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petronia(Edited for unavoidable obscurantism - am up to ep.59 by the by, just before Hyoutei singles. Speaking of which.)
I have waited, but now I've got to ask. Does it say nothing to anyone else that Atobe (plus the rest of his team) is apparently going to cover an Onyanko Club song as a character single?
AN ONYANKO CLUB SONG!
Trying to think of how best to put this. You know Morning Musume? Hopefully? Okay, now picture Morning Musume really really 80's. ...I've been trying for hours to think of an equivalent in Western pop history, but there really isn't, because America never did saccharine 80's girlbands with twenty-plus members. The closest I can come is Bananarama. Or the Go-Gos. So we're talking, like, "Cruel Summer", okay. Or Belinda Carlisle. Or...
ATOBE AND HYOUTEI = JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS
Which would explain a whole lot of everything, if it weren't for the fact that they're obviously the Misfits. And at least it's not Tezuka and Seigaku, because Atobe doing Onyanko Club is a concept that (if the Jumpmeisters had a shred of decency) should only exist on the level of parody fic but Tezuka would have been PAIN. Even if - now gacking off idollica.com as I'm not that g33ky about eighties-tastic Asian pop - it turns out that Onyanko Club was once on Sukeban Deka, and every Japanese fanartist agrees in print that if Kaidou were a girl he'd be right out of Sukeban Deka. I have no idea what that signifies, unless it's:
TENIPURI + MARIMITE = ACE WO NERAE
(I need to shut up. Someone better get me those scans of 209.)
Nevertheless I expect the single to be quite brill. Unless of course it turns out that Suwabe can't sing squeaky female idorupop, in which case it'll be shite. Place your bets.
I have waited, but now I've got to ask. Does it say nothing to anyone else that Atobe (plus the rest of his team) is apparently going to cover an Onyanko Club song as a character single?
AN ONYANKO CLUB SONG!
Trying to think of how best to put this. You know Morning Musume? Hopefully? Okay, now picture Morning Musume really really 80's. ...I've been trying for hours to think of an equivalent in Western pop history, but there really isn't, because America never did saccharine 80's girlbands with twenty-plus members. The closest I can come is Bananarama. Or the Go-Gos. So we're talking, like, "Cruel Summer", okay. Or Belinda Carlisle. Or...
ATOBE AND HYOUTEI = JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS
Which would explain a whole lot of everything, if it weren't for the fact that they're obviously the Misfits. And at least it's not Tezuka and Seigaku, because Atobe doing Onyanko Club is a concept that (if the Jumpmeisters had a shred of decency) should only exist on the level of parody fic but Tezuka would have been PAIN. Even if - now gacking off idollica.com as I'm not that g33ky about eighties-tastic Asian pop - it turns out that Onyanko Club was once on Sukeban Deka, and every Japanese fanartist agrees in print that if Kaidou were a girl he'd be right out of Sukeban Deka. I have no idea what that signifies, unless it's:
TENIPURI + MARIMITE = ACE WO NERAE
(I need to shut up. Someone better get me those scans of 209.)
Nevertheless I expect the single to be quite brill. Unless of course it turns out that Suwabe can't sing squeaky female idorupop, in which case it'll be shite. Place your bets.
