It has been a long time since I wrote the last post in this blog. There are many reasons, and the main one is that the quality ò AGM last year has reduced so much that I don't know what to introduce (0-2 reach the standard each month). Another reason is that I don't have much free time like the golden age 2008-2010 anymore, so maybe I have missed some good songs.
For those who're curious, these are some numbers:
- Total songs: 2
- AGM-C: 2
- Song from game: 1
- PG: 33
Just compare them with the last year or the older one and you will see how significantly the quality has went down (in my standard, of course).
The singer of this year is certainly Tomaya Nao with two emotional songs. In case you don't know, the singer of 2009 is Mizuki Nana and the ones of 2010 are Hanazawa Kana and azusa. Looking further into the past, the 2008 one is definitely Yui Makino in her golden age.
At first I don't think of making another video, but the free time in Lunar New Year had allowed me to do that. If I can make another video it maybe at this time of year.
This year, only 10 songs has been chosen. Most of them are PG, but still enjoyable as well. If you think of another good song that I have missed, please comment in this post.
2012 will be a challenging year for me. If I have some small wish, that will be I can still have free time to make another video next year.
That's all, time to enjoy!
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Anime Game Song 2011 Review
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Anime Game Song 2010 Review
So, it's this time again. Time for the review post of the whole year. It's hard to say I'm happy or not. Time goes by so fast. I'm getting older and forced to be older. Everything is getting older, even the cute singers we see now. Yeah, everything only has one time, but there are things that will never be worn out by time. They are art and the real emotion, and so now we're here to celebrate the eternity of the anime game songs.
It's a little cold night with light rain here. A good atmosphere to make this review post. I don't know where you live, maybe you're reading this in a snowy night or a muggy day. Well, wherever you are, just keep an open mind while reading this post.
For those who haven't read my previous year-review post, I recommend opening this to know more about my music taste and the statistic of last year which you may need in next part.
Now about the songs I have "hunted" this year, let's look at these numbers (if you don't know about these A, B, C, click here):
Total songs: 11
AGM-A: 1
AGM-B: 1
AGM-C: 9
Song from game: 4
PG: 48
As you can see, I really didn't enjoy the AGM much this year. Compared to last year's, it's such a backward step. The only consolation is the PG, but PG is just PG, it just can entertain me a bit in the long time waiting for the real good song comes out. Many new singers appear but very few of them can make song to remember and the old faces only want to cover their already well-known songs or make some new boring songs.
Of course I don't have any right to complain about those singers nor their music. I just feel sad for my love in anime music and for this blog, a "paradise" where I can hide my little self from the world sometimes. Things has changed, man.
Well, but just put that aside, now if you can read to this part, I proudly introduce you the best anime-game songs of 2010 video, the gem of all this whole year listening to 1000+ anime and game songs. It is split into 2 parts and only has 12 songs because I want to keep the quality good. I also want to give all my credit to those who make the wonderful songs and pictures I used to make this vid. This is made for relax and romance purpose, so if you are not in the mood, just watch it in another time. Now if you're ready, just enjoy it (if you read this post today, you're the first ones who watch it, I save it for you, anime music lovers):
For more fun, I won't put the list here, just watch it carefully and you will know. All can be downloaded in the download area or in AGM month posts. About the anime song covers this year, I will make a video for them if I have free time or just put the list in the other case.
Well the AGM December hasn't ended yet but I want to say goodbye to this year's AGM now. I hope I will enjoy AGM more next year.
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Friday, December 11, 2009
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.
Here is the list of the songs:
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