Anime song Paradise: Anime Game Song 2009 review

Well, it's winter. The weather is cold and so am I. However, this is a suitable time to sit down at my laptop and look back at what AGM - anime game music has brought us this year. Maybe it's too early, there is still a December to wait for a certain great anime/game song, but it's AGM December's affair. Until then, in this great time, why we can't have a review post. The year-end summation always comes before the year-end, isn't it?

Before we comes to the main point, I want to let you know something about my rating. It's really different from what we use to appraise the success of a song. So don't be surprised if you find unpopular songs instead of very famous songs in this review post.

Then, what are exactly the criteria? Well, there's no fixed pattern but a song which I highly appreciate and delightedly bring it here must be:
1. A song from an anime/game, or released in an anime/game OST, or at least the second track in an anime/game single. Why? It's simply because I love AGM, and this is the blog of AGM.
2. A song that have the specific characteristics of anime/game, of which we can't have a specific definition, but they are something that makes a song different from a normal non-agm song, something that we only can find in AGM.
3. A song which have a long lifespan, a meaningful, emotive and special song. It's to reject the anime/game songs which is special but characterless, just for fun, or just for commercial purpose.
4. last but not least, a song that we can listen to at least nearly whole song for many times, so it must not be something that torture our ears.

The 1st and 4th criteria are compulsory, and so a song's rating is high or low depends on the 2nd and 3rd ones. I have a rating system for that in which I classify my favorite AGM songs into 3 classes: A, B, C. For more detail of these classes, You can visit my AGM Library.

If you are not so displeased at my criteria, we can look at some statistic here to know what I collect from this year's AGM:
Total songs: 52
AGM-A: 2
AGM-B: 10
AGM-C: 40
Song from game: 9

You can see most of the songs are from anime, and there's a large difference in the quantity of each class: just 2 A, but that's just my rating, the B songs are also very nice. In general, all of them are remainders after rejecting nearly 1000 AGM songs of this year.

You can find all of them along with my comments in my previous posts. Therefore, I think I don't need to list all of them here. I just choose out 20 best songs from them to show here. I won't comment anything about them more, my duty has ended, now I want to listen to others' opinion. Please show me your opinion if you are interested. Another thing, they are arranged by the time, the top ten will come at New Year's post.