Well, finished watching again!!
Risa's Koe was indeed nice, even if there wasn't a lot of variation in her voice. If she could add more vibrato, it would be great! Either way, a nice performance by her, as I could expect. She seemed more aware of the audience than with Koi no hana, too. As for her looks, I couldn't help but notice her head looked way big with her hair all curly and fluffy like that. It sometimes happens to Nacchi, as well, so I found it funny.
I'm so glad they at least left the stupid video bits out this time and let Risa and Reina just talk. However, I think it would still be more interesting to pair up members who don't know each other very well. Maybe it's just me, but it gets tiring to watch two good friends having fun with each other. It was much more fascinating to e.g. see how Sayumi and Shibata interacted, or how Nacchi and Aichan interacted. Something unique. Could be just me, though.
Little Maimai was a bit more boring than I'd expected. I guess she's only crazy around Chisato or other C-ute members. She was pretty quiet and harmless. Insanely cute, though, as always... I somehow couldn't get over how young she looked, though. Especially during her performance, there's something weird about watching someone who looks 8 dancing and singing. Her singing was pretty good for her age, however. Cute voice, though not unique. It was funny to see she had so much choreography.
Once again, not too much to comment on about the talk with Risa and Reina. When Reina walked to the stage to sing, it creeped me out she was staring right at the camera. It was just so surprising, heh. I was kind of disappointed at her song choice. I mean ok, they're trying to push Reina to the sexy direction, but I'm just not buying it. I thought it was a bad song to perform with a live band and also, don't know if it was just because I haven't listened to the original version a lot before, but I couldn't really grab the melody in the verses, so... It wasn't nearly as good as Reina could do. And can someone tell her just adding lots of "hhhhhhh" to the end of lines won't make your singing super sexy. I just didn't really like this perf, I think she could much, MUCH better. Kinda angers me there's a live band and the chance to perform something good is thrown away with a song choice like that just because UFA or Reina wants more sexy sexy ahh ahh blah blah yada yada.
In the end, I guess Risa really shined in the HPH this time for me, and Maimai was cute. Otherwise it wasn't that great.