{"id":880,"date":"2014-01-27T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=880"},"modified":"2014-01-27T22:56:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T04:56:07","slug":"review-monday-takoyaki-rainbow-naniwa-no-haniwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2014\/01\/27\/review-monday-takoyaki-rainbow-naniwa-no-haniwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Review Monday: Takoyaki Rainbow &#8211; Naniwa no Haniwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday everyone! I was going to review Morning Musume&#8217;s triple A-Side that&#8217;s coming out this week, but then suddenly a new PV came out that I had to review. The Morning Musume review might be coming in a future week, though.<\/p>\n<p>Takoyaki Rainbow is the next in the line of Stardust Promotions groups, after Momoiro Clover Z, Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku. and (my favorite) Team Syachihoko. When this group was first announced I really wanted to love it; takoyaki is actually one of my favorite foods ever, so I thought this was a cute name! However, I wasn&#8217;t super fond of their first single &#8216; Over the Takoyaki Rainbow.&#8217; When I heard that my favorite idol composer, Maeyamada Kenichi, was going to be writing their second single, I knew that I had to give this group another shot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dGGbOexLZTc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Song:<\/strong> If weird Hyadain or Stardust idols aren&#8217;t normally your thing, I really doubt this will be your thing. Personally, I love it; it feels like a very Hyadain song but also feels somehow unique to Takoyaki Rainbow. However, I do think this is the type of song that benefits from multiple listens. The first time I listened to it I was not sure what to think, and unsure if I liked it. This song has a lot of different styles and sections thrown into one song (as Hyadain likes to do). However, after a couple of listens in, you start to get a better sense for the structure of the song and it starts to make more sense. Still, the first listen was an interesting experience of &#8220;What is even going on even?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The closest song I can compare it to is GOUNN, and even that&#8217;s a bit of a stretch (it&#8217;s mostly based off the arrangement). It&#8217;s more like if Hyadain wrote GOUNN for 2010 era MomoClo. This isn&#8217;t a bad thing, but it&#8217;s just the closest thing I can think of, comparison wise. This song has a lot going on, though, and it does sound kind of busy. The song takes a bit too long to get to the first chorus, for example, and really lingers on the shouted &#8220;N A N I W A&#8221; sections. After it catches in your brain it doesn&#8217;t really sound like it&#8217;s dragging, but the first few listens it felt like it was. <\/p>\n<p>By far the weakest part of the single are the vocals; if you&#8217;re looking for strong vocalists, you aren&#8217;t going to look towards Takoyaki Rainbow (or any Stardust group, really). However, the vocals do work for this type of song. The girls deliver on energy and charisma, and that&#8217;s what this song needs more than anything. <\/p>\n<p>This song is fun, well-written, and right up my alley as a big Hyadain fan. It is getting me more and more interested in Takoyaki Rainbow. 9\/10<\/p>\n<p><strong>PV:<\/strong> I think I mentioned this in my top 15 PV list, but I&#8217;ll reiterate: green screen isn&#8217;t bad. Visual effects can add a lot to a PV. What is bad is lazy visual effects, or using it to cut corners. If you have a unique and interesting visual style, like in Naniwa no Haniwa, having a fully green screen PV isn&#8217;t a bad thing. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mescallado.com\/happydisco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/haniwano1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mescallado.com\/happydisco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/haniwano1-300x135.png\" alt=\"haniwano1\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-881\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see above, the PV has a really strange style; it&#8217;s kind of surreal at times (and very surreal at others) and odd all the time. The thing I find most interesting is that the color palette tends to be slightly muted; this isn&#8217;t the bright colors of Ai no Chikyuusai. Yet this muted color scheme works well and seems oddly bright when put together. I can&#8217;t really put my finger on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mescallado.com\/happydisco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/haniwano2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mescallado.com\/happydisco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/haniwano2-300x135.png\" alt=\"haniwano2\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-882\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mescallado.com\/happydisco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/haniwano3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mescallado.com\/happydisco\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/haniwano3-300x135.png\" alt=\"haniwano3\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-883\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PV&#8217;s biggest asset are the girls involved; all of them have really stepped up their game and have a lot of talent appearing cute and personable in front of the camera. They&#8217;re all very cute and veyr fun to watch. This PV did a fantastic job of showing off the girls. <\/p>\n<p>The editing is very well done; it&#8217;s generally done rapidly (especially when they&#8217;re spelling out &#8220;H A N I W A&#8221;, cutting on every letter), but it never feels rushed or out of place. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, this PV is another example in how good greenscreen PVs CAN look, and is also an example of showing off your idols effectively. 9\/10<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed this PV, and it&#8217;s caused me to want to keep an eye on this group in the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday everyone! I was going to review Morning Musume&#8217;s triple A-Side that&#8217;s coming out this week, but then suddenly a new PV came out that I had to review. 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