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For the anime otaku around SDnet, what's your favorite vocal/nonvocal track in any anime series? Can be an OP, ED, or a random song that's included in the episode.

For me:
Vocal track: "Link" by L'arc~en~Ciel from FMA: Conqueror of Shambala.
Nonvocal track: "Ensei" (instrumental version) by Yuki Kajiura from My HiME.

Vocal: The acoustic version of "Voices" from Macross Plus, which is also my favourite song period. Simply one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

Instrumental: The final song played in The End of Evangelion, "Opening of Dream." It's a short, slow piano piece that has such a sad tone of finality.

Eh, who wants to label themselves otaku? That's rather dumb.

Vocal: Last Exile - Cloud Age Symphony
Non-vocal: I believe it's called "Prelude ot battle" out of the Macross: DYRL? soundtrack. It's the song they play when the inital intercept of the Zentradi is made off of Titan.

Vocal:
Cloud Age Symphony- Last Exile
Duvet- Serial Experiments Lain
Voices- Macross Plus
March of the Aestivalas- Nadesico (Hey, it's somewhat lighter fare than the rest)


Non Vocal:

Ailes Grises
Free Bird - Both Haibane Renmei.

I don't generally pick singular facourites.

Vocal:
The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop - Tank!.mp3
GITS:SAC OST Opening Theme.mp3

Non-vocal: None so far...

Ein, I'd actually consider "Tank!" as an instrumental, because the only real vocals in it are just two lines at the very beginning.

Evangelion: Opening song. (Cruel Angel's Thesis)
Soultaker (Don't know the source).
I also like some more of the songs from the evangelion song soundtracks, namely:

• Harbinger Of Tragedy
  Zankoku na Tenshi no Teize
  Decisive Battle
  Don't make others suffer
  Cruel Angel's Thesis (Ambivalent
  Kokoro yo Genshi ni Modore
  Tanin no Kanshou
  Angel Attack
  The beast
  NERV
  The beast 2

And more that I can't be bothered to CP right now .
Also, some of the music from the Hellsing ST vol 1/2 ain't half bad if not spectacular, as is the msuic from Gundam seed (Never seen the movie though).
Going to A&M in 3.2.1...

DEATH wrote:Don't make others suffer

The full title of that song is "Don't Make Others Suffer For Your Own Personal Hatred."

The full title of that song is "Don't Make Others Suffer For Your Own Personal Hatred."

Erm yes, can't imagine how the tag got mixed up (BTW, am I the only one who depsised the RAP/VOX soundtrack album? The names were great [Thanatos], but the songs sucked hard)

Never listened to it.

As I have far too many anime soundtracks that I listen to, I'll simply post a small list of my favorites. (And shouldn't this be in AMP?)

Vocal:

D-Tecnolife by Uverworld - Bleach
Thank you!! by Home Made Kazoku - Bleach
Showtime - Burn Up Excess
Reckless Fire - Scryed
Naku - Devil Hunter Yohko
Dress (Live) - Trinity Blood OP
Zone of the Enders theme - Zone of the Enders, Dolores i
Anbaransu no Kiss o Shite - Yu Yu Hakusho
Cotton Candy - Guyver, The Biobooster Armor ED
Last Moment - Mai HiME
Wild Rock - Saiyuki Reload
Carnival Babylon - Blue Seed

Non Vocal:

Read or Die Theme - Public Pressure Version - Read or Die TV
Alter - Scryed
X - Ex Dream
Dancing Doll - Iczelion soundtrack

Off to AMP we goes...

Well, if I had to break it down to just one favourite...

Vocal:
"suddenly" by Naomi Amagata - Battle Programmer Shirase OP

Can't really think of any non-vocal anime songs that I especially enjoyed quite enough to call it a favourite, off the top of my head.

Vocal: Give a Reason (Slayers Next Op.)

Instrumental: Tank! (Cowboy Bebop Op.) or Decisive Battle (Evangelion)

Vocal: "A Cruel Angel's Thesis", NGE
"Everyheart New", Inuyasha
"Sora", Escaflowne


Non-Vocal: "Revelation", from the FMA OST 2.
"Hanyou Inuyasha", Inuyasha
"Sesshoumaru's Theme", Inuyasha

Eh, who wants to label themselves otaku? That's rather dumb.

Why is that dumb? I've recieved that label and I am proud of it.
Non-Vocal
Tank! (Cowboy Bebop) OP
What Planet Is This? (Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heavens Door. Only a few words throughtout the whole song.)

Vocal:
Advent: One Winged Angel
Cruel Angel's Thesis (Neon Genesis Evangelion OP)
Unerasable Sin (Full Metal Alchemist ED)
Lithium Flower (Ghost in the Shell ED)

Davis 51 wrote:

Eh, who wants to label themselves otaku? That's rather dumb.

Why is that dumb? I've recieved that label and I am proud of it.

I take it you're not familiar with the popular usage of the word back in Japan then? This little bit of history might change your mind regarding the word. As it typically has a major negative connotation in Japan.

The "otaku panic", as described by Sharon Kinsella, didn't really occur until after the infamous Tsutomu Miyazaki incident in 1989. Miyazaki (who was 26, and in no way to be confused with legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki) kidnapped and murdered 4 little girls. When he was arrested, the police found a huge collection of various anime and manga, some of it pornographic, in his apartment.

The media picked up on this and repeatedly referred to Miyazaki as an otaku, thereby exposing the term to the public at large. As such, "otaku" became associated with sociopaths like Miyazaki, and in the panic, many in the media tried to blame Miyazaki's deviant behavior on anime and manga (which is not dissimilar to the American media blaming violent video games and movies for the tragedy at Columbine).

"Voices" - Macross Plus (vocal and accoustic)
"Information High" - Macross Plus
"Inner Universe" - Ghost in the Shell: SAC OP
"Lilium" - Elfen Lied OP
"Tommorow" - Full Metal Panic 1st season OP
"Sorega Aideshou" - Full Metal Panic Fumoffu OP
"No Need to Promise" - Vision of Escaflowne OP
"Dance of Curse" - Vision of Escaflowne
"Hishoku no Sora" - Shakugan no Shana OP
"Yowake Umare Kuru Shoujo" - Shakugan no Shana ED
"Shell" - Witch Hunter Robin OP
"One Life" - FLCL
"Come" - Inu Yashing ED
"Dearest" - Inu Yasha ED
"Owarinai Yume" - Inu Yasha OP
"Grip" - Inu Yasha OP
"Second Flight" - Onegai Twins OP
"Omoi wo Kanadete" - Uta Kata OP
"Guri Guri" - Green Green OP
"Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan!" - Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan OP

Im sure there are others, but those are the main ones I remember and have on my computer right now.

Vocals:

Toki no Ito from Tactics
We Were Lovers from Gankutsuou (but I'm almost reluctant to name it as a song from an anime.)
Toki Ni Ai Wa from the Revolutionary Girl Utena movie.
Rinbu Revolution Revolutionary Girl Utena
Startica one of the Tenchi Muyo versions...
The World from .hack, but actually I love all that music.
Edit- Lilium!! How the hell can I forget that?

I'm not in a mood to remember instrumentals at the moment though. Sorry.

Vocal: "Successful Mission" (OP to Saber Marionette J)

Non-Vocal: "H.T" (OP to Trigun)

Vocal:
Cyberbird and What's If For from Ghost in the Shell: SAC

Non-Vocal:
Tank! from Cowboy Bebop

Vocal:

Gotta Knock A Little Harder, Cowboy Bebop KOHD
Diggin', Cowboy Bebop
Through the Night, Outlaw Star OP
The Hellsing OP

Nonvocal:

Space Lion, Cowboy Bebop
The Egg and I, Cowboy Bebop
A lot of the incidental music in Trigun

Vocal:

• The Light Before We Land, Gunslinger Girl
• Lithium Flower, GITS:SAC
• The opening music for Full Metal Panic: Second Raid, don't know what it's called

Non-vocal:

• Be good or don't be, End of Evangelion
• R.O.D. No Teema, Read or Die OVA
• And another one for Tank!

DEATH wrote:, am I the only one who depsised the RAP/VOX soundtrack album? The names were great [Thanatos], but the songs sucked hard)

I'll always be on your mind was pretty good, and I liked the first part of the introduction (With the bizzaro distortion noise in the background and all the voices from the series mixed up). Can't say much about the others.

Vocal

Origa - Rise
GiTS:SAC

Kinya - Blaze
Tsubasa Chronicle

Lia - Farewell Song, Tori no Uta
Air

Two Mix - Just Communication
Gundam Wing

DROPS - Furare Kibun de Rock'n Roll
Sensei no Ojikan


Inst

Key - Reminiscences, Summer Lights, The Law
Air

Yuki Kajiura - Mai, Materialise!, Tokiro no Mai
Mai Otome / Mai HiME

Unknown artist - Trace of a Dream
Kanon

Toshiro Masuda - Avenger
Naruto

Can't think of any non-vocals, so here's my top 3 vocals.

1. Yoko Kanno - Inner Universe (GITS: SAC OP)
2. Kenji Kawai - Kugutsuuta ura mite chiru (GITS: Innocence OP)
3. Kajiura Yuki - Hitomi no Kakera (Madlax OP)