{"id":964,"date":"2007-11-23T20:48:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/23\/maaya-sakamoto-saigo-no-kajitsu\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T20:58:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T12:58:46","slug":"maaya-sakamoto-saigo-no-kajitsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/23\/maaya-sakamoto-saigo-no-kajitsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Maaya Sakamoto &#8211; Saigo no Kajitsu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, I am a huge <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maaya_Sakamoto\">Maaya Sakamoto<\/a> fanboy. So you can believe me when I say that her recent songs had been quite disappointing ever since she parted ways with her composer and mentor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yoko_Kanno\">Yoko Kanno<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/23_maaya1.jpg\" alt=\"Saigo no Kajitsu\" style=\"width:400px; height:300px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/dp\/B000WHH9OG?tag=ramblingsofda-22\"><strong>Saigo no Kajitsu<\/strong><\/a> (The Last Fruit) is such a pleasant surprise for me. Not since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/dp\/B0000B1L0M?tag=ramblingsofda-22\">Shounen Alice<\/a> (2003) has there been any Maaya releases that excited me quite as much as this new single, which also happens to be the ending theme for Tsubasa Chronicles OVA, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=8292\">Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And the best part? The postman finally brought me my copy today!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/23_maaya2.jpg\" alt=\"Saigo no Kajitsu\" style=\"width:400px; height:300px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracklist:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Saigo no Kajitsu \u00e3\u0081\u2022\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u201d\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e6\u017e\u0153\u00e5\u00ae\u0178<\/li>\n<li>Mitsubachi to Kagakusha \u00e3\u0192\u0178\u00e3\u0192\u201e\u00e3\u0192\u0090\u00e3\u0192\u0081\u00e3\u0081\u00a8\u00e7\u00a7\u2018\u00e5\u00ad\u00a6\u00e8\u20ac\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Saigo no Kajitsu (w\/o Maaya)<\/li>\n<li>Mitsubachi to Kagakusha (wo Maaya)<\/li>\n<li>Saigo no Kajitsu (short size)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I translated Saigo no Kajitsu for the karaoke of a fansub release and I had been waiting for the full version since. (Well, it wasn&#8217;t that long ago.) I am so happy. T_T<\/p>\n<p>You can find the <a href=\"http:\/\/lyrics.darkmirage.com\/?SongID=100\">full transliteration and translation<\/a> of the lyrics at the <a href=\"http:\/\/lyrics.darkmirage.com\/?ArtistID=2\">usual place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Low-bitrate stream:<\/strong><\/p>\n[audio:saigo_no_kajitsu.mp3]\n<p><em>nee boku wa, boku wa shiritai~<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please buy the single from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/dp\/B000WHH9OG?tag=ramblingsofda-22\">Amazon<\/a> if you like it!<\/p>\n<p>Now as per policy, the CD shall remained shrink-wrapped forever, to be buried with me in my grave. Therefore, I don&#8217;t have any more pictures for you. (Go look for the scans yourself!) Instead, here&#8217;s a picture of the current state of my Maaya CD collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/23_maaya3.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/23_maaya3s.jpg\" alt=\"Maaya Sakamoto\" style=\"width:300px; height:400px;\" \/><br \/>\nClick for larger version<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As it currently stands, excluding the CDs that are not released under her name (i.e. Whoops!!, OSTs, Yoko Kanno), I am just missing a few of her older singles. Mainly because they are in the old 80-mm CD-Mini format and I don&#8217;t like that. Well I guess I&#8217;ll get to them eventually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And for some reason, there&#8217;s a ten-year-old album from Megumi Hayashibara in there too. Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, I am a huge Maaya Sakamoto fanboy. So you can believe me when I say that her recent songs had been quite disappointing ever since she parted ways with her composer and mentor Yoko Kanno. Which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/23\/maaya-sakamoto-saigo-no-kajitsu\/\">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":[14,10],"tags":[48,679,680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964"}],"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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}