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Great news to begin the day: Mizuki Nana just announced her 19th single, to be released next year on a very very special day January 21st.. her 29th birthday! 
No extra info given, but I’m guessing it’s Nanoha the movie OP? Or White Album’s? Like it matters? LOL xD
Smart marketing from King Records, I’m sure many Nana fans will want to spend some money for her birthday, and they just provided the means to do that.. expect many many copies from fans!
Pardon the lame title, can’t think any good ones.
Busy like hell in the past 10 days, could’t even collect my package on time from post office.. so here’s summing up the past two purchases (Oct 29 and Nov 5 releases).
As much as I wished it was a silly fake gossip, the sudden death of Mizuki Nana’s father is true. I do appreciate her in finally confirming the news.
Nana wrote quite a long entry here, and didn’t put any pic, something she rarely does in the blog. It seems that the late Kondou-san collapsed from stroke 10 years ago, and have been fighting against the illness since. Nana also told us more about her dad, like how he liked to sing and was the great guy behind Nana’s fondness of enka. And how from now on she will continue on singing..
Lastly, she said that her blog updates will be irregular for a while. Gosh I’m freakin’ speechless. After all these times I’ve been reading her blog daily, the post today made me really teary-eyed. Nana sure kept her privacy well.. not even a mention about this on Fukuen Misato or Suara’s blog, who I think are quite close to Nana in terms of work/friendship. But her staffs are really nice people who often throw surprise parties on each other, so I’m sure they are now giving her mental support that we mere fans couldn’t do.
Also nothing has changed in her schedule up until now, even worse that she will be a guest on this NHK program on November 15. I haven’t taken a look properly what the program is, but hopefully it’s not a live run.
And I’m expressing my sympathy by sending a wreath of white flowers to Sigma Seven tomorrow (many world florist service online, if you also want to).. I believe many fans have done so, too, and let’s hope it could cheer her up even the slightest bit.. ):
Sigh.
A friend just told me about this news.. I checked 2ch and such threads do exist (with many insensitive comments.. screw those losers), but I couldn’t believe it until I saw gillsa’s post (in Chinese) which had a newspapers/magazine scrap on the sad news, this:
It says Kondou Nobumitsu passed away at the age of 75 (never knew he was that old), on Wednesday October 29 8:40 pm, because of some internal organ failure. So this is why she didn’t update her blog since two days ago? I still hope she’ll confirm this news though.. I can’t bear thinking that she’s crying at the very moment.
Deep condolences to Mizuki Nana and family.
Edit:
It’s up on real news website now.. Still nothing from Nana (or Fukuen or Suara, just in case they know anything they are useless) yet.. I don’t know how long I can stand keeping my eyes on 2ch. So many dumbfucks there who started to make fun of the late dad’s age (or accusing Nana is faking hers), and I shouldn’t really look up what メシウマ means.
I’m seriously surprised.
Finally the game was out few days ago, and one out of all four Mizuki Nana songs had been uploaded in the usual place.
So much for hoping for an epic game, huh? Can’t honestly say I’m impressed with this.. Hopefully someone uploads the other songs soon.. there’s still hope. OK I suck. Should have re-checked in the last minutes. Here’s the links to the four Nana songs:
1. 世には花・夢に星 Yo ni wa Hana, Yume ni Hoshi [watch]
2. ブランニューハート BRAND NEW HEART [watch]
3. スカイハイ！ SKY HIGH! [watch]
4. シューティング☆スター SHOOTING STAR [watch]
.. is it only my ears or they did put some effects on Nana’s voice? :-/ Or maybe it’s just really bad recording from Wii? I don’t think I’ll get the game, but I’m hoping there will be a CD with better mastering than this, or a full version whatever.. track 2 is not too bad.
Rather than this, I’d love to see her latest event in Shinjuku Koma on DVD. I mean..
Don’t ask how much I’ve spent on all those.
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)
..is this particular Santa Claus~ <3
lol I wish, but I meant these, are already open for pre-orders.
Mizuki Nana Live Fighter -Blue Side- (DVD) @CDJapan | @HMV | @Amazon
Mizuki Nana Live Fighter -Red Side- (DVD) @CDJapan | @HMV | @Amazon
Mizuki Nana Live Fighter -Blue x Red Side- (Blu-ray) @CDJapan | @HMV | @Amazon
I’ve secured a copy each from CDJapan. Oh God, so I’m not only buying my own bufday presents, but also for Christmas’ (and I don’t even celebrate it). Pathetic huh? T_T But serious, isn’t it nice to see Nana all over Oricon chart on Christmas? Hehe.
Anyway, just fyi HMV has the cheapest offer with its multi-buy discount (3 DVDs at 23% off) and relatively cheap EMS shipping too (be careful of folded posters tho). Amazon doesn’t have them yet already got them up for pre-orders, but even with their usual discount, still can’t cover the handling charges. Alternatively please click the CDJapan links if you feel sorry to me want to give me some Christmas presents too *shameless plug* 
PS. Notice the catalog number for Fighter Blu-ray set is KIXM-1, does that mean Nana pwns King Records’ first Blu-ray? Kya~ >_<
Fast CDJapan is fast. Got these yesterday morning, just a day after the release~ sweet.
A friend of mine mentioned about the striking first-glance similarities just a while ago.. and I have to agree with him. See the Paradise Lost PV he uploaded:
..and I’m sure most of you know how Massive Wonders PV looks like. Otherwise kill yourself watch this.
Compiled few more pics of what I think looks similar (..except that Minorin wears slightly too many layers of clothes) *runs*
I know I’m the laziest person on earth, as you can see I finally did something to my site.. after six months blogging. But after reading houkoholic’s comment in j1m0ne’s blog (and partly motivated by Trickster’s godly a capella), I finally did what I’ve planned to do since long time ago: rip Nana’s acoustic sessions from the live DVDs..
..and I’m sharing it here. I sorta gave up and accepted the fact that a lot of ‘fans’ don’t really support their idols.. so here I am, for the first (and last?) time, hosting an illegal d/l lol. Hopefully this will encourage them to buy the DVD (if they haven’t)..
So yeah, simply right-click and save here (109 MB).
Oohkay.
As promised, I scanned the book for whoever wants them to warm up before the Bluray/DVD comes out on Christmas~
A bit late coz I played with the scanner’s settings hundred times –my scanner is the most inconsistent thing after Tomatsu Haruka’s face and Hirano Aya’s song quality.. but I think this time I got the pics quite right.
The book’s concept is interesting, Champion (Red-side) vs. Challenger (Blue-side), with each team having three Nana cosplay~ xD also pics of them fighting each other. My favorite is, of course, the Hitler-like cosplay. Lol yes sorry I’m ignorant.
Well, then..
VS
Enjoy the fight~ 
Just when I was still drooling over HD version of Mizuki Nana’s Trickster live in Music Fighter TV.. The best news of the day/week/month/year struck me so hard with excitement that I had to take another bottle of beer (and it’s 8 am in the morning).
Sorry I didn’t buy your birthday single. AU$ rate is terrible and I’ve spent too much on my own present.
Happy birthday!!
Happy (belated) 20th birthday to me!
Finally all my “presents” came.. the 4 CDs I ordered from HMV got stuck in customs (boo!) which explains the late arrival. Thank goodness the CDJapan’s one came on time.. like daylight saving started on my birthday wasn’t bad enough.
After hundreds of loops, I decided that Trickster is my favorite out of the three (despite my obvious fond of the other’s PV). Well, Nana’s lyrics and Agematsu’s tunes combination always work best for me.. like Heart-shaped chant or Dancing in the velvet moon or my #1 Nana song Eternal Blaze. And can’t beat that acapela in the end of the song.. it’s officially somewhere in my top Nana songs now, but I never made a real list anyway, LOL.
DISCOTHEQUE is well, really fun, and I can’t stop thinking how incredibly cute it will be in her live concerts..
Last track Trinity Cross is a great song too. All the strings reminded me of Orchestral Fantasia or Tears’ Night.. and somehow reminded me to watch RosaVam2. LOL why am I still watching those vampire pants. Must be Moka’s “capuchuu~” that appeals to strange fans like me. Hopefully it gets better this time.. oh and don’t forget to pre-order the character song (out 10/29).
Go to next post for pics, or click the jump if you want Trickster’s romaji lyrics. Wanted to do real translation but I’m, well, lazy.
I was writing a reply for j1m0ne’s another interesting post on seiyuu’s face fixes but somehow ended up having fun putting the pics together.. so I feel like I must display all of them here.
First of all, rather than Kuwashima Houko (which never appeal to me as much as her voice), I’d trash Ueda Kana instead. See how she put those 20 pounds in her face/hands/everywhere (blame XBox?).. she used to be so pretty. More below:
..or should it be the other way around? Since I’m the one who is spending the $, LOL. Too bad post office don’t deliver orders on Sunday or it would be perfect, as nothing is better than 5 copies of Trickster (and a Pick-up Voice) as birthday presents (uhm, Nana-chan in hadaka apron cooking me birthday curry (LOL) will win by a mile, but it won’t happen outside my dreams).
Trickster is much better than Starcamp EP, in a way that I can’t decide which song I like the most.. Full review after I listen to the CD-quality songs.. which I know will be so outdated by the time they arrived. But as much as I want to download the FLAC, I don’t have internet connection at the moment, LOL. So much for moving to a new house.. >_> and internet speed in uni (my only choice) is rather slow, and they freaking block Nico Nico Douga.
Anyway, looking at the Oricon chart, as j1m0ne also mentioned, there’s *no way* Trickster will outsell Johnny’s gay group NEWS’s Happy Birthday, but at least it outsold the others and is sitting on #2!! Yay!
I just got a premium Yahoo! Auction account, and so far it has successfully made me more broke than usual. And with everyone selling Trickster’s bromides.. I was tempted to get at least one of them, but then buying the CD is a better way to spend my food $.
How I wish to live in Japan so I can pick one five of these:
It’s finally out next month on October 23rd.
Happy Dance Collection is a Mizuki Nana game rhythm dancing game for Nintendo Wii, moving around your Wii remote as seen in the screencaps below..
..no idea how to do that.
Congratulations on being 17 for the.. 15th time? xD
Beware to slow-connections: lotsa pics after the jump~
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Screw the CD. Give me Nana Clips 5 now!! >_<
OK, I admit Trickster PV is kinda cool, but DISCOTHEQUE is on a different level. And since I’m the kind of pervert person who prefers Aoi Iro to, say, Secret Ambition.. obviously this chu-ru-chu-ru-ba discolady thing won hands down.
I just saw it on Yahoo! Auction, and had no idea what it was until I googled it.. apparently it’s a seiyuu interactive DVD game created in 2001, starring 3 seiyuu Tanaka Rie (with weird hair but very pretty), Shishido Rumi (is she still alive?), Toyoguchi Megumi, and many other seiyuu, adding up to 50 names! Including Mizuki Nana (!!), Kawakami Tomoko, Orikasa Ai, Ikezawa Haruna, Iizuka Mayumi, Kimura Madoka, and a fair share of male seiyuu like Shinichiro Miki, Chiba Shigeru, etc (not interested :P).
The gameplay should be like normal interactive DVD, choosing options to get different endings…
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…hang on, where did I see something (extremely) ridiculous featuring about the same seiyuu line-up?
So THAT stupid PV was from this game? O_o; Amazon still has a new copy for 5,775 yen so can someone please buy one for me? T_T
Edit: After watching the PV again (and again), it strucked me that those seiyuu must really not get paid well enough (especially in 2001) that they wanted to do something out of their talent as stupid as interactive DVD game. ^^; Poor them.
The two new releases came on the day it was released, but I was too busy to pick it up until today.
Scans and rants after the jump.
I wish it’s the real PV, or at least has better quality than this.. but even in obvious bad pixels she still looks pretty damn cute.
So, DISCOTHEQUE PV has.. discotheque theme. Somehow it looks like a cheap 90s one.. I wonder if the polkadot dancers are Mika or Megu there~ too bad they don’t show the faces. Can’t wait for the real PV.. (too bad she doesn’t include it in her single). Can’t wait for the live version too! This song won’t dethrone Freestyle or Aoi Iro from my cutesy-Nana-song-list, but being better than COSMIC LOVE is already a plus.
Argh, I really want to watch Chelsea Girl properly or scan my Nana books but uni workloads won’t let me. I guess this is what I get for skipping weeks of uni.. >_>
Did anyone buy the CD?
I totally forgot about it, as I’ve stopped watching Shugo Chara! past episode 13. I could stand one whole season of cool-and-spicy-ness because Hoshina Utau’s first single was great (Blue Moon!) and because she looks like a shoujo version of Fate. *ahem* Nanotard speaking here.
I’ve listened to both version of BLACK DIAMOND. I prefer the major arrangement, it feels more.. dramatic compared to the indies one. Pretty good, it’s Nana’s voice after all, so definitely putting this to the shopping list. I still remember the pain when I delayed to order Meikyuu Butterfly and the limited edition ran out the next day. -_- I still see it in Yahoo! Auction for 5000+ yen. But I don’t think BLACK DIAMOND will be as successful as the predecessor.. :-/
Anyway, I’m going to Japan in a few days. Staying for Comiket (uhm, I might put my weeaboo cosplay pics.. or not), laughing/drooling on Yakai na Nakamatachi, and of course, enjoying the two best days of my life: Animelo. And so, this idiotic blog is on hiatus now.. ^_^
Originally a popular shoujo light-novel by Tani Mizue started in 2004, I didn’t have any idea what it was before Nana voiced the leading female in its drama CD adaptation last year. I wasn’t that interested until I knew its anime version will be airing next season.
Set in England during the Victorian era of 19th century, the fantasy tale follows a fairy doctor and a blue knight count in their journey to find a legendary sword. Despite their stupid job names and seemingly shallow plot, this might be a good alternative to replace Allison to Lillia to get my weekly dose of decent Nana anime.
Staff
Original character design
Animation by Artland and directed by Soutome Kouichiro, I’m expecting this to be at least as good as Bokura ga Ita. They brought us the awesome Mushi-shi and likeable (but brainless) Umisho too. Composer Gokita Takehito is responsible for music, and apparently J-pop band AciD FLavoR gets the OP. The character design looks very shoujo, but it’s pretty good.
Cast
Midorikawa Hikaru and Mizuki Nana will lead the cast as count Edgar J.C. Ashenheart and fairy doctor Lydia Carlton. Yuuki Hiro as Nico, Lydia’s fairy partner in a cat’s form. Koyasu Takehito as Kelpie, a tall-dark-bishonen fairy. Sugita Tomokazu as Raven, the count’s loyal servant. Kamiya Hiroshi as Paul Firman, an artist who likes to draw fairies.
The rest of the cast hasn’t been confirmed, but the drama CD line-up looks good. I spotted Kugimiya Rie, Asano Masumi, Miyake Kenta, Chafurin, Ohkawa Tohru, Miyano Mamoru, Sendai Eri, Yonaga Tsubasa, Sasaki Yuko, etc. Dunno who will make the cut though.
More information in the official site.
..and also Mishima’s, actually, but I dunno how old he is now because I don’t give a damn about that lucky bastard. I’m sure fans who follow Nana and Yukarin would have recognized him as the not-so-appealing guy who appears almost everywhere in their making of DVDs.
And so, the story was Nana tricked both of them, asking Suara to come for “Mishima’s birthday party” and did the same for Mishima. That night Nana and Suara wore yukata, I wish I could get a bigger picture than the one in Nana’s blog so I didn’t have to force my poor eyes to see it. And I saw crews cosplaying as Nanoha (is that Mika-chan?) and Fate. Okay, so Nana has access to Fate’s barrier jacket.. ahem.
Anyway, the party was 2 days ago but Suara’s birthday is today.. So, happy birthday, Suara-chan! (ﾉ￣∇￣)ﾉ~~ Wishing her for a better year (and maybe a couple of kilos). Btw, her newest album will be out in 3 weeks. Buy it, people.
Poster and DVD
Weeks late for a review, huh? But who cares anyway.
The live DVD was a pretty enjoyable ride, I’d rank this as good as Kuribayashi Minami’s, minus the good long Making Of.. wait, Minorin doesn’t even have one. >_> Anyway, she sang impressively, although most of her songs sound the same to me.
Few notes before tracklist and snapshots.
- Minorin got a custom jewel case with rounded edges (like Mizuki Nana’s Starcamp EP) but I hate hate hate thinpak. It’s OK for anime, saved me hell lotsa space, but not for my precious live DVD collection.
- Booklet is so-so, I already got most pics from hm3. Head over townberry for scans.
- She only changed costume once. At first this was a real downside for me, but like Kuribayashi Minami’s live, after I stopped being an oyaji got over it, it wasn’t that bad. Nice gowns.
- Two songs were performed twice, given she can only sing her Lantis songs.
- This is Minorin’s first big(ger)-scale personal live to mark the debut album, ignoring non-Lantis work (heroine). She didn’t look nervous, but she didn’t move a lot (except the trademark para para hands) until the second half of the concert.
Woot?!
Before anyone complaining why the layout is so ugly, this is only a dummy version I made (thanks ron~ for free bandwidth), while waiting for the actual domain name which is coming next week. So I swear it won’t look this rubbish later.
After Mizuki Nana’s Live Formula, it’s Horie Yui’s turn to take the crown. Excellent. I feel happy for owning chart-toppers.
Pretty nice cover. Er, her expression maybe.. a bit weird, but as a Nana lunatic I’m happy with whatever. And I just realized she updated her official site photos too. Better job than the cover, if you ask me.
Here’s comparison with the previous Nana Clips covers..
I’m seriously wishing for nicer packaging.. I mean, those standard boxes look like Chinese bootlegs. Especially the pink one. Ugh.
I’ve read about Horie Yui’s previous concert that followed her adventure in an Alice in Wonderland-like world, but I never thought a story-based live can be so interesting and fun. I like it in the way she’s still showing off her seiyuu skills. And I have to say Hocchan is really good at looking cute. She IS 17.
Um, the only drawback I noticed was the fans’ calls. They were way too loud. Not as bad as Yukarin’s, but it still annoyed the hell outta me.
Animelo Theme Song
The title will be 「Yells～It’s a beautiful life～」.
As usual, Okui Masami is responsible for lyrics, and this time Kageyama Hironobu is in charge of composition. They did a great job for OUTRIDE, which remains as my favorite Animelo song until now. I have no idea how they gonna put that many artists in one song.. but definitely looking forward to it and the DVD. Longer making-of, please!
It’s up for pre-orders in Amazon and CDJapan. Get it now for a bonus poster.
And Animelo gets two more performers: m.o.v.e and Misato Aki!! Can’t wait until August. Wish me luck for a cheaper arena ticket in Yahoo! Auction.. >_<
(≧o≦)ﾉ~
Right, after Kurinoco distracted me from my assignment two days ago, Hocchan is going to make me fail my exam tomorrow. Uhm, my dark future aside, I gotta say.. FIRST PRESS ROCKS!! xD
I just knew that this concert was attended by 16,000 people; which made it her biggest live to date (2007’s Live Museum had 12,000 people). Nice~ I should attend one of her concerts later..
Hum, I might be developing interest on taking pictures of DVD boxes with nendoroid figures now. Weird hobby +1 eh?
Note: I borrowed ron’s studio again for the photos.
Anyway, here is the second part of the review~ Enjoy.
Even Konata and Kagami are happy with the nice packaging~
FINALLY I got my DVD last Friday. I swear I will NEVER use airmail again for any Nana-related things. I saved a few bucks but was mentally damaged for the whole week.
Anyway, the DVD totally worth the wait (no wonder it topped the Oricon chart). I’ve lost count how many times I’ve re-watched it (I skipped sleeping this weekend~ xD). I wonder why my housemates haven’t kicked me out of the house for looping this through the night.. ^^;
And I really liked the audio commentary. Although my Japanese is on par with Hirano Aya’s English (read: terrible), I grasped few interesting things.. I’ll add some of them in the review.
Note: Thanks ron for helping me to take the pic, and lending the studio.
Edit: I didn’t know moyism had uploaded so many screencaps already, I was going to link his booklet photos coz I’m too lazy to scan mine, lol.
Without further due, here I present you a very biased track-by-track review of Mizuki Nana Live Formula DVD, disc 1..
