Nov/0811
New Toradora OP/ED themes’ CDs announced
Starchild's just updated their release pages with information on the coming new opening and ending themes for Toradora. According to the information posted by Starchild here, there's going to be a limited edition copy of the opening theme. There's no covers yet or anything, just some data:
New opening theme named "silky heart" - sung by Horie Yui (Minorin).
Release date: 2009/01/28.
Limited edition comes with a DVD containing the PV movie for the song.
Limited edition will cost 1890 yen, regular edition will cost 1200 yen.
Contains a total of three songs, with karaoke versions of all three - total tracks is six.
New ending theme named "orange" (orenji) - sung by Horie Yui (Minorin), Kugimiya Rie (Taiga) and Kitamura Eri (Ami).
Release date: 2009/01/28, will cost 1200 yen.
Contains a total of two songs, with karaoke version of both - total tracks is four.
The cover is going be drawn by the character designer, Tanaka Masayoshi.
Oct/086
Toradora OP & ED; kara kara mawaru~
Both singles released on the same day means I have to update both OP and ED for the coming episode. And of course enjoy the music too, I had hoped. The Pre-parade full song wasn't all that, I like the anime cut better. Vanilla Salt I never liked in the first place either. BUT! On the OP single there's this song Karakuri that is freaking awesome and has been on repeat for a while here now.
Overall impression is that Horie can sing on her own, but her songs bore me. The combination of Kitamura, Kugimiya and Horie work out as long as they're vocoded. How weird's that?
OP had to be only slightly changed because of some mishearing of... 3 syllables I think? inb4 they change verses on the OP so we have to modify even more.
Back to the ED tho, this was more of a pain. Not too much changed here either, and there's dumb japanese going on which had one of the other TLs ripping at his hair. But of all these things... there's one line.
We've had "vanilla salt de, vanilla". Turns out this is so wrong, the pamphlet reveals "vanilla salt de, BURNING LOVE". If you were to say BURNING LOVE japanese pronunciation style, it'd be ba-nin rabu. Horie says this exceptionally fast, making the difference between ba-nira and ba-nin rabu next to nothing.
EDIT: I forgot to mention how much I raged about this. This song is making less and less sense now:
Jan/081
Touhou fanmusicians create regular music group: ALBATROSICKS
From the ever popular doujin game-series Touhou there have spawned numerous groups of people creating enormous amounts of doujin products. Ranging from regular fanart posted on websites to orchestrations of the music in the games, the fanbase of the Touhou games is quite large in Japan, and it is growing outside of Japan.
Among these groups there's one specific group that receives a lot of attention due to their flash animated music videos accompanying every CD release, namely IOSYS. With a core group of members, IOSYS releases at least one CD with Touhou doujin-music every ComiKet, and they are usually accompanied by other artists from other Touhou fanprojects, or just buddies of the IOSYS crew. At C73 however, there appeared a new group being promoted using the IOSYS website.


