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Review – K-ON – GO! GO! MANIAC

April 27, 2010 by Chikorita157 4 Comments

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General Information

Album Title: GO! GO! MANIAC
Artist: Houkago Tea Time (Toyosaki Aki, Hikasa Youko, Satou Satomi, Kotobuki Minako, Taketatsu Ayana)
Catalog Number: PCCG-70071
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Tracks

1. GO! GO! MANIAC
2. Genius…!?
3. GO! GO! MANIAC (Instrumental)
4. Genius…!? (Instrumental)
General Thoughts

K-ON! in the first music had a very good amount of good pop music that sounded very good and very catchy. Did Go! Go! Maniac fulfill the promise to be better than the opening of the first season? Far from it since from first time listening to the TV version, it was a complete mess. However, does this album fixes that messiness. Not a chance… and you will find out soon enough.
GO! GO! MANIAC

Well, in comparison to Cagayake! GIRLS from the first season, GO! GO! MANIAC is two leaps backwards. The problem? The vocals are sadly a big mess. Toyosaki Aki’s vocals were a big mess compared to her first single, love your life, which sounded a lot better than this… The problem is that the messiness comes from the lyrics being sung way too fast and causing some squeakiness. I think the trend of Kyoto Animation providing not so good opening themes is becoming a reality since Suzumiya Haruhi S2’s opening theme, Super Driver, was also considered a disaster because of the not so good singing from Hirano Aya.

Oddly enough, taking the vocals away makes the song less cringing… but it doesn’t change the fact that the song was ruined by the vocals.
Genius…!?

Genius…!? sounds better than the former and Toyosaki Aki’s voice not nearly as bad, but fits in and pretty catchy. However, as with the overall horribleness of the opening song, this song simply doesn’t have the energy and sounds pretty simplistic.

From Toyosaki’s performance of these songs, the overall performance of the songs in the album was average. The problem is the opening song is obviously a big mess to make the song slightly unlistenable. I have heard a a lot better from Toyosaki Aki from the Houkago Tea Time Album and also Yui’s character Album. GO! GO! MANIAC did not deliver at all and was actually worse than the former OP in the first season. Even Toyosaki’s version of Fuwa Fuwa Time sounded better than this… Way better. From my impressions, it is clear that Hikasa Youko will perform better on the ending theme, Listen!! which I will review next time.
Verdict

7.2/10, Average

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  1. Ryan A :
    April 28, 2010 at 12:11 am • Magical Level: 90

    Sounds like The Chipmunks improvising an ALi PROJECT song minus any sort of melody.

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    • chikorita157 :
      April 28, 2010 at 8:21 am • Magical Level: 2984

      I think I can sing this song better…

      Maybe not. :p

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  2. zzereoparticle :
    April 28, 2010 at 12:25 am • Magical Level: 57

    Not too surprised at this revelation since I can’t imagine what was going on in their mind when they had Toyosaki (a very subpar singer) go at a faster clip on this. You’re right that if you just removed her voice, the song becomes a lot more bearable with just the instrumentals.
    .-= zzereoparticle´s last blog ..Anime Music in the Oddest Places – Bloomberg TV =-.

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    • chikorita157 :
      April 28, 2010 at 8:22 am • Magical Level: 2984

      Maybe some are just not cut out for singing or maybe she needs singing lessons…. Anyways, I do agree about the instrumentals part.

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