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).

Live BD & DVD Sale
Release date： 2008.12.25
Label: King Records
First-press: Special packaging
Extra: Audio commentary

Bluray Disc
NANA MIZUKI LIVE FIGHTER　BLUE×RED SIDE
Format: Blu-ray Disc (2 discs)
Catalog no.: KIXM-1～2
Price: 9450 yen (tax in.)

DVD
NANA MIZUKI LIVE FIGHTER　－BLUE SIDE－
Format: DVD　(2 discs)
Catalog no.: KIBM-192～193
Price: 4200yen (tax in.）

NANA MIZUKI LIVE FIGHTER　－RED SIDE－
Format: DVD　(2 discs)
Catalog no.: KIBM-194～195
Price: 4200yen （tax in.）

2 Bluray discs set? I LOVE YOU KING RECORDS!! Depending on the DVD cover and Australian economy condition, I might get all of them. But the Bluray is a freakin’ done deal even before I saw the price tag.

NANA MIZUKI LIVE FEVER 2009 supported by Animelo Mix

10 & 11 January 2009 Osaka NHK Hall @ Osaka
17 & 18 January 2009 Nagoya Congress Centre, Century Hall @ Aichi
23, 24, & 25 January 2009 Nippon Budoukan @ Tokyo

Ticket price: 400k in Yahoo! Auction 6,000yen (tax incl.)
Ticket sales date: 13 December 2008

Nice timing~~ <3

And I think it’s a great decision to have a smaller venue and increase the days instead. Well, poor her because she must be more tired than usual, but it’s the best chance for fans outside Japan to see her live. You got 3-days (or 7 if you’re rich enough) worth of the best days in your life in one return ticket, lol. Tickets start selling in 2 months.. instant noodle is my best friend until that day.

PS. Lol finally I get motivated to scan the Fighter booklet (top pic), the rest will follow soon~ <3

..and Nana said thank you in her blog yesterday~ sweet. Feel guilty, you filthy downloaders.

奈々ちゃんシャッス!!

Sorry I didn’t buy your birthday single. AU$ rate is terrible and I’ve spent too much on my own present.

Happy birthday!!

This month’s Pick-up Voice is quite good, with two articles on Mizuki Nana (tho Saito Chiwa kinda stole the highlight with her new look). I only scanned all Nana pics, and one each for the rest.

Rosario to Vampire Capu2

Trickster

Chiwa Saito

Shinichiro Miki (anorexic/weird/geeky Tony Leung?) on his debut 20th anniversary~

STA★MEN guys (Yoshino & Takahashi are <3 but Suzumura looks so gay) and their DVD release.

Kobayashi Yuu on Today in Class 5-2.

Ono Daisuke the Kuroshitsuji.

Yoshinoya-sensei Matsuki Miyu on her “best” album. Who wants to buy that?

Macademi Wasshoi girls: Ise Mariya (!!! <3 <3), Miyazaki Ui, and Fukui Yukari

Not scanned: Animelo Live report (same pics in here), Hekiru Shiina Live report (O_o), Takahashi Naozumi (again!@#!#!@), Sugita Tomokazu (pics not weird enuf)

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.

Trickster
Lyrics: Mizuki Nana
Composition: Agematsu Noriyasu (Elements Garden)

Kimi ga “daisuki dayo” tte itsumo mujaki na koe de warau kara
Boku no wagamama na tokei wa hora, ugoki hajimeru
kowareta omocha narabe, jibun no risou no shiro tsukutte
daremo ga motomeru shiawase ni kokoro ubawareteita

“Daijoubu” to kagi wo kakete kakushiteta
Takusan no kotoba tachi saa, tokihanatte miyou

Kimi no tsumugu monogatari boku ni oshiete yo
Sore wa, dono hoshi yori mo utsukushiku hikaru
Tatoe ima ga kako ni nurikaerareta toshitemo
Ano hi kara tsuzuku yume no motto saki e
Mayowazu shirusu yo boku dake no SCENARIO

Kimi ga “heiki dakara” tte itsumo massugu ni mitsumeru kara
Boku wa shirazu ni ita hontou no kimochi ni kitsuketetanda

“Kawaranaimono nante, nani hitotsu nai kara” to
shinjiru toiu kotae ni mo akirameru kuse ga tsuiteta

Kawaita sora MAUVE no kiri ni tsutsumarete iku
Haruka tooku kimi no uta ga kikoetetanda
Kotae no nai PAGE darake datte ii kara
Hisoka boku no naka mebaeteta QUEST ni
Takaraka ni sakebu kowai mono wa nai! to

Fui ni osou kodoku wa ne
Level up e no signal dakara

Kimi no tsumugu monogatari boku ni oshiete yo
Sore wa, dono hoshi yori mo utsukushiku hikaru
Tatoe ima ga kako ni nurikaerareta toshitemo
Ano hi kara tsuzuku yume no motto saki e
Mayowazu shirusu yo boku dake no SCENARIO

Boku no tsumugu monogatari kimi ni tsutaetai
Sore wa, owarinaki hoshi no inochi no hajimari

Trickster

Catalog No.: KICM-1251
Release Date: 2008.10.01
Price: 6000 1200yen (incl. tax)
Length: 12:14 min

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:

..am I the only one who likes Nakahara Mai’s older (but more natural) look? She didn’t look that much alike Takamizawa before.

Must agree on Saito Chiwa tho. I mean, WOW. (..or the Pick-up Voice make-up artist was really good?)

Horie Yui can’t get rid of the evidences that she was already 17 in the 90s. At least she can maintain her loli look for..ever?

I can’t believe nobody mentioned Hirano Aya?

Kitamura Eri won the make-up/photoshop miracle.

More so than Minorin. (..but I know a guy who prefers her past look than the current #$@#!plzgotogravewithme@#!# Minorin, I mean, wtf?).

Losing some fat face is indeed good for Noto Mamiko.

Kudos to Tanaka Rie for always looking pleasant during the years ^o^

..and the angelic Chiba Saeko? I like her short hair too.

And finally,

Whatever year they were taken, no matter how bad her teeth are, or how silly most of the clothes she wears, all Mizuki Nana’s photos look perfectly fine to me. No kidding. I love her unconditionally. <3

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.

The game will (only) have 24 songs, including Mizuki Nana’s 4 original songs with different tunes: a fun song, a slow ballad, a soulful R&B, and an energetic live song. LOL @ ballad, but Nana said the choreography fits well and wasn’t weird when she tried.. let’s just hope it wasn’t a marketing speech xD

..and to be honest I’m not so sure with the song choices. I only know some of the J-POP songs, know all the anime songs but will feel stupid dancing to them, and why the heck there will be only ONE Idolm@ster song? >_>

Anyway, here’s the song list:

J-POP
Kibun Jojo ↑↑ (Mihimaru GT)
Koko ni Iru yo feat. Aoyama Thelma (SoulJa)
Natsumatsuri (?)
Aiuta (GReeeeN)
Ikenai Taiyou (ORANGE RANGE)
KISS-shite (KOH+)
Choo Choo TRAIN (EXILE)
ASIA no Junshin (PUFFY)
CUTIE HONEY (some said it’s Koda Kumi’s.. can I have Makkun’s? :P)
POP STAR (Hirai Ken)
LOVE MACHINE (Morning Musume)
Aoi Sangoshou, Rock’n Rouge, Natsu no Tobira, Akai Sweet Pea (Matsuda Seiko medley)

Anime/Game
Chance! (Kirarin☆Revolution)
Happy☆彡 (Kirarin☆Revolution)
Together (Pokemon)
Hagushichao (Doraemon)
Precure 5, Full Throttle GoGo! (Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!)
Precure 5 Smile, go go! (Yes! Precure 5)
Anpanman no March (Soreike! Anpanman)
GO MY WAY!! (Idolm@ster)

Main characters Ai (Mizuki Nana) and Yuuki (no idea who).

When I knew Nana would voice the protagonist AND sing 4 original songs, I thought this would be a no-brainer for me.. but will it worth the effort? Since I need that Wii FreeLoader thing too so my dust-collector Australian PAL Wii can play NTSC-J games without modding it.. the gameplay is okay, but the song list is not helping at all (Nana’s CD is considered bought, though). Unless they put a bonus DVD of Nana playing the game.. then I’ll get it, lol.

Here’s the official site, but nothing to see there.

Congratulations on being 17 for the.. 15th time? xD

Beware to slow-connections: lotsa pics after the jump~

Hm.. Horie Yui.. she was one of the reasons I started to stalk/love seiyuu. Who could resist Multi’s voice back then? xD And it helped that she was almost in any anime I watched. But then, she was just about it: a good seiyuu with sugary cute voice/personality, a LOLfang, and a loli yuri relationship with Yukarin (remember the gossip they ran around naked during a holiday or something..).

Whoever started the rumor wasn’t really lying, then?

In terms of singing, I really like most of her anime songs, but never bothered to look for her other stuffs.. not even buying her 1st live DVD when I started to buy things (a.k.a got a dollar-paying job).

But this year somehow my Hocchan-meter increased by a mile. Her second live DVD and watching her live last month surely made a huge difference .. especially for my wallet (as in 4 CD and 2 DVD).

Why you all should buy her live DVDs too.

And one thing about Hocchan is.. it’s really hard to find out what year her pictures were taken. Seriously, does she even age at all?

2000? 2005? 2008?

As a special treat, here’s scans from hm3 DX 2007 and last month’s Pick-up Voice. Click for bigger res. Some pics are left big, but some are better scaled, I guess.. or maybe it’s time to upgrade the damn scanner. Sorry for the rough edges tho, too lazy to fix them ^^;

Honestly, how come the dog is less cute than the human?

God that was tiring, resizing and all. Anyway, happy birthday, Hocchan! Should I order few more copies of this as a birthday present? Umm..

…………yessir.