Latest July releases and future August releases

Hi everyone! Since it’s four days before August, and there’s some releases in July left – I’ve decided to join two news posts into one and tell you about current releases and upcoming ones so you could decide on what you want to spend your money. ^_^

Already released – Kusumi Koharu’s new photobook “Koharu Nikki”(i.e. Koharu’s Diary) – I didn’t see it yet, but I saw previews and I must tell you that it’s great – I think you should definitely see this, because

Koharu looks a bit different than her usual self. Later on – a special DVD is to be released on 20th of September(but since it’s not an August release, not much information on this one, sorry).

You can order this photobook at yesasia.com

And here’s the cover of the photobook.

Next upcoming release is C-ute’s single “Edo no Temari Uta II” – which I’ve already told you about a dozen times, so I’ll just tell you something new about it. As you may already know, the limited edition of the single comes with eight interchangable covers. Thanks to Nouciel from JPH!P forum we now know how they look like.

As you see – if you have limited edition of this single, you can choose cover with your favorite member. All these covers are included into the limited edition(though I’d stick to group cover, because I like them all too much to choose only one favorite). May I remind you once again that both regular and limited editions will be released on 30th of July  and pre-orders at yesasia await those who would like to buy. If you don’t have an opportunity to buy it(though I strongly recommend this) go to Hello!Online – I’m sure you will be able to find the single yourselves, because it is already available there.

Next release that awaits us also on 30th of July Morning Musume’s new dvd “Concert Tour 2008 Haru  ~Single Daizenshu~”
Can’t tell much on this, because I didn’t see it, nor did I read anything about it. But I can show you it’s cover and give you a link to yesasia.com preorder.

Another release is also on 30th of July – it’s Kusumi Koharu’s single V for her new single “Papancake”. As usual, you can pre-order it at yesasia.com

The Possible are going to release yet another great single. It’s called “Ijiwaru Crazy love” and it will be released on 6th of August. There’s pre-orders available at yesasia.com for both regular and limited editions, grab them ’till they’re there. ^_^

Regular Edition Cover

Limited Edition Cover

Single V for C-ute’s single “Edo no Temari Uta II” will be released on 13th of August. No cover’s available yet, but you already can preorder the Single V at yesasia.com

Buono!‘s new single “Gachinko de Ikou!” will be released on 20th of August. And covers are already available(as well as full previews at Hello!Online, but you will have to find them yourselves ~_^)

Yesasia.com pre-order.

Regular Edition Cover

Limited Edition Cover

And on 27th of August we will see Berryz Koubou new single(though I can hardly call this a new single) “Dschinghis Khan Tartar Mix“(it was before called Onko Chishin Remix). Since no covers available and the preorder on Yesasia.com wasn’t updated to a new name of this single – I will not post any links to it, until there’s something new about it.

That’s all known releases for August. If something new comes up, as usual I’ll post it here. Please also note that this list does not include some of the releases. It’s either because of their H!P unrelated nature(J-pop releases aren’t listed here – there’s too many of them) or because of lack of interest in some of H!P groups(for example I’m not interested in Abe Natsumi for now, and she will have some releases during August).

Thanks for your time. Have a nice day!

C-ute 6th Single update…

Okay so we’ve been waiting for this very long. The Promoution Video for C-ute’s new single – Edo no Temari Uta II has arrived at Dohhh UP!

I’ve already watched it and I must say that this is simply great! It was worth the waiting because ussualy promotion videos come earlier than this one. I liked almost every part of this promotion. Can’t wait for some appearances and some perfomances, but they will be a lot of time later. For now – I’m waiting for the single itself. I remind you, that it will be released on 30th of July, and preorders are open at yesasia.com.

Also I see that preorder for single V is also open there, so just click the link if you’d like to preorder these.

C-ute – Edo no Temari Uta II

As I’ve promised you, I’m giving you some more details on C-ute’s new single. Because today I found out that Edo no Temari Uta I actually exists. If you know Japanese then go to this link – click. It was pointed out by wordsworth from JPH!P forum and I tried to translate it with an online translator(because I’m still learning Japanese and my knowledge is rather weak now). It’s pretty crappy, but I somehow got to understand the main point. Here’s the part of the article. I’ve edited it up a bit so it is now readable.

***Members of ℃-ute, who got an award “Nihon Rekodo Taishou Besuto Newcomer” will carry out a “competitive production” with a singer Hiroshi Itsuki (60), who was the performer of previous year’s “Edo no Temari Uta”. C-ute’s song is called “Edo no Temari Uta II”. Lyrics for this song was written by Ryuudou Uzaki (62) and music was composed by Osamu Yoshioka (74).***

That’s but a small part of the big article. You can also try to translate it yourselves, if you are able to do it.

It is also known from the article that the C-ute song was remastered. It now has fairytaleish and childish sound, which suits C-ute’s manner. Though Yajima Maimi, C-ute’s leader says that it’s the first song of that kind and it’s been quite hard to sing.

Also there is yet another picture of C-ute in costumes for this single. I will also put it here. You can also go to the full article( look for the link above).

As you see in this photo, girls outfits do have some kind of a fairy tale look, with some classical Japanese wear elements. I’m waiting for the promotion video or for any kind of preview of the song. As soon as I’ll find anything else – I’ll post it here.

July releases

Since there’s not very much going on in H!P area, I’ll post the centralized information on the upcoming releases for your convenience. Special thanks to JPH!P forum and Hello!Online site.

So the closest release is Berryz Koubou & C-ute Nakayoshi Battle Concert Tour 2008 Haru ~Berryz Kamen vs. Cutie Ranger~ dvd – this time it’s “Berryz Tracks” edition. I already explained the difference in one of my previous posts on this concert. This dvd will be released on 16th of July. And the pre-order is already available on yesasia.com – you can click here if you want to pre-order it(if you didn’t do it already).

If you somehow have no opportunity to order it(though I strongly recommend you to – because that way you support your favorite group) – go to Hello!Online tracker and search there(see the link above).

Next upcoming release is Kusumi Koharu’s 5th single under Tsukishima Kirari – It is called “Papan Cake”. Two editions(limited and regular) will be released on 16th of June. Pre-orders both for limited and regular editions are available at yesasia.com

Regular edition(click here for yesasia.com)

Limited edition(click here for yesasia.com)

Also, promotion video is available at Dohhhup! Click here to view it.

Single V dvd for Berryz Koubou single “Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance” will be released on 23rd of July, and it’s also already available for pre-ordering. Click here to go to yesasia.com

Kusumi Koharu’s “Photo Diary” photobook will be released on 25th of July. No cover art is avalable yet, but pre-order is already open at yesasia.com – click here to go there.

C-ute new single “Edo no Temari Uta II” will be released on 30th of July. Covers and some more information are posted here a few posts ago(look for it). Here I will give you links to pre-orders, that are open at yesasia.com

For regular edition – click here.

For limited edition – click here.

By the way. For all of you, who look for Edo no Temari Uta I – there is no such thing. Don’t know why though… We’ll see if some comments will come up.

Also on 30th of July – Single V of Kusumi Koharu’s “Papan Cake” will be released.

Click here to go to yesasia.com for pre-order

Also on 30th of July – a new concert DVD from Morning Musume will be released. This time it’s Concert Tour 2008 Spring – Single Daizenshu. No cover available yet. Pre-order, as always, is open at yesasia.com – click here.

Please note, that these news include only July releases and only the groups I’m interested in… Feel free to add more information on these releases or on any other H!P releases in the comments. Take care!

C-ute 6th sinlge new information…

Covers are now available for you to look at. I will put them here of course.

Special credits to Nouciel and nachdenki from JPH!P forum.

Regular edition cover

Limited edition(top-left corner) and regular(bottom-right)

As we can see the covers look similar in appearance to the ones that Berryz Koubou have for their single “Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance”. And the regular edition cover is made preaty badly. You can see it on the bigger picture – the cover has only two layers – the layer with photos and the layer with somekind of a moon pattern. These two layers are badly connected – first of all the edges of photo layer are way too sharp and we also can see that the photo’s a bit blurry and at the legs we can see even fuzzy edges.

I don’t know who made this cover, but it’s definitely made either very fast – this explains the whole thing – or it is made by an amature – which also explains everything.

Maybe that way it was cheaper to do, but I personally think that the cover of “Namida no Iro” has set a some kind of a standard and it would have been better to do a cover at least as good as the Namida no Iro.

“Namida no Iro” regular edition cover.

But this is just my opinion, maybe someone would like it that way.

I do like the new costumes though – they have something fresh and new in them. Let’s wait till the release of the single(I’ll remind you that the release date is 30th of July) and see what the single will bring us.