Yes, I am really going to review this. As the new year approaches, so do
the soon-to-be-broken New Year’s resolutions and I am reminded of the fact that
I have yet to accomplish everything I set out to do with this blog. One of my
main goals was to review every K-ON!
CD out there, old releases as well as new. I finished the first season’s batch
of CDs earlier this year, but never really got started on season 2 – so here I
am, easing back into things with a short review of the shortest of all K-ON! CDs: Watashi no Koi wa Hotchkiss – Hanauta Yui.
Delivered in a clear slimline jewel case, this single was given away as the
prize in a mail in contest in 2011 and was not sold in stores. Finding it on
online auctions isn’t particularly hard, but unused copies will cost a tad more
than one may usually want to pay for a CD – you’ll have to really want it. Personally, being the crazy completist that I am, I
didn’t have too many misgivings about parting with a few thousand yen to
acquire it – even with the rather limited runtime.
The CD features exactly one track: Watashi
no Koi wa Hotchkiss: #1 “Kou san!” version. The song, of course, is the one
first heard in the episode “School Festival!” and subsequently on the first season’s insert song album. The
version heard here, as the track title indicates, is the one heard in the very
first scene of the season 2 episode “Seniors!”,
with Yui playing solo guitar while humming the melody.
Totaling 1 minute and 8 seconds – that is both the song and the CD – it’s
pretty much the same as in the actual episode, but with a slightly different
ending and with Yui’s voice more prominent in the mix. Hotchkiss is one of my favorite songs from the first season, so
hearing it again – however briefly – is welcome, if expensive in this form.
Is it worth buying for the sake of the content? Probably not. Is it worth
buying for collection purposes? Hell, I’m certainly not the person to say no to
that.
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