BUDDHA2 theme song 'Pray' composed by Kunio Tago, track to be released in Spring
 

http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000095528

This is going to be an AMAZING ballad. Cannot wait.

Kunio Tago's credits include...
SCAR
Key ~eternal tie ver.~
Together When...
untitled ~for her~
Days
petal
SAKURA

Omg.. something new from ayu.

cant wait to hear the song

OMG!!!!!!

Spring?? We'll have to wait until spring to listen to the ballad? Makes no sense, why not release it as a winter ballad? lol (just because it's a theme song?)

The movie doesn't release until February but we will probably get previews soon. The first movie was out in May 2011 but previews for the song were out about 5-6 months before in the early Winter.

Also, Ayu usually tends to release stuff soon after the movie/game/TV show comes out, so I'd assume March/April is when we'll get a CD.

OMG!!!!! I want new song, cannot wait for "Pray"!!!!!
Hope she will release new album soon

Spring?
Ok
I'll wait

Yayeahheyahhh!!!!

Simple title but fascinating.

is it BUDDHA2? arts by Osamu Tezuka???
about Gautama Buddha?

woow~ very fantastic anime! very religious...
i hope 「Pray」is a ballad song, calm song...

Yes, Buddha from Osamu Tezuka. There will be 3 movies in total. I wonder who will do the third!

Whoohoo! I hope thiw will be awesome not to mention the tie-in, it should be epic!

Not crazy about having to wait until spring, but maybe we'll get something else between now and then? Or she'll perform it at the CDL or something? Ahhh this is gonna be such a hard wait.

I'm super excited though. Kunio Tago has some solid ballads under his belt!

Yeah, CDL is probably where she'll debut a lot of the new songs like that Englishy one and Pray.

IRC, he did make some songs for Ayu. Do you guys remember which one?

I don't think we could get something earlier. I think she wants to release a full album in spring.

And what happened with the forum?
Before when we got news like this, there were like 20 pages of comments.

Sorry for my english :(

People are busy, haha.

...and soon after that, we will have a new album.

Yeah, I'm assuming springtime is when we'll get a new full album.

Im excited!!!!!!!!!!!! New tie-in :D

finally!! news for a new song!! :D

so it is confirmed to be a ballad?

cool!

awesome, can't wait to hear this song!

lol the only 2 ballads from him i kinda liked was Days and Together when.... i'm not expecting anything good at all right now...

I totally love petal und SAKURA from him. Not too fond of the rest as I can see.
I'm curious how this new song will sound, though at the moment I don't expect big things.

I'm glad we have some news ^^

Bah.

Spring?

hmph.

Considering her last anime tie up (no more words) is one of my most favorite songs, this one has a lot to live up to! haha But I hope to get previews soon.

Although with the movie being released in February... I don't see how this is going to be a spring release? Unless they hold out on releasing the song... that'd be weird though. We'll see~



Oh. This doesn't mean spring.

I mean... it does... but it refers to what Japan calls January February and March.

I love Kunio, he's a freaking genious. I'm looking forward to yet another masterpiece.

I'm really excited about this, I just wished the release wouldn't be so far away =P

All of Kunio's compositions are musical masterpiecs, non of them are in my least favorite ballads list, but on the contrary.

hm, I don't what to feel about this... I reeeally love SCAR and Together When, the other songs he composed are kinda 'meh' for me.

this is awesome!!! i hope it has an enka taste with japanese instruments like part of Me *--*

I'm here for..

SCAR
Together When...
untitled ~for her~
Days

If it sounds anything like SAKURA or Petal i'll give this release ZERO love.

/\ This :yes

"Pray" is a really nice title & i can't wait to hear the song! :)

Happiness

A long time to wait. But... I'm glad, she makes a new Ballad. Looking forward to it.

It's not confirmed, but Kunio Tago seems to exclusively do ballads and the last BUDDHA theme song was a sweeping epic ballad, so I'm assuming that it'll be one.

I think this is typical for Ayu tie ups isn't it?

-> CM/movie/TV show comes out in X month
-> CD comes out 1-2 months later

Honestly, all of Kunio's work with Ayu has been very solid. Even SAKURA/petal are great!

oh god...please let this be a sweeping epic ballad!

an epic rock ballad~ pleaseeee!

So looking forward to next year :luv2 I wonder if her tours from now on will have the old routines again.

I'm just excited about the possibility of a new album while I'm here. :) As far as the song goes, I love pretty much every other song Kunio has composed, especially Days, petal, and SAKURA. I hope it will sound similar to those songs and not like progress or Song for u (her most recent tie-ins).

The story for BUDDHA is very different from what you'd expect from the Tales series (which is more like yay save the world anime-type deals). The manga is very much about Buddha's spiritual journey so I'd expect something kinda like HEAVEN perhaps and not like progress or Song 4 u

Here's the last movie's theme song.



It's very pretty imo.

SINGLE HOPEFULLY <3

He's composed some of her best (SCAR, Key, Days, Together When) and some of her eh... I have high hopes though.

At first I didn't get Buddha is THAT Buddha from the manga genius Osamu Tezuka. Omg, I'm so excited!

since it's an anime about Buddha, i hope ayu write something very spiritual and soulful and philosophical in the lyrics, something like maybe Forgiveness?

can't wait for the new release!

Gosh, I'm quite uncomfortable with this... My thoughts - the movie title and the song title compared to my beliefs make me think I'm in some kind of opposition...

i expect a PV like BALLAD or part of Me

I really need something really powerful like Together When again >< I miss that style so much

Hope something like part of me or dearest

finally we have something new!

I hope the song will be just as great as this~

Really happy to see we will get something new soon, even though Spring is so far way...
Can't wait already! Hoping for an epic rock ballad!

I want SCAR pt II.
Not another cheesy ballad, her discography has too many of those!

Yes and yes. This would sweep me off my feet.

This is amazing news! Finally something original and new from Ayu to look forward to :) Can't wait!!

As long as it's not a blunder like Love Again, I don't mind.

LOVE again was not in any way, shape, or form anything close to a blunder.

^I also wouldn't describe it as a blunder. It has pretty deep, memorable songs.

Can everyone just like, get over SCAR? Lol. It's not that good. I feel like if she released something similar today it'd be labeled as filler. The song isn't bad, but the arrangement was rather lackluster. Fits well in that album though.

I agree, Party Queen would be the blunder

Scar's arrangement is lackluster? filler? You must be still blinded by your love for Days to see Scar for the beautiful, haunting and tragic song that it is that doesn't need a crazy arrangement to stand apart!

A song for a spiritual movie is her forte! She better not screw this up and release anything related to you & me!

Chill out, I didn't say it was a bad song. It's just dated sounding. Which isn't bad, but Duty is 1 million times better. The song that is. The arrangement isn't bad, and I might have chosen a rather strong word to express my feelings regarding the arrangement, but hearing the melody in my head, I feel as if the song could be something grandeur had there been an alternate arrangement that helped propel that chorus even further.

And speaking on terms of Party Queen vs. LOVE again: Party Queen had reminds me, which is a total trump card, and therefor owns LOVE again.

The Bye-bye darling/snowy kiss combi could potentially kick reminds me's butt though. I love the entire album but that section is particularly strong. I love Party Queen as well, but I think as a whole, LOVE again trumps it slightly thanks to the strength of the mini tracks in addition to the album tracks while a select few of Party Queen's tracks, partially because it was 100% new songs, were a little wonky but still good. (That midtempo section in PQ is glorious though)

I like Party Queen better mostly becauase of the rock section.

opinions... opinions... SCAR is among my all time favorite Ayu songs, so, yeah, I'm not getting over it any time soon ;)


Out of all songs he did for Ayu, I just don't care so much about SAKURA... And I'm seriously over Days, it's a great song, but I'm tired of it now :dead2 (I'm one of the few that always preferred GREEN tbh)


I personally think LOVE again is one of her weakest albums (if not the weakest out of her full albums). The songs are good, but the combination of them in the album gets... boring? I'm not so found of it as a whole, but I do like the individual songs quite a lot though.
I love Party Queen, it's way better than LOVE again imo :D

very excited 'bout this

Thats your personal opinion dear, that doesn't mean we all should think SCAR stinks. I love it, and I don't think the arrangement is lackluster. I don't mind if you don't like it (everyone is entitled to their own opinion) but telling people to "get over SCAR" is unnecessary, makes you look bad and it all reeks of the "I don't like it so I don't want anyone else to like it either!"-attitude.

oh wow.
isnt those movies and manga a big thing in Japan?
And Ayumi singing the theme. cool

Lol I suppose you're right. It's a decent song, I just never understood the passion people have for it. I don't find it particularly unique, so when fans say they'd like to hear something similar, I don't understand what something similar would be.

That's my exact opinion about these three songs! Although Days has the advantage of being a nostalgic seasonal song, so it's a must during Winter. But GREEN has always been, like, hundred times better for me!
And I've never been to fond of SAKURA. It's nice, but it's way too easy. I just feel they didn't work at all on the verses, they just focused on the chorus (which is awesome, but a song can't count on the chorus only).

Really looking forward to it~

yeah. this song is AMAZING. if it's something like this i'll definitely be in love with it forever <3

I feel like LOVE again sort of shares that 'issue' with MY STORY with a lot less Yukumi in the album.

LOL NO. as much as I love SAKURA, i hope it does not have this random song feeling actually as much as that song reminds me of SAKURA, SAKURA is still 100 times better. so i hope not....


I never really understood the obsession with scar, maybe because it just sounds bland to me, it's not bad but, i just don't see as something amazing either. I'd rather take Will or theme of a-nation.

^ For me, in addition to the amazing soothing feeling of the song, it just feels very, VERY personal. The entire Duty album was very personal, but there's something about SCAR where Ayu sounds so sincere and emotional. It's hard to explain, but for me at least, SCAR is so much more than just the song itself.

But I can understand that people find it boring, it isn't full of excitement like a lot of her other songs.

My 'love' for SCAR faded away when petal came. I think these songs are similair to each other; arrangement, emotion whatever. Because of my dislike to petal I couldn't listen to SCAR anymore. It's such a shame.

But, on the other hand. Key and Together When... are amazing. Eventhough I am not fond of all Kunio Tago's songs, I bet Pray is going to be a pretty song! I cannot wait.

Honestly, I think a lot of the LOVE again tracks will eventually grow on people. I mean people warmed up to Party Queen fairly recently, so I am guessing with a relisten later on down the line, LOVE again will get love too. It's happened so far with like every Ayu album ever.

People are even praising Five...

In some years people will be all like "Aw! This album sucks, bitch should release something like Party queen instead of this crap" :P

But I love MY STORY and find LOVE again boring. I think because the less in-your-face songs on MY STORY over time became nostalgic and that's why I'm drawn to them now. They represent an era. But what MY STORY's strong tracks are ridiculously strong, compared to LOVE agains supposed strong tracks. I only feel like Wake me up and Missing really reached their full potential out of the songs on that album. Gloria was nice as well. Bye bye darling is way to repetitive and dull for my tastes. The chorus is like the same few bars in repeat.

After looping the album several dozen times over, I think that the album is pretty strong. I didn't listen to the album until about August of this year so going into it, I wasn't really sure how it'd turn out after the first few listens. However, it lacks punchy tracks though, which I expect to be around for the next album hopefully after two full albums with mainly medium/rock elements.

i think the biggest problem with loveagain is composition there is huge gap and lacking in the transitions between the verses and chorus, that ruined the album for me because of the obvious gap. on top of that ayus vocals were not consistently the same it was obvious that there was a huge vocal difference between the mini albums and the album tracks, plus her vocals were super croaky in the album tracks. some of the lyrics on the album was rehashed and not exciting. I personally loved every single album by ayumi ( even a song for xx and party queen) but this album was her weakest vocally, instrumentally, production wise, and lyrically. I hope she releases a better album. But on the bright side every singer has a bad album and in my opinion this is the only one out of all her albums.

I love all of her albums (eventually) and I don't think any of them could ever really be said to be the 'worst' of a bunch for me. For what it is, I think LOVE again is a really solid album that gets far too much flack partly due to the Maro and mini-album fiasco.

What? I absolutely adore MY STORY, one of my top favorite album of hers! I'll never understand why so many people think it's weak :(

I REALLY wanna see the day this will happen!! :laugh
I love Party Queen so much :heart

I never said the issue was that MY STORY was weak, but it has a similar feel to LOVE again. It has a major amount of midtempo tracks and ballads and I fall asleep most times when I try to listen to MY STORY all the way through. It's her longest album ever, I think, unless Love songs is a bit longer...?

I LOVE LOVE again. I listen to tracks from it nearly every day. I personally don't think it's at all boring- simple maybe, but beautiful. And her voice sounds lovely on nearly every track.

This movie sounds like it calls for something akin to Will or maybe a less dark BRILLANTE. I can't wait!

Albums by lenght:

MY STORY 74:18
RAINBOW 71:42
LOVEppears 70:47
A Song for xx 70:38
I Am... 70:35
Love songs 67:29
(miss)understood 66:32
LOVE again +- 65:00
Rock'n'Roll Circus 62:08
GUILTY 56:00
Secret 55:29
Party Queen 53:04
Duty/NEXT LEVEL 51:45

Oh, I included the bonus SEVEN DAYS WAR in the Love songs total.

But it wasn't present in all versions, was it?
Anyway, with the longest version of Seven Days War, yes, it is the longest.

I've been back and forth between looping LOVE again/FIVE/Party Queen and they all really hold up well. Even when I go back to an older album like Memorial address or (miss)understood. Maybe not Memorial address though.

Yay, new song! Sounds promising~

I wasn't saying specifically about your comment, sorry, it's just that it seems to be a general opinion, so many find it weak :(
I personally don't find MY STORY to be boring at all, it's completely different from LOVE again imo
Oh well, opinions...

I don't really care about the length, but my absolute favorite Ayu album actually happens to be Love songs with the SEVEN DAYS WAR bonus track, so YAY for super long albums! :D
On the other hand, my top favorites also include Party Queen and Duty that are among the shortest... I actually don't even notice the length while listening :laugh

I also love Scar - it's all about the piano and guitar solo!

:love key, together when and days are on my top list among Ayu songs
can't wait

Next spring? That late? By that time it would be 16th anniversary?

Speaking of LOVE again, did fans like Melody? That and Wake me up are the only songs I cottoned on to.

Melody got a lot of love eventually. It's stunning. It's a real standout on that album.

It reminds me of TO BE and YOU. I love when she channels that era, as with crossroad.

sounds like it will be amazing

https://twitter.com/TAGOOOOO

Kunio Tago's Twitter has a few little details about his work on songs lately... wonder which one is for Ayu?