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  If there is one song that I like to listen over and over, it would be Saikai covered by Moona and Suisei. To me, this is the entry for me to like again Japanese songs and starts to take the vtubing industry as a legit music industry. I have liked the Japanese songs in the past, but grown tired because of their direction. They tend to milk much with royal road progression and the math rock-ish style. Feels like repeated theme over and over.  Because of that, I will know if it's a Japanese song or not. But, that made me tired of listening the same pattern. However, I do have a favorite band, Perfume. I collected their CDs by asking my friends who visited Japan. So, I don't think that I am totally off with the Japanese music. Of course, the pandemic stops my supply of CD and I don't have any room for more CDs. Anyway, back to the Hoshi duet... I found it interesting about how both of Suisei and Moona taking the approach. And how I am learning Japanese culture from this song...

  Iofi seems like to sing songs out of her league. This time, she's singing "Here I Am". Don't get me wrong, she indeed capable of singing this song, but she can't carry the song herself. She need a good producer who could help with the song production. First of all, instead of using electric piano, I would prefer the producer uses Grand Piano. The sound for single keyboard feels like a cheap PSR keyboard production. Second, yeah, I feel like this is on a MIDI production scale. The harmonization feels like being produced with the PSR keyboard. The adlib and harmonization should have been tinkered by Sagisapon or any human tuner. Dragged by MIDI-fied instrumental, Iofi need to make power voice. Unfortunately, she is on the Idolesque- soft tone. She need to have a power voice like Suisei in Stellar-Stellar.  I don't know why, I feel some of the Japanese producer doing half-hearted effort when doing most of the HoloID songs.  Like Zeta's You're Mine, the ...