Crosspost (on anime music)

One aspect I like about anime is that 99% of all anime have its opening and ending sequences. It's hard enough for me to resist the temptation of mecha anime (giant robots ftw!). It might be even harder to resist anime with a well directed opening and ending. Anime is not all about visual! The sound effects, seiyuu(voice actors) and music play a huge role in it also. Music makes a good series better and lame ones somewhat bearable.

A good example this fall season is "bartender". I keep telling mself to drop it, but the ending pull me back everytime. The quality is going down consistently since episode 1, but everytime the ending song starts, I'll get excited for the next episode: There is the recipe of the cocktail featured in that episode, live action of a real bartender mixing that drink and other stunning visual surrounding a bar. I think there is a shot of the artist duo in the ending sequence too. The director mix those up like a good bartender!

You have to listen to the song (/w lyrics below). The ending song is 始まりのヒト (Hajimari no hito, literally means the first person) by Natural High. I'm a sucker for this kind of slow, mellow melody, not to mention that the lyrics is well written too. The single drops December 6! (comes with the uplifting opening "bartender", great value!)

I'm too lazy to verify with other sources (like I could find one, who else watches this), but the whole idea is about your first love/friend. So forgive my rough translation below, I'll confirm the lyrics once the single's out:

song: 始まりのヒ (Hajimari no hito)
artist: ナチュラル ハイ (Natural High)
music/lyrics: 大嶽香子 (Ootake Kaoruko)

れぇ 忘れないよ あなたのこと hey, I couldn't forget about you
他の人を好きになった 今でもまだ you have probably loved someone else; even today
後ろめたく 思い出してる I still have a guilty feeling about the past
ただ 幼すぎて 繫いだって we were very young then, holding hands
汗ばんでも 離せなかったね sweating, but never let go

卒業アルバム 最後のぺージに in the last page of the yearbook
小さく遺したメッセージ 三十年後も there is still that little message, even after 30 years,
彼よりあなたを この胸は覚えてるから I still could remember you in my heart