Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 14, 2010
Last week, Lantis went ahead and released a Love Live! trailer that actually shows you what the song sounds like outside of the instrumentals. Is it cute? Eh… I guess. Is it catchy? It’s okay, I guess. Is it so bad that it only sold 434 copies? …Yeah, kind of, especially in the animation and [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 7, 2010
Do you know what Love Live! is? Yeah, I bet you don’t. It’s a collaboration between Dengeki G’s magazine (Sister Princess), Lantis (a music label that includes Chihara Minori and Kuribayashi Minami), and Sunrise (Gundam) that seems aimed squarely at the iDOLM@STER crowd. The formula seems simple: take some relatively talented voice actresses and have [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 16, 2010
Macross fans who’ve been waiting for a year to hear about the second Macross Frontier movie now have a title and release date to hang their hat on. At last weekend’s Gira Summer Carnival fan event in Yokohama, Japan, the fans learned that Sayonara no Tsubasa (“Wings of Farewell”) will see a February 26th, 2011 release. [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 6, 2010
It’s been five years after the first iDOLM@STER game took over arcades, which led to two highly successful Xbox 360 games, 4 portable versions, and a whole ton of concerts and CD releases. Last weekend, Namco Bandai announced the newest installment of the famous music-producing simulation: The iDOLM@STER 2. Interestingly, the sequel is going straight [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 2, 2009
ANN has dredged up the cast announcement for the live action drama based on Wallflower, and as expected, it’s full of popular young celebrities pulled straight from the Johnny’s Entertainment stable of boy bands. Heading the list is Kamenashi Kazuya of from the hit factory KAT-TUN, who isn’t just another pretty face – he’s won [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 1, 2009
The Macross Frontier movie recently came out in Japanese theaters, and while I won’t be able to get my grubby little hands on it for a while, I did manage to acquire a copy of the special album that comes with the movie, and it’s… a little hard to describe. With the wild success of [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 17, 2009
Today’s Tuesday Tunes talks about two of the grand old men of anime music, Mizuki Ichirou and Kushida Akira. The two of them have combined for hundreds of anime and tokusatsu themes, and they’re two of the featured acts of the upcoming Kingrun Anime Song Kouhaku. Their songs are older than a lot of you [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 11, 2009
KBC TV announced today that Kaitou Reinya (“Phantom Thief Reinya”) will join its anime lineup in January. The show adapts a series of 4-panel comedy comics about a girl named Reinya, who works at a convenience store next to the police station by day and moonlights as an infamously elusive cat burglar by night. The [...]
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