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http://mm-bbs.org/index.php?showtopic=5199&p=198933" title="">My thoughts posted int the UFP/OG thread</a> when it was released still apply:</div>
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<div>That cover is a perfect representation of the music: Meh. It's not that any of the songs are bad -- and Kaori sounds fine on all of them -- but it's completely one-dimensional. The songs just blur together to the point where it's hard to discern where one ends and the next begins. Koari's delivery is exactly the same for every song, because the arrangements are exactly the same for every song*. And can we please stop raping the corpse of "Morning Coffee"? </div>
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<div>I think a lot of fans will like this, because it's Iida and she sounds pretty good, but I was hoping for something a bit less stultifying and a bit more satisfying.</div>
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<div>*Yes, I know I'm basing this on :45 clips, but I'm also guessing the chance that any of the arrangements contain radical transitions approaches zero.</div>
Portuguese as a language is very close to Spanish in all but pronunciation (it's very cute in how different it sounds), and since I've been learning Spanish (with a tiiiny bit of Portuguese), it'd be fun to see how much I can understand.
