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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Great Big Vocaloid MP3 Post

This is what I spoke of earlier. The surprise. Well it isn’t much of anything. The download part of this post, aside from being a hit grabber *slapped*, is to test the new player. It isn’t very new. I’ve seen it on various blogs from Elbo.ws many times and always wanted to try it out here but never remembered to save it and use it for a later date. But now I can take the suggestions and put up a song or two from the albums I review! That should be great, right?

So without further ado, have some Vocaloid MP3s as a thank you for two great years! I don’t know if we’ll make it to three but I think that would be really cool. So thank you to everyone who has watched this blog grow and change from it’s silly beginning.

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[c76] D’va;;;;;;;;5 – アムリタ

Ohhh! I can’t believe how excited I am this is out. I brought it up in another post but I’m surprised this is the first Umineko no Naku Koro ni related album to surface up in lossy format. Don’t get me wrong. As usual, I am not complaining.

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Umineko – Katayoku no Tori Leak

The full version of the Umineko no Naku Koro ni anime OP Katayoku no Tori has been leaked. On youtube anyways. Enjoy.

Take this as a sign of how slow Comiket albums are rolling in. I’m just being picky. Sorry.

グラサンねこ – When they sing vol.1

I’ve wanted this album for a long time. Someone on LJ hooked me up again. As always, LJ comes through. Here we have a doujin vocal album based on Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. I actually figured I should write this later seeing as we have a whole bunch of Umineko related posts in a row but nobody minds right? I’m too excited to wait anyways.

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Umineko C76 Releases and Previews

We have here a blog that has compiled all of the Umineko releases at C76. Which is becoming increasingly better sounding.  You can find the full article here: http://shiba.dtiblog.com/blog-entry-693.html. Let’s just peek at some upcoming albums here. I’ll try to post demos and album covers lead to the website of the album if they have one specifically.

CT/Luck Ganriki already released an album like this featuring tracks from the episodes earlier. This is essentially the same except with some new tracks such as Birth of the New Witch (which I for one am enthralled with) and Happy Maria -BAND ARRANGE- which is, brace yourself, a rock version of Happy Maria. It actually sounds crazy badass even if Maria sounds like Saki from Onechanbara at the begining of the demo. This album will be worth just these two tracks.

I don’t know much about this album but I’m pretty sure it isn’t all Umineko no Naku Koro ni. From the demo, what I could identify and tracklist though sounds great. Some of the faster tracks in the original OST are slower and therefore much creepier, if that makes sense. Since the music from the series is already so strange, making it creepier is a great task. Anyways, a very big album at two disks and roughly 35 tracks. In fact, listening to the demo made me go back and look at their other works. That must be saying something, right?

Musicbox Blue and Red is the release of most of the game tracks by Dai and ZTS. Tons of new albums are released and if you visit the site you can see them. They are the tracks with asterisks beside their names (on the Red Musicbox anyways). If you don’t already have the OST tracks this will be something worth checking out.

Expect a review for the first volume very shortly. When they sing is a series about… well the series being sung. I don’t know how much Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is involved. Apparently this features everything from Symphony, Jazz, Rock and Techno so it should have something for everyone. A symphony version of Happy Maria? There isn’t a demo but I doubt it’ll be as awesome as the rock version. There is also a track called Nice Beat. It’s lulzy sounding.

Observer -witch who lives- is an album from Pre-Holder. I believe it contains most of the game tracks (they sounded the same to me) but Pre-Holder does a lot of the great music from the series so that’s okay. Actually, listening to the demo for 終焉_VerC is different with creepy laughing and some of that demonic chanting. So it’ll be even more worth a listen if you aren’t into hearing the same music twice.

That is only some of the Umineko no Naku Koro ni music being released so there is lots to look forward to. I’ll try to cover as much as I can here on Loli Salad but it depends how available this becomes. I might not be around during Comiket unless the weather is really crappy.

Umineko Motion Graphic 5 info

So, as you might guess I am ecstatic. I just found out after briefly glancing at the list of all circles with tables at C76 when I saw ALTERNAIT. Well I did backflips. Something unsual this time too. Still Umineko related (although I was hoping for something original). I was under the impression, with many I suppose, that they would not release an album as they had released the EP4 album in May. This new song will cover all four eps as opposed to just one. The album itself will include the videos from the past motion graphics (and we can assume the songs as well). As usual, despite my love of the group and the song, I don’t have a great initial impression. The song and the video will be crazy awesome. Count on it.

End of the Golden Witch/EP5 OP

I was going to do a post on Portrait Girl a few days ago but this is TOO good. At first I was surprised to see that Shikata-sama wasn’t coming back. So I did a big no. I’ll do it again. NOOOOOOOOOOO. But that’s okay. Because this is great. Young Beato? That on it’s own… There’s so much here that needs awnsering! Can it be August yet?! Ahh, I’ll leave it to you Witch-Hunt! We know you’ll be hooking it the fans up in no time. But no pressure, right? Hehe.

In case you didn’t know, this will be the first of the awnser arcs. I don’t know what else to tell you. The new title is Umineko no Naku Koro ni San and is now When They Cry 4. The title does seem misleading though.

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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Umineko Motion Graphic 4 Translation/EP Full Patch

Two sorta big Umineko posts here. I was supposed to review the other new (there were a few..) Exit Trance albums but I had to rage about the Umineko anime. So let’s do this before I rage here on LS, okay?

Someone over on livejournal translated the latest Umineko no Naku Koro ni Motion Graphic (the text/lines, not the song) and then added the notes into the video! I’d beware there’s some thinly masked spoilers. But if you’re already browsing Loli Salad you should be used to Umineko spoilers. I plan on creating a complete list of spoilers, plot twists and things you shouldn’t know before you watch the anime. But I’m very bitter about the anime. So. Yeah.

Episode Four has been fully translated by Witch-Hunt! I know I’m a bit late but I figure it’s worth sharing. You can find the patch over on Witch-Hunt’s site. I’m looking forward to playing myself! Here’s a link to Witch-Hunt’s site incase you (for some crazy) reason don’t have it. Comiket is right around the corner so WH gets a small break before EP5. Better get ready you guys! Great work and thanks from all Umineko fans!