Soma Saito went darker and darker with his 2nd EP “my beautiful valentine”, Yuma Uchida put a smile on everyone’s faces with the sweet “Good mood”, Makoto Furukawa delivered a set of intense performances with “Ware, Bara ni Insu”, GYROAXIA kicked off a new era and more.
The 2nd episode of the new video feature on The Hand That Feeds HQ’s YouTube channel is out!
Monthly Review is, as the name says, a monthly feature in which I find yet another excuse to talk about male seiyuu music and 2D groups.
This is a feature in which I get on camera covering the most impressive/buzzworthy releases in any given month – and hidden gems that not many people may end up paying attention to -, counting with your participation as well in all 4 corners:
- Best of the month (3 best/buzzworthy/gems of every given month as picked by me + 3 suggested by THTFHQ readers
- Monthly Choice (3 CD suggestions by me – regardless of when the CDs were released – and 3 suggestions by THTFHQ readers)
- Music in the Horizon (a look at next month’s releases – it mixes my and your comments on upcoming releases)
- Ask Vanessa* (ask me anything about male seiyuu or 2D music)
*Title subject to change, if you have suggestions for a title for this section, do leave those in the comments
This month’s episode is all about the music released in February 2022.
Soma Saito went darker and darker with a surrealistic take on romance in his 2nd EP “my beautiful valentine” and rose on Oricon’s Weekly Albums chart to #5 without any marketing behind this album (a very first time for a seiyuu artist).
Yuma Uchida put a smile on everyone’s faces with the sweet “Good mood“, Makoto Furukawa delivered a set of intense and contrasting performances with “Ware, Bara ni Insu“, GYROAXIA kicks off a new era with “Freestyle“, easily one of the best albums released so far this year.
EROSION continues to stray away from rock music while presenting unique performances in “NEVER LET “U” GO“, and Loulou*di is in a league of its own with “Pensée“.
And there’s more this month: pioniX, Wataru Hatano, SolidS are other artists I have yet to dive into their music.
There was no shortage of quality this month.
Believe me, February 2022 is, easily the best month of releases since December 2020.
And I feel like you and I will be talking about many of these – and more – CDs when the time comes for the Year in Review features. And perhaps, even you when the time comes for THTFHQ AWARDS 2022.
Additionally, there is some excitement for Paradox Live’s “Paradox Live Opening Show-Road to Legend-“, Fling Posse’s “Kizuato ga Kizuna to Naru“, VS AMBIVALENZ “PreOrder” and even Takuya Eguchi’s “EGURAND“.
These and more thoughts/comments can be found in the 1-hour-ish episode that just dropped on the channel and that you can find in this article as well.
Thanks to everyone that participated with amazing comments. Although only 3 were chosen for each corner, do know I’ve read them all and I keep being impressed by your musical sensibility! THTFHQ’s community is filled with talented individuals, fans of music, and voice acting that geek as hard – or even more – about both things than I do!
Do you want to participate in MONTHLY REVIEW?
This show is a collaborative work between you and me, sharing our love for male seiyuu and 2D music projects so don’t be shy to participate.
And don’t worry about not having perfect English writing or the sort, we all make mistakes and even I am not a native speaker – and typos are really my bread and butter here on the website – so don’t let that stop you from participating, should you want to!
As always, in the 2nd week of every month, the survey to participate in next month’s episode will be shared on THTFHQ’s social media (Facebook and Twitter).
You can participate as many times you want, I only ask that you avoid submitting the same answers in the various entries you make in this feature.
The goal is to feature as many CDs as possible, not to talk only about 1 or 2 CDs.
I’m working on a way of sharing said survey on the website for those of you that do not have social media accounts.
If the links are not working, CLICK HERE to check the video.
