#Ending songs hanamaru kindergarten series#
#Ending songs hanamaru kindergarten tv#

that leads to more kindergarten wailings before we break into a more soft-rock oriented effort which for some reason I can picture Miku Hatsune singing. From here, track two couldn't be more different, with its operatic start and piano solo. It's to be expected, but thank goodness they chose to ruin this track and not one of the better offerings.

#Ending songs hanamaru kindergarten tv#

Meanwhile, the show's bouncy opening theme only appears in its TV size variant (translation: buy the single, otaku!), while all of the show's incidental music is thrown almost without regard onto CD two, almost hiding the fact that there's also some pretty good stuff in there as it is, with orchestral stuff jammed against cutesy stuff sandwiched between twee but oddly subversive electronica.īack to CD one however, and things kick off with a pretty bouncy and run-of-the-mill effort almost entirely ruined by the cutesy kindergarten out of key singing of the main trio of female characters. at least, so I was told in my formal warning debriefing. It isn't pretty to see a grown man wandering around the office at work singing 'Pa-pa, pa-pa, panda neko'. Okay, before we get to the 'serious' stuff, let me just say this - Do not listen to track fourteen, a rendition of the show's Panda Neko song, unless you want said cutesy refrain from becoming irretriveably stuck in your head, possibly forever. Thankfully that dream has been realised, courtesy of this two-CD 'Childhood Memories' album, the first disc of which gives all of those ending themes the loving platform they deserve.

#Ending songs hanamaru kindergarten series#

Anyone who has seen my review of Hanamaru Kindergarten over at UK Anime will know that I wasn't hugely enamoured of the series in itself - However, I couldn't help but be drawn in by the wide-ranging and varied ending credits employed by GAINAX, all of which had a unique visual aesthetic that was matched by a staggering array of musical panache, including some tracks that left me gasping and scrabbling at my screen in the hope of being able to hear these tracks in their entirety sooner rather than later.