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Advent of Nirvanic Beauty ~Androgynous Me~ |
 •The
Advent of Nirvanic Beauty ~Androgynous Me~
(Ikuhara's Selection Album)
•Shoujo
Kakumei Utena Original Soundtrack 6
Catalog (KICA) Number(s): KICA-461 (The
copies with the movie ticket are listed as KICA-9461)
Release Date: 4-23-99 (April 23rd, 1999)
Price: ¥3,059
Released by: KING Records Co., Ltd.
This
is basically a CD of picks by Ikuhara (though he clearly
had the fans in mind). The entire CD has only five new
songs. "Pretty Lady Come" is the Sega Saturn
game's opening music, and "Eye-Catch B",
which I may be wrong about, but I couldn't find it
elsewhere; though soundtrack three has one of the same title,
it's different. "Sophie - Spit of the Gods"
is a karaoke version of "Astragalous Earthly
Backgammon", which appears as track two on soundtrack
seven. "Zeit und Zeit" is the music that played
in the first movie preview, and is several songs you've
heard spliced together, that ends up sounding really
cool. The version of "Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse"
which is on this CD is the industrial mix WITHOUT
the male vocal. "Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
- Adolescence Cover" is also slightly different
at the end from the version on soundtrack eight. I consider it
a new track because it showed up here before it showed
up on the movie soundtrack.
There are two KICA numbers
for this CD. The original print came with a ticket
to see the Utena movie, Adolescence Apocalypse. Those
are numbered "KICA-9641", while the prints
that came after, which didn't have the ticket, are
just "KICA-461". Most of the original soundtracks
you can find now are used, so be careful to note which
you're getting if you want the limited edition one.
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01. Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse - Adolescence
Cover [unreleased] (3:20)
02. Pretty Lady Come - Prelude (Sega Saturn Game Opening)
[unreleased] (1:59)
03. Rinbu Revolution (full size) [track 2, OST
1] (4:34) (TRANSLATION)
04. Scarlet of the Campus [track 5, OST 1] (1:50)
05. To The Battle Castle [track 17, OST 2] (2:23)
06. For Revolutionizing the World [track 4, disc
2, OST 5] (4:49)
07. The Absolute Destiny Apocalypse 2 [track 5,
disc 2, OST 5] (1:49)
08. Spira Mirabilis Theatre [track 28, OST 1] (2:09)
09. Angelic Creation, Namely, Light with Banyuu Inryoku [track
11, OST 4] (2:15)
10. EyeCatch [track 21, OST 1] (0:10)
11. Nemuro Memorial Hall [track 19, OST 2] (1:54)
12. I am An Imaginary Living Body [track 2, OST
3] (3:14)
13. Virtual Star Embryology (TV size) [track 32,
OST 3] (1:17)
14. Subtitle [track 3, OST 1] (0:11)
15. Eros of the Ball [track 11, OST 1] (1:41)
16. Earth as a Character Gallery [track 4, OST
2] (1:52)
17. I Am All the Mysteries in Creation [track 17,
OST 3] (3:12)
18. Next Episode [track 34, OST 1] (0:32)
19. Lyric of the Campus [track 6, OST 1] (1:08)
20. Girls' Season [track 12, disc 2, OST 5] (1:32)
(TRANSLATION)
21. EyeCatch-B [unreleased] (0:11)
22. Poison [track 1, OST 3] (1:15)
23. Akio Car [track 22, OST 3] (2:06)
24. Orpheus [track 25, OST 3] (1:15)
25. Sophie - Spit of the Gods [unreleased] (4:21)
26. Kiss [track 31, disc 1, OST 5] (2:05)
27. Thank You for Your Love [track 15, disc 2,
OST 5] (2:37) (TRANSLATION)
28. Truth (full size) [track 35, OST 1] (4:25)
(TRANSLATION)
29. Zeit und Zeit (Movie Flash Prelude) (Time and Time) [unreleased]
(0:48) (TRANSLATION)
A note about this CD: As most of these
tracks appear elsewhere in the 8 SKU CDs, I have added
in brackets the CD the track originally appeared on.
If it's new, I note that.
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Score: 6.0 of 10
This is a compilation
CD, and so the vast majority of it is rehashed from
the previous five soundtracks, but there are a few new
pieces to peruse. Unfortunately, they're pretty much
filler. "Pretty Lady Come" suffers its genki RPG origins,
and so as you can imagine, is obnoxiously perky. (Hey,
if that's your thing…) "Zeit und Zeit" is a forty-eight
second compilation or remix of duel choruses assembled
into a neat little tune of its own that ran as the background
music to a very, very early trailer for the Utena movie.
It's actually the best new track here, as far as I'm
concerned, but forty-eight seconds is a wee bit brief
to call it a song. "Sophie - Spit of the Gods" is a
good karaoke track, but still, not particularly noteworthy.
The assortment of previously
released tracks is solid, with a couple exceptions.
There're too many "eyecatch" tracks, which strike me
as time filler and little else; if I can't get into
a forty-eight second track, I definitely can't get into
a ten second one. It also strikes me as odd that three
songs from the live musical made it onto the CD, but
then I would guess the live musical was more popular
over in Japan. It just gave me nightmares.
Perky and dark are equally
represented on the CD, and a few of my favorites ("Poison",
"Akio Car", "Kiss", and "To the Battle Castle") are
present. The selection of duel choruses, I can't help
but notice, seems to reflect the opinions of most of
the fans I've run into. "Spira Mirabilis Theatre", "I
Am An Imaginary Living Body", and "I Am All the Mysteries
in Creation" are stand-outs from the show, also here
is the awesome version of "Angelic Creation, Namely,
Light" on soundtrack four. Overall, it's a strong selection of
tracks, and a good place for people new to the soundtracks
to start. It's got a bit of everything, so no one's
going to be left out in the cold. However, if you've
already got the other soundtracks, you might want to skip this
one, because you've already got the best tracks here.
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