I'll be honest, when I first ordered this, I misheard what Saburo was saying when he told me about the release and thought it was going to be her entire PV collection on disc. I then realized it wasn't going to be videos, but a three-CD anthology selection of her best songs, plus a Bluray of her newest single "Call Me Back".
The collection starts off with a BANG with "Manatsu No Yo Yoru no Yume", the song that got me INTO Yuming in the first place! From there we go into a aural painting of all the Yuming classics, Hello my Friend, Haru Yo Koi, Rondo, Rouge no Dengon, Mamotte Agetai, and the wonderful "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta Nara", better known as "that Kiki Delivery Service song" by many!
These are all newly remastered versions of the songs by Go Hotoda, with additional songs remixed and edited by Masataka Matsutoya, But I gotta say, some these songs sound like brand new recordings, almost like Yumi went back in and re-recorded some of her vocals to a more quieter sound. Btu maybe that's my imagination!
Of course, there are a lot of songs and singles I would have chosen over some of the others in this collection, but that's why we own the CDs in the first place, so we can listen to them whenever we want!
