ARSLAN MUSIC AND LYRICS

Not only does Heroic Legend of Arislan have beautiful graphics, it also boasts a great soundtrack which, fortunately, has not been translated. Remember 'Record of Lodoss War' 's mangled opening and closing credits sang à la Celine Dion? Well, I think it was a waste of two nice songs.

If anyone who has a better grasp of japanese that I do finds errors, could you e-mail me and I'll correct them. All credit given to you, of course.

I will now bow to the god of mpeg which permitted me to compress these files into itsy-bitsy .WAV files, which means... No need for mpeg decoders. Although, for ease of download, I put them in winzipped archives... Just to make sure no one clicks on a .wav format and starts their Netscape wav player application...

The only slight problem is that if you do not have the appropriate CODEC (audio compression codes) it won't work. To configure your computer (it only takes a few seconds) go to the nifty Sounds instructions page.

I tried to come up with the Japanese lyrics for all of these, and wrote them in both romanji and hiragana/kanji, with no presumption as to their accuracy. I'm human after all, and we all make mistakes sometimes.

[Kutsuato no Hana (The flower in a footstep)]

483K, closing there of the first OVA.

[Kokushitenshi (the angel telling death)]

152K, closing theme of the second OVA

[Tokimeki wo believe (I believe in the throbbing of my heart)]

75.4K, second closing theme of the second OVA.

[Ryoute Ippai (both hands full)]

854K, closing theme of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th OVA, and my personal favorite