[9/25] Morning Musume。album - The Best! ~Updated Morning Musume。~

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#10 today
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2013-09-28/more/2/

Nishino Kana bumped everyone down with her cheating 2 albums.

[otaku_blue]

One Two Three's arrangement for line distribution couldve been done better.

Not liking that they re-recorded Riho's vocals since it lost the parts of it that made the original sound good.
Like making her sing Reina's lines in the first verse bugged me a lot.

[esm]

Can't stop listening to this album

[wotakubrandon]

Manpower is the only updated song I really liked unfortunately.

[Moh]

I finally listened to this. RR21 finally grew on me. Wolf Boy is fine and dandy, but it kinda drags on, imo.

[Parhelion69]

Of the "oldies" I liked Manpower the best, and The Peace was also nice. The one I like the least is I WISH, it's still a borefest (not as bad as the original, but I will almost always skip it)

Of the newer ones (updated without Reina and a few arrangements), I liked Wakuteka the best, it sounds much better than the original, Sakura and Riho made a great work out of it. I specially love the part after the instrumental break, around 4:00

One Two Three also sounds great, I actually like Ayumi in here and the added voice processing doesn't bother me the least. This is the defining song of this rebirth, of this "Colorful Era" and is imho, Morning Musume's best song ever. Maybe the original was a tad better, but this updated one is also good, it was already an almost perfect song, so...

Renai Hunter is the one where I missed Risa/Reina the most, their voices were great for this song...

Wolf Boy is awesome. I didn't quite get it at first (like many Tsunku songs), but after a while it sticks. Damn I wanted it to have a PV so bad... I hope we see its choreo soon on a Hello Station snippet of the MM concert or something...

Anyway, it's an enjoyable album. I was prepared to be dissapointed, but I'm liking it a lot. I only wish it had "casual" videos of them dancing to most/all of the songs like C-ute did. I believe it's a missed opportunity. Oh, well... Maybe for next time

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#14 today

*5 *6 *4 *4 10 14

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2013-09-29/more/3/

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1st week
weekly rank #6
total 16,527

numbers comparisons. it beat the previous albums 1st weeks

*8,485　モーニング娘。全シングルカップリングコレクション
*9,824　COVER YOU
10,554　Fantasy! 拾壱
11,389　12,スマート
12,103　10 MY ME
14,416　⑬カラフルキャラクター
14,704　プラチナ 9 DISC

*16,708 ℃-ute「(2)℃-ute神聖なるベストアルバム」
*25,928 スーパーガールズ 「Celebration」

but it still didn't beat C-ute's 1st week, still didn't beat Super Girls 1st week. *sigh*

MM remains second best behind C-ute in album sales.

i'm just so embarrassed by this.

[Starra]

i'm just so embarrassed by this.

Even though it's their best album first week in YEARS and it's not even an original album? Dude, chill. Album sales aren't even really super important anyway. Who cares if they're not the best when it comes to everything?

I really don't understand your problem.

[Zunu]

Agreeing with Starra as to the first part. Keeping in mind that this is a gimmick album and not a CD of all new material, they did pretty good.

As to the second part, the guy stated his disappointment about the album sales. It's his opinion, not his "problem." It's unnecessary, counterproductive and pointless to turn it into a personal attack on him.