Filed under Anime News, First Impressions, Macross, Random Musings by Omni | 45 comments
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I’ve been listening to the Macross Frontier soundtrack, and it’s every bit as wonderful as I hoped it’d be. I’m loving the tracks What ’bout my star (both versions), Big Boys (reminds me a lot of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme), and Innocent green. Oh and the Nyan Nyan song is as cute as ever. It’s going to be hard at the end of the year deciding whether this OST is better or the true tears one is - probably this because of all the vocal music (which isn’t to say that Yoko Kanno’s instrumentals aren’t great too). And that’s assuming the next Macross Frontier OST won’t be better.
I also managed to scrape together some time this weekend to watch a few episodes of the currently-running drama Zettai Kareshi. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it’s about a girl who gets a robot as her ideal boyfriend, and the love triangle and troubles that this leads to. That might sound silly, but it’s actually really entertaining. I was curious about this adaptation because I read the manga a long time ago, and though a lot of things have changed in the story, it’s still very very good. It has that same spark that I found in the Hana Yori Dango and Yamada Tarou Monogatari dramas - the perfect mix of comedy and romance drama. It can be very funny at times (especially the actor who plays Namikiri), and the romance and drama elements are slightly over the top - just the way I like it. I wish I were blogging it, but sadly I just can’t make the time commitment for a drama series right now (though I may try to next season or the season after that). On a side note, I had the theme song of this series, Okaeri by ayaka in my head all the way until today…when I started listening to the Macross Frontier soundtrack.
Also in the news, the official Mai-HiME/Otome website announced a new project. No details about it other than the name and character design of the new heroine, Mao (see the link). While I do wish Sunrise would develop more new original properties, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t curious what this one will be like, especially since S.ifr’s first episode was better than expected. Speaking of which, the second volume of S.ifr is due out July 25th.
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Res at 8:25 am on June 3rd, 2008
hot
AznLegacy at 8:30 am on June 3rd, 2008
Who’s the actor who plays the love doll in “Absolute Boyfriend”? He looks familiar…. >.<
blissmo at 8:36 am on June 3rd, 2008
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN?! Okay, I’m soo going to listen to the songs now!
yohkoyamamoto at 8:44 am on June 3rd, 2008
Love the pix of Sheryl Nome. She’s really beautiful.
UnknownVoice at 9:02 am on June 3rd, 2008
Hm. I am nearly certain that the new “mai hime” project is “Mai-Hime Destiny” novel adaptations…Since the main character has the same name there too(Mao)
outcast at 9:44 am on June 3rd, 2008
yay for dorama attention.
I loved the sole drama serie blog. Made me wander into the drama watching
ox2 at 10:29 am on June 3rd, 2008
Wow a new mai hime series…I agree with UnknownVoice…its probably the adaptation to the mai-hime destiny light novels. Which are pretty good. I love shizuru with a katana, its bad ass.
Tokkan at 10:59 am on June 3rd, 2008
No, it’s not an adaptation of MHD. Besides, that main character in that is called Mayo, not Mao.
WingZero zxt at 11:02 am on June 3rd, 2008
Macross Sundtrack is Awesome its up in my top tem i think along with
1.Sousei no Aquarion
2.Eureka 7
3.Code Geass season 1 ALI Project ROCK!!!!!
4.Gurren Lagann (with that many songs and variation of trhe same song youll find one u like eventually :P)
5.G.I.T.S
6. macross Frontier
7. Claymore
8.Naruto
9.Nodame Cantibile
10.Gundam 00
MiniMe at 11:14 am on June 3rd, 2008
I was under the impression the album is due tomorrow the 4th… hmmmm mmmm!!!
falconx0101 at 11:18 am on June 3rd, 2008
Loving the Macross OST too. Infinity more than exceeds my expectations.
Omni at 11:27 am on June 3rd, 2008
AznLegacy: Hayami Mokomichi plays him.
SanDo at 11:48 am on June 3rd, 2008
where i can download the OST ?
MiniMe at 11:56 am on June 3rd, 2008
download!!!! WOTTT!!!!!
dude buy it!!!!
hXXp://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-mr-49-en-70-2p33.html
SanDo at 12:02 pm on June 3rd, 2008
i wanna listen it first…^^
MiniMe at 12:11 pm on June 3rd, 2008
Quote “i wanna listen it first…^^” Shame on you!!! typical excuse for Piracy.
C’mon You can be do better than that.
SanDo at 12:22 pm on June 3rd, 2008
“typical excuse for Piracy?”
I have LOTS os original stuff.
But i dont mind buy it before listen it once, at last( i only heard fragments in the episodes..)
good luck against the piracy , sailor !
MiniMe at 12:34 pm on June 3rd, 2008
my bad… Just being cranky.. Havent eaten all day…lol
flac version : #gamemp3s@irc.psigenix.net
MiniMe at 12:35 pm on June 3rd, 2008
opps… not flac
Slade at 12:55 pm on June 3rd, 2008
Been enjoying the soundtrack and it’s a lot better than expected. Just hoping my actual CD gets here this week cause I’d rather make my own MP3 rips with naming and such. Have a lot of Yoko Kanno’s CD soundtracks and love everyone of them to death.