A couple of months ago I came across a post by Ogata Megumi (Tenoh Haruka’s voice from the original Sailor Moon anime) saying that she was recording a version of “Moon Revenge” with Kastuki Masako (Kaoih Michiru’s voice actress from the original Sailor Moon anime) for a new album. With a little research I found that I had completely missed the chance to back that album, which she had crowdfunded. Woops! But the good news is that her campaign had been successful and so I did the next best thing I could do to support her work – I bought the album.

Animeg 25th (アニメグ25th) is a collection of songs sung by Ogata Megumi from franchises in which she’s featured. It begins with Platina, the second OP from Card Captor Sakura and includes songs from Angel Beats, GTO, Persona 3, Danganronpa, Evangelion, Hamatora and, of course Sailor Moon, as well as a few others.

It was a very pleasant album to listen to. The music was – as anime music tends to be – banal and appealing. Ogata-san is singing most of the songs in her mid and lower voice range, which I quite prefer. I’m at that point in my fandom lifecycle where I’m not watching that much new anime and don’t game at all, so while I have seen at least  some of most of the series covered here, I haven’t seen all, and haven’t seen that much of most. I know of the the Persona franchise but have seen none of it outside promotional ads, Even Angel Beats, which is a fairly old franchise with surprising longevity in Japan, is something I know about, rather than know. Nonetheless, I notice that many of these franchises are keeping MO busy and for that, I’m pleased. 

But I know you want to know how “Moon Revenge” was? It was loads of fun and very easy to imagine Haruka and Michiru singing it a karaoke and pissing the Inners off because it sounded so good. That was how I imagined it, anyway. ^_^

Ratings:

Overall – 9 

This was a brilliant CD to have on in the background while I weeded my doujinshi collection. Just perfect. ^_^