16th U:C2 song!
As mentioned below Takanori is adding a new song to "Under:Cover 2". Instead of just using the 16th song from the original voting ("Meteor"), he held a week long vote for the song. (It makes sense. Last time, only people that bought "Cloud Nine" within the correct timeframe could vote, and, obviously, most people voted for the other 15 songs. A new vote, open to everyone and excluding those 15 could have a different outcome...)
Though, according to Takanori, "Meteor" was one of the top picks when they started tallying the votes, along with "Liar's Smile" (my pick), "Vital Burner", and "Mugen no Kokou" (the B-side to "Ignited").
In the end, the choice was it was...
Meteor
Anyway, the results were announced today, on 10/5. Takanori also noted that "Gundam SEED" premiered 10 years ago today AND he (for reasons he didn't specify) is meeting with "Maruyama", an MBS producer today (didn't say if it was for work or a social thing). Takanori wondered if this was "Destiny" and if there was still hope for a SEED movie...
* Meteor was a Gundam SEED insert song. Specifically, his single "Invoke" played as the opening from episodes 1-13 and Takanori voiced a character, Miguel, in episodes 1-3. Then, episode 26 was a recap episode, narrated by Miguel (aka Takanori) and ended with a scene using "Meteor", a song from his SEED inspired album "Coordinate" (which also had "Invoke" on it), as an insert song. The episode aired the same week "Coordinate" went on sale. ^_^;
"Meteor" would be used as an insert song three more times in SEED, and once more in its sequel series "Gundam SEED Destiny", specifically it plays in the episode where Heine (Takanori's Destiny character) dies.
** There was originally supposed to be a Gundam SEED movie to end the series, but writer Morosawa Chiaki was diagnosed with some form of cancer during the production on Destiny (this is the origin of some of the show's production issues) and the movie's script kept getting delayed, and it fell into "Development Hell". Eventually, Sunrise simply moved on to Gundam 00.
But, before all this, when it was still assumed there would be a movie, Takanori hinted he would be involved in it. Speculation was he'd contribute to the franchise either a sixth song, a third character, or (most likely) both...
A few years ago, Takanori released the "X42S - Revolution" mini-album for the Gundam franchise's 30th anniversary celebration. It came in three versions, with cover art alternately depicting either 1) his previous two characters, 2) an original character, clearly based off of him (and seemingly dying :/), or 3) a custom orange Gundam. The album itself contained the five songs he'd previously done for SEED/Destiny, as well as a sixth, original song ("Imaginary Ark").
It's not hard to come to the conclusion that "Imaginary Ark" was meant to be the GSD movie theme song, and the charter on the cover would appear in the movie, voiced by him, and possible piloting the custom MS on the LE cover.
Which begs the question, if the movie IS ever made, will it still use "Imaginary Ark"? Or will it have a new song written for it (by Takanori, of course.)?
Though, according to Takanori, "Meteor" was one of the top picks when they started tallying the votes, along with "Liar's Smile" (my pick), "Vital Burner", and "Mugen no Kokou" (the B-side to "Ignited").
In the end, the choice was it was...
Meteor
Anyway, the results were announced today, on 10/5. Takanori also noted that "Gundam SEED" premiered 10 years ago today AND he (for reasons he didn't specify) is meeting with "Maruyama", an MBS producer today (didn't say if it was for work or a social thing). Takanori wondered if this was "Destiny" and if there was still hope for a SEED movie...
* Meteor was a Gundam SEED insert song. Specifically, his single "Invoke" played as the opening from episodes 1-13 and Takanori voiced a character, Miguel, in episodes 1-3. Then, episode 26 was a recap episode, narrated by Miguel (aka Takanori) and ended with a scene using "Meteor", a song from his SEED inspired album "Coordinate" (which also had "Invoke" on it), as an insert song. The episode aired the same week "Coordinate" went on sale. ^_^;
"Meteor" would be used as an insert song three more times in SEED, and once more in its sequel series "Gundam SEED Destiny", specifically it plays in the episode where Heine (Takanori's Destiny character) dies.
** There was originally supposed to be a Gundam SEED movie to end the series, but writer Morosawa Chiaki was diagnosed with some form of cancer during the production on Destiny (this is the origin of some of the show's production issues) and the movie's script kept getting delayed, and it fell into "Development Hell". Eventually, Sunrise simply moved on to Gundam 00.
But, before all this, when it was still assumed there would be a movie, Takanori hinted he would be involved in it. Speculation was he'd contribute to the franchise either a sixth song, a third character, or (most likely) both...
A few years ago, Takanori released the "X42S - Revolution" mini-album for the Gundam franchise's 30th anniversary celebration. It came in three versions, with cover art alternately depicting either 1) his previous two characters, 2) an original character, clearly based off of him (and seemingly dying :/), or 3) a custom orange Gundam. The album itself contained the five songs he'd previously done for SEED/Destiny, as well as a sixth, original song ("Imaginary Ark").
It's not hard to come to the conclusion that "Imaginary Ark" was meant to be the GSD movie theme song, and the charter on the cover would appear in the movie, voiced by him, and possible piloting the custom MS on the LE cover.
Which begs the question, if the movie IS ever made, will it still use "Imaginary Ark"? Or will it have a new song written for it (by Takanori, of course.)?