Title: 栗林みな実：Overture (Minami Kuribayashi: Overture)
Vocals: 栗林みな実 (Minami Kuribayashi)
Release Date: 12/1/04
Catalog No.: LACA-5324
Rating: 4/4

The only new song CD that hasn't been released before is the full version of the song used in the Kiminozo fan disk game. Everything else is available on CD on either a Muvluv or Kiminozo soundtrack of some sort in it's exact form. I guess it's good for a newcomer Minami fan, but not for someone who has the songs already elsewhere. However, she does leave out her version of the ending to Kiminozo game (better than rino) which was on the Muvluv single. It would have been nice if she included the new Akane Maniax intro here, but that's already scheduled to be released next Feburary 23rd as a single CD with the ending theme.

The song from the fan disk is a little different than the one she performed during Haruka's ending credits. The one she had in the game sounded very engineered, meaning that the voices were too perfect. The song included on this CD sounds more like it's a live performance where you can hear more variations in her voice as she sings the song. While I generally like things perfect, her singing on the CD version has a bit more "realness" to it. As for everything else, I love Minami's talents at both singing and song-writing. The version of Rumbling hearts included is the same as the one included on Dramatheater vol. 2.

Despite mentions of a first pressing bonus, I don't think there was one. Everyone who bought it on the first day and took pictures/scanned it had the same one I got.

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