「The Final Time Traveler」。ゲーム『タイムトラベラーズ』からのエンディングテーマは阪神淡路大震災に思いを寄せて作られた一曲です。こちらはゲームが大好きな羽生結弦さんとアイスショーでコラボさせて頂き、彼のサポーターさんをはじめ、ゲームをプレイされない人にも知られるようになった一曲でとても嬉しいです。オリジナルは日本語歌詞でしたが、海外で羽生さんが滑られるとのことで、英語歌詞を書かせて頂きました。
To celebrate the release of the new FictionJunction album “PARADE”, this web interview with Yuki Kajiura was published.Thanks to a kind follower I was made aware that it contained a lovely bit of info about Kalafina so I thought I would translate the section in question. Here you go!
The experience of composing music "after being able to see the completed work'' was a turning point
The biggest turning point in my career so far has been working for the "Kara no Kyoukai" series. It's an incredibly rare occurrence for a single composer to get the opportunity to create music for 10 consecutive movies.
Additionally, I had so much more material and information to work with when composing for this series, it was different from anything I had previously done. With most TV anime productions, a majority of the music is created in advance according to certain overarching themes such as "anger" or "comical", and then later those pieces will be arranged to match the actual scenes.
For "Kara no Kyoukai", I got the chance to do the score for the individual scenes after the animation for the films had already been completed.
For the first time in my life, I was able to have the experience of making original music that perfectly reflected the story, the atmosphere and the character’s emotions after carefully watching each and every scene. Doing that actually made me aware that so far my compositions had been quite naive. I feel that I have learned a lot from working on "Kara no Kyokai”.
Also, this project provided an opportunity to seriously challenge a type of accompanied singing that heavily emphasised the singing over the instrumental part. It’s something I had wanted to try for a very long time. Of course, this is the story of "Kalafina", the unit which was formed to sing the ending themes.
I mixed elements of various genres such as classical, new age, opera and pop music to shape everything into a form of "polyphonic singing" in which all three outstanding vocalists would play the leading role. I was finally able to bring to life the type of music I had always longed for. The subsequent 10 years of being able to work together with Kalafina are truly treasured times for me.
長谷川智樹氏によるミンキーモモの音楽集。小森まなみはオープニングテーマ『夢みるハート』、エンディングテーマ『ダバダバ・フォーリン・ラブ』を歌唱。Music collection of Minky Momo by Tomoki Hasegawa. Manami Komori sings the opening theme "Yume Miru Heart" and the ending theme "Dabadaba Falling Love".
🆕 「 TVアニメ「乙女ゲー世界はモブに厳しい世界です」エンディングテーマ「selfish」」 by 安月名莉子
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