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| Hurricane Live 2032 | Hurricane Live 2033 |
Both Hurricane videos are essentially 20 minute music videos of one form or another. In Hurricane Live 2032, the music is all accompanied by various animation, all of it from the episodes until the last song. Thanks to Selena Santiago for mailing me with much more precise lists of where the video footage is taken from (for both tapes) than I was able to glean from watching the videos myself.This video opens to the same music and opening sequence that Tinsel City does. Following the opening credits, however, the first song begins.
- Konyawa Hurricane (There's a Hurricane Tonight): This song is the opening song to Tinsel City and the video cuts are mostly from Tinsel City, Born to Kill, and Blow Up. In the opening of the song, there is a description of the song just like there is in any standard music video. This song is officially by Priss and the Replicants, but it's also released by Genom Entertainment, which is a bit ironic, to my perspective.
- Mad Machine: This song is the opening to Born to Kill, and it contains animation from Born to Kill, Tinsel City, and Blow Up, with the emphasis on the first. Mad Machine is performed again by Priss and the Replicants.
- Kizudarake no Wild (Wild and Scarred): This song appears in Born to Kill, and the video contains animation from Tinsel City, Born to Kill, and Blow Up. I originally thought that it might have some images from Revenge Road and Scoop Chase as well, but apparently I was wrong. Kizudarake no Wild is performed by Priss and the Replicants as well.
- Victory: This video, performed by Priss and the Replicants, contains images and sequences mostly from Blow Up, with Tinsel City and Born to Kill making up the rest of the footage.
- Asu e Touchdown (Touchdown to Tomorrow): This video is my favorite of the Hurricane videos, even if the song isn't my favorite. The reason for this is that this video shows you each of the Knight Sabers as they were before Sylia recruited them individually, and none of the footage is ever available anywhere else in the series.
It starts with Priss, who was a bike ganger before her boyfriend was killed by someone shooting out of a car window. She is depressed for a while, then decides to take the law into her own hands, gets stopped by the ADP, drives off and appears to have an accident either as a result of or near to Sylia. Priss attacks Sylia, who seems to be unharmed by the incident, and that's Priss' recruitment.
Next we see Nene, miss red-headed hacker herself, sitting down in a room full of expensive computer equiptment, working on hacking something. We don't know what it is, until she has broken the encryption on some file which, lo and behold, contains an image of Sylia saying, in a parady of old USA recruitment posters, "I want you". And so Nene is recruited to the Knight Sabers.
Lastly, we see Linna, a dancer trying out for a show, and Sylia in the audience watching the tryouts. Linna, unfortunately, is not good enough for the show, but as she is collapsed on the stage floor, Sylia approaches her, and Linna becomes a Knight Saber too.
This video contains a lot of interesting footage, and is actually sung by the various voice actresses who lent thier voices to Priss, Sylia, Linna, and Nene. This video is also the only one on Hurricane Live 2032 which was not produced by Genom Entertainment, but rather Silky Doll Music.
Hurricane Live 2033 is a little bit different than Hurricane Live 2032, mostly because of the inclusion of real live footage of the voice actresses singing songs.
- Asu e Touchdown: This is a live version of the song, performed by the voice actresses on a stage in front of a live audience. I personally don't enjoy it all that much, although your mileage may vary.
- Crisis - Ikari o komete hashire (Crisis - Run with Anger): This song, sung by Tsubokura Yuiko and produced by Genom Entertainment, is the opening song for Revenge Road and the video animation to this one is almost exclusively from that episode. It fits well, and I enjoy this song very much, partly because of the techno sound it has.
- Akuma no Tenshi no Kiss (Devil and Angel's Kiss): This song is performed by the Knight Sabers and produced by Silky Doll Music, and if you listen closely you can hear each of the voice actresses lending thier voices to it. The animation accompanying the music is from a large number of episodes, possibly even all of them, but certainly Revenge Road, Moonlight Rambler, and Red Eyes.
- Say Yes!: This song is the opener to Double Vision, and it is sung by Vision and the Revengers (and produced by Hu Bang Musichips). It is partly live and on-stage with the voice actress for Vision, but not completely. There are some places where the animation (taken from Double Vision) is actually mixed with live footage, and it makes for some interesting video sequences. I like the song a lot, and this is the only one of the "live" songs I'm actually willing to sit through and not fast forward past.
- Bara no Soldier (Soldier of Roses): Another song sung by Tsubokura Yuiko, this song is set exclusively to music from Moonlight Rambler and Red Eyes. I like the song quit a bit as well, and the animation is fun.
- Rock Me: Again by Tsubokura Yuiko, this song is set to animation from Red Eyes, Moonlight Rambler, and Revenge Road.
- Jumping Heart: This is my least favorite song of both Hurricane videos, mostly because it is live singing again, and the singers are dressed like high schoolers, a fashion trend I didn't particularly enjoy even when it was in style, never mind 8 years later.
All in all, I would have loved a Hurricane video which contained all of Hurricane Live 2032, Crisis - Ikari o komete hashire, Akuma no Tenshi no Kiss, and Bara no Soldier, with Say Yes! thrown in for good measure. But I take what I can get and fast-forward over the rest.
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