It has been a very very long time since I have last reviewed an album. I believe the last thing I reviewed for any blog was either AKB48’s Team B 4th Stage (which I reviewed shortly after it came out, long before I really understood or liked AKB the way I did at their peak), or it was Wakeshima Kanon’s 2nd album. I don’t feel like checking my old blogs and I can’t even remember what they were called, so don’t quote me on that and please don’t find receipts because I do not need that.

However, with the advent of the new direction H!P has taken since 2015, introducing a total of 6 new groups and utilizing their trainees in a way i wouldn’t have thought possible in 2006, as well as with Tsunku retiring as the main producer of H!P to give more creative freedom to the other writers and composers that UF has to offer, I’ve been very interested to see what kind of direction the other groups will go in. Tsubaki Factory has been the most successful of these groups, with all of their singles performing well in the charts, as well as receiving tieups and decent promotion (especially for UF standards), so I’m interested to see what kind of music this album offers.

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