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Colors TCG 12th Anniversary - Day 17

Hey everyone! We're down to the last few days of anniversary posts, but it's not time for curtain call just yet! Yes, that was my very, very tortured segue into today's discussion topic:

That Music Reminds Me of Something...

I need some new music to listen to, so let's revisit a section of my music-themed Colors League game from last year. Tell me about...

Songs that remind you of anime/manga/games! Do the lyrics evoke a certain character to you? Did you first hear that song in an AMV? Does it sound just like that one song from that one series? For example, I first heard "Bury My Lovely" by October Project in this Utena AMV, so whenever I listen to it now I think of that vid. (Genuinely shocked I found the AMV still online; that thing has to be 20+ years old.) Another one would be "Cloudbusting" by Kate Bush; I know the actual story behind the lyrics, but I'll be damned if that isn't Erwin Smith from Attack on Titan: The Song. Also this is just lmao all the way around, but I swear the extended instrumental part of "MacArthur Park" sounds like old school JRPG battle music. Tell me I'm wrong!

Or you can tell me about...

Anime/game songs that remind you of something else! Maybe a certain anime opening always makes you think of the good times you spent watching it with a friend. Or perhaps there's an image song sung by a certain seiyuu that makes you think of one of their other characters? Or, y'know, just some good old soundalikes. For me, there's "Junk Boy" from Maze, which I jammed to for years before realizing the bass line is awfully familiar. The game Radiata Stories actually has a couple for me. This BGM always turns into "Tequila" in my head, and the strings in this one remind me of "Not a Crime."

For commenting with your own anime/game music associations, you'll receive twelvendous17 and fourteen random cards, two for each note of the solfege scale! So you'll get two D cards for do, two R cards for re, two M cards for mi, etc.

Like the other anniversary posts, this game will close on July 1st at noon GMT!

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So like, Library of Ruina has a horrible fusion monster called Love Town, right. And odds are that it has nothing to do with the Peter Gabriel song Lovetown, but I can't unassociated it. Some lines are just really spot-on.

In each other's shadow
The roots reach into the soil
All these knots so tightly tied
We could not uncoil

and

Have you got what you want
Said have you got what you need
With what you did and what you saw
Did you find you needed more
Have you got what you came for
Are you really so sure
Are you really so sure

excellent kate bush song for erwin tbh

This is gonna sound sappy and dumb but I'm a voice actress and a singer. I do covers of Love Live songs on youtube as well. So of course I have characters I sing very often for due to my vocal range! One of my favorite songs has been Mitaiken HORIZON by Aqours. It is centered by Kunikida Hanamaru (cv: Takatsuki Kanako) and has been a song I can turn to for any time I feel down on myself or think I'm not good at what I do. I've been in an English cover of it as Ohara Mari as well!!!

From now on, the shape of our dreams will change more and more
From now on, we'll send our feelings and our excitement towards the horizon
You say that you want to shine; you say that you want to try believing in yourself
If that's the case, don't stop! Don't stop your feelings, never!
Energy? More! Bring it out? More!
We want to go deliver that to you.
Energy! More! Bring it out! More!
From now on, because it'll be from now on,
Let's move on forward, hugging our memories close, moving on forward...

Go on through life as you are!! AS THE STAR~!

I'm really weird when it comes to songs and voices. I recognized Kurotsuchi's voice from Bleach from the song Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me from Weiss Kreuz. I recognized Shining Soatome's voice from Utapri because of the song Ma Nome Yo from Yu Yu Hakusho. It's the way he slur's his words. lmao
I added more One Piece songs, and Donquixote Doflamingo's song was playing. I was like well, his name (seiyuu) does look familiar, I just can't remember why. I go to do something else... and all of a sudden a completely different song pops in my head. I was like "wait... was he in G Gundam?" I go look it up, and sure enough Kyouji Kasshu/Swartz Bruder from G Gundam. I was like, that's why his name was so damn familiar. He's Ikki from Saint Seiya. Good times man.

I have playlists for characters I RP. Buuuut... I'll talk about AoT in general.

For Attack on Titan, some RWBY songs really just hit different when you listen to the lyrics. Especially Let's just live.

Can we get back to a happy place?
We've suffered so much pain and sorrow
After yesterday, is there any way
We can trust tomorrow?

Will we go through life filled with strife
Like it's torn and tattered?
Can we keep this up
When we know that every hope has shattered?
And the lesson isn't new
That some dreams just can't come true

Just the general hopelessness, but also the hope (in the early series, not what the series later becomes) that Eren has for the future.

And this part sort of hits hard for me in Jean department;

And the story
Takes an unexpected turn
A friend is suddenly gone
We can cry our lives away
But if they were here
They'd say
"Go forward
You must keep moving on"

Jean and Marco, still making me sad after all these years. Sobs.

There are a lot of other RWBY songs too that just fit the general theme of the series. I mean, both have a lot of pain and suffering so is that a surprise, really?

Also Soldiers by Otherwise is also a very Attack on Titan song. I have seen a very good AMV of it but I can't find it anymore, sadly.

this is THE shinnoi song for me i think. the sound and the lyrics are all very good, i like these lines in particular:

I love the way you turn to face me
Drive to my head
Filled with smoke, seamless dread
I don’t come to you now
When you call I can’t feel it

and

I remember the promise of a future
Could it all be in my head?
Could the reaction be a godsеnd?
I made my bed, I’ll lie in it

and then when they just scream "i'll be your friend" over and over at the end. yeah. good shit 👍

i tend to get really into songs and just listen to them on repeat, so a lot of songs remind me of certain periods of my life... like, a lot of the shippuden naruto openings and endings remind me of high school, because my friends and i were obsessed with naruto so it was pretty much what i listened to on repeat. we actually didn't watch the anime really, since it was harder to back in the day (back when it was in multiple parts on youtube), so we just read scans of the newest chapters. but i'd always figure out when the anime had a new op or ed and share it with the crew. like i have such distinct memories of listening to hero's come back on my ipod shuffle on the school basketball court because it was such a hype song

this makes me feel kinda crusty, but even after all these years, boulevard of broken dreams by green day and the reason by hoobastank ALWAYS make me think of riku from kingdom hearts. i don't think i'll ever be able to break the association... both songs came out around the time of kh2's release and really speak to his development from kh1 to com and kh2 so it's just going to be like that forever!

also, for obvious reasons, k.k. disco from animal crossing always makes me think of yakuza 0. i have a grand-themed room in my house and i use this as the bgm because it just has that vibe, yknow?

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im veyr much a "I dont pay attention to lyrics" type person. So when something usually makes me vibe with an anime feel or such, Its more melody then words haha. Im very all over with my music taste, and ive shared a few here plenty before. Western style, im really into 70s era music. I always feel like You'll Never Find Another by Rou Rawls makes me think of a chill ending song, esp for like a action series. I think a lot of 70s funk music fits that tbh haha. Though I dont really think of specific anime series when I listen to music though.. but I guess that is what id consider close. Im sure like most people its like "associate it ur own series/oc stuff" haha.

Taking twelvendous17

Okay SO I don't know if it should count but the beginning of Megadeth's Symphony of Destruction always reminds me of turning on my PS3 because it's EXACTLY THE SAME SOUND.

what will I do with 14 random cards

I'm a big fan of Bungo Stray Dogs, and back in the day I made plenty of playlists for some of my favorite characters. H.P. Lovecraft in BSD is quite literally a squid monster walking around in a human suit, and somehow the discography of the Mountain Goats really fits him well - especially How to Embrace a Swamp Creature and Lovecraft in Brooklyn (how fitting, huh!). Both songs really hit that overwhelming feeling of anxiety and self-isolation that he displays when being around human beings - and has that sort of offbeat melancholy too! Mountain Goats are good stuff.

Also, 7 Rings by Ariana Grande is TOTALLY a F. Scott Fitzgerald song. Holy Cow. (There's even an AMV for it!)
Been through some bad shit, I should be a sad bitch
Who would have thought it'd turn me to a savage?
Rather be tied up with calls and not strings
Write my own checks like I write what I sing

Rewards Thread

Cotton Candy Skies is on my Nene Yashiro playlist! Its a very bittersweet, almost whimsical song that suits her a lot.

Rewards

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There's one song that Aiba Aina sings as Yukina from Bandori that always makes me think of Claudine from Revue Starlight, who she also voices. It's Song I am, and especially after the movie, it's just an unbreakable association for me. This part, especially:

It's not duty, but solely my will
I sing a song, as if I were flying (Oh, oh!)
With pride and tone, sublime and resounding - it's just perfect.

rewards thread

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I have an entire playlist dedicated to songs that I would hear on the radio while I was playing Pokemon Sapphire. Like sometimes I'll hear Crazy in Love by Beyonce and the memory that comes to mind is being underwater in that game, reading Braille. Or I'll hear Headstrong by Trapt, and have a memory pop up of me circling move names I wanted a Pokemon of mine to learn in my walkthrough/Pokedex.

It's probably not what you were asking about, but it's the only thing I've got. I'm not very good at connecting songs to characters or series based on lyrics or anything like that, unless the game already has stuff to do that (or the fact that the Ul'dah music in FF14 is always used for the beginning of a BIG livestream with important announcements for the game, so I'll hear the music and my brain will think of either the city itself, or trick me into thinking I'm watching a livestream for all of two seconds).

Top level.

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oh jeeze i have so many songs that remind me of characters from games and stuff, like life by mother mother is a neo twewy fret song for me! the lyrics are good for his development over the game. my sweet precious son.

i will say though every once in a while i go back and i watch the yuyu hakusho opening because it reminds me so, so strongly of my middle school years. it's such a good song. the rurouni kenshin one too reminds me of sitting in a dark room binge watching the series with the first internet friend i ever made, haha.

Hugh's Battle Theme from Pokemon Black/White 2 totally sounds like it belongs in Megaman 4 to me. I guess, specifically, it reminds me of Ring Man's Stage the most.

I tended to listen to soundtracks as I commuted to college and work-- I enjoyed the Bleach, Naruto and Fullmetal Alchemist openings and closings, and the Final Fantasy 9 soundtrack. I like listening to the FFXIV soundtrack while I work on the computer.

I mostly tend to listen to instrumental stuff whilst I'm writing, but I've got a lot of songs I tend to loop that remind me of various characters and such- when I was doing NaNoWriMo a few years back, this cover of the Gosick anime ending was one I associated a lot with the piece I was writing at the time.

Not that I ever watched Gosick itself, but I do want to...someday...

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I hope you like comparisons that I scraped from my DM with my best friend because I do not spontaneously listen to music enough and I should
Ichika x Shiraishi from Collar x Malice
Hyesung running away in Buried Stars
Inha moving a million times also in Buried Stars
THE RATE THAT JAEHEE AND THE PROTAGONIST OF MYSTIC MESSENGER WILL CONFESS THEIR FEELINGS

rewards thread.

also i have a playlist of songs i associate with inaba from kokoroco and a lot of them tend to be aimer songs.

crazy, i know.

sleepness nights is one of those strong ones, too.

I have a lot of songs that remind me of anime/manga, and anime/manga remind me of other things!

I have a playlist for a couple RP characters from Animanga. For example - You’re Going Down by Sick Puppies reminds me of Giovanni from DOGS: Bullets & Carnage. Especially

If it's a fight, I'm ready to go
I wouldn't put my money on the other guy
If you know what I know that I know

Because he's a pretty fight-happy guy and being *almost* indestructible means he can go hard in a fight, too! I just like the high energy stuff.

But as for Anime/Manga songs that remind me of others, Fighting Dreamers reminds me of Anime Convention Karaoke and a whole bunch of Naruto Cosplay Nerds that were good friends of mine going so hard with the jumping that they collapsed the stage. It was QUITE an experience. And it's still a song I really get hype to listen to!!

I used to make a looot of playlists (or FSTs as they were back in the day lol) so I've got a bunch of old songs that I just forever associate with certain characters/series now. One I'm still fond of is my fanmix for the Boss and Snake from MGS3, with My Boy Builds Coffins by Florence + the Machine as the title track with a very metaphorical interpretation of the song as applied to Snake haha.

Also not a Colors series but I still really like my instrumental mix for the Luteces from Bioshock Infinite, who were predictably my faves from that game lmao. The St. Mystere song from the Professor Layton and the Curious Village OST is on there and that's kind of the vibe I associate with them being these weird old-timey scientists you don't know much about at the beginning of the game.

That Professor Layton track!! Whenever I see anything Layton-related that BGM immediately gets stuck in my head.

oh I love making fanmixes, this day speaks to me

for a series I've been thinking about lately let's go wiiiiiiith Higurashi

"Catch Me If You Can" by Babymetal, it's a song that goes back and forth between metal and softer rock, about playing deadly tag with an oni :V

"Horror Show" by The Birthday Massacre
They shut the door, we fell far behind
We try forgiveness, but they cross the line
And now the moment has passed, and we can't rewind
We were dead long before we run out of time

i listen to a lot of indie artists; so anything by Crywolf, but the one that springs to mind the most is one ok rock's take what you want. that version in particular is very acoustic, and i swear they sang for an anime but i can't for the life of me remember what it was. FMA maybe???

Maybe it was the era, maybe it was AMVs (most likely AMVs) but Innerpartysystem's Don't Stop and Darude's Sandstorm remind me of anime a lot, especially Naruto.

On the other hand, for some reason, Wayward Daughter from FFXIV reminds me of Star Trek. Idk.

this might be a bit of a different approach but there's certain music i listened to when i would binge read a manga or something so every time i listen to those songs/albums now, i still associate it with that series even if there's no relation at all LOL

there's also some songs i've listened to that kind of remind me of music you might hear in an anime even if they aren't, like some of the japanese releases from this (now disbanded rip) kpop girl group, gfriend, such as memoria or fallin' light. i think it probably has to do with how a lot of their music sounds whimsical and uses orchestra(?) sounds which i could see used for like, shoujo or magical girl series or even something sad/angsty maybe lmao