{"id":779,"date":"2007-03-31T22:50:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/03\/31\/happy-birthday-maaya\/"},"modified":"2007-03-31T23:14:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T15:14:01","slug":"happy-birthday-maaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/03\/31\/happy-birthday-maaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Maaya!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phew, I made it! Today, 31st March (ending in Japan in another 30<\/span> 10 minutes), is Maaya Sakamoto<\/a>‘s birthday!
\nHAPPY BIRTHDAY! \u00e3\u0081\u0160\u00e8\u00aa\u2022\u00e7\u201d\u0178\u00e6\u2014\u00a5\u00e3\u0081\u0160\u00e3\u201a\u0081\u00e3\u0081\u00a7\u00e3\u0081\u00a8\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00ef\u00bc\u0081<\/strong> Yay!<\/p>\n

Maaya Sakamoto<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated, Maaya is the talented singer whose songs are featured in Escaflowne<\/a> (she also voiced Hitomi), RahXephon<\/a> and Wolf’s Rain<\/a>. She also happens to be my most favourite-st<\/em> artiste ever. (I own almost every CD ever released under her name.)<\/p>\n

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Her latest work is a mini-album called “30minutes night flight<\/a><\/strong>” which just came out on the 21st. I received my copy last week. :) The limited edition<\/a> version comes with a DVD containing an original Production I.G<\/a> short film entitled “Universe”. My copy is of course limited edition.<\/p>\n

Yoko Kanno<\/a> was Maaya’s mentor and almost all of Maaya’s songs up to her fifth album (Yuunagi LOOP<\/a>) were composed by the famous composer. The general opinion among long-time fans is that the absence of Yoko led to a drop in quality of the songs in Maaya’s newer works, such as the quickly-forgotten Kazemachi JET<\/a> and portions of the Yuunagi LOOP album. I tend to agree. I think that a lot of the new songs were trying to be different from Maaya’s usual style just for the sake of being different and usually don’t turn out too well. I’m happy to say though, I am quite happy with 30minutes night flight. The songs still feel different from Yoko’s distinctive style, but they complement Maaya’s voice much better than Yuunagi LOOP did.<\/p>\n

Mmmm… I want to meet Maaya someday! Ok, that’s enough fanboying for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phew, I made it! Today, 31st March (ending in Japan in another 30 10 minutes), is Maaya Sakamoto‘s birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! \u00e3\u0081\u0160\u00e8\u00aa\u2022\u00e7\u201d\u0178\u00e6\u2014\u00a5\u00e3\u0081\u0160\u00e3\u201a\u0081\u00e3\u0081\u00a7\u00e3\u0081\u00a8\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00ef\u00bc\u0081 Yay! For the uninitiated, Maaya is the talented singer whose songs are featured in Escaflowne (she also voiced … Continue reading →<\/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":[450,183,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}