Kagerou Project (カゲロウプロジェクト) - Mekakucity Days & Mekakucity Record
 

From Wikipedia:

The project contains 22 songs, spanning throughout one single, Children Record, and 2 albums, Mekakucity Days and Mekakucity Records.

Mod Edit:

To go to the Mekaku City Anime go here: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=114138

To go to the Mekaku City novel/ manga Kagerou Days go here: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=121821

Recommended order to view Kagerou Project
 

To describe the songs in the Kagerou Project, I would say they are like a spiderweb. Each song tells about an event or a story involved some characters that seems like they don't have much relations with the other songs, but in fact each song contribute something to the big picture.

I personally think you should listen to the order of songs in according to the tracklist from Jin's two albums, Mekakucity Days and Mekakucity Record.






If you want to listen to a more linear order of songs, you can refer to my recommended order below. I categorized the songs into storylines as what I think as a coherent order to view the songs. All of the official PVs are made by Shidu and Wannyanpuu, some PVs below are fanmade.



If you don't like Vocaloid, then this playlist might be for you. In the playlist I included all the Kagerou Project song covers which are to my liking. I also listed engsub vocaloid Kagerou Project songs that have no covers or have non-engsub covers. Notice the notes under the video's name to know which songs are Vocaloid and which songs are English subbed.



Feel free to discuss with me about any changes that should be made to this guide.

To note a few thing.

Summer Time Record is not a good end, it is simply a ED song. Jin has declared the music route is bad end only.

The actual ending of the music route is Mary's Fictional World, formally titles by Jin as the Music Route Final Movement.

Fixed. Thank you, I actually didn't know that.

Damnit Jin, Good End where?

Anime likely...

Someone in my home forum made a speculation picture based on the anime OP about which songs will appear in the anime:

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I somehow have doubts the anime will conclude with a good end or explain everything necessary. He still needs to sell the novels after all. :heh:

If anime doesn't end with a good end though the novels will probably be flanked. (Did I use that word right?)

Hmm...he says 8 volumes did he? How many eps is the show again?

Finally a thread where we can spoil as we please.
So far there's no "good end" in sight. Some would argue that the route in Summertime Record was a good end, but Ayano and Hiyori are still dead, so... no.

Summertime Record isn't even an ending so much as a conclusion to the MVs...

Nope, he said that it can go up to 9 volumes at this rate.
But there is editors and publishers to deal with on the novel side, so he don't know how everything well turn out exactly.

But yeah, consider the amount of information he still has to go over, concluding with anime doesn't look possible.

Just so everyone knows, I have included links to the novel / manga thread and the anime adaptation for Kagerou Days (Mekaku City Actors) in the OP for easy reference should anyone want to look at those resources as well.

Imo, Ayano and Hiyori will remain dead no matter what the result. Well, Hiyori might have a chance of surviving depending on how the Kagerou Daze story plays out in the route but considering Ayano killed herself prior to the main part of the story where divergences happen she's never coming back. Bringing her back now would just be a forced happy ending.

First, Ayano is not dead. She obtained a snake and came back to life. She just stayed in Kagerou Days intentionally to screw with Saeru no Ebi.

Either way there is going to be total of 10 snakes left, excluding Saeru no Ebi who most likely will die in the good end. In other words, not enough to bring everyone back to life.

I have a feeling that Ayano will eventually give up her snake so Hiyori can came back.

Hmm...you think Azami can do anything about it?

Probably not Azami but Mary. Mary has the "Combining Eyes" which Azami used to control the snakes.

Yes, but I'm refering to bringing everyone back to life....Mary...doesn't seem able to do that, since the snake number is limited. Looping doesn't really count no?

Azami herself is most likely going to die in the end....Wouldn't be right to separate her from her husband.

Speaking of which, Shion is in Kagerou Days too right? Has she and Azami met yet?

Didn't she pass/will pass her snake to Shintaro? Also shouldn't she be considered dead at the moment since dying is one of the conditions to get in and not coming back is as good as staying dead?

No, you came back to life once you have a Snake. And there is still one Snake left that is free to grab.

This is pretty cool. A solid theory but I think it will look at all the songs but it will place emphasis on some more then others.

Yeah I would imagine that the LN will have the good end while manga and anime get some type of chaotic good/neutral/evil route.

I do think that we will get to see members 0-9 all together live and well. Or at least I hope !

Personally I think at the end of manga/anime series some characters might sacrifice their lives to save the most number of people they are able to (and my hunch would be... uhm Ayano, Konoha, Azami and maybe Shintarou), and the series might end at a bittersweet note, with some hope for the future of the ones left.

The LN has the most potential to have a "good ending" though.

Yup, out of all of the mediums I think the LN is going to get the good ending. Manga and Anime will get the "in between" ending.

I do hope that the good ending will see everyone alive and well though. A meerkat can dream~

I added a playlist in this post for people who prefer listening to real singers (utaite) more than Vocaloid. If anybody here want to get into Kagerou Project, but don't like Vocaloid, you can refer to the playlist. In the playlist I included all the Kagerou Project song covers which are to my liking. I also listed engsub vocaloid Kagerou Project songs that have no covers or have non-engsub covers. Notice the notes under the video's name to know which songs are Vocaloid and which songs are English subbed.

Judging from the preview pics of episode 3, it looks like we will be getting to the amusement park scene on episode 4. This is going to be a slooow ride. :D

I'm not sure about that. It has been announced that episode 4's title is Kagerou Daze, and with Hibiya already appearing in the anime version... :uhoh:

^ Or they can put the scene on hold and jump straight at Hibiya's story :uhoh::uhoh::uhoh:

Pls Jin don't fuck up episode 3. :uhoh:

Also do we have leaks on the titles of episode 5 and beyond??

The anime official website only announced episode 4's title, don't know about others yet.

An interesting theory about the anime OP I've seen from facebook:

Source

The above theory has one glaring hole. Ayano and Kano has far more weight in the story than Ene for the above theory to work.

Also, don't drew conclusion too quickly on Shintaro's power. There is two possible candidate right now.

The theory is not mine, and I do get your point about Ene, Ayano and Kano, knowing what we know up to this point about the series. Though that Ene view in the theory might not be totally disproved since we all don't know which expositions and direction the anime might have. Kano and Ayano's importance might only be mentioned off-screen compared to the novel, and Ene does have potential to be able to do something in the grand scheme, since she swore with Ayano to defeat Saeru no Ebi with her and Ene has more chance in on-screen appearance.

Agree about Shintaro's power, though it is not very important to what the person who wrote the theory tries to say.

On top of that....Konoha being less important than Takane?

Hmmm figured it would be more appropriate to post it here in comparison to posting it in the Light Novel section. Apparently Jin is planning on releasing a new song on the 22th of this month. Here is the source. Any thoughts? Could this be a new project or possibly a new song to the Kagerou Project, even though he has stated he is done with it?

Before that news I already had heard from a fellow fan (who is staying in Japan) about Jin working on a new different project from Kagepro. So this song might very likely be that new project I heard about.

Yeah I had heard that Jin was planning on making a new project as well. I know he has said multiple times that he is done with the MVs for KagePro so I too think it is the new project. It was more food for thought/speculation :heh:

The new song by Jin is here, looks more like an IA appreciation song rather than Jin's new project:

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Thank you for sharing the link! I loled at the comments with all their glory haha:heh:

But I really did get Shounen Brave vibes in the beginning. The pitch IA had was pretty high but it sounded great. There also seemed to be homage to the KagePro but I think it was mainly since it propelled him into stardom so having a nice throwback was cool. Granted, I could be wrong about that though.

Dat smile at the end tho~ <3

Hey all! So the full version/PV for Daze is out now! Here you go~




I don't know how to show previews like BloodyKitty or the others, so sorry about that!
Edit: I forgot quoting shows the tags... Thank you Kitty for indirectly teaching me how to display previews! :)

Linking this here too.
This is amazing stuff.

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