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Just learned she did the vocals for iwrestledabearonce (her husband, the guitarist, was also IWABO's as well) ... Holy shitttt, what an improvement.

The intro and bridge give me goosebumps every time.

Off the top of my head, Acid Black Cherry's "Recreation" series is a fantastic set of 80's/90's J-pop hit covers. Obviously, most of the songs get blocked on YT b/c Motorod is under Avex, but here's one I found from "Recreation 4": Reimy (Original | 1984) & Acid Black Cherry (Cover | 2014) - 青春のリグレット (Seishun no Regret) I prefer Acid Black Cherry's version & the 松任谷由実 (Yumi Matsuyoya) cover. Other Miscellaneous Covers (does Utaite count?) :

Weird... I don't exactly hate it (?) The potential is there, they just need a better concept, lol.

AESTHETIC at an all-time high w/ these two *_*.

The band will be releasing 4-week consecutive singles starting 3/2, the first of which being 「其れでも花よ、咲け。」(Soredemo Hana yo, Sake).

00:11 - 00:27 actually sounded pretty nice. I feel like Chanrika benefits so much from his mid-lower vocal register (kinda flipped from ex-RonoCro Minami) imo. I found Toon Factory up my alley, so idk why I have a hard time w/ Alphalia. Maybe I'll change my mind w/ this album.

"We're fat because we eat too many sweets, and we're intellectually lazy because we like too much sweet talk." QOTY

Are 3/5 members ex-LIEVRE CLAY? That doesn't look like Shion's face...I think? I'm bad w/ vk faces unless they're really distinct. That nasally voice in the chorus especially the "advance" sounds a lot like Shion. TIL I forgot LAVANS existed, so I'm back to having no clue who they are (aside from Gu.) Anyway, I really like how they sound, so I'll be keeping an eye on them :D.

Getting a bit of Ray C°-ballad vibes from this, which is always welcome. While the single might not please everyone, it's absolutely up my alley. They all look stunning too... Mikoto might be a bit too much, lol.

Yooooo- Welcome Back!!!

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Ended up finally buying a SNES controller for the PC which means emulation galore. Currently rotating between Umihara Kawase and Kirby's Dreamland 3. Both are uber relaxing w/ cute visuals and not huge time investments. I'm really tempted to start Super Mario RPG since I personally haven't played it, but watched people play it as a small child.

Hikarito is no doubt a great composer, arranger, musician, etc., but I feel w/ him constantly pulling the strings to everything has lead to the sameishness some of us are noticing. I wouldn't mind AIOLIN experimenting w/ new concepts (like forgoing the violin for a few tracks, working w/ other composers, etc.), even if it meant a slight decrease in quality. Though AIOLIN is really centered on that "classical" element, so it's hard for me to think of any alternatives other than just experimentation. (Out of all the bands w/ "sameishness problems" this one is the most forgivable b/c they're top notch. My rambling leans more towards personal preference.)

Oh, this one is particularly hilarious. The only reason why the series is getting animated is b/c the author also did Koe de Oshigoto!, which is another similarly (if not more) raunchy series that somehow got animated. The manga has been around since 2017, and NO GROUP has bothered to scanlate it. With all the shitty manga that gets translated on a regular basis, that says something, lmao. There are some series in that territory that are redeemable, depending on the comedy, but I'll only approach any of them in print. It helps me weed out the bs.

LOL. This season will probably be trash to most people (aside from the continued series), but I've read a couple of these, so I can give some insight. Kenja no Mago Isekai fodder. Mildly interesting since it has trash-Harry Potter vibes, but it's pretty meh like most isekai series. Main hero is so OP that the story just drolls on. I've read most of it, but have it stalled b/c it's gotten pretty boring imo. Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai Yep, Bokuben and Moeyuki are getting animated :D. If you liked Nisekoi or any other school-life/slice-of-life/rom-com series, you're going to like this one. I actually prefer this over Nisekoi b/c the characters are better. Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai I dropped this one. Too ecchi centric. Senryuu Shoujo This is one of the series I really like as it's pretty cute, and the comedy w/ the 5-7-5 is refreshing. Would recommend. Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san Another one of those series w/ a several hundred-year-old loli. It's cute, but it really plays to a certain audience >_>. I've stalled the manga simply because it feels very episodic and the content is not that interesting. Hitoribocchi no ○○ Seikatsu This one is cute and funny. Its comedy is centered around the main character's social anxiety, and leads to some interesting situations. It's also been memed to hell. Joshi Kausei I read some chapters of this a couple years ago. The series has no dialogue, but it's not particularly bad (?). I'm curious as to how this is going to work, since It'll probably come off really lazy without any dialogue.

I've been bouncing between cooking Teriyaki Chicken and Traditional Chinese Sweet & Sour Pork since they're hella easy to make. I made the former just a while ago, but I only had Mirin. Still pretty good tho. I'll have to pick up more Sake this week at one of the Asian stores b/c the local Walmart stopped stocking the brand I use ;_;.