Regarding the MV, there's not much info (if, at all) about the production on the internet. In 2016, the song was also chosen as one of the ending songs for the anime.
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The limited edition of the manga's volume 10 included the single's CD and the limited digital delivery from Toy's Factory (BUMP OF CHICKEN's record label) included a serial number for the digital spin-off manga. Thus, BUMP OF CHICKEN wrote a single, Fighter, and Chica Umino drew a spin-off manga.Īs it has been mentioned on the question, the single and the manga was released on 28 November 2014. Well, let's do something!Īfter thinking for a while, the only thing that Chica Umino can do is drawing a manga, and BUMP OF CHICKEN is writing a song. They are respecting each other, they like each other's product. In the beginning, Chica Umino likes BUMP OF CHICKEN, and BUMP OF CHICKEN's members like March Comes in like a Lion.
The background of this project, as mentioned on both Young Animal (the publisher of the manga) and BUMP OF CHICKEN's official site, It's a collaboration project between Chica Umino, the author of March Comes in like a Lion and BUMP OF CHICKEN, a Japanese music band. Kekkai Sensen also has a great ending: Unison Square Garden - Sugar Song to Bitter Step. I can't even drag over and copy text from it. The shows that these songs come from are March Comes in Like a Lion (Answer and Fighter) and Kekkai Sensen (Hello, World). It is somehow protected and won't translate (not that a translation would be very accurate). The section of the YouTube video has a link to a Japanese site or page apparently dedicated to the music video: 3月のライオン meets BUMP OF CHICKEN|白泉社. Also was the music video made in Flash? Parts of it have that mechanistic feel, but I do not know enough about Flash video capability to know if it would have been up to the task. Much of the art in the music video looks like it may have come from the anime (and a lot does not), but that could just be that they both share the manga as source material.
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If the music video pre-dated the anime, who animated it? Studio Shaft (producing the TV show) may not have even been involved.Īdd: The music video definitely predates the anime. From what I can gather, a DVD with the video accompanied special copies of the 10th volume of the manga, released.
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The video may have pre-dated the anime by over a year, making the closing song a condensed version of the music video. Full and accurate LYRICS for Answer from BUMP OF CHICKEN: Mah no kotoba oboe teru niji no hajimatta tokoro, ano toki sekai no subete ni isshun de iro. It expands the closing song of the anime, Fighter, into a 6-minute music video, produced by the manga's author Chika Umino and the band BUMP OF CHICKEN. There is a promotional video for March Comes in like a Lion (aka 3gatsu no Lion) called March Comes in like a Lion meets BUMP OF CHICKEN.