Comments (9) I lied. On second thought I am going to write a full report after all, mainly because my memory is getting very bad and this time next month I’ll no longer remember the event so best to get it down in text first. No pics, refer to Soup for that.
Continue reading '28/08 – Animelo Summer Live 2010 Evolution Day 1'»
Er no, not Christmas.
This is becoming a rather regular occurence by now but yeah, I won’t be around for a couple of weeks while I traipse around in sunny Tokyo. For the record, it’s my 5th trip in 15 months (and by November, it’ll be 6 in 18). Excessive much? You don’t have to remind me.
Anyways, I’m actually going to AniSama Day 1 after all albeit with less enthusiasm than I had before Sphere @ Budokan was announced. I nearly ended up not going at all but the prospect of seeing fripSide, Itou Kanako etc and oh yeah, Sphere XD was strong enough to push me to grab a crappy ticket to go for the 28/08 Saturday date. But honestly, the line-up this year is pretty threadbare. No Hocchan, no Aaya, no Suara. Blame the whole Girls’ Night thing I guess.
No, I have no interest in Day 2. Or should I say, I have no interest in fighting with the hordes for Day 2 (not that I can afford to go). Gosh, why did they put Minorin, Yukarin and Nana on the same day D= I think Crush Tears is the only act that day I had remotely any interest in seeing but oh well. I can live without seeing them.
Goods-wise, I’m amused by the AniSama stuff on offer this year (first-aid kits, ration sets) but won’t be buying. Sphere have apparently got T-shirts and towels on sale and I’m willing to bet that they’re the same ones from Lantis Matsuri last year haha. Actually I don’t have that particular set so I might pick one up if there’s any left by the time I get there.
Predicted setlist
angela: Aoi Haru, Alternative
Ishikawa Chiaki: Gyakko is a must. There’s a chance she might sing the new single もう何も怖くない、怖くはない, some fans think she will do See-Saw’s Kimi wa Boku ni Niteiru. Chances of duet? Maybe with Nanri Yuuka…
Itou Kanako: Pick 2 from fetishism ark, A.R. and Sky Clad no Kansokusha. I’ll be fine with those, hoping for fake me is likely an exercise in futility.
ELISA: Dear My friend, Real force. Possibility of Railgun connection collabo with fripSide? You never know.
GirlDeMo: Crow Song, Thousand Enemies, Little Braver (one will be duet with Lia maybe?)… Er, I think I have given up on this. I really cannot recognize any of the AB! songs apart from Ichiban no Takaramono & Brave Song…
Kuribayashi Minami: Meiya Kadenro, Unreal Paradise + 1 other song… maybe United Force.
GRANRODEO: Dunno their songs. They’ll prob get 2 + a collabo…
THE GOMBAND: Braveheart. I think he will only get one song, if another one the Black Rock Shooter Gom version
JAMPro: I have no idea, don’t know any JamPro stuff. Errr the Transformers song?
Sphere: Now loading…SKY!!, either Super Noisy Nova or REALOVE:REALIFE. Some ppl think NauSuka might get cut cos it’s not very AniSama-ish. I think they will sing it cos it’s the newest single…
Takahashi Naozumi: Rashinban, the other song is harder to predict. Nao-nii might go for Time Capsule but he might also choose something older…Kaze ni Natte or Kimi ni Aete Yokatta? Difficult to say.
Nanri Yuuka: Tsukishirube. Odyssey is possible but maybe a FJ YUUKA song like Honoo no Tobira is also likely.
nomico + Masayoshi Minoshima: Ehhh, gotta be Bad Apple right? I don’t think they’ll get more than 1 song. If they do, I hope nomico does Shichaimasho lololol.
fripSide: Only my Railgun, LEVEL 5-Judgelight-
Yonekura Chihiro: Your guess is as good as mine. Somehow last year she managed to come out with two of my favourites (Yakusoku no Basho e & 10 Years After), this year… maybe Butterfly Kiss and Just Fly Away. Who knows?
Lia: My Soul, Your Beats!, maybe Toki o Kizamu Uta + duet with GirlDeMo. Please not Tori no Uta lol
As always, there’ll be surprises collabs. I try not to think about it too much and let whatever that comes, come.
Apart from that one day, my trip will be a very normal, very regular holiday, filled with hanabi taikai, fruit picking (maybe) and the highlight, going to see Cirque du Soleil ZED.
-I want to eat Blue Hawaii かき氷 wheee!
-I am not looking forward to the noisy cicadas orz.
-Randomly, I am sad to find out that HMV Shibuya is closing its doors next week – it was a regular haunt of mine for the latest in Japanese pop and indie =_= There’s always Tower Records, but somehow it’s just not the same…orz.
Trying to go through every single thing in my backlogged anisong list on a single post seemed an impossible task, so splitting it into two seems like the perfect solution – soundtracks get to go first. Unfortunately trying to mass review a dozen or so OSTs at one go means I won’t go into too much detail on any of them.
I meant to talk about this a week or so ago but REALIFE issues have been robbing me of my brain cells…
Continue reading 'Briefly talking LISP and girl seiyuu units'»
I don’t normally post news items here anymore but this is too good to pass up.
YES, SPHERE @ BUDOKAN!!!
I don’t care if:
1. This is a prelude to a split
2. It’s way too damn early for them to be playing Budokan (but we know rental fees are cheap cheap)
3. I become penniless as a result
4. The live is held on a dead day (ie Tuesday)
I MUST GO TO BUDOKAN! Bye-bye AFA, my plans for you are smashed to pieces (unless you bring Sphere there too)!
Also, new single announcement…but that got swept under the carpet LOL. No release date yetDue 20th October, it’ll be the theme for the autumn Otome Yokai Zakuro anime which Toyosaki Aki is appearing in. I shall go do a HAPPY DANCE now, whilst torturing the mottohadeni chat people who can’t go to Budokan *lalalalala.
Continuing the Sphere series is a brief look at the background story of each of the girls, plus as much as I can give you about the personalities behind the faces.
Music Ray’n is a notoriously secretive agency, so not a whole lot is known about the girls and their private lives. These are all pieces of information picked up over the years from magazine interviews, radio shows and blog posts that I’ve merely reordered to make for palatable reading. All of this in the public domain (albeit in Japanese) so no, I don’t have any insider scoop on the girls or where they live or what they had for breakfast yesterday. Actually scratch that, I know there’s a 60% chance that Haruka ate yude tamago from Family Mart for breakfast yesterday.
Continue reading 'Sphere 101 Pt.2 – the volume of a Sphere'»
I like Sphere.
Scratch that, I love Sphere. But you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
Despite that, I have never written a post specifically about Sphere (or maybe I have, I don’t quite recall). So to correct this horrible statistic I have written what amounts to a thesis, which will be split into various parts to allow easier digestion. I guess you could say this is for the fans with a long attention span who would like to know about the group’s history and all that jazz. Be warned that a lot of this will come with a Tomatsu Haruka bias.
I loooooooooooovvvvvveeeeeee Mizuki Nana since 4 years ago. Let’s see how this album fares
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The most anticipated release of the year for many a seiyuu/anisong fan has leaked all over the internets ahead of its 07/07 release. I really wasn’t planning to listen or review it before the date itself but after prodding from various corners for my opinion (I don’t even know what it’s worth, really), now’s as good a time as any…especially given that I’m not planning to procure a physical copy for myself.
Continue reading 'Whizzing through Mizuki Nana’s IMPACT EXCITER'»
Nakajima Megumi (Mamegu for short henceforth) is one of those Marmite seiyuu, with as many haters as there are fans. It’s remarkable to note that she has the second-highest number of anti threads on 2ch (after Hirano Aya), especially when she’s been in the business for less than 3 years. The usual ゴリ押し (forcefully promoting & pushing) accusations that plague people like Aya and Tomatsu Haruka have generated a lot of ill-will towards her – as they say, the more popular the person is, the more haters they have.
I myself am fairly netural on Mamegu – I was never into Macross so all the insults tended to fly unnoticed over my head. Still, her musical output since Ranka has been uneven in terms of quality so I went into I love you not really knowing what to expect. Time to find out how the album fares, methinks.
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