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Does anyone sell anime karaoke disks?




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cephelotron



Joined: 08 Oct 2006
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Location: White Oak, Tx
PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:57 pm Reply with quote
A few of my friends and I are pretty avid karaoke singers and I've been wanting to bust out some anime stuff whenever we go out, but can't for the life of me find anyone that makes or sells karaoke cds with anime themes. I was wondering if anyone knows of any company that sells these, or if they even exist.
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Manwards



Joined: 26 Jul 2009
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Location: Leicester, England
PostPosted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:00 pm Reply with quote
I don't know about dedicated karaoke CDs, but 99% of anime singles will include karaoke tracks, usually called "instrumentals" or "off vocals". If the songs you want are from relatively recent and well-known anime, you shouldn't have any problems finding them.
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neothe0ne



Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:21 pm Reply with quote
The Malata karaoke machines which Chinese like buying now contain a page of Jpop songs. Notables include:
-Zankoku na Tenshi no Theses (Evangelion)
-INVOKE (Gundam SEED)
-Every Heart (Inuyasha)

I think there's Planetarium by Ai Otsuka, I don't remember.

Of course, god knows what script the lyrics would show up in. It could be Japanese (kanji, hiragana, katanaka), or Chinese (just "kanji"), or maybe English if you're lucky(?).

note that a page is not a lot, considering there are 2 books of songs. Also note that the new machines dumped the entire library of English songs (in the order of 10-20 pages) and replaced them with a completely different (newer) set of songs. So if you've heard of Malata before, know that the new machines are missing many old English songs.
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