Showing posts with label AGM genre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AGM genre. Show all posts

Thursday, February 5, 2009

AGM Genre 3: Epic song

One of favourite topics of mangakas is wars, heroes, and epics. Perhaps only in the war, when the depression and hatred, the losses and the sorrow, envelope all living beings, the most sincere emotion can be exposed, the character of man can grow up, and that's the purpose of anime series (I guess that).

If you are an otaku, you must know the classic series of war and epic, such as: Evangelion, X1999 and especially the great Gundam empire. I'm not an anime fan, and I haven't watched anime much, so I can't list many titles here, but I'm sure that music has contributed a very important part in the success of Epic anime. People who have watched a Gundam series must remember a melody, and that great OP of Evangelion, which still be honoured these days, is a clear proof for importance of Epic music.

Epic songs are the songs that express the sadness in war, the heroic feeling, and used for embellishing the Epic series. Most of them are sad songs, some express the hero's willing. We can say they are serious songs, so you must be careful before listening to an epic song or turning the volume to maximum because it may not fit the atmosphere and your mood. Another warning is that you shouldn't listen them too much, or it may affect your mood negatively and sometimes cause a headache.

We will introduce epic songs in next show. While waiting, perhaps you should learn the "Epic feeling" through these 2 instrumental songs: Break the sword of justice(TCR) and Sadame (X-1999). Hope you like it!



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Saturday, January 17, 2009

AGM Genre 2: Pop Shoujo

After the Pop Shounen Contest ended, now we come to next artice: Pop-Shoujo. It's also a genre myself thinking out. If you was after the previous posts carefully, you can somehow guess out the feature of this genre.

Pop Shoujo is somewhat opposite to Pop Shounen. Although both are exciting, energetic, but when Pop Shounen focuses on expressing the willing, the strengh to overcome anything and a little epic(little serious, isn't it?), Pop Shoujo tends to express the happiness, skittishness, peacefulness and sometimes innocence. We can compare Pop Shounen and Pop Shoujo with an active boy and an unaffected girl.

Pop Shoujo songs is usually happy, girlful and sung by the cute-vocal female singers.That's the reason why the boys and the serious ones don't like them much. In fact, we can only be able to enjoy the beauty and cuteness of these songs completely if we open our minds.

Here are some of best Pop Shoujo songs. they are also the candidates for AGM 2009 Award.

  • Groovin' Magic - Round Table ft. Nino - Gunbuster
  • Let me be with you - Round Table ft. Nino - Chobits
  • Catch you, catch me - Gumi - Cardcaptor Sakura
  • Dark Side Ni Tsuitekite - Yui Makino - NHK ni youkoso!
  • Be your girl - Chieko Kawabe - Elfen Lied
  • Raison d'etre - Rie Tanaka - Chobits
  • My star - Mika Kikuchi - Capeta
  • Otome wa do my best deshou - Mika Kikuchi - Mai Otome
  • God knows... - Aya Hirano - Suzumiya haruhi no yuutsu
We will have 2 weeks to enjoy and vote for these songs. The deadline is set to the end of this month. Please vote for your favourite songs!


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Sunday, January 11, 2009

AGM Genre 1: Pop Shounen

POP SHOUNEN
Such as I have announced, this week's focus is Pop-Shounen - a "genre" of anime music. I will use this "genre" to talk about the types I myself classified AGM songs into, maybe it's not a proper and exact classification but it's somewhat right and easier for those who want to find the music suited themselves.

Pop-Shounen songs are the catchy, exciting songs, usually sung by boyband and used as opening theme of an anime. These songs also express willing, have a little epic, can be used to warm up atmosphere. I think there're many of us who like to turn the volume up to maximum when watching the opening of these anime, just to make the others hear it, and talk to yourself "Well, isn't it impressive, everyone?".

Pop Shounen is one of most important parts of anime music.These are some of best Pop Shounen songs, they are also candidates of AGM 2009 award: (random sequence)

The result of this article is here.


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