X Japan new album scheduled for 30th of TBD

[Furik 832]

Damnit. AoT OPs are always incredible. This is bland as shit. Fuck you, Yoshiki. 

[lichtlune 915]

You guys have gone so long without any new X stuff that you actually think this is good. lol

[Crube 585]

Pac-Man going into a grocery store and eating all the fruit inside a produce section would make better music than this.

[IchiHiroya 56]

16 hours ago, Kiyoharu is God said:

 

Except it isn't?

 

I get bashing X or HYDE for the never coming album or recent music (VAMPS, that garbage solo single), but passing judgement on a 30 sec sample of a track is stupid.

 

So far I still get VAMP-vibes... May as well be VAMPIRE'S LOVE (which I like). 

 

The anime nerds prob won't like it since it doesn't fit with the previous OPs.  But those openings themes sucked anyway.

Guren no Yumiya is ten times better than this, and I am not even a big fan of the anime nor its OPs. I'm just saying that this particular song from Yoshiki and Hyde doesn't catch nor fit the entire premise of AoT. 

 

(At least Guren no Yumiya is catchy AF and you have to admit it got stuck in your head at some point in time knowing how popular and "meme"-fied the song is. Red Swan.... I even forgot how it sounded after just a couple of minutes from listening to it. :-/)

[NICKT 147]

23 hours ago, Kiyoharu is God said:

I get bashing X or HYDE for the never coming album or recent music (VAMPS, that garbage solo single), but passing judgement on a 30 sec sample of a track is stupid.

I don't care for X or Hyde, but I've seen this defence over the years several times and I've never understood the reasoning. Of course, there's a larger context but ultimately this is a preview, tease or a trailer, we're meant to look at it with an indication, considering common logic they'd be showing us the best part or part of, to entice us, to get us excited and drawn in. If that trailer, teaser, probe, is bad, then it put forwards a bad tone for what the whole product will be.

It's not definitive, we've seen many a bad tease for a good product but it's not something that you could bank a defence on, in my opinion. 
"Stupid", it is clearly not.

[Zeus 7997]

Eh, the song is okay but that's just distraction from the album that's still not here. I could give a rat's ass if the song is good or not, because we're only going to hear 30 seconds of it and most of us stop watching the anime as soon as the ending theme starts. It could be worse, it could be better.

[Arkady 396]

It's not a bad anime song per se, but it's completely unsuitable as an OP of that kind of anime. I doubt they were asked for a ballad. I think they were given free artistic rein to entice them to work on it and now who commissioned them are kinda regretting it, maybe.

Maybe as an ending theme it could have worked much better.

[Ozileras10 371]

 

[nitta 175]

The song is quite nice. 

[saishuu 3220]

it's good! laughing at y'all expecting another art of life for an anisong lmao

[lichtlune 915]

Okay It's growing on me. 

[LIDL 692]

Only manga readers will understand why the OP for 3rd season of SNK is this mellow. IMHO this is well suited OP for this season.

All of you who only watch the anime, get ready, nothing will ever be the same again.

[Takadanobabaalien 3607]

this topic is now about attack on titan

[lichtlune 915]

I still haven't watched season 2 of AOT. Maybe I will try it soon. I'm not big on anime.

Edited July 23, 2018 by lichtlune

[Asakusa 95]

4 hours ago, LIDL said:

Only manga readers will understand why the OP for 3rd season of SNK is this mellow. IMHO this is well suited OP for this season.

All of you who only watch the anime, get ready, nothing will ever be the same again.

This is exactly what I was going to say.

I wanted an "epic" track too but after understanding that this season is more "emotional" it does makes sense.

[Zeus 7997]

If this was intentional, then perhaps I will be eating my words in a few week and saying it's better than I gave it credit for. One little quibble I have is that the song fades out too fast before it cuts to the title card and the rest of the episode, as if the song faded out naturally and then someone added another fade out on top of it.  I'll revisit my feelings at the end of the season and see where I stand on it.

[Saishu 1589]

8 hours ago, Zeus said:

If this was intentional, then perhaps I will be eating my words in a few week and saying it's better than I gave it credit for. One little quibble I have is that the song fades out too fast before it cuts to the title card and the rest of the episode, as if the song faded out naturally and then someone added another fade out on top of it.  I'll revisit my feelings at the end of the season and see where I stand on it.

There’s probably another section there, but it starts too soon for them to do a slower fade out. 

[Zeus 7997]

2 hours ago, Saishu said:

There’s probably another section there, but it starts too soon for them to do a slower fade out. 

I was going to say that they sometimes record a 90 second version of the song just for this purpose, but then I remembered we were talking about X JAPAN here and them recording and releasing anything is an accomplishment in itself.

[yuugure 92]

Adding my unecessary two cents.

 

AoT season 3 OP is just awful. As a song on its own it's meh at best. Yoshiki really needs to find something else to do that isn't music related, maybe working at the conbini. He's wasted so much time talking about this new album that's never coming. What an unproductive life.

[saishuu 3220]

4 hours ago, yuugure said:

Adding my unecessary two cents.

 

AoT season 3 OP is just awful. As a song on its own it's meh at best. Yoshiki really needs to find something else to do that isn't music related, maybe working at the conbini. He's wasted so much time talking about this new album that's never coming. What an unproductive life.

fantastic life advice!!! congrats on completing that life coaching course!!!!

Edited July 24, 2018 by saishuu

[inartistic 1151]

On 7/23/2018 at 12:28 AM, LIDL said:

Only manga readers will understand why the OP for 3rd season of SNK is this mellow. IMHO this is well suited OP for this season.

All of you who only watch the anime, get ready, nothing will ever be the same again.

But did they ever say what was in the basement

[LIDL 692]

3 hours ago, inartistic said:

But did they ever say what was in the basement

They do. It will be on this 3rd season too, since I heard S3 will be covering up until chapter 90 in the manga, and the Basement episode happened few chapters prior.

[platy 3018]

4 hours ago, inartistic said:

But did they ever say what was in the basement

That basement is the most overhyped thing in this series. It won't be worth it, trust me lol. 

 

The song is growing on me, but I think it should be an ED. 

[secret_no_03 959]

I feel this sounds like an L'Arc~en~Ciel or HYDE song and there is no distinct feeling of Yoshiki or X Japan in it. L'Arc have done plenty of songs that sound like this and the piano doesn't have any distinct Yoshiki nuances. However, I enjoy the song and it doesn't sound like the other AOT openings, but I don't think it needs to be seeing as most anime openings change drastically by the season ala, and I'm dating myself here; AKFG and L'Arc in FMA and Bivatchee and Home Made Kazoku in Bleach. 

[ahnchc 309]

The SNK OP isn't my style, but I can see the appeal. I do agree that it should be an ED and definitely sounds more like L'Arc/HYDE as a couple of other users said, but I don't think that it's dreadful or horrible because of that. It's just an anime OP, so I can't say I was expecting much.