Covers of "Ai Oboete Imasu Ka"?

[kajnrig]

How many covers, professional and otherwise, are there of this song? Which are your favorite? I ask because I've had this particular rendition by Mikuni Shimokawa in my playlist for years and only recently discovered it was from an early 2000s album that..,. apparently consists entirely of different covers/remixes of the song. If anyone has any information on this album, I'd appreciate that as well. Thanks, cheers all.

 

 

 

[Seto Kaiba]

Are we talking official franchise ones only, unofficial professional ones, or just fan covers?

The Japanese Wikipedia page for the song has an entire section devoted to the song's licensed covers:

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• IBIS featuring Seira Sakurai
  • "Anime Trance 3" (2007)
  • "Anime ☆ Dance ~ Anisong Hit Suite ~" (2008)
• Animetal USA "Animetal USA W" (2012)
• Chika Anzai "SUPER J-EURO BEST MIX" (2010)
• anporin "ANIME HOUSE PROJECT ~Kamikyoku selection vol.2~" (2009)
• Yoko Ishida "Ultra Anime Eurobeat Series Bishoujo MAX" (2001)
• Asami Imai "THE IDOLM@STER RADIO TOP×TOP!" (2007)
• Yuka Imai (1996) --"Macross 7 TRASH" insert song
• Junko Iwao "Anison A to Z" (2013)
• Yoko Ueno "MACROSS THE TRIBUTE" (2002)
• ELISA "Rainbow pulsation ~THE BEST OF ELISA~" (2012)
• Kiss. "Touch My SPOT Super Pachinko Oriented Tracks" (2012)
• Kumi Sakuma " New 100 Songs Voice Rage Female Voice Actor Edition " (2010)
• Satoshi Sakurai
  • Mylene Jenius sings Lynn Minmay (1995)
  • "Macross Generation Legend of Eternal songs" (1997) -ballad form arranged by Hayato Matsuo
• Satoshi Sakurai, Yukari Tamura (1997)-"Macross Generation" Insert song
• Masahiro Sayama "Anipiano" (2008)-piano instrumental
• Jessy "Jessie's Wonderland" (2005)
• Mikuni Shimokawa "Review" (2003)
• SHOW-SKA " Skanimation Z " (2007)
• Screens "Movie ☆ Girl" (2014)
• Suzumi "SUPER ANIME REMIX Vol.2" (2009)
• Tokyo Brass Style "Feast Rafflesia ~Ani Jazz 2nd note~" (2006)-Instrumental jazz arrangement
• Tommy Arai Project "House Animation" (1991)
• Dolce de Musica (2006) - Instrumental in classical arrangement
• Kanon Nakagawa starring Nao Higashiyama " The World God Only Knows" Character Cover ALBUM ~Selection: Tamiki Wakaki~ (2011)
  • Higashiyama covered the same song again as a member of Walkure . later.
• Ai Nakajima
  • Single " Seikan Hikou " Coupling (2008)-No. 1 lyrics only (deculture edition size)
  • " Macross F (Frontier) OST2 Daughter Tora ☆ " (2008)-"bless of little queen" version
  • " Macross F (Frontier) VOCAL COLLECTION Musume Tama♀ " (2008)
• Ai Nakajima , May'n , Valkyrie
  • " Deculture!! Mixture!!!!! " (2022) -Acoustic Orchestra Arranged by Takayuki Hattori
• Miyuki Nakano "SPEED ANIME M @ STER -Ani Soma Star-☆-" (2009)
• Namidabashi Gakuen Women's Cover Club "P!! Anison Kaba~poid NON STOP MIX" (2012)
• Ne-Ho The Best of Cover Ne-Ho (2009)
• Ushio Hashimoto "Enthusiastic! Anison Spirits THE BEST Cover Music Collection TV Anime Series "Super Dimension Fortress Macross"" (2019)
• Sasa Handa "We love goya" (2013)
• Ikuro Fujiwara "Eternal Love animation hialing music" (2002)-piano instrumental
• Priscilla Chan "Forever is your friend" (1989)-Hong Kong singer. She covered the title with Cantonese lyrics as "True Story". Used as the song during the release of the Hong Kong version of "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?" (Cantonese dubbed). Priscilla Chan also voiced Lynn Minmay in this Hong Kong version.
• MAKI "EXIT TRANCE PRESENTS R25 SPEED Anime Trance BEST" (2008)
• Keiko Mameda " Butterfly effect 3 SORAE " (2011)
• MIZUKA "COVER GIRL" (2008)
• MUH ~ "Vitamin MUH" (2006)
• move " anim.ove 01 " (2009)
• MERDOG "Trance Heaven presents Anitra Heaven" (2006)
• Yumi Matsuzawa "Anicappella" (2007)
• MOE "A CD that makes the melody more courageous with you" (2017)
• Haruko Momoi "more&more quality RED ~Anime song cover~" (2008)
• Kanako Momota "Talk With Me ~Cinderella Time~" (2021)-Solo concert live CD
• Rasmus Faber " Rasmus Faber Presents Platinum Jazz ~Anime Standard Vol.2~ " (2010)-Jazz arrangement instrumental
• Riyoko feat.Silent Jazz Case "Cure☆Jazz" (2012)
• romi " That song 2 " (2009)
• WCDA "Do you remember love (HOUSE MIX)" (2011) -house music style arrangement
• Walküre ( Minori Suzuki , JUNNA ^{[Note 5]} , Kiyono Yasuno , Nao Higashiyama , Nozomi Nishida ) " Walküre Trap! " (2016)

 

[kajnrig]

Oof. That's quite the list. How many of those have people actually heard? is what I want to know now.

That's odd. The "Review" cover album I looked up doesn't match the one I remember. The "Review" I remember had the song in four variants (plus karaoke versions), including Shimokawa's and a Cantonese language version (the one mentioned above by Priscilla Chan). The "Review" that exists is apparently a Mikuni Shimokawa album, where she covers multiple anime songs.

Most likely the disc I received way back when was a burned disc, some weirdly specific bootleg. Meh. Anyway.

[Hikuro]

Christina Vee and I had worked on a cover together back in the old days. We did 3 different releases of which all seem to of gone poof...she had 2 of them and I had the other. But Youtube forced them out despite the fact they were covers. The 1st version we used the Flashback 2012 music video of DYRL with my english audio to make it perfect. The 2nd version was using the same song during the final battle of the film with all the english audio we had worked on. The final version was the Frontier Ranka edition sung in the original pilot special. 
Sadly as her career took off she had to remove all that content and I got nailed as well despite them being covers. Go figure on that. Wish I could bring them back.