鳥は群れの仲間が懐かしくなるのか
Dec. 4th, 2013 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xanithofdragonsUgh, Kisumai, why are you putting my emotions on a roller-coaster ride?! Or, rambling about my Kisumai feelings Part 2. (For part one, see here.) Wow, it's been two months already. It doesn't seem that long ago.
The past couple of days I had a long comment thread going with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
faded_lace because she mentioned "Kisumai depression" in one of her posts, and I felt like that sounded similar to what I had been experiencing. ^^; I guess what it boils down to is that something doesn't feel quite right with the way Kisumai is now, so I can't just enjoy them. I've been thinking a while about pulling back from Kisumai at least some, but a lot of things are making me waver.
In a way, I've already started pulling back. I already gave up on watching KisuBusa, and now I've given up on watching Kiss-My-Fake. I'll give KisuHama a little longer, but I've already cut out most of their variety appearances. I already talked in that previous post about how I got bored and frustrated with KisuBusa, but with both KisuBusa and Kiss-My-Fake, it felt like the announcers and guests weren't treating them just like normal idols and kept feeling the need to tease them. I wouldn't mind if it was just teasing them after they did something silly; that's normal on variety shows. But they would tease them from the beginning about... nothing really, and the way everything was produced and presented, there was nothing fun about watching it. None of what I like about Kisumai was coming through on Kiss-My-Fake, and then there was that argument between Miyata and Senga. (And Miyacchi tries so hard, he really does, and Sen-chan really is the baby of the group.) Of course, with any argument on a tv show, there's some part of it that's being used to create drama, but when I see it on other groups' variety shows, they either immediately make up or otherwise show that they actually get along well even if they argue sometimes, and that never came on Kiss-My-Fake. It's happening on KisuHama, too, so I don't know if I can keep watching Kisumai's variety shows as things are now.
I haven't watched FNS Kayousai yet (because it is long), but just hearing that Busaiku performed TanaBota and seeing the caps of KiFT happily watching them, it makes me feel better about Kisumai. The fact that they had Busaiku perform in a show like that, that a lot of non-fans would be watching, it seems like maybe they are promoting Busaiku a ton more than I was expecting them to? Like maybe it's more than them throwing a bone to fans, and an actual step towards promoting SMY2 more. It's still too early to say, and it hurts to keep hoping and be disappointed over and over again. I feel like the smallest thing recently drastically shifts my view of Kisumai from positive to negative and then back from negative to positive.
And seeing the other three smiling, that's the biggest thing for me. Because of course they should want SMY2 to succeed as much as if not more than SMY2 does.
There's still a good chance I'll buy fewer of their releases or at least fewer versions of each release for until things improve. I have been dissatisfied with some of their recent releases. But it depends on where things go from here. For now, the conclusion of all the wavering and back and forth can only be wait and see. :
The past couple of days I had a long comment thread going with
faded_lace because she mentioned "Kisumai depression" in one of her posts, and I felt like that sounded similar to what I had been experiencing. ^^; I guess what it boils down to is that something doesn't feel quite right with the way Kisumai is now, so I can't just enjoy them. I've been thinking a while about pulling back from Kisumai at least some, but a lot of things are making me waver.In a way, I've already started pulling back. I already gave up on watching KisuBusa, and now I've given up on watching Kiss-My-Fake. I'll give KisuHama a little longer, but I've already cut out most of their variety appearances. I already talked in that previous post about how I got bored and frustrated with KisuBusa, but with both KisuBusa and Kiss-My-Fake, it felt like the announcers and guests weren't treating them just like normal idols and kept feeling the need to tease them. I wouldn't mind if it was just teasing them after they did something silly; that's normal on variety shows. But they would tease them from the beginning about... nothing really, and the way everything was produced and presented, there was nothing fun about watching it. None of what I like about Kisumai was coming through on Kiss-My-Fake, and then there was that argument between Miyata and Senga. (And Miyacchi tries so hard, he really does, and Sen-chan really is the baby of the group.) Of course, with any argument on a tv show, there's some part of it that's being used to create drama, but when I see it on other groups' variety shows, they either immediately make up or otherwise show that they actually get along well even if they argue sometimes, and that never came on Kiss-My-Fake. It's happening on KisuHama, too, so I don't know if I can keep watching Kisumai's variety shows as things are now.
I haven't watched FNS Kayousai yet (because it is long), but just hearing that Busaiku performed TanaBota and seeing the caps of KiFT happily watching them, it makes me feel better about Kisumai. The fact that they had Busaiku perform in a show like that, that a lot of non-fans would be watching, it seems like maybe they are promoting Busaiku a ton more than I was expecting them to? Like maybe it's more than them throwing a bone to fans, and an actual step towards promoting SMY2 more. It's still too early to say, and it hurts to keep hoping and be disappointed over and over again. I feel like the smallest thing recently drastically shifts my view of Kisumai from positive to negative and then back from negative to positive.
And seeing the other three smiling, that's the biggest thing for me. Because of course they should want SMY2 to succeed as much as if not more than SMY2 does.
There's still a good chance I'll buy fewer of their releases or at least fewer versions of each release for until things improve. I have been dissatisfied with some of their recent releases. But it depends on where things go from here. For now, the conclusion of all the wavering and back and forth can only be wait and see. :
