Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 19, 2010
The latest Mizuki Nana single from the Nanoha movie, “Phantom Minds,” has hit #1 in the charts – but that really doesn’t mean much. As houkoholic at seiyuu3 points out, her 21st single isn’t even the #1 best-seller among Mizuki Nana singles. It’s just not a market where CDs sell, and the sales rose to [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 29, 2009
Mizuki Nana may be the only anime seiyuu on the 60th Kouhaku program this week, but there are plenty of mainstream performers on the program who’ve lent their songs to anime programs and video games. I mean, Final Fantasy X-2 skyrocketed Koda Kumi’s career, and fans of her skimpy outfits and catchy dance tunes are [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 23, 2009
It’s been a long time since the heyday of Shiina Hekiru, so it’s entirely possible that you don’t know who she is. Her most famous role came 15 years ago, as Hikaru in Magic Knight Rayearth. After that, she gained a lot of popularity as a singer, especially after a 1997 concert at the legendary [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 16, 2009
There’s really no need to explain this one: it’s j-pop/dance idol Amuro Namie’s latest music video, which features legendary Gundam hero Amuro Ray. It’s a super catchy tune, and it definitely features the Gundam series and music a lot better than the other Gundam music video from Gackt:
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 8, 2009
What do you get when you mix Super Eurobeat with randomly cute seiyuu pop? You get Tamura Yukari’s new single You & Me, apparently. Tamura Yukari isn’t my favorite performer, but she does well within her range and occasionally one of her songs will be actually catchy instead of just generic bubblegum pop. Meanwhile, motsu [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 1, 2009
The Macross Frontier movie recently came out in Japanese theaters, and while I won’t be able to get my grubby little hands on it for a while, I did manage to acquire a copy of the special album that comes with the movie, and it’s… a little hard to describe. With the wild success of [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 24, 2009
Today’s tunes are inspired by my love for Mizuki Nana as a singer, with a nod to Kouhaku Uta Gassen for acknowledging that Mizuki Nana isn’t just for otaku anymore – though they definitely make up a strong core of her audience. She sure has come a long way from her early appearances a decade [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 17, 2009
Today’s Tuesday Tunes talks about two of the grand old men of anime music, Mizuki Ichirou and Kushida Akira. The two of them have combined for hundreds of anime and tokusatsu themes, and they’re two of the featured acts of the upcoming Kingrun Anime Song Kouhaku. Their songs are older than a lot of you [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 10, 2009
Welcome to the second weekly feature here on AnimeReel: Tuesday Tunes. The anime industry’s music subculture is a fearsome beast, with dozens of new songs coming out every few months to sell CD singles – the otaku market is one of the few consistent sources of CD revenue in this age of iTunes, and it [...]
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