[9/11] Juice=Juice Major Debut - Romance no tochuu

[Panic Nancy]

I love that face Karin makes during her first line in Samidare. *o* I was a little surprised to see a couple of people complaining about too much Karin after watching the videos because Sayuki is the one with the most lines in both of these songs. Anyways, everybody looks great. Their dancing and expressions have definitely improved.

[Sohee]

Watashi ga iu mae ni dakishimenakya ne was great. <3 Looked amazing. I do prefer their first outfits over these but. <3 Yuka is getting so natural before the camera and in closeups, it's really nice. The "crying" scenes were a bit.. eh. lol. Just one of them had been enough.

Also, guys. The earring. Also they did this after Aina left why the hell would there be a closeup of her? Really.


Samidare... that intro. *_* Yay brass instruments! Need more of those in PVs. Loving this (and I loved the one in Dia Lady, too) and man. <3 Loving the gloves. The outfits are awesome, too. <3

Loving these memorial edit versions so much more than the originals. xD I love that they re-recorded them too, they've gotten so much better. <3 Great stuff.

[AyuHikaru]

Okay so the remixes of the new songs were pretty good, enough for me to buy the single even though I have the indies of those songs *Goes to preorder*

I'm gonna get this out of the way early: Tomoko is my absolutely favorite but my second and third are Yuka and Akari and they need more lines

Akari in pants is like the best style decision EVER. I don't know if they mean to do it but it's really cementing her as the "cool" one of the group. It's hard to believe she's the youngest. She is so pretty and cool looking.

Tomoko is pretty much perfect in every way. While I love Haruna for her flaws, I love Tomoko for her seeming LACK OF FLAWS. I wonder how she will be on television...

The PVs are really really good, I wasn't expecting much because we already got PVs for these songs, but I was really impressed with the effort UF put into the new ones.

Juice = Juice is officially my second favorite H!P group, and one of my favorite groups that has EVER graced the H!P stage. I really really really like them. I'm probably going to be on a Juice = Juice kick for awhile to help out with their debut. I'm sure Morning Musume can do without my wallet me for a little while.

[321BreakinOut]

Not enough Tomoko in Watashi ga iu mae ni dakishimenakya ne

Both Videos AND remixes were quite good

[stam4o]

-> What Sohee said.

Finally I could check calmly the memorials, and I love them
Really, the outfits are so cool and still combine very highly with the dance (I also like better the new ones in SAMIDARE(yeah, the gloves are such a good detail, and what's more, red) : )

Suming it to this superresolution and clear sound, they're just greaaat!

[Zunu]

who?

Amped's giving A*na the S*mire treatment.

[Obsidian]

It seems from the remix videos they've actually managed to improve quite a lot since the original releases, which is pretty amazing as they were bloody fantastic to start with. Honestly I really think that their performance levels are probably only eclipsed by C-ute within H!P right now... and I'm trying to imagine how high those levels could be in a couple of years

The main thing that constantly leaves me astonished by Tomoko is where the hell was she? How do you go under so many Idol radars and then just turn up such a finished article like this???

[321BreakinOut]

I feel like Samidare was missing some umbrella scenes lol

[Chatin]

Sayubee needs to get over giving these pained looks at the camera. Whatever miracle transformation was applied to Nocchi and Captain seems suitable to apply here, and then we will have a spectacular group. Especially if they are insisting on having her as a lead.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Even if I don't like "Romance no Tochuu" quite as much, song-wise this single is easily saved for me by the Memorial Edits. I didn't know I could enjoy those songs even more than I already did with the original arrangements/recordings.

The outfits were even an improvement, which is small but nice. I don't think I was this excited about S/mileage when they first started moving into major territory. I hope their first TV performance goes well.