[2018.05.09] ANGERME - Nakanai ze...Kyoukan Sagi / Uraha=Lover / Kimi Dake ja nai sa...friends (2018 Acoustic Ver.)

[Solarblade]

Announced today during ANGERME's radio show and later confirmed on the official site
 
http://www.helloproject.com/release/detail/HKCN-50553/
 
Also it's credited as their 24th single, meaning that Manner Mode / Kisoku Tadashiku Utsukushiku / Kimi Dake ja nai sa...friends was not counted as an official single

[Anderei]

I didn't wait nearly half a year for an acoustic version of Kimi Dake.

[Revangelis]

Really? That is the third A-side, an acoustic version of Kimi Dake? I'm disappointed, the other songs had better be good.

[DonJuan]

2 new songs are as much as Kobushi gets, so I'm just happy that they release a single soon. 

[Solarblade]

Small update, main site calls the 3rd A-side, "Kimi Dake ja nai sa...friends (2018 Acoustic Ver.)

[Anderei]

Outfits for Nakanai ze

[momoirosaya]

Get that Center Rikako!

[momoirosaya]

Uruha=Lover Radio Rip
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://youtu.be/2bsqnCsh1ug' class="bbc_url" title="External link">https://youtu.be/2bsqnCsh1ug</a>

[Anderei]

I don’t know about it just yet. For a radio rip it sounds kind of low quality?

[Revangelis]

The covers are out
 

Lim A

Red A

Lim B

Reg B

Lim C

Reg C

Special

[Anderei]

Eh

[DonJuan]

Very H!P, nothing special. The costumes for Uraha=Lover seem to be pretty meh though.

[Anderei]

I kind of like tbe idea behind them but not the execution.

[Elpis]

I like Regular C and Limited C the best and I’m normally not a fan of the white outfits that get used every single.

[TicTacAnyone]

"Special" makes me want to vomit.... How could they even....

[Zange]

Were... were the squares on Regular A really a necessary detail, H!P?
 
Meanwhile, Special looks like a straight-up mess. They could have at least put the members with their three costumes in boxes that were just their member color instead of... this deal with the shapes/colors.

[Farrah]

Nakanai ze video.
 
Well, it's super cheap and the peach toned scenes are kind of ugly to me when paired alongside the 3D glasses and that hideous typography but I think the song is a bop & the vaporwave color scheme of the dance scenes is really pretty. and I love how shiny that fucking floor is lmao 


Can I just say I had no idea Musubu had such a solid voice (by j-idol standards, obviously)?  That has been a really pleasant surprise for me in this single.  It's really nice to hear a lower tone in ANGERME, Kana alone wasn't enough imo.  Murotan also sounds way nicer than usual and I'm wondering if she's started taking singing lessons or something. 

[Anderei]

It’s funny you say that because on H!O people are talking about how bad she sounds lol

[Farrah]

Welp, idol fans aren't generally known for their great knowledge of vocal technique I suppose :p  Sudden flashbacks to that time I saw someone non-ironically compare Takahashi to Mariah Carey...

[Zange]

Can I just say how much I love when HP puts these sneaky little references to the member colors in the MVs? They did it in JJ's Vivid Midnight (drinks/straws) and they just did here it with Nakanai ze, too (the member silhouettes on the colored backgrounds in parts of the second verse/chorus).
 
As much as I love the 3D glasses, I must be missing something bc I have no idea why those were put in. Not the biggest fan of the dance but other than that, it's a good song/PV.

[TicTacAnyone]

Were they 3D glasses? I was figuring they were going for more of a Lennon glasses sort of look paired w/ the idea of watching a 3D movie? They reference "Americans" crying while watching a movie, but they give those scenes a British feel, lmao. Please don't tell me creative directors in Japan still think the UK/US are the same culturally?
 
 

[momoirosaya]

Those style of glasses are really fashionable right now.

[DonJuan]

H!S preview of Uraha=Lover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZeB1vyGomE&feature=youtu.be&t=47s

[Solarblade]

Just looking at the thread and the recent preview for Uraha...I think those glasses would've made sense in that PV than Kyoukan Sagi lol

[TicTacAnyone]

I'm really pleased they seem to be making Rikako more and more into a front girl/center position. I know not everyone will like it but I think it's a good plan ;)

[Anderei]

They’ll give up on her when her voice cracks for the fiftieth time. They’ll never make her center, she doesn’t have the popularity or the right personality for it.


I’m buying it still but this single blows. I don’t like any of these songs.

[DonJuan]

I think Nakanai ze is quite catchy, but it's not super catchy. Unfortunately this will be another pass for me as a whole, too.


Rikako is a great visual member, but I'd really prefer management to give more lines to Takechan, Moe or even Reina. Or maybe Funakki.

[momoirosaya]

^Do you mean Rina?

[DonJuan]

Oops, yeah I mean Rina haha.

[honey]

None of these songs are bops. I’m pretty disappointed by this one. :(