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At last! My favourite background music track of the Lucky Star canon has finally been released. It first ran as Konata was giving her ‘intelligent and passionate’ briefing to Kagamin and Tsukasa in Episode 12 about how to go about buying doujins at Winter ComiKet. Thus, the track is appropriately entitled: ‘The Battle Ground of Ariake’. Absolutely love the drums, trumpets, and synthesizer layered upon each other and building up to a crescendo.
Two orders from RightStuf arrived today. Over the three weeks it took them to make their trans-Atlantic journey, I’ve been brooding about the relative success of US-based anime distributors’ strategies vis-a-vis my wallet and how we, fansub-downloading anime fans, can better market ourselves.
The first shipment was a pre-order, made during the previous RightStuf Bandai sale, for the Haruhi Limited Edition boxsets 2-4 and joins the first Haruhi LE boxset in my anime DVD collection now. The second batch was a panicked order, a few weeks later as GENEON USA announced that they were closing down, for the first season of Black Lagoon, the Kannazuki no Miko and Kamichu! boxsets (with ADV’s 801 TTS Airbats and Bandai’s Onegai Twins also in this shipment).
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I can’t help but feel that there’s considerable irony in how Minori Chihara’s singing career was given a considerable boost by the popularity of her role as Yuki Nagato in The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi. After all, Yuki was a ’silent character’ and not an inconsiderable number of fans, whom I disagree with, felt that Minorin’s rendition of the chara songs were, well, not very Yuki.
Of the dozen, the Lucky Star Character Song Vol.002 featuring Kagami was my clear favourite. Really happy that Amazon.co.jp managed to get it to me within a week of my order (gushing post about Minorin’s Contact akan datang).
I haven’t been particularly enthused about the preceding four compilation of Lucky Star BGMs (except for the marvellous Initial D parody tune ‘Gravity’, the *shock horror page expired* of ‘Gyaaaaaaaaa’ and the ‘Kore de Enya’ tune of Tsukasa’s sea shell misadventure in the third release) but this fifth release really put a smile on my face. Even the track titles were LOL.
The opening track of ‘Bun Guster’ (LOLOLOL), with its trumpets and two different types of drumbeats, was suitably triumphal and was in the background of some of my favourite scenes in the anime, such as in Ep 5 when Konata finds the rare item, Laevantein, in her game world and as she goes loot hunting at the winter ComiKet.