News bits for upcoming seiyuu music releases
Mizuki Nana’s 17th single “Starcamp EP” goes on sale next week - to all you people coming in looking for downloads and torrents, check the release date first ya fools! And for the record this site does not provide downloads and torrents - anyway this means that heavy promotion is about to begin. Yahoo Japan is going to stream the PV for Astrogation starting this Friday, and Nana-chan is scheduled to appear on television program “Oto Riko!” on the 18th. In the mean time a 15 second long commerical can be found below.
On a sort-of related topic (related to Nana-chan anyway), I was made aware of this certain scene from episode 17 of Majintantei Nougaminerou:
LOLZ at the two guys that were obviously drawn to cover the two Ns of “Nana”, so this can’t be a fluke. Looks like someone at Madhouse is a Nana-chan fan. If you are wondering where the source pictures are from and for, they are from the canned sweets which were sold on the recent Live Formula tour as part of the tour goods.
Info on Tamura Yukari’s new album is now up. Titled “Izayoi no Tsuki, Kanaria no Koi”, it will be released on 27th of February, which is also Yukarin’s birthday (she’s turning 17, again). The first pressing will come with a DVD containing the PV to one of the songs in the album “Chelsea Girl”. The release of this album also means that there would be plenty of new songs to look forward to for her Budoukan live in March.
Since both King Records and Yukarin’s own homepage fails at images, it is again up to Amazon JP to save the day with a nice big image of the cover.

Chihara Minori will also be releasing a new single on 26th March. Title is not yet known. I think there’s a good chance that we might get to hear it at the final sessions of her live tour.

Horie Yui just released her highly anticipated album “Darling” yesterday. The promotional train for this album is insane - Yui was literally on the cover of every single seiyuu magazine, with hm3 running a cover special which spans 3 consecutive issues no less. We’ve even spotted a big poster ad at Akihabara station (no pictures, sorry). No doubt it is part of VIMS’ plan to get back some lost ground now that a few of the other seiyuu artists are nibbling at Yui’s heels. Will be keeping an eye on the Oricon charts to see whether the big promotional effect is going to pay off or not. sent might also have a word or two on the album later on now that his copy came in.

Finally, one release that surely fell under the radar for many people is Takahashi Mikako’s album “sweet” which was also released yesterday. Not only is the album fully produced by Mikako herself, she also wrote the lyrics and composed the music to every single one of the 10 tracks in the album. Apparently it took her 3 years to do all of this. Mikako is a decent enough singer, I’m tempted to buy it, half out of respect for her effort and half out of curiosity.
The small image is not because of bias, just that it’s the biggest image I could find.







January 31st, 2008 at 07:29
lol, so I’m not the only one who keeps getting hits from people looking for “dancing in the velvet moon” download. I’ve already got sweet on order - God knows if it’s any good but I just wanted to buy it to support Mikako ^^
January 31st, 2008 at 16:07
I listened to a bit of Daring yesterday and it sounds pretty good, but I haven’t listened to it much though.
I didn’t know about Takahashi Mikako’s album. I too am pretty curious about listening to is, especially with her pretty much doing all the work on it. Her singing has never really blown me away, but it’s far from bad. The ED song from Hand Maid May is still something I listen to often. Hopefully a torrent appears so I can check it out.
@j1m0ne: That makes 3 of us. The majority of google searches have been for velvet moon and cosmic love. :D Let us know how “sweet” turns out, I’m now quite curious.
February 1st, 2008 at 18:46
I’m actually not really liking Nana Mizuki’s new single too much. It’s reminding me of Aya Hirano’s hyperactive music like Love Gun.
Takahashi Mikako’s album intrigues me too xD
February 3rd, 2008 at 22:38
YAY! New Yukarin album. Must buy!
February 3rd, 2008 at 23:47
New Yukari Tamura album soon - Yay!…
Thanks to Seiyuu3 there is never a time when I don’t know Yukarin isn’t releasing something. It really saves me a hassle to look up the information myself, which I would have found eventually.
Anyway, Yukarin is releasing her new album, I…