Aoi Tori Piano Solo 2011

Nico

Watched this wonderful piano arrangement of "Aoi Tori" from Idolm@ster performed and arranged by "ピアニート公爵" or PiaNEET. Having this performed in a concert hall with those differing camera angles makes this quite enjoyable.

相対性理論 (Soutaisei Riron) - Miss Parallel World

Randomly stumbled across this interesting song by the band 相対性理論 (Soutaisei Riron), aka Theory of Relativity. They have an interesting still that is strangely addicting and satisfying. I hope to hear more of their songs since they seem alright.

Idolm@ster MAD - Electo World

Nico

SPOILER ALERT: Contains scenes from the final few episodes, so don't watch it unless you've scene them (specifically episodes 20 to 25).

A song from PERFUME combined with a nicely stitched together movie with great clips from the anime. Indeed, this was a very cleanly produced MAD.

KisS by Eririn, Mingosu and Chiaking

Nico

This was something that was done during the 135th episode of the "Idolm@ster Radio" show, guest starting Eriko Nakamura (aka Eririn, and the VA for Haruka). Sounds quite nice, especially that whole "Erorin" part in the middle. Makes me wonder if they'll ever sing this song live...

Idolm@ster : secret base ～君がくれたもの～

Nico

Another oldies video and it's a cover this time. It comes from the Idolm@ster Radio album TOPxTOP.

Relations Live by Chiaking and Mingosu

Nico

Wow this video about 5 years old now. Randomly found it while going through the "Real S Rank" tag on Nico Nico. Although the sound quality is bad, it really shows how great these two's voices are, and also how great they sing together as a duet.

Aquarion EVOL 1-5 : OSORE! 12000 Years After

[AQUARION EVOL]

After a long while, I finally started watching Aquarion EVOL, the sequel(?) to that oh so strange series Sousei no Aquarion. Apart from the excellent OP and great animation, the original Aquarion was not very fulfilling in terms of story. Though the random hijinks and crazy characters do make it fun.

This anime however, starts off somewhat differently and with greater success I believe. The main character is some lonesome guy and the supposed main girl is quite shy and is somewhat depressed about herself. Already opposites of the original pair of Aquarion. However some things never change, such as Fudo GEN ZEN, the little silver haired girl, and the Power of Love that drives Aquarion.

So far I like the differences. The plots seems to be constantly moving even with the random side-trip during the 5th episode. The bad guys are also quite different, in that most are humanoid unlike the original monstrous enemies. And that crazy silver and blue haired guy with the odd fixation for Apollon is there, but hasn't had much speaking roles up to this point. There's bound to be more awkward interactions to come.

And that's all for now, hopefully I can catch up on my backlog a bit now.