Can't. Live. Without. You.

Natsuyaki Miyabi - Hana (KatieWoW123)
Sugaya Risako - Lucy (CherryxJuice)
Tsugunaga Momoko - Hanni (HanniLoreee)
Kumai Yurina - Natsumi (Konatalzumi124)
Tokunaga Chinami - [covered by Belly]
Suodo Maasa - Belly (Rasubelly)
Shimizu Saki - eun mi (eunmijjang)
Ishimura Maiha - [covered by Hana]

Anata Nashi de wa Ikite Yukenai by Amai-Koubou (YokuProject) / For some reason, they have disabled embedding. So I made do with a screenshot and a link. Aya is a thinker! (lol, I love Maasa's expression). Anyways! I'm new to Yoku, and usually with first time writes I do include a little info on the project, but there really isn't anything to include. I need to do some poking around and contact some people, maybe do some interviews. So, I'm going to jump right in!

The mixing is off here and there, but overall not too much. There are other minor mixing things that could be better, but Liz is, as she says, still learning. A convo Kappa and I once had comes to mind; long story short, "You can't be a good mixer by someone telling you what to do every step of the way." - It's just something you have to work at; no one's perfect at it instantly. So even though there are quite a lot of dubs out there that could probably be more well put together, it's a learning process. "Trust me, the experience is invaluable." So props to Liz for her hard work!

There aren't actually any parts where everyone sings together, only a bunch of smaller groups throughout the dub; on these the girls aren't always together, but when they are they sound marvelous. Lucy starts things off really well, solo wise - she's at 0:31, and delivered her line fabulously; she sounds great! Following her is Hana, who is very cute; not a long enough listen for me to say much though. Belly at 0:40, she suits Maasa well with her mature voice, I always like listening to her. My goodness, the solos in this from the start are just one good one after another.

Natsumi at 0:43, I really like her "HAPPII ENDO" though she says the lyrics funky towards the end of her solo. BUT! I pulled out my copy of this Berryz single (hells yeah I own it) cause I was honestly too lazy to wait for a video of it to load, and Natsumi says it how Yurina says it. Which I don't get why it sounds like 'wi no' but props to her for accuracy. 0:48 is another great solo from Lucy! Again followed by Hana, who starts off nice, but goes off key on her "kurai de." 0:53 is Hanni, again not enough to form an opinion; she sounds sweet and seems to have pretty good energy, even if it's not the kind that is like HI!

0:57 is fantastic!!! The pre-chorus is the best group parts in the whole dub. On both times that it occurs in the song, the lines are spilt between two groups, (refer to projecthello's lyrics to see what I mean). The groups are; (A) Eu/Be/Na/Lu and (B) Ha/Be/Ha/Ha. I think that that group A is stronger sounding, made up of more mature voices. And group B has a somewhat lesser volume because their sound is cuter. Both groups sound awesome!! It's kind of a bummer that there is no one singing the manly parts, so as I listened I kind of sang them myself, lol.

Uwah, Lucy really shines in this. Her 1:12 chorus starter solo is really good, on beat and sounding great! Following her is Hanni, who sounds fairly good but her "nai" is a little off key. 1:21 is Hana, and 1:26 is Natsumi - both of which did swell, but their solos don't here don't exactly catch my attention; they have better ones. Lucy seems to split her "aishitai" into too many syllables. Again, I refered to the original, and it's more 'ai shi-tai' than 'a i shi tai' or at least that how it sounds to me.

2. 1. 1. That's the number of solos that Saki, Chinami and Maiha get (in that order). Lameness. But! It actually kind of works out, cause both of the latter two are by covers (Belly & Hana), and the one with the most solos of the three is Eun mi, who only has the part of Saki. Speaking of, her first solo is at 1:42, and she did a good job. But a few seconds before (and a little during), you can hear background noise or something picked up by someone's mic. It would have been cool to have this spot a little cleaner, but it's no biggy.

1:55 is Belly, and frick does she sound good!! I adore her solo here! She also does a magnificent job on her next two Maasa solos. 2:09 is more of the wonderful pre-chorus, leading up to the chorus itself, which basically is all that's left. There is some strain on the higher notes here and there, and I was hoping for a little more umph! on the ending, with the bits of vocalizing by Risako and Miyabi & such, but still, overall I think this is a pretty cool dub!