the title is an abbreviation for “just smile” (eww wtf). Miyano thought it looked lonely so he added a star in between (!?)
the director of this PV (who also directed Etsuraku Camellia) saw Miyano during his live tour and told him “hey, you can dance” and so they decided to make this a dance PV.
…ya like I care about Miyano enough to look this all up. I just heard it from SmaGang a week back or so when he was guesting.
It’s a really linear video, and the vast majority of the costumes are eww as well. But I’ve taken an interest in the song, so as long as I don’t look at the PV everything is fine. Not a fan of Miyano’s breathy falsetto vibrato thing, but whatever, it’s only the beginning that annoys me the most. Love the chorus. For a summer release, a happy energetic song is really the best.
Miyano also has unbelievable popularity among ItaKuro and SmaGang listeners. Since Yukarin, Nana, and Miyano are all under the King label, their radio shows have permanent commercial spots for each other’s releases, e.g. Yukarin has Nana and Miyano, Nana has Yukarin and Miyano. During the commercials the whole screen on NicoDou looks like this:
All songs transliterated besides Dancing in the velvet moon and Astrogation, cause those songs are like a whole year old and there are tons of other transliterations out there already. I’ll get around to it eventually m(_ _ )m
There were many many strange things with the lyrics booklet this time. I don’t know if they’re intentional or mistakes, but there are details of the weirdness below. I wasn’t aware that King had already released a statement on their website. Two errors were fixed (PERFECT SMILE & ray of change), so I guess all the other ones were intentional.
01 MARIA & JOKER
02 Etsuraku Camellia
03 PERFECT SMILE
04 Trickster
05 Mr. Bunny!
06 Chinmoku no Kajitsu
07 Brand New Tops
08 Shounen
09 Gimmick Game
10 Dancing in the velvet moon
11 ray of change
12 Shin Ai
13 Aoki Hikari no Hate -ULTIMATE MODE-
14 Astrogation
15 Yume no Tsuzuki
orz ULTIMATE DIAMOND lyrics almost two months late. Better late than never. It’ll be in the next post. Before that, some very quick Nana/Yukarin tidbits from today:
1. Latest Smile Gang episode today posed an interesting question to Nana:
Q. Out of the choices below, which is the most important to you?
1. Dragon Quest
2. Noto Mamiko
3. Smile Gang drinking party
4. stupid dog
I always thought that Hello! Project groups had extremely poor line distribution in songs, but this… This just tops it all. Eighteen people and three solo parts, all three of which are by the same person.
Sad, sad, sad. Someone needs to learn how to adjust to other people’s singing level to stop making them look bad XD.
I actually have a lot to thank Nana for. If not for her, I wouldn’t be able to so easily recognize bad singing from the good. Makes me wonder what the hell was wrong with me back when I liked one of Noto Mamiko’s songs…
Oh yeah and I realized I forgot to talk about the announcement of Nana’s 20th single. White Album OP and Tales of Symphonia movie theme song included. Hmm, maybe I should go watch the movie even though I don’t know anything about the game. Haven’t seen much voice acting from Nana this season…
PS. My beloved tiaraway singing on the same stage as Nana ｷﾀ━━━━━━ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ━━━━━━ｯ
WTF. This whole thing is crack. Seriously. I just realized that any place Sugita Tomokazu walks through will become an anime meme land. Jesus Christ, that guy should be a comedian if he ever retires from voice acting.
Anyways, moving on. Uh… I don’t even understand the basic premises of this story. It’s not even a matter of “I don’t understand the language”, it’s more of a “what the hell is even HAPPENING WTF”. So we’re gonna just glide along the plot while getting to the good anime meme moe moe ONII-CHAN bits.
