haha.
old times, old times.
hughes.

fights involving the use of brains is love! not just senseless brute force!

tracklist:
01. Gekidou (AwakEVE ver.)　[激動(AwakEVE ver.)]
02. 99/100 Damashi no Tetsu　[99/100騙しの哲]
03. Mikageishi [美影意志]
04. Corona [コロナ]
05. Hanakaku mo Towa no Kanashi [儚くも永久のカナシ]
06. earthy world
07. Hissei Satsuki Prologue [畢生皐月プロローグ]
08. I・Am Riri [アイ・アム　Riri]
09. Koishikute [恋しくて]
10. Forget
11. Just Break The Limit!
12. Waon　[和音]
13. Harujion (2nd-Mix)　[ハルジオン　(2nd-Mix)]
14. YURA YURA
ones in bold are sparkling NEWWWW! :D

I AM HOOKED ON THIS ALBUM!

it takes a while and many listens, but AwakEVE really grows on you. :D
it also sounds stronger and has a hint of angst, at least IMO, because it sounds like UVERworld's reflecting on a lot of stuff in their songs.
cheem, huh.
and it's less pop-y which is a good thing!
oh another thing i like is the lyrics, which make A LOT of sense, and which fit the melodies really well. takuya is amazing. :D

ok!

Gekidou didn't change at all, they just cut of the random noises in front that were in the original track. =.= i don't really listen to it anymore.

99/100 Damashi no Tetsu. oooh this is an interesting one. i first thought it was damn gay the way takuya rapped. then i saw the pv and they looked cool. and suddenly they didn't sound so gay anymore. and then after i got past the rapping the beat is fun and the chorus is fabulous - super catchy and got stuck in my head for a while. i like the last part where they sang in 2 octaves. ^^ honourable mention goes to the pv which suddenly caused the lyrics to make a lot of sense and my impression changed from "gay" to "glam". and it's amazing how they manage to suan the media in their pv AND lyrics! haha. now it's one of my favourite tracks.

Mikageishi is a nice ballad. i think it's nicer than koishikute and kimi no suki na uta anyday. it's simple and the melody is strong, and the syncopation parts at the start are <3! it's the kind of song you won't get sick of even though you think you will. oh and i like the ending chords.

Corona is rock that reminds me of their older style (like colors of the heart and dtecnolife), it's generally good, but it isn't outstanding and so it fades into the normal tracks group after a while because they didn't try much new stuff with this one. Shouldn't listen too much in a day, it's quite easy to get sick of this.

earthy world is very 阳光 and happy, which i didn't really like at first because it sounded a bit too normal - like it's just filling up the gap. it was okay after listening a few more times. but it's not one of my favourites.

Hissei Satsuki Prologue is a weird piece (not in a bad way) and it's more dancepopish. (i keep thinking of space and terra he when i see the title, for some weird reason.) i like the techno bits, though, and the chorus is great! :D (i like the line 「生きるって面倒くさいな」 how true. ;D) the verses sounded a bit like takuya didn't know what to put there so he just reverted to his normal woh-oh-oh-ing thing, so it's a bit empty. but once you start singing it you can't get it out of your head.

I Am Riri IS THE COOLEST TRACK EVER and it's also the first track to get stuck in my head for about a week. it's nothing i've ever heard before, and although it's rap which i shun as a general rule, the chorus owns all and i just totally got addicted because its so emo and angsty and powerful and sad and bliss and legendary at the same time. :D AND THE LYRICS ARE BEAUTIFUL i have never heard such powerful lyrics in my life! (i think they're about a singer who lost her voice and can't sing anymore or something ...) they totally fit the melody and i can feel the sorrow and everything. :D and the front guitar parts are nice too.

Forget goes back to normal UVER style as well, this is a bit more standard and listenable, the melody is quite good. however it's also a forgettable track (pun not intended).

Waon is another amazing piece of composing. usually i skip instumental interludes (it happened with lm.c's) because they don't really have a melody. but the melody for Waon is really powerful as well (it reminded me of potcXD albeit emo version) and THE GUITAR SOLO HAS A FREAKING NICE MELODY WHAT IS THIS MAN. and the slow part in the middle with the 3/4 timing is WONDERFUL the drums reverberate in this DELICIOUS way and the silence is AMAZING and the time signatures are so interesting ahhhh! okay i'm probably not supposed to go so crazy about this track. but don't skip it, give it a serious listen! :D

Harujion is the same, except that some silences and quietness here and there are filled up by dancepop beats. and they added whirring stuff so now it sounds like it's a 16 beat song. just sounds more dancy. i think i prefer the old version, which was good enough in its own way.

YURA YURA ends the whole thing nicely, the last note has a sense of finality and the curtain coming down sort of thing. and it's good in it's own right because the melody's decent. it's relatively normal but i like it better than earthy world or forget.

i've been listening to this on the bus every single morning before the holidays.
^^ there's a lot of new stuff in this album and all the details are worth listening to. and it sounds more mature and real. and shows how UVERworld has improved again (like how the vocals are more stable now). it's also diverse, as usual i suppose. i'm glad they had more singing and minimal rapping (or rather, tolerable rapping) and i hope this continues on for future albums! don't sink back into full rapping tracks again! very very very very nice go and listen!

BYE BYE RIBBONS WE'LL MISS YOU!
awesome!
i don't think ribbons died (so anticlimax!) but anyhow, that was awesome! after watching him doing the same thing every week.

and and and!

OMFG T CHAN what's with your open confession! O:

and the ribbons + tons of red coloured don't know what (i presume they're innovators) scene is cool! :D

yay and the fat commander died! seriously, they're killing off/ converting all the characters who aren't on celestial being's side.

and HAMU get yourself off your mobile suit and do something cool NOW.

okay i don't like the kishin's voice.
thought it would be creepier. but it's so gay normal.

okay i shall spam screenshots because the kishin finally shows off his hair and eyes and everything! :D and if not for some of the low-budget frames IT'S ALL DAMN COOL. I AM GOING TO READ THE MANGA I SWEAR because i heard the anime deviated quite a bit.




hahaha when i saw this i went "kazeana!"



's all, next week's the usual people's turn.

for the vast majority out there in cyberworld looking for gundam chibis with a white background and not finding them, i give you this!

(warning: super big images if you click! i also have the pdf file, tell me if you want.)




pretty, ain't it! :D

JAW DROP.

OMG THIS IS THE MOST HILARIOUS LOL-WORTHY EPIC FIGHT I HAVE EVER SEEN.

it's supposed to be the climax and I LAUGHED MY WHOLE WAY THROUGH IT.

omg BEST!!!!!

like come on, it wasn't even meant to be serious!!! and seeing death city/ shinigami-sama fighting like he's trying to catch a cockroach is DAMN FUNNYYYYYY! and the eye poke! and the kidnapping of ashura! ALL 100% roflmao-worthy!

:DDDDDD

HAHAHA mecha-shibusen! XD

shinigami-sama is so CUTEEEEEEEE.


OTHER THAN THAT, all the awesome displays of coolness/ hawtness is hereeeeee!

MIFUNE! <333333333333333 is love! so 正直！and samurai-ish! and it's great how they didn't drag the fight out! (though the ending was a bit cliche) and the exchange between black star and the zebra thing was so PRETTY i want screenshots.

EIBON was fun. (omg he has a nice voice) haha excalibur was semi-useful for once!

more importantly, NEXT WEEK SPELLS THE FULL GLORIOUS HAWTNESS OF KISHIN ASHURA, UNMASKED, AND FINALLY IN PROPER CLOTHES LIKE BAGGY PANTS AND A JACKET!!!!! + more epic fights with shinigami-sama being serious after the whole joke of a fight this week!

oh and ep 46's preview was LOL: "system check: all green!" XD total spoof.

and i see a lot of scenes begging to be made into iconsssss!!!

omg <3!

last week's ep gave me a headache and this week's helped. slightly.

i like one-on-one better than fleet-on-fleet, maybe that's why.

anyway my only takeaways from this few eps was:
- DEAR MR BUSHIDO-REVERTED-HAMU AND HIS SCARRRRRRRRR.
- die nena dieeeeeee!
- die wang liu mei dieeeeeee!
- omg i now have a figurine of a dead guy! T.T
- veda eyes are PRETTTTAAAAAY! me want. or, me want all the cool people to have.
- the importance of haros in gundam society.

i hope more interesting things happen next week! and dammit, stop showing naked people floating around in shimmering particles!


:D