Animelo Summer Live 2008 – Sunday Highlights
Posted by houkoholic on Monday, September 1st, 2008 at 04:12Famitsu is on their game again so official track listing can be found here. As predicted, today was Niconico Douga Meme Song day, if you are a fan of nicodouga, especially of the Nicodouga Kumikyoku, you’ll no doubt get a massive kick from hearing the meme songs being performed full live – we definitely did. Anyway again some highlights:
* Omoide wa Okusenman performed by JAM Project as an opener. What a starter! Hang on, Makkun isn’t in there but replaced by Misato Aki. Hmm what happened?
* After the song, Kageyama Hironobu announced that Makkun fell sick, and her condition worsen because she forced herself to perform yesterday and the doctor gave her the order to not to perform today. DAMN.
* Misato Aki sang nicely – taking over Makkun’s role in such short notice and as the first performer, great effort on her part.
* Elisa’s voice is simply beautiful. After 2 acts the bar for the night is set pretty damn high.
* After two slow songs from Elisa, angela Domestic Love Band started the night’s long run of goth-metal music. It’s quite a departure of her old stuff. Yeah, even Shangri-La was pretty out there.
* Sound Horizon had some interesting sounds, and lots of members and vocalists. My favourite part though has to be the electric violin in their music. Might check them out later.
* Yui’s goth band is a good gag act. I like how they made fun of themselves with the whole “toilet break act” gag, even though they were far from that level of terrible.
* Momoi Halko did a real-life Idolm@ster-style “performance accident” – she literally tripped and fell on all four after missing a landing from a jump. She recovered from it straight away though, that’s a pro performer right there.
* Mosaic.wav’s Gacha Gacha Kyu~~~ I was waiting for this piece and the fun metre explodes when everyone in the stadium does the hand gestures.
* Everyone sang true my heart – the call for “Kishimen!” was insane, Lelouch by the power of the Code Geass MAD meme orders you all to obey and sing!
* Sakura Saori’s talking voice scares me since it sounds just like when she sings. It’s like she’s constantly on helium or something.
* No Kiss My Lips. That is just not right. :(
* miko (IOSYS) for Marisa – complete with the original flash movie on the big screen. There’s something magical about everyone yelling “yi er san yi er san one two three one two three ichi ni san” at the same time.
* Tori no Uta, another totally expected piece. It’s a nice song except that for all of the 2 to 3 times I’ve seen it live Lia can never perform it well in a live situation and this time was no exception, which is a pity.
* iM@S performed a medley of their most famous songs, which is awesome because there is just no way they can get through all their cool songs any other way. Asapon was the most in character, Mingosu did well with her solo Aoi Tori section, and even Nakamura Eriko managed to sing pretty well too.
* Makka na Chikai was sooooo intense. I’ve never seen so many people get so psyched up, except for JAM Project’s SKILL.
* May’n does her Macross Frontier Sheryl act. That’s all there is to say about it.
* Psychic Lover does a ballad, wow. It’s so not their usual image.
* Hirano Aya improved her singing – it is no longer as painful as last year’s because she stopped trying so damn hard to do her weak attempt at a vibreto (thank god).
* anisong Uninstall was another piece that I really want to hear live, and Ishikawa Chiaki delivers it in spades.
* Woo, another new unreleased song in full – Gundam 00 second season’s ending Prototype.
* Gundam-gasum continues with a medley by a Ishikawa Chiakii/Yonekura Chihiro duet doing their most famous Gundam themes.
* I can fly! You can fly! We can fly! Motto motto!
Today’s concert was enjoyable in a completely different way compared with yesterdays. While yesterday’s – as expected by such a strong line up of strong singers – wins purely by the sheer high quality of the performers at performing live, today’s was exciting for the concentrated bursts of pure FUN as meme songs and recent cult hits gets performed live on stage and how everyone joins in with the acts at the same time to create an unbelievable live atmosphere. So both days were awesome in their own rights.
Also it looks like they’re already planning for next years Animelo, so see you next AniSummer!











