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Anime Music FAQ
for REC.ARTS.ANIME.MUSIC
Part 2
Edited by Ru Igarashi
Based on the work of Steve Pearl
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Changes since last posting:
- Added some specific sheet music references.
- Added entry for music sampler sites.
- added pointer to Geneon (Pioneer) Music web site
FAQ Entries needed (submissions welcome):
- need more music sampler sites!
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This FAQ is posted in three parts.
Contents:
Part 1
1. General Questions
2. Legality Issues with Anime Music
3. Artists
A. About ths FAQ
Part 2
1. Online Anime Music Resources
o WHERE CAN I FIND INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC CDS?
o WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT VOICE ACTORS?
o DO THE ANIME CD COMPANIES HAVE WEB SITES?
o WHERE CAN I FIND LYRICS FOR ANIME SONGS?
o ARE THERE ANY ANIME INTERNET RADIO STATIONS?
o WHERE CAN I FIND AN ANIME MUSIC SAMPLER SITE?
o WHERE CAN I FIND SHEET MUSIC FOR ANIME?
o ARE THERE ONLINE JAPANESE DICTIONARIES?
o MAILING LISTS
o ARE THERE ANY ANIME MUSIC VIDEO SITES?
2. Anime Mail Order Businesses
A. Contributors
B. Disclaimer
Part 3
1. GLOSSARY
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1. Online Anime Music Resources
There are two sites that maintain a database of general anime-related
web sites and electronic resources:
Anime Web Turnpike
http://www.anipike.com/
Anime and Manga Resources List
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/mlvanbie/anime-list/ [defunct?]
If you can't find the information you want at the specific sites
mentioned throughout this FAQ, try those two sites.
If you are after anime theme songs, "Anison Generation" lists songs
used as themes at
http://anison.pobox.ne.jp/
o WHERE CAN I FIND INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC CDS?
Yet Another Anime CD Cyclopedia
http://yaacc.cjas.org
Maintained by Jerry Hsu, based on Steve Pearl's AnimeCD
Cyclopedia from the 1990s. This is an HTML version
containing:
- catalog numbers,
- front cover scans,
- track titles,
- track times,
- title translations,
- singer/artist,
- comments
Contributions are welcome, as are corrections, preferably
in his tagged format but also in the old Cyclopedia format.
Ratings are optional.
Colette CD Connection
http://www.fanfic.net/~colette/
Contains:
- catalog numbers,
- front cover scans,
- track titles,
- track times,
- comments
Moon Prince's Anime and Seiyuu CD Reviews
http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~hueyt/cd.html
Contains:
- catalog numbers,
- front cover scans,
- track titles,
- reviews,
- ratings
Studio Neko-Han-Ten Anime/Manga CD Guide
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/7427/
Contains:
- catalog numbers,
- track titles,
- track times,
- title translations,
- singer/artist,
- comments
Anidisc.com
http://www.anidisc.com/
Contains:
- catalog numbers,
- track titles,
- track times,
- singer/artist
- searchable in addition to browsable
Has user interface for entering or changing entries.
Chris Sypal's Domestic Anime CD Guide
http://www.radiks.net/~csypal/cds
A site for CDs licensed for re-release in the West.
Contains:
- catalog numbers,
- track titles,
- track times,
- singer
Correlates to original Japanese release when applicable.
Gracenote
www.gracenote.com
A site for general audio CD track listings for use by playback
software/hardware. Some anime CDs are listed here, but other
production information is very limited. Gracenote now charges
royalties to software makers, so it's not clear what will
happen to it. Used to be called cddb.com.
See freedb.org for its free alternative.
FreeDB.org
www.freedb.org
An alternative to gracenote.com (was cddb.com), which is used
for general audio CD track listings for use by playback
software/hardware. Like Gracenote, production information
tends to be limited. It's newer so its database is currently
smaller, so anime CD information is even more sparse.
For J-pop:
Shoji Iwata's J-pop reviews, and audio and video samples
http://www.shudaika.com/
CD information for specific shows can sometimes be found at
fan web sites. Check the Anime Web Turnpike,
http://www.anipike.com
for lists of sites for specific shows.
o WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT VOICE ACTORS?
You can try these seiyuu databases or link pages.
Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Searchable Database
http://www.tcp.com/doi/seiyuu/seiyuu.html
Has J-pop CD info as well as seiyuu info.
Voice Actor(ess) links
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AE5T-KSN/anime/voice-e.html
Anime-Seiyuu Info Page
http://www.anime.usacomputers.net/~hideaway/seiyuu.htm [defunct]
CD information seems limited to OSTs.
Anime Web Turnpike Seiyuu/Voice Actors links
http://www.anipike.com/index.php?cat=7
o DO THE ANIME CD COMPANIES HAVE WEB SITES?
Some do. The sites for the original anime CD companies tend to be
in, well, Japanese, and as such I can't vouch for their usefulness:
King Records
http://www.kingrecords.co.jp/
Lantis
http://www.lantis.co.jp/
Pioneer LDC
http://www.pldc.co.jp/
Pony Canyon
http://www.ponycanyon.co.jp/
Starchild (division of King Records)
http://www.starchild.co.jp/
Toshiba-EMI
http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/
VAP
http://www.vap.co.jp/
Victor (JVC)
http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/m-serve/index.html
In North America there is:
Animetrax (ADVision and Right Stuf International)
http://www.animetrax.com
Soundtrax (TokyoPop)
http://www.tokyopop.com/soundtrax
Geneon (Pioneer) Anime Music
http://www.pioneeranimemusic.com/
o WHERE CAN I FIND LYRICS FOR ANIME SONGS?
You can find a good list of web sites that have anime lyrics at the
Anime Web Turnpike at
http://www.anipike.com/index.php?cat=94
You can also find official translations of songs from anime
that AnimEigo has released at their web site:
http://www.animeigo.com/Liner/
Some recommended fan lyric sites that don't seem to be listed
on AniPike are:
AnimeLyrics.com
http://www.animelyrics.com/
Searchable site. Also has J-Pop and game lyrics.
o ARE THERE ANY ANIME INTERNET RADIO STATIONS?
[editor's note: I'm open to recommendations]
Anime in the Limelight
http://www.limepub.com/radio.html
Licensed anime music radio site, about 1 hour content.
Anime Hardcore Radio
http://www.animehardcoreradio.net/
Live365.com station, but also broadcasts on other streaming
formats like mp3 and realaudio.
Interactive Anime OST
http://ftp.jav.net/
A Shoutcast station with an online request system. Uses streaming
mp3 at 128kbps so you need a reasonably fast network connection.
Japan-A-Radio
http://www.japanaradio.com/
You might try some of the streaming media vendors, like Real.com and
live365.com, shoutcast.com or check the site database at the Anime
Web Turnpike (http://www.anipike.com/index.php?cat=92).
o WHERE CAN I FIND AN ANIME MUSIC SAMPLER SITE?
Many people say they use MP3s to get an idea of what's on a CD before
they decide to buy it. There is a school of though that says the more
ethical way of providing this is by provding exerpts from any given
track rather than the whole track (for example, see WHAT'S THE
RECOMMENDED WAY OF PRESENTING MUSIC SAMPLERS ON MY WEB SITE?). The
following provide that service to anime music fans.
[maintainer's note: this REALLY needs more entries]
For Yoko Kanno's works:
The Yoko Kanno Project
http://jameswong.com/ykproject/
http://jameswong.com/ykproject/disc/music.php
o WHERE CAN I FIND SHEET MUSIC FOR ANIME?
It isn't clear there is much around to begin with. Also if there is
something published in book form, you might be able to get it from
Japanese stores, like www.amazon.co.jp.
A general sheet music site like the following might have something.
Doremi Music Publishing Co., Ltd.
3-36-4 Takada Toshima-ku
Tokyo
171-0033
Japan
phone: 03-5950-8220
fax : 03-5950-8246
http://www.doremi.co.jp
Site is in Japanese.
Some fan transcriptions can be found at:
Neko's guide to Anime Sheet Music
http://home.talkcity.com/InfiniteLoop/nekosenshi/ [defunct]
Cowboy Bebop
This was posted 9 Nov, 2001:
While looking for an "impish" picture of YK, I found this at James
McCawley's site:
Cowboy Bebop Sheet Music
At last, sheet music for a Kanno score has been officially published.
The "Cowboy Bebop Bandscore", containing Kanno's band arrangements for
the tracks Tank, Rush, Space Lion, Cats on Mars, Memory, and Real Folk
Blues, is available from Movic, ISBN #4896014138, retailing for 2000 yen.
It turns out there was an earlier sighting by Lynn Tse in Sept 1999:
Cowboy Bebop Band Score
Movic
ISBN: 4-89601-413-8
2000 yen (tax not included)
released 1999.1.15
The 80 pages book is black A4 size, with Spike on the front cover
and the Swordfish in the back cover.
Please note that this book is a Band Score, not piano sheet music,
meaning that if you want to reproduce any of the songs in the book,
you will need a Jazz band. Some of the songs uses something like
15 instruments.
The songs are:
1. Tank!
2. RUSH
3. SPACE LION
4. Cats on Mars
5. Memories
6. The Real Folk Blues
Sorry about missing that, Lynn.
Note, I think this book is now out of print.
For Maaya Sakamoto and Yoko Kanno fans, this was posted on 29 Aug, 2003:
Title: Yasashiku hikeru Sakamoto Maaya Piano Solo Album,
Single Collection + "Nikopachi & Hotchpotch"
Publisher: kmp
ISBN: 4-7732-2097-X
Price: 2000 yen
Description: Piano scores for all 31 tracks from Sakamoto Maaya's two
single collection albums
(http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/anime/topics/maaya_sakamoto/index.html). All
tracks are composed by Kanno Yoko.
Level: beginner
Website: http://www.kmp.co.jp/Shinkan/shinkan0309.html#a
In the same posting:
Title: Piano de hiku Juunikokuki Yasou Tsuki no Shizuku ~Piano
Memories~
Publisher: Yamaha Music Media
ISBN: 4-6362-5817-7
Price: 1500 yen
Description: Piano scores from all 11 tracks of the mini-album of the
same title (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=VICL-61146).
The album is a collection of piano pieces (some have been rearranged
for piano as well) from the "Juunikokuki" soundtrack. The score book
is apparently supervised by the Ryo Kunihiko, the composer and pianist
for the "Juunikokuki" soundtrack.
Level: intermediate to high
Website: http://www.ymm.co.jp/products2/detail.php?format=search&code=GTP25817
o ARE THERE ONLINE JAPANESE DICTIONARIES?
Some of us are brave enough to attempt to transliterate (convert one
kind of characters to another) and translate the track listings and
other information from our anime CDs. However, it is not as simple
as grabbing a dictionary and plugging in the English equivalents.
You need to know some grammar, to know what the form changes are,
what is a name and what isn't, where one word ends and another
begins, for example. This subject is beyond the scope of this FAQ,
but once you have learned some Japanese, it's possible to get quite
far. But you need to deal with 3 different character sets: the
simplified katakana and hiragana, and the pictographic (and
extremely numerous) Kanji. That makes sifting through dictionaries
more of a job in cryptography than straight translation. Online
dictionaries can be a lot of help, both to get you started and to
get words that aren't in those J<->E and Kanji dictionaries spread
over your desk.
Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary Server
http://www.solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/dict/
mirrored at
http://rut.org/cgi-bin/j-e/dict/
Highly configurable, has multiple search strategies.
Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdicinf.html
Large body of resources.
Just between those two, you get a potent coverage of all sorts of
tranliteration and translation problems.
For translating Japanese web pages, try
Babelfish
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Be aware that names get mangled with this as it doesn't
distinguish names from ordinary words.
o MAILING LISTS
Before joining a ML or participating in one, it is highly
recommended that you read the Mailing List Etiquette FAQ
written by Brian Edmonds. The latest edition of which can be
found on the web at:
http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html
- Seiyuu Mailing List
http://www.win.ne.jp/doi-bin/ml-admin.pl?ML_NAME=seiyuu
- Megumi Hayashibara: a mailing list for and about Megumi
Hayashibara. The list has been developed to discuss and debate
anime, TV Shows, Radio programs, CD's, and video games that
feature the Seiyuu Hayashibara Megumi in it.
Megumi-san is one of the most popular Seiyuu not only in Japan,
but in North America as well. Her roles include Lina Inverse in
Slayers, Nuku Nuku in Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, Ayanami Rei in
Evangelion, and Saotome Ranma(Girl) in Ranma 1/2. She also has
had many great supporting roles too, including Christina
MacKenzie in Gundam 0080 and Sakurayama Momoko in Patlabor.
If you are interested in discussing these series and Megumi's
work in them, or any of her CD and TV appearances please send
e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With subscribe <your e-mail address here> in the body of the
message.
[SP]
o ARE THERE ANY ANIME MUSIC VIDEO SITES?
http://www.animemusicvideos.org
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2. Anime Mail Order Businesses
[editor's note: I'd like more information regarding "overseas"
versions.]
The following companies sell imported anime music through mail order,
either by phone, fax, e-mail, web, or snail-mail. Be sure to do
your homework beforehand if you are concerned about things like
bootlegs.
Keep in mind that special orders, or out-of-stock items, from stores
outside of Japan may take a month or more to ship because their
ordering frequency is limited.
Amazon.co.jp
http://www.amazon.co.jp/
[In Japanese. The Japanese branch of amazon.com. You might find
music books here, if you can read or translate Japanese, or Babelfish
(http:babelfish.altavista.com/) works well enough. Viable alternative
to CD Japan (see below), carries some items CD Japan does not, and
shipping charges can be lower. For CDs, try finding the catalog number
elsewhere and then using that in Amazon.co.jp's keyword search.]
AnimeNation
contact:
13929 Lynmar Boulevard,
Tampa, Florida 33626 USA
Phone: (813) 925-1116
Toll-Free: 1-888-MY-ANIME
Fax : 1-813-925-1247
retail store:
1530 N McMullen Booth Rd D-4
Clearwater, FL 33759-2547 USA
Phone: 1-727-669-8553
Fax : 1-727-669-7372
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.animenation.com/
[General anime and manga.]
Anime Jungle
contact:
5-12-4
Nipponbashi, Naniwa-ku
Osaka, 556-0005
Japan
Phone: (country code 81) 6-6636-7444
Fax : (country code 81) 6-6636-7449
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japanese)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (English)
http://www.jungle-scs.co.jp/ (Japanese site)
http://www.jungle-scs.jp/en/ (English site)
[Anime video and music store. Recommended by some for used
out-of-print CDs. Ships internationally, but be aware of shipping
costs (Y1500 + ~Y300/item + 10% surcharge).]
Asahiya Bookstores U.S.A., Inc
Yaohan Plaza
333 S. Alameda St. Suite 108
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: (213) 626-5650
Fax : (213) 626-1746
[Manga and various anime magazines, books, posters, calendars, and CDs.]
[SP]
CD Japan
Neo Wing Co.
601 Kyodo Bldg. (Shin-hoidome),
1-10-12 Horidome,
Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku,
Tokyo 103-0012, Japan
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp
[General CD store in Japan. Good stock and special order response.
Good service. Fast delivery (3-5 days from Japan to North America).
Shipping charges are high (EMS to North America: Y1200 + Y320/item +
5% international shipping charge) but MAY balance out for those who
would pay higher charges from stores outside of Japan anyways. It is
also worth it if availability and delivery time are an issue, too.
Probably most often recommended.]
Fujisan.com
1942 University Avenue #105
Berkeley, CA 94704
USA
phone: 1-877-fujisan or 1-510-548-9689 (not for orders)
fax: 1-510-653-2670
http://www.fujisan.com (Japanese)
http://www.fujisan.com/online/superstore/index.html (English)
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[General Japanese goods import store in US. No specific anime section.
Online availability of anime CDs so-so, but they take special orders.
Shipping cost in US reasonable, to Canada quite steep. Shipping
discounts available for US (48 states) orders. International orders
limited to only a handful of countries.]
Japan Internet Goods Shop (JIGS)
http://www.jigsco.com/
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[General anime store in Japan. Does not accept credit cards.]
JPQueen
http://www.jpqueen.com
[Online used anime/manga goods store. Shipments by EMS are expensive
as usual, but there is an Airmail option which is cheaper though
uninsured and untrackable.]
Nikaku Animart
615 N. 6th St.
San Jose, CA 95112
Phone: (408) 971-2822
Fax : (408) 971-0856
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.nikaku.com/
Closed Mondays
[General anime and manga. Minimum purchase (e.g $100 for international
orders shipped by post).]
Planet Anime
2435 Times Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77005
Phone: (713) 523-7122
Fax : (713) 523-3574
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.planetanime.com/
[General anime. Does mail order & special orders.]
The Right Stuf International
P.O. Box 71309
Des Moines, IA 50325
Phone: 1-800 338-6827
http: //www.rightstuf.com/
[General anime and manga store, but CDs may be limited to domestic if
at all. Does mail order.]
Yesasia.com (US)
28 Second Street, Suite 328
San Francisco, Ca 94105
United States
Phone: 1-888 716-5753
http://us.yesasia.com/
[General Asian media store, but it does occasionally stock anime CDs.]
[There have been confirmed reports of bootlegs coming from this store,
labelled as "Overseas Version".]
You can also find used CDs at online auctions sites like E-Bay, but,
since many are bootlegs, be sure to do your homework. One recommended
auction site is Yahoo! Japan's auctions (http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/),
particularly through an intermediary service like Rinkya.com
(http://rinkya.com/) or perhaps a translation site like Babelfish
(http://babelfish.altavista.com/ - be aware that names get mangled
with this as it doesn't distinguish names from ordinary words).
If there is a store that you have found to be reliable for
mail-orders, please let me know so I can add them to this list.
However, given the tone of this FAQ regarding bootlegs, it is
probably best to recommend only stores that do not sell bootleg
CDs.
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A. Contributors
As with most FAQs, the information documented in the
rec.arts.anime.music FAQ comes from many people (yes, anime fans
are people, too). Our thanks should go to these people.
Steve Pearl (who started this FAQ)
Avatar
Chika
Clinton Moulds
Daniel (a.k.a. vanfanel)
Joshua Kaufman
K.E. Bosco
Mike Quin
Nikkou
Nobutoshi Ito
Pipian
Rob Kelk
Rob Maxwell
Ru Igarashi
Simon Palko
Thomas Chan
Tom Norrill
Wayne C. Morris
Terrence Huey
Michael Hayden
Joe Curzon
Glenn Shaw
Nunya Biznes
Kaijyuu Miyuki-chan
Josh Berry
Eric VanHeest
Zoe (of zoemi.com)
James Mccawley
Phil Lee
Dave Watson
Sean O'Connor
John Lee Baird
HimuraLain
Skeleton Man
Mark Weiss
Ralph W. Phillips
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B. Disclaimer
This document is provided without any warrantees, implied or
expressed. The editor assumes no responsibility for damages
resulting from the use of the information the document contains
or the lack thereof.
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Edited by Ru Igarashi.
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