Music
Material presented at MCAD's 2001 "Girls and Mobilesuits" Anime Seminar. All images are properties of their respective artist, publisher, or distributor, and used for academic purposes only.
(Obviously it plays little role in manga.)
What is the music like for animated shows and movies?
A few examples
- The oiginal "Gundam" TV show had a theme song about the wrath of
justice and the fighting spirit
- TV shows "Captain Harlock" and "Millennial Queen"
opening songs focus on desperate quests, the vastness of space,
the passing of time, and other such epic themes
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky has a grand, haunting, sad-sweet melody
- Evangelion's opening song invokes the sense of epic
by suggesting transformation into a myth or legend.
- Even a silly 1990s series like Nadesico has an opening song
that goes on about one's personal dreams and the importance thereof.
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