Best Anime Song Contest: Separated or combined?

I've changed "OP/ED" to "Vocals". I think that was Mush's original intention when creating the poll, anyway.

Hiro: I think it should be placed in the BGM bracket, due to reasons stated by Goldfish and Merv.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

In that case, shall we group insert/image songs with OP/ED themes (including non-vocal OP/ED)?

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Anime music is NOT VGM.

Originally Posted by Hiro

Wait, this question wasn't really answered directly, but it seems from the updated poll that image songs are now included? I had assumed that this contest would be similar to the VGM one in that alternate arrangements would not be allowed (even if it was official), please correct me if I'm wrong. I would think that image albums would qualify as an "arrangement" since they sometimes don't even make it into the show. Character image songs are even more likely to not be included since they're usually just a part of some drama CD or something.

They rarely do arrangements of anime music, so "image albums" are quite different from what you're thinking since the music/songs in them are often original. And contrary to what you think, character image songs are very often used in the shows themselves (they need to sell copies, after all).

And songs are going to be full length where possible (there are some without a full length version, and some that never had TV versions published.)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Note that Nausicaa.net's definition applies only to Studio Ghibli albums =)

One example for the second part of your post: The recent Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, where two image songs were performed in an episode.

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Originally Posted by katchum

Anime music is much more interesting than VGM...

Oh ho ho ho

Anyway, I'll give this some thought when my current obligations are over. Maybe in mid-December.

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