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I LOVE Love Live School Idol Project! It's one of my new favourite anime~♥
I already went into the show knowing I was gonna enjoy it, I've been listening to its music for a good while before I got around to watching it, and I already loved the music from the show a whole lot, and of course, I already liked the character designs, they're beautiful and adorable, and the art-style in the show is rather pretty in my opinion! Were I not actively pursuing a 90s moe anime style for my artwork I'd totally go for something similar to it!
But I still had relatively low expectations, I thought it was gonna be just an okay show about cute girls doing music, and I was okay with that, but it far surpassed my expectations! Now don't get me wrong, this is a flawed show, I've got my fair share of gripes with it, but I won't go into them now because of spoilers... Looking past those flaws though, there's a pretty good show in here! It doesn't really have much in the way of plot, but it more than makes up for that with strong characterisation! These girls are great! Barring two exceptions that I won't name, but even those two get better later on in the series! They've all got so much chemistry with one-another, and their bonds only grow tighter as the series goes on, which leads to some pretty eye-watering dramatic moments!
Do I recommend the show? Well, let's just say that if you take a look at the show's art, and listen to its music, and you like what you see and hear, the show is worth your time, you might not end up loving it as much as I do, but you most likely won't regret sitting through it.
As for the song, this is easily my most ambitious PC engine music project! I've had a few attempts at covering music from anime on the PC engine before, but this is the first successful one, and it took an embarrassingly long time to finish! The song has 105 patterns, the overwhelming majority of which are unique on every channel!
As I was making it, there was enough room to fit mostly everything so that the song could sound 'complete', heck I even went out of my way to find unique waveforms for the many different voices which you can prominently hear near the beginning of the song, and different waveforms for the higher and lower piano notes, I even distributed the piano notes around separate channels so that new notes wouldn't cut out the previous ones so that it would sound a bit 'richer' and 'fuller' whenever there was enough room to do so!
This is one of my favourite songs from the show, not only is it very well-composed, it's beautiful, and its lyrics and its context within the series is so bittersweet that it never fails to tug at my heart-strings~♥
I wanna make more chiptune covers of anime music in the future, I don't know how long it will take, probably very long as this wasn't easy, because with these types of songs I have to transcribe everything by ear, and I'm unable to listen to each channel/instrument on its own like I can with video game music...
For this song though, I had a bit of extra help, as I could find an instrumental version, a vocal-only version and a chorus-without-lead-vocals version that I could listen to and better understand how the song is constructed, that way transcribing it was much easier than it would have been otherwise!
No, I don't do requests, I already know what I want to cover.
You can see the art I've made for this video in its full glory here: pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=72267929
I hope you enjoy what you hear ^^
Happy Holidays!
Check out my Bandcamp: michirin9801.bandcamp.com
Support my music!
I LOVE Love Live School Idol Project! It's one of my new favourite anime~♥
I already went into the show knowing I was gonna enjoy it, I've been listening to its music for a good while before I got around to watching it, and I already loved the music from the show a whole lot, and of course, I already liked the character designs, they're beautiful and adorable, and the art-style in the show is rather pretty in my opinion! Were I not actively pursuing a 90s moe anime style for my artwork I'd totally go for something similar to it!
But I still had relatively low expectations, I thought it was gonna be just an okay show about cute girls doing music, and I was okay with that, but it far surpassed my expectations! Now don't get me wrong, this is a flawed show, I've got my fair share of gripes with it, but I won't go into them now because of spoilers... Looking past those flaws though, there's a pretty good show in here! It doesn't really have much in the way of plot, but it more than makes up for that with strong characterisation! These girls are great! Barring two exceptions that I won't name, but even those two get better later on in the series! They've all got so much chemistry with one-another, and their bonds only grow tighter as the series goes on, which leads to some pretty eye-watering dramatic moments!
Do I recommend the show? Well, let's just say that if you take a look at the show's art, and listen to its music, and you like what you see and hear, the show is worth your time, you might not end up loving it as much as I do, but you most likely won't regret sitting through it.
As for the song, this is easily my most ambitious PC engine music project! I've had a few attempts at covering music from anime on the PC engine before, but this is the first successful one, and it took an embarrassingly long time to finish! The song has 105 patterns, the overwhelming majority of which are unique on every channel!
As I was making it, there was enough room to fit mostly everything so that the song could sound 'complete', heck I even went out of my way to find unique waveforms for the many different voices which you can prominently hear near the beginning of the song, and different waveforms for the higher and lower piano notes, I even distributed the piano notes around separate channels so that new notes wouldn't cut out the previous ones so that it would sound a bit 'richer' and 'fuller' whenever there was enough room to do so!
This is one of my favourite songs from the show, not only is it very well-composed, it's beautiful, and its lyrics and its context within the series is so bittersweet that it never fails to tug at my heart-strings~♥
I wanna make more chiptune covers of anime music in the future, I don't know how long it will take, probably very long as this wasn't easy, because with these types of songs I have to transcribe everything by ear, and I'm unable to listen to each channel/instrument on its own like I can with video game music...
For this song though, I had a bit of extra help, as I could find an instrumental version, a vocal-only version and a chorus-without-lead-vocals version that I could listen to and better understand how the song is constructed, that way transcribing it was much easier than it would have been otherwise!
No, I don't do requests, I already know what I want to cover.
You can see the art I've made for this video in its full glory here: pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=72267929
I hope you enjoy what you hear ^^
Happy Holidays!
