TV Asahi recently surveyed 1,740 overseas anime fans to determine their favorite anime theme songs and Oricon News shared the top 20 here. The results are interesting… I think there’s a lot of recency bias going on. Idol and SPECIALZ over Tank! is crazy. A Cruel Angel’s Thesis is well placed. I have never watched Evangelion (and won’t) but it’s a classic that I listen to regularly.
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Ore wa Shinjimatta ze! (fin.)
One day, Sakurada Kazuhiko, a host at a club who was run over by a garbage truck, notices himself at the scene of an accident and staring at his own body. Sakurada realizes that the people around can’t see or hear him, but encounters another ghost (Momo) who takes him a ghost “sharehouse”, which is actually a rundown soba store. Besides Momo, there’s Saki (former nurse), Rin (high school girl), Sen no Rikyu (that one), and the living owner of the soba store who, despite being human, seems to notice their existence.
Before watching, there’s a few conditions you should accept first:
- Ghosts in this universe exist in an in-between state until they can come to terms with their past life and move on to Nirvana. Makes sense.
- Ghosts can communicate with the dead and the living. Believe it or not, ghosts have cellular service providers lol
- There are some limits, but ghosts can also interact with the living and vice versa.1
If you can live with all that, this is the drama for you!
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Music Rotation #1
When I was a young(er) person on the internet learning more about j-pop, my lifelines were the various mp3 rotations scattered around self-hosted domains on the web. Eventually those died out (who even has a personal website anymore? haha… 😬) and transitioned to places like LJ. Of course, they were legally dubious, but fans had to do what they had to do back then.
These days you can stream just about anything, which is great, but playlists don’t really hit like the old mp3 rotations do. So I thought it would be pretty cool to share on a regular basis all the current stuff I’m listening to.
No playlist, just YouTube links. But you can find these songs on your favorite streaming services.
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Now Playing #7: Pokémon Violet
Sharing my thoughts a whole year later, but with the DLC out this is still pretty relevant to… whoever cares. Haha
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Now Playing #6: Pokémon Shield
A few words on SwSh… I wrote all of this on a particularly inspired night in December 2022 and I had to get this post off before I can talk about Violet!
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