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THIS REVIEW IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: comics to steal / @comicstosteal   WANT ME TO REVIEW AN ALBUM, DISCOGRAPHY OR GAME? CLICK HERE TO KNOW MORE! INTRODUCTION   Where were you when the towers hit? Well, me, I wasn't even in my father's balls yet. But I was there for the worldwide phenomenon known as " Undertale ", a Post-Homestuck, Post-Yume-Nikki quasi art game that dared ask you to think of the slimes you were slaying in Dragon Quest. Undertale was the first internet bandwagon I was old enough to jump on thus it holds a special place in my heart, even if I fundamentally disagree with a lot of its design ideas. The most interesting about it nowadays, to me, is the fact that it was made by a bloke who was primarily a musician. Following in the footsteps of Touhou Project's ZUN, Toby Fox (aka Radiation) was notable first as one of the composers for Homestuck, who despite not being responsible for the best song s in the series, was talented enough to eventually buil...

THIS REVIEW IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: merton / @mertonesque WANT ME TO REVIEW AN ALBUM, DISCOGRAPHY OR GAME? CLICK HERE TO KNOW MORE!    THE ARTIST     When I first started collecting japanese CDs, at the start of every month I'd use my previous month's salary buying at least 1 japanese CD on the brazilian website Mercado Livre. That was how I'd discover some of my all time favourites such as Okamura Takako, and even if I didn't end up buying a CD, I built up knowledge of famous and semi-obscure artists of showa era Japan. One time, I only had money for one CD, and I had to pick between two I found: Shizuka Kudo's Harvest , and Yumi Matsutoya's Dawn Purple . Yumi Matsutoya albums tend to have pretty striking cover arts and Dawn Purple was no different. Before buying the CDs I'd usually listen to at least one or two songs from it on youtube, which is what I did to both of these. Kudo's ' Akiko ' captured my heart, and so did Matsutoya's ' Ha...