Pika Pika Fantajin

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

July 9, 2014

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2	Kira Kira Killer	4:16	$1.29
3	Yumeno Hajima Ring Ring (Album Mix)	4:04	$1.29
4	Mottai-Nightland	4:01	$1.29
5	Serious Hitomi	5:18	$1.29
6	do do pi do	4:39	$1.29
7	Family Party (Album Mix)	3:39	$1.29
8	Ring a Bell	4:09	$1.29
9	Tokyo Highway	5:09	$1.29
10	Koi Koi Koi	3:17	$1.29
11	Sunngoi Aura (Album Mix)	3:40	$1.29
12	Explorer	4:03	$1.29
13	Digital Booklet: Pika Pika Fantajin

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Bambi

Fun and cute

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 24, 2022

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This album is a lot of fun, not only the presentation but the songs. Big fan of Kyary’s work

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questsun

3rd Album comes in third place

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2014

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First of all,I love Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.I own Pamyu Pamyu Revolution and Nanda Collection.Two of my personal favorites.Both CD's had their own distinct sound,and every song was memorable.If I had to rate those albums,I'd give them both 5 stars.

However,I have to give Pika Pika Fantajin 4 stars,and if a half star rating were possible,I'd give it 3 and half.It sounds harsh,but I'm not really feeling this album.The other two albums took a little while to grow on me,but I don't see that happening with this one.I just feel like each song sounds the same,or that I've heard each one already.Nothing really drew me in,save for Kira Kira Killer(love it).I really wanted to love this one.

Here are my favorites:

Pika Pika Fantajin
Kira Kira Killer
Yumeno Hajima Ring Ring
Serious Hitomi
Family Party
Tokyo Highway
Koi Koi Koi

Least Favorites:

Mottai-Nightland
Do Do Pi Do
Ring A Bell
Sunngoi Aura
Explorer

These are just my thoughts and opinions.I still love Kyary,just expected more.

4 people found this helpful

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metalheadtakesthesquare

Great album and the download card still worked!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 8, 2020

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The download card for MP3 was expired but the site was still honoring the code which was a huge, unexpected bonus. I love this record. It looks beautiful and sounds incredible. The music itself is joyous, uplifting, and always puts me in a good mood. Kyary is a creative and talented young woman that puts smiles on a lot of faces. I recommend the product and her music very highly.

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13-5

So energetic and adorable!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2018

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Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is one of my favorite Japanese artists for a reason, and this album is just another great addition. I especially love the song "Kira Kira Killer." The entirety of this album is full of happy songs that I love to listen to, even if I don't speak fluent Japanese.

Concerning the jewel case that my copy of the CD came in, the grip which holds the CD is broken and the hinges for the front of the case seems too small; it feels like it's either going to scrape the case or break off entirely.

Other than that, I'm very happy with my purchase. She always puts me in a good mood! (Or if I'm already in a good mood, a better mood!)

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E. Deogracias

Third time's the charm

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 15, 2015

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I've been a fan of KPP ever since PonPonPon came out in 2011; since then, Kyary has never ceased to amaze me with psychedelic videos and poppy, upbeat rhythms. Her third album is no different, pulling out all the stops to deliver a very satisfying J-pop experience. A lot of the album is eclectic, and while there are a few duds (all-English "Ring a Bell", while novel, is a bit too saccharine and will stay as a guilty pleasure, and filler like "Explorer" is a tad dull), this album will put a smile on your face for the duration of the record.

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Super ultra Kawaii awesome time.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2016

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Awesome album, adorable packaging, It's always a plus that you get to listen early with the audio rip from Amazon but this album, being the first one by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu to have an international release it includes a separate booklet with both the Japanese and English translations of the songs. The songs themselves are super catch and strangely upbeat even when the lyrics themselves might not entirely be. But that's half of the reason anyone has to love Kyary and her quirky personality.
My favorite songs are Kira Kira Killer and Koi Koi Koi.

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Oppa San

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 31, 2014

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Some great songs on this collection. Kira Kira Killer, Mottai Nightland, Family Party. Yumeno Hajima Ring Ring (album mix) is a transitional song for Kyary Chan but the rest is not as transitional as I had expected. I've jusr recently started listening to Pika Pika Fantjin and like all things Kyary, it can realy grow on you over time. Watching Kyary Pamyu Pamyu evolve is very interesting.

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gabby bocanegra

... names Looks so cute on turntable omg Sorry for bad audio quality point is I love it and so ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 20, 2017

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Came on time
Download card worked
No scratches on vinyl disc was actually brand new and had track names
Looks so cute on turntable omg
Sorry for bad audio quality point is I love it and so will you if you love kyary

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Joshua Sutcliffe

A Fantasy Masterpiece

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 3, 2015

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This is an amazing album full of fun playful electronic pop music. This could be Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's best album so far and I'm so glad I own it on CD. It's one hell of a listening experience. 'Serious Hitomi' is one of my favourite songs because of its rock style and its large broad structure. I also love 'Tokyo Highway' , very fast moving and nostalgic. The whole album is a big colourful, fantasy masterpiece with Kyary's cute voice and Yasutaka Nakata's brilliant compositions and production. What I love about Japanese pop music is the large variety of chords, melodies and arrangements that make these songs sound so big and vast. It's a huge escapism from the usual boring charts of western pop music. Pika Pika Fantajin is worth buying.

Saulo Pereira Oliveira Lima

Definitely love this album

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 31, 2014

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So catchy! Definitely love this album. ♥

Dani

Una joyita del jpop para fans de los artistas japoneses

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on November 14, 2020

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Me encanta, amo la música de Kyary y este album también, este es el primer artículo físico original que tengo de ella, aunque mi opinión no es mucho de fiar porque soy primeriza con esto de los acetatos y yo solo sé que los picture disc no los suelen tenee en alta estima por su calidad de sonido pero al menos para mí está perfecto porque solo lo voy a escuchar en mi cuarto con un mini componente Logitech Z213, por ahora al menos. Ahí les dejo un videito del emocionante intro, si lo oyen muy bajito es porque tengo el volumen a menos de la mitad. Como artículo de colección es una joya, si estuvieran sus otros álbumes en Amazon los compraría todos.

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Luke

超可愛さを気に入らなくても, このアルバムはほとんど完璧なポップ・ミュージックだよ。

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 21, 2014

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After last year's excellent Nanda Collection, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu returns with another superb set of infectious pop songs.

Obviously when referring to Kyary's music most of the credit has to go to Yasutaka Nakata, who not only produces all of Kyary's musical output, but has been crafting top class electronic pop for well over a decade with Capsule and Perfume. I'm far from an expert on J-pop, in fact outside of YMO and that band's members respective solo projects, and with rare exceptions like Jet Set Radio's soundtrack, most of the Japanese music I listen to is nowhere near as unabashedly 'pop' as Kyary's music, however nearly everything I've heard from the Nakata stable has been really well produced (over compression and 'loudness war' mastering aside), masterfully arranged and most importantly catchy.

This album is not a huge departure from Nanda Collection's musical aesthetics but there are subtle differences I can detect. Firstly, on Nanda, there seemed be a a clear synthesis of the modern (synth timbres, production techniques, EDM/brostep influence etc) and the traditional (pentatonic melodies reminiscent of Japanese folk music, kazoo like synths implying hichiriki's etc), plus a real sense of childhood and innocence, which I felt was summoned up excellently by the use of struck idiophones like glockenspiels and music boxes, and the kind of propulsive, march-like rhythms on the songs, making for a kind of kawaii version of the Nutcracker. This as well as the ever present influence of video game soundtracks on most pop music of the last 20 years, specifically the nostalgia for 8- and 16-bit era tones.

On Pika Pika Fantajin, instead of the clear idiosyncrasy and cohesion of Nanda, instead the overall effect is of slightly greater variety and diversity across the album, but never sacrificing the ear worm factor for the sake of these goals. After the short introductory title track (again similar to Nanda and Revolution), we're straight into a run of three of the most catchy and immediately striking songs here, all rightly released as promotional singles. Each speaks for itself and are about as strong as anything Kyary has released, especially 'Kira Kira Killer', when those vocals harmonise upwards at the end of the chorus is pure joy. Then comes a slight misstep with 'Serious Hitomi' with some quite clunky distorted guitar parts that don't quite fit with the vibe of the rest of the album. But then we're back on form with a great cover of an old Capsule track, featuring some funky piano work at the core of the song, before onto another single 'Family Party' which again is a great track with a chorus that will lodge itself into your brain for days. Then comes the only fully English sung track 'Ring a Bell' which I wasn't sure about at first but once you get over it's high level of repetition, it's charms begin to shine through, particularly the call and response synth lines. 'Tokyo Highway' is a great electropop track but possibly due to quite uncharacteristic instrumentation could quite easily be a Perfume track. Next up are two really quite interesting songs, 'Koi Koi Koi', with it's eerily bouncing piano and strings, again a music box and popcorn synth twinkling around overhead, and 'Sungoi Aura', which also feels like a march with it's pumping tuba plodding underneath while flutes, reeds and synths emulating all sorts of strange instruments give a kind of folksy vibe out. Finally, 'Explorer' rounds things up, and is probably the Kyary-est song here. with big brash drum beats creating again that upbeat march sensibility with playful flutes soloing between lyrics.

Overall, another excellent album to add to a stellar catalogue. Kyary (and Nakata) haven't veered that far from the formula that has made her the most recognisable Japanese performer in the West and so-called 'Queen of J-pop'. If it it ain't broke... (Incidentally, this album's number of tracks and overall length is, give or take a few seconds, equal to her previous two albums - 12 tracks, 47 and a half minutes. That really is sticking to a winning formula.)

Also, something about the system that Japan uses to produce it's pop stars and it's 'idol' culture never really sat well with me and my views on how art should be separate from commerce, pop music as a business (half of the songs here have already been licensed as 'CM songs' or music for TV adverts) and the inherent cynicism and conservatism of industry, but this setup whereby Kyary handles the visual and presentational side of the KPP 'brand' while Yasutaka Nakata handles the nitty gritty of actually creating the music, shows that the system can work, and work well. Most artists who write their own music struggle to juggle the obligations of touring and promoting their current album as well as writing new music for future releases. With this setup, whilst Kyary fulfils all her public and media duties, Nakata can concentrate on just writing quality tunes, and with 3 great albums in as many years (not to mention Perfume's outstanding 'Level 3' album), the merits of the producer/performer exclusive relationship are there on show.

Finally, after having probably written far too much for a review of a cutesy pop album, I'd like to mention something about the Kyary Pamyu Pamyu persona that really interests me and is also something that many Western female singers could reflect upon. Kyary's image (to me at least) doesn't have any sex appeal yet it isn't knowingly unsexy, it's like it exists outside the spectrum of sexiness that many US/UK singers (in the pop sphere anyway) seem to either reinforce positively or actively try to negate in some way. The only important factor seeming to be the kawai-sa of her appearance and demeanour, and in fact Kyary's hyper kawaii elements almost become a grotesque parody of that culture itself. I'm not saying this obsession with cuteness is any better than a fixation on sexiness but I find it intriguing that Kyary seems to be breaking out of the Asian market into the West with a persona so at odds with that of other luminaries of pop music.

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ailunicto

palhaçada, no bom sentido (eu conhecia só as músicas muito famosas dela, mas no geral, gostei sim)

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on July 28, 2020

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Não tem pra quê meu textão. É um ótimo álbum e só assimilei melhor a partir da segunda ouvida, mas não é um dos melhores álbuns. Vale a pena ter na coleção. O problema é que agora quero todos os outros álbuns dela também.

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