The music just disappeared….

The time has come again for another Megax March review! This time we’ll be looking at the two pieces of music to come from the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie!

On January 27th Lantis released the original soundtrack for the movie; a first for the series since the BGM was not released with a limited edition DVD. They followed that release on February 24th by releasing the theme song for the movie: Yasashii Bokyaku. I decided to purchase these two CDs through Yokatta Web, my middlewoman in Japan, and I was lucky to receive two postcards from Gamerz that they gave out to customers!

Toonleap already reviewed the OST in an earlier post, so I won’t go into more details about the set. It is a lovely collection of music and wonderfully performed by eminence. I cannot wait to hear it with the animation.

As for the theme song itself, Minori-san evokes strong emotions with her voice as Yuki. It is a touching song and more than fitting for the story it tells. I did some work translating the song and I did tear up during said translation due to the source material.

The CD itself comes in a sleeve with one side for Minori-san and the other for Yuki. This continues the trend of sleeve as Bouken Desho Desho? and Super Driver did come in sleeves as well.

The booklet has many pictures from the PV taken at the model school for the Haruhi series.

The single has four variations of the theme: the normal one heard in the PV, an a capella version used over the credits in the movie, a version played with piano accompaniment, and an instrumental version that has a different composition than the first track.

I’m a fan of the third track with the piano accompaniment over the original single. In my opinion it fits Minori-san’s voice moreso than the first two tracks.

I will now confess one guilty pleasure of mine: I am a sucker for posters, specifically B 2 size posters of shows I like. I have posters from Kamen Rider Kiva, Engine Sentai Go-Onger, Kamen Rider Den-O, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, and now…

On the side, I included a playing card (it was the closest thing I could think of) and the Endless Eight DVDs for reference on size. This poster is absolutely huge! I cannot state how much I love it.

Yokatta Web was able to order these CDs from one of the stores in Japan that was participating in a campaign that enabled you to get the poster with purchase of the CDs. I also took the chance to order the ENOZ CD and Gensou DVD at the same time (which is why those reviews were late).

Later this month, Kyoto Animation will be mailing out orders for another poster from the movie (it’s the art where the brigade is standing against the wall) and yes, Yokatta already has my order in. I’ll be posting pictures when I get it in April (something else I’m ordering ships in that month).

Overall, this was an absolutely great haul for me. A CD for each Hirano-san and Minori-san, and two orchestrated versions of BGM from the Haruhi series in addition to store goods (postcards and poster). I can’t say enough how grateful I am to Yokatta Web for getting those for me.