Utsukushiki Zankou Na Sekai Duet Version

So I mixed my cover of Utsukushiki Zankou Na Sekai with Kal’s amazing version.

I literally just edited them together , if it sounds a bit off its because I’m not still not that good at mixing duets but I’m working on it.

Kal was nice enough to let me use his cover and I pronounced some of the words differently and held notes differently than he did and I was too lazy to record so yeah.

This was really fun to make and my goodness Kal’s high notes are so fabulous!

I don’t have much to say this time around actually. I miss watching Shingeki every week , hopefully we’ll get season 2 soon , it ended on a cliff hanger!!!!

I’m trying to learn five million new songs and mix five million others. I’ve got two drawings to finish and 3 songs to cover for chorus auditions and I have a special video I have to edit and A birthday cover for a friend of mine to mix. Plus working and reapplying to school. I am so busy suddenly , when will I find time for everything and not be so tired anymore?!

Anyways enjoy and thanks for listening , I’ll be posting again really soon 😉

Owarani Melody Wo Utaidashimashita

SORRY BUT YOU HAVE TO CLICK THE DESCRIPTION IN THE VIDEO TO GET TO THE SOUNDCLOUD LINK. IF I HAD UPLOADED IT TO YOUTUBE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN. ACTUALLY I’LL POST THE LINK BELOW TOO!

I covered the ending theme from Kamisama no Inai Nichibyou. I love this show and this song so much! When I first heard it I fell in love. Especially the use of it in episode 3.

Anyways I am getting at mixing audio especially using adobe audition. This is literally one if the best I’ve done so far. I am extremely proud of this cover. It shows my improvement in singing and in Japanese.

The audio cleans up so well in adobe 😉 By the way I managed to record this song with only 2 takes and had most of the harmonies done but then something went wrong and I lost it all. So this is a rerecorded version and I think its the better one.

I really hope you guys enjoy this cover. Cheers to not being sick anymore!

Guren no Yumiya

Since this always happens , I am late for the bandwagon. Everyone’s already covered this and I just to add yet another Guren no Yumiya cover to the internet.

This is the first opeing theme to the anime Shingeki no Kyojin aka Attack on Titan. When I first this song I was addicted. Its such a fun and energetic song to do. It was a little tricky learning the lyrics since its pretty fast and I could barely say the the beginning german line so I only said the end part which I can pronounce.

I made my own little Annami choir. I sang a four part harmony for the beginning and end. I honestly am not sure whether I liked how it turned out but it was a fun experiment trying to create it. But I have to say singing the extremely high operatic style part was very fun and I’m sure my neighbours loved hearing it too 😉

I used the cool sounding boy voice I have. I honestly am shocked I managed to sound like that and I can automatically snap into it. I really am getting to good at doing that voice. I mean I used variations of that voice on a couple of covers before and its crazy how easy it is to do it.

The mix I went all out with and used the Delay effect which I’ve only used once before and managed to use it twice in this cover and make it sound super cool. I think I spent a good two hours doing it.

I am so happy I’ve improved with doing harmonies cause this one actually sounded good.

Well anyways enjoy the video , mp3 in the description and join me again with another cover.

Yume no Tsuzuki

Finally covered another anime song! This time I did “Yume no Tsuzuki”(continuation of a dream) from the anime Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo (The pet Girl of Sakurasou).

This show is about a group of weirdos in an arts high school. This show has everything I like in it . Drama , romance , comedy , a plot line , character development , a variety of characters and pretty animation and music. Its a 24 episode J.C Staff anime , they always choose good things to animate.

I really love this show , I watched the 1st couple of episodes not really interested but by the end of episode 3 I loved it .

This song gave me hard trying to learn the words for some reason. Specific lyrics kept messing me up. But I managed to say them properly I think?

Harmonies are improving steadily , this time around I managed to get them down pretty quickly but I didn’t exactly follow what the original singer did so that makes my cover different in a good way.

I kept everything pretty simple this time around mix wise and didn’t do very much. The beautiful song speaks for itself so I didn’t need to anything extra.

I think this song may be lacking a little energy and that’s probably why I’m not completely satisfied with it.

Lots of covers planned so stay tuned for them .

Annami over and out! 😉

Aru Ga Mama

New Cover WOO! I absolutely love this song . Its English title is As It Is and its the second ending credit song for the anime Nabari no Ou which I watched two months ago. Its now of my favourite shows.
I literally fell in love with this song the first time I heard it. This song rings so well with the two main characters I got a little teary eyed while listening to it.

I messed up some of the words and it kinda threw the harmonies off a bit but whatever I’m still proud of this.

Lately I’ve been singing songs which require the use of my lower register which is fun to use since I usually sing in a slightly higher voice. Its a nice change.

The mix I kept simple but I kinda messed it up a little in the end. I pushed the harmonies to far into the right channel but on the bright side if you listen with headphones you can hear both me’s in each ear . It kinda creates the effect of me sitting beside you and singing next to you.

For once I actually have decent harmonies but mostly in part due to the original having these harmonies so I could essentially just learn them instead of coming up with them.

Also I used the ending credit sequence to make the video interesting and subtitled for the first time except when added the subs on youtube they lost the colour I chose but next time I’ll figure out how to do it.

Anyways have a good day and enjoy.

P.S on this cover and the last two I started adding mp3 links in the video description , I will upload more Mp3 of old covers once I remaster the audio on most of them.

Karaoke Challenge

Not sure if I’ve ever mentioned this but i LOVE vocaloid! So me doing one of these was inevitable. Anyways so for fun i tried doing a karaoke challenge I found this by accident by clicking through Nipah’s videos one day and I did this a long time ago at like 10pm at night ON a Wednesday or something like that…. well enjoy enjoy me being a weirdo and i’ll have two new covers soon!

Anime Terms

My anime history started with me watching anime on tv dubbed when I was little. I watched Sailor Moon , Cardcaptor Sakura and Pokemon to begin with and when I got a little older I watched Inuyasha , a bit of the Gundam stuff (though I didn’t really like it) and because I was a rebel I watched Witch Hunter Robin late at night. Then I went away from anime for a long time probably because I wasn’t to fond of Yu-GI-Oh , Beyblade or any of the other shows playing.

But in late 2011 I got back into anime when my sister was rewatching Inuyasha and watched it with her. We then re watched Cardcaptor Sakura. From there we began watching more current shows all in English dubs and I became more immersed in the shows often finding the shows I wanted to watch were only in subtitles. I also discovered the joys of manga and how much fun they were. My sister lost interest again but here I am still watching more anime than ever.   I only recently found out about anime blogs last summer when I somehow stumbled upon randomcuriosity.net and it was from here that I began seeing terms I didn’t understand.

As any fan of the anime/manga fandom would know , the terms that are thrown in blogs can be confusing and there isn’t much help around to help you understand them . I know that I myself basically make inferences as to what most of these terms mean and refer too. So anything here I describe is my own personal opinion and may be wrong , so feel free to correct me .

So starting off are two basic terms dubs and subs.

Dub – Short for dubbed  All audio accompanying the animation playing is not in the native language it was made in. In the case of anime not in Japanese. Dubs can be in English , Spanish , German , Chinese etc.

Sub – Short for subbed The complete opposite of dubbed. Subbed being subtitles. So the language being spoken on screen is kept intact and near the bottom of the screen the dialogue is translated into whatever language the viewer wants.

These next terms I found confusing when I started watching shows episodically according to Japanese broadcast schedules.

Simulcast –  Shows that you watch episodically direct from Japan through the internet. Think of the two which make up this word – simultaneous and broadcast . So what a simulcast aims to do is bring anime to your screen as soon as it shows on Japanese television. Albeit an hour two after since it takes time to subtitle but its close enough.

As a random note : anime schedules follow all four seasons when airing shows. Spring and Fall tend to have the higher quality and most amount of shows airing at one time.

1 Cour – Refers to episode count for a season. Shows labelled 1 cour are usually 12-13 episodes. Sometimes some animes do 15 or 17 but they usually don’t air on tv they are included in the dvd. But this rarely happens.  A show really can’t go over 13 eps due to scheduling conflicts for the next seasons. An example is Kokoro Connect.

2 Cour – Same idea as 1 cour but the episode count is higher. Shows with this label are around 24-26 episodes. Though most shows go for 25. Two cours work differently on the tv broadcast schedules because 1 cour fits into a season , 2 cour fits over two. I.e. Sword Art Online began airing in summer 2012 but ended in fall 2012.

This all makes sense when you realize that an episode a week is actually a long time. When you watch a whole series not episodically you can breeze through it in a couple of days.

These are random terms I see thrown around a lot.

• Seiyuu – the Japanese word for voice actor
• Manga – Japanese comics
• Light Novel – Short books that images in them i.e Spice & Wolf or The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
• Visual Novel – Japanese video games where you go pick between different options/scenarios to end up with being with a certain character
• Otome games – like a visual novel except aimed at the female demographic
• NEET/Hikimori – a person who is socially awkward and has a fear of leaving their home – go watch Welcome to the NHK for an example of this subbed or dubbed
• Otaku – a person who obsesses over something like a fangirl/fanboy
• OST – short for Original Soundtrack
• BGM – short for Background Music
• OP – opening song
• ED – ending song
• Insert Song – a song that is neither the official op/ed but is a song that is not part of the shows score. Its usually a song that has lyrics and is only used in pivotal moments , often the op/ed is inserted for dramatic effect
• Character Song – a song sung by the characters voice actor which the music/lyrics reflect the characters personality
• Amv – short for anime music video – fanmade video where episode clips are edited together with music in the background
• Mmv – short for manga music video – scans of manga images are edited together with music in the background
• Pv – short for promotional video , a trailer or sneak peak video for an upcoming anime

 

Well that’s all the terms I can think of for now and if anyone needs further clarification let me know , next post I’ll do on genres so stay tuned!