CSS ~ MPR [C] Part 1

I've been overlooking CSS lately, but it's mostly because the last few dubs just happened to be songs that I'd written about quite a bit, lol. So I am going to briefly share the new stuff with y'all~



Erika Miyoshi: NaeHoshiChan
Okada Yui: Hikaraseru
Rika Ishikawa: ChiiAyu

Nan ni mo Iwazu ni I LOVE YOU / I'm not crazy about this song, but the chorus does have a lovely melody. The mini one in the beginning at 0:23 is really pretty. Okay so, I tried getting into this and I couldn't. I feel so lame, cause I tried to write this entry last night and failed. The song puts me off. But you should listen to this!



Reina Tanaka: NekoChanNyanNyan
Eri Kamei: HannahChan97
Risa Niigaki: Airuchu
Sayumi Michisige: Giselledesu
Ai Takahashi and rest of the MM people: ChiiAyu

Naichau Kamo / I admit it ~ I LOVE this song. It's so good & catchy. And has great melodies. This dub of it is fantastic!! I really like the pre-chorus parts; the girls sound awesome together, and I especially adore the harmonies. All of the singing is superb, everyone did a great job! Overall this is terrific! Lol, I already have like, three dubs of this on my compy or something, but I wouldn't mind having this MP3~



Yuuka Maeda: HannaPulla
Reina Tanaka: Hirokibaby
Ai Takahashi: Konaneko93
Maimi Yajima: ChiiAyu
Saki Shimizu: Marianahime

Kioku no Meiro / D'aw this is such a great cast!! So much talent and epicness. I've only ever heard the duet version of this song, with Ai and Reina - so I was excited to see that it's a full-cast this time! Frick I am so sleepy, which means my writing sucks right now y'all, sorry. The opening solos alone are wonderful+pretty. Ayuchan makes a smashing Maimi! and all the other girls sang their parts super splendidly! I really like this song too.

So yeah, the main point of this entry, besides sharing with you is to say; CHECK OUT CSS DUBS. THEY ROCK~ Ayuchan is amazing and all the work she does to include other dubbers in her groupdubs is so cool.

Morning Crew [CSS]

CAST: Leader Kinpatsu as Maki Goto
[ ChiiAyu, aka ~ Ayuchan, Karen, etc]

SamusHikaru as Abe Natsumi
Kotarou as Ichii Sayaka
BruN as Iida Kaori
Hana as Yuko Nakazawa
BlaCKberry as Kei Yasuda
Madi as Mari Yaguchi

Koi No Dance Site by Morning Crew (all vocals; ChiiAyu) / THIS IS SO EPIC ! ! I love MC's videos, and Karen sounds amazing. I'll admit, I couldn't help but giggle now and then, but it's cause it's fun to watch other people having such fun dancing about to a H!P song. Especially this song, lol. I remember covering it on my H!PE blog, thinking how silly it is & how funky parts of it are. But listening to Karen sing it is addicting.

I took a few screencaps for fun and as visual to my blabbing. L O L. I saved this one as Karen_rawr. This is from the beginning when it flashes quickly through the cast from member to member. I adore the little pink hair things, they look fabulous on her and add color to her close-ups.

I don't think I know anyone in MC besides Karen, but they are all fantastic! The dancing is really fun to watch, both the group parts & when they're dancing solo or in mini-groups of two or three. As for the image; Karen is front right, BruN is front left, Hana is in the middle, and Kotaru is in the one in red.

I only know who's who because I remembered that in the preview/trailer for this (which was released about two weeks before the actual video was uploaded), it listed the cast. I was really happy that I thought of it, since otherwise I wouldn't be able to refer to people by name. Oh! & MC has a 2nd generation, both of which are in this (Madi & BlaCKberry) - I love that Karen's mom is so supportive; she's adorable.

I really like Karen's white and black dress outfit (shown in previous image), but I love her in this camo coat outfit with her hair down. She is such a great dancer, always moving with lots of energy. One thing that totally makes this cover so awesome is the emotion that everyone displays! Many expressions people made had me laughing.

Kotaru is loads of fun to watch; the cowboy hat with the whistle is great. I really like SamusHikaru's hair in the little ponytails, it's so cute! Lots of nice smiles too. BruN dances with a lot of gusto, she has very sure movements. Hana makes some pretty funny faces too, I really like when her and Kotaru dance together.

I'm too lazy with the free form select in MS paint, lol. Here are these four! I love love love that they all had the little dots between the eyes a lot of the time. Okay, enough screencapping. I really enjoyed this cover! Karen pwned this song!! When I heard it was MC's next, at first I was like; meh, okay. Then I saw the preview and my interest was up, and now that I've seen/heard it, I've got to say; Karen makes this song smashing!

CSS [Shared Vids]

Chiiayuchan is epic. Amazing singer, great dancer, very fun/funny to watch, and a delight to listen to. I've always enjoyed the dubs released by CSS, and I adored Morning Crew's debut! A day or two ago the channel put out a preview of their next singing&dancing cover, Koi no dance site.



I am so looking forward to this, because I immensely enjoyed their Mr moonlight Ai no big ban release. And I just know that this cover is going to very amusing on top of being ear pleasing (Tsunku was high when he wrote this or something). If you haven't listened to Morning Crew's first single, I strongly suggest you do so NAO. *shamelessly plugs* (click teh image below to watch)

*gets mini sidetracked watching Mr moonlight* LOL. I love this. So much. I can't stop smiling or giggling as I watch/listen. Chiiayuchan is fantastic. Anyways! The other point to this entry is that after seeing the preview and stopping by the CSS channel I noticed that they have a blog! So of course I had to give y'all a link so y'all can check it out too!

Annnnnnd! A month+ ago Chii interviewed Rae! HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?! Rae's favorite color is pink! Which is cool cause I was talking to her today and told her that my dad picked up the (bubblewrap-lined) envelope I need to send her stuff, and I was like "Wait until you get it in the mail. It is very pink LOL" and she was all "I love pinkkk."

She listed 'stalking Risa Niigaki' as one of her hobbies. Her dream other than singing; "I want to do my Sayumi impression for Sayumi." ILU RAEBEE. You can read the whole interview over on CSS' blog. Chiiayuchan also did an entry about herself! And y'all can also find a full list of CSS releases, from all the groups.




Okada Yui: Rixie [ RixieMixiePixieDixie ]
Erika Miyoshi: ReiRei [ Hitsugaya486 ]
Rika Ishikawa: ChiiAyu

Here is CSS' latest groupdub, Koisuru Angel Heart. Wonderful as always. I really liked the chorus, and Karen sounds freaking fantastic! ReiRei and Rixie both did fabulous as well! Some minor pitchiness but I like the enthusiasm. I adored the two of them on the "Koisuru Angel Heart" parts, they sound awesome together. The instrumental seems too loud, but that could just be on my end, idk. This is a lovely release.

Misc Project Recent Releases~

I had just started into this when my older sister asked me to help her with highlighting her hair. So I spent most of my morning pulling little pieces of hair through a cap with holes in it, followed by wearing gloves and wielding a flat sticky-thing & purple colored goo. Fun fun. But her best friend is getting married today and she's the maid of honor; so I helped her out.

Darnit, I think my allergies are acting up. I guess you can develop them, cause I never had'em before last year and now I'm getting them again. My head hurts a little, & I sniffling. On top of that I'm mega hungry. But y'all know what?

I'm in a fabulous mood~ You bodily functionings won't get me down! Can't promise that my entries this will be utterly fabulous right now though, lol. Anywho, onwards!!




Nytefaerie: Konkon---Kusumi Koharu
Luinestel23: Takahashi Ai---Makoto Ogawa
AikoAki: Reina Tanaka---Sayumi Michiige
Therealallisons: Risa Niigaki---Eri Kamei
ChiiAyu: Hitomi Yoshizawa---Miki Fujimoto

Iroppoi Jirettai from CSS (hosted by Chiiayu) / This song has grown on me so much; I love it. And anything by CSS is awesome! Thanks to Chiiayuchan for sharing with me ♥ This is a really great group; the duets are marvelous, I adore the chorus, the blending is consistent and wonderful, and I really liked the "SEXY ISLANDS" in this. I won't be fully covering, since I wrote a freaking book on the other Iroppoi Jirettai dub I listened to. But everyone sounds really really good!!

I noticed that sometimes people dueted with themselves, lol. The first solo by Luinestel niggled at my mind, and then I double checked and saw that it was all her. But this song had a lot of parts and was dubbed with half the number of girls, so it makes sense. Nice mixing! There were oodles of super parts that I could ramble on about, I'm sure. But let's just say I loved this to lovely little pieces~




Rixie // RixieMixiePixieDixie (Ai's chipmunky solo)
Mitsuki // MitsukiUsagii (Reina's chipmunky solo)
Okie // DivaDagger (Eri's chipmunky solo)
Hikki // Disturbedstrawberry (Risa's chipmunky solo)

Kimagure Princess (Autotuned) a Pinky♡Team Leader Special / At first I didn't read the note about autotune in the title, and as I was glancing at comments before clicking the drop-down section I spotted the word 'chipmunky'. It was then that I realized, and right after that I heard the first line. I have to say that this is good LOL-value. Autotune can sound really cool, but combined with chipmunky it's kind of funny.

I know someone said once (I think it was Rae?) that you have to be careful with your pitching and other things, when planning to use autotune. In this dub you do hear a lot of funky notes and some dischord on group parts; but it's due to the autotune. With that knowledge, it's easy to overlook the minor things and just enjoy listening.

Aside from the chuckles this got out of me, there were some great parts! I really liked a lot of the solos, especially on the high-ish held notes, like on the "Ii ja nai" parts. But so so many other lines with long ending notes sound fantastic. The "kuru" at 1:05 was so pretty. Frick, all the girls did kick-butt on their lines! These four blew my mind a little on the chorus.




Takahashi Minami : Kinsenka [ shockingbuggy ]
Nakanishi Rina : Shobu [ yumestarlet02 ]
Itano Tomomi : Kasumisou [ natsujisen ]
Maeda Atsuko : Kikyo [ tomokyohamasaki ]

Nageki no Figure by SKR48 (HanaPro) / The second installment of redo month for SKR, from their eighth single; RESET. This song is a bit too repetitive for my tastes, but the gals all sound magnificent. I couldn't bring myself to listen to it more than five times, sorry; the song just annoys me too much.

But if I focus on the solos, to each of the girls' parts; it's wonderful!! These four all have great voices, a nice mix of lovely and cute, and they all blend well together. Kasumisou and Kikyo (both Gen 5 members) from Tane guest starred, and this is actually their debut! Congrats ladies!