#HOSHI no fantasia ( cecil )

[dave-the-timelord]

Utapri tag game uwu

I was tagged by @catajima

1. Favorite ST☆RISH group song? Maji LOVE Legend Star. Honestly I could just listen to that beginning part on repeat.

2. Favorite QUARTET NIGHT group song? FLY TO THE FUTURE or The World is Mine. Just something different they reach my soul.

3. Favorite QN + ST☆RISH song? Basic but Golden ☆ Star. I just really like the different harmonies qn and starish produce, nice to hear them side by side.

4. Favorite HE☆VANS song? Bro HEAVEN SKY is a bop, absolutely fucks, the chorus *chef kiss*

5. Favorite Cross-Unit song? Original Resonace for sure, Code T.V.U. is a close second. The vocals of Original Resonance just hit different.

6. Favorite QN pair? Rise again? The guitar and the vocals are so good TwT.

7. Favorite senpai-kouhai song? Koiiro Sentimental, I think my Ranmaru bais is showing. 🤡

8. Favorite Shuffle Unit song? Hyper x Super x Lover ☆. I may hate it because of the event but I love the energy of it.

9. Favorite Shining Masterpiece song? This one is hard but I'd have to say Trois even if I hate the chart with all my guts. This was also the first song of them that I heard.

10. Favorite Legend Star duet song? NEXT DOOR, even if my heart is ripped out every time I listen to it.

11. All-time favourite? Yumeoibito he no Symphony. It makes me sad but I just love it, a close second is either SMILE MAGIC or Horizon.

12. All-time favorite duet? Tsukiakari no Dearest

13. All-time favorite trio song? Triangle Beat. No matter how many times I say I hate it or never wanna hear it again. As long as its nothing sl related.

14. Favorite Cross-Unit song? Black Déjà Vu. That muted guitar throughout the entire thing, is just something else. Day Dream too, they all sound so good. It's illegal.

15. Favorite Otoya solo? Behind the Rainbow. I have attachments to this song that I cant explain.

16. Favorite Masato solo? Shinnaru Senritsu wa Saiai wo Utau. The instrumentals. The vocals. Do I need say more?

17. Favorite Natsuki solo? Tsuki no Uta and Sirius e no Chikai.

18. Favorite Tokiya solo? Crystal Time next question. 😳

19. Favorite Ren solo? Rose Rose Romance. Just vry smexy, that is all.

20. Favorite Syo Solo? I would have to say Kakeru Kiseki. Hatsukoi wo mata hajimeyou is very close along with True Wing.

21. Favorite Cecil solo? Hoshi no Fantasia. 🥺🥺

22. Favorite Reiji solo? Hurray x2 Dreamers. But I also really enjoy Never, On Your Marks, and Kiss wa Wink de.

23. Favorite Ranmaru solo? This is tough, it's a tie between No.1, Only One, Wild Soul, and Be Proud. I can't pick. I just really enjoy them all.

24. Favorite Ai solo? I really love Mune no Kodou. He just sounds so soft I love it.

25. Favorite Camus solo? Melting of Snow. He wants to bring warmth,,,,, 🤧🤧🥺🥺🥺

26. Favorite HE☆VENS member solo? Just You by Eiji Otori, he sounds so sweet and the vocals, my heart. 🥺🥺 I also really like My Cutie... Drive Me Crazy by Van Kiryuin, it's so fun to sing along with.

27. Favorite Maji LOVE Kingdom trio song? Egoistic and Souai Traumerei. 😳

28. Underrated song? Maigo no Kokoro, Advent Ace and Superb Spirits. Haruuuukkaaaaaa!!!!! 🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

I tag @ifanclover and @tn-ckitty anyone can feel free tho sorry if you were already tagged _orz

[originalxresonance]

Mystic-in-Training Hazy Memories

Expectations:

Actually I had no serious expectations. I mean if I were pretty close to UR I would get it. I also had a lot of adult stuff to do (like job hunting) so I was playing casually.

Resources:

I used only natural LP. Saving for next Syo’s or Ai’s event. Or maybe I just used like ~150 LP?

Cards:

Cecil’s card is soooooo cute! The concept of him being a Nekomata is a bull’s eye. I really like it, especially the idolised version because I find the purple mist so magical, just like the whole event. The little bell on his tail is also lovely. I feel indifferent about the SR so I can’t say much about it. 

Songs:

I loved the special song, Hoshi no Fantasia. I’ve never heard it before so I found it beautiful. I was glad I could play Maji Love Revolutions and Aurora again. NorthWind and Sunshine, Kanbinaru Arcadia and Double Face are neither my fave nor hated songs but they gave me a lot of points. I’m not a fan of Code T.V.U (the song is nice and energetic but the map, despite being a 10 star level, is hell for me and I still can’t make FC of it). 

Result:

I ended on 4171th place. To be honest I thought I would stay in a higher tier (ranks 3000-4000). Unfortunately it didn’t happen. It’s the first time since December I’ve finished an event below 4000th place. I assume the event was pretty competitive and that’s why it turned out like this.

Other remarks:

Like I’ve said earlier, this event was competitive. There are a few reasons. 1) Summer break in many countries. 2) The pandemic is still a serious burden so many people stay at home (kindly reminder: STAY AT HOME, WASH YOUR HANDS OFTEN AND WEAR PROTECTIVE MASKS) 3) It’s been a long time (5 months) since Cecil’s event so there was a lot of time to gather LP and prisms.

[brillxntdays-blog]

Tag Dump Gallery

we are STARISH ( gallery )

yes call HEAVENS ( gallery )

just say QUARTET NIGHT ( gallery )

the password is ROT ( gallery )

promise to SIRIUS ( natsuki )

feel it CRYSTAL TIME ( tokiya )

HOSHI no fantasia ( cecil )

sekai no hate made BELIEVE HEART ( ren )

trust my DREAM ( mirror )

full throttle CHIVALROUS SPIRIT ( syo )

seien BRAVE HEART ( masato )

turning DREAMS into SONG ( haruka ) 

hurray for DREAMERS ( reiji )

zettai rondo EMOTION ( camus )

( ranmaru )

( ai )

( eiichi )

( kira )

( nagi )

( eiji )

( van )

( yamoto )

( shion )

[pastpassages]

Been thinking a lot about utapri lately and something that I think is really cool is that it feels like each character's music tends to fit into a different genre. I'm not super familiar with idol shows but I didn't feel that as much with love live when I was playing it, and bang dream sort of does that but I feel like the magnitude is different too; bang dream is managing 5 genres (one for each band) while utapri manages a relatively distinct sound for 11 different characters! (I'm not including heavens only because I haven't heard their solo songs yet.) And it was annoying me that I couldn’t put it into words so I spent the past couple of days trying to match up each character with a different genre or artist/song that I think has the same feel! 

Starting with Quartet Night:

Reiji’s songs have this pop-jazz fusion to them, like in Kiss wa Wink de, you can hear a lot of the jazziness in Dekiai Temptation as well. And after looking around a lot, I feel like that's really similar to Michael Jackson actually, especially Billie Jean and The Way You Make Me Feel.  

Camus I had a lot of trouble figuring out, but eventually I settled on describing it as synthpop. Zettai Reido Emotion is a good example of it. I think Eurythmics is a good comparison point for his stuff. 

(Also if you stretch it, I feel like you could possibly compare Junketsu naru ai Aspiration to Lady Gaga circa the fame monster, especially Bad Romance. But that could be my imagination.)

Ai I had trouble with too, because I really like that sort of soft electronic sound his songs have (when they aren’t primarily piano and vocals like in Winter Blossom), especially Futari no Monogram and A.I., but I don’t listen to it enough to really know what it’s called! Some googling produced “dub techno,” which seems to fit pretty well. It also reminds me of early-ish supercell stuff. Here’s a mix video with a bunch of dub techno songs:

Ranmaru was probably the easiest out of QN because I listen to a lot of rock. It did take me a bit to really put into words that his stuff tends to lean towards metal though, I kept looking at like The Clash and stuff. So Bright Road and Not Bad are what I mainly went off of for comparison, and eventually I settled on his sound being similar to Heart. 

I feel like Halestorm is a good comparison as well:

Now onto Starish! Tumblr won’t let me embed any more videos so I’ll just hyperlink them:

Tokiya was actually where I started thinking about this! Nanairo no Compass always made me feel like I was listening to a 90s love ballad. Like listen to that, then listen to I Swear by All 4 One, they’re so similar. The rest of his stuff, especially Hoshikuzu Shall we Dance is pretty jazzy/big band-esque. Kind of reminds me of Sing Sing Sing by Benny Goodman (chances are you’ve heard it before, it gets around as a representative of big band stuff I think). 

Natsuki was also pretty clearly rock, but a little harder to pin down. I think it kind of sounds like Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now and I Want to Break Free, but Twisted Sister is in there as well I think. Especially Orion de Shout Out is closer to Twisted Sister and Yell is closer to Queen (though Queen definitely has a slower tempo to their stuff). I generally figure glam rock goes well with his sound. Also sidenote check out Granrodeo if you haven’t, Natsuki’s va is the lead vocalist and their stuff is really good! 

The best descriptor I can think of for Syo’s sound is shonen anime opening. It kind of changes from song to song, like Subete Wo Uta Ni has some kind of chiptune-like elements, and True Wing’s opening reminds me of early aughts rock. I think Ready Steady Go by L’arc-en-Ciel and Monogram by Nico Touches the Walls are pretty similar! There’s also The Day by Porno Graffiti (yes that is their actual name) if you want something more recent.

So with Otoya I knew it was pop rock but there’s a lot of pop rock out there so that’s not super helpful! And I was trying to figure out why it kind of reminded me of middle school and then I realized that he sounds like The Jonas Brothers, who I listened to obsessively back then. Trust My Dream and Nijiro Overdrive are the best examples I think.

Ren also has a really jazzy sound! There is a lot of jazz in utapri. But his stuff is much more Latin jazz than what I normally listen to. Dear...Burning My Lady (I cannot get over that name oh my god) and Orange Rhapsody are good examples. Tito Puente’s Ran Kan Kan is what I was comparing it to. (And Suavemente.) Of course Red Hot Love Minds is much more rock, and Freedom is just synths everywhere it seems like, so this isn’t like true across the board. 

So if Syo gives me shonen anime vibes, Masato gives off shojo anime op vibes I feel like. Blue Prism Heart and Fiction by Sumika sound really similar to me! Though it also sounds like Sugar Song and Bitter Step, so maybe it’s more that Masato has a kind of jpop sound. But there’s also an element of like the kind of stuff I hear with Wagakki Band, that fusion of japanese and western music, especially in Koizakura. 

As far as Cecil goes, it feels like a lot of his songs are like Owl City! In some songs like Happiness the composers throw in some Arabic sounding stuff, and I’m not familiar enough with Arabic music to really make judgments on how similar it is to Arabic pop, which is where I was thinking it might go based on that. But Hoshi no Fantasia and Vanilla Twilight have really similar vibes to them, and in general Cecil’s song have that same ambient magical feeling that Owl City has. 

And that’s all! Honestly this was really fun, I found some new stuff to listen to when I was looking up all this. I’m curious what other people think, if there’s anything that utapri music reminds them of?

[kotosnoozy]

i realised the other week that destiny song has little excerpts of the other starish boys' solos from the same release set and i've been listening out to see if they ever did anything similar with other cecil songs, and hoshi no fantasia just came on and has all of their instruments other than a saxophone

so just picture me losing my fucking mind at the concept of hoshi no fantasia fading out, the boys starting to exchange these gentle little smiles, cecil starts to turn around to thank them for their help

and then suddenly iN BURSTS REN, WAILING ON HIS SAXOPHONE