Chiaki Ishikawa at AX explains a lot about Uninstall. And how Simoun’s production was full of girls.
Yea, some guy booted the audio from her show. To save you the trouble of having people yell into your ears by listening to that hour-long thing, here are some tidbits:
1. As an anisong singer (she explained what that was) she really got into it through Kajiura’s collab in Gundam Seed. Their partnership had a deep impact on her, it seems. She has been doing solo only a year or two.
2. Speaking of anisong singing, she wrote Uninstall in a way that people (in Japan) will recognize that it is an anisong. So, naturally, Ishikawa sang “a ni song, a ni song.” HAHAHAHA. You go girl. Only a song’s writer can mock the song’s fan the best? Oh, oops, I’m suppose to keep this secret! (Isn’t this on the internet already? But I bet not a recording of her singing just that…)
3. Which songs? Annaniisshodattanoni, Kimigaitamonogatari, Yasashiiyoake (she soloed), Uninstall, Utsukushiikerebasoredeii, Kimiwabokuniniteiru, and Obsession. Ugh @ Obsession. I hate this song. Well, I think she sang it better here than on the CD at the least…
4. She doesn’t do many lives at all. (Ugh)
5. I can use a picture of her costume? LOL.
Speaking of Uninstall, though, there’s also Ishikawa’s blog and it talks about that a bit (under 7/3). Among other things. For someone who saw the first Gundam series when she was little (I guess this is heading 6?), she’s a champ for toughing it out on this AX trip…and wow, that’d also make her someone who was inspired (well, maybe subconsciously) by it and ended up working on the franchise, even if probably unintentionally. It’s all up there.
July 6th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
She did Kimi ga ita Monogatari between Anna ni Issho Datta no ni and Yasashii Yaoke.
July 6th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Ah, thanks for the erratum.
July 7th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Also heard the audio. Eh, why is my memory of her anisong remarks different from yours? I liked the part where she added to not tell the Japanese that she laughed at them. Also how she sang “a-ni-song, a-ni-song!” sooo seriously. She sounded very likeable.
July 7th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
I’m not sure if I have a memory of such a thing. But yeah.
July 7th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Where is this Uninstall Redux I hear so much about? I want to hear it.
July 7th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Never mind. I found it.