This is Kitaeri's style!　Eri Kitamura talks about her 2nd single "arcadia†paroniria", which expands the world of symphonic metal!

Popular voice actress Eri Kitamura released her second single "arcadia†paroniria" on September 27, 2017 (Wednesday), her third single since resuming her musical activities. Once again, it is a piece with a dense sound full of tricks. The title track, in particular, is a symphonic metal song that is synonymous with Kitaeri, and should be thoroughly enjoyed. We asked them to talk a lot about everything from their live performances to the single.

KiTAxERI - CARNiVAL - 2017 - re:birth -" that made us thirsty for their next live performance.

─ ─ You have been steadily releasing more and more songs in order to perform a one-man live show, and the number of songs is gradually increasing, isn't it?

Kitamura Indeed, considering the span of CD releases, I've been allowed to get very far ahead of myself, so thank you (Toms)!

─ In terms of the number of songs, is it just barely enough to perform on one stage without overlapping?

Kitamura Yes, that's right. Our belief is that if you listen to each song a different number of times, you will get a different slushy feeling from each song. At the live performance in Ebisu in August ("KiTAxERI - CARNiVAL - 2017 - re:birth -"), we performed "Barayuri xxxx," a song that we wanted to make into an "OHAKO" song. I sang "Barayuri xxx" as a replacement song with a different intro at the end of the show, and I think I was able to do that because I couldn't do it in one direction like I could with the CD. So it was a very satisfying live performance, and it also made me thirsty for the one-man show on October 28. We are having a good second half of 2017 (laughs).

─ ─ Even if the order of the songs is different, you can discover different qualities of the songs.

Kitamura I don't know much about touring yet, but I was able to experience how the different arrangements of the capacity, lighting, and supporting bands can make the songs look different from the CDs. So, at the last one-man show in Ebisu, I sang in a different way from the CD, and it was accepted as a live version, and I thought, "If there is a next show, I want to sing this part properly and break that part. I was learning as I went along, and setting goals for the next show. I thought that just by changing the tour, the venue, and the audience, I could see a different view of the same song.
I can clearly tell the fist group that likes instruments and metal, and the penlight group that likes the music, likes Eri Kitamura, and wants to support the category of voice-over artist! The other group is the penlight group that likes the music and likes Eri Kitamura. And then there are the girls who pose for me as an artist who does work that appeals to the female V-hatake crowd. It's a good way to be downtown, and it's a cross-cultural exchange!　I encourage everyone to be noble duelists and say, "I'm going to kill you all" (laughs), but I think I am able to go that far because I am a voice actor, and it is easy for me to make that switch. I was standing on stage thinking that perhaps I have the advantage of being able to smoothly lead the audience (of all kinds).

─ ─ When I saw the excitement of the live performance, I felt that the audience had been waiting for it. I felt like, "They've been waiting for this!

Kitamura I know there were people who had stayed away from us, but I could also sense that people who had almost left us were looking back once again when we sang "+×+×+ Jingbin +×+×+" in Ebisu. I wasn't trying to change the atmosphere, but I looked around the venue to see what I was going to talk about. I wrote the lyrics to this song myself, and the content of the song is not only my own struggles when I wanted to sing but couldn't, when I couldn't find the right environment or opportunities, but also my outlook and hope from that. I wanted to say in my MC before the song that it was a miracle and I was grateful to be able to share the same space through music and live performances, but the words didn't come out as well as I had hoped (laugh). But the audience was waiting for me to say what I was going to say. If you have been following me for a while, you would have been on your knees by now (laughs). (laughs) But they were looking straight back at what I was going to say, and I almost cried.
I always liked the song itself, but it became a very important song for me, and even while singing it, I had a goal of how I would betray myself the next time I sang it. I was thinking, while being moved by the song, that I wanted to surprise people with a different way of presenting a moving song or a ballad, other than just singing and delivering it. So I hope to present it in a different way at the live concert in October.

─ ─ It is amazing that you are thinking about such things while singing.

Kitamura: That's why the lyrics are always skipped (laughs)!

Kitamura: You always seem to be able to do different things at the same time and do them efficiently, don't you?

Kitamura Maybe it's an occupational hazard!　I'm always looking at the screen, looking at the script, following the numbers, and trying to match the emotions expressed by the director with the performance I want to do, and also being ready to improvise instantly when something ad-libbed comes up in the other actor's performance. Please note that this is one of my strengths (laughs)!

─ ─ No, you are a first-rate voice actor (laughs).

Kitamura I hope so (laughs). (laughs) But the lyrics are always skipped over. I'm like, "Next time, I want to do it like this...!" Like that (laughs).