This week we've got a wonderfully popular song with the 鏡音 twins.




Title: おおかみは赤ずきんに恋をした, Ookami ha Akazukin ni Koi wo Shita, The Wolf who Fell in Love With Red Riding Hood
Producer: ひとしずくP
Genre: Pop
Vocaloid: 鏡音リン・レン

Kenn's Comment: English subtitles here.

It's a Rin/Ren song that uses their lower registers! I don't know about you guys, but I really can't take their higher registers which are used way too much (imo).

Anywho, Ren's voice is easily one of the lowest Ren's I've heard in a very long time. He sounds like a boy! Rin's voice is more or less the standard pitch, as if memory serves me correct, it's at more or less the same range as ココロ.

It's a catchy song with a really nice chorus. I'm really liking the song, especially any part where the twins are singing together, like the bridge and chorus. The song itself is a spin on Little Red Riding Hood, where in this one, the two are something like star crossed lovers - with the wolf cursing his endless fate of being the bad guy in the story. It's a rather tragic song despite it's upbeat composition.

The song is also is covered by the amazing duo of ぽこた and 花たん for their upcoming album, DDirndl.Frau. For their cover, click here.

Yuu Tomonoga is a genius who was accepted to an American university at the young age of 13 and later accepted into the university's graduate program. Unfortunately, he loses funding for his research, but decides to drop out and continue the research on his own. He travels back to Japan in hopes of getting funding, but he quickly runs out of money for daily living. Luckily, he gets a call from an old friend and accepts his offer to teach at an all-girls school. 

Kenn's Comment: Like I said, this one is a bit a of a fluffy series. There is drama, yes, but from what I've read, which isn't very much, it's not super serious heavy drama. It definitely feels like a rom-com, with it's light hearted-ness, but it's comedy isn't a key factor in the story. Using GTO as a comparison wouldn't do this one too much good, as the only linking thread is that both have teachers are main characters, and said teachers help the students. It's a common plot, and the two leads are completely different.

It's a bit hard to judge this one because of how little of it I've read, but it's definitely something I'd keep my eye on. It's nice, light and fluffy with just enough comedy to keep it from getting overly serious, and just enough drama to keep it from getting too sweet and goofy.