Several years ago, I posted an article by the rap duo chelmico when they provided the unusual anime "Eizouken ni wa Te o Dasu na!"（映像研には手を出すな!...Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!）with their catchy "Easy Breezy". I've been kinda wondering how they've been doing.
Well, one-half of the duo, Mamiko Suzuki（鈴木真海子）, recently recorded a solo in the last few months which combines some of her rap with some summery samba. I don't think I ever encountered a samba rap before but then again, I think her delivery approaches more of an old-fashioned spoken-word tune. The short-and-sweet song here is "Ame to" (And the Rain). According to one other YouTube video, it's also been titled "chuva" which means "rain" in Brazilian Portuguese, and it was written and composed by Suzuki with Ryo Takahashi also on composing duties. I like her delivery here which reminds me of some of the lower register of bossa nova singers such as Lisa Ono and Astrud Gilberto.
I'd almost forgotten that "Ame to" was also used as the opening theme for the Summer 2025 anime "Kimi to Ame to" (雨と君と...With You and the Rain) involving a reclusive young writer and a...dog, supposedly. Quite the perfect matchup between anison and gentle slice-of-life anime here. But "Ame to" also makes for a nice goodbye to summer.
Hey, it is not every day that this happens! BUT, this time around, a brand new message from youtube was posted on two of the videos: "The uploader has not made this video available in your country". I think this means the country I am currently in and not the country I am a citizen of. Oh, well! I am not sure what the uploader has against the country I am living or the country I am from.
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