[PV] Tsukiakari no Michishirube by Stereopony

It took me awhile to get a hang to this. I’ll admit it; I’m not such a huge fan of this song nor of Stereopony. I do however think that it’s better than their take on Gundam 00 OP, Namida no Mukou. DTB Gemini ED by abingdon boys school is better but the single is not out yet but I’ll post it up as soon as it is released. If you want the song, you can get the PV rip here. Cheers!

DTB: Ryuusei no Gemini OP + ED

Ah! AIMI’s cute voice for the vocals of Stereopony really fits DTB2 this time, judging by the fact that Suou is taking the lead role while Hei’s story is taking the back seat. We should be familiar with Stereopony from Gundam 00 and Bleach. And also, the ever famous abingdon boys school. I swear we’re seeing this band doing OPs and EDs for various animes, including Soul Eater, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, and more recently, Sengoku Basara. But to be fair, they also did the OP for DTB season 1. I’d say I wouldn’t enjoy both tracks though abingdon boys schools did a better job. I still find FMA’s second OP and ED are the best of anime this year, with NICO Touches the Wall’s Hologram for OP and Miho Fukuhara’s Let It Out for ED. As if not having Yoko Kanno for music director isn’t bad enough already. I guess we’ll have to make do for the newbie for now. For their full songs, I’ll post them up once they’re released. Should be soon enough, I hope.

[OP] Stereopony – Tsukiakari no Michishirube

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[ED] abingdon boys school – From Dusk Till Dawn

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Anime openings and endings by popular western bands

After the rather nice surprise of hearing Oasis singing the opening for Eden of the East, I did a little research to check what other anime had songs sung by popular western bands with plans to write a post about them. Then I instantly forgot until 3 moths later when I came across an anime opening sung by the Backstreet Boys. So I decided to go back and write the post, even though it’s not quite the hot topic it was when Eden was airing.

1: Eden of the East OP – Falling Down – Oasis

[PV] HOLOGRAM by NICO Touches the Walls

This is the 2nd opening song for FMA2: Brotherhood. One of the awesome of opening songs for any anime, if not, for the franchise. I don’t really listen to NICO Touches the Walls but I do know the band did a song for Naruto before, which I presume to be where their success had kicked-off. The full PV rip of the song is also available here for download.

Because Malaysia is an Otakuland!

Update: I got it all wrong. It was not “Don’t Bother None” and it wasn’t “Gotta Knock a Little Harder” as well. My bad. Either way, if you want the songs, just click on the provided links.

Driving is boring without some anime songs.

This happened 2 days ago, so I’m posting this kind of late but what happened remains to be a surprising revelation. It happened when I was driving on my way to work after I had my lunch when the radio DJ from the national English station, Traxx FM, began mutter out (I’m not exactly a radio listener but this one was too good to catch my attention) a very familiar name: Yoko Kanno. So the DJ continued as I quote:

Next up is a soundtrack from Yoko Kanno, used as the opening song for the animated movie, Cowboy Bebop. Here’s “Ask DNA”.

I went like “MAJI KA?” And yes, the DJ was not kidding. An anime song! Played on the national radio! On the airwaves! Listened by most Malaysians! I’m pretty sure I’m not the only otaku hyped out about this. So if you’re Malaysian, do tell if you had something similar of an encounter such as this one. Malaysia is indeed, truly OTAKU!

In case you’re wondering which Cowboy Bebop song I’m referring to, click here to play.

Shangri-la OP oops! Wrong song!

I can’t find a youtube version of the song ‘Shangri-la’ by chatmonchy but here’s a good rendition by a 9 year old girl. If you want the mp3, gendou is your friend.

And yeah, I downloaded it thinking it was the OP or ED…but I’m glad for my mistake =D Number one of my playlist now, just knocked down ‘Again’ by YUI.