent, engrossing narrative. Those were the three... | | |
| 5:39am | Mawaru Penguindrum – OST Vol. 1 – Review | | | | Album Title:Mawaru Penguindrum Vol.1 Bonus CDAnime Title:Mawaru PenguindrumArtist:Yukari HashimotoCatalog Number:SSX-10205Release Type:SoundtrackRelease Date:October 26, 2011Purchase at:CDJapan, Play-Asia Tracklist [[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]] Review: Though it’s been over a month since... |
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