HAGANE #3: Through the Night advance thoughts

The band HAGANE announced a new full-length album on August 29th, titled Through the Night, to come out in December, right when the new tour begins and goes up to February 19th, ending at Zepp DiverCity, Tokyo.

Recently, Sakura, guitarist and leader of the band, commented that she spent a whole dawn recording 15 guitar tracks. And also, a recent post from Sayaka(the bassist) also gives that impression, she said that they recorded new songs for the album and that she is looking forward to the release.

So, judging by that, and taking into account Top of the Tower, I think there will be one advance single(like Start Our Journey during ToTT) that will be part of Through the Night.

However, we also need to take into account earlier releases before the new lineup. Code ; 9021 had a few songs that were from EPs released before it, like SuperVillan and Labradorite. So, I think The Rising of the Shield(track 5 of Metal Quest), might make it to Through the Night. I may be wrong, though, they might choose Tsukikage or one of the advance singles that released before it.

I don't think any of the advance singles will make it, judging also by the first studio album(Code ; 9021), specially because there were no singles before it, only EPs. Besides, they never play the collabs in concerts, so I think basically the collabs are nothing in this case.

All that remains is to wait until the album releases and see what comes in it. I think we may also get a deluxe edition of Through the Night. The album comes out on December 12th, 2026.

HAGANE #2: The Band's Harsh Beginnings

In a DiskUnion video featuring Sakura(guitarist), she comments about the early years of HAGANE, and how complicated it was to produce a recorded concert.

What surprised me was that she was still using DVDs, as she said that it was what she had available. She had to encode videos with a very poor quality(to 2018/2019 standards) and she was the one who produced everything, there was no real team behind the band in the early years.

Sakura also mentioned that when they decided to sign up with Euclid, it was miles better to produce content for their fans with a team behind.

In the WintrySky music video, we can notice that, despite the song being produced well, they couldn't do much regarding people passing by, maybe thinking "Just some rocker girls recording a MV". In Japan, there are some specific rules regarding filming in public locations, I guess they did what they could back then. 

HAGANE #1

Two weeks ago, I received a HAGANE bluray in the mail, had bought it a week earlier.

Why do people like high school anime?

Hello, everyone.

My first post in english. I've seen this theme pop around X, on why people both in Japan and the west enjoy high school anime?

I've seen videos saying that in Japan, people watch that kind of anime due to being the golden years of any person in Japan. Some info seem to disprove that theory.

As for the west, people long for experiences they didn't have.

In western schools, the most a student gets is either a cheer squad(for girls) or football for boys in the US. In Brazil, the choices are even worse, it's either soccer or volleyball in Physical Education classes and inter-class tournaments.

Both american and brazilian schools don't have clubs, where you can enjoy a common activity like music, robotics(there is in Brazil, but those schools are EXPENSIVE), swimming and others. No computers in most public schools, nothing. It's hard to want to stay in school if you don't have something else to do than stay in class memorizing tons and tons of theory that you'll forget once you graduate.

Most governments forget that not everyone wants to be a physician, doctor, lawyer, soccer player or anything that uses a large part of the subjects taught in high school.

It gets even worse if you were an outcast, why would you want to remember bad times in school? I actually was a outcast and kept most things to myself, specially during my japanese music years(2005 to 2008 and returning now).

Not to mention costs for those who want to pursue those activities by themselves. Instruments are expensive as heck in some regions like Brazil(a guitar or a bass, even knockoffs, for example) and governments making things even worse by turning teaching a crime(china and Brazil).

I'll get deeper on that in another post, but, for now, costs are quite prohibitive for self-pursuit of a hobby like music or computers.

Anime let people immerse in that experience, while not really having lived that, same for music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band(it could teach guitar and bass, though).

Not to mention the many themes that can be explored and related to by anime studios, high school is a pretty good genre for all that.

Well, that's all for now.