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Showing posts with label number six.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label number six.. Show all posts

Friday, October 13, 2006

Copy Cat Coincidence?

Today, my jaw dropped when I saw the following entry at the Kagrra, LJ community:

Album Art Change
So, for anyone who has been reading Izumi's diary [ or not ]. According to his post on September 30th, Kagrra,'s CD jacket designer will be changed. By this, I assume he meant the artist who drew the DVD, CD, photobook and the like [cover arts].
Why this came to be, I have no idea. All I know is that Fukaya Yuichiro's art became a major trademark for Kagrra,.

Now, compare the quotation above to my previous blog entry. It looks like a paraphrase of what I wrote....
Freaky coincidence or did someone totally rip my post off? Suspicious, very suspicious.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

PV Review: アリス九號. (alice nine.) / NUMBER SIX.



Supposedly, the NUMBER SIX. PV continues the story told in 春夏秋冬 (Shunkashuutou). The alice nine. members are all high school buddies and they have a startup band. They run into conflicts, have shove fights, get broody, then make up and have group hugs. Awww... we're all friends again!

Does this sound like a cheesy high school drama to you?

Because it sure does to me. I lose count how many times I have facepalmed because the PV is literally dripping with syrupy sap. Guys, even though you have a youthful image, most of you are in the mid-twenties. Dear god, if you must pretend to be high school band kids, you should at least tone down the mushiness. Not to mention, this kind of plot is pretty damn trite. We see it in dramas all the time; must you also inflict it upon us in your PV, too?

Had I been say... 12 years old, I'd have found this love-dovey-ness cute and endearing. alice nine. group hug, yay! But sadly, I'm not. So this PV gets a...

Rating: Tolerable

Update:

I heard rumors that Tora was the one who directed wrote the storyline for this PV. If this is true... well, I apologize to him for not liking his work. It really isn't to my taste. I'm only talking about the PV, not the music here. I know for a fact that he composed the song. However, I still haven't formed an opinion about the song yet. I'll have to digest it some more.