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okusawamiikun’s 30 Day Challenge!
Day 24: Favourite overall vocals
I know.
"Tsubame you biased fool you're not basing your choice on musical elements alone—"
I KNOW. LET ME EXPLAIN MYSELF. Look, like with Kasumi, I didn't really like Arisa's voice either at first, you can't tell me I like it now purely because of best girl influence hhh. I watched the anime a couple of days after getting the game so really my first experience of hearing her sing was in Ep 11's unaccompanied Mae e Susume (yeah Sing Girls was the ED but I didn't pay attention to the solos), aka the best scene imo, but y'know, it was rough, because it was supposed to sound rough. Then I went and listened to Su-Suki Nanka Janai, which was an okay song until it grew on me. My first impression of Arisa's voice was just . . . "Yeah. Typical, cutesy. Probably a closet idol."
That changed when I started greedily consuming all the live footage I could find, as you do. I liked her seiyuu's stage presence, but more importantly—that one solo in HashiKimi acoustic. So soft and pretty?? Lovely dynamics? To no one's surprise, I hunted down more of Ayasa's work and gave my entire soul to her. So . . . I guess you could say this is more Ayasa's doing than Arisa's lmao.
Those solo bits where Arisa's voice sometimes catches or wavers, which I usually don't like? I thought it was a seiyuu quirk at first, not a character quirk, but as I found, Ayasa doesn't sing like that in other roles. As Kaoruko from Revue Starlight, she's smooth and lilting and flirtatious as heck (this is turning into Ayasa lovemail but I'm in love with this particular song, it's a duet but yeah).
Anyway the point is, Ayasa purposely makes Arisa sound awkward and sort of repressed and I've come to adore it after knowing it's intentional. I mean she does genuinely have a nice voice, it's just people wouldn't usually pick hers as a fav so I felt compelled to explain further? That's all I will shut up now
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It's way longer than usual but my Rockin' Western scout is finally done!!!!
oh also my cat, Adrien, is in it so.. if you like cats owo
Tsubame
okusawamiikun’s 30 Day Challenge!
Day 23: Favourite main vocals
If you'd asked me this when I was just getting into Bandori I'd have said Yukina for sure. We were in the middle of A Song Unfinished and people were picking LOUDER left, right and centre, not to mention it was playing on the event page. Yukina sounded great and LOUDER suited her voice especially well. I didn't like Kasumi's voice at all. Yes! BanG Dream implanted itself in my head and all I could think of was how shrill and grating she sounded.
Who knew she'd become my fav all these months later? Really though, whether you like Kasumi's voice or not, I think we can all agree on one thing: this girl sings her heart out. She's energetic, she's passionate and tender . . . she's so, so expressive. Yet her heightened emotions never impede the flow of her singing, only add to it (lumpy, uneven phrasing is a huge pet peeve of mine, so even if someone is more technically sound otherwise, if their singing doesn't flow well, it's still . . . eh).
You can see why Aimin had trouble with the signature Kasumi vocals in the beginning, but as she said herself (I don't remember where exactly), she eventually figured out a good way to use her voice. I'm no expert but she does sound less strained to me in more recent songs? Maybe part of it's just me getting used to how she sings but I love listening to her now.
Yukina and Kokoro are very close behind her though! It's just . . . Kasumi's range of expression, guys
