Which anime has the best music

[DDBen]

Originally posted by: AfroMain
Hm, I think that everyone loves the Cowboy Bebop music because it was such a great anime...I mean, the music was good, don't get me wrong, but I think its time to get off Yoko Kanno's metaphorical nutsack. I have only see ONE mention of BECK or FLCL in this whole thread, which is pretty strange considering they have the best music of all anime ever. After all BECK is an anime about rockin' out (which the groups on the soundtrack do well) and as for FLCL...well, in addition to being the best anime ever, The Pillows made an awesome soundtrack for it. Props to Samurai Champloo, though, for the fresh beats and great OP

I did not mention Beck for a few specific reasons. First off the Manga is WAY better then the anime. This is a matter of the anime forcing a ending where there simply wasn't one. Overall I was very disatisfied with the Anime. Its one of those things where its simply a fact that a amazing singer by Japanese standards wasn't the same as one would be by my standards. Understandably as the series progressed the improvement in singing lied directly in the band improving their English. This caused a problem for me as they really didn't change the music to reflect the growth. From the manga I expected when Kyoku(SP) would sing that I would get shivers down my spine and this VERY rarely happened. This series is also completely untranslatable as a majority of it depends on the Engrish being used by the Japanese band attempting to talk to Americans.

Given all of that I like the music I just feel it didn't do its job in the series.

[AfroMain]

Originally posted by: DDBen

I did not mention Beck for a few specific reasons. First off the Manga is WAY better then the anime. This is a matter of the anime forcing a ending where there simply wasn't one. Overall I was very disatisfied with the Anime. Its one of those things where its simply a fact that a amazing singer by Japanese standards wasn't the same as one would be by my standards. Understandably as the series progressed the improvement in singing lied directly in the band improving their English. This caused a problem for me as they really didn't change the music to reflect the growth. From the manga I expected when Kyoku(SP) would sing that I would get shivers down my spine and this VERY rarely happened. This series is also completely untranslatable as a majority of it depends on the Engrish being used by the Japanese band attempting to talk to Americans.

Given all of that I like the music I just feel it didn't do its job in the series.

Ah see, I never read the manga to give me high expectations...but I've gotta wonder how an anime like this, with such a high audio component, works as well (or better) as a manga? Did you have to imagine the music or something? Also, they shows him (koyuki) progressing some, learning to write music and getting a louder voice and all...and wouldn't it be sorta weird if a shiver went down you spine every time you listened to a song?
Anyway, on topic, I forgot to mention that the first 25 eps of Hajime no Ippo have one of the best OP songs I've heard.

Oh and yeah, Yoko Kanno is sweet, I was just hatin. The Real Folk Blues was the first mp3 I ever downloaded

[DDBen]

Originally posted by: AfroMain

Ah see, I never read the manga to give me high expectations...but I've gotta wonder how an anime like this, with such a high audio component, works as well (or better) as a manga? Did you have to imagine the music or something? Also, they shows him (koyuki) progressing some, learning to write music and getting a louder voice and all...and wouldn't it be sorta weird if a shiver went down you spine every time you listened to a song?
Anyway, on topic, I forgot to mention that the first 25 eps of Hajime no Ippo have one of the best OP songs I've heard.

Oh and yeah, Yoko Kanno is sweet, I was just hatin. The Real Folk Blues was the first mp3 I ever downloaded

The Manga of course didn't involve singing usually at best you were given a song title and occasionally some lyrics however the actions are really shown through everyone's reactions. This left them with the ability to write the music for the anime.. Also not that the Beck chapters are VERY long often making them over 50 pages a chapter where as something like bleach or Naruto is around 20 pages. As a result each episode was about a chapter of the manga but even with that they were cutting some things. The worst caste being the end where they took the entire American tour and made it seemed more like a happy ending then the chaotic mess it really was.

I found at times when reading the manga you would get shivers however in the anime that was limited to Greatful sound for me atleast and I just didn't feel the storytellnig was captured quite as well as it was in Manga form..

All of that being said I do like Beck a lot and I did download the OST [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]