Harenchi☆Punch – Megaphone August 10, 2009

Track Listing

1. Megaphone
2. Koi wa Kagai Jugyou
3. Hakusen ~Start Line <Winter’s Story ver.>
4. Megaphone (Instrumental)

1. Megaphone

Megaphone showed what Harenchi☆Punch was all about right with this track.  Tomomi is one strong singer, especially if she opens the track up powerfully.  It’s also another track that shows off Mako’s rapping skills and it’s quite cool and fitting in the song.  It does have a summer-kind of feel with it’s pop/rock sound, but it continues to be another strong A-side from the trio.

2. Koi wa Kagai Jugyou

I’m so confused by the opening to this track.  At first it sounded like a Christmas-themed track.  This would be the first time to think that Mako’s rapping was not fitting as it’s under filters and just disrupted the flow of the track.  It doesn’t help that we finally hear Saya have a solo line and she sounds not good in this song.  She has a higher pitch compared to Tomomi’s fuller voice and that also created a riff in the song.  Not so good.

3. Hakusen ~Start Line <Winter’s Story ver.>

Rounding off the single is a rearranged version of their debut A-side.  Basically they took out the original’s rock sound and gave it a nice ballad touch and add in some typical wintry sounds and we get this.  For the lack of musical flow, it’s not too bad, but it does make Tomomi sound really bad because she’s stressing her vocals hardcore, almost to the point of yelling. 

 

 

Harenchi☆Punch’s 2nd effort wasn’t as good as their debut single.  Granted, Megaphone was a pretty good A-side.  It was the B-side and the rearranged version of their debut that brought the single to a new low.  I mean you have three girls with different talents and they weren’t brought out to the forefront…well maybe except Tomomi’s but her voice is stress-heavy.  Get Saya and Mako their own tracks XD

Harenchi☆Punch – Hakusen ~Start Line June 18, 2009

Track Listing

1. Hakusen ~Start Line
2. Jewel
3. Wakachiaitai Kiseki
4. Hakusen ~Start Line (Instrumental)

1. Hakusen ~Start Line

Haha, I really like the acoustic opening to this track.  It seems to be something that I actually didn’t expect something like this especially since I came in during the 80_pan era, so this is actually a big surprise since Hakusen is more of pop/rock track and then hearing Mako rap in the song is a nice surprise.  It might be a little too slow, but I actually like this track alot.  Tomomi’s singing and Saya’s playing is quite nice.  Good A-side.

2. Jewel

Jewel is something else LOL.  First off, it’s a bit more rockier ala SCANDAL which is interesting especially with Mako’s rapping as well, you don’t really expect something like this.  It’s actually quite nice and Tomomi sounds a lot better here on this track than on the slower “Hakusen”.  I’d say this would’ve been the better A-side.

3. Wakachiaitai Kiseki

We get a another “Hakusen-like” track to round off the single.  I have to say though, this was my least favorite off the track for some reason, it just lacked the energy the other two really had and I can see why it didn’t make the album’s cut. 

 

 

Harenchi☆Punch begins their shortlived career with something I didn’t expect coming into this and that’s the fact they were a bit of a rock trio which surprised me well.  Even moreso that one of the members rapped was more intriguing.  I think I might’ve found a group I liked…just wondered why’d they go all electro in their final era.  Ok, Jewel is the best track on the single, while Hakusen was pretty good, bit too slow, but good and Wakachiaitai Kiseki was just not that memorable for me.