{"id":1049,"date":"2008-03-01T18:58:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T10:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2008\/03\/01\/maaya-sakamoto-back-together\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T22:54:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T14:54:51","slug":"maaya-sakamoto-back-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2008\/03\/01\/maaya-sakamoto-back-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Maaya Sakamoto &#038; Yoko Kanno &mdash; Back Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite singer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jvcmusic.co.jp\/maaya\/\"><strong>Maaya Sakamoto<\/strong><\/a> and famous anime composer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=734\"><strong>Yoko Kanno<\/strong><\/a> are working on a new song together! Oh my god! This is like having two birthdays in the same year, except that my birthday this year was pretty crappy, so I guess it&#8217;s more like one and a half birthdays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src='http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/01_maaya.jpg' alt='Hemisphere' style='width:300px;height:300px;'\/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Triangular<\/strong> will be the OP theme to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=8586\">Macross Frontier<\/a>, which is due to be aired in April this year. This marks the first time in almost half a decade that the two of them are working together. Maaya&#8217;s seiyuu and singing career were jump started by her role as Hitomi Kanzaki in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Vision_of_Escaflowne\">Visions of Escaflowne<\/a>, with Yoko has her mentor. She also sang the opening song <strong>Yakusoku wa Iranai<\/strong>, which is probably one of her better-known works for English speakers, along with <strong>Platina<\/strong> from Cardcaptor Sakura and <strong>Hemisphere<\/strong> from RahXephon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a happy fanboy. XD<\/p>\n<p>&#91; Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chara-ani.com\/details.asp?prdid=V22802006\">Chara-Ani<\/a> &#93;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite singer Maaya Sakamoto and famous anime composer Yoko Kanno are working on a new song together! Oh my god! This is like having two birthdays in the same year, except that my birthday this year was pretty crappy, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2008\/03\/01\/maaya-sakamoto-back-together\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[48,733,732],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}