Comments on: ORANGE RANGE’s “Kizuna” http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/2005/09/04/orange-ranges-kizuna/ Your most informative JPop blog contributed by Channel-Ai members. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:06:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Naru http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/2005/09/04/orange-ranges-kizuna/comment-page-1/#comment-540 Naru Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:49:56 +0000 http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/?p=33#comment-540 I am not a big fan of ORANGE RANGE. However this song ended up being one of my favorite songs ever. It might also be because I am a fan of the book "Ima, Ai Ni Yukimasu" which their song "Hana" was used as the theme for and now "Kizuna" was used as the theme for the J-drama. But Kizuna, like the J-Drama version of "Ima, Ai Ni Yukimasu" is slower and is more dramatic. "Hana", while good is faster and more like a dramatic pop song. "Kizuna" is just a beautiful ballad. PLUS I am sucker for traditinal Japanese intruments used in J-Pop xD RYO's rap bothered me at first too. But then after oh, about the 5th or 10th time I noticed it added drama to the song. That his breathy and loud rap makes it more of a sad climax,and then the song slowly flows to an end... This is a Otsuka Ai website-"Kingyo Hanabi" and "Planeterium" are like...two of the most beautiful J-Pop songs ever! I don't care what any "eeeeeeeeeeww Otsuka Ai sucks!" people say. PS- "Kizuna" is like an adult version of "Michishirube~a road way home". I am not a big fan of ORANGE RANGE. However this song ended up being one of my favorite songs ever. It might also be because I am a fan of the book “Ima, Ai Ni Yukimasu” which their song “Hana” was used as the theme for and now “Kizuna” was used as the theme for the J-drama. But Kizuna, like the J-Drama version of “Ima, Ai Ni Yukimasu” is slower and is more dramatic. “Hana”, while good is faster and more like a dramatic pop song. “Kizuna” is just a beautiful ballad. PLUS I am sucker for traditinal Japanese intruments used in J-Pop xD RYO’s rap bothered me at first too. But then after oh, about the 5th or 10th time I noticed it added drama to the song. That his breathy and loud rap makes it more of a sad climax,and then the song slowly flows to an end…
This is a Otsuka Ai website-”Kingyo Hanabi” and “Planeterium” are like…two of the most beautiful J-Pop songs ever! I don’t care what any “eeeeeeeeeeww Otsuka Ai sucks!” people say.
PS- “Kizuna” is like an adult version of “Michishirube~a road way home”.

]]> By: eyn http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/2005/09/04/orange-ranges-kizuna/comment-page-1/#comment-55 eyn Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:12:36 +0000 http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/?p=33#comment-55 First of all, I really like the cover of this single. It looks great and I like monochrome cover for some reason (if they are well designed). I actually enjoyed Kizuna when I kinda hated ORANGE RANGE due to their overrated popularity. I don't see what's so interesting in their other songs, but Kizuna sounds pretty decent to me. Thank you for letting me know their song is actually quite nice without excessive rapping. The b-side, SOI SOOSU no Theme, is definitely not for me. It kinda breaks the good impression that Kizuna has created for me. -.- First of all, I really like the cover of this single. It looks great and I like monochrome cover for some reason (if they are well designed).

I actually enjoyed Kizuna when I kinda hated ORANGE RANGE due to their overrated popularity. I don’t see what’s so interesting in their other songs, but Kizuna sounds pretty decent to me. Thank you for letting me know their song is actually quite nice without excessive rapping.

The b-side, SOI SOOSU no Theme, is definitely not for me. It kinda breaks the good impression that Kizuna has created for me. -.-

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