It’s been a while since the last round of short reviews… mostly because I was too lazy to write them. A few CDs I hadn’t finished listening to, and if I haven’t finished them I obviously can’t review them. Here’s a photo first, the stars of this batch:

Ruri Yakushi (薬師るり) is a singer I was kind of curious about. First off, her singing is actually solid — at least on CD it is, and without much obvious pitch-correction smeared over it. She switches styles freely too: she can sing just about anything. No-holds-barred stuff, hentai anime stuff, totally shameless stuff, tear-jerking stuff, plain love songs, denpa songs — she covers basically everything. From what I read, she still works as a pharmacist on the side, which is why she took the stage name “Yakushi Ruri” (yakushi being the word for pharmacist). Anyway, the music’s good, so I picked up the new album. Apparently first-press orders came with a signed copy — except I can’t read a damn thing on this signature besides “ありがとう”…

Meis Clauson dropped another disc, but this time he ditched Yuiko and teamed up with Rita, released under his own circle “The Root of heads”. I preordered it. Originally I was going to order through Toranoana, but they’re a pain about proxy shipping — they wanted my real name in kanji. So I write my Chinese name, and they tell me the kanji in my name don’t exist in Japanese. Bruh. Ended up going with Melonbooks instead.