A Rebours

Track 1: Opening. She talks. Very cute.

Track 2: Nice song and a very cute video. There's also a series of very strange things that are somewhat comical but since I don't speak Japanese I'm sure I'm missing their main point, which would probably make them quite comical.

Track 3: This video consists of a continuously running stream of scenes going from bottom to top with Tomosaka Rie in a wide variety of outfits and the backgrounds varying just as much. It's a good song, although the constant movement of the scene gets just a little tiresome. At the end of the song itself Tomosaka and some guy come onto a stage and dance while the music is playing. Odd. Very odd.

Track 4: A very soft song featuring photos of a lot of different girls crying. At the end of the regular video there's more of the odd scenes. These are along the lines (I think) of "here is a problem" and "here is how to solve it", with one being you don't like some plant that you are supposed to eat so you take it and put it on your parent's car as a decoration.

Track 5: The same song as track 3, but with a non-continuously-moving background. A much better approach, in my opinion. Then more strange stuff added after the regular video.

Track 6: Another video version of the music from Track 1. The original version is better, in my opinion.

Track 7: Scenes from various hectic publicity sessions. They give a person a glimpse of just how hectic the life of an idol is in Japan.

Track 8: Scenes from various performances with the background song "Dotti demo in" playing.

Track 9: an intro track to the "A Rebours" section. Whatever's going on here is beyond me; I can't figure it out.

Track 10: A nice, soft song.

Track 11: Features Tomosaka in one of the strangest dresses ever, along with musicians playing a toilet lid and a garbage can. It's an nice song, but the outfit is somewhere far beyond horrible. Then it goes to a practice session and then her walking around.

Track 12: The Escalation song, with her still in the outfit from track 11. Escalation is a nice song. Extra added to the song of her walking around , etc.

Track 13: A different song, still in the same outfit. Pretty good song. Some more behind-the-scenes views are added after the performance video.

Track 14: A song I'm not familar with. A very pretty song. There's something after the regular video, something with her in a bed talking to herself, I think, with the subtitles in French.

Track 15: Figuring the "mutant bathroom plunger" was about as wild as an outfit as to be expected, I was surprised by this outfit. It would put most Halloween outfits to shame. The song, by the way, is one she sings at least partly in French. Not a bad song, but not great, either.

Track 16: Still in her "chicken" outfit, she does one of the songs of hers that I sort of don't care much for. It's not bad, really, but it's not very good, either, in my opinion. More extra footage at the end of the video, this time of her traveling in a car.

This moves on into track 17 with her in her Barbarella outfit. It's a song I really like, although it does remind me of a Pokemon song.

Track 18: "Dotti demo in" song, one of my favorites of hers.

Track 19: Another good song. Plus more footage from a practice session.

Track 20: Performance video intermixed with practice session video. Nice song, too.

Track 21: Closing credits while she's singing the song from track 2.


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