#nanabun no nijyuuni

[chaotictoon]

Dancing: Sensu

[dailyfigures]

Takigawa Miu & Saito Nicole ; 22/7 ☆ Aniplex

[lightupheart]

(10 seconds of silence at the start)

[xitty]

[kousaka-ayumu]

Happy birthday Miu-chan!

I can't believe I missed best girl's birthday yesterday..

Happy birthday Takigawa Miu-chan!

(Yes, I'm a set for the OG8 girls, it's the kimi no hitomi o meguru bouken set from Love Live School Idol All Stars.)

OG:

[manekinekocake]

[skittlesskittycat]

[naotarou]

[tappdancing]

Happy Birthday to my favourite female idol, Miu Takigawa~!

[utaitemusic]

Pressed under every brief and fleeting dream, The flower becomes a piece of eternity. The deception, ever so painfully, Cuts deeply into the world that rejects it.

[animecatoftheday]

Today's anime cat of the day is:

The Cat from 22/7!

[shibabrows]

[lightupheart]

[xitty]

re: lrb, I love 22/7 music. I didn't know about them before the anime and while most passed the show as forgettable, I think of it fondly. It wasn't a masterpiece but it introduced me to them. Some of my favourites have graduated from the group but I still love the music and some of the newer girls seem cool too.

Yeah, the songs are what I love the most. Many of them hit a great spot of melancholy and/or bittersweet. They are so, so good. <3

Two of my very favourites are Boku ga motteru mono nara (first vid) and Kaze wa fuiteru ka? (linking seiyuu dance vid cuz the character music vid is only short ver.) Boku ga motteru mono nara perfectly showcases what I mean by the melancholy/bittersweet, not only the music but the lyrics go like "I want you to smile and I'd gladly give what I have to you but what I have is not what you want" and "God said we are all equal but we are filled with despair" etc.

Nani ga shiteagerarenai is great too. And Muzui was the anime OP, I love it. It has some of the most depressing lyrics in their songs though, it asks why should we even live, lives are too long and it's difficult (muzukashii = muzui).

And then my favourite b-side, Rain of Lies:

Aaaaa I love them so much! <3 Some of their songs have hope and love in them too (for example Kimi wa Moon) but I like that they are not generally happy poppy kind. They also have a yuri song (Shampoo no nioi ga shita) and something coooompletely different in Tachitsuteto Power.

[kousaka-ayumu]

Happy birthday Jun!

Og:

[manekinekocake]