To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Japanese publication “Weekly Big Comic Spirits”, a compilation album featuring hit songs from 1980-2006 are featured on this 2-disc compilation album. Overall, if you grew up with this music, you’ll definitely enjoy the selections as there are classic to modern hits included. Definitely worth checking out!
ARTIST: Various Artists
ALBUM: Weekly Big Comic Spirits 30th Anniversary (Spirits 30)
LABEL: ariola Japan Inc.
CATALOG #: BVCL 97-8
DURATION: (Disc 1) 1:03:32, (Disc 2) 1:12:12
RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2010
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DISC 1:
- Love Story wa Totsuzen ni – Kazumasa Oda
- Koibito ga Santa Claus – Yumi Matsuytoya
- True Love – Fumiya Fujii
- Hitosaji no Yuuki – Keiko Toge
- Kanashimi yo Konnichiwa – Yuki Saito
- Sukisa – Anzen Chitai
- Hidamari – Kozo Murashita
- Miracle Girl – Mariko Nagai
- Ame no Kiss no Hantaba wo – Miki Imai
- Egao wo Sagashite – Midori Karashima
- Sukoshi Dake Scandal – Akina Nakamori
- Sore Ijou. Are Miman – Yuma Nakamura
- Dang Dang Ki Ni Naru – Yuma Nakamura
- Rie Tomosaka – Kushami
- Otokotachi no Lullaby – Toshiyuki Nishida
- A Town in Blue – Asian Kung-Fu Generation
- Yumegiawa Last Boy – Supercar
- Mahou no Kotoba – Would You Marry Me? – Do As Infinity
- Rag Time/Katteni – Shiyagare
- Anything For You – Pushim
- Sotsugyou – Gagaga SP
- Fall Again – Triceratops
- Gloria – Ziggy
- Drive Me Crazy – Kumiko Yamashita
- Soredake Shika Ienai – Joe Rinoie
- Kowareta Love Story – Yoshitaka Minami
- Wakiwaki My Friend – Hiromi Go
- F – Yoji Sawamukai
- Makasenasai – ULFULS
- Nichiyoubi Yori no Shisha – The High-Lows
- Bob Lennon – Naoki Urasawa
For 30 years, the Japanese magazine “Big Comic Spirits” has been entertaining young adult men with their articles on food, sports, relationships and business. Of course, one of the big draws to the magazine (Aside from its coverage of sex) is the manga.
Published by Shogakukan, the weekly Monday magazine has over 300,000 readers and last year, released their new companion magazine “Monthly Big Comic Spirits”.
To celebrate the 30th year anniversary of “Weekly Big Comic Spirits”, the record label Ariola Japan Inc. has released a compilation of music from Japanese anime, films and dramas that were derived from manga published on the magazine.
The 2-disc album features music from various labels with hit songs such as classics “Love Story wa Totsuzen Ni” by Kazumasa Oda from the drama “Tokyo Love Story”, Fumiya Fujii’s “TRUE LOVE” from the drama “Asunaro Hakusho”, Anzen Chitai’s “Sukisa” and Yuki Saito’s “Kanashimi yo Konnichiwa” from the anime series “Maison Ikkoku”. Theme songs from “Haruchan”, “Yawara!”, “Tekkon Kinkreet” and many other titles.
If anything, you get a good representation of Japanese music of various styles in the 2-disc compilation from the 1980 through 2006. You get Japanese artists such as Akina Nakamori, Yumi Matsutoya, Hiromi Go, Fumiya Fujii, Kazumasa Oda, Miki Imai, Anzen Chitai but then you also get modern performers such as ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, PUSHIM, TRICERATOPS, ULFULS, THE HIGH-LOWS and more!
And since I pretty much grew up listening to Japanese music from the ’80s through the present, I happen to enjoy this compilation as there are some really good songs especially the classics featured on the first disc. But it all comes down to the person listening to the songs and whether or not these songs made a big impression to them while growing up with “Weekly Big Comic Spirits” in the past 30 years.
The CD booklet comes with the lyrics to each song, a picture of the single and information of what drama, animation or film the song is from.
Overall, compilations are always subjective to the listener but as a person who grew up with the music on this album, I actually dig the artists selected for this compilation and I’m sure others who grew up with the music featured will feel the same! Check it out!
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