Music & Audio
Links to sites about music and drama CDs. This page overlaps with the rest of the site.
Jump to:
- Info & Sheet Music
- Audio Dramas
- Lyrics (excludes anything in ‘Info’ or ‘Audio Dramas’)
- Get Music! (excludes anything already mentioned)
Info & Sheet Music
- In addition to its own extensive collection of sheet music, Josh has a master list of transcribed anime songs on the net.
- News, reviews and interviews.
- THE J-ROCK SAGA! (not being updated)A fairly comprehensive site focusing on visual kei bands, with a really cute Vidoll minisite. Also has wallpapers.
- Unofficial and thorough Kimeru fansite. It has lyrics, and info on CDs, appearances and concerts.
- Morning Scene (dead)A guide to Japanese music in North America. If you want to find out what concerts are coming your way, this is a great resource.
- Information about Japanese voice actors and actresses, often includes obscure work.
- Info on OSTs and OP/ED singles, drama CDs and the like.
- An excellent reference on Asian pop culture. Artist and album info, tidbits, and song translations.
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Audio Dramas
- A wiki for drama CDs. Leans towards shoujo and boys love CDs but also has some shounen. Contains BL.
- Saiyuki, Bus Gamer, and Prince of Tennis translations, including manga, drama CDs, skits, character songs, and interviews.
- Aya no Weiß kreuz Corner (not being updated)A Weiss Kreuz fansite. There’s scans, some translations paired with raws, CD info, and translations of the first two drama CDs and pre-Tagesanbruch lyrics. The site has a few broken links.
- Information on shounen-ai and yaoi manga, doujinshi, novels, drama CDs. Contains BL.
- An Ouran Koukou Host Club fansite, for the manga / anime by Hatori Bisco! Very up-to-date, with character info, anime info, raw scans, fanstuff, and media downloads – including drama CDs.
- Gakuen Alice site with anime, manga and radio drama downloads.
- A detailed fan site for the voice actor Miyano Mamoru (Ouran, Death Note, Gundam 00), with downloads.
- Saiyuki and Araiso Executive Committee/Wild Adapter song and drama CD translations.
- Hope Forlorn (down?)Weiss Kreuz manga, music and drama CD translations. There are also anime summaries, fan works, and downloads. Contains BL.
- Kimihiro.net (not being updated)xxxHOLiC fansite. The media section has audio drama and music downloads.
- J-pop and Junjou Romantica–related translations. Also sports reviews and downloadable drama CDs, music, and manga raws. Contaings BL.
- A comprehensive and well-organized CD catalog that is easy to search and updated often with new CDs. Littered about the site are song downloads. Also lots of Prince of Tennis On the Radio info.
- Translations for popular shoujo anime themes, character songs, and drama CDs.
- Info and reviews for boys’ love drama CDs, manga, and novels. Contains BL.
- theria.net (not being updated)Translations of the Yami no Matsuei manga, and also of Yoroiden Samurai Troopers songs and drama CDs.
- Tokyo Crazy Paradise (not being updated)A tribute to the series by Nakamura Yoshiki. Includes profiles for all the characters, translations for the entire series and the drama CD, a mini dictionary and images. An awesome site for an awesome series.
- Prince of Tennis lyric translations, as well as translations for Prince of Tennis On the Radio, the radio show that refuses to bow to canon.
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Lyrics
- Probably still the place for lyrics and translations for anime, J-pop and game songs. (Since this site operates on user submissions, a few of the older translations aren’t good.)
- Plethora of translated J-pop/rock lyrics. Reviews and other things can be found here (under “Retired Projects”).
- One of the largest online collection of J-pop lyrics (romaji and some translations).
- Romaji and some translations. Older site.
- This site has lots of seiyuu goodies. It has a BitTorrent tracker and translated lyrics. There's also a seiyuu calendar with birthdays, CD release dates, radio air dates, and the like. A sub-site to check out is Aural Sex, with plenty of seiyuu media love.
- Translations of visual kei songs. Dir en grey translations can be found in the subsite “tattered cloth”; other bands can be found in “invasion dream”.
- Lyrics translations, mostly anime and mostly by female artists.
- Weiss Side B shrine, with raw scans and summaries. There’s also translated lyrics for the album “Tagesanbruch”.
- Extensive site with lyrics romanizations and translations. Also has a good links section.
- Lev’s Lair (closed)Gundam Wing fic, fanart, lyrics (nicely sorted) and official character screensavers. Contains BL.
- morningbear (requires LiveJournal account)Lyric translations (mostly BL-related), seiyuu profiles, and reviews of BL novels and drama CDs. Contains BL.
- A collective of sites, including manga and lyrics translations and image galleries.
- A mock Prince of Tennis fanzine. There’s a large lyrics archive, screencaps, doujinshi scanlations, and fanfiction.
- Translations of Kara no Teikoku, Gururi, Kodomo no Niwa, Kaguya Hie, Kaze Hikaru, Koucha Ouji, Mahou o Shinjiru kai? and various manga snippets. Also has translations of the BBS posts which started the Densha Otoko phenomenon and various J-pop songs.
- CLAMP manga translations, lyrics and fan creations.
- Manga translations and reviews, mostly BL, and doujinshi reviews, mostly BL. Also has lyrics translations and a tribute to V6. Contains BL.
- Manga and lyrics translations, synopses, pics and essays.
- Anime and game lyrics translations.
- Yoko Kanno Database (dead)A site on the composer Yoko Kanno, whose work includes Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Arjuna. This site has news, discography, lyrics, info on some of the singers she works with, and other stuff.
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Get Music!
Remember to support the artist and buy the CD!
Rotations
Dead Rotations
These dead rotations all still have files up, so have a go!
Permament & Semi-Permament
- Aarinfantasy (requires registration)Other than being great BL scanlators and fansubbers, they have an extensive collection of downloads on their forum. Contains BL and mature content.
- Anime OSTs (requires registration)An extensive library of anime themes, soundtracks, and character songs.
- Gankutsuou de Monte Cristo (in French)Hosting the Gankutsuou soundtrack.
- Gendou (requires registration)An extensive submission-based database of anime music, with some lyrics thrown in.
- Japanese music audio and video downloads.
- Theme songs from selected anime, updated once in a blue moon. Also check out the bittorrent tracker for Nipponsei, Azn-MP3, and company.
- A submission-based database of Nico Nico Douga medleys and remixes. Click “Toggle Grouping” at the top of the table to switch between sorting by file name and sorting by medley/genre, or click “Date” or “DLs” to sort by those.
- SENTIVE Level of Out Sound (in Japanese)Free music from indie game music group SENTIVE.
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