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Akira Yamaoka leaving Konami?

Anna — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:16:39 +0000

That’s what I got to know by checking out Original Sound Version recently:

While rumors have been going around all day regarding Silent Hill series composer and producer Akira Yamaoka leaving Konami, OSV has received official confirmation from Yamaoka himself. This is huge news for the gaming industry, as Yamaoka has been one of the biggest critics of the Japanese gaming industry. It will be interesting to see what he does if he decides to work freelance in the gaming industry.

Watch in the coming days for an extensive interview with Yamaoka on this move and his future plans. Will he continue working on Silent Hill? Will he be working on a solo album? Will be focus on music or game production? We’re just as anxious as you are to know more!

Are you surprised by this announcement? Do you think Yamaoka is going to focus on music or production moving forward? (Source: OSV, AP)

What a shock. I wonder what will happen to Silent Hill from now on. I’m looking forward to other great projects by Yamaoka but to tell the truth I don’t want another iFUTURELIST.

[gydtr] Secret of Mana ORIGINAL SOUND VERSION

Anna — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:28:05 +0000

It’s sometimes pretty difficult to find accurate information on game music. For this reason I now start with an old but beautiful and well composed piece: Secret of Mana ORIGINAL SOUND VERSION (not soundtrack). For those who don’t know: Secret of Mana in known in Japan as simply Seiken Densetsu 2 and was once released for SNES. Secret of Mana is the most popular part of the Seiken Densetsu series and has been re-released as a mobile game in 2009.

Original title: 聖剣伝説2 ORIGINAL SOUND VERSION
Composer: 菊田裕樹 (Kikuta Hiroki)
Number of Discs: 1
Publisher: NTT Publishing
Release date: Aug 06, 1993 (reprinted in 1995, 2004)
Catalog Number: NTCP-5030 (2004 reprint)
Official links: Secret of Mana Mobile, at NTT出版
PURCHASE: CDJAPAN

You’ll find Japanese tracklist and tracklist scan under the cut.

01. 天使の怖れ
02. 不思議なお話を
03. 薔薇と精霊
04. いつもいっしょ
05. やさしい思いで
06. 少年は荒野をめざす
07. 夏の空色
08. 踊るけものたち
09. 遠雷
10. 妖精族の子供
11. 月夜の出来事
12. 闇の奥
13. 聖なる侵入
14. 熱砂の秘密
15. 森は教えてくれたこと
16. ねがい
17. 夜の魂
18. 君は海を見たか
19. 危機
20. 嵐の孤児
21. 風の焉るところ
22. 未知への飛行
23. 永却回帰
24. 伝説
25. 八点鏡
26. 奇妙な事件
27. 海辺の王様
28. 暗黒星
29. 予感
30. 鋼鉄と罠
31. 祈りと囁き
32. 儀式
33. 明日にとどく
34. 愛に時間を
35. 浄夜
36. たたり
37. 呪術師
38. ある結末
39. 君を忘れない
40. そのひとつは希望
41. 子午線の祀り
42. 翼はもうはばたかない
43. 最後から2番目の真実
44. ひとみを閉じて

Tracklist scan:

[gydtr] get your damn tags right

Anna — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:14:17 +0000

I’m in love with Asian music, especially music from Japan and Korea. If you feel the same way and you’re possibly a user at Last.fm you may be bothered by wrong tags, too.
Since I call myself as some kind of artist I know that (song)titles are important to express your intentions and feelings. Therefore I think it’s important to tag track titles, album titles and artist right.

For this reason I’ll start to share these information as accurately as possible by looking into official sources like websites, magazines and especially booklets. You may think this is overdone but for me it’s really annoying >,>

That’s it for today. By the way Grieved-Lightness is online again and I reached some points from the previous posted to-do list:

✖ job: creating three web design concepts / still one left + presentation (Nov 23)

✖ job: writing+coding+present what I meantioned before (Dec 31)

✖ studies: research, rework the introduction and organisation of my skilled work

✖ studies: create a complex brochure/ magazine

✖ ~~restore Grieved-Ligthness to life (Nov 28)~~

✖ ~~learn to spell Grieved-L-i.g.h.t.n.e.s.s. right o.-~~

✖ restore Limit-Breaks to life

✖ find some space to sleep

✖ find some more space to play Demon’s Souls

✖ visiting my family on christmas (Dec 24-29)

✖ work on my commercial portfolio!!!!

✖ buy Namie Amuro’s upcoming album PAST

Symphonic Fantasies (2)

Anna — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:18:38 +0000

I guess I have to catch up some recent happenings and announcements since my last entry was written two month ago. At first I would like to continue the last entries topic: Symphonic Fantasies. This event took place on Sep 24, 2009 and were an symphonic concert to celebrate music from Square Enix. The concert was splitted into four parts: Kingdom Hearts, Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 2), Chrono Trigger/Cross and Final Fantasy. The concert was simply amazing and beyond that the audience was able to meet Yoko Shimomura, Yasunori Mitsuda, Hiroki Kikuta and Nobuo Uematsu, who were sitting amongst the audience to enjoy the concert. It was such a great experience and just remembering it makes me squirrelly Give me some time and I’ll add a review and detailed list about the setlist.

By the way: I asked at WDR, host of Symphonic Fantasies, for an upcoming CD/ DVD release and they told me a CD is set to be released in December. A DVD edition is about to be released in January. Next entry will be about the upcoming concert in September 2010 called “Symphonic Legends“.
I guess from now it’s worth visiting German for at least one day a year

Symphonic Fantasies, etc.

Anna — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:13:05 +0000

I went on Symphonic Fantasies last Saturday and it was pretty amazing. I guess I’m going to write about it later but I need to manage some things now. see you soon.

Evangelion: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE. original sound track

Anna — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:02:42 +0000

Got it today:

Review: Beautiful World -PLANiTb Acoustica Mix-

Anna — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:36:31 +0000

Now that the official theme song for Evangelion 2.0 has been released there seems to be need for further discussion.

This is what I think about it:
I think it’s pretty amazing that there wasn’t any copy available on the internet before the release two days ago. No title officially announced and no information at all. But because of this particular reason people seem to be even more disappointed to get “just” a remix.

I don’t like people to appraise this song as an ordinary single, because it’s a THEME SONG! It’s a remix, it’s for Evangelion and it’s very well done.
Evangelion always had one opening theme in many variations and this fact represents one important topic in the anime series: showing differences (feelings, impressions, …) in human mind and changes as well!

In this case isn’t a remix most suitable? Because a remix isn’t just a warm-up of older stuff, but an (re)inter•pre•tation!
Btw: The Rebuild of Evangelion movies are meant to show a certain climax. Doesn’t this remix contents a different mood than the originl song?

Finally there is nothing more to say as that this mixed theme song is well done and suits good to the second Rebuild of Evangelion movie. Especially because in my opinion a guitar goes with Asuka, who has a main role in this movie. Maybe I got this idea because of ASUKA STRIKES!

This entry is crossposted to Last.fm group Rebuild of Evangelion. You may comment there as well!

hair like ai

Anna — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:52:47 +0000

I decided on getting a new haircut since hair has started to block my view this much. I gave my best to get that damn parting away I once had, but now it seems to come back since my hair became longer. Last month, when I had my latest hair-do, my hair became this short I needed to acclimatize it. But also I don’t really like it this way I’m willing to let it become more shorter as last time.
I’m afraid of having a bird-like head afterwards and therefore I’m always taking a picture of what I want to get to the hairdresser. Because I like fuzzy-heads I decided on Ai Otsukas short hair, but I’m still not sure about the variation. I need some advice!!!

The result can be admired next friday or saturday

HOT HOT HOT!

Anna — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:12:38 +0000

- got inspired by Kiru
- editing my portfolio since hours
- listening to The Cure for a while
- is thinking of calling flashs of inspiration
- anyway posting lyrics

hey hey hey!!!
but i like it when that lightning comes
hey hey hey!!!
yes i like it a lot
hey hey hey!!!
yes i’m jumping like a jumping jack
dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
feeling hot hot hot!!!

ただいま。

Anna — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:19:02 +0000

Writing this means to feel sad, depressed and drained.
Yesterday I started to create a design for Final Fantasy community I was a member of for over six years. This community is still online, but inactive since one or two years. It makes me sad, because I had so much fun with it and now everything is gone and became sleazy, because of the unactive members and ignorant admins. Maybe I feel this way, because I know each other well and can’t understand their attitude. I belong to a sort people who can’t to let go and worked on things until the very end, but there is no need if you are the only one who cares I think…

I’m not quite sure why I try so hard with this layout, because there is no need for it and I think I spend too much time with it (and effort) to share it on Grieved-Lightness.
I think I’m attached to it, because I always wanted to create a design for this website, but I was never allowed to. When I got my chance I failed – I always fail when I need to work on something I like. I always take care in creating web designs no matter if they’re ordered by a friend or a person I don’t know, but when I have to do something for myself I always fail. It’s the same with ordinary drawings. It’s like I have a blockade in my head and I have no idea what to do.

Oh dear, this sounds really depressed. Maybe it’s because of the Anime I’m recently watching. Mushi-shi makes me feel calm and contemplative. Maybe it’s because of the music that makes me feel home.

Here are two of my favorite songs from the Mushi-shi soundtrack I uploaded. It’s not that I wanted to share them to everyone. It’s just a sort of core or medium to show you what I mean.

1.「海境（うなさか）より」 umi sakai (unasaka) yori
2.深淵 shinen (fixed)

Btw: the soundtrack reminds me of Mononoke hime OST, but the composer doesn’t compose both. What a pity, because both of them created some kind of pleasent feeling.