Tomatsu Haruka. motto☆hade ni ne!
1. motto☆派手にね! (motto☆hade ni ne!)
2. シアワセサガシ (Shiawase Sagashi)

I’d say it again: The ero-oyaji inside me I love the PV. And the songs, actually. It has catchy tunes that anisong retards like me will love in the first try. And for a split second she resembles Inoue Marina (only in glasses).. maybe the cheek and the :O mouth.. no?

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Mizuki Nana. Rosario+Vampire Capu2 Character Song Vol. 1 Akashiya Moka
1. あなたにカプッchu! (Anata ni Kapuchu!)
2. DESIRE -情熱-

Apparently I’m not that biased towards Nana because I honestly don’t like this CD. :-/ Well, I knew I shouldn’t expect much seeing the first song’s title, but indeed it’s stupid. Akai Jounetsu on the previous CD was silly too, but better.
I was more intrigued with the second track. Like before, it’s a cover of an old song. I liked the idea of Nana singing a Nakamori Akina song, both has powerful vocal. But Nana’s ‘good cover’ matches the original song too well.. and since I hate the song (get up get up burning love #!$!@#) I can’t come to like her version too.

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Okui Masami. Melted Snow
1. Melted Snow
2. Shape of myself

It’s a ballad! Makkun rarely produces slow songs, especially for singles (can’t remember the last time she did.. dare yori mo zutto? That was like when I was five), which is why I think people are missing a lot if they don’t get her albums. I really like Nemurenai Yoru ga Kureta Mono (眠れない夜がくれたもの) from crossroad, Sanctuary (サンクチュアリ) from angel’s voice, and Wasuregusa (ワスレグサ) almost made me cry when I first heard it on Masami Life. Have no idea on the game tie-in, but I really like the song.. Second track is her usual rock-ish, pretty good too.

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Chihara Minori. Paradise Lost
1. Paradise Lost
2. 勇気の鼓動 (Yuuki no Kodou)

First time I heard Paradise Lost last month, I thought Voyager Train is better. I’m swallowing my own words now, orz. Paradise Lost is my song of this month! Being a fast-paced, Minorin-ish song, I better be off to work without coffee than not listening to it.. And Yuuki no Kodou, while being completely opposite to Paradise Lost, is damn good too, it might as well replace Yume no Ashioto ga Kikoeru as Ga-rei ED, lol.
Can’t wait for Parade album too.. CD release means many good things to come, this month Seigura already has her in the front cover (for the first time!) or better: Pick-up Voice 13!! XD expect scans 3 days after it gets out, lol, how I wish Japan-Australia shipping is overnight.

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Oricon Ranks
-LMAO Tomatsu Haruka (#29) finally outranked Sakamoto Maaya (#31). So I guess j1m0ne was right on anime tie-in factor, lol.
-Kapuchu made it to top 30 as well in the first days (now sinking to wherever) thanks to the Nana factor, blind buyers ftw?
-Totally forgot to check Paradise Lost Oricon rank on the release day, but the weekly rank has come out. It sold 10754 copies in its first week and charting at #15. Pretty good actually, and GJ for beating CHEMISTRY (I hate them).
-Melted Snow is nowhere to be seen, lol. I wonder how many people (esp outside Japan) are still faithfully following Makkun’s career.. I believe she still has many fans in Japan, with her solo concert every year, and I saw some wearing her live shirts to Animelo.
-Argh, the boyband hype is killing me. I choked when I saw Arashi latest single has sold 351860. Just how many do their fangirls buy?? God.

Umm, I got seven items in total.. cheapest was Makkun’s Do-Can, most pricey was Live Rocket book, and most overpriced was the (supposedly free) Seiyuu Datafile. On to the full list and details~ (in random order)

(Book) Nana Mizuki Live Rocket 2005 ~summer~ Pamphlet

Only a peek for now. Oh how I’m addicted to collect these. I’m planning to eventually scan all Nana’s live books I have. And since I started with Fighter, I will go backwards (may take forever seeing my future workload). So yeah, expect to see more of this is on the fourth batch or so.

(Book) Seiyuu Datafile 2008

It contains sets of questionnaires answered by 80 of your favorite seiyuu.. hand-written! With autographs! My kanji recognition is already bad and most of their handwriting are worse than my 4-year-old nephew’s, so it will take forever (literally) to translate them. The two pics above are the most amusing kinds.

Maybe I’d assemble an in-depth (lol) research on how seiyuu’s handwriting reflects their personality.. or just list pointless facts like:

- Tomatsu Haruka’s favorite body part is her own navel (LEGS, dammit)
- ..while Itou Shizuka answered “Liver (thank you always)” ^^;;
- If Horie Yui is not a seiyuu, she’d like to be a detective
- Yukarin just writes にゃ (nya~) on questions she doesn’t feel like answering

Hum.

(CD) Tamura Yukari - MELOOOOON mon cheri (unopened)

The minute I saw this godly performance on Chelsea Girl DVD.. I know I MUST have this and go mero~n every 5 minutes for the rest of my life. BUT this damn thing was only sold in that Budokan live. THIS is the item I’m blaming for all the Yahoo! Auction nightmare (explained later).

(CD) Natsuiro no Sunadokei Sound Collection (unopened)

Track 1 - Drive Away Dream by Serizawa Kaho (CV: Mizuki Nana) in lossless format, ’nuff said. UNDER17’s Hajimete no Natsu is pretty good too, but I already have it in their BEST 3. The rest of the CD suck.

(CD) Masami Okui. Do-Can (unopened)

Very important, because now I can proudly say I own every single Makkun CD album recordings (sadly, about 10% are second-hand, oh well).

(DVD) Masami Okui. B-Day (used)

Makkun’s PV collection, contains 5 PV and 2 making-of. Not really what I want to have (anyone know where I can get Kujikenaikara PV?) More like I bought it just for collection purposes, but the more interesting item is ..

(DVD) Masami Okui. V-mode ~10th Anniversary~ (used)

I’ve been looking for this EVERYWHERE, every time I entered a used-CD/DVD shop in Japan. Jewel case is not in top notch condition anymore, but there is no scratch at all in the discs, so it’s cool. Transmigration live is just WOW. xD

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That’s all. Most (I dare to say all) of them can’t be bought in normal manners anymore, so I’m happy with these purchases.

On a separate note, I want to share my um, experience, on Yahoo! Auction. Skip this if you’re not interested, since it’s more like an incoherent rant.

After desperately wanting Yukarin’s melonpan, I bought a Y!A premium account via Yamato Touch, a deputy service that gives you an individual account for your convenience in bidding wars. Their job is to pay the sellers and ship the goods to your door. Commission rate is heck cheap, compared to the likes of Rinkya etc.

So, I decided to try them out with my so-called masterplan “get one item first” (which failed impressively since I end up winning seven in two weeks). Updates were quick.. (here comes the drama) THEN it starts to slow down.. 2-3 weeks without any reply.. I kinda started panicking.

To make matters worse, a member mass-mailed everyone in frightened tone, asking if any of us ever get our things (he won a somewhat-rare PS game for 45,000yen) and mentioned about the empty forum, regardless of hundreds number of threads/posts written there. He kept me informed of what other members said, like “no news for 2 months” or “they are teh sux0rs”. I was like, .. fuck. I got pwned.

I think I’ve spammed their mailbox or what, because then YT finally mailed me, reasoned that they lost a member blabla, hence the delay. They quickly got back to me on my item progress and promised to ship everything once they got all goods. Up until now I still don’t understand the forum issues, but what matters is everything came safe and sound. I probably use them again in the future. Maybe.

As for the ++ thing.. it’s Mizuki Nana Shinjuku Koma event official goods~~!

I only can afford this B2-sized poster and (totally useless) sticker set. Tempted for the curry beans, but meh. Quickly framed it just now~ then couldn’t take proper shot because it now reflects lights.. This was not via auction, btw.