Saturday 16 June 2012

Berryz Koubou x C-ute's 'Chou Happy Song' MV

The MV for 'Chou HAPPY SONG', a mash up of the Berryz Koubou album track 'Because Happiness' and the C-ute album cut 'Shiawase no Tochuu', has been uploaded to the official Mobekimasu channel.

You can watch it here.

Personally, I feel that this is a much better release and is undeniably more interesting than that lame graduation song Berikyuu released last November (talk about weird timing). I've got to give the thumbs up to Tsunku for this one for coming up with such an intriguing idea and for writing the 2/3 songs well. Also, I am pleased with the decision to release it as an actual physical single.

Now, onto the MV.
Although it is simple I found this MV a brilliant watch as it was just great fun from start to finish. It also helped that the oufits are rather cute.

The video starts off with Momoko and Airi taking their respective groups album and playing them in the cd player. Rather clever, I thought.

 
There are many scenes in the middle a bit like this one. C-uteness overload.  Actually watching the whole video, Risako really is getting the girls.
The girls change outfits near the end of the video and reappear in these ones that spell out the name of the song.
This shot wraps up the MV nicely.

Overall, I think that this is a great release for the Berryz and C-ute girls and admire how it was executed. A great way to commemorate their 10 year anniversary.

The regular edition of the single can be bought here:


Friday 8 June 2012

ManoEri's 'Song for the Date' MV released

Just recently I was thinking about how much of a great idol Mano Erina is. There is something about her and her style that fuses all the best bits of older 'classic' idols and the idols of today (the so-called warring idols period).

I first saw this new MV for her new single 'Song for the Date' about a week ago after it was streamed on NicoNico. However, since there seemed to be something weird with the balance on the youtube upload of this streaming, I decided to hold off until the full video was released on Mano's official channel. And now it is!

The video is very interesting and is one of the best h!p videos I have seen, well, ever.
The storyline is intriguing, the colour palette effective, the cinematography good. What's not to like?
Add that to the fact that this is a good song sang by a great idol and we have one of the most well rounded h!p releases so far this year. And another bonus is that the covers are fairly bearable.

 
The Limited A cover is my personal favourite
Overall, another success for for Mano Erina as she performs a hat-trick with 'My Days For You', 'Doki Doki Baby / Tasogare Kousaten' and now 'Song for the Date'.

The single can be bought here: