As much as sound producer and songwriter Yasutaka Nakata（中田ヤスタカ）has been associated with Perfume and capsule, I only discovered just in the last few weeks that he also belonged to a very short-lived duo.
From what I've read on the Japanese Music Wiki, Nakata had seen model Nagisa Ichikawa（市川渚）in a fashion magazine and just decided then and there that he had to see whether they could collaborate on something musically. Ichikawa agreed and the result was the duo Nagisa Cosmetic with the one-and-done album "Nagisa Cosmetic" which was released in July 2004.
The second track is "Cosmetic Happy", a light and bouncy techno-Shibuya-kei ditty with Ichikawa's frothy vocals making things even airier like the best soufflé. If it had anything to do with anime, then I could have heard it as an Akibshibu-kei tune. Once the album was released, Ichikawa decided to focus on her college studies and so Nagisa Cosmetic quietly ended its time in the recording booth.
The arrangement of this one is done in a way that prevents it from becoming monotonous, and keeps it interesting. Those drums are a nice touch, too.
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