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[Music] An Introduction to Touhou Music, and Some of My Favorite Songs
Some of you might know Touhou as “that shooting game with all the girls and fanart everywhere”, and wonder where music fits into the picture (if you already know feel free to scroll down to where I talk about some of my favorite songs). The game has great OST for the stage and boss fights, and doujin circles take the melody and make remixes of the songs. Sometimes the remixes are with new instruments, though many of them also have vocals added to the song. The remixes sometimes stay close to the original, but sometimes they deviate a lot. Read the rest of this entry
![[Music] Favorites from iDOLM@STER](http://fortyfourfennecs.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/vlcsnap-2011-12-22-07h32m14s206.png?w=90&h=70&crop=1 "[Music] Favorites from iDOLM@STER")
[Music] Favorites from iDOLM@STER
Continuing on from my previous post, this is another that features “the songs of the moment” that are prominent in my mind.
Smoky Thrill – Ryuguu Komachi
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12 Days of Anime, Day 11: Favorite Songs of the Year!
I love many of the OPs and EDs of anime, and most of the music library I listen to at any given time is made up anime OSTs, followed by Touhou music and a few Vocaloid songs here and there. At any given point in time there’s usually one ‘The Song’ that’s stuck in my head a lot and that I really like, and it changes a lot. These songs aren’t necessarily the best, and even when I have a lot of good songs coming in at the same time only one or two are engraved into my subconscious for the moment. What I’m trying to say is there are many great songs I like that aren’t featured because they happened to come to me with something else that overshadows it at the time.
I was going to start a post series where I right about new ‘The Song’ as they come up, but since I had many of them come and go already I’m going to write about my songs for the year to kick off the series.
Chii also has a post on her favorite OPs and EDs of the year.
If you love anime songs then you should join us in SCCSAV Saturday Night Karaoke! It’s a really fun event, and is the perfect way to destress after a week.
Song For Love: I’ll Be Your Home
I’m still in FINALS RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE mode, so another quick song post.
I really love this song! It’s the ED of the anime version of Devil May Cry, which isn’t as badass as the games but the music’s really good.
Why a love song? Certain reasons I would rather not say because everyone would think I’m insane (which I am…).
Musical Instrument: Electric Violin
I play an electric violin~
Well not exactly “play”, more like “make annoying screeching sounds and annoy my neighbors”.
The reason I got into the violin wasn’t classical music, but because of the Vitamin String Quartet’s string tributes to My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park.
I only started learning last quarter, and only started practicing when I found the sheet music for Tori no Uta (Air’s OP) and Connect (Madoka’s OP). I mostly play anime or Vocaloid songs instead of classical music. One, because I like these songs, and two, it’s different from most people – which is also the reason I bought an electric violin instead of a classical one ;) .
My shiny red electric violin ^^
I almost completed one of my goals for the violin (play My Soul Your Beats (Angel Beats OP)) that I made before I started learning. My other goal is to be able to transcribe songs by myself instead of using sheet music. I also have many more goal songs, since my sheet music collection keeps growing.
![[Music] An Introduction to Touhou Music, and Some of My Favorite Songs Many in the anime community aren’t interested in Touhou Music, but I think you should be! There’s a lot of great stuff out there!](http://fortyfourfennecs.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/000-4292a661a8f91a0d30573302a6d43d3f.png?w=280 "Many in the anime community aren’t interested in Touhou Music, but I think you should be! There’s a lot of great stuff out there!")
[Music] An Introduction to Touhou Music, and Some of My Favorite Songs![[Manga Review] “Ebisu-san and Hotei-san”, a Heart-Gripping Tale A very touching manga that I love, you should read it too!](http://fortyfourfennecs.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/ebisu-san_and_hotei-san_ch01_07.jpg?w=280 "A very touching manga that I love, you should read it too!")
[Manga Review] “Ebisu-san and Hotei-san”, a Heart-Gripping Tale
Seiko-chan ~ Lovely Complex’s Portrayal of Traps and Transgenderism![Katawa Shoujo – Initial Review, And Hanako’s Good End [No Spoilers] Katawa Shoujo is a great Original English Language Visual Novel, and if you haven’t checked it out I highly recommend you do so! Even if you never played a VN before, I’m sure you’ll find it enjoyable.](http://fortyfourfennecs.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/katawa-shoujo_34.png?w=280 "Katawa Shoujo is a great Original English Language Visual Novel, and if you haven’t checked it out I highly recommend you do so! Even if you never played a VN before, I’m sure you’ll find it enjoyable.")
Katawa Shoujo – Initial Review, And Hanako’s Good End [No Spoilers]
Gunpla 101: Introduction to Absolute Beginners, Straight Building and Inking
On Self-Publishing, Distribution, Content Creators, Circles and Critical Mass
