Here’s a very short sample of the Macross F OP, entitled “Triangler”, sang by Maaya Sakamoto. We only get 15 seconds of it since it was ripped from a very short CM, and I would assume based on previous Kanno songs, that it is the intro of the song. I can hear some synth placed over Maaya’s voice, but 15 seconds is not enough to judge the whole song. We do get to hear part of the lyrics, which is to a bit of my disappointment, not gibberish. But at least it’s not Engrish. Or maybe there’s going to be some gibberish somewhere in the middle…

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

Enjoy

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First of all, I stand corrected in the previous news stating that Kanno did the theme song of the tv drama “Camouflage”. She is credited for the background music, but the theme song is composed by someone else. I found this out after I watched the first two episodes, and checked the credits.

Now I present some rips of the background music from the first two episodes, dialogues included. One of the songs sound like “Heaven’s Not Enough”, with a singer that also sounds like Steve Conte.

Download the samples here.

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First of all, Happy New Year!

2-chan has previously made a top 100 countdown of the top anime songs based on user votes, and Kanno got ten songs in that list. Now we are given their top 300 anime songs, which ended on December 16, 2007. Kanno gets the following songs in the list, to the left of the song title is the rank, and at the right is the number of votes:

293 - Mameshiba (60)
291 - Toki no Kioku (61)
151 - Ai no Rinkaku (117)
108 - The Real Folk Blues (136)
102 - Genesis of Aquarion (146)
72 - Rise (191)
71 - Go Tight (192)
59 - Yakusoku wa Iranai (209)
50 - Kiseki no umi (241)
44 - Tank! (246)
33 - Inner Universe (288)
29 - Tsuki no Mayu (314)
14 - Hemisphere (374)
9 - Tune the rainbow (462)
5 - Platina (567)
2 - Sousei no Aquarion (926)

Once again, Evangelion’s theme song made the top spot with almost double the votes for Sousei no Aquarion. On a personal note, Ai no Rinkaku is too low in this one. I’m also a bit surprised that Mameshiba and Toki no Kioku even made it to the countdown!

Kanno had a good showing with 11 songs on the top 100 spot. In the previous poll, she had only ten, but now Go Tight! is already at the top 100.

I just want to note that on rank 232 is Alladin’s A Whole New World. This poll includes not just Japanese animations

Here are videoe that have all the music from the poll: (more…)

The video below has the final cut of “Don’t Be Late”, which is very much different in the rhythms section to the one that we hear in the Macross CM.

Spoilers, don’t continue if you haven’t watched yet.

It’s too early to judge her character so early in the series, but I beg to differ that she’s such a b!tch. She refuses to cancel an interview even when she’s tired, and that’s an evidence of diligence. And she didn’t even look like she wanted to leave the stage when she was asked to evacuate. The reason she thought that Alto was rash was because Alto barely knew the situation and already called her inconsiderate to her fans. We’ll see if she is really kind after a few episodes.

(Oh, don’t let your imagination run wild, she’s just wearing a holographic full body suit. That tube is not going to fall off.)
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The music is good I’m telling you. Watch now! The credits to the music again, has only Yoko Kanno. She also got to rearrange “Do You Remember Love” from the original Macross series! For those who are not familiar with the song:

What a cliffhanger! And we’re going to wait for April to watch the next episode? Here’s the trailer to episode 2:

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