Ranka / Megumi Nakajima’s song Neko Nikki, previously played in episode 9, now gets a focus on episode 11 as its ending theme. I didn’t find the song notable until I heard how it was used in this episode. The flow from Ranka’s scene and the green monster to the song went pretty well.

Here’s a short sample taken from the previously leaked (disclaimer: not here!) Neko Nikki:

She sounds very much like the younger Maaya (more…)

Pippa, Jerome, Simon, great job! Where’s the album cover of your cover album?

Album Details:

Vocals:　Pippa (England)
Guitar: Jerome　(France)
Mix and Master:　Simon
Where:　Purple Pro Audio Studio　(Leeds, England)

Tracklist:
01:Makiba! Alice
02:Kodoku
03:Daniel
04:Pocketto wo kara ni shite
05:Chibikko Folk
06:Yukka
07:NO FEAR/aisuru koto
08:pilot
09:here
10:yoru
11:alkaloid
12:yubiwa
13:Gift
Secret Track:Gift ~why not? why not? version~

As a background, the makers of this album come from Maayas.net of which I am also a member. They’ve been cooking up these covers for what, about 3 years now? Recently, they made a full release and are sharing it all over the net.

I love that tiny bit of blrrrrrr ing in Poketto o Kara ni Shite! If I’m not mistaken, that kind of vocalization is used in warm-ups before the actual singing… right?

Go ahead and listen to some of my favorites from their set:

Chibikko Folk:

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This week there was no new episode to dig music from *boo*, so let’s just entertain ourselves with old unreleased stuff. These three are three select songs that I thought would have made it to the OST 1, but they didn’t. They were very notable songs played on the first few episodes of the animation, and ironically, we get an OST 1 with music we haven’t even heard of before. Perhaps they couldn’t fit in too many background music because space had to be given to the vocal music.

First of all, thanks to Yyrkoon for providing these

Next Episode BGM:

Opening Theme:

Vajra Attacks:

Well this week we have an episode, but if it airs a song that we all know, I’ll make another set of these unreleased stuff. Next week we won’t have an episode again, but there’s a Ranka’s debut single to busy ourselves with

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Masaaki Endo covered the highly popular eponymous opening theme to Sousei no Aquarion in his all-anime covers album entitled “ENSON”. If the name rings bells, it’s probably because he provided the vocals to Cowboy Bebop’s “Live in Baghdad”.

Details:

Album Title: Enson
Catalog No: LACA5774
Release Date: June 11, 2008
Price: 2857yen [US$ 26.22]
Track List:
1. Sousei no Aquarion
2. Butter-fly
3. Arashi no Naka de Kagayaite
4. Muv-Luv
5. Kimi ga Dame
6. Ai o Torimodose!!
7. Go Go Power Rangers
8. Kimi Karadatta
9. Ashita e no brilliant Road
10. In The Chaos
11. Mononoke Hime
12. Wing Of Destiny
13. Ano Kawa o Koete

Power Rangers? I’m surprised he’s also covering Gundam classic Arashi no Naka de Kagayaite, I love that one

Listen to a sample of the cover here: (more…)

Megumi Nakajima performed a mini-concert entitled “Megumi Nakajima = Ranka Lee Live at Formo… Not! It’s really at Venus Fort” at the Venus Fort today at 3:30pm. Her set list includes the songs Ai Oboete Imasu Ka (Do You Remember Love), What ’bout My Star, Neko Nikki (Cat Diary) and Seikan Hikou (Interstellar Flight).

Just like the May’n mini live concert, this performance also gathered a crowd of 1000 fans.

And yeah. She did the Seikan Hikou Ranka Dance. Did anyone video this?

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