SHIHORI is a Japanese pop singer/songwriter, best known for her collaborations with Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex) and Kohei Tanaka (One Piece). She has written and composed for contemporary artists and anime series including Fairy Tail, Macross Frontier, and The Irregular at Magic High School. I had the pleasure… Read More Crunchyroll Expo 2022: Interview with SHIHORI
The summer 2022 anime season is in full gear! And that means it’s time for our seasonal list of top anime openings! Here are the five OP that are hot like the summer! Here are the five series we selected: “Daten” by Creepy Nuts, Call of the Night “ALIVE” by ClariS, Lycoris Recoil “Teppen Tengoku… Read More Five Best Openings (OP) of the Summer 2022 Anime Season
Spring 2022 has been full of terrific anime, but also terrific anime openings! Here are five of the best this season: Anime OPs from the video: “Mixed Nuts” by Official HIGE DANdism (SPY X FAMILY) “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” by QUEENDOM (Ya Boy Kongming!) “Double Shuffle” by Nana Mizuki (Tomodachi Game) “Sumire” by Maaya Sakamoto… Read More Spring 2022 Anime’s Best Openings (OPs)
It’s March 9th, and you know that means—It’s Miku Day! If you’re unaware, the fandom celebrates it as such because in Japanese, 3 can be pronouned as mi and 9 as ku, and those numbers can also be pronounced as san and kyou, or sankyou (thank you). Thus, 39 is for thanking the anime-styled Vocaloid… Read More Fanart Wednesday: Happy Miku Day (39) with Three Times the Miku!
Expressions of anime and video game fandom are ever growing and diverging. Cosplay is of course one of the most popular (so much so that we even have our own cosplayer). So, too, are musical expressions, such as remixing or remaking themes from video games—and from The Legend Of Zelda synthwave album Fire Emblem: Three… Read More Interview With Purpleschala: JRPG Pianist, Cosplayer, and Mom
Music-hating monsters from space invaded Earth. Pairs, a Conductor and a Musicart, do mellifluous battle with the fiends. Takt (a Conductor) and Cosette (a Musicart) are one such dynamic duet; also, it’s not clear just what Cosette is, but she’s apparently not a normal human. They are traveling to New York from somewhere out west,… Read More First Impression: takt op.Destiny
The summer 2021 anime season has had some terrific openings. Here are our five favorites! “Merry-Go-Round” by MAN WITH A MISSION (My Hero Academia) “Mangetsu to Silhouette no Yoru” by Natsuki Hanae and Ayumi Mano (The Duke of Death and His Maid) “Seja no Koushin” by Tatsuya Kitani (The Idaten Deities Only Know Peace) “Forget… Read More Five Best Anime Openings (OP) for Summer 2021
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