First Time Listening to Maximum The Hormone -Shimi - Reaction

[@Rei_and_Miyu]

Maximum The Hormone are active legends in Japan and have inspired some bands and musicians there, for example Hanabie, who started out as an MTH cover band in middle school. MTH have been active since the end of the nineties and play many different genres, often all in the same song. This song with the very unusual Jpop group Atarashii Gakko is for us the best song and music video of this year so far. Another brilliant song from MTH is Yoshu Fukushu.

[@taihavard]

This is one of their less "SOAD" sounding songs. A lot of their songs really do have a lot of SOAD vibes. However, great song still! It's a older song rerecorded to feature a really cool idiosyncratic J-pop group called Atarashii Gakko, the 4 women in school uniforms. So there are 4 members of MTH and 4 members of Atarashii Gakko. In MTH there are the singer, guitarist, bassist, drummer. All of them sing other than the bassist. The women singing in the last clean chorus behind Atarashii Gakko is the drummer of MTH (Nao) in different clothes. She is also the inspiration for Band Maids Drummer and Nemophilas drummer. Both Akane and Tamu cited her as their inspiration to either start or focus on drums. Hanabie begun as a cover band of MTH in school as well. Atarashii Gakko are essentially a singing / dancing group. but with much more energy and interesting dance moves than most J-pop groups. A lot of "ugly" dancing as in not what would usually be considered how a pop group might dance, but it really fun to watch. A lot of metalheads like Atarashii Gakko despite the fact their own music is not metal at all. Their attitude just hits right for a lot of metal lovers.

[@semiijs]

also should mention, that every member of Atarashii gakko is great at singing, each of its own way, so their songs tend to differ one from other, depending who takes part in singing

[@andrewwiebe7402]

Ue-Chan definitely sings too

[@taihavard]

@@andrewwiebe7402 Ah okay, I never spot it.

[@michaeldavis1048]

The girls in the school uniforms are Atarashii Gakko 4 girl group, MTH are a 4 person band the drummer is a girl, and the sister to the dude in dreads.

[@Oldmarty]

Flexibility is a sign of intelligence :)

[@alastairmcintyre4752]

Been nice if you'd given Atarashi Gakko the credit they deserved 🤷‍♂ . The 4 girls featured in the video are a completely different group and MTH did a remake of this song featuring them - the original song is over 10 years old . Atarashi Gakko are VERY successful in their own right - they're a "performance " group who feature singing and dancing in their shows and have just completed a successful sold out world tour ( including lots of US dates ) You got there eventually ! 🤣

[@millennialxreactions]

We try lol, we are new to all of this

[@alastairmcintyre4752]

@@millennialxreactions Your reactions are great - you'll soon get the hang of it ! 🤣