LiSA — UNCUT 5 SONG STUDY (ALL FIRST TAKES): 'Gurenge,' 'Catch the Moment,' 'Akeboshi,' 'Saikai,' & 'Homura'

Greetings from a diehard LiSAkko. Found your reaction on Youtube and knew I had to jump on for Homura 😂 Really appreciate you breaking down LiSA's technical prowess but more importantly the profound appreciation you have for the way she just oozes emotion in her singing. I only understand like 10% of the japanese lyrics in a given song but most of the time you don't even need to know it to understand what she's singing about. You should definitely should check out some of her live concert performances. You'll get to see more of her fun playful side and some awesome rock/hype anime songs as well!

Well, Yuki Kajiura is a phenomenon oh her own. I know she since See-Saw, so since early 2000. If you want to know her, See-Saw, Kalafina, FictionJunction are three of her projects beside her Anime soundtrack work. She does a lot in the last 30 years (even created Kajiurago, a fake “language” without a meaning for some of her songs). For example, I think the Sword Art Online OST is near a masterpiece, but not her only one. She has a lot of fans on her own. For me, she is for Anime OSTs that what Nobou Uematsu is for jRPG OSTs. Sadly I only meet him once.

My introduction to LiSA was Angel Beats, I highly recommend checking out Girls Dead Monster cause there's 2 vocalists, including LiSA and they are both amazing. I watched this anime when I was 10 or 11 years old, I'm 26 now and I still listen to the Girl's Dead Monster regularly to this day.

Saikai was covered by Moona and Suisei as a duet; would highly recommend

I would love to see you do a similar dive into the first take videos of ReoNa or Yama. Both artists are worth a look if you haven’t seen them before 😁👍

Well, guess I'm crying to Homura again. Set your heart ablaze, Y'all. 😭😭😭

Demon slayer is one of my absolute favorite anime series, it's about strength and overcoming your own weakness. Fighting for the ones you loves and protecting them. There's so much emotion conveyed in the songs alone. I definitely definitely recommend it to be put on the watch list!

This was great! I hope you won't forget about Lisa's "Unlasting"

At the 3rd song, you learn about Yuki Kajiura, she as a composer is so good and famous that there are singer groups that serve her writings, check Kalafina and FictionJunction It is almost something only happens in Japan that composer become the front person and singers are just support of the composer, similar thing happens to Sawano Hiroyuki, composer of Attack of Titan, Gundam Unicorn and more. Oh, and at the 5th song, she was overcoming the fact that her husband cheated on her, and at the same time her career was at peak, that was such a crazy time to sing this song

You missed out "Unlasting" and "Isseino Kassai" by LiSA in The First Take channel. Please check both of them as well. Also LIVE performance by LiSA "Tsumibito" which was the pop rock song by LiSA: ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uvdCqQJZ5M

I left my comments on the LiSA side on the youtube video so won't repeat them here but. Yuki Kajiura is my favourite japanese composer, glad you got a small taste of her work. I'd definitely recommend checking out her works with another vocalist Aimer. Edit: Also noticed you've been checking out Stray Kids. LiSA has some songs with them. Also went to request Aimer and saw she was already on the schedule so looking forward to that <3

Demon slayer is a good anime series that has good music, voice acting and the animation is stupid good. It would just be your first anime you’ve watched that has “fan service” in it where they draw some characters sexually sometimes, but there is never actual nudity where it actually shows anything, but I really like that show

Guess you can see why I had been requesting Lisa 😂