| 3:24pm | Space Bio Charge Debuts in Oricon Dailies at #3 | | | | With 9 debuts today in the top 10, the album still landed at #3! The two artists above this release deserve their spots though, with almost double the sales of the one directly before it. Okay, so I didn’t expect this, but it still happened, and I’m glad. Tim Jensen saying “Space Bio... |
| 12:40pm | Waratteta (Oban Star Racers ED) Full Version Sample | | | | As you guys know, today is the release of the Space Bio Charge CD, on which the full version of Waratteta by Gabriela Robin a.k.a. Sukoshi is published. Without further ado, here’s the short sample:I like it!!!I also heard some rumors that the CD will debut tomorrow at around #3. Now, not to put... |
| 2:39am | We Are Kazeyomi DVD Debuts at #2 in Oricon Weekly Music Rankings | | | | Maaya held on to its debut spot in the weekly music DVD rankings, again second only to L’arc~en~Ciel’s release. It is also #3 in the overall DVD rankings:Congratulations Maaya!!! \(^o^)/ Also, today is the release of the Space Bio Charge compilation CD. I don’t expect it to do as well,... |
| 12:06pm | We Are Kazeyomi DVD Review | | | | Thank you Kai for doing this for us! We Are Kazeyomi DVD Reviewby KaiAnyone who knows me will know this is not going to be an objective review. Consider yourselves warned!Packaging:Let’s start from the start, the packaging is quite nice. The dvd’s pop out of the black case like a pop-up book which... |
| 10:06am | June 2009 Newtype Kanno 7/7 Feature | | | | UPDATE: I was able to transcribe about 99% of the main article’s text (I didn’t bother to do the works list and the related artists text since they’re a bit blurred), and I understood about 60% of it, so I am posting a summary at the bottom of this page. If anyone is interested in ... |
| 1:53am | Space Bio Charge CD PV, and some more madness | | | | click the image to view the PVThe songs played are:GITS: SAC:Inner UniverseBe HumanBrain Powerd: Power of LightCowboy Bebop:Tank!The Real Folk BluesWolf’s Rain:Shiro, Long Tail’sSousei no Aquarion: Genesis of AquarionMacross F:LionHere I go again. If you notice, the songs played can all be... |
| 3:23am | Kanno 7/7 Concert Poster and Promotional Sites | | | | Several ticket sales websites promoting the 7/7 Kanno+Seatbelts concert have published what seems like a variety of posters to the concert. View them in eplus.jp 1, eplus.jp 2, and l-tike.com.Concert and artist write-up in eplus.jp:translation by maiThe next performance is planned for the 22nd century.... |
| 2:56am | May 22 - Minor News Roll and Inquiries | | | | Tochiro, josue from Macross World has tickets to the 7/7 concert. Anyone from the Kanno / Maaya communities who got in?Also, is there anyone here who has watched Maaya’s We Are Kazeyomi Live DVD? Anyone who lives in Japan or used priority shipping? I’d like to read+link to your review. I... |
| 4:06am | Sousei no Aquarion Wins Silver Award in 2009 JASRAC Awards | | | | Thanks to fugue for the lead! This post is a slightly-altered translation of the JASRAC entry, as I trimmed down on the details on the awards given to other artists and added a few items. CNET Japan also mentions the popularity of the song linked to the pachinko game that the song plays on. The |
| 9:37am | Meet High Heel Genie | | | | click the image to go to the CMYoko.com shopChicks! Well it looks well-done, but still too expensive in my opinion! XD |
| 3:26pm | Napple Tale OSTs Re-Released | | | | These two CDs had different catalog numbers, MJCG-80042 and MJCG-80043 respectively, in their initial releases. I do not know for certain what is new in this release, if there’s new packaging or new songs, but it looks conveniently timed near the 7/7 concert. Since this is a re-release, I am not... |
| 6:52am | CMYoko2 Long Interview Translation Volume 4 | | | | KANNO YOKO x GRANDFUNK Special Long InterviewVOL.04translation by maiRELATED PEOPLE COMMENTS CATALOGMiyuki Hatekayama When I go to the studio, and I receive Kanno’s smile, I am somewhat wrapped up with a magical sense of security. If I entrust all to her, everything is alright; As long as I... |
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