暁Records – VENTEN

Let’s take a look at the latest from Akatsuki Records – VENTEN!

It’s a good one. Real good. If you listen to anything by Stack (the vocalist), let it be this!

暁Records – 酔生夢死 -Hedonism-

The song this time is 酔生夢死 -Hedonism-.

酔生夢死 basically means something along the lines of drinking until you die, or drinking your life away. The dictionary definition is “idling one’s life away”. But the kanji, in order, are “drunk”, “life”, “dream”, “death”, so you can sort of infer the meaning from that haha.

暁Records – KARMANATIONS

Been a while since I got around to listening to Akatsuki Records.
Or at least, posting about it, because I’ve been listening to it quite a bit lately.

Touhou 3 – Phantasmgoria of Dim.Dream Review

Another Touhou game down, although this one was a little different!
Didn’t take too long to actually beat, but also didn’t feel like I really learned anything or improved so much as I got lucky.

ShinRa-Bansho – ははうさぎ (Mother Right Heron)

The other day I was looking for a feel-good song to use as a post theme for my Nagano mountains post and came upon this one, ははうさぎ, or Mother Right Heron by ShinRa-Bansho. And since, I’ve been hooked!

The song:

Touhou 2 – Story of Eastern Wonderland Review

Another Touhou game down, which means that it’s time to put on my game reviewer hat once again.

This time featuring Touhou 2 – Story of Eastern Wonderland.

ShinRa-Bansho – 純情アルメリア (Pure-Hearted Armeria)

When I heard this one, I had to write a post for it.
YouTube’s autoplay feature has been giving me a lot of ShinRa-Bansho to listen to lately, I guess the algorithm favours them fairly well after all of the Akatsuki I’ve listened to.

The song this time is called 純情アルメリア (Pure-Hearted Armeria).

ShinRa-Bansho – Netaminity Theatre "666"

Well now that I’m just branching out to other official Touhou YouTube channels, I have to cover this song next.

I don’t know much of anything about ShinRa-Bansho, but I do recognize one of the arrangers, kaztora, who I believe does the arrangements for songs by another group – Liz Triangle. Not sure if they have a YouTube page of their own though, haven’t seen one, but Liz Triangle worked on First / Next Memory with Akatsuki Records.

Anyways, this isn’t about them, but ShinRa-Bansho.
They’ve got a lot of great songs, so I guess we’ll learn more about them as we go, starting here.

This song is called Netaminity Theatre “666”, and it’s one of ShinRa-Bansho’s popular songs, although they have others with even more views than this one! Don’t mind the freaky thumbnail!

Touhou (1) – 東方靈異伝 ～ The Highly Responsive to Prayers Review

That’s right folks – review.
I’m a games journalist now, with this post.

And the first entry on my sudden career shift?
Touhou – 東方靈異伝 ～ The Highly Responsive to Prayers.