The new song is good, too! It seems that we can expect great songs from muque in the future.

I had preordered the limited edition of the new album and can recommend the included the concert. ;) The quality is equal to the Bluray of the previous album.

The song is awesome. Especially live.

Do you know “OVER”? I think you could like the song, too. YouTube: SCANDAL - OVER

This is my favorite Hanabie. song.

I prefer digital books because of the following points:

• There is a book price control in Germany, meaning that you can’t get new physical books cheaper. This does not apply to digital books.
• They take less physical space.
• I can read them everywhere with either my Smartphone that I already have with me at all times or my tablet. I do not have to plan to read a book when I’m on the go.
• I can quickly search for something in a reference book if I have it in digital form. This is not possible with physical books.

Only downside:

• I need to have a device when I want to read a digital book. And this needs to be charged. But this is rarely a problem.

Oh, no. I love bandcamp. I don’t want it to go down the drain. :c

What’s up with bandcamp?

Hey, no problem. Thank you for your impressions. I’m glad that there are a lot of songs that you like. :)

Though I have to say that the blatant pushing of their schoolgirl image in their earlier videos and concerts is a bit off-putting to me

This is my exact feeling. I like the mature SCANDAL more. And they worked hard to change their image. An example for this is the Koisuru universe MV.

You’re right and that’s why I love them. You can feel that they have fun when you go to a concert. And when they have fun, the crowd has fun too! It is quite more enjoyable when you are standing in the crowd knowing that the band members have as much fun as you.

SCANDAL are making songs that they like and not songs that may sell well. Also, they are exprimenting quite a bit. “Ai no shotai” from the latest album “Mirror” comes to mind. In that song they added a gospel choir which is something that I do not listen to every day. It is my favorite song from the album.

Plus the fact that they have a wide vararity of styles. Every album feels fresh. This surely comes with the downside that one may not like every single song. There may be songs that are more your cup of tea and songs that you do not like very much. But that’s OK. Just listen to the songs that you like. (Honestly, there are SCANDAL songs that I can’t seem to warm up to, no matter how hard I try. And one of them is a popular SCANDAL song. But eh, they have an impressive discography. There are so many songs that I like.)

Sorry for raving about my favorite band. 😅

What SCANDAL songs do you like so far?

Oh, Ok. I hope you get some time to relax with Japanese music. “26” is a really great song, I can understand that it left an impression on you.

I will also think about some songs with happy couples in the MVs for my next posts 😉

By the way, did you decide to order the album with the Bluray?

@awdsns@feddit.de I'm sure you've already seen the new MV. What's your opinion? :)

I like this song, too. IIRC this was an april fools joke at first.

Yes, the link you posted above is correct. I’ve ordered directly from Japan through cdjapan. All the stuff I’m ordering from Japan is mostly through cdjapan. I never had problems and the packaging quality is outstanding.

Yes, I did receive the live Bluray and I’ve seen the concert now multiple times.

The sound is perfect, camera work is good (not many unfocussed frames), image quality is very high (although you can see some “flickering” when the cameras shutter speed doesn’t match with frequency of the lightning) and there are interesting camera angles. There aren’t too many cuts (that’s good IMO, I dont’t like it when there are four cuts per second and you can’t see a thing). The sound of the Bluray doesn’t seem to be much post processed (auto tune and the like) if at all. You can hear it if the singer can’t reach a high note (but that occurs rarely). Nethertheless, the singer’s live performance is extremly good. It sounds like a studio recording. Mixing is also very good, you can hear everything very clear (I do not own any good audio equipment to judge that but with normal speakers or headphones it sounds very good).

All negative points I’ve mentioned above are really, really minor. You may not even be able to notice them. The Bluray is of very high quality.

Only thing I’m missing is a live performance of “GIRL AND”, my favorite song from them. The concert was held last year, so there wasn’t a chance that they could play it 😉

I’m very satisfied with the purchase and will surely buy the next concert Bluray as well.

TLDR: Overall, 5/7. Would recommend to buy the Bluray. 😄

Yes, it is. Track number two is called "ハイライト" -> Highlight.

Edit: Found it on YouTube

Thanks for posting this. My favorite MOTFD song is "Highlight" but "Endroll" is a close second. "Highlight" should be on the same album as "Endroll".

What does DSO stand for?

Yeah, I agree. I’ve ordered the limited edition of the album “Watashi no Nocturne” which comes with a recording of a concert on Bluray. I’m excited to hear how they sound live.

Thanks again for posting this. I’ve been listening to this song every single day since you posted it. I can’t get enough of it. :D

This channel seems to be new. It was created on 2023-07-06. There is also a link to the new channel on the overview page of the old channel so this seems legit.