Reflect

Reflect is basically a song about Gawr Gura and her "other self." I couldn't really find anything to love/like about this song. Sometimes the English felt a bit off, and the animation was pretty lazy, with both Gawr Guras barely moving. Every few seconds was basically images that were slowly zooming in and moving onto another... while this doesn't happen for all scenes, this was often shown. The sound was pretty decent, it was simple and I couldn't find anything good about it. It was fine. The character part is one problem here. I often cringed at both of the Gawr Guras. Sometimes I would feel like vomiting at points. And for the second last part, I didn't really enjoy this much. There were only a few scenes that looked pretty nice and fresh 4/10 The song is good but English is sometimes off, and the song was just bad overall. I couldn't find anything to really like about this music video.

The song itself is great, no doubt about it. However, there are two parts to music video – the music… and the video. Unfortunately, the video is not that great in this case. It consists mostly of 3D rendered background, or still images with added effects. The animation level is just above of picture drama. I also feel like the video sometimes doesn’t fit the audio that well, like in the faster parts of the song, the pictures are still going at pretty much the same pace. The lyrics are fine. Not on the level of Mori’s songs, but not meaningless either. The inclusion of Greek portion also gives it a nice flavour. So, as a good song paired with average video, I can’t really give this more than score of “fine”. The song really is catchy though.

The Hololive ladies are many things but they most often than not forget that they are idols. Gura herself in a past life was a Meme Queen and dropped plenty of bangers left right and center, Reflect is no different. While the song isn't really to my taste the video itself is godly so easily raises what is otherwise an okay song in my books to a different level entirely. Gotta give it to the EN ladies and Hololive in general, they can hold a note no matter what language they're speaking. No matter the age they hit different every time.

This song is absolutely incredible. I have not had a song become my favorite that fast before. Goodness gracious, man. I was up very late when this came out, and when it did it- it was out for an hour already. I listened to this when I was like tired, about to fall asleep, and man, I could not go to sleep for about the next 30 minutes. Like, I was just thinking about the song the entire time. It's unbelievable, man. I did not think that a cute shark girl can make a song like this, like man. I was so surprised with the theme that she chose, and, somehow, she made it work very well. I was absolutely blown away. Through out the first time I was listening to this song, I was just in a trance pretty much. I was completely hooked. I was jamming out even though it was like super late. I wasn't really like head bopping or anything but I was like "wow, this is really good", and, I also really liked the assortment of languages she uses. Like, I think she even uses Greek at the beginning and the end which is really cool and somehow it fits. And also the Japanese and English it mixes so well in the song. There is also a couple different styles throughout it so it's not the same thing over and over again. It's just really good. I never thought that a VTuber could release a song that is this much of a jam, like, I- I listen to anime openings quite a bit and I- I think this is a lot better than many anime openings that I have listened to, like, just instantly became better than some of my favorite anime openings, which.. absolutely insane to me. This is a masterpiece right here. I- I’m about to show you guys this song. I’ve already listened to this like, so many times since it’s dropped, but, let’s just give it a listen right now, cause man, this song is so good. I’ll go through my thoughts.. I’ll go through my thoughts throughout bits and pieces of the song. I know nothing about music, so I can’t give like, a super good critique about it, but man, I can appreciate good production value and great music when it’s there.

I'm not into Vtubers let alone hololive stars, but this piece was surely worth a try. It was a really beautiful song, correct me if I'm wrong, but I felt it was more of a introspective song than a judgement one. Gawr Gura, when I searched it up on YouTube, I didn't expect this to be such a big deal. As far my as N2 Japanese goes, most of the lines were top notch, the English part in between was really giving the dark/death vibe. I've never been attracted to squeaky and high pitched voices, but this singer/artist was really brilliant, brought out the entire feeling she had building up right in front of our eyes. I think I'll take out my old Miku DIVA and my old PSP from my attic and give a shot, cause REFLECT song reminded me of Hatsune Miku's voice and I'd love to give it another try.

Best shark --> Best Anime I thought Holo Graffiti could never be surpassed as the best anime ever, however i was clearly wrong, this masterpieces simply blows away all conceptions of what an anime can be. My only complain would possibly be the lack of continuation, sure there have been some OVAs that expand with spinoffs, like the acclaimed Q, but there is still so much that the story can offer, I for one would like a proper beach episode :D As a long time fan of this anime and its connected storylines I can recommended to any shrimp of culture that is interested in the mysteries hidden within the deep ocean. I rate this A/10