#did rikkaimyu have good songs?

[quoththemaiden]

I feel like I don't know how to be a niche fan on Web 2.0. Like seriously, where would I go to find Prince of Tennis musicals later than Rokkakumyu? Where are the torrent sites that somehow never gave me a virus or called the FBI down on me? Does that kind of thing still exist or are they gone forever?

Thankfully I found the DVDs I'd burned years ago and they're mostly not corrupted, so I have Dream Live 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, Fudomine, St. Rudolph, side Yamabuki, Hyoutei, and Rokkaku (in a baffling mix of raws and different languages' subs), so that's a pretty good collection. Still, it's a little sad to think that my proficiency has decreased so much I wouldn't have any idea where to go for that.

[solosorca]

Who wants some rambling Opinions on rokkakumyu?

So, new Seigaku babies. They’re all cute. 

I really love Inui (who didn’t really do a lot, but he feels like he’s going down the Teruma route of Inui characterisation and he is my favourite Inui)

Ryoma and his breathy voice is so cute!! Ryoma doesn’t get to do much in this myu, but he does shine in the bits he does do so I’m really looking forward to rikkaimyu to see him have some matches and plot things to do.

I like Tezuka a lot too. Again, he barely does anything in this musical, which sucks hopefully this cast will stick around till Higa so that Tezuka can do things because it would really suck if he was cast to just to appear when Ryoma needs to be soothed by his voice. 

So, that duet, huh? I do really love Road buuuuut Standby is a better song and I’d rather listen to Standby as the pillar duet part than Road. I mean, I would have loved another pillar duet->team song, but they did give us a load of new songs so I guess they didn’t have time to pander to me again lol, but yeah, singing Road and Standby back to back just shows how much better Standby is. I did enjoy the pillar duet, don’t get me wrong, but... it could have been a little better. 

The only new song that really stuck with me was the new hyotei song and that’s only because of Atobe’s singing. The rest were good, but not as memorable than the old ones, but then again i have watched rokkakumyu A Lot and maybe the old songs are just so familiar to me that change is scary lol.

I did yell ‘Fine, I’LL SING FORWARD MY MEN MYSELF!’ at the screen and then they broke out into it. No hip thrusts though. Give me back my hip thrusts.

I loved this Rokkaku cast. a lot. I’m usually kinda meh on casting the characters they left out before just for them to sit around doing nothing, but man, Shuudoh, you are such a lad.

Bane’s bro-fists, I need more!

I could go on and on about how much I love Rokkaku, but I’ll spare you, they’re all amazing and every second they’re on stage is fantastic. 

I swear Hyotei aren’t in this musical as much as the other ones. Like, they do all the same things as the other musicals, I can’t think of anything they’ve cut out or anything. Maybe tenimyu has learnt how to pace the hyotei parts.

I swear Rokkaku show up much earlier than in the other rokkakumyus.

Oh, replacing Forward My Men with a ballad does work but it’s waaaaaay less fun.

I love ballet Atobe. Give me more ballet Atobe.

Oh, Fuji is really pretty and comes across as a Fuji I’d like, but his match is very quick and he doesn’t get to put across Fuji (this makes sense in my head). Again, I look forward to seeing him in the next myu, although Fuji’s character starts to go weird in the latter half of the story.

Urm

I think that’s it

I love it. I utterly loved it.

Oh and because my folders are a mess, have some Rokkakumyu with Touken Ranbu myu subs