10 Awesome Anime Songs from Fall 2018

This fall season with its 54 new TV anime brings with it double that amount in theme songs–and then there’s all the other anime music from films, ONAs, and continuing series. Out of that variable smorgasbord of music, here are the ones that I just couldn’t get out of my head.

*Note: Songs are presented in alphabetical order by series.


Anime: Anemone: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution

Song: “There’s No Ending”

Artist: RUANN

Why I Love It: Rare is the song that mixes a synthesizer and techno beats with a panpipe.

  
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Anime: Banana Fish

Song: “RED”

Artist: Survive Said The Prophet

Why I Love It: It has great rhythm in the verse that leads first into a hauntingly beautiful bridge and then into a piano heavy chorus with a male choir backup.


Anime: Conception

Song: “Star light, star bright”

Artist: Nano

Why I Love It: At this point, there are very few Nano songs I don’t like. In a world where soprano voices reign supreme, her powerful alto is a breath of fresh air.


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Anime: Hinomaru Zumou

Song: “FIRE GROUND”

Artist: Official HIGE DANdism

Why I Love It: With an endlessly building chorus accented by trumpets it’s a song that makes me want to dance–and I don’t dance.

  
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Anime: Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative  

Song: “VigilaNTe”

Artist: Hiroyuki Sawano (Vocal:mpi & Gemie)

Why I Love It: The song is already rather unique due to the mass majority of it being sung in harmony between its male and female singer–but where it really shines is in the chorus where the two switch roles between melody and harmony mid phrase.


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Anime: Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

Song: “Kimi no Sei”

Artist: the peggies

Why I Love It: The simple repeated lyrics of the chorus gets stuck in my head for hours.

  
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Anime: Sword Art Online: Alicization

Song: “ADAMAS”

Artist: LiSA

Why I Love It: At this point, Sword Art Online wouldn’t be Sword Art Online without a rocking new LiSA song.

  
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Anime: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Song:  “Another colony”

Artist: TRUE

Why I Love It: The chorus perfectly delivers the feelings of wonder and adventure that the anime is all about.

  
Provided courtesy of iTunes


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Anime: Tokyo Ghoul:re Second Season

Song: “katharsis”

Artist: TK from Ling Tosite Sigure

Why I Love It: TK’s haunting falsetto permeates an air of disquiet that perfectly fits the opening for an anime filled with so much despair.  

  
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Anime:  Yu-gi-oh! VRAINS

Song:  “glory”

Artist: BAND-MAID

Why I Love It: It uses its powerful alto main vocal and excellent rhythm to make a rocking chorus.  

  
Provided courtesy of iTunes


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