anyone else have a song from an OST that visibly takes you back to moments of the media it's from? I can hear Kyon doing a monologue every time this song plays
anyone else have a song from an OST that visibly takes you back to moments of the media it's from? I can hear Kyon doing a monologue every time this song plays
The dulcet tones of Tomokazu Sugita are now filling my ears
The Haruhi OST is one of my all time favorites--definitely check out the live orchestral arrangement Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensou if you haven't already (alternatively, the full concert Blu-ray including interludes is also up on YouTube). The solo violinist absolutely rips it on the fourth track.
for after you've listened to it
Put this under a spoiler because I don't want to prejudice anyone's experience of the music!
I'll be honest, the actual songs (as in the ones with singing) are the lowlights of the concert for me, which is why I always listen to a playlist which excludes them all. The trio are great as voice actors and fine as vocalists in a studio setting, but none of them have to training to be able to deliver a raw and powerful performance in a setting like this, so the energy really tanks during those sections (both because of the weak vocal performances and because the orchestra has to hold back). I understand why it was setup this way (fanservice, more or less), but as a purely musical endeavor I wish they had stuck to instrumental arrangements (classically trained soloists would have been another option, but I still think it would have limited the arrangement unfavorably).
I've actually only ever watched the english dub
the first time I watched it was like that and that just became their voices to me lol. I just listened to his voice tho and I can see what you mean :>
also, thank you for the links! I'll check them out this weekend!
Lol, no worries--I prefer Sugita's performance which is a little more comedic/frazzled, but Crispin Freeman also did an excellent job! I happened to watch Haruhi as it aired, and since that was before the time of simuldubs I watched it subbed out of necessity, probably using CCCP when that was a thing, so it makes sense that I'd prefer the first version I heard, too.
...I just ended up watching like half of the first episode of Haruhi by accident, damn I love that show. I did a rewatch not too long ago but I might just have to do another--I've been doing more Japanese immersion lately so I could just watch it unsubbed for that purpose.
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