Misc Reviews by Fae

Hey! Fae here~ So I've been on semi-hiatus due to exams and not able to write my entries here, but I'm finally back! (Only 1 exam left!) I'm sorry some of these entries are so delayed!

First up, SoraProject's Kiss Kiss Kiss. I saw an entry earlier here talking about this same project where they weren't sure of the cast so I did a little searching through the channel and came up with this! I'm sorry if it's wrong. Please put the cast on your videos guys? It makes it a lot easier for us here on Blabodu to write if we know who's singing, and also it makes it easier for people listening to check out other dubs by members of the cast!



Tsugunaga Momoko: rozentorndoll
Natsuyaki Miyabi: Rasubelly
Suzuki Airi: FuonYuri

Kiss Kiss Kiss by Sora Project / The song starts off with Airi, sung by FuonYuri. Her voice is so uber pretty! She really delivers that solo well! She's followed by rozentorndoll. D'awww. She's so cute! The mixer added a critique into the drop down box for her to "Practice lyrics a little too." which I would also advise her to work on. Occasionally her pronunciation and timing is off, but that doesn't detract from the super cuteness!

The chorus is up next and it's great! The girls blend nicely. rozentorndoll can stand out from the other two sometimes but I think this is more related to volume difference than anything else. Sora should work a little on keeping the girls volumes the same, and also turning the volume of the group parts down a little.

At 0:46 we get to hear the first solo from Rasubelly! Her voice is really nice throughout! The mixer also gave a critique for her to watch her high notes in the song. There were a couple of places I could hear Belly struggle with these, but as this is a pretty high song I completely understand! With a little more work I'm sure she'll manage them!

I really liked that Sora added the 'Kiss Kiss Baby' parts in the bridge of the song at 2:52. Her voice is really pretty and it gave this dub a unique feel to it! The song finishes up with another high energy chorus! I really liked that there was a lot of energy coming from all of these girls! It made this really enjoyable to listen to. This group is definitely worth keeping an eye on! I can only suggest working a little more on timing and the other things I've already mentioned!




Shimizu Saki: diabolicbread
Tsugunaga Momoko: Love94Sonic
Tokunaga Chinami: Miriko96
Sudou Maasa: Konata
Natsuyaki Miyabi: Izumi
Kumai Yurina: Stella
Risako Sugaya: Iaukiro
Ishimura Maiha: ?

Piriri to Yukou groupdub (hosted by Iaukiro) / Another dub where the cast list isn't quite clear. I guessed that Maasa was Konata and Miyabi was Izumi, so I'm sorry if I got it wrong! Also, I have no idea who's singing Maiha's part... so I think I'll refer to people by who they're dubbing here!

I really love Piriri to Yukou though! It's definitely one of my favourite Berryz songs. Cute, energetic and solos for everyone; what more do you need?! This cast really did a great job too! I can't help wanted to dance along~ The solos are all pretty short though, so I won't be saying too much about individual voices. The first set of solos is amazing though! The Chinami and Maiha singers sound so adorable! I just want to dive on them and give them a hug! *squeals*

The Maasa and Captain sound super cool in their solos! Their voices are so amazing! I just wish I could hear more of them. Whoever sings as Momo really stood out to me as having tons of energy! I really loved how her line came across! The Risako, Yurina and Miyabi parts all sound great too! There were slight differences in mic quality between people in this, so it would have been nice if they could be fixed. The high pass filter is really helpful in fixing stuff here!

The blending in all the duets is really nice throughout this! As the majority of this song is duets between the same group of people, I'm glad that these groups all blend well! Occasionally there were little dips in energy in these duets, but overall they are all fantastic! The last group "Piriri to Yukou!" sounds great! Carry on spicing things up guys! (Lame pun alert! Haha.)




Rika Ishikawa: Yui [YuiChuru]
Erika Miyoshi: Mizu [AnimeXLover28Kat]
Yui Okada: Belly [Rasubelly]

Kacchoi ze! JAPAN by Shoko! (xKiraKiraProjectx) / This is the debut of a new group from KiraKiraProject! "This group will cover all kind of pop groups that has 3 members and consists out of me, the Leader, and our new pre-gen 2 members." Wow, these girls all blend so well!

The timing in the first group parts is perfect! There does seem to be something missing somehow though, a little extra 'pow!' is needed throughout the song from all the girls. I'm not sure if it's energy missing (although I know Belly normally has good energy, so probably not) ... it seems that everything is muffled? Whatever it is it'd be great if it could be fixed so that I could hear the full power of these girls' voices because they all sound fantastic!

Yui starts the dub off with the Rika solos. Her voice is so pretty and cute! She really delivered her lines well. She's followed by Mizu. Wow, her voice is so mature here. So coool! I love how it sounds. This is followed by more of the epic blending and another gorgeous Yui solo.

Belly sings next. Waahhh, her voice is so nice! I love the way she sings. I really like the 'Hey!' parts in this, for example at 0:56. So energetic! Yui and Mizu both seem to struggle a bit with the high notes in their solos at 1:20 and 2:24. Although Yui manages to pull it off with only a little strain, Mizu's pitching goes a bit off.

The choruses in this are really one of the highlights for me! Aya was saying earlier about how this often seems to be the case for her in dubs and I have to agree. It's lucky really, as the chorus is the part of the song that gets repeated. These girls blend so nicely during the group lines at the end of them and their solos are all fantastic during the choruses.

This song finishes up with one more of these epic choruses "YO! KOSO heiwa" before we hear a last repeat of the "KACCHOI ZE!" section. Yay, blending! Apart from the strange muffling thing this turned out really nicely! The girls all have really unique voices which is nice to hear and I'm sure this group will turn out fantastic. Congrats on debuting!

More Cake + Sora [Tomomomo BBD Debut]

...So hey there, everyone! I'm the Queen of Awkward Moments, also known as Tomo XD I'm supposed to be saying something interesting here, like how it's my debut post on Blabodu, but god, my brain is so dead, so I shall end this run-on sentence and go on blogging.

Erhm. So let's start! Being the lazy person I am, I do not subscribe to many project accounts, therefore I have never heard of Cake Rangers. I, however, do love cake with a passion, so there is some bias present already 8D



Airi: Aznfiregirl
Miyabi: MomoxMochi
Momoko: NanchatteRenai21

The names above don't really ring a bell, and furthermore, I am lagging behind on Buono releases (Last one I heard was probably Rottara LOL), so this will be a very fresh dub for me.

Our Songs / I am liking the guitar so far XD And then we finally hear someone sing! It's Aznfiregirl, at 0:29. Her mic sounds a bit muffled, but she sounds like she's having fun, especially when she sings, "toki sa." After her solo, we hear froom MomoxMochi, who was sadly sick during the recording of this song D: Feel better, Momo! But anyways, she could use some more energy, but her tone is soft and cuddly, which fits Miyabi well XD

And aww, NanchatteRenai21 sounds adorable at 0:35~ We hear some nice vocal blending after her solo, which would have sounded better with some reverb 8) The solos after the first verse are a bit more harder to hear, but I do hear more : D-ness in their lines. Then we get to the chorus, and I am just ;--; at how well the trio blends. Their high note at 1:21 sounds pretty, too ~

We move onto the second half of the song, where I am happy to say we hear more energy from all three dubbers 8D Towards the end, I hear some pitchiness, but that kind of adds to the cuteness of their voices~ There could be a bit more volume-refining, but everything was audible (: Overall, I enjoyed listening to this dub. It makes me actually want to go and listen to the real Buono song LOL XD Great job girls! And hope Momo gets better ;)



Second dub of my debut post... Kokoro no Tamago! Oh my god, this song is so cute, and it makes me nostalgic ;-; I remember when the first episode of Shugo Chara came out LOL. Anyways. Oh dear. It appears to me that SoraProject has not listed the cast in their info box, so I will refer to them as the Airi-dubber, Momo-dubber, and Miya-dubber. XD

We hear some nice group parts that could use more precise timing and some volume management, but you got hear everyone sing together Miya-dubber sings at 0:45, and her voice matches Miyabi so well! It has energy and a slightly more-mature but kawaii feel to it! Momo-dubber was adorable, and I would have enjoyed her solo much more if there wasn't so much of a muffle XD But I like the why she held out her "na~"

Airi-dubber has the most energy in this dub, and she sings well~ I love her, "iwareta tte" lines. Yay, more pretty group parts, and Miya-dubber seriously fits Miyabi so well at 1:07! Momo-dubber's "Zen-zen" had so much sass and was cuteee.

Once more, there was some inconsistency during the group parts, but we hear a lovely solo from Airi-dubber at 2:03! I love the umph to her lines, and she does make a good Airi! Great job, girls! I wish I could know your usernames D:

"Ippai aru mon naritai atashi : D" This inspirational line means, "There are a lot of things I want to be : D"~ Let's all work towards our dreams! And Tomo will sign out now. She has to go jog cause sitting down in front of the computer has made her fat -shot-

Misc Auds

'Yes! You saw right, Shizen Project has opened up auditions for our Generation 4. Generation 4 is like all the other Generations, you will sing songs from Hello!Project Nice Girl!Project and AKB48.' If you get in though, you won't dub as a generation, but you 'will be placed in different sub units.' You need to audition for two of the following;

Yuugure Kusa (Morning Musume, The Possible)
Nichiei Kase (Berryz Koubou, Canary Club)
Amai Chiri (C-ute, Small Units in H!P)
Yasai (Guardians 4, S/mileage, Shugo Chara Eggs)

There will be two rounds in the audition process, for more info watch the video and read the drop-down section. The form for applying is provided, and already a good handful have auditioned, so don't miss out! And also, 'When you get in you will get a fruit or vegetable name in japanese.'

SoraProjects / Hmm, here all of the info is provided in the video, not much is said in the drop-down section - other than which parts are open; basically a full C-ute cast. "There is no deadline at this time, so audition whenever you want." A simple, straight to the point video~

Fuu~

Miyabi~ Belly [Rasubelly]
Airi~ Yuri [FuonYuri]
Momoko~ Rachel [rozentorndoll]

Rottara! Rottara by Sora Projects / This is my first time writing about Sora, since the first time they were reviewed by Kappa. You've gotta love this song; it's adorable and loads of fun. I think it's a bit funky that they did the "honto" "eee" & "nande" parts, but not the "Rottara rottara"s. There is this one dubber, I can't remember who, but whenever she left part of the original singer's vocals in, she'd list it as; Rottara! Rottara! by SoraProject feat. Buono! And that's what this is, since those parts were left in.

0:23 is a fantastic line by Belly, and a great way to start the solos! Throughout the dub her energy is good, she's a sinch pitchy once in a while, and I thought her timing was pretty good. As was pointed out in the comments, Rachel's pronounciation needs work; she stumbled over the words sometimes, and in turn her timing is off now and then. I think she has good emotion when singing, but it'd be nice to hear her with more energy.

Face it y'all, Yuri rocked this dub. Timing, energy, line deliverly, etc - she did a great job on all of it! If I had to pick at something, it'd be that she hit a few off notes. Some more noticable than others, but all of them minorly so. Like her "da" at 0:54 - it sounds like she held it a tiny bit too long, and on the end of it went off; flat, I think. But!! Little things like that are blasted into the abyss of it-doesn't-matter, cause the majority of her solos are awesome!

At 0:34, there is a random "la" sound, right at the end of Belly's solo and the beginning of Rachel's. Just something to take note up, was probably missed during the mixing? Destiny, leader of Sora Project, is still learning and I think she did a pretty swell job. I also heard something at 1:52 - the "hoshii" at the end of Rachel's line sounds cut off, but I'm thinking it's cause her line wasn't timed right, and she would have run right into the following "rottara rottara"s. Again, minor things.

I also like Belly on the third line of the choruses, at 2:12 and 2:23 - I don't know if I've said it before, but she kind of sounds like Miyabi, like, they both have the same tone? If that makes snese. I love love Yuri on the pre-chorus parts, she sings the melody there so well!! Like her solo starting at 0:45; I adore her "ikite." The "dore/kore/are kurai"s of the chorus are not always smooth, but they turned out alright.

Even with the things she could work on, Rachel has a very cute voice! I really like her last solo at 3:27. Her pronounciation and timing were great, and she sounds wonderful on the higher notes. Except for the missing "Rottara rottara"s and the timing & pronounciation stuff, this is a splendid dub!

Kappa's Blabodu Debut! (lol) [P1]

Hi everyone, Kappa here! I’m so excited that Aya’s decided to allow me to invade her cozy home here and throw around my self-obsessed opinions and pretend like anyone cares what I think. :D She’s so good to my ego… Anyway, she gave me a few dubs here to talk about for my first entry, so let’s get to them!


The first one up is a dub by SoraProjects. It seems to be a new group, since I haven’t heard of them before and they only have two dubs on their channel. It’s run by a girl named Destiny, and from the looks of it this is her channel that she’s putting together & hosting dubs on. The two dubs have different casts, so I’m going to assume that she’s (correct me if I’m wrong) not sticking with one cast of members, but asking different people as she chooses songs to participate in them~



Miyabi : Rasubelly
Airi : Fuonyuri
Momoko : rozentorndoll

MY BOY by SoraProjects / The dub on Aya’s sub list she gave me to look at is MY BOY. I absolutely love Buono and this song, so I’m excited to hear this! The first thing I noticed is that all three of the cast members have a good amount of power and energy in their voice, which is great to hear! Oftentimes you’ll find one or two singers that don’t quite match up with the others, but everyone here keeps up with one another, which is great.

Rozentorndoll’s voice is really adorable and has a uniqueness to it that surprised me. Although, I wish her mic were better so we could really hear her clearly. She did have her fair share of lyrical fumbles throughout this, which I can’t totally blame her for, because this song is so fast. Maybe though a little more practice at slower tempos to get the syllables down next time would help—practice with fast Japanese is totally the best way to build up the muscle memory for it. Fuonyuri also seemed to have a few minor problems in the verses that my ear caught.

Rasubelly has another unique voice. Actually, all of these girls sound really different from one another, which is awesome to hear. I think my favorite solos from her were her ‘MY BOY’ and her verse solo at 1:57. She’s got a great tone and feeling to her solos that with a bit of refinement and work could really be awesome.

Fuonyuri was my favorite here, I think. I noted before that she had a few of the iffy pronunciation moments, but I really think she did well here nonetheless. Her solo at 1:31 in the first chorus is my favorite that she did. Although I think she could have used a tiny bit more power and attitude, she handled Airi’s lines nicely and has a nice, clear voice that stood out for me.

On the mixing side of things, I would have liked to hear the vocals turned down. Often songs get mixed with the instrumental : vocal ratio being like 20 : 80 when in reality you can get much closer to even than that without the vocals being too quiet. When I’m mixing, I often play around until I find that perfect spot where the vocals just mesh with the music (this is how I judge how much reverb to use as well).

You have to develop an ear for it, but it gets easier in time. What I was happy to hear in this, though, is that despite that this song is a horror to time, the majority of the solos started and ended where they should. There’s room for some tweaking, but for sure I have heard way too many much more loosely timed MY BOY dubs, so good going on that.

I can’t say for sure anything about the future of this group, since it seems that the cast does change each song, but I think it could really be lovely if Destiny continues to find good singers and works out some of the kinks in her mixing. So I’ll be watching out for the next one!


Hey y'all, Aya here! I can't thank Kappa enough for helping me out. I was kind of in a down mood towards the end of last night, and she again offered to help me out. I jumped at the chance and when I got her file I was blown away by how awesome her reviews are!! The second part will be up soon~