Best Anime Song Contest

Honestly, I would be all for it, if we decided not to make it exclusively consist of OP/ED themes. Personally, I find the OP/ED themes to be the weak point of a majority of anime soundtracks (mainly because they all sound so similar) while the remainder of the tracks can be really creative. So I would not participate based on the fact that we would get 128 nominations that all sounded pretty much the same (jrock/pop with upbeat female vocals.)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Sakabadger

Well, I don't see anything wrong with having just OP/EDs (or insert songs/image songs, etc) since, well, they tend to be the most identifiable themes of a series. Try to think of the music of any series and a vocal song of some sort probably comes to mind quickly.

On the other hand, there are (as mentioned) some great instrumental tracks which have just as big an impact on the viewer as the vocal songs. It'd be a shame not to include them.

My only concern is that it's going to be hard making one single nomination list for both vocal songs and instrumental tracks.

Do we only nominate VGM title tracks in the BSC because they are more memorable to people? In fact, we tend to nominate tracks from really obscure albums that most people aren't even familiar with so a melody being identifiable to the listener isn’t an issue there. I was under the impression that these types of contests were about comparing the musical merit of each track, and being introduced to new music; not the popularity of the series they were written for. I know I wouldn’t like to participate in a contest where I will only hear tracks from series I am already familiar with, it just wouldn’t be interesting.

So basically, I don't see why we should be enforcing a double standard when it comes to Anime soundtracks.

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Originally Posted by Sakabadger

You're taking me the wrong way. I'm not saying we should nominate only OP/ED tracks because they're easily identifiable -- rather, because they are easily identifiable, it's easy to nominate them. Isn't greater accessibility a good thing?

Furthermore, I never mentioned anything about a series' popularity so I am unsure where you pulled that out from.

So the whole point of going OP/ED only is to nominate tracks most people will know/identify with? That kind of defeats the purpose of creating an interesting, varied contest and emphasizes series popularity over quality. As casual participants will recognize and nominate only what they are most familiar with, it will consist mainly of Bebop, Fullmetal, Eureka 7, etc.

But of course I could just be the only one who doesn't go with the grain.

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