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I uploaded my version without the letterbox – just because I can.

An acoustic version of this song will rock, maybe they’ll do one in the next concert tour. For the upcoming one, they need to get Agematsu Mika to come back and make epicness like last time.

I still haven’t seriously watched White Album, probably never will either.

Just announced yesterday on her official site, Nana-chan will be appearing NHK’s music program “Music Japan” sometime in Feburary. NHK are opening up draws for tickets to the recording of the program taking place on the 2nd Feburary. There’s some pretty big guns from mainstream Jpop artists there for this recording, most notably Koda Kumi is going to be there, so Nana-chan is going to be mixing it in with some fairly well known names.

More ever, and this is far from being an overstatement, she’s going to be charged with the duty to make some much needed good impressions for the Anisong genre as a whole on the general public. The last time NHK riding on the wave of general public interest towards Akiba cultural, they tried to pass off Shoko-tan, AKB48, and Leah Dizon as THE representatives of Akiba culture music during their annual Kouhaku program for 2007/08, which caused much uproar on 2ch whom were demanding true Anisong singers like KOTOKO, JAM Project, Sakamoto Maaya and Nana-chan should appear instead – and for once I can’t blame them either because not only were they extremely poor choices as representative of Akiba culture (only Shoko-tan sort of makes the cut, the other two are out of the question completely), their singing just don’t cut it either, even by seiyuu standards they are pretty bad. The last thing Anisong image needs are images of inferior quality catering to obsecure fetishes. Though with how experienced Nana-chan is at live events, it shouldn’t be a problem for her to make some impressions with her awesome vocals. Just hope that they choose a nice song (I’m thinking with how things are going right now, probably “Shin Ai” will be the number) and don’t get into all the moe talk and it should be ok.

Some people are also speculating that this is a move to pave way to get Nana-chan on Kouhaku this year. Who knows, maybe it will come true too, but it’s WAY too early to think about the end of 2009 right now.

The news is up on the official page, as reported both the Blu-ray and DVD version of Live Fighter are to be release on Christmas Day this year. The difference is that the Blu-ray box is going to be a 2 dual-layered disk set which contains *both* days of the Live Fighter concert in one package, while the DVD versions are split into two 2-disk set – each set covering the different days. The Blu-ray version will set you back 9450yen while the DVD version will cost 4200yen each. While the difference in total price is only 50yen, I think going for the Blu-ray version is going to be a no-brainer if you have the equipment for it such that you can enjoy watching Nana-chan’s legs in glorious HD as well as awesome surround sound (I’d presume they would offer 5.1 LPCM). Plus I guess shipping will be cheaper too for those not in Japan?

So reserve your Christmas present today and start saving!

Nana-chan is at her best in live performances, there’re no arguments about that. So it’s good that she finally(?) gets a shot at a studio live on TV program Ongaku Senshi Music Fighter with her latest song “Trickster”. There’s not much to say about this other than that it sounds so good (as usual) that you would be excused to think she just lip-synced it.

Someone must have poked around King Record’s server to get this off them – since the official release is not suppose to be till tomorrow night.

I actually quite like this song and PV. The whole throw back to 80’s disco thing tickles my fancy. It’s probably a sign that I’m getting old and weak when nostalogia for campy stuff that reminds me of some fuzzy childhood memory which sits somewhere in the under-utilized part of my brain which may or may not even be true is enough for me to swallow it hook line and sinker. So shake those booties and let’s party like it’s 1985 baby!

Highlight of this PV: the scissoring V-sign gesture over the mouth during the Chu-ru-chu-ru bits, VERY CUTE.

The Recording Industry Association of Japan has officially recognised that Nana-chan’s best collection album “The Museum” as a Gold record in the month of August – this means that as of August this year the album has sold more than 100,000 copies since its release.

I didn’t know people are still buying this disk (it is more than a year and a half ago since its release!).  But congratulations to Nana-chan never-the-less.

The full track listing can be found here for those who can read Japanese, I might get around to translate it later.  In the mean time just some moments worthy of mention:

*  Concert kicks off with – what??  Yukarin’s “Koiseyo Onnanoko”!  But wait, there’s one more person!  OMG it’s a duet with Nana-chan!

*  Nanoha Yukarin and Fate-chan Nana-chan than sang Nana-chan’s “Anone – mamimume☆mogacho”, wow, Yukarin doing the monkey too!

*  First solo performer is Yukarin, despite this being her first Animelo appearance.   She did three songs in her usual top performance.  She even got the entire stadium to do the melon stick wave, it’s a great act to get people to warm up for the concert.

* AAA is a very well packaged mainstream Avex J-pop young band – complete with the pretty boy singer, rapper, girl vocal formula sang to eurobeat songs topped with well chronographed dances.  Bonus for them being actually able to pull it off.

* Karen Girls were not bad, but still a very painful act to watch.

*  yozuca, Minorin and savage genius sang FictionJuction YUUKA’s “nowhere”.  That really came out of nowhere.

*  savage genius  sang a new song “Just Tune” which is the opening to one of the autumn show “Yozakura Quartet”, not a bad tune.

*  Akino!  愛してる (Aishiteru)!

*  bless4 were pretty amazing with their a cappella.   Really talented group of young people.

* GRANRODEO (lead vocal is Taniyama Kishou) replaces Takahashi Naozomi as THE male seiyuu act of Animelo.  They brought with them some pretty heavy J-Rock which is a welcome change.  While Takahashi Naozomi is by no means a bad performer, one has to admit that one thing Animelo doesn’t lack are feminine acts.

* Suara sang the only slow song for the night.  Her performance is still so perfect.

* Kuribayashi Minami covered up even more parts of her body this year, even though she’s still wearing a really skimpy skirt.  I guess the organisers still think she’s wearing too little?

*  Minorin got a big share this year, performing 3 (4 if you count Contact which IMO isn’t really a song) solo pieces.

*  Minorin Makkun Rondo Revolution duet!  But they sang it to the inferior Makkun tribute album remix of the song, so last year’s Nana-chan/Makkun duet is still the one to top.

*  Nana-chan’s super-awesome Dancing in the Velvet Moon performance complete with sexy costume.  Every year she still simply OWNS the show as she bursts onto the stage.

*  The last piece is Eternal Blaze, ZOMG it’s a Nana-chan/Arika (Ali Project) duet!  They kept their promise!

*  Mic volume level problems during the final 3 group songs.   Hope its just a live-mixing problem such that they can fix it for the DVD release.

One more day to go!

This is what happens when you don’t teach history properly and watch too much animu (especially too much of the pro-Zeon Gundam works) – you think Nazi uniform makes perfect concert dress material. Hey as long as it looks cool right? And Japan wonders why it has issues with its neighbouring countries.

Just for the record, this was one of the costume she wore for her recent Live Fighter concert, sent and I facepalmed when we saw this on stage. I was going to write about it earlier, but pictures are better (or worse, in this case) than my words alone. I’m gonna dread watching this again on Blu-ray that’s for sure.

Announced today at the concert. Now we can watch Nana-chan’s awesome legs concert in glorious HD and (hopefully) awesome PCM 5.1 surround sound. moyism with his new screens is probably drooling already. :P

P.S. No crazy psychotic stabbers today, but the incident did make the news. 33 wannabe copycats since the Akiba stabbing, man people are more screwed up than I imagined.

I’m sure most of you will know about the recent Akiba stabbing incident, in which it was widly reported that the offender had announced his plans to commit the crime on the infamous Japanese BBS 2ch several weeks before the incident. There has been a number of half-copycats after the incident – “half” because people are posting announcements but without actually carrying it through/or was arrested before they could carry it through (thank goodness!). And now one of the latest incident took an interesting seiyuu twist.

According to the report, a 21 year old man had posted the following message on 2ch with his mobile phone:

「お前ら安心しろ。水樹奈々と水樹信者はダガーナイフと２ｔ（トン）トラックを使って、俺が代々木で皆殺しにしてやるからよ」

Roughly translating to “You guys don’t worry about it. I’m going to use a dagger and a 2t truck and kill Mizuki Nana and all her rabid fans at Yoyogi”.

Why Yoyogi? Well that’s because Mizuki Nana is going to hold her Live Fighter Concert at Yoyogi this weekend, and it’s anticipated that there will be at least 15,000 Mizuki Nana fans there.

The man confessed his crime. His reason? He just wanted to see the reaction.