Karaoke Challenge Part 3: Suggestions?
UPDATE: Polling is closed, thank you for your suggestions. So, based on everyone’s suggestion, it is per series, and we’re doing Escaflowne on the next round, you guys can start practicing and recording now. Kimi o kimi o aishiteru… I’ll start it when the Nyan Nyan Special Project is finished.
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Hi everyone! As I’ve mentioned before, I’m planning another non-competitive karaoke challenge, since the readers just seem to like that stuff around here (and so do I) 
But then, I’d like to narrow down the valid songs using a criteria, so that we could keep having new rounds of karaoke challenges.
My first suggestion is to have a round of Kanno songs with male vocalists only, because the Macross F ones were (almost) all originally sang by females. This means that you could only make karaokes or acapellas of songs that have versions sang by males. “Living Inside the Shell” is a prime example of a song that I’d like to hear covered, by both males and females.
My second suggestion would be for us to narrow down the songs we could sing on a series basis. Of course, the series must have enough vocal songs by Kanno. Say for example, we could sing songs from GITS:SAC or Escaflowne or Cowboy Bebop.
If you’d have any other suggestion, please post them in the comments section below 
EDIT: Final votes count:
Songs originally by males: 30%
Songs per series: 67%
Others: 4%
This poll will be closed on January 22, 2009. The challenge itself will start some time after the Nyan Nyan Toku Mori Medley karaoke has been finished.
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January 7th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
So there guys. Well if I were to choose a series I’d like to sing over, it would be Ghost in the Shell: SAC.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
But aren’t most of the GitS songs in Russian? XD haha, well, I have no preference…I’d prefer it to be a free for all with any Kanno song BUT I think you’re right to narrow it down, considering the sheer number of songs she has…I think if it comes to her Jpop stuff obviously you could have a whole Maaya challenge or…really, all of Kanno’s jpop in one category considering…I guess by series is best.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Well we could also sing songs that are Gabby’s, so why not Russian? XD
January 7th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Sing songs in Gablish!! Now THAT’s a challenge.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
i’m sure i’d kill the Russian language with my pronunciation. just like i’ve killed japanese
January 8th, 2009 at 4:48 am
As well as different series you could have different categories along with your male song idea. Things like.. songs in English, songs in Gablish, songs that weren’t in an anime series, OP and ED songs, song by certain artists.
I like the OP and ED category cos that means you can get Purachina, Hemisphere and Tune the Rainbow in there too
January 8th, 2009 at 5:06 am
I vote Escaflowne. You have songs by guys, girls, and gablish all in one superb soundtrack!
January 8th, 2009 at 5:58 am
I voted 2, because each soundtrack has a lot of different songs so that anyone can find something he/she can sing.
But how will we do for the songs where we don’t have the karaoke version ?
January 8th, 2009 at 10:58 am
@Yyrkoon – you could use the center channel extractor, or just sing acapella, or sing over your own arrangement
Guys for those who voted #2, please don’t forget to specify your choice animation.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Can I say Macross Frontier again? XD hahah….although, I guess I’d say…um…Escaflowne because it has a lot or Cowboy Bebop because that has boys and girls too.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:03 am
I’d say Wolf’s Rain > Cowboy Bebop > Escaflowne.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:43 am
Don’t suppose “free choice” would be an option…would it?
January 9th, 2009 at 8:21 am
i’d like to vote cowboy bebop… there are many songs to choose for with females and males singing
January 14th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
I voted for the 2nd one, but I like the 1st idea too!
And good luck with the host thing, mai! Don’t worry we’ll all be very patient xD
January 15th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Hi all,
I moved the suggestion deadline to January 22.
@Naddie – you must be the first person who commented when the site went up!
January 15th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I voted for suggestion 2 (that’s coz my vocal range is only capable of reaching the upper limits….><) and I would love to sing Escaflowne songs, maybe even just singing certain artist songs for both guys and girls ^^
January 16th, 2009 at 8:47 am
@mai: Haha, I’m honoured xD
Oh I forgot to specify the series… I see votes for Escaflowne, so I’ll vote for the GitS series
(which includes all of them, yes? Or do I have to specify which one?)
January 16th, 2009 at 10:44 am
That’s okay, I suppose GITS includes SAC and SSS
January 27th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Hmm…Escaflowne?
Time to break out “Sora”.