Single V: Koi no Fuga

This song is, like "Koi no Vacance," another W cover of an old song by the pioneering J-pop duo, the Peanuts. The video is basically the two performers, Aibon and Nono, in white outfits dancing and singing amidst a welter of brightly-colored 1960s-style graphics. It's a short song (2:35) and the Dance Shot version is included. In the dance version, they're in very nice white dresses against a backdrop of concentric circles with yellow in the middle, and the colors changing shade by shade in each circle to orange and then red. The choreography is not the most intricate but the girls are more intense here than usual and that counts for something. The DVD contains 12 minutes of "Making of" footage, the longest "Making of" section on any of W's Single-V's, and the only thing that would make me happier is if it were even longer. Their comic antics are so delightful to watch. There's a great Aibon moment as she dances alone around a series of colored columns doing balletic skips and leaps, culminating in a split. Beautiful. Later, she and Nono perform an action for the camera and then embrace afterwards with Aibon planting a long kiss on Nono's cheek. We see a crewman put a jacket on Aibon as she watches herself on a video monitor, a rare instance in which we see a crew member actually DO something for the girls. (Why was it always so COLD on these shoots?) Aibon leads a funny clapping routine with the crew at the end of the shoot. Great stuff. These are two of my favorite entertainers and the breakup of this duo remains extremely upsetting to me--even after three years. So I buy all the Single-V's so I can see more of them in the alternate video versions and the "Making of" footage. Every little bit helps.