Change the World

Created/Updated 2000-12-23



Animephile Rating: C

From what I can tell, the group V6 is separated into two, Coming Century and 20th Century. Coming Century is made up of:
Morita Go, Miyake Ken, and Okada Junichi.
20th Century is made up of:
Sakamoto Masayuki, Nagano Hiroshi, and Inohara Yoshihiko.

Let me be extremely blunt here. V6, as far as I can tell, is one of those "popularized by force" group. They're not bad singers, but they're not really artists either. Maybe I'm wrong here, but then I am stating what I feel from this CD. I only bought it for the OP of Inuyasha, which I thought was catchy and powerful. Well, here's the problem. When I first heard it, I heard it at an anime showing. It was out of a notebook computer playing DivX encoded episodes at most likely 64kbps or maybe even 32kbps (audio section bit-rate). I am pretty sure the equipment in the showing room isn't some junk, but they don't come close to what I've got (Sony VPL-1270Q excepted). Excuse me for being too proud here, but to get my point across, do bear with me. First time I listened to it on my system, it was painfully apparent to me that this thing was "optimized" for cheap-ass boom-box type thing with over-emphasized highs and no real "low-lows." I was surprised so I listened to it with my trusty studio monitor headphone for analysis. Not so surprisingly, the same problem. Needless to say, I won't be buying anything V6 except maybe a car. Then again, I really can't justify the fuel effeciency of V6 either.
Oh, BTW, I do understand that most of the "pop" or "anime" CDs aren't really Hi-Fi type things, but then, they don't try to be anything else either. FWIW, I wish some of the Orchestra pieces from Escaflowne, Card Captor Sakura, etc. would come out on an SACD from original master tape. That'd be REAL nice.
Yeah, I admit it. "Change the World" is catchy. But then, it's SUPPOSED to be catchy.



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