by Currently, the TV anime “Paripi Komei,” a hot topic among anime fans, manga fans, and music fans, is about a young figure of Zhuge Liang, a Chinese warrior famous for various stories, including Sangokushi. It is a work with a strange set of reincarnating in modern Shibuya. The original is still serialized in Kodansha’s “Weekly Young Magazine,” and as of January 2022, the cumulative circulation of comics has exceeded 550,000.
While turning the pages of the manga, you can immediately go back to the last part and read it before, and you can see as many powerful spread pictures as you like. There is an advantage that you can enjoy it at your own pace. However, no sound comes out of the manga magazine. The merit of animating a popular manga is that the characters start to move with their voices, but there is also the advantage that music is attached to them. Whether it’s a live-action movie or an anime, works with excellent theme songs and gekitomo music are easy for people to remember and remember. This is because music is strongly associated with video and remains in the viewer. In particular, “Ya Boy Kongming!”, In which the depiction of music occupies a significant element, can be said to be a successful example in which the charm of the original has been expanded many times by animation.
The main character, Eiko Tsukimi, is a girl who aims to become a famous singer while working part-time at a club in Shibuya. Komei, who happens to meet her Eiko, is deeply impressed by her song and decides to serve as a “military master” to realize her dream. The stage is a club in Shibuya, and the characters that appear one after another are band vocalists and rappers, all of whom are involved in music. Of course, Eiko herself goes to music events with the help of Komei, so music is inevitably needed during the work.
The animated “Paripi Komei” has a lot of gimmicks related to this music. 96 Neko, who is in charge of Eiko’s song part, has an original album as well as anime songs such as the theme songs of the TV anime “Flying Witch” (2016) and “Kuzu no Honpo” (2017). Only singers have released many pieces, so they are good at singing. In addition, voice actor Subaru Kimura, specializing in hip-hop, shows a rap battle as a charismatic rapper. Avex, strong in both Japanese and Western music, is in charge of music production. I can see it.
The opening theme of this work, “Chiki Chiki Bang Bang,” is a Japanese cover of a song sung by Hungarian singer Jolly nearly ten years ago. The theme song, which successfully applied the mishearing Japanese lyrics to “Western music that is not English,” was accepted by viewers with a freshness and surprise not found in traditional anime songs. The title sequence of Komei, who rides on the rhythm of Eurobeat, dances slowly and smoothly, and the non-telop video of “Chikichikibanban” uploaded to the official YouTube channel of Avex pictures is 6.51 million times in just three weeks. It has been reborn (as of May 2022) and has received a high evaluation of 120,000. Even in Hungary, the birthplace of the original song, it is reported that Jolly’s music is used in Japanese animation, and it is fantastic that this theme song has become a hot topic even across the sea. The original version of “Chiki Chiki Bang Bang” has also produced a synergistic effect that appears on the hit chart for the first time due to the influence of “Ya Boy Kongming!”.
The ending theme “Kibun Jōjou ↑↑” is also a cover of the song of the same name released by the Japanese music unit mihimaru GT more than ten years ago. The cute title sequence where the deformed characters Komei and Eiko move around is also highlighted. “Mood is ↑↑” is a song by 96 Neko and Ryotaro Okiayu, who plays the role of Komei, but as the broadcast progresses and new characters are added, the vocals change and new characters appear in the ending so that you can enjoy minor changes. Will come. This non-top video also had an incredible number of views on official YouTube, 2.75 million times.
As an aside, Paripi is a younger’s word that has changed from party people → pearly peepo, which is a lively place where people gather, such as clubs and events. This YA BOY is a word derived from hip-hop that pops out when you feel like rap, so it also has a stylish English title closely related to the story. It is delivered under the title of “!”.
Since the unique setting of Chinese warrior Zhuge Liang in modern club music is very popular with foreigners, there are many positive comments from overseas fans in the theme mentioned above song non-telop video. attached. “Ya, Boy Kongming!” Is receiving hot eyes not only from Japan but also from overseas. What kind of development is waiting for us in the future? Can Eiko reach her dreams?
