Nana Mizuki 38th single NEVER SURRENDER release on 10/24/18

[ℓoro]

38th single 「NEVER SURRENDER」






Release Date: October 24th 2018
Part number: KICM-1889
Cost: ¥+ 1,204 + tax
1st Press benefit: Special package specification
Publisher: King Records

Contents:

01. NEVER SURRENDER
    ★ Theme song for the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Detonation theater movie
Lyrics: Mizuki Nana
Composition: Kato Yusuke
Arrangement: Kato Yusuke

02. GET BACK
    ★ Insert song for the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Detonation theater movie
Lyrics: Yabuki Toshiro
Composition: HAMA-kgn
Arrangement: EFFY

03. サーチライト / Searchlight
    ★ Theme song for the Futatsu No Kino To Boku No Mirai theater movie
Lyrics: Mizuki Nana・Fujimori Shinichi (Aobozu)
Composition: Fujimori Shinichi (Aobozu)
Arrangement: Fujima Hitoshi (Elements Garden)

04. 嘆きの華 / Nageki No Hana
    ★ Opening theme song for the Ken Enken Aoki anime
Lyrics: Iwasato Yuho
Composition: Yoshiki Eriko, Kahara Daisuke
Arrangement: Yoshiki Eriko, Kahara Daisuke
Strings Arrangement: Maejima Yasuaki


Official preview of「NEVER SURRENDER」


Official digest of「NEVER SURRENDER」

Official website photos:

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Tokuten:

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(Source tokuten round-up: @kaguya_nm7 on twitter)

[marcustherocker]

Damn! That is an awesome title Also you need to edit the release date in your post as it doesn't match the date in the thread title

[marcustherocker]

Tracks 2 and 4 have been named:
02. GET BACK
　★Insert song for the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Detonation theater movie
　Lyrics：Yabuki Toshiro　Composition：HAMA-kgn　Arrangement：EFFY

04. Nageki no Hana (嘆きの華)
　★Opening theme song for the Ken En Ken Aoki Kagayaki anime
Lyrics: Iwasato Yuho, Composition & Arrangement: Yoshiki Eriko & Kahara Daisuke, Arrangement: Yoshiki Eriko, Strings: Maejima Yasuaki

[marcustherocker]

A new trailer for the movie recently dropped that features NEVER SURRENDER so we get to hear what it sounds like

[marcustherocker]

Jacket art for the single

[marcustherocker]

Snippet of the title track on Nana's YT

[ℓoro]

I feel like we're gonna get a good balance of decent tracks for this single! NEVER SURRENDER sounds very promising! The preview of Nageki No Hana that circled around Twitter was also really nice! The cover artwork on the other hand... It's not ugly and I've come to like it a bit more since the day they revealed it, but still... getting kind of lazy aren't we Team Mizuki? Hire me for new interesting conceptual ideas! 

[marcustherocker]

More of NEVER SURRENDER from the latest Smile Gang
www.bilibili.com/video/av33380227

[poisonlillies]

I really like NEVER SURRENDER, It's much better than WHAT YOU WANT imo. You can kinda hear Searchlight in the background of Futatsu no Kinou to Boku no Mirai's trailer and it sounds pretty good too

[poisonlillies]

 

The MV was just posted!!

[sevenpetals]

Never Surrender sounds like a lot of songs in her discography... Instrumentation and lyrics aside, the chorus melody and phrasing sounds very formulaic, which is disappointing especially when you consider its a Nanoha tie in and will be heard much more than some other A-sides.

But I am excited for the other 3 songs! I was harsh on Wonder Quest, but its grown on me alot, especially Kekkai and Hungry Hungry is so good still.

[amelala]

sevenpetals
erm... what more can you expect a song who is sister related to Destiny's Prelude
also, the song is referring to nanoha detonation, which is a very sad movie (according to what i heard ah...)
but i did watch reflection, so i roughly know whats the story, so is like expected to have this kind of music
but this is like rare times she needs to sing it this smoothly <3 <3 <3
NEGA WUUUUUUUUUU waaaaa~~~~

loads of improvement after beautiful musical TTATT
yet...her busyness came back TvT;;;
ganbatte nana-chan...

oh yea..

WHY THE INSIDE PHOTO IS WAY NICER COMPARE TO COVER?!?!
TOSS COVER AWAY!
ALL THAT HARD WORK BLOWING NANA FACE 200 TIMES JUST TO GET THIS COVER SHOT LOL

fanart
expectation (according to smile gang explanation radio lol)

full body shot

[marcustherocker]

Full MV for NEVER SURRENDER is on Nana's YouTube for 7 days

[ℓoro]

So after quickly listening to this single (I kind of glossed through it because I'm sick  guh this headache!) I must say I'm kind of disappointed about this single globally. Maybe I had too high hopes for it being a Nanoha single and Destiny's Prelude was like, a huge comeback to epic Nanoha songs after the mediocre (but okay) Angel Blossom but I don't know.

NEVER SURRENDER stands behind Destiny's Prelude and BRIGHT STREAM for me, it follows the trend of being an epic melancholy powerful theme song. It does what it's supposed to do and her vocals at the "Negau wa!" parts are flashy. So I'm very pleased with this A-side and I'm glad I'll physically own it when her next studio album comes out. Decent PV as well! 

Throwback to Invisible Heat; it had to grow on me (it was a lot like GLORIA but better) but now it easily wins against GET BACK for me. GET BACK has the guitar going for it, but that's it for me? The intro is cool but then it gets less interesting, which has been the case for me with some of Nana's latest songs. With such a bad ass title I was hoping for something Don't be long-ish. This will possibly be the least interesting Nanoha insert song for me overall.

Searchlight is what I expected it to be and it's okay the way it is. It's on the same wavelength as Phantasm, and I love that song a lot. I do prefer the latter out of them, but that doesn't mean Searchlight is bad. It's nice smooth song to listen to! 

What's really weird about this single is that the song that's the most familiar with Nana's other songs in her discography is Nageki No Hana. This song is great. Graceful, strong, passionate, this is what Nana is good at.

When I reviewed WONDER QUEST EP I said I was more excited for this single, and thought this would be better, but overall I'd actually pick WONDER QUEST EP to be the better single overall now since it has the most replay value. I'm not a big fan of Birth of Legend, but in between the other songs, it's quite good. I don't think I'll find myself listening to NEVER SURRENDER a lot (as in the single), only the A-side and occasionally to Searchlight and Nageki No Hana.