Another anime season means another wave of excellent anime music. From openings and endings to movie themes and insert songs, here are the songs I’ve most enjoyed over the winter 2020 season.
*Note: Songs are presented in alphabetical order by series.
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Anime: Black Clover
Song: “Black Catcher”
Artist: Vickeblanka
Why I Love It: Maybe it’s the jazz piano rocking throughout. Maybe it’s the perfectly on pitch falsetto. Maybe it’s both. Yeah. it’s totally both.
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Anime: Darwin’s Game
Song: “Alive”
Artist: Mashiro Ayano
Why I Love It: In this power ballad, the main soprano goes to the max of her range while being supported by a haunting harmony.
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Anime: Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia
Song: “Tell me”
Artist: milet
Why I Love It: I have a weakness for full-bodied alto voices and milet’s flows beautifully through the entire song.
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Anime: Fate/strange Fake (TVCM)
Song: “BELONG”
Artist: SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Yosh
Why I Love It: Powerful male vocals shown off by Sawano’s usually brilliant composition tease an anime we’re not likely to see for at least a few years.
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Anime: GeGeGe no Kitaro
Song: “A.M.D.K.J.”
Artist: Scandal
Why I Love It: Sometimes I just like jamming to a Japanese girl band song with all the different vocals and fun harmonies that come with it.
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Anime: Heya Camp
Song: “The Sunshower”
Artist: Asuka
Why I Love It: This is a rare song that, despite being relatively slow and light-hearted, has a ton of fun playing with syncopation in the chorus.
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Anime: Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story
Song: “Alicia”
Artist: ClariS
Why I Love It: How could there be a Madoka Magica anime without a ClariS song backing it up?
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Anime: My Hero Academia (Season 4)
Song: “Might+U”
Artist: Makayla Phillips
Why I Love It: This song is what happens when you take “You Say Run!”–i.e., the music that plays whenever something heroic happens in My Hero Academia–add vocals, and turn it into a fully orchestrated ballad.
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Anime: Pet
Song: “Chou no Tobu Suisou”
Artist: TK from Ling Tosite Sigure
Why I Love It: With this one, it’s all about how the most powerful moments in the song come not from when he displays his impressive falsetto, but when he drops down into his chest voice instead. It’s a total reversal of the norm.
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Anime: Plunderer
Song: “Countless Days”
Artist: Rina Honnizumi
Why I Love It: This fun little ballad is light and poppy yet–at the same time–is sung with obvious emotion.
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