Comments on: Sea of Miracles – Lodoss vs Vocaloid

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:58:11 +0000

Thankyou for this article - I've become quite addicted to the Vocaloid versions, so much so that I've ripped to MP3 and will add to my normal music playlists.

Something about the electronic voices clearly appeals to me (although I see it doesn't to the people above).

By: silvver

silvver — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:42:06 +0000

usually I like miku songs, but this one is horrible...
The original version >>>>> all.
The rest are just offence for Lodoss - the great, fantasy anime.

By: unico

unico — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:01:16 +0000

Origial - lovely

Miku - i was prepared for that squeaky "kawaii modo" version. but i am surprised, its quite nice.

Rin and Ren - still not fond of these Vocaloids, especially Ren. it was alright though. who ever did this, managed to make them sound good and balanced in tone.

5 Vocals - too robotic when they go at once.
it sounds pretty for a while

Ama English - she did pretty good, she has a nice tone, but didnt seem to hold notes very well.

By: Djisas

Djisas — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:49:08 +0000

Mayaa is the best, ive know this song for a while, ive listened to it many times...

I found Miku to be interesting, being my first time listening to a virtual idol, i think she is quite good, a little synthetic but sounds good, a little to close to mayaa's voice...

The duo wasnt quite bad either...

The quintet sucked, it doesn't sound good to me, save for the art it is bad...

As for the English it might be the worst, hate dubs, specially English dubs and this is really awful...

By: Crys

Crys — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:07:01 +0000

I was never a big fan of Kiseki no Umi. though that may have been because the B-side to that single was Active Heart, which is one the most stellar performances that young Maaya could ever afford

By: kadian1364

kadian1364 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:50:31 +0000

Youko Kanno and Maaya Sakamoto can write and sing all of my anime OPs as far as I'm concerned.

By: Parn

Parn — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:06:30 +0000

I've heard Maaya's version so many times that any other version just doesn't sound right to me. Lodoss OVA also had a pretty nice OP song too~

By: nckl

nckl — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:05:16 +0000

This OP song is one of my all-time favourites. Too bad the Lodoss TV series sucked major monkey balls. If I had to pick the best one, it'd be Maaya's version by far. Hatsune Miku's version wasn't actually that bad, but still sounded too electronic-y sounding for me. The Rin & Ren and quintet versions were so brutal I stopped listening after 10 seconds. The English wasn't that bad, but I probably would've enjoyed it more if it was mixed better. And that's my 2 cents.

By: Kageryu

Kageryu — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:51:40 +0000

Hmm...Miku's is great, but I'm going to have to side with Maaya.

However, my favorite is listening to them both at the same time, Maaya and Miku make a great duet team haha.

By: pmhoa

pmhoa — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:13:45 +0000

english one sounds very nice :D

By: AsakuraZero

AsakuraZero — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:18 +0000

miku voice its ok, but her voice its way too deep for the song, the continuity of the words are well made too, they need to do a v2 of that song on miku imo.

and the original its good too, hard to compete with, even miku have a hard one with her

By: techno_newt

techno_newt — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:06:31 +0000

I like them all except the one sung by the twins. The ameteur one is pretty good.

By: Saouri

Saouri — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:32:02 +0000

Maaya all the way! Sorry, but i'm an old fashioned otaku girl that grow up in the 80's, so i don't like so much all the virtual idols business. I prefer her voice over thousands of Miku's, Rin's, Ren's and others. So, this is the idea you have in the other thread, about stylish openings? Lodoss is amazing, not only the story and characters, the music is so great. For the tv series and the ovas. Greetings ;)