HP RRs + HPD48

At the end of July, Hana Project consecutively re-released a number of AKB48 dubs by their HP All ☆ Stars group. They're dubs that the project "originally posted with PVs and had to hide in order to avoid getting our account deleted." (Kappa, leader).

Five of the seven singles are from late 2009, so it's reasonable that the sound of their recently sung / mixed / produced dubs is going to differ from HP 4 to 11 months ago. I think they've sounded amazing from the moment I first discovered them (which was because of Kiri aka Rae), they just keep getting better and better!!

Now, moving on to the tracks! I'm just going to list them for y'all. In the image up there, the dubs are listed in order (left to right, top to bottom) of oldest release date to the latest release date. But I'll include that info and more as I go~

Hana Pro's AKB48 RRs

10nen Sakura [09/19/2009] download
SKR48's 1st track from their 2nd single
Participating members: Kinsenka, Aoi, Sayuri,
Kisuisen, Tsubaki, Mizuki, Akizakura, Shobu

Keibetsu Shiteita Aijou [10/03/2009] download
HP All ☆ Stars' second single
Participating members: Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 3

Oogoe Diamond [10/08/2009] download
SKR48's 2nd track from their 3rd single
Participating members: Himawari, Sayuri, Akizakura
Shobu, Mizuki, Kinsenka, Kisuisen, Tsubaki

RIVER (Remastered Ver) [10/30/2009] download
SKR48's 1st track from their 4th single
Participating members: Sayuri, Kinsenka, Kisuisen,
Tsubaki, Himawari, Akizakura, Mizuki, Shobu, Kiku

BINGO! [12/01/2009] download
HP All ☆ Stars' fourth single
Participating members: Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 3, Gen 4

Hatsukoi Dash [02/04/2010] download
Tane's B-side of their sixth single
Participating members: Kiri,
Rina, Nadeshiko, Botan, Asagao

Romance, Irane [05/02/2010] download
SKR48's 1st track from their 7th single
Participating members: Tsubaki, Shobu, Mizuki
Asagao, Akizakura, Sayuri, Aoi, Kiri, Himawari, Kinsenka

HanaDedicationAlbum48

I'm always catching up with what the Hana girls have sung, but happily so. I download my fave stuff whenever I can for easy listening and then play them until my mediaplayer (if it were capable) hates me, lol. And if y'all remember, HanaPro is currently working on their HPD48 dedication album!! I can never get enough of the dubs they've already released for it!

And since we're on the subject;



I will admit that when it comes to HPD48, I went for the song that I knew right off (plus Iiwake Maybe was the first AKB song I remember hearing, so it's somewhat special to me). Then I gave the others a listen and fell in love with them one by one.

This dub I downloaded along with the rest, but it took a while to grow on me. I love the vocals, but the song wasn't an instant like. I put it on my HPD playlist and would cycle through the songs and after a bit I'd find myself singing "HAATO gata UIRUSU ni" ~ with Aoi, Ibara and Kanna's voices filling my mind.

After I starting thinking today; hmm I wanna blog about Hana soon- I was debating between the re-releases or something else by HP. And then when I was looking to see if there was any info on the re-releases on Hana's blog, I came across Aoi's entry, at the end of which she said, "Speaking of AKB48, there’s still the HPD48 dedication album that’s in the works. Once it’s all finished, I will write a massive blog post on it." And that was that!

Kojima Haruna: Ibara [ chiiayu ]
Kawasaki Nozomi: Kanna [ tokidokihaato ]
Oshima Mai: Aoi [ chocolateblakberri ]

Heart Gata Virus / Oh my gaaaawsh, these girls are SO GOOOOD! What would I do without Hana, seriously?! I feed my addiction in some way every day, and maybe suppliers are not cool people in other situations, but in this one; Hana's welcome to provide me with the means to a new high any time.

Ibara has the first solo, and boy is she ear-dazzling!! Following is the goddess of all things kawaii who just rocks your world; Aoi! Then at 0:20 it's the mega lovely+adorable Kanna, I really like her "nazuita" ~ In the verses, each girl gets two solos- I'm glad you get a good chance to hear them all! The rest of the solos in the first set of lines are; Ao (0:26), Ka (0:29), and last is Ibara, I love her pretty "datta no ni" at 0:35.

The pre-chorus in this song is awesome! Aoi sings it the first time around at 0:38, and it's all too fantastic to only mention one part of it, because I love her every word!! kjfehkfj kfjhekjf. 0:49 is Ib/Ka, who sound wonderful as a pair! Both of their lines are terrific! They lead into the chorus; YAY blending raburabu! Gaaaah, these girls totally PWN this song and it's melodies!

I love how epically the chorus turned out! Every second of the vocals is brilliant! Again, it's hard to pick out parts to mention when the whole thing's spectacular! Though I'll say that I adore the "nai wa" at 1:11. Afterwards, it's on to the second verse; I wish the girls didn't have the same exact lines. I really like the endings of the third lines, and you got to hear Kanna and Ibara on that part, but not Aoi.

But regardless of whoever has whichever lines it's all deserving of, oh I don't know, about a kajillion sparkly stars!!! Solos are Ib (1:37, 1:54ish) and Ao (1:40, 1:48ish). I like Kanna's "iru kedo" (1:46) as well as her 1:51ish line. On the kickbutt pre-chorus is Ao/Ka (2:12ish), who sound fabulous together! And then the remainder of the dub is mostly chorus, all except for the splendid speaking part at 2:49 by Ibara.

This dub is busting at it's pretty little seams with emotion and excellent singing from this trio of epic exceptionally talented girls who enchant your ears in such a way that you can't help but enjoy listening. Give it a listen y'all.