For the inaugural entry of !anime@ani.social to Lemmyvision, the community voted to submit “Hunting Soul”!
This was an insert song created for the second season of Dan Da Dan. The group performing the song is credited as HAYASii, but that is actually a fictional group created for the show as well (pretty clearly based on the real-life band of X Japan). A fun fact about the English version of the song that was included in the dubbed version of the show is that the lead singer of HAYASii is none other than Marc Hudson, the lead singer of DragonForce.
Links:
- (JP) official lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoodunTw0kw
- (JP) audio only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4hNyARBf28
- (EN) official English MV (includes dialog from the show over the music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEdiws1rDMY
- (EN) audio only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCWaIsOX4d0
- initial nomination thread: https://ani.social/post/29945101
- final voting thread: https://ani.social/post/30201132
Another fun fact is that the guitarist on this song is Marty Friedman from Megadeth, and the Japanese version was sung by Granrodeo’s lead singer, Kisho Taniyama
The final vote came down to a very narrow margin between our top two vote-getters. If you are curious about the very close runner up (that I voted for), that was the opening song from “CITY The Animation” - “Hello” by Furui Riho.
Links:
- anime OP (animated, but edited down to 1:30): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10eZAXGuVT4
- Full MV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxyACq69HgA
Thanks for the submission!!
