Happy Party Train

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Synonyms: Love Live! Sunshine!!: Happy Party Train

Japanese: HAPPY PARTY TRAIN

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Type: Music

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 5, 2017

Producers: Lantis

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Studios: Sunrise

Source: Music

Genres: Music

Duration: 8 min.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Music video included with the third single for the Love Live! Sunshine!! anime idol group Aqours.

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Other:	Kimi no Kokoro wa Kagayaiteru kai?, Koi ni Naritai Aquarium
Parent story:	Love Live! Sunshine!!

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Tsushima, Yoshiko

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Kobayashi, Aika
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Watanabe, You

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Saitou, Shuka
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Kunikida, Hanamaru

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Takatsuki, Kanako
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Sakurauchi, Riko

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Aida, Rikako
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Kurosawa, Ruby

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Furihata, Ai
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Ohara, Mari

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Suzuki, Aina
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Matsuura, Kanan

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Suwa, Nanaka
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Takami, Chika

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Inami, Anju
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Kurosawa, Dia

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Komiya, Arisa
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Apr 6, 2017

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

Yuni (All reviews)

13 people found this review helpful

First of all, this should go without saying, but music is possibly the most subjective thing in the world next to comedy, so take this with a grain of salt.

Happy Party Train makes up for its fairly mediocre and lackluster music and cringey ass name with direction, visuals, and production values that by all means should have made it into the actual show. Never has an orange haired girl opening a mikan looked so strangely majestic, and in typical Love Live fashion, this music video sports some of the best CG in anime. It's still CG, but after witnessing some horrible CG in my life, I grew to appreciate Love Live's relatively amazing CG quality. While it does suffer from FPS problems once in a while, it is still a visual spectacle. And that's all it is. The video consists of the Aqours members either dancing or looking out into the distance somehow. There's some sort of progression, with the characters looking either neutral or downright depressed at the beginning of the video, and starting to smile towards the end. Nothing majorly deep, but it's there.

As a music composition major, idol music has always been extremely hit or miss to me. While some Love Live pieces take me by surprise, usually through creative orchestration and rhythms, Happy Party Train felt like one of those anisongs that you hear over and over again. It's a fairly upbeat yet melancholic ballad, a genre that Love Live constantly uses. These are also known as "sentimental ballads." The chorus has the usual IV-V-I-V6-vi progression, something that a huge amount of anisongs have used to death. While I by no means find this chord progression distasteful, it is what the melody does that triggered a little pet peeve of mine. Anisong melodies usually resolve to the 3rd or 5th of whatever chord is playing in the harmony (unless its the end of a verse or chorus), and Happy Party Train doesn't do that in the first phrase of the chorus. It instead resolves straight to the root of the vi chord, something that anisongs don't normally do FOR A REASON. It sounds cheesy as hell. But hey, music is subjective, but I see a lot of people finding this particular song to be relatively cheesy as well, even compared to other idol songs. What sucks is that this type of resolution could have been done well! Thrilling One Way did it, how come HPT didn't? Then again, Thrilling One Way is more j-rock, and rock resolves to the root more so I guess it works.

Kanan as the lead was something she desperately needed and deserved, and while I love Kanan and Suwawa, it is quite unfortunate that her voice isn't that impressive. There were a few strained high notes, but even so, finally hearing Kanan sing without the usual over editing and filters was a breath of fresh air.

If there is any reason that I would desperately want you to see this music video, it would be one of two reasons: First of all, the loli forms of all the Aqours members make an appearance, and they are objectively the most adorable things in the world. Secondly, due to the fairly impressive visuals of this video, if you are new to the franchise and haven't even watched the original show, this video's production quality could peak your interest in the franchise. I know a lot of people start watching the show due to the music videos, with Snow Halation being a big trigger for a lot of newcomers, and I can see Happy Party Train's visuals being another hook for incoming audiences.

And of course, the beatmap for this song on Love Live! School Idol Festival is a bitch and I want it all to end.

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May 1, 2017

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

Xethora (All reviews)

10 people found this review helpful

I originally wrote a troll review for this music video, however I decided to write an actual one for a reason listed directly below this sentence. Hope you enjoy it!

Sometimes, I get a little bit too upset with the way some people handle things. While this has never really been something that's really applied directly to opinionated matters, what I'm writing here is a bit of a special case, as I am genuinely upset with the way someone decided to write a review for this very music video. Hope there's no hard feelings at the end of this all, but I do feel the need read more

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