Mahou no Hiroba

I did not see a review so I decided to write one.

It's so sad to see such a good piece of music get such bad ratings. I feel the people rated this badly are unfamiliar with Nobukazu Takemura. Takemura this time brings us one of his jazz songs. Accompanying him is the vocalist Aki Tsuyuko. I personally prefer it when he has vocaloids do the vocals but Tsuyuko is definitely not bad. I do not listen to jazz that much but Takemura's work is excellent. I give the music a strong 9. There is not much of a story, it's just a girl playing with ... a blobby dude and pigs.

Now about the visuals and animation which is what I believe is the culprit of the bad ratings, well actually the people who don't have prior of knowledge of Takemura are to blame. The video is in choppy, blobby, claymation. It looks like a kid made it and well that is intentional. I honestly would not be surprised if a kid did make the characters in the video. Takemura's music constantly focuses on the imagination that children have. So it makes perfect since to make it look like a kid made the video.