New Album from Perfume

I have to pay much more attention to this stuff.  The girls almost snuck this new album of theirs by me without notice.  Ok, I admit I completely missed that they had their new singles, Glitter and Spice, out a month or so ago.  In any case I just love their new music.   Some of it we’ve heard before, but their are several new songs too.  Here is the song list.

1. The Opening
2. レーザービーム(Album-mix) (Laser Beam)
3. GLITTER (Album-mix)
4. ナチュラルに恋して (Natural ni Koishite)
5. MY COLOR
6. 時の針 (Toki no Hari)
7. ねぇ (Nee)
8. 微かなカオリ (Kasuka na Kaori)
9. 575
10. VOICE
11. 心のスポーツ (Kokoro no Sports)
12. Have a Stroll
13. 不自然なガール (Fushizen na Girl)
14. スパイス (Spice)

They are all really good, and the PV’s for Glitter and Spice are wonderful.  Check them out it you can.

Kimi ni Todoke Sawako Nendoroid

The Good Smile Company has come out with a nendoroid of the sweet character of Sawako Kuromuna from Kimi ni Todoke.  She is definitely a favorite character of mine and I will probably have to pre-order this soon.  It looks like she come with the puppy she found called Maru-chan.  Pretty nice.

I kind of wish they had done a version of her with her hair in her mouth when playing the part of the ghost.  That was pretty cool.

More images after the break.

Awesome Animation!

I came across these by just by accident, but they are just wonderful animations.  They are from Studio Kajino and it appears that they are the only animated videos that they produced.  What a shame.  To me, this is a cross between futuristic 1950′s art style and Japanese animation, which, as far as I’m concerned, is as good as it could get.  The music is by Capsule, which fits wonderfully.  I’ll have some more on Capsule in another post.  But for now, enjoy these wonderful music videos.

 

 

Latest Figure Preorder

After watching the Fractale anime series I just couldn’t resist when Good Smile announced that it was going to release a figure of the adorable character Nessa.  It’s reportedly going to be available in the fall of this year.   A long wait, but typical for most preorders.

And here are a couple of screen captured images of Nessa from the series.

Note that there are some coloration differences with the figure photo, but we’ll see what that final figure release looks like.  I don’t mind either way.

K-ON! Live

I found out that the voice cast for K-ON! did a live concert in, I believe, Yokohama.  It is uber kawaii, as it only could be with this cast.  Here is a video of the opening.  It’s kind of messed up (reversed with  subs), but you get the idea.  The whole concert can probably be found elsewhere on the internet.  ** Update – the video of the opening is gone, so here is another that is good too.**   Gone again.  Ok, here’s another.

I pulled an image from the video, they are so adorable!

Perfume – The Best Thing

I have been waiting to see if the girls were going to perform this song live and have finally came across this video.  They really are just the best at what they do.  Note that the aspect ratio of the video is off just a bit making everything look a bit tall and thin.   I hope this video doesn’t disappear too quickly as they generally do before too long.

Also, something that I have been noticing with live performances in Japan is the enthusiasm of the audience.  It’s really apparent here in this video, but if you should happen to see their live performance of Puppy Love at Tokyo Dome it is utterly amazing.

Very cool new movie trailer.

I found a link to this trailer on DC’s site and it just blew me away.  I can’t wait for this to come out.  Hopefully the movie is as good as the trailer.

Live Hatsune Miku

I had heard about a live Hatsune Miku concert some time ago but never took the time to look into it.  When my daughter forwarded me a link to a video of one of the live concerts I was totally amazed.   I would really like to know how they put this all together.  The 3D imaging and synchronizing the music and all.

Here is another Vocaloid character, Luka.  Very cool!

Here is Rin Kagamine.

Absolutely amazing!

Kimi ni Todoke Live Action!

Another really good anime is going to a live action film.  I’ve written about this anime previously and it was really good, so I hope that live action version is equally good.  Here is one of the trailers for it.

Another amine to live action film that I’ve been waiting for it The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.   I don’t know when that will be available.  I guess we’ll see.

My Latest Figures

It’s been a while since I updated this blog, but I’m going to try and get back to adding some post on a regular basis.  This is just a quick update to show the latest figure that was delivered last week.  It’s the Black Rock Shooter Nendoroid.  Oh, she is sooo cute.  I’ll add more photos a little later, but this is just a start.

And with the full size version.

I’ll update some of the other figures that I’ve acquired recently as soon as I have a chance.