Month: March 2022
-
O!susume – BLUE ENCOUNT
Broadcast 10: My pick for this month is BLUE ENCOUNT, a four-man band hailing all the way from Kumamoto. Their path to mainstream success isn\’t anything out of the ordinary, but that\’s no bad thing. In fact, BLUE ENCOUNT\’s story is a pretty good model for how many bands have found their way out of…
-
O!susume – ZUTOMAYO
Broadcast 9: This week’s band is called ずっと真夜中でいいのに (Zutto Mayonaka de Iinoni), meaning “I wish it was midnight all the time”, stylized in English as ZUTOMAYO or sometimes shortened to ZTMY. They are an indie J-pop/J-rock band with an anonymous female vocalist known as ACAね (ACAne). The rest of the band is also anonymous, with…
-
Let’s Rate all of the Tales of series Opening Songs!
BANDAI NAMCO\’s Tales of series, shrewdly identified as \”the Final Fantasy of action RPGs\”, isn\’t quite as well known as the august franchise it\’s oft compared to. However, Erin and I, along with our collaborator Eve, all have plenty of good memories playing through many of the series\’ entries throughout the years. While the casts of…