Kana Yuuki, Saki Miyashita, Atsumi Tanezaki & Rie Suegara -- Wish Me Luck!!!!

Just a few days before the end of 2018 (and for a lot of people, not a day too soon), but for anime fans like myself, there was a good crop of shows this year with some pretty nice anison attached.

Unless I find some more really good entries in the soundtrack for this Summer 2018 anime, this will probably be the final entry for "HaruKana Receive"（はるかなレシーブ）on the blog. "Wish Me Luck!!!!" was the ending theme for most of the episodes as sung by the four lead characters on the show.

Kana Yuuki（優木かな）as Haruka, Saki Miyashita（宮下早紀）as Kanata, Atsumi Tanezaki（種﨑敦美）as Claire Thomas and Rie Suegara（末柄里恵）as Emiri Thomas provide this uptempo ender whose arrangement I would label as "80s steel synth". Even when things got somewhat tense in an episode, "Wish Me Luck!!!!" was always there to reassure us that the four friends would stay together. Riyu Kosaka（小坂りゆ）and Naoki Maeda（前田尚紀）created the song. The arrangement hasn't exactly broken the mold, but heck, it's happy and optimistic. What more can you ask about a slice-of-life anime based in sunny Okinawa?

Plus, now that the Autumn 2018 season has now ended, it says something that "HaruKana Receive" can still linger in my mind as a good memory even with some of the big highlights in anime and theme songs that have come since.