Here’s the video.

Blah not the full version, I know. I wanna see moar Yuinyan! >_< I've pirated the full song (I'll still buy the CD cos I can't possibly make a hole in my collection) but boy the song is so.. disjointed. In a bad anime OP sense. Srsly.

But the PV always makes crappy songs hundred times better, like how Megan Fox made the crappy-metal-testicles-banging-each-other hundred times better too (yes I hold grudge cos the cinema ticket is worth one CD single).

Nothing much to say, it's fairly similar to what we had before: studio recording footage, individual recording of each artist, blah blah. I have to note that Momoi looks reeaaaally cute tho, with twintails, huge white headphone, and and and sailor uniform! Who am I kidding here? xD

And WTF it was really a Nana x Aya duet. D: I hope this isn't a sign they will do one in the actual live *shivers* Another Yukarin x Nana is all I want, really.

Now, the PV Collection DVD is another story.

..so this is exactly the reason why this year’s Animelo theme was sold without DVD. Titled “Animelo Summer Live Theme Songs ～5th Anniversary～”, it will have ALL five PV and its respective making of. Damn, so why the faaaaahk did I buy all those CDs with fugly covers? ;__; Not that this DVD cover is any better.

Anyway it’s not up for pre-orders yet in CDJapan, but Amazon already lists it (tho still unavailable for orders) so just keep an eye on my Twitter lol.

I’m back! lol I hate working. Anyway delicious things arrived to my door yesterday.

YES I AM MSS.

*and yes, you do need a Japanese address cos for them we don’t exist, so please don’t ask me how to join the fanclub from outside Japan.

Ohkay, I just recently joined, so this is my first m.s.s loot. A certain Minoritard kept reminding me to scan these (lol cos I just love teasing my tsundere twin!), so might as well share ‘em with the rest of the world too~ beware nosebleed.

m.s.s 2nd season File Holder

Normal-coloured guitar! Some of you might have known that Minorin has a pink guitar that looks fugly and gay, but yeah. The paper quality is awesome so the scans are a bit bigger… but I don’t think any of you mind that, right?

Hell yeah Minorin >>>>>> Mio! ..cos real, quantitative thighs FTW.

m.s.s letter vol. 5

Minorin’s official website had a massive photo changes, with the unsightly gothic Minorin that I dun particularly like, but there’s that yummy red checkered shirt on her blog.. and here we got the full set of it.

Front and back cover~

Only Minorin writes “て” that looks like a reversed “S”. I srsly don’t want to read past the first line of “m.s.s no minna ♥”.. but then those legs are distracting $!@!@##!

FFFFFFFUU– srsly, is that the sexiest bed hair in the world or what.

m.s.s Meet & Greet report. Notice that she always holds her fangirls’ arms in the pictures. Probably she thinks fangirls are harmless. Oh yeah.

Minori goes on an artsy mission to draw sakura trees (lol sounds like a Hidamari Sketch episode). Her drawing is not too bad I think.. for a third-grader. Anyway to me it looks like she had more fun eating everything she can get.. hmm I want some dango too.

m.s.s Membership Card

Blurred the membership numbers cos someone warned me I don’t want to feed the weird stalkers, lol. Anyway I’m member number 4000-something, which is not too bad. The card looks like a discount card, true, but I kinda like it.. it looks simple and so normal that I wouldn’t mind average people to see. Just for comparison, that is Nana’s SC7 membership card. I can probably ask for kids meal in KFC if I show that card, heh.

Anyway dats bout it.. depending on how good the next loot is, I might post ‘em too, provided I’m not lazy lol.

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I swear I was writing a non-Nana post but kiseki gurl finally posted her Nana-going-mainstream draft… which is a really good read.. before I know it my “comment” was tenfold longer than my IELTS writing test this morning orz so I post this. My brain is farting atm so I put sum pix too, to cover the incoherent crap.

Quoted texts are wat kiseki gurl said.

First of all, just letting you know that my opinion stays: I don’t think she should make a major change now. She actually is going mainstream, slowly, without ditching the otawota fans watsoevar.. it’s a fact that she can be where she is now thanks to the “otawota songs” few years ago when Nanoha debuted. And no it wasn’t POWER GATE, as good as it is now, nobody bought it in 2002.

Mainstream vs Otawota

Then again, this position indicates that some regular people should be buying the album-the people who’ve been keeping up with MUSIC JAPAN and WEDNESDAY JPOP perhaps.

As weird as it might sound, I love Shibuya just as much as Akihabara, so I did visit some “normal-music-stores” like Tsutaya or HMV. Nana got a decent advertisement for Shin Ai, with exclusive tokuten bonuses and obvious placement.. tho it was nothing like the pix above. A certain bitter oyaji will say that 11s just love to discriminate people, especially those coming from the otawota industry. Sad to say it’s closer to the truth, she only got 2 songs for Wednesday Jpop while the mainstream less-selling pillows got 4, both having the same circumstances of promoting new albums.

..lots of people don’t want any changes musically. I don’t stalk 2ch or anything, but I imagine even now that some of Nana’s older fans may feel abandoned because of her evolving style. Some of her antis and haters may even be former Nana fans, Nana fans that feel “betrayed” that she’s “selling out” to go mainstream. This is all speculation on my part but I’m pretty sure this is the case for some.

..lol are you confusing Nana’s fans with Hirano Aya’s? XD but yeah, not only I fail to imagine Nana singing hip hop whilst shaking her (non-existent) booty, most otawota fans (yes those who buys 2 or 7 or 77 copies, .. are you sure you weren’t mocking me *kicks*) won’t even stand 5 seconds of those songs. I’ve tested it with some people I know. ^^; And those who do like these, have other artists in mind (rite?).

Actually this brings us back to ground zero: what’s the point on “going mainstream”? Really, she’s already making much more money than any seiyuu-singer combined and even pwned Burakku Aido Piizu, gettin’ bigger live venues each year, gettin’ slots on normal-hours music TV shows, and more normal-people recognising her.. but in the end I must quote Omo’s comment here: Nana is Nana, her “successful” music style are in the safe area.. good luck trying to convince Mishi-P otherwise.

Dancing, Costumes, yada.

Then again, what if Nana still wants to dance no matter what? Here’s my solution: fire the coreographers, fire the useless backup dancers, replace them with compotent people, practice like hell, and watch good examples of singer-dancers like Namie Amuro and BoA.

By mainstream standard, yes I agree the dance is laughable. But as I’ve told kiseki gurl before, kimowota fans know the dancers (Mika~~~<3), so she can’t just kick ‘em out. That’s how disgusting otawota are, having this weird sense of belonging. Can’t help the old songs either, her choreography doesn’t expire: the dance for “Freestyle” in Live Formula 2008 was exactly the same with Live Attraction 2002. And please name a Nana song you can really dance to without looking like a dork? Unless she starts doing R&B / hip hop / dance songs, no, she can’t turn Dancing in the velvet moon to Do tha do tha.

At the moment, Nana’s embarassing herself if any rational person picks up her live DVDs.

I gotta disagree with this, I was pretty rational (if I ever was) before I watched her live DVD online and look! I have a fucking shrine now. So yeah my point is, ignoring the wooden dance, the lady sings live better than CD quality (and partly cos King Records’ sound engineers are retarded).

There’s one perfect word to describe them-tacky. Her concert costumes are mostly big, overdone, and flashy.

Can’t beat the HK mainstream singers! ..lol yeah fire the fashion designer. I like her everyday style, like the zettai ryouiki she always wears during practice *runs* Anyway this actually brings up another point. I’ve always thought Nana needs to value herself more: she’s like accepting watever crap people throw to her, like these crap costumes or crap Yabuki songs. Boosting up her confidence would probably solve her nervousness on TV too.

…tldr.

Nana will still get a lot of flack for being a seiyuu and for going mainstream, but I suspect she’ll trudge on like she usually does. And you know what, she just might succeed.

Exactly. Cos you know what, I’ll keep on buying her whatever.

..on to the usual obsessive blabber~

(and yeah I’m calling her Legendary Nana, only in this post)

Uh, so her blog post was pretty interesting that day. The Legendary Nana herself was so happy and generous that she gave us 3 pics on the blog post!

..tho it would help if she didn’t freaking resize it to midget-sized shots that I couldn’t recognise anyone in the party ‘cept Nana and Mishi-P.

But the highlight would be the curry drama. On her way back home, Legendary Nana, by herself, went to Matsuya and bought a curry there. The one that she took pix of. Turns out that years ago when she debuted, she bought the very same curry with the (presumably first) money she got. She said the taste changed, but (as much as I wish I’m reading it wrong) the curry brought tears to Legendary Nana’s eyes. No shit.

..I’d love to know how many people went to Matsuya the next day and bought sum Legendary Curry. The price is reasonably cheap so I prob will get one if I remember it next month lol xD

…uh ok kimoi. On to the videos. Etsuraku Camellia live in MUSIC JAPAN!

Of course, being the usual jerk NHK removed the videos from youtube, and being the nice girl I am and the fact that no Nana will be harmed in distributing the videos (unlike, say, her albums), I’m hosting a crap version of it. Torrent the much better version yourself.

TBH I’m not too excited as I was with the PV. No, not because I couldn’t see Legendary Nana’s shoulder in the video. But yeah that costume looks damn weird in real life. She looks a bit suffocated and couldn’t move around with the ostrich hanging on her. And GOLD BOOTS gyah. Anyway, vocal-wise she gets better. I think she doesn’t sound nervous anymore.. as expected from Legendary Nana!

In case someone’s curious, the MC was a bit stupid so I didn’t upload it. It was something bout St Paul’s Cathedral scared the shit outta her until she cried (lolwth). And one cute weird Perfume girl saw a midget ojisan alien or whatever.

PS. If you noticed I’ve added a Twitter on the sidebar there just for fun.. feel free to ‘follow’ me bitching bout many things, provided I wanna update it often, lol.

FINALLY someone uploaded the video. FINALLY. Thank you so much! And here I was considering to purchase a temporary account to watch the rebroadcasting tomorrow night, lol.

So, as some of you might have known, Nana got a spot in NHK Wednesday J-Pop, a much better music TV show with full song compared to shitty 100 seconds crap that is Music Japan. XD Anyway without further due, videos!

And prepare your tissues especially if you have weak nose like me.

Oh that’s LIVE FEVER’s black costume! xD ….in b4 Mio puns lol.

The first song is Astrogation! Woot~~

LOL @ 1:41, she’s acting like it was a real live.. uhhh I’d give anything to be there. She was way better in Fighter if you ask me, but dat’s prob cos of the setup. At a certain point I think she had to scream/shriek just to beat the inappropriately loud music. :-/

…and WTH I just realised she brought Cherry Boys and some Nana Strings members in the 4th playback.

On to the next song.. MARIA&JOKER!

..OK, whoever says that doesn’t sound hot can visit me in Aussie and I’ll dig your freaking ears. I think this is the real highlight of the show.. hmm sultry Nana in jazzy song yum. The costume fits really well too~~ and srsly ROFLMAO @ lyrics, like: “Oh god.. Which am I? Angel or devil?” ^^;;; You’re teh God!

Performing in WJ is a very good step for Nana. Too bad she only gets two songs, as opposed to the previous band (the dakimakuras or the bolsters or something) that got 4 freaking songs.. tho obviously Nana sold way moar (they are the 3rd rank people). Sigh discrimination to seiyuu, not to mention the animu talk before she sang M&J. However, she looked like she had real fun, and she did get interesting stage setup, so I’m not complaining.

Anyway before I continue [insert-whatever-you-like-here]-ing to the videos..

..vampaiaaaa~~!!

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..which did I like? D’oh. <3

NO LIEZ.

That’s ULTIMATE DIAMOND at 24430 you’re seeing.

ALMOST TWENTY F**CKING FIVE THOUSAND COPIES SOLD.

I’m actually feelin’ a bit sick today (er, food-poisoning kind of sick, not swine flu), but this news completely heal me better than anything else could!

…though now I feel so ashamed to only buy one (for now). But with that awesome number, I guess she already pwn this week anyway, right? xD

The rumoured winner Black Eyed Peas’ new album couldn’t even make it to 10k LOL.

BANZAI, BANZAI, BANZAI!! =D =D