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Well, I gather that it's perfect timing that on the annual Ocean Day holiday in Japan, I'm taking care of the ending theme of a popular anime that...nominally...has something to do with diving. Of course, I'm talking about "Grand Blue"（ぐらんぶる）which happily started its second season in the last few weeks.
Yep, I did catch Episode 2 last week which introduced Iori's scheming little sister, Shiori, and in that one episode, I got the impression of what the entire season might look like: lots of the usual deranged humour from Season 1 but with the addition of some more heartwarming moments.
A week ago, I featured the let's-hit-the-beach-running opening theme "Seishun Towa"（青春永遠）with the duet of Shonan no Kaze（湘南乃風）and Atarashii Gakko no Leaders（新しい学校のリーダーズ）. The ending theme is just as dynamic with another duet and it involves a couple of artists that I haven't featured here on the blog for about a decade. Rapper SEAMO was someone that I posted about in 2014 for his epic "Drive" twenty years ago and May'n was up here in 2016 for her contribution to the anime "Shuumatsu no Izetta"（終末のイゼッタ...Izetta The Last Witch）.
Well, they're here together to provide "Hadaka de Dotsukiai" (Naked Fellowship). Created by Naoki "SEAMO" Takada（高田尚輝）and Giz'Mo, and true to his "Drive", it's a mile-a-minute Latin rap extravaganza that describes the Peek-a-Boo philosophy of having fun: copious amounts of drinking and the opposite amount of clothing. Overall, the song reminds me some of the stuff that Maki Ohguro（大黒摩季）was singing a few decades back.
SEAMO? I have one song by him in my collection, his 2006 'Lupin The Fire' . Well, this song is pretty different from his 2006 song and an interesting SEAMO collaboration.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I didn't know what had happened to him in the last twenty years so I was surprised to hear him back on "Grand Blue" of all places.
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