Eterna Musik (えてるなむじーく) is a comparatively old doujin circle led by Kotono. The circle formed in 2000, but some of their songs were written in late 90's. This was in an age where doujin music wasn't that widespread: the new Touhou series and Vocaloid, two franchises that did some heavy boost to the doujin music scene, were still years away. I'm not particularly well-knowledged about that era, but based on what I've read I think Key arranges and other moe songs were popular those days: Kanon and Air were released in 1999 and 2000, respectively. These two games must have been very influential at that time.  Continue reading

How does one obtain music in the year 2020 AD? Nowadays you can buy or download pretty much all kind of music, streaming services like Spotify and Deezer or even Jejtube are popular as they offer an enormous repository of diverse music. But what about doujin music? Those are still mostly distributed as CDs and released in limited quantities. There are but a few people whose interest is to upload and share new releases, but they releases aren't everlasting and something is bound to be lost over time. This blogpost is to describe the suffering I went through and to show how hard is nowadays to obtain old content from the internet. The subject of my "experiment" is an album titled Girl's Talk from Nomiya Ayumi's (野宮あゆみ) and Rakuno Yue's (楽乃由重) doujin circle, honey☆bitter,anima; released at C76. I plan on writing a post about Ayumi's career, because she has some other equally obscure works, too.  Continue reading