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The rumor is true.

The title of Nanami’s character song is “Nanairo Generator” (Seven Colour Generator). I suspect it would probably make the rounds on the net fairly soon.

She did it. So she’s conquered all of the Oricon Weekly Charts (Singles, Album, music DVD, music BD). She’s been on Kouhaku. She’s done a 30k+ audience dome live (What’s a Budoukan live worth now except in nostalogic name recognition’s sake?). You name it, she’s done it. There’s nothing left in the domestic market for her to take aim at except going on a few more TV music shows just to tick them off the secondary “To Do” list, and the harsh reality is starring right in her face that her domestic fanbase has hit the invisible ceiling even after obtaining all these trophy achievements – the number shows that Phantom Minds isn’t her best selling single in its first week, it came first by external circumstances ie the lack of formidable opponents. So here’s a friendly suggestion, nay, a challenge to her managers: how about following the footsteps of JAM Project and take the initiative in bringing her directly to the rest of the world? There’s a whole new market for you to explore and conquer out there. Go on, show us the “Cool Japan” soft-power that you are so proud of. I dare you!

Long leg idol seiyuu Tomatsu Haruka announced in her blog a few days ago that she will be releasing her second photo album as well as her first solo album Feburary next year. She also mentioned that this time there will be swimsuit shots (!). The sound you just heard is a combination of a thousand fanboys (and fangirls) falling to the ground due to blood lost from picturing her in a swimsuit while the album weeps quietly in the dark corner for being ignored.

The im@s girls and Shimoda Asami made the cut to this years Animelo Blu-ray and DVD, but somehow Shoko-tan didn’t make the cut (nobody cares though, right?) yet GACKT did. Proving yet again that the Elevens suck at negotiating rights. The days till they release a full concert is nowhere in sight.

Kawakami Tomoko apparently had a role in the second season of DARKER THAN BLACK, prompting fans to speculate that she came out of hiatus. She went into hiatus due to health problems around July/August of 2008.

Sauce.

I’m really feeling her returning to the seiyuu circle in full force with this announcement. The song choice is awesome. 今はまだ遠いラブソング (Ima ha mada tooi Love Song) was amongst the first few songs that got me hooked on Tange Sakura. Throw in a couple of CCS covers (Catch You Catch Me and Platinum) plus the theme song “You’re my destiny” to the new radio program (which is pure moe crack from just that little bit they insert at the beginning of the radio show) and this already looks to be a solid album. Looking forward to hear how she would go back to cover her earlier songs as well after she spent a decent amount of time in the last few years just singing.

Music news site natalie reports that the theme song for the upcoming Haruhi movie – “The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi” – will be sung by Chihara Minori. This wouldn’t be a surprise to anyone whom is familiar with the story of the novel, but without getting into spoilers for those not in the known, this particular story arc is heavily focused on Nagato, with Haruhi pretty much swept into the background and only making very sparse appearances, as such the movie theme song being sung by Nagato’s seiyuu is the only natural choice.

While the second season (or maybe season 1.5?) of Haruhi received mixed responses and arguably put a large turd on the once shinny brand, “Disappearance” has a very tight storyline as well as full of Nagato-moe that should have the potential to bring the brand back to where it once was. Minorin would be in a very good position to show off both acting and singing skills in the movie.

Watch it before it is gone.

Yukarin’s costume looks a bit Santa-ish, just in time for the festive season?

This deserves it’s own post. So no more “tentatively” sort of pussy-footing around wording, it is 120% confirmed from multiple official sources.

And 2ch goes from mini-party mode to full on celebration mode.

Yahoo’s headline.

NHK’s official line-up list.

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Nana-chan’s message as well as her performing a snippet of “Uta no Chikara”, this year’s theme song.

Go get them Nana-chan! You have, without any doubt, proven that you are the best seiyuu artists we’ve been graced upon since seiyuu started singing, no exaggeration as you’ve done something that none of the previous great names such as Hayashibara Megumi or Shiina Hekiru had done. You are the new leader, leading a new revolution of anisong. As a supporter of you since your debuting album, there’s a bit of proudness inside me (and I’m sure fellow fans would agree) to see that we’ve all seen and recongnise the talent and skill you have before the masses.

Short version of Yukarin’s upcoming single’s title song “You & Me” which features m.o.v.e.

“Strawberry ~ Amaku Setsunai Namida~” is the ED to this season’s new anime Nyan Koi!, so sticking with the cat theme of the show, this PV has a cat in it.

Oh and Mingosu is cute in the PV (how do these forever 17/23 year old seiyuus keep looking so young and cute?). The upcoming single release will come with a DVD with the PV on it (first press only of course), worth adding to any Mingosu’s fan collection as this is, if I’m not mistaken, her first solo PV.

Music wise, compared with those fantastic iM@S songs that Mingosu usually performs, this song is hardly going to register on the excitment meter. Though compared with the previous 5pb offerings that Mingosu has been doing this one is definitely leaning more towards the “it’s sort of hummable” level after a few loops.

Someone said that Mingosu looks abit like Horie Yui here (especially the way she poses), what do you think?

So apparently Takahashi Chiaki aka Chiaking is going to Sydney to perform the im@s song “Tonari ni..” with the famous Australian symphoney orchestra Eminence as part of their “A Night in Fantasia 2009” performance on the 26th September. This is an extremely rare treat – as far as I know us Aussies never had a seiyuu come down to show case their singing abilities, let alone one which seems to be promising something much more epic than what the Japanese fans had ever gotten – im@s hasn’t even had a live band in its concerts thus far, so having a live orchestra to go with the symphonicially arranged song that is “Tonari ni…” performed by one of the top singers of im@s is something not to be missed. I know there are other Aussies here that aren’t away (unlike me), and some of you are already im@s fans *cough*danie*cough* so you should go and get your im@s stuff signed or something. Oh and tape the performance to share *wink wink*.