Review by Kirby

Probably one of the last lives of red head Togaren, before she left and returned to idol industry as platinum hair Hakku Coai. One of my favorite idol voices.

This contains the 14 minute epic Nazca Reminiscents Fn rock on. This lives in my CD player #MetalBlade

I am again impressed with a very nice deluxe box set from ano. The Limited first press comes with an ano acrylic figure. But the box itself comes with a acrylic diorama. I didnt understand at first why the first press acrylic did not have its own stand. The normal figure is ano in a large tshirt. The I replaced that with the first press figure with her in stage outfit. Rock on ano! There is also a guitar and her 'mascot' the puking cat to add to the stage. As I watch just disc one, the stage is nice. It is set up for ano to play guitar for songs alone, her band joins for some songs and then there is songs where she has her dance crew. So as far as I can tell, her solo songs are all here. Not just her pop vocal songs with backtrack, not just her guitar songs. It's the full range of ano. If you collect ano of any level, this is a good one to pick up for the diorama. Also a small but thick photobook of live shots.

Love Hanabie. This new EP is great. Keep Rockin'. I will make a note on the bluray. Girl's Talk is intentionally edited for some reason. There are many footnotes with offputting tones while muting various lines and words. It may say why somewhere in there, but only translated first line. "Some of the sound sources have been processed as the creator's intention, thanks for understanding" Not sure why that one song got hit with many edits like this. They muted just the mics, let the music on, but then put a tone over it all. The rest is all good. It is a fair thing to mention for future buyers. I live off of watching bluray lives, as I have no idea when my next trip to Japan is.

I love ano, I already have the regular release. This all came out 6 months ago. I didnt spring for this limited edition set however, until my birthday this past week. I have bought a lot of limited editions before, some with photobooks too. But usually they are size of dvd or bluray. This is a Large Sepcialty boxed set. Large, thick, glossy beautiful photobook in a duluxe color box, but a shipping box with anochan face on it greeting me before I even started opening. Absolutely LOVE this box set. If still available, I highly reccomend.

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.

I was not big on onefive early on. The group has really evolved. All the singles that I've jammed on repeat are on this full album. 2023 has been a fire year for @15. The blueray comes with all the fire MVs as well as a live show with a lot of songs, including older ones not on the album. If you asked me 2-3 years ago, I wouldnt have believed I'm such a big @onefive fan. But with all my other fav groups ending, they became within my top 3.

This came out when there was shipping ban. I've got the tracks digitally when it came out. I got now because it contains bluray concert on it. D4DJ channel on youtube has limited releases of the live performances which I enjoyed. There was extra songs with not released singles. The best part is there is not all the written overlay advertisements as on the youtube uploads. I am happy I chose to order this just for the performance bluray, as I already have the music off digital store. Also, I am glad to have it for my physical collection of Sato Hinata (Sakura Gakuin alum) music.

This is the CY8ER finale concert, I believe they have every song on the set list. It is much longer show vs the other onemans. I feel the visuals are a little lacking with no DJ on stage, and the venue and stage is so large, it feels like it could have been any group there live that night. I missed this show when they had a paid livestream, so I'm syched to watch this. The audio is a little washed out however. It sounds more mic-ed for sound rather than from the soundboard. It's much better than a fancam audio but a lot of the synth sound are hard to hear and the drums feel a little echoed. I have listened to the other onemans, just as the audio and enjoyed, this is hard to enjoy just audiowise in comparison. I also got the 4th,5th,6th boxset dvd, other than the larger HD display and all the songs, I don't think this beats CY8ER DEATH MATCH which is included in the dvd boxset.

This collection of shows is fantastic. There is also the bluray of their final show if you want bigger resolution show, but I think these shows on this boxset are more aesthetically pleasing and better pro-audio. CY8ER Death Match is the 3rd show in the collection and after watching all of the box set and the separate bluray of the last show, CY8ER Death Match is my favorite and worth it to get this dvd boxset. I almost skipped the boxset based on price, but the other dvd oneman releases from CY8ER or other groups of the same popularity have $45-65 price tags. Thinking about how much you could have spent for each show the price is fair for 3 great late era CY8ER onemans.

PassCode still doing what I love. I like to call EDM = Electronic Dance METAL! Heavy riffs, lots of shouting, and sugar sweet electric pop voices. This contains all of 2020's released music and 6 new songs. The limited edition DVD has much cool content. It has all the 2020 music videos, with added behind the scenes, and documentary and interview.

Malcolm Masks last release was a digital only release, my friend had shown me after not being able to find a CD. So this contains, Darlin/The Power of... songs as well as the songs from The Idiot's Song/Moment EP, as well as 2 brand new songs.

PassCode has lately been having a problem posting MVs to some countries like USA the past year or so. I bought both editions as there was a different song on the regular edition. It is good they have MV on DVD, so that way I have a way to watch it without VPN or downloading from a friend. Plus there is the behind the scenes which is nice footage of a group with all amazing members to watch. I do miss the days they put entire tour final lives as the DVD but having the MV when it is blocked on youtube for my Country is nice.

If you had gone thru a punk phase anywhere around the 80s-90s, the music will probably hit close to what you know from that era. Quite a few underrated punk covers, of songs I never heard fit well with the rest of what was created for MMM. The world needs more Idol like this. There is some good ska songs on this album as well. I have heard a few Idols toy with Ska sound lately, but MMM's has horns, which really brings the genre to life. The mix of punk to ska is something like what I know of NoFX, but with Idol singing and cool enough drum beats to dance to. I even find myself wanting to move and groove to the beat. The drums are filled with varying beats and drum fills, which are usually lacking in idol music. There are songs by creators that write tunes for some of my other favorite idol groups, including PassCode and nanoRider creators. This is one of my favorite albums since I got into Idol music.