🔴LIVE-STREAM: Anime OP/ED Listening Party Volume 1

I love your reaction to Kyoumen no Nami, it's one of my favourite songs of all time. What I love is how the song sounds like multiple instrument playing different songs, yet it somehow all fits together. Context (Minor spoilers for Land of Lustrous): In the Anime and Manga, the protagonist Phosphophyllite, a gem, loses various limbs and body parts over the course of the story and replaces them with foreign materials. Similar to the song, Phos' body becomes chaotic, but it still somehow remains functional and despite all of it, it's still one and the same person. (Manga spoilers): Eventually it goes so far to the point that Phos needs to even replace their head and towards the end of the story, barely anything of the original is left. It's kind of a 'Ship of Theseus'.

Bradio are brilliant

If Tim looks over these, I really recommend the OP for "Watamote" (or "Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!, or "No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!). It's got an interesting punk-metal vibe, and I think it's amazing. The ED is nice too.

On anime openings and endings. I am by no means an expert, so people can chime in to correct me. But it appears to me that they exist on a spectrum of anime first/song first. On one end you have songs very specifically constructed for a show, sung by the voice actors, sometimes in character or as an in fiction music group (incidentally these musical groups or character songs sometimes continue on well past an anime is concluded) on the other you have bands which in the lead up to an album release will have their single releases attached to another project like as an anime op/ed, a movie release, an ad campaign or the like.

Shout out Cruel Angel’s Thesis and NGE in general, that show saved my life a few years back. It’s basically a story about finding the will to keep living, but it gets there in the most dark and roundabout way possible. Not an anime I’d particularly recommend unless you’re in a really dark place (or you just have weird taste like me :P)

Minami is amazing, one of the few japanese artists alongside Yorushika I've been hoping to see you react to :).

Would really recommend watching suzume as a full movie reaction, beautiful art, music and movie all around, could also watch Your name, same creator and same Band that made the music, also one of the highest grossing anime movies of all time.

Please more Minami reactions. She has a powerful voice and sings with great emotion; she writes her own lyrics and sometimes plays the guitar.

it was such a fun stream and ending with a song that Minami sung was so CINEMA for me. Loved the stream, it was great to how many songs we got through. If anyone wants to push more songs from Minami I would suggest hearting them in the song recommendations for this month. Also if there are any suggestions for the wheel, google form on how we can improve them, I am open for them.