[Article] ayu and "Tales of Xillia" theme song

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by DA1SUK1DAY01691

Wouldn't it be funny if they made her play the game first so she can write the song for it? Kind of like how artists usually get to view movies before they start on its theme song, you know? Hahaha.

Nah, but seriously, it's most likely a new single written for the game; whether it'll be her leading track or coupling track is a totally different story, but I think it's highly likely it'll be a new track. The only recut track (correct me if I'm wrong) is Secret for that Chinese movie (which I'm assuming was recut on budget restraints). I'm not entirely sure on Depend on you's situation, but I'm pretty sure Startin' was written for Onimusha or at least inspired by it. Then we also have HEAVEN and Rule, both written for the movies SHINOBI and DBZ.

I only really recognize GIRL NEXT DOOR's track, but that alone makes me excited to see if maybe it'll be like a lead single for Ayu's trance album.

She isn't going to play the game, she could just read the script Startin' really doesn't seem as if it were inspired by Onimusha, but that's just me. Ayu did get to read the DBE script prior to writing Rule though.

[Ranma Matsuri]

Originally Posted by freedreamer

Games looking good! But surely for ps3...the graphics would be better right? I'm so happy to see Ayu' name hahaha...it's like, a new person watching would find it totally random haha

I was wondering that myself. I haven't played any Tales games though I've heard of them but I thought they'd have better graphics than that especially since it's Namco.

[AyumiAi]

Originally Posted by freedreamer

Games looking good! But surely for ps3...the graphics would be better right?

A bit of the charm of Tales of... series is its cute anime inspired graphics, so they will be more defined, but they will never be like FF XIII graphics because their not meant to be that realistic
SO EXCITED FOR THIS i love tales of games and to have ayu singing the theme song is amazing!

[legends_asallas]

Depend on you was apparently based on the storyline of Wild Arms, they told her about the game and she wrote based on that apparently. It wouldn't surprise me if it had something to do with the theme of the game. The theme of Tales of Graces was "mamoritai" and was reflected in BoA's song.

[Kazuo]

Originally Posted by HTMSD

What appears to be the first scan for Tales of Xillia has just leaked, via Famitsu. This scan gives us our first look at two of the characters, as well as revealing quite an interesting choice in the character designers for the title.

Tales of Xillia, PS3, Sony, Namco Bandai The game will utilize the contrast between light and shadow, which will lead to the game having a different art style direction than Vesperia's anime-style graphics or Graces's watercolor-style graphics (it could be more of a hand-painted or oil painting-like feel if the concept artwork is any indication). Baba stated that when he saw some of the concept artwork images running on actual hardware he was very impressed.

There are two characters shown on the scan. The male character is named Jude Mathis, voiced by Yonaga Tsubasa and is designed by Fujishima. The female character is named Mira Maxwell, voiced by Sawashiro Miyuki and is designed by Mutsumi Inomata. The theme song is by Ayumi Hamasaki, with no name given. As expected, a vague "2011" release date was given for the title.

so, this is the 3rd time her song is used on a game xDD~
1st is Thousand Arms (Depend on you)
2nd is Shin Onimusha (startin')
3rd is Tales of Xillia (?????)

Their is also a Ayu's song in Shenmue 2 called Ever free.

[Raiu-Ayu]

^I don't remember ever free being in Shenmue II?? X_X

[truehappiness]

Maybe someone watched an AMV with it?

[behwatch]

Wow thanks for the news!

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

I could see November being the theme song, but a new single would be nice

[Bigtop]

Either it could be one of the songs from "Love songs", or maybe a new single could be in the works...

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

^^Obviously. Was there ever a third option...?

Lol, I'm betting it's a new single.

[Kazuo]

Originally Posted by Raiu-Ayu

^I don't remember ever free being in Shenmue II?? X_X

I have not played it for a long time but I think it is when you go collecting fire wood and ryo is standing on the edge of the cliff and some sort of bird flying around in the cut scene.

[legends_asallas]

Originally Posted by Pieces_of_SEVEN

I could see November being the theme song, but a new single would be nice

I couldn't, the theme of Xillia is "collaboration" and working together, so like, I don't think November fits.

[HTMSD]

updated with some news if you interested~

[freedreamer]

omg just saw the first post!..she looks SO GREAT in that video conf screencap hahaha
so any idea when's the game released...Im guessing later half of 2011

[Bigtop]

I might keep an eye out on this!

[truehappiness]

Thanks for the updates, HTMSD!

[toniayu]

thanks for the updates ^_^

[Mirrorcle World ～longing future～]

December 15th 2010

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そして馬場プロデューサーが、会社と長い時間の交渉を要したと苦労を語ったのがタイアップアー ティスト。会 場でメッセージビデオが上映されるとともに、主題歌を歌うのが浜崎あゆみさんになることが明ら かにされた。 浜崎さんに主題歌を依頼した理由として、「浜崎さんの曲はいつも強いテーマがあり、若い人にそ れが届く」と 話していた馬場プロデューサー。ゲームに関する膨大な資料を用意し、浜崎さんとも朝の5：00 や6：00に 電話で打ち合わせながら、ようやく曲の完成が見えてきた状態にあるという。


▲ゲームのことを事前に聞いて、「自分なりのメッセージを伝えられる曲を作りました」と話す浜崎 さん。『テ イルズ オブ』スタッフの表現したいこと、浜崎さんの表現したいこと、その2つが1つになった曲を早く 聴きたいとこ ろだ。
(source : http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/329/329560)

so happy for see her there ^

I'm too exciting!! can't wait for the game's release day!!
thank you for those updates

[AyUmIXx]

it's also been confirmed thru this news

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201012/15036891.html