September Updates

Hello! It’s time for some updates. Because for the last five days there has been some new releases as well as updates to upcoming ones.

Buono! – Gachinko de Ikou! Single V was released and is being sold here(this link leads to CDJapan – buy and you can support your favorite group).

And if you somehow don’t want or can’t order from CDJapan – click here to go to Yesasia.com order page.

It is also available at Hello!Online tracker – so if you didn’t go there yet – you can do it now – it’s worth the try I think(though remember – that this way you don’t support your favorite group).

Title for both Sayumi’s new photobook and dvd have been announced in one of her radio shows(Konya mo Usa Chan Peace). The photobook is titled “Love Letter” and it will be released on 26th of September. And Guam DVD is titled “Love Story” and it will be released on 1st of October. No more previews came out yet though.

On 29th of October 2nd single of one-shot unit Milky Way will be released. For now there’s no more information except this release date.

Morning Musume’s 37th single will be released on 24th of September and still there is no information about it.

That’s all the news for now. If I missed something – I’m sorry – that’s because new term in my university has started and I’m getting a bit tired… But I’ll keep up with the news as best as I can. Thanks for your time.

Buono!’s 4th single – Gachinko de Ikou

Hi everyone! I think it’s time for some updates on Buono!‘s new single Gachinko de Ikou. Since it’s not far away now(as you remember – it’s coming on 20th of August). First of all there is already covers for both versions of the single, as well as the cover for Single V(credit for scoping it out to KrO.Chan~ from JPH!P forum.

And without further hesitation I give you the covers. (^_^)

This is the cover for regular edition.

Limited edition cover

And Single V cover

So as I’ve said before – the single itself will be released on 20th of August and Single V will be released on 3rd of September.

You can already preorder these at yesasia.com – though please do mind, that purchases from yesasia are not taken into account when ORICON charts counting sales. But you support your group anyway. So I strongly recommend you to buy the single instead of downloading if you have an opportunity to do this!

So if you want to preorder regular edition – click here.

For limited edition – click here.

And for Single V – click here.

Promotion Video is out and running! And we already have it on youtube and hello!online tracker(you will have to look it yourselves here). Though I will embed youtube video for your convenience. Credit for finding it goes to Ayabie also from JPH!P forum.

And for those of you who have slow Internet and can’t watch videos from youtube – I’ll give you some screencaps of the PV, for you to tease yourselves while waiting for the PV to download or something. I made these myself, so if you gonna use them I would be glad if you give some credits to me. ^_^ Oh and I made them from the pv I downloaded from hello!online, so thanks for the uploader.

And I think that I should express my opinion on this PV. First of all it has some kind of a new feel to it. And not only because Miyabi’s not in center anymore, it’s something that is somewhat indescribable. The music is perfectly “in sync” with the video and both make up to a good mixture of fun and seriousness. The video is usual mix of dance shots, close-ups and two new perspectives – there’s a band in the video, so there’s dance with band shots and also there’s this “mafia” like costumes you see in the pictures above, so this makes yet another type of shot. Maybe we’ll have all the versions of PV, maybe we’ll have only close-up, dance and band-dance version – time will show.

That’s it for now with the update. And I’d also like to tell you, that starting from monday, 18th of August, I’ll be changing the header on my blog every day. Though I have only 6 of them(the 7th is still being made, because the maker is very busy for now) I think that the seventh will be the one you can see now – the rotating one. And all thanks to Pharadox from JPH!P forum – she helped me a lot on this!

Thanks for your time.

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!

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!