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This is a thread where people can share anime songs they like, discuss artists who make music for anime, link covers of anime songs, etc. I'll keep this OP mostly reserved for general resources. And remember, an anime doesn't have to be good to have good music. Past/Related threads: The Doujin Music Thread is still open. Closed threads like this one include:
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To kick this thread off, I want to talk about Lia. She is a singer who has been doing work for 20 years, and her voice was sampled to make the vocaloid "IA". In the world of anime, she's most famous for her work on projects by the visual novel studio Key, and I think her songs fit the bittersweet mood Key projects tend to have. 鳥の詩 / Tori no Uta / "Bird's Poem" was the opening to the 2000 Key game and 2005 anime "Air": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtJnix-9niI "Tori no Uta [the speed freak's noise rave remix]" by DJ Sharpnel is a song sampling Tori no Uta which got popular in its own right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anAH4CjJu8I "My Soul, Your Beats!" was the opening to the 2010 Key anime "Angel Beats!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIFV8UUs1-c "days" is the ending to 2014 anime Mekakucity Actors (which started as a series of vocaloid songs using IA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sPDPr3S7Zg "Bravely You" was the opening to 2015 Key anime "Charlotte" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhRsyIGN-cA dirby fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Jun 13, 2021 |
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Jun 13, 2021 03:24
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First anime game soundtrack I ever bought. The game was kind of a letdown, but I never get tired of 90s/early 2000s vocal openings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bHgx8qIQ6s And probably my favorite opening of any show; it really gets you in that D&D fantasy mood for kicking rear end and throwing fireballs, and that jump into the chorus just makes me go, "gently caress yeah!" every time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZKXtk3C3-4 Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jun 13, 2021 |
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Jun 13, 2021 03:29
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Open Your Heart is pro-tier. I'm fond of Cyberteam in Akihabara because there's something just so weird about it sounding like a perfect 80s-90s OVA thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZoyVob2ayA RahXephon was ambitious and a mess but drat if the music wasn't banging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1_35xiub4 Saber Marionette was graced by Hayashibara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrLy3-6OleY Dumbells anime had a loving banging op that belongs in any workout set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04HIJVUoU5E But we all know the best of all the drat OPs, the undisputed winner is UTENA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyPv7QyuZl0
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Jun 13, 2021 06:44
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Onegai Muscle is good. Been liking a lot of tracks from slice of life stuff lately. UTENA
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Jun 13, 2021 07:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJpHU--A--8
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Jun 13, 2021 11:34
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My favorite anime OST goes to Welcome to the NHK Pearl Kyoudai really knocked it out of the park, making something that really captures both the feeling of melancholy that comes with depression and isolation, as well as nostalgia for time long past. Not to mention it's bolstered by the great OP "Puzzle" by Round Table ft. Nino, and Makino Yui. Some of the standout songs for me are: "Puzzle" "Gosui ni Tarasu Tsuri Ito" "Kagerou Ressha" "Hiyori no Tame no Lullaby" "Tensei wa Namida to Tsubasa wo Otosu" "Atashi Datte Onaji Koto Omotteru yo" "Modokashii Sekai no Ue de" "Kyou wa Yuuhi Yarou" "Natsu no Nichi ni Youkoso" "Ashita wa Tabun Daijoubu" "Odoru Akachan Ningen" "Youkoso! Hitori Bocchi"
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Jun 13, 2021 13:19
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These are some of the OP/ED's/inserts I'm most fond of. The Latin-American cover of Baad's "I want to scream "I love you!"" for Slam Dunk will always hold a special place in my heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaakVS4QNb8 Same goes for the Ending of Dragon Quest - Dai's Big Adventure aka Las Aventuras de Fly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1U_PdiMAko And, of course, the first song I actually translated for my Japanese class back in 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf9WsYemx6k
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Jun 13, 2021 15:39
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Special shout-outs to god-tier musics: Serial Experiments Lain is loving unreal in blu-ray quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5kUmni5Dk And Macross, somehow, blows it out of the water every now and then Voices has amazing drums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPnWdR6Q_g0 Aimo is just ethereal nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHpt2qikj1I And just short of amazing is Smile Bomb from YuuYuu Hakusho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzTIoFvHDvA
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Jun 13, 2021 15:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2CiX6ArmsQ Yoko Kanno is cheating I guess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Ee6PJvek4
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Jun 13, 2021 15:52
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This show just really hits it out of the park for me on every level, and this track is so beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M19QFYE20Hk Also good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKU4mJtecNc Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jun 13, 2021 |
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Jun 13, 2021 22:20
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Mister Facetious posted:And probably my favorite opening of any show; it really gets you in that D&D fantasy mood for kicking rear end and throwing fireballs, and that jump into the chorus just makes me go, "gently caress yeah!" every time: They're close, but I think I like the opening to the original Slayers, "Get Along", a little more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7e3hjvcXWM Both are sung (at least in part) by Megumi Hayashibara (林原 めぐみ), who was one of the most famous anime voice actresses especially around the 90s: She was Lina from Slayers, Rei from Evangelion, female Ranma, Faye from Cowboy Bebop, Lucy from Macross Plus, etc. She still voices characters today (e.g. Shuichi Saihara from Danganronpa V3) For anime songs, she also sang the upbeat opening to Love Hina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXoUJ65veq4 More recently, she sang the jazzy second opening for Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1xxtP88exA
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Jun 19, 2021 15:25
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FilthyImp posted:Special shout-outs to god-tier musics:
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Jun 22, 2021 20:18
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oddtaxi's been my fixation for the last couple of months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBxX1tz1p4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBfaQiVEYQ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVcYuxibYA
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Jun 22, 2021 22:45
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I'm occasionally playing AMQ, which will feed off of the watch lists of your choice: https://animemusicquiz.com/ You get a short section of a random show's intro or outro song, and you have to guess which show it is off that. It's nice to remind you of their music, and they have a terrifyingly wide selection available, even reaching back into the 60s on occasion. Some evergreens: Recovery of an MMO Junkie OP - Saturday Night Question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6NpxYb73k Bokurano OP - Uninstall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oX8Ih9r4oI Also my swedish friends tell me that the outro for the first season of Konosuba is just straight up a swedish folk song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhiU4IAZtug
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Jun 23, 2021 02:56
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https://youtu.be/SxF35sqikJU This anime was pretty boring, but this ED is absolute heaven with headphones. Never see anyone talk about it, though.
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Jun 25, 2021 06:58
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blossommirage posted:https://youtu.be/SxF35sqikJU I never bounced off an anime harder than I did with that show. I tried four times to watch it and I just couldn't give a poo poo. That song rocks though.
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Jun 25, 2021 08:30
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blossommirage posted:https://youtu.be/SxF35sqikJU It's Momoiro Clover Z  I think I only watched the first few episodes  The anime about discount lunch has a great soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_sgNbT4VQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGi9XZFX5i0
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Jun 25, 2021 09:49
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Eliza posted:I'm occasionally playing AMQ, which will feed off of the watch lists of your choice: https://animemusicquiz.com/ A good site for finding out that you don't remember EDs. (Also it doesn't pause the countdown if the music has to buffer midway, which is a little unfair)
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Jun 27, 2021 22:06
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For my money, one of the most criminally underrated original anime soundtracks is Heat Guy J. You want to be a badass? Just have speakers blaring this everywhere you go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4T9hNy0SU
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Jun 27, 2021 22:59
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Something reminded me of the second Samurai Flamenco OP for some reason, so here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRqXdmPP54I
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Jun 28, 2021 15:12
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I would say this was one of my all time favorite anime OSTs, and it's for a pretty popular series, but you still don't hear much about it at all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DkcSYfbUZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM3tIbworcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGt1cBtQU2U This song in particular is really notable for how they used it as the "cliffhanger music" that they started playing a few seconds before the episode would end. Got me hyped for every upcoming episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97mrJKsghkE I like a lot of anime music but just want to rep a forgotten classic. NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Jul 5, 2021 |
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Jul 5, 2021 04:33
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I'm watching Fushigi Yuugi now and yep, that ending intro is so rad
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Jul 5, 2021 10:42
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdBMpSweDD0
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Jul 9, 2021 03:40
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I can’t think of Berserk without thinking of Susumu Hirasawa’s Forces. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NkYYYew8CUI The opening of the original Hellsing is incredibly cool. While the OVAs were a more faithful adaption, they dropped the ball on the music. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9KH-kpFKFU0&feature=youtu.be The music in Fate UBW is one of the stronger aspects of the series. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5AfTGOdeDDg&feature=youtu.be
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Jul 9, 2021 04:18
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The ultimate anime music fan-made content has always been the Niconico Douga Medley mixes. And while the Kumikyoku site shut down almost two years ago, the wiki is still up! And it has a torrent for all the NND medleys created (updated as of February this year). 300GB of Niconico goodness. 
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Jul 10, 2021 03:18
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Ccs posted:I can’t think of Berserk without thinking of Susumu Hirasawa’s Forces. Same but also Guts' Theme https://youtu.be/w1o4O2SfQ5g
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Jul 10, 2021 03:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C8u6KKv5BM
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Jul 10, 2021 22:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cYBxgr4qo
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Jul 16, 2021 15:58
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Ccs posted:The opening of the original Hellsing is incredibly cool. While the OVAs were a more faithful adaption, they dropped the ball on the music. in a total change of pace, Megumi Nakajima (Ranka Lee’s VA from Macross Frontier) put out a surprisingly good cover album for her 10th anniversary, and her rendition of Miki Imai’s “Rain-Kissed Bouquet” (op2 from Yarawa!) rocks. i can’t find it on youtube but it’s on spotify. the versions of Kimono Beat (insert song from “King of the Hill”) and Miki Matsubara’s Stay With Me (the song youtube autoplays after “Plastic Love”) also slap
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Jul 17, 2021 00:25
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Some HxH EDs not being on Spotify or anywhere convenient for purchasing is really annoying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKoD2CRr_KA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiMAAY3iOMk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDM3WwDThTA
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Jul 17, 2021 02:31
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I have no idea what they're saying, but I find this song to be catchy and energetic as Hell. https://youtu.be/KVV5Hh2RHoA
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Jul 28, 2021 20:14
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