Kappa's BD [P2]

Mano Erina : Coco [ CocoNStorm ]

Lucky Aura by Coco (from cremeproject) / Oh god I am sorry, I hate Mano Erina with a burning passion. I admit that I started listening to this with that bais, but thankfully Coco turned me around quickly—this is so sweet! I have to thank her for making me like this song, because she actually sang it with the personality that I always find Mano lacks for me. She sounds adorable throughout and there’s really not much I can find to critique. This is a lovely dub and it sounds like she worked a lot on it.

Good job to Sayuri on mixing it as well. The vocals are at a good level with the music and that meshing I was talking about in an earlier dub happened here. I would have liked to hear a slightly better quality audio rip so that the wota are clearer and not as center-channel-extracted sounding, but it’s a small thing. I have to give it to you because your mixing has improved a lot since I first heard you!

Overall, a good dub that deserves a listen. Great job, girls!




Abe Natsumi, Ishikawa Rika & Yasuda Kei : Airen [ malajesterices ]
Yaguchi Mari & Niigaki Risa : Hanna [ HannaPulla ]
Iida Kaori : Kokoro [ LoliiKokoro ]
Ogawa Makoto & Ai Takahashi : Naoly [ oONaolyOo ]
Tsuji Nozomi : Valentine [ ValentineDoe ]
Yoshizawa Hitomi : Memoiree [ Memoiree ]
Konno Asami : Ameimii [ Ameimii ]
Kago Ai : Aiko [ ReinaLoverAi ]

Koko ni Iruzee! by Dawn Musume (from Kanashimi Legend) // Koko ni Iruzee… this song is made of, tarred and feathered in, and then drowned in a sea of energy. With a quick read of the info bar, I can tell that the leader realizes that this dub turned out a tad on the low energy side. However, this song is HARD to sound energetic enough in, so I’m more than willing to give a fair listen and overlook that aspect to the rest of what’s going on here.

The quality of voices here is really nice! Most of the cast has some power to them that’s really holding this together well. Some of the soloists that really stood out to me were Valentine, Ameimii, and Aiko. All of them sounded fabulous, although there were a lot of powerful solos in this with a lot of personality. Those three really shone through to me the most though, and struck me as the best at having the full package—the power, the personality, the pitch, and the pronunciation. They nailed it!

I noticed right off the bat that the instrumental seemed really low here, but not in a de-amplified way so much as that it seemed like the gain was turned down. Sometimes I turn down the gain on my instrumentals when I’m timing vocals and forget to turn them back up, so maybe that’s what happened? Anyway, the vocals sound almost like they’d be the right volume had the instrumental been turned up.

It also sounds like there’s a lot of reverb on this that would be helped to be hidden if the music were back at regular level. It’s very possible as well that turning up the instrumental would help the energy of this dub out, since a lot of the feeling of the song is just in the wild instrumentation that’s going on behind the voices!

I love the 'WOW WOW WOW' lines at the end—probably my favorite part of this dub. All of the group parts in here sounded pretty good, though, and this group blends very well, which can be very hard to achieve. I think this group sounds great together and totally has the potential to sound FABULOUS. I enjoyed listening to this!