The Aristocratic Houses of Shin Makoku (aka I rewatched it and have forgotten how beautifully complex its worldbuilding is and decided to make my headcanons into this)
Do you know if the KKM Character Song Album is anime or novel canon?
Good question!
The only songs that Takabayashi-sensei wrote are 'Mienai te to te' (見えない手と手) alone, and Van der Via Ondo（ヴァン・ダー・ヴィーア音頭）with GEG.
If we're being 'technical', those would be the only novel canon ones.
However! GEG was thanked for helping in all of the Character Song Albums.
2005
12.07 Kyou kara Maou! Character Song Series Vol.1 Yuuri Shibuya (CV.Takahiro Sakurai)
12.21 Kyou kara Maou! Character Song Series Vol.3 Sir Wolfram von Bielefeld (CV.Mitsuki Saiga)
2006
01.25 Kyou kara Maou! Character Song Series Vol.2 Sir Conrad Weller (CV.Toshiyuki Morikawa)
2007
06.27 Kyo Kara Maoh! Hajimari no Tabi Gakudan
2008
02.27 Kyou kara Maou! Character Song Series Vol.4 Ken Murata (CV.Kouki Miyata)
03.26 Kyou kara Maou! Character Song Series Vol.5 Sir Gunther von Christ (CV.Kazuhiko Inoue)
04.23 Kyou kara Maou! Character Song Series Vol.6 Shiori Shibuya (CV.Katsuyuki Konishi)
2009
07.29 Kyou kara Maou! Yuuri-heika Seitan Kinen!? Omoide no Album
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If you consider maruma's editor as 'assisting' with the albums and 'thanked' part of novel canon, then yes.
Personally? Yes, I take them as 'novel canon'. But only Mienai te to te, and Van der Via ondo as 'canon-canon'.... if you know what I mean :)
Anyway, here's a list of songs referenced in the original:
https://marumafan.tumblr.com/post/176510510004/songs-referenced-in-the-maruma-series
So, they announced last year in January that MaruMA was getting a new manga series called "Kyou Kara Maou! S" that was supposed to come out last summer but it never did, I don't think they ever said why it just didn't happen? I haven't been playing enough attention to this series though. They've just published a few pictures on comicbushi and I swear I was looking at the past pictures a few days ago when they posted chapter 0 for Yuuri's birthday that I just translated but now they've taken them down so I had to search the internet to try to find backups of them... I think I found them all? lol
They might not be the best quality anymore but I didn't think about downloading them when they were still up a few days ago. Since I didn't see that they were going to expire and they had been up for months.
Maybe now that they've published chapter 0 they'll actually start publishing the series.
There's also a short story from Takabayashi that they published for new years that I've been meaning to translate up on the comicbushi website but I saved that months ago I just need to work on it lol.
I also have 2 drama cds that came out in 2018 and 2019 that I am planning on translating soon too.
So here's the translations for these images
The first one of Yuuri and Wolf was published in January 2021 when they announced they were making a new series and it says
"It's still a bit in the future but please look forward to it~! (Matsumoto Temari: artist)
I thought about what the "S" stands for.
Going in order of sa, shi, su, se, so: Surprise! Hot water (Sapuraizu! Sayu), Short! Shishamo (Shoto! Shishamo), Setup! Alderfly (Settoappu! Sennpuri), Sword and Sheild! Soumen (Sodo and Shirudo! Soumen).
Choose whichever you like! (Takabayashi Tomo: Writer) "
(TN: This doesn't make much more sense in Japanese that's as good as I got lol)
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The second one was published for valentines day last year and it says
Yuuri: Japanese chocolate is good, isn't it? That white one has a strawberry in it and this place one has alcohol in it.
Conrad: I like black so if it has brandy in it that's even better
Gwendal: ......
Wolfram: Your retainers shouldn't eat black things, it's disrespectful! ......so I'll take the white one.
Note near Wolf: Black is the color of nobility for Mazoku
Paper on Gunter: Banned from chocolate. (So he doesn't get his juices on them)
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The third one was posted for white day and it says
Note: At the Shibuya Household
Shouri: Last month there was setsubun and national foundation day and this month is the vernal equinox. There's no time for whatever white thing you're talking about
Yuuri: Eh? But there baseball season opens this month, too
Murata: Like I said, this doesn't have anything to do with white day but I baked some cookies
(TN: I feel like there was a second part to this image but I can't find it online.... RIP second part. If you have it let me know lol)
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The fourth picture doesn't say anything it's just for Yuuri's birthday last year.
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