2 CDs
CD + DVD A
CD + DVD B
Standard tracklist for all 3 versions
1) "9th" Overture
2) To Yours
3) Real Love
4) HANDS UP
5) Cannonball
6) Letting Go
7) Positive Man
8) MAHARAJA
9) Be alright
10) My Place
11) Edge of Days
12) Make you mine
13) Sometime...
14) memento
15) COUNT 7EVEN
16) Smilest
Secret Track (Only available in the 2 CDs version) :
17) Tane
Only in the 2nd disc of 2 CDs version
・ # NO!NO! (Tamamori Yuta & Nikaido Takashi)
・ Bacteria (Kitayama Hiromitsu & Fujigaya Taisuke)
・ Oukoku no Chou (Yokoo Wataru & Senga Kento)
・ Unmei (Miyata Toshiya & Tamamori Yuta)
Pronounced as toys , the new album title is a word play on Ongaku = Omocha .
The release of To-y2 comes in almost a year since the group's last studio album release FREE HUGS! .
With their new album , Kis-My-Ft2 hopes to enrich their fans' lives by utilising the 'music = toys' that they produce to share play , happiness & excitement ."
Singles HANDS UP & Edge of Days are included in To-y2 . 1 album track To Yours had a video made while the 2nd CD in the 2 CDs version includes 4 sub unit songs .
These 4 album tracks receive promo tie in's :
- Real Love ; used in the ads of Kowa's 3D Mask
- My Place ; used in the ads of Tokyo Interior
- memento ; theme song for NTV's Yameru Toki mo, Sukoyaka Naru Toki mo drama starring member Fujigaya Taisuke as the lead male role
- Smilest ; used in the ads of Apaman Shop
And in a 1st for Kis-My-Ft2 , they've included a secret bonus track which's only available in the 2 CDs regular version of To-y2 and the secret song is titled Tane .
Kis-My-Ft2 shares the joy of music in their 9th original album To-y2 . The rich and genreless album uses the idea of "music = toys" to convey happiness and playfulness .
Unlike the usual way I write album reviews , this time round I decided to write about Kis-My-Ft2's latest album offering in a different way .
To-y2 includes a lot of new album material but unfortunately , I don't like all of them . The ones that stood out to me are :
- Cannonball
- My Place
- Sometime...
- COUNT 7EVEN
- Smilest
The other album tracks are either just downright bad if not not memorable or sounds like Johnny's Junior reject songs .
On the other hand , I'm surprised it took Kis-My-Ft2 so long to at last include a secret track in their studio albums & luckily Tane is fantastic and it's a great successor to FREE HUGS!'s Rura Rurara .
As for the 4 sub unit songs that're only available in the 2nd CD in the 2 CDs version of To-y2 , overall they're only ok for my liking but the 1 that stood out from the rest in a good way is Miyata Toshiya & Tamamori Yuta's Unmei .
Kitayama Hiromitsu & Fujigaya Taisuke has done duets before & compared to their past duets , I feel Bacteria is not their best work .
Overall To-y2 to me is not as good as FREE HUGS! . The album's major flaw is the album tracks with them being focused more on quantity & not quality .
And this time round , I don't agree with the group's choice in making a video for To Yours cos I feel there're other somewhat better album tracks that should have had videos made such as Tane .
Kis-My-Ft2 has been releasing studio albums on a yearly basis since 2011 and I've highlighted before this problem that this in process will cause the quality of their music to suffer which unfortunately it happens to them & also other artistes I support .
With next year being Kis-My-Ft2's 10th anniversary in the business , I hope for once they will not release a new studio album next year but rather a compilation album in celebration of their milestone .