xanithofdragons

That thing where I get packages two days in a row even though they were shipped a week apart? It happened again! lolololol international shipping!

Package #1:
( Power of Wind )
Fudanjuku's new album and some idol magazines! I wish I could afford to buy idol magazines more often than I do. >_<
I really like Fudanjuku's new album. I like all of the single songs. I really dig the direction they've been going in with songs like Dansou Revolution and Chenmen Paradise, and Shita wo Muite Kaerou and Jinsei Wahaha! have such nice lyrics. ♥ And I hadn't noticed how cool the lyrics for Shita wo Muite Kaerou were until I listened to it on the album while reading the lyric booklet. Oh yeah! That's my only complaint about it! The pink text is really hard to read against the gray-scale backgrounds! xD I really like the album songs too, especially EYE OF THE TYPHOON and Karafuru Purantan. Karafuru Purantan is more the kind of song you'd expect from female idol groups and it's super cute. ♥ (But it's also a sub-unit song).

I am such a sucker for idol music. xD

Package #2:
( 神！ COME ON! 神！ COMING! )
Kisumai's single collection...
IDK. The graphics are kind of cute? Their outfits are pretty nice too... But when I put it into my computer to listen, I skipped straight to Kis-My-Calling and didn't even bother listening to anything else. I mean, I've heard all those songs... I bought those singles. All of them. Ugh, it's still a total mystery to me why they released this. AVEX!!! *Waves fist* But there is Kis-My-Calling and that is all that matters to me. The part where they each say their letters and their names sounds a little awkward, but I guess that's to be expected when they're each doing what's supposed to be a call-and-response alone. Some of Tama's lines sounded a bit weird too but I think like half of Tama's solo lines sound weird recently, SO... but I think it's because before he was always kind of... yell-singing his lines so to speak, and in this he doesn't put enough force behind it and it sounds more like him just straight singing it. I had seen a comment or two on twitter commenting on the CD version being different from previous live performances of it, but really, it's no more different than I'd expect a studio version and a live version to be. Though, somehow the intro for Kis-My-Calling and the intro to the Kansai Jr. song Ume Gouin On sound similar to me. Does anyone else hear it?

And that finishes the March releases I bought. At least one every week... some of which I enjoyed more than others. >_> April brings with it only two new releases for me: Johnny's WEST's debut single Ee Ja Nai Ka and Arashi's new single GUTS! I wonder when Arashi will release new live DVDs...

There are just some months that have more Jpop releases than others, or at least some months that have more releases from groups I follow. March is one of those months:
March 5th: Kisumai's new single Hikari no Signal and androp's new album period
March 12th: Ebi's new album From ABC to Z
March 19th: Fudanjuku's new album Power of Wind
March 26th: Avex's sudden attempt to make lots of money fast Kisumai's single collection

That's right, every single week. What's more, an album, every single week. And the Johnny's calendars come out this month, too... So look forward to a lot of posts about new releases from me this month (and going into next month). ^^; This is why I'm so bad at saving money. orz

It's been a while since I last posted, over a month already. I have a lot less free time because of work, but there's also a limited set of things I feel like doing when I have time off.

Work started out a little rough, but I'm starting to get more comfortable in the job. My coworkers are pretty fun and friendly for the most part, so that probably helped settling in. There's still a lot of things I don't know about the job yet though, and I have trouble answering customers' questions without asking for help from someone else. >_< There's some pretty funny things too. There was one customer who made a Star Trek: TNG reference out of nowhwere. For some products, but especially for pies, since many of them look similar, people'll write on the baking sheet which one it is, and on one pie sheet, one of the pies was marked "Rupaul". It was a strawberry rhubarb pie. xD

With Arashi announcing their next album (I have a limited edition preordered ^_^) and the Arashi ni Shiyagare renewal and then hearing about Arafes going on and watching news clips about it, I'm in an Arashi mood more lately. Also, watching A.B.Chan-Zoo reminded me of Mago Mago Arashi, so I've been watching some episodes I've had sitting around unwatched for a while. ^^;

It's been a while since I last did one, but here have a random video of the post. ^^