They did do one cover for a Video Game titled "Memories of Wind and Wine " (Dawn Winery Theme from Genshin Concert 2022). When you get to that time period, I hope you feature it because it shows How the Band can take a song and play it straight up as it was, then bring it to ROCK OUT, and finally make it wholly BAND-MAID. It IS an instrumental, so no Saiki, but it's definitely a great addition to their roster of deliberate instrumental tunes.

I feel Band-Maid's longevity and success will become Endless Stories in the annals of Rock ‘n Roll history! Thx, Chan! Hope all remains strong with you and yours!

❤️💙💚💛💜🙏

Struggling with a hospitalized family member myself. Band-Maid is actually a big part of what's giving me the strength to deal with it.

I agree with you Kanami deserve this Signature guitar model more than anybody else!!! She is amazing guitar player!!! She is the best!!!

Band-Maid is a gift for all of us.

As you know, I prefer mid-tempo and slower songs - this has been in my top five since I first heard it. MISA's bass work in the second verse is high-level. In the live, Saiki unlocked superstar mode. Now I know the exact place and time I'd visit if I ever find a time machine (Yokohama Arena, Nov. 2023).

💜💛❤💙💚 A perfect ending to a perfect night.

I didn't know they filmed this on Oshima. My wife and I visited Oshima a few times over the years, very interesting place. The first time was only a couple years after the volcano erupted in the 1980s. What a scene for this MV. "No giving up-this struggle is the mark of life." No truer words have ever been spoken, life is both struggle and joy, that is what makes it real. I hope the best for you and your family member with the health issue, always a hard situation to work through, but as you said we all must at some point in life.

This song gained importance at the end of one of their US tours. There were a lot of tears on stage that day probably from exhaustion and joy at a very successful tour- particularly from Akane of all people, who is usually the coolest of them all, but she completely lost it during the playing of this song. There is fan cam footage of this song.

It’s good to see you’re back. I’m sorry to hear about the health problems. I don’t know you but I care about you. Hope everything thing works out for the best. 🙏🙏🙏

This song was a bucket list items for the band. Playing it in a large arena…Saiki added the beginning and ending parts for this concert to thank their fans. You can see that it was emotional for all of them…to accomplish a goal you set is always emotional and gives you the energy to come up with more goals. Which I believe they have and are..I.e. forming of MAIDIT, Ltd, Kanami’s signature PRS and let hope a world tour! World Domination is near! 🤘🕊️🦍🥷👸🏻👀PO!

I'm ready for the Onion Ninjas! Bring it! Kanami, our Mincho, was the 1st Japanese artist to ever receive a signature PRS guitar. the other MAIDS were in attendance rooting her on. It was very emotional. They had several Japanese bands at their 10th anniversary show sitting close, and seeing Saiki wave at them is precious. this closed out the show, and most teared up. Onion Ninja time!

Hope your family is okay. Sorry you had your end the endless reaction abruptly. I do hope you look for the Endless Story live in Chicago version. Ohrenje has a cleaned up version but there are a couple of other quality fancams as well. Hoping no one spoiled it but it is well worth your time to see it if not react to it. Thanks

Live is suffering. BandMaid can heal the soul.

This particular song was written as a *BAND-MAID* anthem for big arena and *BAND-MAID* perform this at Welcome to Rockville in Florida and was a night and the crowd was singing along. Also you should check out 2022 tour in Chicago that would bring tears to your eyes. 😢 Well I wish you all the best for yourself and your family ! 🙂

Saiki is like a muscle car. She takes a bit to warm up, but once she does, she just gets stronger and stronger as the night goes on.

First of all, I would like to wish you and your family all the best in dealing with the situation you have found yourselves in. Stay strong! (I know you will.) I grew up in Hawaii and have been to the black sand beach at Punalu'u on the Big Island, but man, it was a long time ago. This is such a great song and their performance of it at Yokohama brought tears to my eyes with its sincerity and emotional power. Maybe the Maids are speaking to you. 👍 By the way, you should take a look at Ohrenje's documentary of that concert.

This is a wonderful song when they play it live. An anthem that the audience can sing along to. Yes I had the moist eyes when I saw the Yokohama concert stream live and whenever I revisit the dvd. I feel so jealous and envious when I read through the comments of those that have seen the Band live. I still can appreciate them through their live DVDs. This is the time of year that reminds me of the sudden change in health to a family member many years ago. So I appreciate how important music and especially Band Maid help in times like that. All the best to you and your family and thanks for this journey through their catalogue.

Everytime I watch the live video of this song, I can't help but shed a tear (or two) and remember that night and how it was one of the most magical moments in my life as a music lover and concert goer. I had to sit there after the lights came up and compose myself, such an array of emotions. Thanks for the reaction and I hope everything works out in the long term for you and your family. Cheers!

ahh, I was gonna ask if you had PAGE anywhere? I should've searched for the Conqueror album. I'll watch that one. Actually, Conqueror is my favorite album of theirs. But dangit, Epic Narratives is coming up pretty close now.

PRS doesn't do all that many signature models, so for Kanami to have one is a real and well-deserved honor. As far as the Endless Story mv, those are drone shots. Band-Maid uses drone shots extensive when shooting outdoors. There's a behind the scenes video available on their website (fan-club only) for Endless Story showing this. As to the live video, yes, it's the last song of a 3 hour 40+ minute show. It's an absolutely amazing concert, beginning to end.

Chan, there's no need to react to "Endless Story" again, but the song was the ending of the Band-Maid 10th Anniversary Tour finale concert at the Yokohama Arena in November 2023. They did release an official live video of the song on their KZbin channel. The song with the heartfelt singing by Saiki and her emotional thanks wo the audience and the improvised words at end of the song was not only an emotional moment for the Maids, but the audience as well. There were not many dry eyes anywhere. It was such a beautiful moment to watch.

I can never hear this now without thinking of Akane crying during this song at their last 2022 US Tour venue House of Blues in Chicago. I think Akane got emotionally wrapped up up in them ending their US tour, it was very tear jerking to watch her cry. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYCwYWCDls2jd9ksi=WXHnBTuES-DHHXCu From October 2022 These girls have been on the run! I still insist they should end every LIVE show with "Endless Story".

If I heard someone else correctly, this was PRS's first signature guitar from the Asain market. This is truly a unique guitar, and Konami earned it. Also, just a curious thought. I remember that back in Japanese culture women would dyed their teeth black. I wonder if it was a tribute to the uniqueness of the black sandy beaches. Lastly, I have a granddaughter who is 6 years old. The doctors told us unfortunately she probably will not celebrate her 7th birthday with us. Truly sorry for you, as well as any family going thru difficult medical issues.

It was obvious how tired they were at the end when they stepped down from their stands & slowly walked over to Akane for the finish. They were spent. But Akane had to keep working on the drums, to the very last beat.

This song wasn't really on my radar until I saw the fan cam of their 2022 US tour final show in Chicago where they ended with it. So much feeling in that performance. Then this one from Yokohama cemented it as a favorite and one that brings on the onions.

When times are hard, BAND-MAID always seems to help heal, love to you and your family !

Glad to see you back!.. I felt with the news you heard, for which I wish you and your family *all the best!* ... Endless Story seems to fit within that context 🙂 For it is the Struggle is to truly live. Best wishes!

Thank you very much for your always good Description for what is happened in the Video! Greetings from Hamburg in the Snow, Ben❤❤

That song is so emotionally performed - gets me every time. The Yokohama Arena show was spectacular - I heartily recommend you get the DVD or BluRay of this show - it had a lot of surprises (and if you can get ahold of the Limited Edition version, it is accompanied by a fantastic behind the scenes documentary).

Konami is the first Japanese person to ever have a signature pr.S

It's Interesting to me that I was exposed to KISS as my first "Rock Band" and picked up their first 3 albums in a set, and seeing how far These girls (With a similar 'costume gimmick') progressed in their style by the 3rd album so much further than those guys did is amazing. Miku's facial expressions during Her parts on the second verse in the video makes me think some of Her experiences are showing forth in this lyric writing.

1:58 - Thats it! I have been wracking my brains about this song thinking it was some kind of "Mike and the Mechanics" song I couldn't place as well, but your wife Nailed it! So, the lyrics of being about a girl alone after an encounter, but Her "Boy of Summer" has gone, could the similar song's hook have been 'on purpose'?

These 5 personalities are each my favorite member of the Band, and I can't imagine BAND-MAID without any one of them, sure they do instrumentals without Saiki's presence and the stage seems empty, but you can always feel Her there watching from the Eather, "The Spirit of Saiki" is with them despite Her absence.

I'm pretty sure Springsteen pulled Courtney Cox onto stage in Her "Big Break Debut" in a fully packed, but obviously staged 'Full Concert' video for "Dancin' in the Dark" back in the day, so it's not unthinkable they could do the same for Our Favorite Band here, although I personally believe most of these shots are from a REAL concert performance.

I really enjoy this style of video, it reminds me of my High School days, sitting in my best friend's Livingroom listening to a brand-new album from one of our favorite bands on His dad's expensive stereo system commenting and mutually appreciating the music one track at a time, so thank you for this. "Brand New Road" is great and has a "Mondegreen" for me in the words you have read from the lyric sheet as "Dirty Fighting" I have heard it (and noted it in my notes on the song in Media Player) as "Daddy's Working". I raised two daughters (the oldest being Miku's age) and the phrase was often thrown about as they grew up. I love the way Miku and Saiki pronounce 'English Words' in their songs, (their accents are so cute) but I rarely catch them correctly without subtitles.

Do you still have it now?

Shake That!! is such a cool song and the Instrumental version is so good you can listen to it without missing the lyrics, and the official version WITH lyrics is very good too. Almost two separate songs.

8:53 - Another reason why they remind me of some of my favorite Progressive bands of the past; YES was famous for shoehorning in a lot of words into a brief couple of measures, and you know this rhythm section (Akane, Kanami, and Misa) constantly remind me of the Canadian Super-trio RUSH.

I do like Project Farm reviews - he seems pretty thorough. Though most of the time, I can only afford the low-end products, LOL. (Very often, one of the low-end products out-perform the overpriced premium versions.)

Have it, excellent.

Band-Maiko, the only band that surpasses Band-Maid. I want a 2nd Band-Maiko album :D

I really appreciate your Band-Maid reactions a lot!

Okini Chan Fry-san, Po. 🎎🎎🕊️

At the time I thought *Saiki* vocals was good, but then I saw her live in DC in 2022 and my jaw dropped. I was amazed with her performance and the vocals she added to the song, that I was kind of sad when she took a break during the show. _BTW Like that ringtone_ 😊

Band-Maiko is where Kanoemi/Kanami proved to me that she could have taken any musical career path if she'd wanted to - traditional Japanese classical, western classical, jazz, hard rock. Fortunately for us, she decide to go with all of them. :)

Chan--your Japanese pronunciation is excellent! Don't worry about which syllable should have the accent because none of them do. Japanese is a stress-timed language, not a syllable-timed one like English. I had never heard all of the Band Maiko songs before, so I really enjoyed getting to this time. My favorite was "Akasimahen," their version of "Awkward." The original is one of my best-liked Maids songs and I loved hearing all the traditional instruments used for this new version. I'm also glad Kanami finished with the same incredible outro solo from "Awkward." The best part though, was the Saiki Sigh.

This album, to me anyway, shows the true genius of Kanami and the trust and versatility of Band-Maid overall! Your right, this so much more that a April Fools joke!

Hope all is well with your family! Band-Maid…Opps I mean Band-Maiko can brighten your day! Miku is so about Japanese traditions and respecting the history and beauty! 🤘🕊️🦍🥷👸🏻👀PO!