History Music / Anamanaguchi

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: They use a gameboy and NES to make music. It's {{Justified}} though since they are in the {{Chiptune}} genre and that's pretty much what {{Chiptune}} is all about.

''Anamanaguchi'' is a New York based {{chiptune}} [[PunkRock punk]] band comprising Peter Berkman, James [=De=]Vito, Ary Warnaar, and Luke Silas. Self described as playing "loud, fast music with a hacked [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] from 1985," ''Anamanaguchi'' began mostly underground, but gained more attention with the rise of Website/{{YouTube}} and their involvement with the ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrim'' video game, among other projects.

* ''[[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game]] - Original Videogame Soundtrack'' (2010)

* {{Chiptune}}: Mixed with [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly punk/indie rock and dance pop]].

* IndecipherableLyrics[[invoked]]: Many of the tracks in ''[USA]'' feature deliberately gibberish lyrics, but [[https://youtu.be/IqPETi21K8Q?t=744 the album's visualizer]] [[PlayingWithATrope plays with it]] in "Speak to You [Memory Messengers]", whose lyrics are [[{{Mondegreen}} either "And all I try to do is try to speak to you" or "The more I do it, time moves me too"]]. The visuals use both.

* IndecipherableLyrics[[invoked]]: Many of the tracks in ''[USA]'' feature deliberately gibberish lyrics, but [[https://youtu.be/IqPETi21K8Q?t=744 the album's visualizer]] [[PlayingWithATrope plays with it]] in "Speak to You [Memory Messengers]", whose lyrics are either "And all I try to do is try to speak to you" or "The more I do it, time moves me too". The visuals use both.

* IndecipherableLyrics[[invoked]]: Many of the tracks in ''[USA]'' feature deliberately gibberish lyrics, but [[https://youtu.be/IqPETi21K8Q?t=744 the album's visualizer]] [[PlayingWithATrope plays with it]] in "Speak to You [Memory Messengers]", whose lyrics [[{{Mondegreen}} are either "And all I try to do is try to speak to you" or "The more I do it, time moves me too".]] The visuals use both.

!Tropes used by Anamanaguchi include:

** The beginning of the "Air On Line" video features several homemade cams in orbit [[CallBack à la their pizza cam from "Endless Fantasy",]] but with different objects such as a [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku plush]] and a {{Music/Marshmello}} head.

** ''[USA]'' features the band playing their signature sound through a much more experimental and varied gamut of song styles and structures, with some smatterings of ProgressiveRock and modern ElectronicDanceMusic thrown in. The overall result is noticeably more cinematic and somewhat wistful in tone than previous projects.

* {{Eagleland}}: {{Invoked|Trope}} to a point with ''[USA]''. [[https://www.papermag.com/anamanaguchi-usa-2640820875.html According to the band itself]], the album was meant to explore their identity as a band beyond their prominent Japanese influences, of which included -- but was not limited to -- their highly Nintendo-inspired chiptune sound.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Endless Fantasy'' brought 16 bit consoles into the mix, particularly the use of the ''UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis'' synths, as well as many effects and production that gave some tracks a more dance pop feel, and using vocalists on two of their tracks. That being said, most tracks still have the classic chiptune and punk formula, albeit with production tricks outside of strict limitations of the Gameboy.

* NewSoundAlbum:
** ''Endless Fantasy'' brought 16 bit consoles into the mix, particularly the use of the ''UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis'' synths, as well as many effects and production that gave some tracks a more DancePop feel, and using vocalists on two of their tracks. That being said, most tracks still have the classic chiptune and punk formula, albeit with production tricks outside of strict limitations of the Gameboy.
** ''[USA]''

* CallBack: The intro for the Air On Line music video features the Endless Fantasy pizza-cam in orbit... surrounded by hundreds of other camera platforms.
* {{Chiptune}}: Mixed with [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly punk/indie rock and Dance Pop]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: The tone of [USA] is considerably more melancholy than any of their past music.

* TheFaceless: In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scmQ6iN8hKM Pop It music video,]] everybody's face is covered either with a balloon or paper mask.
* FanDisservice: The Pop It video has a cute girl dancing in a sailor outfit with suggestively-placed balloons. It also features a group of masked men and women getting a little too close to her for comfort, and that her own face is concealed makes the fact that we can't see her expressions dubious.
* IAmTheBand: Peter Berkman does most of the songwriting.

* LyricalDissonance:
** "Japan Air" sung by Meesh is a bouncy, cheerful PopPunk song featuring a GenkiGirl who sings with a cutesy voice (made even more so by pitching up the vocals) where she's happily recounting her and the listener having fun in the snow. Then there's the last verse that's easily missed, not helped by the song having a guitar solo right after.
-->''Girl'': And can you see it, That I'm falling through the snow without you here? I thought I'd never be alone, until you went away.
** Pop It, also featuring Meesh has this too, combined with the suggestive imagery.
-->''Girl'': Pop It, see me on your screen
-->Sit back and watch
-->Show you what I mean
-->Can't top it
-->Doo Dee Doo Dee Doo
-->La La Dee Da
-->ALL BECAUSE OF YOU
-->Well I don't know
-->I-D-K
-->Well I don't know
-->I-I-I
-->What's really good?
-->What you want me to be?
-->Well I don't know
-->OK...
* NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: PunkRock mixed with [[AlternativeRock Indie Rock]] mixed with PowerPop mixed with {{Chiptune}}.
* NostalgiaFilter: Especially for gamers, and children of TheEighties and TheNineties.
* NewSoundAlbum: Endless Fantasy brought 16 bit consoles into the mix, particularly the use of the ''UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis'' synths, as well as many effects and production that gave some tracks a more DancePop feel, and using vocalists on two of their tracks. That being said, most tracks still have the classic chiptune and punk formula, albeit with production tricks outside of strict limitations of the Gameboy.
* {{Mondegreen}}:
** The lyrics for Air On Line can be interpreted as "You can go if you like (I found him)", despite being gibberish.
** The lyrics for Speak to You [Memory Messengers] are either "And all I try to do is try to speak to you" or "The more I do it, time moves me too". The visuals use both.

** There's a [[Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay brief still of Menma]] snuck in as a FreezeFrameBonus in the Endless Fantasy music video.
** A terminal in the faux video game Capsule Silence XXIV has [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog "Amy Rose the Hedgehog"]] in katakana.
* SpeakingSimlish: Fairly prevalent in [USA]: half of the lyrics to B S X are just random vowels, and the lyrics to the title track and Air On Line are random syllables.

* StylisticSuck: Becoming a major part of their aesthetic, one glance at their [[http://armanipradagucci.com/ main blog]] or their [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_malzggvrH91qzq2udo1_1280.jpg 2012 tour poster]] should be enough.

* {{Chiptune}}: Mixed with [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly punk/indie rock and Dance Pop]]

* Mondegreen:

* {{Melody}}: They're ''very good'' at this trope, and they manage to do it with a gameboy and NES too.