Procrastinating on this again. Aaaaaaa...

Day 14: Favorite Original Overall

Okay. This one is actually a bit tough...

There is a lot of originals that I really like atm... And I have a definitive favorite from each band.

HHW with Gokai.

I really enjoyed YOLO and wish for a PasuPare version soon (since they DID commission the song in the first place).

PasuPare is also good with Shuwa and AtoZ.

And I already talked about Neo Aspect in a previous entry.

And this isn't even counting songs not from the main 5. R.I.O.T and Goal Line are absolute bops in their own right.

So of course, as you may know, my favorite song comes from Poppin' Party.

But I won't be talking about Jumpin.

It is a good song as I have stated before, but there is a song that really resonates not only with me, but also with Kasumi and it really gives depth to her character.

Light Delight

Hoo boy. Light Delight.

A rather melancholic song when you first hear it. Especially at the chorus.

That's mostly because, when you look at the translated lyrics, it is basically a song about depression and overcoming it.

Yep.

A song about dealing with depression.

And guess who most likely wrote those lyrics?

Kasumi.

While Rimi did say she writes lyrics for some of Popipa's songs, a bulk majority of them were written by Kasumi and that some songs were even collaborated efforts by the whole Band.

Regardless of this, however, it is believed that Kasumi wrote the lyrics for Light Delight.

Miss Kasumi isn't the most... emotionally sound person in the world. Despite looking like the happy-go-lucky protagonist type typical in anime such as this, Kasumi has been dealing with depressive thoughts and had been dealing with them throughout the whole series though it wasn't apparent until S1 of the anime.

Sadly, it seems as if Kasumi Depression is an anime-only thing as we have yet to see Kasumi back into this state since S1. Which is a big shame as well since, like with Hagumi and her deal with her parents, it would make for a good event story with some pretty neat event cards.

I honestly wish that we get to see depressed Kasumi again. It would basically show the non-anime folks Kasumi's true colors and see her as something other than a typical anime protagonist.