[waterballoon]

Bleh.

Let's see...

MOON/blossom
Worst single out of the trilogy. I like the songs, but her voice is horrible in these 2 songs. Not to mention the PV of MOON is dull & boring & trying to be "deep" but not reli impactful. The covers are God awful as well... only saving grace is blossom's PV imo.

crossroad
crossroad is definitely an amazing song; I like it a lot. But ugh the PV is the same as MOON... just dull & uninteresting. I don't like the fact that there's only one new song in the single as well. SEVEN DAYS WAR was all right but it's not a song I'll listen to often.

L
The best of the 3 imo; Virgin Road, Sweet Season & Last angel are all amazing songs from Ayu & her vocals are pretty good too. The PVs are lovely too~ My only complaint is that the single packaging looks so... Lazy. L for Lazy.

I bought the Jacket C from HMV 2 days ago & omfg the packaging was SO SIMPLE I can't believe they would allow something like that for a 50th single.

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Overall, I think it's a good effort for Ayu... just that I hate the fact that she's rushing 3 singles so that she could do a 7 days special concert; I'm gonna get flamed for this, but yeah I don't like it.

I hate how as a "special project", none of the songs are outstandingly "special", maybe except Last angel... MOON, crossroad & Virgin Road are all standard J-Pop ballads to me, so it seems to me more like they're releasing songs to please the Japanese than to prove/show who "ayumi hamasaki" reli is with this special 3-singles project.

Finally, it's annoying how this special project doesn't feel like one at all; the promotions around it is boring & scarce; only 1 single got a TV performance... thank God for more magazine shoots though. It's funny how... this 3-singles special seems more like a fanservice than an actual commemoration for Ayu's 50th single.