About Beyond the Sea
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Beyond the Sea, a J-pop music review and download blog! I named it after K’s debut Japanese album Beyond the Sea.
Only music from Japan will be featured in this blog and nothing else. I will do my best to deliver reviews on the latest releases and comments and feedback are very much appreciated. If you’re looking for a certain artist, just check out the artist list to the right and if your looking for a specific review from that artist, the review index will show a complete listing of what I have done. Happy reading!
Current banner: Koda Kumi
Made by Sanosuke over at HikkiStation!
MY REVIEWS
First things first, I only review artists that I like and regularly listen to. This means that I do NOT take requests for reviews. Don’t even think about requesting or recommending anything to me. I am entitled to my own opinion and if you don’t like it, that’s too bad. I will respect your opinion, so please respect mine in return.
THE RATING SYSTEM
1 star = Maybe there was one little redeeming quality? It was still shitty though.
2 stars = Incredibly below average.
3 stars = It was okay. Could’ve been better though.
4 stars = Getting close! A high quality release.
5 stars = Perfect. If it was a person, you would make sweet love to it. ♥
Note: Half a star ( 
) indicates that the release was close to receiving a full star rating as listed above. Factors such as B-sides, remixes, new album tracks, and other minor details can influence whether a release gets an increase OR decrease in its overall rating by half a star.
ABOUT ME
Hey bbz. My name is Lex. I’m 19 years old and currently a freshman at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Interests: J-pop, forums, video games, tennis, watching movies, hanging out with friends, ONTD (XD)
Favorite video games: Final Fantasy, Xenosaga, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Parasite Eve, Chrono Cross, Tomb Raider, Soul Calibur, etc.
Favorite TV shows: Best Week Ever, The Soup, Futurama, Family Guy, Ninja Warrior, MXC, The Office, South Park
I’m a member of: hikaru.sc, Hikki Station, JpopMusic (I go by Miroku-san)
YOU CAN ALSO FIND ME AT:
MySpace
LiveJournal
Last.fm
IN CONCLUSION…
I hope you enjoy your stay here at Beyond the Sea. Now I present Dancing Namie! XD
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Why beyondthesea2? What happened to beyondthesea?
Great site, BTW. Keep it up. =)
Comment by Rikki — March 25, 2008 #
Haha, Dancing Namie.
Comment by chocolateislove — March 25, 2008 #
Hey I was just wondering, do you know of any place where I could get scans for music artists? I would really like to know where you’ve been getting all these scans and stuff, since I’d like to make my reviews look more interesting.
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Comment by blackmager — March 27, 2008 #
Man… i admire your courage and effort to downloading, you rock~! upload more ^^~! Also, could you upload the piano sheets of a few songs? (For ex : Only Human by K (Kei) ; Even If by Ken Hirai) Or is that too much~ well… if you need the Only Human, use this link ^^ http://bao.o.free.fr/OnlyHuman.pdf
Anywho, TY for uploading once again, YOU ROCK SERIOUSLY!!!!! JPop Forever <3
Comment by :D — March 29, 2008 #
the amount of work you put into your reviews is truly amazing! I missed your reviews after beyondthesea was sunk under the terms of service. good to see you back up again :-)
Comment by do 2 infinity — April 10, 2008 #
how come some reviews of singles are no longer present on your blog Lex? are you still working on getting everything back up or are you just leaving the blog as is ?
Comment by Nao — April 14, 2008 #
@Nao: It’s taking a while, but I’m slowly getting all of the reviews back.
Comment by Lex — April 14, 2008 #
@Lex - That’s great news. You run a really terrific blog here, and I actually find it more professional without the downloads. =]
Comment by Nao — April 15, 2008 #
Hahaha dancing namie! I’m glad u changed your banner to BoA’s one
Comment by boamyjewel — April 18, 2008 #
I recently just started playing Xenosaga I. It’s the sex.
Comment by radiantdawn — April 27, 2008 #
Wow! Welcome back! I’ve really missed the site. Pity the downloads are down but that’s okay! Like always, your reviews are interesting to read!
Comment by MidnightRose — May 10, 2008 #
Keep up the great work.
I had Beyond the Sea bookmarked and I just clicked it for the first time in a while and I was like, “OMG what??” D: D: D: D:
So I googled “beyond the sea wordpress” and found this. >_>
Comment by Anonymous — May 22, 2008 #
YAYYY OMG SO GLAD YOUR BACK! ive missed your site!!! :DDD
Comment by bluwingz — May 27, 2008 #
wonder if you may just reviewed on Miyu’s latest single Akane, its so beautiful!
Comment by kai — June 4, 2008 #
Yep.. too bad with ‘beyondthesea’ and the download thingy, but yeah.. your review is really interesting to read ^^ I could look up to some album reviews before looking some good songs to be added to my i-tunes :D
Great job! ^^
Comment by Yuki — June 8, 2008 #
thanks for adding me!
I really like your reviews they’re really good quality!
Comment by ironicclown — June 11, 2008 #
Wow, I love your banner! What program do you use to make it? Because I only have paint, as you could tell from my low quality banner.
Comment by Die — June 16, 2008 #
Wow, great banner!
Comment by ironicclown — June 16, 2008 #
Oh, okay thanks for the information.
Comment by Die — June 17, 2008 #
You didn’t tell them Lex? ;D
Comment by Sanosuke — June 17, 2008 #
Cool the site is back i really missed the original one, thxs for all the songs and reviews. ^.^
Comment by Anonymous — June 18, 2008 #
Ha! Love the dancing Namie! :D
Comment by KEONI — June 21, 2008 #
Hohoho, my favorite j-pop website is back! I knew it wouldn’t sink so easily! Keep up your good work!
Comment by KiT — June 27, 2008 #