Pick Up Review
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=LOVE 6th Anniversary Premium Concert [Type C]=LOVEVery high quality show
As usual, EQUAL LOVE offers us here a very high quality show. Everything is perfect, meticulously interpreted. As in the previous concert, there is a group of musicians who accompany the young women on some songs, and this gives a very rock and roll atmosphere at times (be careful though, the sound level is rather loud!). Technically, for the DVD, whether in the field of image or sound, we are dealing with a very high quality work, this is also the case for all the concerts of this group. I can judge it like this because I have them all. I wanted to thank and congratulate each of the young women in the group: Otani Emiri Oba Hana Otoshima Risa Saito Kiara Sasaki Maika Takamatsu Hitomi Takiwaki Shoko Noguchi Iori Morohashi Sana Yamamoto Anna And I don't forget Sashihara Rino, whom I discovered with pleasure in old concerts of AKB48 and HKT48 (their golden age): the path traveled since the beginning is rather impressive. Here is a person who has many talents! EQUAL LOVE's shows are all the more enjoyable because there is never any music or singing that is more or less aggressive, everything is very harmonious, and I repeat, particularly well done. The costumes are always very pretty, even extremely pretty, and very elegant, and they are worn by very elegant young women. The stage sets become more sophisticated as the years go by, but never anything useless, gigantic, excessive, here again everything is very elegant. In summary, if you want shows of very high artistic quality, I recommend EQUAL LOVE without any reservation.
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Machigai ja Nai Naitari Shinai / Skip Skip Skip / Kimi to Boku no Kizuna feat. KIKI [CD+Blu-ray / Limited Edition / Type SP]Tsubaki-factoryTsubaki Christmas Cheer
This SP release of Tsubaki Factory's 10th major single, is of special note for it's bonus Blu-ray contents. The tracks on the CD are: 01 Machigai ja nai Naitari Shinai 02 Skip-Skip-Skip 03 Kimi to Boku no Kizuna feat. KIKI 04 Machigai ja nai Naitari Shinai (Instrumental) 05 Skip-Skip-Skip (Instrumental) 06 Kimi to Boku no Kizuna feat. KIKI (Instrumental) Limited Edition SP Blu-ray has two groups of items. The 1st group is the music videos and interview: 01 Machigai ja nai Naitari Shinai (feat. Kiki Asakura Ver.) 02 Skip-Skip-Skip (feat. Kiki Asakura Ver.) 03 Kimi to Boku no Kizuna feat. KIKI (You & KIKI Ver.) 04 Kiki Asakura Interview The 2nd group is a Live Christmas concert. 6 songs are performed by Tsubaki Factory as a whole and 6 are performed by specific members as indicated below: Tsubaki Factory Major Debut 5 Shuunen Kinen! SPOOX MUSIC ~Tsubaki Factory Xmas LIVE~ 01 Opening 02 Teion Yakedo 03 Yowasa ja nai yo, Koi wa 04 Saijoukyuu Story 05 MC 06 100kai no KISS (Aya Matsuura cover by Kiki Asakura) 07 Aitai Lonely Christmas (C-ute cover by Riko Yamagishi, Kisora Niinuma, Ami Tanimoto, Yumeno Kishimoto, and Kiki Asakura) 08 Pittari Shitai X'mas! (Petitmoni cover by Mizuho Ono, Saori Onoda, and Mao Akiyama) 09 Oujisama to Yuki no Yoru (Tanpopo cover by Yuumi Kasai, Shiori Yagi, Marine Fukuda, and Runo Yufu) 10 Kimi wa Jitensha Watashi wa Densha de Kitaku (Winter Ver.) (C-ute cover by Riko Yamagishi, Kisora Niinuma, Ami Tanimoto, Yumeno Kishimoto, and Kiki Asakura) 11 MC 12 Yuki no Planetarium 13 I Need You ~Yozora no Kanransha~ 14 MC 15 My Darling ~Do You Love Me?~ Bonus Track Sexy Snow (W cover by Shiori Yagi and Marin Fukuda) This Christmas Concert is the main reason to acquire this disc. Enjoyable renditions and updates of older H!P classics.
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Legend - Metal Galaxy (Metal Galaxy World Tour In Japan Extra Show) [Regular Edition]BABYMETALExtraordinary show!
If you want to see and hear lots of different songs performed live by Babymetal, this is the perfect choice. Each Blu-ray has a totally different concert, mainly performing the Metal Galaxy album and so many classics from the first two albums. The video quality and audio are very good. The energy you can feel watching the shows is incredible. Highly recommended. The shipment to Mexico was excellent!
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BABYMETAL [Regular Edition]BABYMETALamazing first album
their first album is definitely the best. a mix of metal and kawaii. a highly recommended album to all babymetal fans.
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0 to 1 no Aida [w/ 3CD+DVD, Limited Edition / Complete Singles]AKB48Nice
Awesome album and a nice collection of singles. Arrived early and in great packaging. All cds were clean and played well.
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Nogizaka46 Mai Shiraishi Photobook "Passport"Kazutaka NakamuraCool
Arrived early and had Nice quality. I enjoyed her various styles. She has versatility in modeling. Like cute, cool, fierce, casual
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Hello! Project presents . . . "Solo Fes!"Hello! ProjectH!P Solo Performances Festival #1
This 2 Disc Blu-ray set presents the July 4th 2020 TV special in which the members of all the Hello!Project groups each get to perform an H!P song (chosen by the fans), as a solo artist and also being allowed to present it with a personal touch if they so wish. Some do a special dance, or a play an instrument or find some other unique thing to do while performing their song. The special runs 4 hours and 50 minutes over the 2 discs. The 2nd disc also features a 45 minute behind the scenes special. 2400 characters isn't enough to go into much detail regarding this release. However, if you're a fan of any of these members, you should enjoy seeing them having an opportunity to shine on their own. Also, you might even gain a new appreciation for members that you weren't a fan of. The members in this special in order of appearance are: Disc One (2:25:25) 01 Kurumi Takase 02 Masaki Sato 03 Rei Inoue 04 Musubu Funaki 05 Chisaki Morito 06 Homare Okamura 07 Reina Yokoyama 08 Sayuki Takagi 09 Minami Okamura 10 Rika Shimakura 11 Ayumi Ishida 12 Miki Nonaka 13 Miyo Hirai 14 Rio Kitagawa 15 Sakura Oda 16 Mizuki Fukumura 17 Erina Ikuta 18 Utano Satoyoshi 19 Kiki Asakura 20 Manaka Inaba 21 Layla Ise 22 Yumeno Kishimoto 23 Riai Matsunaga 24 Riko Yamagishi 25 Honoka Kobayashi 26 Ami Tanimoto Disc Two (2:24:56) 27 Ruru Dambara 28 Akari Uemura 29 Saya Eguchi 30 Rikako Sasaki 31 Moe Kamikokuryo 32 Shiori Nishida 33 Maria Makino 34 Akane Haga 35 Kisora Niinuma 36 Mizuho Ono 37 Ayano Kawamura 38 Tomoko Kanazawa 39 Karin Miyamoto 40 Momona Kasahara 41 Mei Yamazaki 42 Mao Akiyama 43 Kaede Kaga 44 Yuhane Yamazaki 45 Kokoro Maeda 46 Saori Onoda 47 Reina Ichioka 48 Yume Kudo 49 Akari Takeuchi 50 Rin Hashisako 51 Risa Ogata 52 Momohime Kiyono Behind the Scenes (45:20) Not a critical disc to have, but for fans there is much of interest to be found here.
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Hello! Project presents..."Solo Fes! 2"Hello! ProjectH!P Solo Performances Festival #2
This 2 Disc Blu-ray set presents the August 16th 2021 TV special in which the members of all the Hello!Project groups each get to perform an H!P song (chosen by the fans), as a solo artist and also being allowed to present it with a personal touch if they so wish. Some do a special dance, or a play an instrument or find some other unique thing to do while performing their song. The special runs 5 hours and 21 minutes over the 2 discs. The 2nd disc also features a 36 minute behind the scenes special. 2400 characters isn't enough to go into much detail regarding this release. However, if you're a fan of any of these members, you should enjoy seeing them having an opportunity to shine on their own. Also, you might even gain a new appreciation for members that you weren't a fan of. The members in this special in order of appearance are: Disc One (3:01:07) 01 Riko Yamagishi 02 Rika Shimakura 03 Momohime Kiyono 04 Yume Kudo 05 Akari Uemura 06 Rio Kitagawa 07 Sakura Oda 08 Akari Takeuchi 09 Reina Yokoyama 10 Rikako Sasaki 11 Kokoro Maeda 12 Yumeno Kishimoto 13 Ayumi Ishida 14 Saori Onoda 15 Mei Yamazaki 16 Maria Makino 17 Miki Nonaka 18 Layla Ise 19 Reina Ichioka 20 Moe Kamikokuryo 21 Minami Okamura 22 Rin Hashisako 23 Wakana Matsumoto 24 Kurumi Takase 25 Mizuki Fukumura 26 Rin Kawana 27 Rei Inoue 28 Mizuho Ono 29 Erina Ikuta 30 Saya Eguchi Disc Two (2:20:23) 31 Yuhane Yamazaki 32 Utano Satoyoshi 33 Riai Matsunaga 34 Chisaki Morito 35 Manaka Inaba 36 Momona Kasahara 37 Tomoko Kanazawa 38 Ami Tanimoto 39 Masaki Sato 40 Kaede Kaga 41 Homare Okamura 42 Miyo Hirai 43 Kisora Niinuma 44 Ruru Dambara 45 Honoka Kobayashi 46 Shion Tamenaga 47 Akane Haga 48 Mao Akiyama 49 Kiki Asakura 50 Ayano Kawamura 51 Shiori Nishida Behind the Scenes (36:16) Not a critical disc to have, but once again for fans there is much of interest to be found here.
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Juice=Juice 14th Single Release Kinen Special Live Complete Edition.Juice=JuiceComplete Edition=Completely Captivating
This Blu-ray features the 2 mini-concerts that Juice=Juice did to promote their 14th single "DOWN TOWN / Ganbarenai yo". Juice=Juice at that time were Tomoko Kanazawa, Akari Uemura, Manaka Inaba, Rei Inoue, Ruru Dambara, Yume Kudo and Riai Matsunaga. "DOWN TOWN / Ganbarenai yo" Hatsubai Kinen Mukankyaku Mini Live. (39:26) The first mini-concert was released via Niconico Live on April 28, 2021. This concert is performed with the girls in their outfits from the music video for DOWN TOWN. As I'm personally very fond of their look in that video, I really like this mini-concert a lot. Especially Tomoko in her suspenders based oufit. But they all look great. They perform 8 songs live without an audience, which allows the cameras to get better shots of them as they perform. Track list: Romance no Tochuu Kindan Shoujo DOWN TOWN Jidanda Dance Kaze ni Fukarete Bitansan SEXY SEXY Ganbarenai yo HELLO! PROJECT STREAM Juice=Juice 14th Single Release Kinen Special Live (42:01) The second mini-concert on this disc was released May 27th 2021. Juice=Juice perform dressed in the same white dresses that they wear in the music video for Ganbarenai yo, up until the last song DOWN TOWN, when they wear their outfits from DOWN TOWN's music video once again. They perform 10 songs live without an audience again and so again the cameras get good views of the performances. Track list: Borderline Kaze ni Fukarete Suki tte Itte yo Ganbarenai yo SEXY SEXY Ai-Ai-Gasa Bitansan Ijiwaru Shinai de Dakishimete yo Jouro DOWN TOWN Additionally the Blu-ray features 3 bonus performances. The girls are dressed in outfits that aren't connected to any music videos. They are in silvery tops and short skirt based outfits for these performances. Bonus Performances (11:52) Va-Va-Voom Platonic Planet Platonic Planet (One Cut LIVE Ver.) The Platonic Planet (One Cut LIVE Ver.) is probably my most favorite performance on this disc. It is shot with just one camera that is effectively part of the choreography of the performance as it moves in and out amongst the girls and singling each one out as they get a solo line in the song. Really impressed with how this plays out. Overall the performances are terrific and I personally love the more "intimate" feel that this has due to the cameras' freedom of movements and shots. Really nice release.
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Juice=Juice Uemura Akari Photobook: StrelitziaUemura Akari, Sano MadokaPB
Amazing photos! Akaririn is a beautiful girl! <3 CDJapan is the best for buy Hello!Project things!
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PassCode REVERBERATE Plus Tour 2023 Final at Zepp Shinjuku [Blu-ray + CD]PassCodeTour doc of US Tour
I will just mention, this is the edition featuring documentary of the PassCode USA tour footage. Good Memory if you went to any of those shows.
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PassCode The Best -Link- [Regular Edition]PassCodePerfect
This is a great collection of all of Passcodes best songs, since their albums are hard to come by this is a great release if you wish to own a majority of their songs.
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Tsukiiro Chainon [CD+Blu-ray / Eternal Edition]V.A.Best theme song
"Tsuki-iro Chainon" is definitely my favourite Crystal anime theme song and I knew I just had to get it on CD! It's a very catchy, very energetic song, and the new cover songs surprised me pleasantly, especially "Watashitachi no Naritakute" - it was always one of my favourite songs from the 90's Sailor Moon, so I was very happy about how good the cover was. All in all a very good CD with lovely songs both new and old fans can enjoy.
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Utsukushiku Ikiro / Koi wo Shitta Sekai [Takaneko Ban]Takane no NadeshikoGreat songs
Amazing songs! I am very grateful to know this amazing group. I love all thier songs. Takane No Nadeshiko rules!
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Utsukushiku Ikiro / Koi wo Shitta Sekai [Special Edition / Limited Release]Takane no NadeshikoAwesome
This special version of the album contains one photo card, photo book and a CD. Their journey to major debut is in it. Love this.
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Utsukushiku Ikiro / Koi wo Shitta Sekai [w/ DVD, Limited Edition / Type B]Takane no NadeshikoAmazing
This version has one photo card, and booklet. Also CD and DVD. I love this edition as 5 of the members are on the front.
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Nansai no Koro ni Modoritainoka? [CD+Blu-ray / Type D]Sakurazaka46amazing
highly recommend for keyasaku fans as the bonus bluray includes 3ki's performance of kataru nara mirai wo as a tribute to keyakizaka. super emotional to watch and i'm glad to have it in my collection
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Juicetory [Regular Edition]Juice=JuiceWonderful
A wonderful album with a reinterpretation of the group's greatest classics. Even with the new voices, for me it never loses its charm. A great purchase for anyone who is a fan of Juice=Juice and Hello! Project! Greetings from Brazil to this group that I had the pleasure of seeing live in 2017 in my country! I hope to see them one day again!
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Tokimeku Koi to Seishun Koi Edition [CD+2DVD / TYPE-A]Cho Tokimeki SendenbuOne of the best concert of TOKISEN !
I've been waiting too long for this show to be released. It's certainly not a stage for 100,000 fans, half a kilometer wide, with high decorations like the EFFEIL TOWER, but the atmosphere is fabulous. The presence (finally!!!) of musicians on stage radically changes the atmosphere!!! But the list of songs is missing in the booklet, everything is for the AUDIO CD, the concert being considered a secondary product!!! That's really having little consideration for these young women, isn't it? AVEX Marketing has an incomprehensible publication policy.
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Tokimeki ga Subete [Haneda Miru Miru Ban] [CD + Blu-ray / Type A]Cho Tokimeki SendenbuOne of the best TOKISEN concerts!
One of the best TOKISEN concerts! Indeed, it is one of the best, among the rare concerts published at the time, and there will be little more afterwards. After 3 minutes, we completely forget that it was filmed in a room without spectators, because of the COVID health crisis. The young girls provide an incredible atmosphere. It's even an achievement when we remember how our existence was supported at that time. To buy without hesitation!