Anime Speed
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Anime Speed is a megamix
compilation album
of Dancemania
s Speed
series, released by EMI Music Japan in 2005. The album features uptempo cover remixes of popular theme songs for various anime
works such as Dragon Ball Z, Slam Dunk
and Neon Genesis Evangelion. The successor, Anime Speed Newtype Edition, was released in 2006.
was done by George Suzuki.
Megamix
A megamix is a medley remix containing multiple songs in rapid succession. There may be only one verse or even just a brief chorus of each song used, sometimes in addition to samples of the same or other songs. There may also be some elements of bastard pop in some, though not as much as a mashup...
compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
of Dancemania
Dancemania
Dancemania is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially eurodance. Despite its tracks have been made by various musicians from all over the world mainly from the European continent, the albums have been released exclusively in Japan.The...
s Speed
Dancemania Speed
Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania compilation series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released Dancemania albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs...
series, released by EMI Music Japan in 2005. The album features uptempo cover remixes of popular theme songs for various anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
works such as Dragon Ball Z, Slam Dunk
Slam Dunk (manga)
is a sports-themed manga series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shōhoku High School. It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996 and had also been adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation which had been broadcast worldwide,...
and Neon Genesis Evangelion. The successor, Anime Speed Newtype Edition, was released in 2006.
Tracks
# | Track | By | Length | Ref |
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1 | Cha-La Head-Cha-La CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA is the first opening theme song of the anime series Dragon Ball Z and is the fifteenth single by J-pop artist Hironobu Kageyama. It was released on vinyl, cassette, and mini CD on May 1, 1989 in Japan only. It is coupled with the first Dragon Ball Z closing theme "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!"... |
Lee Tairon | 2:59 | |
2 | Anata Dake Mitsumeteru | Yoko Kobayashi | 3:17 | |
3 | Hajimete no Chu | Luna | 2:58 | |
4 | Anpanman no March | Nuts | 2:58 | |
5 | Lum no Love Song | maruyamakumi | 2:17 | |
6 | A Cruel Angel's Thesis A Cruel Angel's Thesis -Additional versions:Since the song's initial release, many artists have covered the song. Heavy metal cover bands Animetal and EIZO Japan included the track on their albums Animetal Marathon V and EIZO Japan 2 respectively... |
Nuts | 2:36 | |
7 | Odoru Pompokolin | P*Smile | 2:46 | |
8 | Cutie Honey | HiNa | 3:11 | |
9 | Cat's Eye | Yoko Kobayashi | 3:17 | |
10 | Hohoemi no Bakudan | HiNa | 2:40 | |
11 | Sazae-san | P*Smile | 2:29 | |
12 | Ai o Torimodose!! | Lee Tairon | 2:51 | |
13 | Mononoke Hime | Forrest | 2:28 | |
14 | Doraemon no Uta | Luna | 2:25 | |
15 | Sally the Witch | Yoko Kobayashi | 1:30 | |
16 | Moonlight Densetsu | P+Nuts | 3:34 |
Further details
The non-stop mixingDJ mix
A DJ mix or DJ mixset is a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track. When a DJ mix or DJ mixset is recorded onto some medium, it is often referred to as a mix tape...
was done by George Suzuki.
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1 | Cha-La Head-Cha-La | Dragon Ball Z | Hironobu Kageyama Hironobu Kageyama is a Japanese musical artist prominent in the soundtracks for anime, video game, and tokusatsu productions. He is sometimes called Kami by his fans. Kageyama got his big break at age 16, as lead singer of the pop group Lazy. By the early '80s, the band split and Kageyama went solo... |
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2 | Anata Dake Mitsumeteru | Slam Dunk Slam Dunk (manga) is a sports-themed manga series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shōhoku High School. It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996 and had also been adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation which had been broadcast worldwide,... |
Maki Ohguro Maki Ohguro is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter. She is from Sapporo in Hokkaidō.- Introduction :In 1989, she passed the '3rd BAD' audition. Her famous songs are "DA・KA・RA", "Chotto", and so on... Her second single "DA・ka・RA" sold 1.1 million copies and won the 'Japan Record Grand Prix' newcomer award of... |
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3 | Hajimete no Chu | Kiteretsu Daihyakka Kiteretsu Daihyakka is a science fiction manga series by Fujiko Fujio which ran in the children's magazine Kodomo no Hikari from April 1974 through July 1977... |
Anshin Papa | |
4 | Anpanman no March | Soreike! Anpanman | Dreaming | |
5 | Lum no Love Song | Urusei Yatsura Urusei Yatsura is a comedic manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi that premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1978 and ran until its conclusion in 1987. Its 374 individual chapters were collected and published in 34 tankōbon volumes. The series tells the story of Ataru Moroboshi, and the alien... |
Yuko Matsutani | |
6 | A Cruel Angel's Thesis | Neon Genesis Evangelion | Yoko Takahashi Yoko Takahashi is a Japanese singer from Tokyo, perhaps best known for performing , the opening theme song of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. She also performs the closing theme, an "acid bossa" version of "Fly Me to the Moon" and , the closing theme of Evangelion: Death and Rebirth... |
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7 | Odoru Pompokolin | Chibi Maruko-chan Chibi Maruko-chan is a shōjo manga series by Momoko Sakura, later adapted into an anime TV series by Nippon Animation, which originally aired on Fuji Television from January 7, 1990 to September 27, 1992. The series depicts the simple, everyday life of a little girl nicknamed Maruko and her family in suburban... |
B.B.Queens B.B.Queens were a 1990s J-Pop band whose debut single "Odoru Pompokolin" was the #1 song in 1990 on the Oricon charts, won the 32nd Japan Record Awards, was listed as the 3rd song on the JASRAC lists for 1991, and certified as a Million Record.-Compilation albums:... |
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8 | Cutie Honey | Cutie Honey Cutie Honey is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Cutie Honey first appears on volume 41 of the 1973 edition of Shōnen Champion. According to Nagai, she is the first female to be the protagonist of a shōnen manga series.... |
Yoko Maekawa | |
9 | Cat's Eye | Cat's Eye | Anri Anri , real name , is a Japanese singer and singer-songwriter, born in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She has written much of her own music as well as singing songs written by others such as her debut release Oribia o Kikinagara, by Amii Ozaki... |
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10 | Hohoemi no Bakudan | YuYu Hakusho YuYu Hakusho is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. The name of the series is spelled YuYu Hakusho in the Viz Media manga and Yu Yu Hakusho in other English distributions of the franchise. The series tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi, a teenage delinquent who is struck and... |
Matsuko Mawatari Matsuko Mawatari is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She is known for having written "Hohoemi no Bakudan" , which is the opening theme for the YuYu Hakusho anime series.She also sang a few other songs from the same anime, such as:... |
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11 | Sazae-san | Sazae-san Sazae-san is a Japanese comic strip created by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the , on April 22, 1946. When the wished to have Hasegawa draw the comic strip for their paper, she moved to Tokyo in 1949 with the explanation that the main characters had moved from Kyūshū to... |
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12 | Ai o Torimodose!! | Fist of the North Star Fist of the North Star is a Japanese manga series written by Buronson and drawn by Tetsuo Hara that was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1983 to 1988, spanning 245 chapters, which were initially collected in a 27-volume tankōbon edition by Shueisha... |
Crystal King Crystal King (band) is a Japanese rock and kayōkyoku band. They gained commercial success with their debut single which sold 1.5 million copies, and are remembered in Japan for their performance of the first theme songs of Fist of the North Star: "Ai o Torimodose!!" and "Yuria..... |
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13 | Mononoke Hime | Princess Mononoke Princess Mononoke is a 1997 epic Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. is not a name, but a general term in the Japanese language for a spirit or monster... |
Yoshikazu Mela | |
14 | Doraemon no Uta | Doraemon Doraemon is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise... |
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15 | Sally the Witch | Sally the Witch | Three Graces | |
16 | Moonlight Densetsu | Sailor Moon Sailor Moon Sailor Moon, known as , is a media franchise created by manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. Fred Patten credits Takeuchi with popularizing the concept of a team of magical girls, and Paul Gravett credits the series with "revitalizing" the magical-girl genre itself... |
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