Seikan Hikou debuted at the Oricon Weekly Singles charts at #5, with 34501 units sold. While being the Macross F CD single that debuted on the weekly charts lowest and selling the least on the first week, it is good to note that even if the Don’t be Late single was released on the same [...]
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Macronize me! (Pats self on the back for lame Photoshop hair job) This rumor has been around for weeks now, but I couldn’t get my hands on where the official source is, so I couldn’t relay it as news. Episode 13 is just around the corner and we’ll get to verify if she does make an [...]
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Amazon Japan recently turned up with the box set covers of both the Wolf’s Rain DVD Release and GITS:SAC Limited Edition Blu-Ray Release. I think the Wolf’s Rain one is gorgeous, the GITS:SAC one is a little too simple for an animation that sophisticated. Details: Catalog No.: BCXA-17 Format: Blu-ray Number of discs (or other units): 4 Release Date: July [...]
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Megumi Nakajima/Ranka Lee’s Debut Single Seikan Hikou debuts in the Oricon Daily Singles Chart at #5, with a tough competition of 9 other debuts this week. Seikan Hikou’s sales for yesterday are not published in Oricon, as they usually don’t publish the figures if they are below 10,000. The single above Seikan Hikou does not [...]
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Another new CM song! Perhaps Kanno has some time in her hands right now This time, the song is for the insurance company Tokio Marine Nichido, entitled “Anshin Seimei SEIMEI Hajimaru”. I’m not sure how to describe the song, perhaps I’ll just say that it’s something that might come out of a 70’s style [...]
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I found this CD single quite enjoyable, but nothing to dethrone “Aimo~Tori no Hito” as the best Ranka song in my list. Seikan Hikou is very very energetic, especially when we’re left with the image of Ranka dancing all over the place. Neko Nikki is very innocent with a music box for the background, [...]
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Fujitsu’s new waterproof phone F706i CM has music by Yoko Kanno, vocals by Nello Andaluci. Watch the CM through Fujitsu’s CM page, or through Crunchy Roll. Listen to the CM music through Grandfunk.net Zhou. … ZHOU?!!!
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Ranka / Megumi Nakajima’s song Neko Nikki, previously played in episode 9, now gets a focus on episode 11 as its ending theme. I didn’t find the song notable until I heard how it was used in this episode. The flow from Ranka’s scene and the green monster to the song went pretty well. Here’s a [...]
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Ranka Lee (Megumi Nakajima) and Sheryl Nome (May’n) will have a concert entitled “Superdimensional Super Live Concert” at Zepp Tokyo held on July 27, 2008 at 1-2pm. Tickets are priced at Y2100, comes with a free drink, all standing. Alto and Mikhail are also mentioned to come at the event. I wonder if Minmeh [...]
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Pippa, Jerome, Simon, great job! Where’s the album cover of your cover album? Album Details: Vocals:　Pippa (England) Guitar: Jerome　(France) Mix and Master:　Simon Where:　Purple Pro Audio Studio　(Leeds, England) Tracklist: 01:Makiba! Alice 02:Kodoku 03:Daniel 04:Pocketto wo kara ni shite 05:Chibikko Folk 06:Yukka 07:NO FEAR/aisuru koto 08:pilot 09:here 10:yoru 11:alkaloid 12:yubiwa 13:Gift Secret Track:Gift ~why not? why not? version~ As a background, the makers of this album come from Maayas.net of which I am also a member. [...]
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Masaaki Endo covered the highly popular eponymous opening theme to Sousei no Aquarion in his all-anime covers album entitled “ENSON”. If the name rings bells, it’s probably because he provided the vocals to Cowboy Bebop’s “Live in Baghdad”. Details: Album Title: Enson Catalog No: LACA5774 Release Date: June 11, 2008 Price: 2857yen [US$ 26.22] Track List: 1. Sousei no [...]
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