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Just caught up with C-ute, Mano, and S/mileage's 2012 releases through their YouTube channels last night as a kind of a yearly wrap-up of all the stuff I missed throughout the year. Fortunately I didn't really miss much except for Mano's Doki Doki Baby easily being one of the 3 best H!P songs this year. Her stuff had been lukewarm-to-bad since early 2011, then all of a sudden they just came out with a can of whoop-ass for that single. And unfortunately, its her second to last one ever :(
Its kinda convenient for me to have these fairly organized on YouTube so I don't have to download so much of it and waste my bandwidth and ratio on something that there's a decent chance I won't care for.
And of course, any of Gramps' (Madara's) insights and observations are always welcome and sorely missed in our community!
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Now you've got me subscribing to Mano's channel also, so I just watched that PV. Nice one. A lot of location shooting, plus a budget for costumes and makeup!
But I like Mano's new one, "Next My Self," much better. (Posted on her channel 19 hours ago! Am I finally in the loop or what?) It may be the best new song she's had in, like, three years. I like her new look, too, with the short hair giving her a more mature air (at the age of 21, it's about time). She sounds better than ever also, and moves with more confidence. There's definitely a Maki Goto vibe to the song, a
good thing in my book. Maki would certainly have been given this song once upon a time.
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P.S. I just watched the "Renai Hunter" PV and realized I'd
never seen it before!