じーーン@アマギゴエ

One week in Japan is surely not enough, but money sure disappears fast. Three days in Tokyo allowed me to wonder around Shinjuku, Shibuya, Asakusa, and of course, Akihabara. Read more

AniSama Live launched their 2008 website today; the theme for this year is Challenge. It will be held at the Saitama Super Arena and it will be held over two days–Saturday August 30th and Sunday, August 31st. So far the announced performers are:

[8/30] ALI PROJECT, GRANRODEO, Kuribayashi Minami, Chihara Minori, and Mizuki Nana
[8/31] Ishikawa Chiaki, JAM Project, Domestic Loveband (angela), Hirano Aya, and Moimoi Haruko.
Advanced lottery registration begins 4/14 and ends 4/28. Tickets are ￥7,500 per day. Regular sale date starts 6/21.

It seems that there will be some coverage to come on the Nico Channel as well, as expected of dwango. More info can be found on the website.

The cover art and title for her last single in the 3-single campaign is released. The single will be called MonStAR and will come out Dec. 5th. Very pop, Vivienne Westwood inspired, if I say so myself.

And I’m just going off on a tangent here, but the more I look at Aaya’s logo, the more I’m reminded of Avril Lavigne’s. I don’t think this is exactly coincidence…

I can’t believe I missed this; payed so much attention to Minorin. A short PV (longer than the one I linked before) for Aaya’s next single, Neophilia, is now showing on the Lantis website. [Also uploaded on Niconico]

I think I’ll like this single better than LOVE★GUN. Her voice sounds a bit smoother in this one and it still continues the rock theme. Kind of wierd seeing her not move her arms at all throughout the PV preview… (I guess I’ve gotten too used to Minorin’s hand dancing in her PVs, lol) Looking forward to this release (Nov. 7th), as well as the full PV.

[EDiT] Here’s the YouTube upload:

I really should have blogged about this ages ago when it was announced, but better late than never. I’ll even sprinkle on some screenshots from the PV.

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In celebration of her 20th birthday on October, I’m going to go over her activities since her last birthday (last year). Many things have happened since 2006; you’d be surprised how much she has changed, more than what I know. This is just the shortlist. But anyway, let’s start back in October 2006

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There have been summaries/reviews of the concert and such elsewhere, but I’ll still post my thoughts on the DVD release, as well as the concert overall. Being bitter from the AX “concert”, this will probably be a terribly biased review. But this has been on the backburner for a while and it’s long overdue to be published, so I’ll just hurry up and submit it already. The screen shots were taken on a funky video player, so I apologize for the poor image quality. Read more