I can only pray for there to be a limited edition coupled with BD/DVD with LIVE footage of their previous Acoustic Christmas lives....
Sadly this isn't going to happen if the listings for the album are anything to go by. Only one edition is up for order and it's also listed as only one disc, which is disappointing considering they'e done multiple full-length lives featuring rearranged acoustic works that could easily fill a two disc album.
With that being said, I'm hoping for:
-sprinter (yes, I want an official studio recorded version of this!)
-Alleluia (Oh come on, this is TOTALLY happening. Undeniable.)
-Gogatsuno mahou
-Yaneno mukouni
This would really please me too, and are all quite possible except Gogatsu. It's a winter album, having a song called 'The Magic of May' would be really strange. Acoustic sprinter from the 5th live was amazing. Personally I want:
Kimi ga Hikari ni Kaete Iku (it's likely to happen and there's already acoustic lives but I'll always be happy with more performances of it, and hearing a studio version of the acoustic arrangement would be nice)
Natsu no Asa (not likely as it's a b-side and super recent, but I'd like to see how it's rearranged and
it'd mean I can skip buying the Blaze single)
Utsukushisa (I reckon they could do something pretty neat with this)
SERENATO
Anything completely unexpected that you wouldn't expect to work, but if they can pull it off would be great, like Ongaku, Obbligato, Manten etc. I never expected sprinter to work, but, well, yeah.
What I know will be on this record that makes me sad:
-believe
-storia (come on, man)
-snow falling (...winter album?...)
-basically any other song that's already a fucking piano ballad (Gloria, mahiru, hanataba, HOKAGE UGH,
Also likely, and true. I'd be interested to see how they'd alter storia I guess, but I'd rather have other songs. Believe was already performed acoustically so it's likely to show up as well, and snow falling is a given. Sure looking forward to 5 more minutes of being bored.
I doubt they'll include Hanataba though. Stripping away the accordion of that song is like stripping away the skeleton of a person, it'd just fall apart. I mean, I adore Hanataba and I'll always be happy for more recordings or performances of it, but it NEEDS the accordion for it to work.