Yatta! I arrived home today with an awesome present waiting for me on the doorstep- my latest purchase from CD Japan, which was none other than the brand spanking new AAA Greatest Hits album, titled, appropriately enough, #AAABEST!, complete with the twitter hashtag affixed to the front to make it an instantly “trending” topic!
This new Greatest Hits CD picks up from where their last Best Of left, beginning with "BEYOND Karada No Kanata” on down through to CALL and featuring bonus new versions of “Hallelujah, Hurricane Lily Boston Mari and Get Chu!, while the second disc is a DVD with the PVS of the singles!
There’s a very nice 12 page Glossy Booklet with some awesome shots of the group, and a random bonus trading card as well! As far as the card goes, I was (as usual) hoping to get Chiaki, but this time the member I got was….Shuta!
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| CD Booklet 1 |
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| CD Booklet 2 |
The bonus disc on the set features the seven members of the group individually traveling to various schools around Japan dropping in on Kindergarten classes and playing games with them. AAA have always felt like the “High School Musical” of Japan, (they’d even invite kids from the audience come onstage during concerts to participate n activities between songs) and it’s nice to know that they’ve still got those sensibilities!
Ahaha, It was cute to watch the members interacting with the kids, though after about the 9th visit, I was beginning to get a headache from all the shrilly yelling going on! Highlight of the entire excursion though, MUST go to a visit for Misako- she’s so pretty that all the girls gravitate towards her like a big sister, and as far as the boys, this one infatuated kid makes his move and during a “tunnel” walk, steals a big kiss from a stunned Misako! AHAHAHA, that's JUST what I would have done!
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| Stealing a kiss from Misako like a BOSS! |
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All in all, another FINE collection from the group! #AAA BEST is the very first album of theirs to hit the Number One Position on the Oricon charts, and I remember feeling quite proud that I was part of that fanbase that helped propel it to the top in some small way when I heard the news!
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| AAA Best Promotional Poster |
And as usual, CD Japan was nice enough to include a poster along with my purchase, and this time, unlike the others which were mostly poster reproductions of the Album’s cover, this poster was a really beautiful one featuring gorgeous shots from the Booklet Photoshoot, a TRUE “promotional” item! NICE!!!
