Featuring
a complete collection of 236 vocal performance and image songs used throughout
the popular bishoujo series, a special Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Memorial
Music Box will be released later this month, courtesy of Nihon
Columbia records.
Bonus items
include a picture disc and image inserts, packaged with the 10 disc cd
box.
To give you an idea of how
much background music is on this CD set .. the booklet that comes with
the box is 200 pages long. The second half of the booklet is a list of
charts of all the background music from all 200 episodes and all the movies--one
chart for each episode and one chart for each movie. As far as I can tell
(again, limited knowledge of Japanese), every single piece of background
music that ever appeared in any portion of the anime is on these CDs.
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On the first CD, there is
one track to each snippet of background music. Since there's a lot of background
music, it ends up that the first disc has 60 tracks. It seems that they
got tired of this in subsequent discs, because every disc after the first
has several snippets of background music on each track, divided into subtracks.
So, while the first disc has 60 tracks, the remaining 9 discs each have
only about 30 tracks.
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There is a LOT of information
in this book. It's almost enough to make me learn Japanese so I can read
it all. There's an interview with some guy in the first 7 pages. The next
9 pages are various pictures from the anime. After that, pp. 16 to 102
is a detailed track by track description of every track in the box set.
Waa! I wish I could read Japanese! okay .. calm down .. Pages 104 to 123
list all the background music pieces on the CDs (remember, almost all of
the tracks are background music), in order of appearance on the anime.
For each piece of background music, they list the title of the episode
that it first appeared on, and the CD-track-subtrack that contains it.
Finally, pp. 123 to 200 contain a listing of all the background music all
4 (or 5, depending on how you count them) movies and all 200 episodes,
sorted by episode number.
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