Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best 8

Thanks, as usual, to Pingas who provided this for me. I totally forgot about this. I actually had another album planned before I spent the rest the night doing nothing at all. Maybe I’ll get to that album if it is any good.

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miko+Resurrection – Sorairo Days

Bricks were shat. (I used much, much more obscene language in my surprise tweet, really) I mean I’m always up for a Sorairo Days remix but when I heard the vocals, my jaw dropped. I mean this video was uploaded in August (around the time of the Albatrosicks review here on Loli Salad) so it’s nothing new. But I hadn’t even heard IOSYS had done an anime album! You can bet there will be a review of this album in the near future. It doesn’t sound great but it’s miko. MIKO. I’m actually reminded of the early Exit Trance stuff (which the new instalment should be out soon, right? I hope I’m not behind…) but that Sorairo Days was good. Meh. Exit Trance never had miko (or ARM for that matter, since he produced this remix)! So I’ll give this darned album a shot! Look forward to it~

EDIT: they have Katagiri Rekka doing a version of Tori no Uta? I think I foamed at the mouth a little. In a good way! Next you’ll be telling me REDALiCE helps out too!

‘Celebration by Seira Kagami’ Review

You don’t have to be a constant follower to know that I don’t review any other than doujin albums. There are some exceptions but this will be the first review of an official album or any such thing. Unless I’m forgetting a review somewhere…

This is Seira-sama’s first album. Her first full album I should say. She had a mini album containing the stuff she’s done for anime. So when I saw this was out I was very excited. Let’s hope she gets some more work soon, okay?

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Exit Trance presents Anime Trance 7 review

Thanks to Pingas for pointing this release out. Cause I totally didn’t missed it. EDIT: Thanks also to Lightchild for the correction.

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Umineko no Naku Koro ni: First Impressions

I’m a little late but since I originally didn’t want to do this I guess this is better than nothing. I guess I knew I’d do it but it won’t be something consistent. It comes out on Wed, doesn’t it? That doesn’t work well on my schedule so if I did try to write something- y’know what, I’ll just get on with it. If you are new with the anime and have not played the VN, mega spoilers within this post. You won’t be warned again. Kihihihi, said it in red! Said it in red- *beaten by Rosa*

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Exit Trance Presents Speed アニメトランス BEST THE MOVIE

Sorry for the delay. I’m really looking for Vocalostar but there’s two new albums I’m really interested in so you can expect those now. Right now we’ll look at a Exit Trance release covering anime movie themes! I’d be excited just for the Kara no Kyoukai tracks!

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Needs to be a anime! The sequel

Back when LS was new and shiny (and pretty poorly in control I might add) I did a post I really liked (and a few others as well, I should guess) about some things that should be anime series. Well. They aren’t. None of them. Gore Screaming Show, Cross World, Mirai Nikki or Peace@Pieces (we won’t count Touhou), none. Which is sad. So let’s hope these do better, right?

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Another Upcoming Exit Trance and TOUGE 2 Info

I’ve done this before when I get too excited. Remember? Well I read something that I just had to post. I would like this time to post that this is a pre-tracklist and is in no way final. As one of the tracks I mentioned before was not added onto the final album. Sorry about the confusion over that. Let’s hope we actually get this one, okay? But we’re not just talking about upcoming Exit Trance albums today. No no, we have another treat in store.

Where to start? Let’s start with the second ’season’ of Exit Trance’s Ecstasy. Maybe reporting ont his is a bad idea? I have a feeling the list stated over on Dancemania is going to change dramatically. The songs listed are from the anime of the eroge series rather than the eroge themselves so I’m a little confused. Regarldess the tracks so far are SHUFFLE’s ‘You’, Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de’s ‘Hizamazuku Made 5 Byo Dake!’, H2O’s ‘Katayoku no Icarus’, and Nanatsuiro*Drops‘ ‘Shining Star Bless’. But like I said this list will most likely change. Afterall, the ET crew has already got You under their belt in the anime series. But they did reuse one of the (or two?) songs from School Days in the first Ecstasy.

Next we’ll go onto Anime Trance: Best the Movie. Apparently we have a few repeats here. But that is okay! Because the track that inspired me to write this blurb up was that we’ll be getting a remix of Kara no Kyoukai’s Oblivious!! Now I’m sure we haven’t had this song in the Anime Trance before. So maybe we’ll have only a few repeats. But if we have forgive me. It must not have been a very good remix if I can’t even remember it. We got some tracks from the Shana and Gurren-Lagann movie too.  Oh, Rahxephon too. All repeats. This and Ecstacy 2 come out in two months so we’ll find out more in due time. If the list interests me, I’ll definitly keep you guys posted.

We have a possible new series from the Exit Tunes guys too. Stardom. So guess, what could it be? We have American movies taken care of. We have anime taken care of. Anime Movies. Commercials. Classical Music. Nico Nico hits. And so many more. So what are we missing? Doujin! I know right? Hahahaha. I wouldn’t really care because I don’t recognize most of the tracks. Except I went ‘Hooooray!’ when I saw Strawberry Generator by Albatrosicks is going to be Stardom! There is another IOSYS track but I don’t recognize it. And of course. Caramelldansen. Enough Exit Trance. Enough. This one, unlike Ecstacy and Best the Movie, comes out in May.

And let’s talk about another album I’m excited about! Super Anime Remix Touge 2. Feautring such tracks as  Danjo (Danjo Danjo~ *pumps arm*), Higurashi Matsuri’s ‘Complex Image’, Higurashi’s ‘Naraku no Hana’, Shana’s ‘Hishoku no Sora’, the theme from Miko Miko Nurse, the infamous Nursery Ryhme’s ‘true my heart’, Negima’s ‘1000% Sparking’, ‘Saikyo Pare Parade’ from the Haruhi game (I think), Idolmaster Xenoglossia’s ‘Binetsu S.O.S’ and the peice de resitance~ ‘Kurenai’ from Night motherloving Wizard. I never thought I’d live to see the day when Night Wizard, a proclaimed favourite, would be remixed. But the chances of getting this album? Slim. There is another anime trance series I want but can’t find. But for the sake of Night Wizard, I will buy this album. <3

Pandora Hearts: A Tale of Male Moe

I’m a little late but when I originally wanted to check over some series, there weren’t any subs. Well, I gueszs talking about music isn’t really as fun as it usually is. Might as well check some things out.

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Precure Dub: “Do not know if want?”

Okay. Well. Saturday cartoons, right? Precure would be perfect. Hell, watching it I agreed it’s the perfect thing to have been dubbed. If it was marketed like Sailor Moon was they could have done great stuff. I’d buy some Precure merch if I saw it somewhere. Sure. Precure (original) is nostalgia for me. I was just downloading some of the OP themes last night (I don’t care what you guys say, that shit is classic). But I was surprised to see this was on this morning. I’ve been meaning to catch the dub for awhile. But it’s on friday night and I’m usually too busy too watch.

It’s done pretty good for a dub. Hell, I can safely say it’s better than if 4kids would have continued with it. Hell, they kept the lesbian subtext. Although that is series-specific so I don’t think they could have taken that out really. Even so, it was portrayed in such a way that you could perceive it as such. Any who, even though they changed the names they are still very similar (I guess) to the original Nagisa and Honoka. So I can’t even complain. Seriously, Honoka and Hannah? They sound close right? Closer than Usagi and Serena or Ichigo and freaking Zoey. So I guess there wasn’t much localization. They changed some food around and I saw some street signs in japanese and stuff. But, please keep in mind, I’ve only seen one episode.

The voices were okay. Honoka… Hannah… sounded a little limp while Nagisa… Natalie… spoke like… well… a preteen girl. Trying to say a million things a minute. Also, I found a time when her lips weren’t moving and she spoke. I found that endearing though. Because a small company, probably not having dubbed much before, has picked this up. I’ll be fine with any fault. Just rememmber. 4kids didn’t touch it. Although Mepple’s voice was so gosh darn annoying I wanted to punch the little brat. If I watched the series religiously though, it probably wouldn’t bother me. I mostly ignored him at the end.

But what made me had to write this? The bad guy, said: “Come to daddy.” Come. To daddy. To a loli. Well, I’ll tell you. I ROFL’D. And you know what else? You know what made this awesome? When they were doing their “in the name of the moon” speech Danzen! Futari wa Precure! played! Granted it was an instrumental, but my head did a 360 so fast towards the TV I almost broke my neck. It made this already great dub even better. It would have been better if they used it as the OP. But I knew better than to expect that. You know what I did get for an OP? The kind of song sung by a person who I can imagine on an album cover sitting in a random chair, having a smoke and drinking some whiskey. It did not summon up Precure at all. It was pretty slow, drab and dreary. Where as Futari wa Precure? It’s bursting with energy. I can’t help but sing along whenever I hear it. But I can let the OP slide. Because they did throw refrence to the original and it wasn’t as craptastic as (ugh) ‘Mew Mew Power’s’ op (although that was, and believe me I hate to admit this, pretty catchy). And you know what else? While I thought the transformation had been altered, I thought wrong. Because they show both loli’s bare chests for atleast 5 or 8 seconds while they transform. That was enough pedobait to sustain me. They didn’t cover their bare chests. Yesssssssssss. With that pedo line and everything could the dubbing company really be aware of the genre? I haven’t heard responses from any other people so I don’t know if the general animu community recieved the dub as well as I but damn. I think I really want to watch more. Granted there are lots of childish puns and omgboytrouble going around. But I can’t help but feel the dubbers learned from 4kids. And for that, I salute them.

So in the end, did I enjoy myself watching Pretty Cure? Well, of course! As I watched this I thought ‘This is the sort of thing that I fantasised about as a child’. If this had been on, let alone created, it would have just been perfect. They didn’t shove corny jokes or puns too much down or throats (I only could think of one off the top of my head and that was in the preview for the next episode) and I think were aware who might be a secondary audience, fans of the show.

The Good:
“Come to daddy!”, loli chests, Danzen! Futari wa Precure! refrence, ‘good’ renaming, kept the angsty ED animation

The Bad:
voice acting lacks in some parts, opening song is atrocious

The Ugly:
Mepple’s voice: what is this I don’t even

tl;dr? Fang is gay for the precure dub and hopes the following seasons gets covered.