#Azumi Inoue

[roseillith]

azumi inoue - turning sessions (kiki's delivery service image song single) artwork

[falseandrealultravival]

"The Surgical Room" (Kyoka Izumi) book review

Speaking of "Azumi Inoue", she is famous for singing several theme songs for Hayao Miyazaki's animated films, and she sang "Sakura, Dance" in NHK Minna no Uta. It's a sad love song about someone who can't forget a chance encounter and will carry that feeling with her for the rest of her life...

♪ It's sad because I was young

A burning face deep in my eyes

The short story "The Surgery Room" is very similar to the situation in this song. It is the work of Kyoka Izumi. It's a love story that can be described as horrific. The main character is afflicted with an intractable disease and is brought to the hospital in such a state that she will not survive unless she undergoes a surgical operation. She is "Countess Kibune" and her surgeon is Takamine Medical Doctor. However, during this period, there were people who could never marry, even if they were medical students, and those were the people of the upper class.

She refuses an anesthetic procedure. If she was anesthetized, she was afraid to say the wrong thing. It was because she loved Takamine. She wishes to die in Takamine's arms and plunges deep into her body as if inviting Takamine's hand to operate on her.

"In the first place, these two have only met once in the past." At first glance, even though they only passed each other on the road, they left a deep impression on each other. Mrs.Kibune asks, "You don't remember me, do you?" Takamine replies,” Never forget.” She hears it, and in a sense ``joyful'' and ``obediently'' she follows the path of her death. This tragic pure love even though they saw each other's faces only once. And Takamine commits suicide on the same day, just like going after the deceased “wife”.

Rei Morishita

「外科室」（泉鏡花）

　「井上あずみ」さんと言えば、宮崎駿・アニメ映画の主題歌をいくつか歌ったことで有名ですが、彼女はNHKみんなのうたで「桜、舞う」という作品を歌っています。どんなものかと言うと、ふとした出会いが忘れられなくて、その感情を一生引きずっていく、という悲しい愛の歌なのですが・・・

♪哀しいくらい　　若かったから

瞳の奥に灼きついだ顔

この歌のシチュエーションに良く似た短編に「外科室」があります。泉鏡花の作品です。凄惨と言ってもよいラブストーリーです。主役は難病に罹り、外科的手術を受けなければ助からないといった状態で病院に運びこまれます。彼女は「貴船伯爵夫人」、執刀するのは高峰医学士。ただ、この時期、たとえ医学士と言えども、決して結婚できない存在があり、それが上流階級の人だったのですね。

　夫人は、麻酔薬の施術を拒否します。彼女は、麻酔をかけられて、あらぬことを口にすることを恐れたのです。それは・・・高峰を愛していたからなのです。彼女は高峰の腕のなかでの死を願い、執刀する高峰の手を誘うように自らの体内深く突くのです。

　そもそも、この二人、過去に一度だけ逢ったことがあるのです。一見（いちげん）、しかも道路ですれ違っただけなのですが、お互いに深い印象を残すのです。夫人は、「あなたは、私のこと、覚えてないでしょう？」と水を向けますが、高峰も「忘れるものですか」と返します。それを聞いたうえで、ある意味「嬉嬉として」また「従容として」彼女は死出の道をたどります。たった一度お互いの顔をみただけなのに、この凄惨な純愛。そして、亡くなった夫人を追うように、高峰は同日に自殺します。

[ravegirlrevelry]

Azumi Inoue - A Lost Child

A Lost Child is the sound of pain to me. It holds a special place in the svntax musical zeitgeist; its emotional weight is destructive in the right time and place. I find myself transported back to the first time I heard it in high school, driving back home at 7pm after a long and stressful work day preparing for the theatre production. On nights like these (I currently write to you at 3am), it can even wring out a few tears from me. It's a song about a mother searching for her child, from a movie about forest creatures in the country villages of Japan. It's yearning, sorrowful, and melancholy, Inoue's voice a soulful stream of light, a beacon for her loved one to search for and return to. And of course, we can't overlook Joe "Pitchfork's Greatest Composer of the 21st Century" Hisaishi, a title well-deserved as he employs flutes, ocarinas, and harps to give Inoue's voice a bed of clouds to drift on top of. Everyone else shut up from this point on; this is officially one of the best songs of all time.

[1998mit]

Female leads in Inoue-verse

[chelseajackarmy]

[halcyondaaze]

Real

[marikoyoshida]

Lady's Gong vol. 48 (レディースゴング48) - 2000.03.08

[dancingbonez]

Got school tomorrow chat

[psychedelic138]

Durarara's Character Songs and the originals they were a cover of

I wasn't sure if anyone else had done it before so I'm posting anyway as a reminder to self

Season 1

Linda Linda (リンダリンダ)

Kida Masaomi >> The Blue Hearts (1987)

Tsugaru Kaikyō Fuyugeshiki (津軽海峡・冬景色)

Shizuo Heiwajima >> Sayuri Ishikawa (1977)

Gakuen Tengoku (学園天国)

Mikado Ryuugamine >> Finger Five (1974)

Tsuppari High School Rock'n Roll (ツッパリHigh School Rock'n Roll (登校編))

Kadota Kyohei >> Yokohama Ginbae (1981)

Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (時をかける少女)

Anri Sonohara >> Tomoyo Harada (1983) (for Yasutaka Tsutsui's movie of the same name)

DIAMONDS (ダイアモンド>)

Shinra Kishitani >> Princess Princess (1989)

Subarashii Hibi (すばらしい日々)

Izaya Orihara >> UNICORN (1993)

Rouge no Dengon (ルージュの伝言)

Celty Sturlson >> Yumi Arai (1975)

rain tears

Ruri Hijiribe (original)

Season 2

Ruby no Yubiwa (ルビーの指環)

Shizuo Heiwajima >> Akira Terao (1981)

Nagori Yuki (なごり雪)

Mikado Ryuugamine >> Kaguyahime (1974)

Aa mujou (あゝ無情)

Chikage Rokujou >> Ann Lewis (1986)

Sailor-fuku to Kikanjū (セーラー服と機関銃)

Anri Sonohara >> Hiroko Yakushimaru (1981) (for Shinji Sōmai's movie of the same name)

Julia ni Heartbreak (ジュリアに傷心)

Kida Masaomi >> The Checkers (1984)

Romantic ga Tomaranai (Romanticが止まらない)

Aoba Kuronuma >> C-C-B (1985)

Pepper Keibu (ペッパー警部)

Celty Sturlson >> Pink Lady (1976)

Vacance de l'amour (恋のバカンス)

Kururi & Mairu Orihara >> The Peanuts (1963)

Koi wo Nosete (君をのせて)

Walker Yumasaki & Erika Karisawa >> Azumi Inoue (1986)

Fuyu no Inazuma (冬の稲妻)

Kadota Kyohei & Saburo Togusa >> Alice (1977)

Katte ni Shiyagare (勝手にしやがれ)

Izaya Orihara >> Kenji Sawada (1977)

Kimi ga iru dake (君がいるだけで)

Shinra Kishitani >> Kome Kome Club (1992)

little world

Ruri Hijiribe (original but composed by Toshiyuki Toyonaga and I'm almost sure there was a video of him singing it live once)

Let me know if I missed anything <3

[m00ngbin]

Who amongst you wants to read a ridiculous amount of words about my guys? Bc I have stuff here. For you. And for me

Name choice reasons first, and if anyone that is not me ends up reading this, you may notice that even Inoue's NAME is kind of centered around Mahamat if you really think about it. That is 100% intentional. Also bear with me with the translations, I do not speak arabic or japanese in the SLIGHTEST so hopefully the internet hasn't lied to me Badly

All of this would make a lot more sense if you read their original lore post, but who cares

Ok so starting with the psychic. I decided that her name was gonna be Azumi Inoue after a VERY long debate on whether I wanted to make it feel straightforward/just according to her character, or add symbolism to it. I chose symbolism. First name Azumi, and I've been kind of hung up on the spelling of it just because I think both meanings I'm leaning towards fit the story. It's either Azumi: bright, light - as in to make something clear, to have it illuminated - or Azumi: Peaceful. Last name Inoue, and I had a SIGNIFICANTLY less difficult time choosing this because it was so conveniently lucky that I stumbled across this name. Inoue: above the well. Together that would either be like clarity above the well or peace above the well.

I think I'm SOOOO goddamn clever with this btw. My absolute FAVORITE name that I've ever chosen, because not only did I give her like a shit ton of INSANE well symbolism that I can't even get into rn before I even found it, and I ALSO decided that her family was going to have a thing about wells too that I'll mention later. It was crazy. Anyways so both peace above the well and clarity above the well both have to do with her misunderstanding with the other girl, i.e you can't see the truth through tunnel vision, she can't really see that mahamat actually has no fucking idea that inoue did what she did and has been covering for her the whole time. Inoue thinks that mahamat is using her and knows exactly what she's doing and that her powers are actually inoue's. Inoue has built up this idea in her head around mahamat that's, for the most part, completely untrue, and if she could get out of that well (throwback to crazy symbolism stuff I won't explain (right this second)), if she could get across that gap and actually just TALK to her, clear up the MOUNTAIN of miscommunications and onesided resentment (will not happen btw. Not before Shit Goes Down), everything would be cleared up. She'd have clarity, she'd have be able to have peace of mind

I have had the MOST trouble with the non psychic's name, Inoue's was pretty much an instant decision other than the meaning. I also had to decide whether or not to go for symbolism or character here, and I did a little mix of both, but I leaned a little more into character because she is a more straightforward person than Inoue I think. So the non psychic's first name would either be Mitsuko or Mitsumi, and either would be ok because both the meanings would fit, but I'm leaning more towards Mitsuko just bc Mitsumi is a little more symbolic-y (AS MUCH AS I LOVE IT FOR HER. EVEN MORE THAN MITSUKO TECHNICALLY). Mitsuko like "light/shining child" and Mitsumi as something along the lines of "fascinating secret" OR "seen secret," which I'm taking to be as like knowing about or being aware of a secret. Looking right at it. I Will explain this later, ik it's kind of cryptic rn if you haven't seen the og lore post. Her last name is Mahamat, (and ik ik, double M, just bear with me), which is supposed to be like "highly praised," OR Ahmat, which is like pretty similar as something along the lines of "the most praised." And ik that the obvious choice is Ahmat, but I've gotten really attached to Mahamat as her last name, so. It's still being decided.

So Mitsuko, Mahamat, and Ahmat all have to do with Inoue's perception of her, but also just how she is. She's a very talented person, she's very popular, she does really receive a lot of praise and validation for the things she accomplishes, and even more so with 'her' psychic powers. Once Inoue starts covering for her, she's complimented and praised left right and center, and she's absolutely ADORED by everyone. She shows off with the powers a LOT. She is the light, and she's a very (literally and personality wise) bright person, she's the center of attention. With Inoue, this starts as sincere, because she genuinely does love Mahamat, but it gets more sarcastic and ironic towards the end of the storyline. Speaking of ironic, her ENTIRE NAME is ironic, ESPECIALLY with the end of the story. At the end, the secret gets out because of Inoue, and suddenly Mahamat isn't great anymore. She's not popular, she's not cool, she's a fraud. Everyone believes that she knows exactly what she was doing and believes Inoue wholeheartedly. She is no longer the most praised, she is no longer the brightest kid in the room, everyone thinks she Knows The Secret (circling back to Mitsumi as an option). Inoue thought she knew, everyone else did too, but she didn't. She had no idea. It's the most ironic name of all of them, it's HER name, and she's the one out of the two that Doesn't Know What's Happening, even though everyone thinks she does.

Anyways she has a dual name. You may or may not notice, but both last name options are Arabic last names. Specifically they're Chadian. They're two of the most common Chadian last names, which is very important. They're common. She's common. She's no different from everyone else, and there's nothing special about her. It's supposed to be foreshadowing even though the readers and me the creator already know that she doesn't actually have powers. It's foreshadowing for her I guess, she's common. Like every single other person

Also she's Chadian and Japanese, her father and grandmother were both born in Chad. Her father moved to Morocco for a job and her grandmother came with him, and then the two of them moved to Japan for a Different, better paying job at a company that I have not decided on yet, where her father met her mother and she was born like ten years after her father and grandmother moved to Japan. She's pretty fluent in both Japanese and Chadian Arabic because her father was insistent that he teach it to his daughter, but by the nature of language and how you learn it, she's ever so slightly more proficient in Japanese, but only because she speaks it more often and with more people. She is DEFINITELY not bad at speaking Chadian Arabic don't get me wrong here

For the uhhhh for the story that inoue's name is insanely unintentionally related to. (Meant to mirror Inoue and Mahamat (but also intentionally not exactly) in that Mahamat is meant to reflect the woman and Inoue is the husband)

Ok so wayyyy back in the family line she has this girl and her husband. At some point the woman gets sick, and so every day that she's sick, the husband goes and gets her water from the well by their house (this is way back when and they're in a place that doesn't really have running water just yet). Eventually the wife gets better, but the husband still continues to get water for her well after the fact. He's devoted, he loves his wife, but eventually he starts getting tired of it. He gets frustrated. He continues to do it out of obligation and he assumes that his wife knows that he's sick of it, but she doesn't tell him to stop, and so he doesn't. One day at the well he makes a mistake. Maybe he leans a little too far, maybe the grass that morning has more dew than usual and he slips, however it happens, he falls in. He's trapped. He PANICS. He starts yelling for his wife, but stops after about a minute, assuming that she'd heard him. She hasn't. She has no idea that he's in there, and furthermore she has no idea that he'd been tired of getting the water for her. He, however, doesn't know any of this. He assumes that she knows and that she's left him in there and that she'd known the whole time that he had started to resent doing it, but he's never said anything. He'd been giving subtle hints and he yelled for her (from where she couldn't hear), but she'd never picked up on it. At some point his wife comes outside to grab something; a basket, some laundry, it doesn't matter. If her husband had kept shouting for her, she would have heard him and he could understand that she had not done this to him on purpose. If he'd made it more clear, he wouldn't have been in that situation in the first place. There are plenty of ways for him to get out of the well, from getting the woman to getting out on his own, but in his rage and misery at apparently being left there, he pursues none of them. He doesn't realize that he has a way out, has Several ways out. He dies in that well, and his spirit (and, logically, his decomposing body) poisons the well so that no one can use it for decades. He never gets out, he never sees the truth, nothing is ever resolved. The woman eventually finds out where he's gone and she is beyond distraught. She's alienated and ostracized by the people around her until her passing because they had all formed the same opinion and come to the same conclusion as her husband had. They're meant to be like a cautionary tale for Ahmat and Inoue, but obviously they don't know about them, so it's more like a "whatever, go my symbolism/parallel/reflection" moment. Hilariously enough, Ahmat's family has a similar story about wells, except it's the positive version of this story

"How would they know this story from his perspective if he never got out of the well," I hear you say. I'm debating on this, because the truth of the matter could be that he DID get out but never ends up talking to his wife and learning and developing his perspective. He's angry and hurt and he would lie about this story to the people he's telling it to in some way to frame her as the absolute bad guy in this who did everything 100% intentionally. She heard him. She knew. She didn't do anything. I do like this and I think it would still reflect on Inoue and Ahmat pretty well, but I think it would change the well symbolism ever so slightly from being that getting out of it will bring them clarity, to getting out of it means they still have to work and fight for that clarity and they still have to reach out. It still works, but a little differently that I originally intended. I'd end up reworking that ending a little

But also, I COULD have him actually die, they may just not know this story from his point of view, I could have it just like. Be a little fact mentioned somehow and have the Inoues be very traditional ppl who focus a lot on family and the past and the way the story is told is very negative towards the wife. This way Inoue will like grow up thinking of how the wife was in the wrong bc nobody is very kind to historical people in her position, and it'll still reflect on her relationship with Ahmat and be kind of reflective in a different way where she finally has to consider the wife's perspective through Ahmat. I think this one works better with the well symbolism I already have and I'm Kind Of leaning towards this ending. Idk. I have it playing out a lot more concisely than I'm making it sound rn and I could see it going either way

Yayyy if I have more (and I probably do) I'll make another post later

[unregularpinetree]

the ending song to castle in the sky goes SO HARD you can’t even convince me otherwise

[falseandrealultravival]

Put you on; Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Azumi Inoue) J-pop

Animator Hayao Miyazaki's favorite pattern. A girl falling from the sky, a boy trying to rescue the girl... You saw it in "Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro". Azumi Inoue suited the Miyazaki anime of this period. However, she is not a singer that can be described only by that.

Joe Hisaishi was in charge of most of the music for Studio Ghibli works such as Miyazaki animation and Takahata animation. He's a music craftsman, and it's no surprise that he's producing solid, high-level movie music.

君をのせて：天空の城ラピュタ（井上あずみ）J-pop

アニメーター宮崎駿の得意パターン。少女が空から落ちてくる、少女を救出にいく少年・・・「ルパン3世：カリオストロの城」などでも見られたね。井上あずみは、この時期の宮崎アニメに似合っていた。でも、それだけの歌手ではない。

宮崎アニメ、高畑アニメなど、スタジオ・ジブリ作品の音楽は、ほとんど久石譲が担当した。音楽の職人らしく、手堅くレベルの高い映画音楽を作り出しているのはさすが。

[hany-dess]

[sailermoon]

I rewatched this tonight but I swear I’ve heard a very similar sounding song ???? wait it actually might be grave of the fireflies that it’s reminding me of post canceled