Anison Music Review- Eir Aoi, angela and Aimer

Anison is a genre that is full of powerful vocals, high quality, and dramatic emotions, yet is still in many ways underrated. In this article, we will explore three Anison artists/groups and I will chip in with my personal ratings of the song based on the song's Dramatic Effect (meaning heightened emotional effect), Vocal Performance (the quality of the artist(s)' vocals) and Epic Factor (the heroic feeling from the song); the ratings are all out of 10 by the way. This is not a ranking of songs list like earlier this week, so 1 does not mean I liked it better than the others. Note that not all of the singers on this list only sing Anison music.

1. "Ignite" by Eir Aoi

 

Eir Aoi is an Anison singer that I know of even before making this list, which is why I am so glad to include her song on it. When looking at the song I consider the best parts to be 0:54 and 3:35 because of the pacing of the singing and the dramatic transitional feels in these moments. The rest of the song after 3:35 is also quite satisfying to people who are fans of dramatic sounding music like me because I feel that any type of song needs a strong closing and Eir Aoi did a fantastic job in this case with her singing.  From 1:38 -2:15, the song felt softer which was good because it brought out the dramatic parts (Eir Aoi Official Youtube Channel, Youtube, 2021). 

Dramatic Effect: 10

Vocal Performance: 10

Epic Factor: 9.5

2. "Shangri-La" by angela

First of all I want to say I really enjoyed the build up to the singing in the first 0:25-0:30 seconds. As for the rest of the song, I thought it was spectacular. The singing quality was great and felt quite dramatic and epic because of the fast pace of the song, the artist's vocal skills and the background music. It feels like a very re-watchable video (not that other videos are not). Therefore I rate it highly along with Eir Aoi's song, it is just that I felt Angela's music video had stronger background music giving it a slightly higher rating (angela Official Channel, Youtube, 2019).

I could not post the embedded video on this blog post, but here is the link to the official song: Shangri-La

Dramatic Effect: 10

Vocal Performance: 10

Epic Factor: 10

3. "Brave Shine" by Aimer

You might be wondering why I chose to make a list of songs that I love instead of putting some songs I have mixed views of, but I simply just had to with Aimer's "Brave Shine" as well as the other two songs on this list. The song is very fitting with the theme of the music video. Aimer's strong vocals brought the couple's struggle against the darkness in the video to life. Due to this fact, the song felt very epic and dramatic in many ways. Unsurprisingly,  I rate it along with "Shangri-La" and "Unite" due to the inclusion of these elements in the song (Aimer Official Youtube Channel, Youtube, 2016).

Dramatic Effect: 10

Vocal Performance: 9.8

Epic Factor: 10

Hope you all enjoyed this post and stay tuned for the next one!