From what I've heard and seen through NHK and the YouTube live camera footage, the annual Shibuya Halloween mayhem was somewhat washed out due to the heavy rains over the Tokyo area which probably relieved the shop owners and restaurant managers there and disappointed cosplayers and October 31st revelers. But according to the Video Street View Japan channel, folks did try to lighten the mood up as best as they could.
Usually Fridays are set for the urban contemporary stuff of Japanese music but because today is indeed Halloween, I've decided to mix in a couple of Halloween-themed songs here tonight with the usual City Pop and AOR tunes. First off, we've got a synthpop entry by the band Awesome City Club titled "Vampire" which was released as their 2nd limited digital download single in March 2016.
I don't think it sounds particularly Halloween-y but it's nice and sparkly as AWC member PORIN and former Chatmonchy drummer Kumiko Takahashi（高橋久美子）created the lyrics about a young lady falling for the titular Halloween character. Meanwhile, atagi took care of the melody. I would probably say that it was ideal as a theme song for a vampire anime which is a subgenre but it was actually used as the campaign song for HIS Travel...to Macao, of all places.
This song sounds neither like Halloween nor like anything having to do with traditional Vampires that I know of but maybe it would with the manga/Anime よふかしのうた?
ReplyDeleteThat was one of the anime I was thinking about. Never got to see it though. Strangely enough, I was also thinking about Frank Langella's "Dracula" in which the title character was more of a romantic anti-hero.
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