@3rdMayhem Agree. And now the rest of the world is copying Japan, or at least graphic designers, animators, technology developers and video game designers are.
BUBBLE GUM CRISIS FTW!!!!! PRISS was my first Anime crush Xd lol
@Hellfireknightmare you know this is japans attempt to copy america? the song was actually based off of a song from a movie in the eighties called streets of fire. the song was tonight is what it means to be young. it is a two way street. but they were copying us 20 years back. the biggest reason everyone loves the japs so much is because of the richness of the culture. there really isn't much left in the states.
sorry to say that yuzuandpepper, but the song is not really sound similar and the the lyrics say different thing. Ok, its a similar style, but its was the style in the time.
Respond to this video..wasn't trying to be rude or anything, just thought everyone would be interested. i love jap stuff, especially greasers and bosozoku stuff.
this series is awesome and its funny that people dont realize its the biggest bite off blade runner EVER (priss and the replicants...HELLO!) and what makes it better is the beginning with this song is totally bitten off another movie with the same kind of style and the opening with diane lane is almost EXACTLY THE SAME. the movie is called STREETS OF FIRE
I think i came in to anime a bit late. Lol many ppl seems to like this song but for me its a bit....cheesy. Dont get wrong tho, i like disco but this must be pointed to a younger audiance
10 Years after watching it and it is STILL hands down the most epic series I've ever seen. Movies now days just simply don't have the character development or creativity to come up with anything worth remembering.. all Hollywood can do is make a hand full of films with " That one moment in that one scene " in them.. lol
We grow older. Songs of this magnitude will never reach our ears again. We're the old generation of Anime fans. We know what we love, we know what we want. It will never happen again. Embrace the Nostalgia.
haha this is not a "live version". It's the equivalent of a music video where the actual song is played with people acting/lip syncing for the video.. and it's pretty bad.
Excelente, me gusta el rock ochentero, y el ánime, ademas esta canción particularmete me fascina, gracias por montarla, aun recuerdo cuando la escuché por primera vez en un CD de la revista Dokan, long live to rock and roll, que viva el ánime.
I totally agree. I actually don't want a hollywood live action film, BUT its possible it will still be fun :) but yeah the music is really important here
Honestly I would rather this classic be left alone. Live action and westernization of this would kill it for me and many other purest lovers of this film and music. The 2040 series was proof that some things are best left to memory. Maybe I'm a fanatic but this series defined my artistic drive, nothing can touch it in my mind. No music, no story and no characters.
@ruphia Done correctly, I believe, a live-movie version would kick unholy backside; but yes, the music HAS to be in there...or at least tributes to it.... :)
The series, at least the first one, relied heavily on its music as a driving force(The OST is something like 8 discs long), and reproducing that 80s J-Pop sound is imperative to make that work.
However, it's not going to happen. With two major BGC canon's to play off of, inevitably, the production of one will piss off the fans of the other, and with that in mind, it'll be WAY too unstable a franchise for Hollywood to take over, fantastic effects or not.
@ruphia I'm not sure they have to use the specific tracks from 2032. Some nice, 80s style hair rock and dance music would work great for a 2032-based adaptation, and going 2040-style would probably work with aggressive techno and metal.
it's not really japans fault that we get crappy anime it's the american cable channels fault. They still think that animation is for kids and I don't ever think that will change.
WOW. this song brought good memories when i was a kid. In fact I wanna run to my room now and jump on my bed while listening to this song. I wanna have a Konya wa hurricane now. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
i used to have this cd years ago keyword "used tp" it's impossible to find and expensive as hell on amazon hopefully one day i'll have it again best cd the majority of america will never hear i want a copy so badly oh well this will hav to do good video btw.
@clustro Yeah, its getting worse there too. To be brief: Well. hopefully things will bottom out and somewhere the original formula that made anime great will resurface in some great work.
@clustro I think it's more that it's become all self-referential and 'post-modern'.
You have to be in on the joke, which is alienating, and pretentious.
Either that, or it's "throw it at the wall and see if it sticks" or marketed towards children (which has always existed, but 'super sentai"/Ultraman et al have fallen off in popularity, anime filling the gap.
There _is_ good stuff coming out of/in Japan, but yeah... stuff for adults seems to be getting exponentially recursively crap
This theme brings me back... one of the first anime tapes I rented. My local store had only a few tapes: Bubblegum Crisis 1, 7, and 8, Guyver vol. 1-3 (US Renditions release), Urotsukidoji, and Gall Force.
I've noticed this... I am not really all that old.. anyways music from the 80's earlier 90's seemed to have a little more 'heart' or maybe there were just more songs like this. Both US and Japan..
Nowadays.. it seems a majority of the music is shallow..
The attention to detail that made older anime shows something special to watch. Original songs written for each episode. New anime shows just go the cheap route and use a song from a J-Pop band as the theme.
As long as it has a beat the kids don't know the difference.
No, this was just something BGC did. As far as I know, the usual J-pop anime theme song has been the norm since the mid-'80s, apparently starting with Creamy Mami. And before that, they did Astro-Boy-style theme songs.
A completely new theme song and animation for each episode is prohibitively expensive for ANY series. BGC just opened its episodes with insert songs. Plus it was an OVA series.
Seems like "the kids" aren't the ones who don't know the difference.
I'm not referring to style of music, rather that 90's anime series overwhelmingly used original themes composed just for that show while recent anime tends to use a song borrowed from a J-Pop band as the theme.
Oh? FLCL used pre-existing Pillows songs, but I know Bouken Desho Desho and Hare Hare Yukai were meant specifically for Haruhi. Sora Iro Days wasn't released as a single until after TTGL. Fullmetal Alchemist, looks like you're right there, but only the first opening, and Driver's High seems to have debuted with GTO. "Change the World"...Wikipedia doesn't say whether that came out before or after InuYasha.
And I haven't looked up '90s anime at all. You sure about this?
Eh? I looked up several post-1999 anime series, their theme music, and the dates of their debuts as singles and in the anime itself. A lot of anime theme music seems to have made its debut as theme music and reused LATER in the bands' actual albums -- did you actually read my comment?
Now, I don't know the details of the close relationship between the anime and music sectors of the Japanese entertainment industry, but I don't think there was a big change at the turn of the millennium.
You only have half the picture. Look up the theme music for the majority of 90's anime and you will find it is original composition for the show and not from Japanese bands.
I get how certain you are of yourself, but disdain doesn't help your case, it hurts it. It's also better to make a point with examples instead of "I'm right, go look it up."
And "for the show" and "from Japanese bands/artists" are not mutually exclusive, as I've shown. Yoko Takahashi was already an established artist before "A Cruel Angel's Thesis;" many of the songs I named SEEM to have been at least commissioned for their series. This was the norm for most of the '90s as well.
And funnily enough, "Case Closed," a 1990s series, fits the pattern as well. As does Gundam Wing. I've looked up the evidence I could, and it all suggests that there WAS no big post-1990s anime music shift. CERTAINLY nothing anywhere near as big as the early-mid-1980s shift.
And BGC isn't even a '90s series.
Come back when you have enough counterexamples to demonstrate a trend.
Songs by Chatmonchy, Stereo Pony, Base Ball Bear, Kumi Koda, L Arc En Ciel just to name a few are regularly used as theme songs in current anime shows.
In the 90's and 80's the majority of anime theme songs were original compositions and not provided by bands.
Macross, Orguss, Marmalade Boy, Escaflowne, Eva, Yu Yu Hakusho, Lodoss, Yawara, in fact the majority of pre 90's anime used original themes.
And to clarify, your using Eva is a poor example. There is a big difference between music commissioned from an artist and simply taking a song of an album and using it as a theme.
And the latter is what is being done frequently these days, unfortunately.
Example: Glass Fleet, opening song is from an album by Mihamaru GT.
And though I listed a few TV anime, OVA were very common before 1990 and with very few exceptions, OVA themes are predominantly original music.
No need to be insulting, though thanks for giving the examples you should've given from the start. But with Macross/Orguss, you're talking before the early-mid-'80s shift I mentioned. And most of the "J-pop band anime theme songs" I looked up, INCLUDING L'Arc-En-Ciel's Driver's High and your example, Tsuyoku Tsuyoku, followed the pattern of being released as a single some time AFTER the anime started. What the origins of these songs were I don't know, but they WEREN'T taken off released albums.
What you're doing is cherry picking an example here and there but it doesn't work. I'm not arguing that maybe anime themes are more and more being taken from the albums of Japanese bands, I'm telling you that is what's going on.
If Lodoss and Arslan were made today, instead of those incredible soundtracks it would be guitar riffs and hip hop from some Avex band.
Animators have lost sight of how important music is to the anime.
If the audience doesn't care, then why should they?
I'm not cherry-picking. I'm looking at all the examples I can find, including your OWN, and I'm not seeing the trend you're claiming is so OBVIOUSLY there. I am thus forced to conclude that it isn't.
At this point, despite your clearly being a GENUINE '90s-rose-colored-glasses disgruntled anime fan, I'm inclined to think that you're just being condescending to lead me on, so I'll cut this off. I've clearly wasted enough time.
It's not my job to convince you that anime themes now are often songs by J bands where it was original composition years ago. No one ever admits to being wrong in an internet debate so why should you?
And yes, I don't like this, and how anime has become a rehash of stories and genres with moe girls and skinny guys.
Don't have to bring back the 90's, just bring back the quality.
It's not what I think, it's what I know. Take it from one of the most important music directors in the anime business:
I've never taken an artist that needs promotion and tried to needlessly fit their music into anime. The most important thing is to create a song that fits the film.
Shiro Sasaki
Too bad the whores who produce a lot of the new anime shows aren't listening.
If Plastic Little were made today, likely it would have a J Pop theme song instead of original music.
There is no relation between the change of century and the quality of anime soundtracks. Do you think they all suddenly thought ''Oh hey, its the 00s, lets take a shit on our music'' No. Do you think they all just disappeared, to be replaced by a new anime industry? No. And so you can conclude its not the directors nor the production companies that have changed, its their environment.
Why would music directors and the like suddenly have a change of artistic ideals?
Because money talks. Promote the band by using their song as a theme instead of commissioning original music.
New fans don't notice or don't care so why not? Unfortunately, because these pop songs have nothing to do with the anime, you could tack them on any show and it wouldn't matter.
It's in the credits of every anime where the music comes from so there's denying that's how it is.
In the last ten years the anime business on both sides of the Pacific have been hurting so bad they're lucky if they sell one DVD for every fifty people who download it.
Any way to make a buck of save money is rule of the day.
Yes, exactly what I was getting at, and you fault them for that, as if its all down to greed! When in actuality they need every bit of money to survive, let alone make a decent profit.
Ive bought OSTs of recent anime, and usually the OPs do appeal to me. Who knows, I might even look further into the artist. The lyrics may not have been specifically written for that show, but they dont just plaster random songs into the OPs and EDs, 9/10 theyre relevant to the shows theme.
''Copy and paste boy has a case of trying too hard...''
Trying too hard to do what? Is this some sort of game? I thought we were having a discussion. I quoted you to show you contradicted yourself. In doing so I brought to your attention that you were wrong in your original statement. You came to the conclusion all by your self that animators, rather than simply not giving a shit, began taking on existing songs in order to save themselves.
''You can't argue that J Pop is being used in anime to promote a band so now your point is that this is okay with you?''
I never denied that they do it, only why they do it. And yes, its ok with me. If it means they can make that extra bit of money then Im perfectly happy. For most people its not such a huge issue that it takes away from the enjoyment of the series.
''If you have lower standards of quality that's your problem.
I can't help you.''
No, actually, its not my problem because I dont have an issue with it. Its your problem. Now lets end this on a positive note, something we can both agree on. This is one kickass song.
And why take so long to reply? Running around Ireland looking for import anime soundtracks? Easy to find are they, maybe ordering online?
Stop making up shit for convenience, if you have any J Pop it's an mp3 you downloaded and didn't pay for like millions of others, and you're defending the poor anime business forced to promo J bands instead of writing original music.
Successful themes will always be reused throughout an industry. If there was such a thing as complete originality then we would all be still drawing on cave walls. Everyone takes influence from each other. Sure, theres a lot of anime being produced today, you just have to look harder for the good stuff. A lot of it may be regurgitate muck, but a lot of it works, and the Japanese public accept it.
And there lies their security. In times such as these OF COURSE everyone is not going to want to take a shot with an odd ball show. (And some do, Gurren Lagann etc) I will never put all the blame on the producers.
There was a lot of shit coming from Japan 10-20 years ago too, dont fool yourself.
People will always want free things.
I dont buy import CDs.
I think we have very different views on a lot of things. We certainly are not going to get any where if this discussion continues.
Yeah, people will always want free things, I never said it was right, but it sure as hell isnt due to ''poor'' quality anime.
You know what? I dont really give a shit about the current standing of the anime industry. Let it collapse in the west for all I care. I wont purchase overpriced dvds of poor localisation, and I certainly wont help fund the worst dubbing industry.
As for the east, maybe a collapse is whats needed for an overhaul in the market. As profits lower and production cost rise maybe all the rubbish will be weeded out, right? Right? Youll be happy then eh?
That you admit to lying invalidates everything you say. You have no credibility.
And by rubbish weeded out-sure it would be nice to see the crappy shows go away, and also the douchebags like yourself who make up asshole excuses to justify freeloading and not paying for it.
I'm criticizing the business, but you're the one harming it.
That I admit lying shows my honesty, infact I dont know how one could lie about their own opinion in the first place.
If I had money to spare I wouldnt be spending it on anime regardless. Im not harming it if I would not of been contributing to it in the very first place, Im just not supporting it for reasons already mentioned. If that makes me an asshole then grand. Enjoy supporting the very thing you yourself criticize.
There will always be a demand in one form or another for Japanese animation, and they will continue to meet it, whether I want it or not lol.
Unfortunately for you everyone has the right to an opinion. Not even that they have a right, everyone has an opinion, and they will continue to voice it.
Voicing an opinion on an industry you steal from.
Sure.
But is it a valid opinion?
No.
Just self-important fanboy noise.
If I had known you were a Freeloader I would never have bothered replying, but you were lying at first and made yourself sound like a true fan that pays for anime.
This ends here, on principle I will have nothing to do with a thief.
Priss was my idol when I was a kid. I would rent BC episodes on VHS like there was no tomorrow. I even recorded this song on an old audio tape recorder from the T.V. because that was the only way I could own it. Everyone scratched their heads and wondered why I would watch anything in Japanese at my age, WAY before Pokemon or any of that came along.
"live"
FZuloaga 1 week ago
wow thats going back a long time. Not even into anime anymore. Priss was ok but I always liked the short one :)
puppetmasterblaster 3 weeks ago
@puppetmasterblaster Nene? She was cute too.
usquanigo 2 weeks ago
80´s will never die !!! XD
cachingo2 2 months ago
Seven people tried to date Priss giving her a cheesburger but she already had one
Shadenuat 3 months ago
All time classic ^_^
Good 80´s anime
HansoHan 3 months ago
THIS! WAS ROCK!
Ma7uS1 4 months ago
@Ma7uS1 TOTAL AGREEMENT!
3rdMayhem 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for 是永巧一
I loved this song back in the 80's and I still love it, this was one of the first anime I saw, no turning back since then...
hadaneva 5 months ago 11
Japan is just copying all achievements of the western culture
But from the day they started they do it awesome!!!
3rdMayhem 5 months ago
@3rdMayhem Agree. And now the rest of the world is copying Japan, or at least graphic designers, animators, technology developers and video game designers are.
BUBBLE GUM CRISIS FTW!!!!! PRISS was my first Anime crush Xd lol
Hellfireknightmare 3 months ago 2
@Hellfireknightmare you know this is japans attempt to copy america? the song was actually based off of a song from a movie in the eighties called streets of fire. the song was tonight is what it means to be young. it is a two way street. but they were copying us 20 years back. the biggest reason everyone loves the japs so much is because of the richness of the culture. there really isn't much left in the states.
yuzuandpepper 2 months ago
@yuzuandpepper
sorry to say that yuzuandpepper, but the song is not really sound similar and the the lyrics say different thing. Ok, its a similar style, but its was the style in the time.
cinloop 2 months ago
Respond to this video..wasn't trying to be rude or anything, just thought everyone would be interested. i love jap stuff, especially greasers and bosozoku stuff.
yuzuandpepper 2 months ago
classic!!!
Hikaru1980th 5 months ago
seven people must be boomers...
Docrate1 5 months ago 20
@Docrate1 LMAO!!!
SuzyLovelace 5 months ago
Early days of anime.
returnoffumanchu 6 months ago
It seem like they are about 15-20 years ahead of us in the Kondratiev cycle.
Zander242 6 months ago
So much heart so much feeling so much La pasion
rosengalionheart 7 months ago in playlist Bubblegum Crisis
so 80's man. Love it. One of the first anime songs I ever LOVED. Awesome post.
JJNeepinFilms 7 months ago
Classic anime here folks.
pinoi78 8 months ago 2
always will be my favorite and song and BGC will always be my fav anime~<3
rallyvincent211 8 months ago
I heard someone sing this karaoke at fanime and I really love this song now =]
Thosecursedeyes 8 months ago
Awesomeness!!
PerianArdocyl 8 months ago
the intro in the anime BUBBLEGUM CRISIS, OMG THATS SOOO 80'S
FishlipsMalone 9 months ago
Cada dia suenan mejor ♥
cristian0693 9 months ago
WOW this brings back memories ='(
BUBBLEGUM CRISIS for ever
burnout1981 10 months ago
Bubblegun Crisis♥ nunca te olvidare, Tus canciones son inolvidables.
cristian0693 10 months ago
yeaaah, thingy thingy hurrricanee!!!
Tonlondong 10 months ago
this series is awesome and its funny that people dont realize its the biggest bite off blade runner EVER (priss and the replicants...HELLO!) and what makes it better is the beginning with this song is totally bitten off another movie with the same kind of style and the opening with diane lane is almost EXACTLY THE SAME. the movie is called STREETS OF FIRE
jluvlis 1 year ago
@jluvlis What? Everyone knows it. The creators were pretty up front about the fact that BGC is an homage to Blade Runner and Streets of Fire.
ruphia 9 months ago
I think i came in to anime a bit late. Lol many ppl seems to like this song but for me its a bit....cheesy. Dont get wrong tho, i like disco but this must be pointed to a younger audiance
Galimah 1 year ago
I'm from a younger generation of anime fans. This is probably one of my fave J-rock songs. :)
pineapplez342 1 year ago
10 Years after watching it and it is STILL hands down the most epic series I've ever seen. Movies now days just simply don't have the character development or creativity to come up with anything worth remembering.. all Hollywood can do is make a hand full of films with " That one moment in that one scene " in them.. lol
immobile2005 1 year ago
We grow older. Songs of this magnitude will never reach our ears again. We're the old generation of Anime fans. We know what we love, we know what we want. It will never happen again. Embrace the Nostalgia.
LtDDuffBeer 1 year ago
@LtDDuffBeer anata ni ANIME !!!
yutjub123 1 year ago
all my life I love this song and all that ANIME !!! always in my memory !!! thanks
Antonlizard 1 year ago
haha this is not a "live version". It's the equivalent of a music video where the actual song is played with people acting/lip syncing for the video.. and it's pretty bad.
geebee2501 1 year ago
Please god don't let Hollywood make a live action version they would only bugger it up !
CptFreakout1 1 year ago 2
Konya wa Hurricane is a great song i like the japanese version more than the english one
Drai776 1 year ago
I love this song !!!
Antonlizard 1 year ago
SUGOI !!!! Great Song, great anime... Greetings from Chile :)
ayukawa01 1 year ago
cool
sashanounette 1 year ago
This song is amazing, hands down.
I have watched it countless times on VHS (Hurricane Live) and you uploading the actual video here makes my life complete. You rock, man.
I think there'll be a hurricane tonight, every night!
gundelgauk 1 year ago 2
is priss
armandocena 1 year ago
She has the big hair like Priss on stage. I was waiting for her pager to go off telling her of an emergence in the city.
1400VID 1 year ago 2
niceeeeeeeeee goodddddddddddd
thomassssss906 1 year ago
I find this vocalist, on stage, FUCKING ADORABLE!!
<3
Esty2326 1 year ago
einfach geil!!
Doitsu1988 1 year ago
did the band actually have a name, and a record label and all that?!
neoamaru 1 year ago
i love u :(
TheMutator 1 year ago
Music and Anime were the stuff in the 80s... Too bad, for others all over got to disco ver only later in the 90s...
SpikeCBT1 1 year ago
do you know how i can obtain these songs? any format!
MrHATEUSA 1 year ago
@MrHATEUSA mastube, with this program you can download videos and mp3 from youtube
narmacil26 1 year ago
fucking epic i remember this!!
darthrageracer 1 year ago
One of the first anime songs I really got into...shit this rocks!
PsycholicMan 1 year ago
THX man for this great Memory really i thx you^^
naruto868 1 year ago
Excelente, me gusta el rock ochentero, y el ánime, ademas esta canción particularmete me fascina, gracias por montarla, aun recuerdo cuando la escuché por primera vez en un CD de la revista Dokan, long live to rock and roll, que viva el ánime.
1984kamui 1 year ago
Nice, big hair... nice song; it really takes me back
LordGodStronghold 1 year ago
Oh, it's the girl out of Waynes World, cool.
DeathlyCrunch 1 year ago 2
@DeathlyCrunch lmfao XD
Sanyeliz 1 year ago
@DeathlyCrunch No she's not, this girl is Oomori Kinuko and the band's name is SILK.
BuffyVamp666 1 year ago
@BuffyVamp666 Twas a joke my friend.
DeathlyCrunch 1 year ago
@DeathlyCrunch I know due, but I couldn't help myself corrected u. =P
BuffyVamp666 1 year ago
Enorme...
El playback que hacen es ENORME XDXD
Muy buen tema de todos modos.
itherseed 1 year ago
The inevitable hollywood adaptation of bubblegum crisis won't work if they don't use this kind of music.
It just won't.
And I don't mean j-pop, though if they threw in the original tracks I'd nerd out hardcore. Just.. you know, this specific sound.
ruphia 2 years ago 45
I totally agree. I actually don't want a hollywood live action film, BUT its possible it will still be fun :) but yeah the music is really important here
impatiens 2 years ago 2
@ruphia EXTREMELY SAD but alas, true...
SpikeCBT1 1 year ago
@ruphia
Exactly. The music is so iconic now that anything else would be a shadow of what the anime delivered.
FaytLinegod 1 year ago
@ruphia hollywood will fail.
BlueBerserga 1 year ago
@ruphia What??? Are they making a movie? Gotta Admit, Astro Boy was pretty good.
pandbgt01 1 year ago
@ruphia Kind of how the tv series doesn't work without this kind of music.
boomadatigger 1 year ago
@ruphia
Honestly I would rather this classic be left alone. Live action and westernization of this would kill it for me and many other purest lovers of this film and music. The 2040 series was proof that some things are best left to memory. Maybe I'm a fanatic but this series defined my artistic drive, nothing can touch it in my mind. No music, no story and no characters.
onlinemoviesplace 1 year ago
@ruphia Done correctly, I believe, a live-movie version would kick unholy backside; but yes, the music HAS to be in there...or at least tributes to it.... :)
CapeMike 1 year ago
@ruphia
The series, at least the first one, relied heavily on its music as a driving force(The OST is something like 8 discs long), and reproducing that 80s J-Pop sound is imperative to make that work.
However, it's not going to happen. With two major BGC canon's to play off of, inevitably, the production of one will piss off the fans of the other, and with that in mind, it'll be WAY too unstable a franchise for Hollywood to take over, fantastic effects or not.
vharshyde 1 year ago
@ruphia I'm not sure they have to use the specific tracks from 2032. Some nice, 80s style hair rock and dance music would work great for a 2032-based adaptation, and going 2040-style would probably work with aggressive techno and metal.
RawSteelUT 1 year ago
@ruphia I knw this is a year old, but an update or two could be nice. Everybody is doing the "retro-electronic" thing now anyway.
Hinoirocks 10 months ago
@ruphia what if they did an add....using this song?
I'd Geek as hard as I did when the Transformers Cybertron game used "The Touch".
HotaruZoku 10 months ago
@ruphia
They could always do one off the 90s version.
TheYellowScreen 9 months ago
@TheYellowScreen That would be terrible!
ruphia 9 months ago
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@ruphia
They could always do one off the 90s remake.
TheYellowScreen 9 months ago
@ruphia I just can't agree anymore.
mackerdy 8 months ago
Enorme :D
Je viens de voir sur la chaine manga et ca pete :' )
rimkado 2 years ago
@rimkado pour un truc qui a plus d'une quinzaine d'années (je regardais ça quand j'étais à la fac en 93) ça a sacrément bien vieilli !
rugbytlse 1 year ago
Great song! It never goes on. I miss anime's like BGC. The new stuff is still good, but the older stuff just has an interesting quality to it. =3
pineapplez342 2 years ago 2
old school *-*
evelinshamps 2 years ago 9
Just love the song and I also bought the CD and even vinyl record already. For me, it is a good song. It always be.
chanfk1 2 years ago 2
it's not really japans fault that we get crappy anime it's the american cable channels fault. They still think that animation is for kids and I don't ever think that will change.
burkspatrick 2 years ago
WOW. this song brought good memories when i was a kid. In fact I wanna run to my room now and jump on my bed while listening to this song. I wanna have a Konya wa hurricane now. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
farscape692002 2 years ago 2
Whoa! Great upload of a iconic song! Thanks!
Whispershade 2 years ago
KONYA WA HURRICAAAAAAAAAAAANE
XScrewAttackerX 2 years ago 3
Kichi kaa...
cootchie coo....
just heard it first time last nite from a fren....
fackin awesome!
gurubhai01 2 years ago
Wow i have this on Video too. Best ever Animesoundtrack.
Tsepesi 2 years ago
i used to have this cd years ago keyword "used tp" it's impossible to find and expensive as hell on amazon hopefully one day i'll have it again best cd the majority of america will never hear i want a copy so badly oh well this will hav to do good video btw.
footcrusher 2 years ago
My best friend had this on Laserdisc. This is awesome!
G0NE2theD0GS 2 years ago
on freakin laserdisc?
man, talk about arcane
but does it work? :D
clustro 2 years ago
Probably the single reason white American guys are in love with Japanese girls. Her voice is hypnotizing...
IauthenticI 2 years ago
playback.. TERRRRRRIFIC SONG
FZuloaga 2 years ago
Ahhh...back when anime was much better! :)
draktyr 2 years ago 4
fuckin A man
anime has just been thrown the garbage disposal, and the resulting puree' is what is fed to the masses
they dont show none of the good old stuff, like AD Pol or galaxy express.
ah well. things just tend to die in quality when they become mass-marketed :(
clustro 2 years ago 17
I still "Gunbuster" dear to my heart as one of the best anime series I have seen from back in the day!
draktyr 2 years ago
Or used to brainwash people...
kageromaru 2 years ago
@clustro
Anime hasn't died in quality, but perhaps what is being brought to the western market has. I guess that's what you meant.
QwoPhasaArius 1 year ago
@clustro Yeah, its getting worse there too. To be brief: Well. hopefully things will bottom out and somewhere the original formula that made anime great will resurface in some great work.
SpikeCBT1 1 year ago
@clustro AD Police sucked ass in both its incarnation; Galaxy Express was not Matsumoto's masterpiece, but still way better than AP I admit...
Oh, and anime were absolutely mass-market oriented even back then...
yumeshimanet 1 year ago
@clustro I think it's more that it's become all self-referential and 'post-modern'.
You have to be in on the joke, which is alienating, and pretentious.
Either that, or it's "throw it at the wall and see if it sticks" or marketed towards children (which has always existed, but 'super sentai"/Ultraman et al have fallen off in popularity, anime filling the gap.
There _is_ good stuff coming out of/in Japan, but yeah... stuff for adults seems to be getting exponentially recursively crap
TheGzeus 1 year ago
A must
ytkjodhar1 2 years ago
i saw this clip on mangas TV i fall in <3
bleedy2007 2 years ago
There's nothing like brainburn. Sound, Time, Emotion, all burned into one inseperable memory.
LtDDuffBeer 2 years ago 2
First Anime I ever saw was the Bubblegum Crisis film with this at the start when I was 10...loved it!
Nearly 13 years ago now! :(
Restayvien 2 years ago
This theme brings me back... one of the first anime tapes I rented. My local store had only a few tapes: Bubblegum Crisis 1, 7, and 8, Guyver vol. 1-3 (US Renditions release), Urotsukidoji, and Gall Force.
arnyjk 2 years ago
@Video
I've noticed this... I am not really all that old.. anyways music from the 80's earlier 90's seemed to have a little more 'heart' or maybe there were just more songs like this. Both US and Japan..
Nowadays.. it seems a majority of the music is shallow..
But that's just MY opinion..
*really liked this song*
MRSketch09 2 years ago 5
this is song is still in my first ipod... still pretty good even though its old...aaw, bubble gum crisis was good! :) thx...
CrystalBleuK 2 years ago
ah the memories of watching this as a young girl... That was a little less than 20 years ago? Wow. Still love it!
shanasaki 2 years ago
The attention to detail that made older anime shows something special to watch. Original songs written for each episode. New anime shows just go the cheap route and use a song from a J-Pop band as the theme.
As long as it has a beat the kids don't know the difference.
wartarot 2 years ago
No, this was just something BGC did. As far as I know, the usual J-pop anime theme song has been the norm since the mid-'80s, apparently starting with Creamy Mami. And before that, they did Astro-Boy-style theme songs.
A completely new theme song and animation for each episode is prohibitively expensive for ANY series. BGC just opened its episodes with insert songs. Plus it was an OVA series.
Seems like "the kids" aren't the ones who don't know the difference.
IZEASGT 2 years ago
I'm not referring to style of music, rather that 90's anime series overwhelmingly used original themes composed just for that show while recent anime tends to use a song borrowed from a J-Pop band as the theme.
That is the difference I was referring to.
Now you got it.
wartarot 2 years ago
Oh? FLCL used pre-existing Pillows songs, but I know Bouken Desho Desho and Hare Hare Yukai were meant specifically for Haruhi. Sora Iro Days wasn't released as a single until after TTGL. Fullmetal Alchemist, looks like you're right there, but only the first opening, and Driver's High seems to have debuted with GTO. "Change the World"...Wikipedia doesn't say whether that came out before or after InuYasha.
And I haven't looked up '90s anime at all. You sure about this?
IZEASGT 2 years ago
Don't reply because you feel the need to say something, but that you have something to say.
Old anime typically used original theme music, new anime tends to use a song borrowed from the album of a Japanese band.
Don't believe me? Check the end credits.
It's fact and not up for debate.
Let it go.
wartarot 2 years ago
Eh? I looked up several post-1999 anime series, their theme music, and the dates of their debuts as singles and in the anime itself. A lot of anime theme music seems to have made its debut as theme music and reused LATER in the bands' actual albums -- did you actually read my comment?
Now, I don't know the details of the close relationship between the anime and music sectors of the Japanese entertainment industry, but I don't think there was a big change at the turn of the millennium.
IZEASGT 2 years ago
You only have half the picture. Look up the theme music for the majority of 90's anime and you will find it is original composition for the show and not from Japanese bands.
Case closed.
wartarot 2 years ago
I get how certain you are of yourself, but disdain doesn't help your case, it hurts it. It's also better to make a point with examples instead of "I'm right, go look it up."
And "for the show" and "from Japanese bands/artists" are not mutually exclusive, as I've shown. Yoko Takahashi was already an established artist before "A Cruel Angel's Thesis;" many of the songs I named SEEM to have been at least commissioned for their series. This was the norm for most of the '90s as well.
IZEASGT 2 years ago
And funnily enough, "Case Closed," a 1990s series, fits the pattern as well. As does Gundam Wing. I've looked up the evidence I could, and it all suggests that there WAS no big post-1990s anime music shift. CERTAINLY nothing anywhere near as big as the early-mid-1980s shift.
And BGC isn't even a '90s series.
Come back when you have enough counterexamples to demonstrate a trend.
IZEASGT 2 years ago
You're trying too hard.
I'll make it simple for you:
Songs by Chatmonchy, Stereo Pony, Base Ball Bear, Kumi Koda, L Arc En Ciel just to name a few are regularly used as theme songs in current anime shows.
In the 90's and 80's the majority of anime theme songs were original compositions and not provided by bands.
Macross, Orguss, Marmalade Boy, Escaflowne, Eva, Yu Yu Hakusho, Lodoss, Yawara, in fact the majority of pre 90's anime used original themes.
Can't change how it is.
wartarot 2 years ago
And to clarify, your using Eva is a poor example. There is a big difference between music commissioned from an artist and simply taking a song of an album and using it as a theme.
And the latter is what is being done frequently these days, unfortunately.
Example: Glass Fleet, opening song is from an album by Mihamaru GT.
And though I listed a few TV anime, OVA were very common before 1990 and with very few exceptions, OVA themes are predominantly original music.
wartarot 2 years ago
No need to be insulting, though thanks for giving the examples you should've given from the start. But with Macross/Orguss, you're talking before the early-mid-'80s shift I mentioned. And most of the "J-pop band anime theme songs" I looked up, INCLUDING L'Arc-En-Ciel's Driver's High and your example, Tsuyoku Tsuyoku, followed the pattern of being released as a single some time AFTER the anime started. What the origins of these songs were I don't know, but they WEREN'T taken off released albums.
IZEASGT 2 years ago
What you're doing is cherry picking an example here and there but it doesn't work. I'm not arguing that maybe anime themes are more and more being taken from the albums of Japanese bands, I'm telling you that is what's going on.
If Lodoss and Arslan were made today, instead of those incredible soundtracks it would be guitar riffs and hip hop from some Avex band.
Animators have lost sight of how important music is to the anime.
If the audience doesn't care, then why should they?
wartarot 2 years ago
I'm not cherry-picking. I'm looking at all the examples I can find, including your OWN, and I'm not seeing the trend you're claiming is so OBVIOUSLY there. I am thus forced to conclude that it isn't.
At this point, despite your clearly being a GENUINE '90s-rose-colored-glasses disgruntled anime fan, I'm inclined to think that you're just being condescending to lead me on, so I'll cut this off. I've clearly wasted enough time.
IZEASGT 2 years ago
It's not my job to convince you that anime themes now are often songs by J bands where it was original composition years ago. No one ever admits to being wrong in an internet debate so why should you?
And yes, I don't like this, and how anime has become a rehash of stories and genres with moe girls and skinny guys.
Don't have to bring back the 90's, just bring back the quality.
wartarot 2 years ago
Youre wrong, faggot. Subjective bullshit etc.
Phew. Just had to get that out of me. Feels good.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
No, I'm absolutely right.
And you'll feel even better once I take my dick out of your mickey ass.
Nah, I think I'll leave it in there until you show tears.
wartarot 2 years ago
Faggot.
It was easier to say this time, you know.
Go ahead, add another witty reply. Good luck trying to damage my ego.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
I'm not your father.
And damage what ego? You're Irish, you don't have have anything.
Tell what's not easy for you, you can't argue what I'm saying:
Older anime used more original themes while the new shows just borrow a song already written by a J Pop band.
Don't know why you're butthurt by that but it's your problem...
wartarot 2 years ago
''Older anime used more original themes while the new shows just borrow a song already written by a J Pop band. ''
And why do you think this is?
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
It's not what I think, it's what I know. Take it from one of the most important music directors in the anime business:
I've never taken an artist that needs promotion and tried to needlessly fit their music into anime. The most important thing is to create a song that fits the film.
Shiro Sasaki
Too bad the whores who produce a lot of the new anime shows aren't listening.
If Plastic Little were made today, likely it would have a J Pop theme song instead of original music.
wartarot 2 years ago
''If Plastic Little were made today, likely it would have a J Pop theme song instead of original music. ''
Yeah, maybe so.
''Too bad the whores who produce a lot of the new anime shows aren't listening.''
See, this is where your logic is a small bit twisted. Why would music directors and the like suddenly have a change of artistic ideals?
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
There is no relation between the change of century and the quality of anime soundtracks. Do you think they all suddenly thought ''Oh hey, its the 00s, lets take a shit on our music'' No. Do you think they all just disappeared, to be replaced by a new anime industry? No. And so you can conclude its not the directors nor the production companies that have changed, its their environment.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
Why would music directors and the like suddenly have a change of artistic ideals?
Because money talks. Promote the band by using their song as a theme instead of commissioning original music.
New fans don't notice or don't care so why not? Unfortunately, because these pop songs have nothing to do with the anime, you could tack them on any show and it wouldn't matter.
It's in the credits of every anime where the music comes from so there's denying that's how it is.
wartarot 2 years ago
Switch the J Pop themes for Gintama and Bleach and it doesn't matter.
Switch the themes for Evangelion and Escafolwne and it doesn't work. Each of those is an original theme written specifically for that show.
Anime music was a strong point. I've bought soundtrack CDs for older shows.
I'm not going to buy a CD by Base Ball Bear or Scandal just because one of their songs was used in an anime.
Nice try though.
wartarot 2 years ago
Explain to me then how this suddenly only came about, as you seem to put it, recently?
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
Where have you been?
Read the news.
In the last ten years the anime business on both sides of the Pacific have been hurting so bad they're lucky if they sell one DVD for every fifty people who download it.
Any way to make a buck of save money is rule of the day.
wartarot 2 years ago
Yes, exactly what I was getting at, and you fault them for that, as if its all down to greed! When in actuality they need every bit of money to survive, let alone make a decent profit.
Ive bought OSTs of recent anime, and usually the OPs do appeal to me. Who knows, I might even look further into the artist. The lyrics may not have been specifically written for that show, but they dont just plaster random songs into the OPs and EDs, 9/10 theyre relevant to the shows theme.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
''Any way to make a buck of save money is rule of the day. ''
'Animators have lost sight of how important music is to the anime.''
I think youve just clarified it for yourself there.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
Copy and paste boy has a case of trying too hard...
You're new at this, aren't you?
You can't argue that J Pop is being used in anime to promote a band so now your point is that this is okay with you?
I guess it's working.
If you have lower standards of quality that's your problem.
I can't help you.
wartarot 2 years ago
''Copy and paste boy has a case of trying too hard...''
Trying too hard to do what? Is this some sort of game? I thought we were having a discussion. I quoted you to show you contradicted yourself. In doing so I brought to your attention that you were wrong in your original statement. You came to the conclusion all by your self that animators, rather than simply not giving a shit, began taking on existing songs in order to save themselves.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
''You're new at this, aren't you?''
Knew at what?
''You can't argue that J Pop is being used in anime to promote a band so now your point is that this is okay with you?''
I never denied that they do it, only why they do it. And yes, its ok with me. If it means they can make that extra bit of money then Im perfectly happy. For most people its not such a huge issue that it takes away from the enjoyment of the series.
''I guess it's working.''
Blah blah blah.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
''If you have lower standards of quality that's your problem.
I can't help you.''
No, actually, its not my problem because I dont have an issue with it. Its your problem. Now lets end this on a positive note, something we can both agree on. This is one kickass song.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
If you don't have an issue with it then why jump into a thread with the name calling?
wartarot 2 years ago
And why take so long to reply? Running around Ireland looking for import anime soundtracks? Easy to find are they, maybe ordering online?
Stop making up shit for convenience, if you have any J Pop it's an mp3 you downloaded and didn't pay for like millions of others, and you're defending the poor anime business forced to promo J bands instead of writing original music.
Truth is you couldn't give a shit.
wartarot 2 years ago
I only had an issue with you putting the blame straight onto the producers.
I apologise for the faggot comment. For me it was an easy way of venting without having to dive right into a 4615 long word chat [to be exact].
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
Sure I can put the blame straight on the producers. You think the use of J Pop themes is only the result of revenue lost to fansubs?
The use of J Pop and the tired rehash of stories and characters is an indication of a business at loss for originality.
People download fansubs because they want it free, and they consider most anime crap not worth paying for.
A lot of the problem lies with the people who make it.
Now go buy an expensive import cd.
Yeah right.
wartarot 2 years ago
Successful themes will always be reused throughout an industry. If there was such a thing as complete originality then we would all be still drawing on cave walls. Everyone takes influence from each other. Sure, theres a lot of anime being produced today, you just have to look harder for the good stuff. A lot of it may be regurgitate muck, but a lot of it works, and the Japanese public accept it.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
And there lies their security. In times such as these OF COURSE everyone is not going to want to take a shot with an odd ball show. (And some do, Gurren Lagann etc) I will never put all the blame on the producers.
There was a lot of shit coming from Japan 10-20 years ago too, dont fool yourself.
People will always want free things.
I dont buy import CDs.
I think we have very different views on a lot of things. We certainly are not going to get any where if this discussion continues.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
-There was a lot of shit coming from Japan 10-20 years ago too, dont fool yourself.
Always been shit shows, just that the amount now is extraordinarily high.
-People will always want free things.
Doesn't make it right.
-Ive bought OSTs of recent anime
-I dont buy import CDs.
So which is it? You're making up shit as you go.
Don't lie to yourself, you couldn't care less about any of this.
And that's the problem.
wartarot 2 years ago
''Ive bought OSTs of recent anime''
A lie to aid my point obviously.
Yeah, people will always want free things, I never said it was right, but it sure as hell isnt due to ''poor'' quality anime.
You know what? I dont really give a shit about the current standing of the anime industry. Let it collapse in the west for all I care. I wont purchase overpriced dvds of poor localisation, and I certainly wont help fund the worst dubbing industry.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
As for the east, maybe a collapse is whats needed for an overhaul in the market. As profits lower and production cost rise maybe all the rubbish will be weeded out, right? Right? Youll be happy then eh?
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
That you admit to lying invalidates everything you say. You have no credibility.
And by rubbish weeded out-sure it would be nice to see the crappy shows go away, and also the douchebags like yourself who make up asshole excuses to justify freeloading and not paying for it.
I'm criticizing the business, but you're the one harming it.
wartarot 2 years ago
That I admit lying shows my honesty, infact I dont know how one could lie about their own opinion in the first place.
If I had money to spare I wouldnt be spending it on anime regardless. Im not harming it if I would not of been contributing to it in the very first place, Im just not supporting it for reasons already mentioned. If that makes me an asshole then grand. Enjoy supporting the very thing you yourself criticize.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
That you're honest about lying?
That's too weird for words.
So you hate US companies, but want the Japanese studios to keep pumping out anime so the fansubbers can upload it so you can watch for free.
And you jump in because I said J Pop themes suck?
Seriously, you need to get over yourself.
Same from all these parasites, their only contribution is opinions they have no right to make.
wartarot 2 years ago
And criticism is valid, that is how we paying consumers let the producers know when improvement is need.
Stealing anime is wrong, period.
Regardless of what wacky logic Freeloaders use.
wartarot 2 years ago
Ah well.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
There will always be a demand in one form or another for Japanese animation, and they will continue to meet it, whether I want it or not lol.
Unfortunately for you everyone has the right to an opinion. Not even that they have a right, everyone has an opinion, and they will continue to voice it.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
Voicing an opinion on an industry you steal from.
Sure.
But is it a valid opinion?
No.
Just self-important fanboy noise.
If I had known you were a Freeloader I would never have bothered replying, but you were lying at first and made yourself sound like a true fan that pays for anime.
This ends here, on principle I will have nothing to do with a thief.
wartarot 2 years ago
Har har har.
QwoPhasaArius 2 years ago
@wartarot *obligatory 1 year reply*
QwoPhasaArius 3 months ago
Priss was my idol when I was a kid. I would rent BC episodes on VHS like there was no tomorrow. I even recorded this song on an old audio tape recorder from the T.V. because that was the only way I could own it. Everyone scratched their heads and wondered why I would watch anything in Japanese at my age, WAY before Pokemon or any of that came along.
JCopperfield 2 years ago
You too? I ran several copies to loop continuously, I liked it that much; it wasn't available as a single, like itunes does now.
darkmagickian 2 years ago
I watched this and played original Red Box D&D in the same year of my life. Probably the two most defining moments in my life.
Say it once, say it loud; "I'm a geek and I'm proud!"
TheAmericanWay 2 years ago 3