Category Archives: Music

The Wilderness Downtown

Posted on August 31, 2010 by hikago

Found via a friend, an interesting experiment in visual media, dynamic rendering, and GIS: http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ (I’d recommend opening in a separate browser as it is resource intensive — minimize impact of crashing xD) A great example of taking several pre-existing … Continue reading →

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Shimokawa Mikuni is back!

Posted on July 6, 2010 by hikago

Well back doing anisongs anyway Continue reading →

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Angel Beats OP Discussion

Posted on April 13, 2010 by hikago

After hearing about some controversy around the Angel Beats OP, I decided to give it a try. Some thoughts as I listened through:

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Lyrical Himari

Posted on March 2, 2010 by hikago

Kawasumi sings the end in Himari 07. Just a heads up!

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Listens per day

Posted on April 24, 2009 by hikago

Seeing this post, I realized that listens per day might be a better metric, and went about rewriting a mIRC addon for iTunes I was using to output this data. Continue reading →

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Strike Witches 8: Lili Marlene

Posted on August 21, 2008 by hikago

I guess in retrospect something like this would be inevitable, especially with a cast full of (more than) capable singers. Spoilers after the jump.

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Nogizaka Haruka no Beethoven

Posted on July 28, 2008 by hikago

I didn’t catch this until I saw some screen captures, but the music piece in the background here is Beethoven’s Fur Elise. Figure 1.0: Quite a bit of attention to detail. I was surprised that they went through the trouble … Continue reading →

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Nogawa Sakura’s Hateshi no Nai Sora

Posted on February 20, 2007 by hikago

Watching Lovely Idol’s first episode was a pretty silly experience, considering the show is geared towards young girls, but Nogawa Sakura’s beautiful song in the middle of the episode was quite worth it. Continue reading →

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Japanese songs of interest 02

Posted on January 25, 2007 by hikago

This time its a song from the erogame Konboku (Konna Ko ga Itara Boku wa mou…!!) This song is really upbeat, and has several transitions in the short 2 minutes, that just makes it seem even shorter… I really need … Continue reading →

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Japanese songs of interest

Posted on January 16, 2007 by hikago

I like jpop a lot for some reason; maybe its because I don’t understand 80% of it, so trite lyrics can’t offend me. Or maybe its because the I’ve girls are so awesome. I don’t know. But I’m planning on … Continue reading →

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