First of all, thanks to Miku from Maayas.net for letting me listen to the full version. It was also through Maayas.net that I found out that there was a cover for this song.

I first heard about Mikuni Shimokawa from some fans pitting her against Maaya Sakamoto for reasons unknown to me. Most people thought that it was similar to the reason Kanno is being compared to Kajiura - they are both female, have the same work, and have the same initials. A rather odd reason to compare people, if you ask me.

But now I get where the comparison came from - Mikuni Shimokawa covered Yakusoku wa Iranai, which was originally a song performed by Maaya Sakamoto composed by Yoko Kanno.

Mikuni Shimokawa is most popular for her work for the intro and ending themes of the anime Full Metal Panic!, and looks less experienced in the field of music compared to Maaya, although I’m not a big fan so I might not know her full discography.

Moving on, here is her version of Yakusoku wa Iranai, which I cut up to give a short preview of how the song was rearranged.

[mp3]http://www.gabrielarobin.com/clips/YakusokuMikuniShimokawa.mp3[/mp3]

It’s not the prettiest cover of Yakusoku, techno beats and all, and I think her voice is pretty rough compared to the original version, but I’m pretty glad they kept part of the strings arrangement and made a nice version of the medieval stomp and clap bridge of the song.

The album was published year 2006, under the album Mikuni Shimokawa Remember ~Seishun Anison House Album~.

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