#Gekkou Chou

[zodiacoracle]

Sometimes I think about music in term of genres. Genres can be a tricky thing, so this topic often worms its way into my idle thoughts.

Today it's Asaki. I've been on an Asaki kick again recently. Rock and metal are obvious, but if you look at it closer there's an undeniable visual kei roots in the sound. Gekkou Chou's genre label in pop'n is Visual. Also, he was in a visual kei band way back in college. Heck, some people still call his music visual kei today, despite the person himself not identifying with it (preferring "kyoto metal" instead).

Now, I don't know the exact reason why he doesn't, but I think the reason may be as simple as if it was visual kei, it's lacking the visual. Hiding his face has been his entire shtick since GFDM and MRXG days. They literally got a rando white guy to play as him in Bemani Private Academy (and 96 played along and got a rando too, because).

And behold, the self-portrait of Bemani's beloved visual kei artist.

Tentei was one of the rare exceptions where he did show his face. This was the closest he ever got to having a visual aspect in his 20 years of professional music career, and it's still reserved compared to what the scene can get up to.

He still got that emo fashion smell though. (Sick guitar btw.)

So when you take away the visual from visual kei, all you have left is rock and metal. And damn good rock and metal, in Asaki's case.

Anyway all of this to say I listened to Madeth Gray'll today because I heard from a little bird their music was similar to Asaki. I can definitely hear the similarities there, though this v-kei is too old school for my taste today. They also played with some vocal noises like Asaki's own cryptid vocals, so it's pretty fun. (Although from what I've sampled, Asaki's cryptid vocals are still more adventurous, both from taking full advantage of studio recording and just from being a lovely weirdo in general.)

[honeypupcakes]

the ddr machine here has gekkou chou asaki i can die happy

[landofanimes]

Sailor Moon x Akiko Kosaka MUSIC HISTORY

DAY 2

The special Sera Myu concert in honor of the 45th Anniversary of composer Akiko Kosaka ends! As promised, the second day featured a band (as opposed to the first one, which was more about Kosaka’s piano, instrument-wise).

Again, the singers mostly kept to their characters’ songs, although the absence of some had to be filled in again, of course... And there were even more songs that the actors had not sang before because they came in a different time in myu! In fact there were a LOT of songs in general, wow!

The person I took the singers list from was uncertain at some points, so it’s possible they’re not 100% accurate... But let’s go already!

SONGLIST

The Last Change

Drive Me The Mercury

Honoo no Messenger

Zigzag Slash

Traditional The Grace ~ Ai no Arashi ~

Chou Bi! Uranus to Neptune

To a Brand-New World

Matamata Chibiusa Desu

Double Moonlight Romance (Anza, Yuuta, Tamaki)

Tuxedo Loyal

Tuxedo Mission

Sailor War!

Moment Fatal

Usagi Circus Show Time (Anza, Hisano, Misako, Emi, Akiko M., Sanae, Yuuka, Mao, Tamaki, Ryuuji)

Amazon kara Circus Dan ga Yatte Kita (Ryuuji, Hikari, Anza)

Onna Kaizoku no Sakusen

Triple Dreams (Anza, Hisano, Misako, Emi, Akiko M., Sanae, Yuuka, Mao, Tamaki, Yuuta, Ryuji, Hikari)

Sailor Moon Theme Song Medley (Anza, Hisano, Misako, Emi, Akiko M., Sanae, Yuuka, Mao, Tamaki, Hikari, Momoko)

See Me, Bokutachi no Jidai (Hikari, Momoko)

Chasin' After You (Hikari, Momoko)

Hitosuji no Hikari no Kokoro

Kono Kodou kara Yoru wa Umarenai

Just Love Wasurerarenai

Kokoro Tabanete Makin’ For The Right (Sanae, Yuuka, Mao)

Broken MöBIUS (Sanae, Yuuka, Mao)

Toraware no Artuqa (Anza, Yuuta, Ryuuji)

An Evil Dream

Knockin' Down Hesitation

Minna Dareka ni Aisarete

Gekkou (Piano Solo by Akiko Kosaka)

Encore

La Soldier

Densetsu Seitan

Source of the singers’ performances: kakian_kakian 1, 2, 3

P.S.: As it was informed months ago, sadly Yuuko had to cancel and could not represent Pluto, which is why there is none of her songs here... On a side-note, reports say Tamaki (Chibiusa) joined the others in the Senshi group songs (which didn’t always happen back in the day)!

[altale]

[LINK]  空澄みの鵯と

Oh god, another depressing as hell song by Asaki. Seriously, why must he always make songs that make me wanna die?

Joking aside, I actually really like this song. I always look forward to Asaki songs in pop’n music games.

[danielpico]

Capitan Centella Gekkō Kamen (月光仮面)(日本)(Japones)(OP&ED)(1972) 

Song By: Kawauchi Kohan & Ogawa Hirooki

dokono dareka wa shira naikeredo daremo gaminna shitte iru Aunque es alguien de donde nadie conoce, conoce a todos Gekkou kamen no ojisanwa seigi no mikata yo yoi hito yo El enmascarado de la luna esta en el lado de la justicia y la gente buena hayate noyouni arawa rete hayate noyouni satte iku El aparece como un fantasma en el viento y desaparece como un fantasma de viento Gekkou kamen wa dare deshou El enmascarado de la luna, quien podrá ser? Gekkou kamen wa dare deshou El enmascarado de la luna, quien podrá ser? dokokade fukou ni naku hito areba Si hay alguien llorando tristemente en algún lugar kanarazutomoni yatte kite magokoro komoru ai no uta Necesariamente una canción de amor viene junto con él y permanece en un corazón verdadero shikkarishiroyoto nagusameru Ese ser en donde encuentro firmemente consuelo dare demo suki ni nareru hito yume wo dai ta gatsu no hito Es la persona en el mes que tuvo el sueño de ser la persona que puede llegar a ser el favorito de cualquiera Gekkou kamen wa dare deshou El enmascarado de la luna, quien podrá ser? Gekkou kamen wa dare deshou El enmascarado de la luna, quien podrá ser? dokode umare te sodatte kitaka Donde nació y creció daremonga shira nai nazono hito Ninguno conoce la persona misteriosa denkousekka no hayawaza de kyou mo hashira su o-tobai Su motocicleta que aún hoy corre tan rápido como un relámpago kono yono aku ni kanzento tatakai chou nde satte iku Puede desafiar y luchar contra la maldad para que deje este mundo Gekkou kamen wa dare deshou El enmascarado de la luna, quien podrá ser? Gekkou kamen wa dare deshou El enmascarado de la luna, quien podrá ser?

[dancerzone]

Mira el nuevo vídeo de Dr. D ¿Podrás superar sus récords?

[drakogy]

Character featured in “Gekkou Chou” from  GUITARFREAKS 9thMIX & drummania 8thMIX 2003

[clarmeine]

[mangafascination]

[swinglatte]

I caught myself fixing 100 things in this pic soon after I uploaded it to twitpic yesterday.

[riiidezeshoopuf-blog]

TESUTO OF PURE EPICNESS.