30 Days of DCMK: Day 15

[ninthfeather]

 

Favorite Opening: Ai no Scenario by CHiCO feat. HoneyWorks (Magic Kaito 1412 OP 2)

 

The imagery in this opening is pretty–my feelings about the Kaito Corbeau storyline aside, I really like the way they use the black-and-white mirror imagery, the scenery shots are lovely, and the little bit with Aoko and Kaito passing on the staircase is pretty lovely too.  That said, I really mostly love it for the song.  I am a Vocaloid geek and I knew HoneyWorks before I ever heard about the anime–I was pretty fond of some of their stuff, especially “Inokori Sensei,” though I liked “Friday’s Good Morning” pretty well too.  I was interested, if a little nervous, to see what they’d do with an anime opening, since it was pretty different than the type of songs they would usually make (happy-bouncy romantic story songs), but when I heard it I felt really silly for ever worrying. It fit both into HoneyWork’s body of work and the requirements of an anime opening and works well as an opening song and as an independent single. HoneyWorks even went through the trouble to make and post online a slightly altered arrangement that utaites/cover artists could use to make covers (the alterations were so the record label wouldn’t remove covers for copyright reasons).  Gotta love the Vocaloid producers.