07-06-2013, 09:16 AM | #156 |
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The full single for the OP is out, and it's awful. It sounds like two songs were merged into one, with the second half created after the first instead of chopping down the full version into TV size.
TV Full of Bad For comparison, here's the HxH OP, which follows what I just described and sounds just like what you would imagine if it were extended. TV Full
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07-06-2013, 09:48 AM | #157 | |
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The thing is, though, we're very, very used to lyrical songs in anime following the old standard of Verse 1's melody = Verse 2's melody = [...] = pitch shift of Verse Final's melody. This song bucks that trend a little by opting for Verse 1 =/= Verse 2 =/= So I guess what I'm trying to say is ... I agree with you that they sound like they could be two different tracks on the same album, but a) I do still feel like they have the same "feel" to them, i.e. I'd expect them to have been produced and performed by the same band in the same time frame, and b) I don't think it's necessarily an objectively bad thing. It's just not what we're accustomed to, so it might ruffle your feathers a bit at first. Music is, in many ways, all about patterns. Humans love to recognize patterns and seek them out constantly. Very often, then, music which subverts expectations will piss off the vast majority of people.
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07-07-2013, 06:38 AM | #158 | |
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I looked into Linked Horizon back when I first heard the TV-sized OP. What people seem to have missed is that the band is big on storytelling. Live concerts happen with big orchestra, lots of singers, dancers and active storytelling. Taking Guren no Yumiya as a single like this is kinda like reading one chapter in the middle of a book with no context: it's confusing and annoying. But if you listen to it in the full album, there's a storyline and every song makes sense in it. Also Talon, I had not heard those lines in that Nightwish-song - in fact I had never heard it before
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07-07-2013, 06:57 PM | #159 |
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As if people hadn't heard enough of the OP, I decided to learn it on guitar.
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07-07-2013, 07:13 PM | #160 |
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Well done! Wish I could do that! Keep it up! Would love to see where you go from here!
Since you don't appear to have an electric acoustic w/ amp, I'd suggest placing your microphone closer to the guitar's body next time. Acoustics are, by their nature, very quiet. So it can be a bit tough to hear some of the more gently-plucked notes.
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07-07-2013, 07:15 PM | #161 |
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I do have an amp (a very bad one) and that actually is an electric acoustic funny enough, but setting it up would actually require me to not be lazy. You're right though, it was pretty quiet at several points.
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I probably won't read what it is just yet (just in case I stay), but you should probably mention it in a spoiler tag for Loki. 'Cause if he dropped the series back before you did citing unforgivable stupidity, I can only imagine what he'd make of the development which led you to drop it!
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07-08-2013, 12:30 PM | #165 | |
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But anyway, the manga is sure going downhill :p
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07-08-2013, 12:31 PM | #166 |
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Then why did you say "readers"?
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07-08-2013, 12:32 PM | #167 |
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Er.... er..... ....Well, I meant reference everyone as "readers" :p Misunderstanding power go!
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07-08-2013, 01:08 PM | #168 |
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Morg and I didn't watch this week's episode because we heard about the recap, so I have no idea what'll happen for next week's. I just hope the pacing picks up because manga readers have told me the manga pacing is already bad for the next couple of arcs and the anime's just going to amplify that further.
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Is it even worth me watching this weeks episode? I know its a recap but does anything happen other than recap? Like, something at the end? Or something at the beginning that triggers the recap?
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Not that I saw. Watched the first few minutes, skipped around a ton, watched the final one or two minutes, skipped the ending credits, watched the sneak peek. The only new thing I saw, period, was the sneak peek. Not even the usual "side characters saying new lines with new animation as they reminiscence on the material that's about to be shown to the audience via flashback" gag that you often see in recap episodes. Absolutely zero new animation or dialogue, Armin's off-camera narration possibly excepted.
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07-13-2013, 02:23 PM | #173 |
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There's a new OP out for the second half (?) of the season -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxOpp_00t5k Spoiler: show The song is so-so. But I bet the full sounds better than Guren no Yumiya's.
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But now I have a problem with the OP2 itself! It's just...so weird. More like an amateur AMV than a proper OP. Animation-wise, I prefer OP1.
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07-13-2013, 03:00 PM | #175 |
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No joke? It [GnY full] sounded horrible when I listened to it, though the gratuitous German and low quality is probably what made it incoherent.
It is better stand-alone. Why the heck was it merged into that monstrosity?
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