by I like the song, but I need to find out the singer or the anime!?
In recent years, hit anime songs that the general public has widely accepted include “Idol” from ” Oshi no Ko, “Shinjidai” from “ONE PIECE FILM RED,” and “Kurei” from ” Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. ” Examples include “Lotus.” This is an example of how an anime’s popularity and name recognition are linked to its theme song’s success. Oh, it was an anime song!? Here are four famous animes with songs that don’t make sense even when you look at the pictures.
However, if you go back a bit, you’ll find things like, “I know the song, but I don’t know what anime it’s about,” and “I don’t even know who the artist is.” There is a song that gets a lot of attention when sung at karaoke, even though it’s not.
One example is “Lion” from “Macross Frontier,” which ranked 63rd in JOYSOUND’s monthly anime karaoke ranking for February 2024. “Macross F” is a science fiction robot anime broadcast in 2008, and “Lion” is the opening song of the second half. The song sung is “May’n/Ai Nakajima.” May’n is in charge of singing the heroine “Sheryl Nome” in the same work and is currently active as a singer. Ai Nakajima made her voice acting debut in the role of another heroine, Ranka Lee.
The song Interstellar Flight'' by Ai Nakajima under the nameRanka Lee Ai Nakajima” is also one of the popular songs, and I only know the song.” The “Macross” series is a popular anime among science fiction fans, but a slightly lesser work by Masaharu Kawamori is “Sousei no Aquarion” (broadcast in 2005), which ranked 57th.
The theme song of the same name ranked 19th on the Oricon Daily chart when it was broadcast on TV, but the song became widely known after the TV commercial for “CR Fever Sousei no Aquarion.” The lyrics, “I’ve loved you for 10,000 and 2,000 years,” strongly impacted me. Also, in common with the aforementioned “Lion,” Yoko Kanno, who has produced many anime songs, is in charge of the music.
Artist AKINO is a member of the four-brother-sister unit “bless4” and also performed the opening theme for the second series of the series, “Aquarion EVOL,” under the name ” AKINO with bless4 .” The ending theme for the first half, “Moonlight Sinfonia,” is a duet song between AKINO and her younger brother AIKI under the name “AKINO & AIKI from bless4.”
In addition, anime songs whose reason is generation'' becausethe name of the work is famous, but I have never seen the main story” are also listed in the ranking. It is well known that the 36th place “Soul no Refrain” and the 2nd place “A Cruel Angel’s Thesis” are the theme songs of ” Neon Genesis Evangelion, “but they are respectively the theme songs of the 1997 movie version and the 1995 TV anime version. It belongs to. Many people think that when they watch anime, they think of it as a karaoke video.
The 14th place “Touch” also aired as an anime in 1985. If you’re not from that generation, this could be a typical example of someone who knows the episodes but has yet to watch the anime. Sharan Q’s song “Single Bed,” ranked 64th, was the ending theme for “D.N.A2 ~Somewhere I Lost That Guy~” aired in 1994. There was also a voice from Gen Z who said, “I thought it was the theme song for a drama or something, but I didn’t know it was an anime.”
