Well, crazy as it sounds, it's been a year since the first season of "Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai ~ Tensai-tachi no Ren'ai Zunousen"(かぐや様は告らせたい〜天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦〜)hopped onto the TV screen from the original manga. I mostly enjoyed that first run although I think the last couple of episodes veered a little too drastically into the dramatic and the humour never quite recovered to its earlier manic levels (Kaguya's laugh fit trigger, her prior opinions on the birds and the bees, etc.), but that is just me. There are folks who were completely satisfied with it and have been slavering over a second season which was indeed announced near the end of 2019 for a Spring 2020 launch. Happily, the trailer for Season 2 is out now.
Of course, that opening theme song "Love Dramatic" by Masayuki Suzuki(鈴木雅之)and Rikka Ihara(伊原六花)has been one for the anison memories, and I can only hope that the new opening and/or ending themes will be up there in the cool factor. Meanwhile, I also enjoyed some of the soundtrack that was on display throughout the episodes.
The music for "Kaguya-sama" was provided by veteran Tokyo-born composer and arranger Kei Haneoka(羽岡佳). He's crafted a goodly sum of soundtracks for both live-action TV dramas and anime, so it's not surprising that he's been able to inject some parodies of drama themes to good effect into this album. For example, there is "Kansetsu Ki..."(間接キ...Indirect Ki...).
Indeed, as I soon heard this familiar wistful piano in one of the early episodes, I pegged it right away as a variation on the famous theme song for the Korean drama "Winter Sonata", "From the Beginning Until Now". That drama and the song blasted through Japanese pop culture like wildfire around 20 years ago. One of my students even had the actual score for the song opened up on her grand piano.
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Ahhhh...yes. Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round". Haneoka was born in 1977 so he must have been in elementary school when the single came out.
I will be interested in seeing the new season in a few months and also hearing whether Haneoka will be riffing on some other romantic drama soundtracks in addition to the parodies that he's provided here.
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ReplyDeleteThanks, Ryuu. Looking forward to Season 2 in a few weeks.
DeleteAnyone knows the song that's playing during the initial Ai Hayasaka scene?
ReplyDeleteHi there. Are you talking about the scene from the first episode of the 2nd season?
DeleteHello, ForgetFoo. Yeah, part of the fun watching the anime was discovering which songs Haneoka was parodying. Being an old 80s music fan, I pegged "You Spin Me Round" right away. :)
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