PSotD - Mirai Chizu

Title: Mirai Chizu (Map of the Future)

Artist: Otoya Ittoki (Takuma Terashima), Masato Hijirikawa (Kenichi Suzumura), Natsuki Shinomiya (Kishou Taniyama), Tokiya Ichinose (Mamoru Miyano), Ren Jinguuji (Junichi Suwabe), and Syo Kurusu (Hiro Shimono).

Year: 2011

Notes: Insert song for the anime Uta no Prince sama.

OAOAOAOAO! I can't believe I haven't posted anything about UtaPri yet, my #1 anime of all time. I can and will fall in love over and over again with these bishies and their amazing and beautiful voices. I promise I'll go and write an anime review on it in the coming weeks, after I rewatch it (for the 8th time). So I guess I'll ramble about how much and why I love it in the review rather than here.

This song moves my heart (almost to tears) every time I listen to it. The voices of the six boys just match and mixes so well together. The lyrics are also very meaningful.

DDL: From Gendou music (Requires account - it's easy to make one!)

Supercell to produce debut album for fictional artist, EGOIST

It has just been revealed that supercell will completely produce the debut album of the fictional artist “EGOIST“.

EGOIST is an artist that appears in the television anime “Guilty Crown“, and will be releasing a currently untitled first album on September 19th. The vocals are provided by chelly, a 17-year-old high school girl who was chosen by ryo out of 2,000 applicants to become one of the new vocalists for the group. chelly has been singing for EGOIST as the character Yuzuriha Inori within the anime

Although the track list for the album has yet to be revealed, it has been confirmed that the album will be available in two different versions: a limited CD+DVD version and a regular CD-only version. It will also include the hit singles “The Everlasting Guilty Crown” and “Departures ~Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta~“.

Stay tuned for more on EGOIST’s first full album!

Source: Tokyohive

PSotD - Hajimaru no wa, Sayonara

Title: Hajimaru no wa, Sayonara

Artist: On/Off
Year: 2011

Notes: The second opening song for the anime Beelzebub. 
I really enjoyed the Beelzebub manga. It's is a shounen action/ slice of life/ comedy manga which follows the story of a male delinquent that has to look after and protect a demon baby (Baby Beel) from "hell". In return, he obtains insane strength which he utilizes to fend off enemies while accomplishing his mission to protect Baby Beel. The art is quite good, the girls are pretty hot and the babies are cute. However, I found the anime to be pretty boring and slow paced.

DDL: From Gendou.

Hatsune Miku to celebrate her 5th ‘birthday’ with two best-of albums

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of her creation, Vocaloid Hatsune Miku will be releasing two best-of albums simultaneously.

Since making her debut in Japan on August 31st, 2007, Miku has garnered a huge amount of attention and fans. To mark this huge occasion for the pop culture icon, two best-of albums titled “Hatsune Miku 5th Birthday Best ~memories~” and “Hatsune Miku 5th Birthday Best ~impacts~” have been confirmed for a release on August 1st. The albums are a collaboration project between Sony Music Direct and Dwango Music entertainment, following in the vein of her previous albums “Hatsune Miku Best ~impacts~” (2009), “Hatsune Miku Best ~memories~” (2009), “VOCALOID BEST from Nico Nico Douga [Aka]” (2011), and “VOCALOID BEST from Nico Nico Douga [Ao]” (2011).

The best-of albums will include a wide range of songs, from her popular videos on Nico Nico Douga totaling over 1 million views to her latest and greatest songs from 2012, as well as two new songs written especially for the albums by Vocaloid producers titled “Anniversary Song” and “Birthday Song“. A DVD has been planned for the limited edition versions of the albums so that fans can have physical copies of the videos for some of the most popular Hatsune Miku songs.

Although the track lists for both albums have yet to be revealed, the “memories” version of the album will contain hit songs such as “melt“, “Hello, Planet.“, “FREELY TOMORROW“, “Kagerou Days“, “Electric Love“, and more for a grand total of 19 songs. The “impacts” version will contain the same number of songs, but will feature tracks “Matroshka“, “Senbonzakura“, “Koi Suru VOC@LOID“, “Nijigen Dream Fever“, and “Akatsuki Arrival“.

Stay tuned for more on Hatsune Miku’s two new best-of albums, and check out the covers for them below!

Source: Tokyohive.

GACKT to Star in Live-Action Show of Sengoku Basara Game

CAPCOM's historical action game franchise Sengoku Basara is inspiring its first live-action television show next month, and actor/singer GACKT(Fûrin Kazan, New Fist of the North Star, Tono to Issho, Shiki) will star in it as Oda Nobunaga (pictured far right). Sengoku Basara -Moonlight Party- will also star Kento Hayashi (Arakawa Under the Bridge) as Date Masamune (center) and Kōhei Takeda (Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e: Ikemen Paradise, Kamen Rider Kiva) as Sanada Yukimura (left). (Historical Japanese names are listed family name first, while modern names are listed family name last.)

Gackt will contribute the ending theme song "Hakuro."

The show will premiere on July 12 on MBS, and it will run every Thursday night at 1:25 a.m. (effectively early Friday morning).

Teehee, Gackt with a fake mustache! XD

Source: Animenewsnetwork.

PSotD - Shiny Tale + Daily Lives of High School Boys Mini Review

Title: Shiny Tale

Artist: Mix Speaker's Inc.
Year: 2012

Notes: The opening song for the anime Daily Lives of High School Boys. 
I recently finished watching this anime and I found this anime hilarious. There are two things which I agree with this anime, 1) if you want to shut a girl up you need to give them chocolate, lots of chocolate, and 2) at some point in a girl's life, we would've pulled our skirts up to our chests and worn the skirt in an idiotic way.
Because of this anime I have found a new VK band to fall in love with, Mix Speaker's Inc.. Their music style reminds me of ViViD.

Mini Review:

Daily Lives of High School Boys: A laid back slice of life anime. For someone who loves action and horror this is definitely out of my comfort zone. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this anime very much. It's a big contrast to the usual full of suspense shounen adventure animes. Each story consists of short (approx. 5 minute) scenes. I found most of them quite funny and there were many times when I was literally rolling on my bed laughing (I was watching this on my bed). I had my dose of bishies and shouta, so I'm not complaining. There were also several of my favourite seiyuus participating in this anime, so no disagreements here. I loved the opening song, and I liked the background music for 'the literary girl'.

I would recommend this anime for those seeking comedy relief. It serves as a good breather between watching action packed animes.

One of my favourite scenes - from episode 7.

DDL: From AnimeMp3.

PSotD - Butterfly

Title: Butterfly

Artist: On/Off
Year: 2010

Notes: The second ending theme for Durarara!!. 
On/Off is a JPop duo consisting of twins Naoya Sakamoto and Kazuya Sakamoto. They have provided OP and ED songs for animes such as Beelzebub and Vampire Knight. They have released two albums so far.
One of my favourite characters from DRRR!! is Shinra Kishitani.

ZOMG! Dem BISHIES!! *Screeches* This pic is killing me. -grabs tissues-

DDL: From Gendou.

PSotD - Hide and Seek

Title: Hide and Seek

Artist: Kaitou Tatsuya
Year: 2012

Notes: Track 10 from the 5th Mirai Nikki OST.
I'm still hooked onto Mirai Nikki. My favourite male character is Akise Aru. Why? It's pretty obvious considering I have a fettish for male characters with white hair. Even more exciting for me is that this bishie has red eyes, and Akise's a smart/cunning character.

DDL/Torrent: Here.

PSotD - Blood Teller + Mirai Nikki Mini Review

Title: Blood Teller
Artist: Faylan
Year: 2011
Notes: First ending song for the anime Mirai Nikki.

I finished watching the anime last night, so here is my little spiel about it.
I really liked the anime ending, it wasn't one of those sappy happy endings and the whole story made sense. Then again, Yuno from the 1st world (and kami of the 1st world) died in the 3rd world, so does that mean the 1st world crumbles and disappears? If so, then couldn't Yuuki from the 2nd world use his kami powers and commit suicide, that way he no longer needs to suffer?

Anyway, I had a quick glance at the manga ending, and wasn't too impressed by it. I tried the first episode of the MN Live action drama. This story is based on different characters and an alternative storyline to the original manga and anime. The characters were not what I imagined to be. I was hoping that the main female lead would look more lunatic, but she just looked like some really annoying and dumb chick, and the main male lead wasn't handsome enough. Frankly, I was bored to tears by the live action and was pretty disappointed in it.

Mmm...Akise Aru.

DDL: Gendou.

Winter Camp 2012

During the long weekend just passed, the My Bubbletea Time team along with a few other friends went camping for three days and two nights (some people were there for four days and three nights). We had a lot of fun despite the wet and cold weather. We had hot pot and BBQ meat for dinner, and toasted marshmallows for dessert. We played around with glow sticks and Monopoly Deal. Here are a few snaps from the three day adventure.

Campfire all ready for toasting marshmallows.

More fire >:D

PSotD - Kuusou Mesorogii

Title: 空想メソロギヰ (Kuusou Mesorogii)

Artist: 妖精帝国 (Yousei Teikoku)
Year: 2011

Notes: The first opening song to Mirai Nikki.
So I started watching Mirai Nikki today, and let me say that this anime is epic! I love it! It's an action packed anime with mild horror/gore. I love the yandere character Gasai Yuno. This anime is highly recommended!

DDL: Here.

SPYAIR to provide theme song to “The Amazing Spider-Man 3D”

On June 27th, rock band SPYAIR will release a new single “0 GAME“. It will be the theme song to movie “The Amazing Spider-Man 3D“, which will release in Japan on June 30th.

The song is an original by SPYAIR, who offered the film production company to feature it in the movie. The movie’s staff had high praises for the song and stated that it’s the perfect theme song for the film.

All the members of SPYAIR were die-hard fans of NICKELBACK, and a member of the band, Chad Koreger sang to the original series of the movie back in 2002. Member MOMIKEN(B) said that he’s seen every Spider Man film many times, and that they are also fans of Aerosmith. He also mentioned that SPYAIR is happy to be able to provide the theme song this time around.

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“0 GAME”

Regular Edition

< CD >

1. 0 GAME

2. Rock’n Roll

3. MOVIN’ ON

4. YOU 2

Source: tokyohive

Nakagawa Shoko to participate in upcoming DECO*27 album as a guest vocalist

It has just been revealed that talento Nakagawa Shoko will be participating in DECO*27’s upcoming album “Love Calendar“, which will be released on July 25th.

As tokyohive previously reported, “Love Calendar” follows the story of two high school students as they fall in love for the very first time. Nakagawa will be participating on the album as a guest vocalist in the song “Amayadori“, which goes along with the first kiss scene of the protagonists of “Love Calendar”.

“You get the image that Ms. Nakagawa sang the song with all her heart,” said DECO*27 of working with the singer. “I thought she opened up the potential of the song I wrote.” Nakagawa commented, “Out of the few love songs I’ve sang myself up until now, this one is my first song about a sweet love. Mr. DECO*27’s melody lines, and the world in the lyrics, which are full of wordplay, were revolutionary to me.”

Check out the jacket cover for the album below!

Source: tokyohive

Final Fantasy Dimensions Mobile Game's Gameplay Video Streamed

The video game news website IGN posted a hands-on gameplay video on Wednesday for Square Enix's upcoming release of the Final Fantasy Dimensions mobile game. The video highlights a battle inside a cave area in the game. 

Square Enix will release the game for both iOS and Android devices this summer. Square Enix describes the game as follows:

Drawing upon the roots of the series with such features as beautiful 2D pixel art, job-driven character growth, additional scenarios in which to inherit the jobs of your adventuring companions, and a classic story of light, darkness, and crystals, FINAL FANTASY DIMENSIONS delivers the best of FINAL FANTASY, retro and fresh alike, directly to your smartphone.

[Source: ann]

Piko to release new single in August

Piko recently announced on his twitter and blog that he will be releasing a new single「Make My Day!」on 15th August. This song will be the opening theme to the anime Binbougami ga! 「貧乏神が！」, which will begin airing in Japan in July. Information about the manga can be found here.

Robots Dance To K-pop Music

The DSME Marine Robot Pavilion is the largest pavilion at the Yeosu Expo. The pavilion is dedicated to showcasing the latest in robotic technology.

While the pavilion features many different kinds of robots, including a life-like robot capable of expressing realistic human facial movements, netizens were intrigued by a group of dancing robots.

The robots were programed to dance to different songs, including a medley of Korean songs. The robots can be seen mimicking some of Korea's most iconic dance crazes including Super Junior's "Sorry Sorry" dance, and Brown Eyed Girls' sexy hip dance in "Abracadabra".

Check out a video of the dancing robots below:

Source: jpopasia

PSotD - Ai Kotoba

Title: Ai Kotoba

Artist: Shounen-T/ Original: Hatsune Miku/ Composer: DECO*27
Year: 2011

Notes: I have previously posted about this song Ai Kotoba. However, today I want to share a Nico cover/rearrange version which I think is really beautiful. Shounen-T's voice is very strong and powerful and his piano skills are really good too.

More Code Geass pics :)

DDL: From nicosound - scroll down until you see three links in a row. Click on the far right link with the words "MP3 を抽出".

PIKO announces new single

It’s been revealed that singer PIKO will be releasing a new single this summer.

“Make My Day!” is PIKO’s sixth single and will be the opening theme song to anime “Binbogamiga!” (God of Poverty). The anime is scheduled to air in July, while the single is slated for an August 15th release. The manga is currently being serialized in JUMP Square.

The single will come in three editions and the limited edition will include a DVD with performance footage from the “Ki/oon 20 Years & Days” concert that was held on May 19th, 2012. It will also come with a wide cap sticker and card. Limited edition B will include a Sakura Ichigo from ‘Binbogamiga!’ grafig (paper figurine) and the first press of the regular edition will include a PIKO card.

PSotD - Wherever You Are

Title: Wherever You Are

Artist: ONE OK ROCK
Album: Niche Syndrome
Year: 2010

Notes: A very gentle (soft rock) love song by the JRock band ONE OK ROCK. Taka's voice is so powerful in this song.

Random Code Geass picture. Lelouch and Suzaku are so cute :3

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Vote for L’Arc~en~Ciel to visit your hometown during their next world tour!

L’Arc~en~Ciel has opened up voter registration for their next world tour. What this means is that you can submit a vote to get L’Arc to perform in your city!

You have to type your country, city, name, age, sex, and e-mail address into the voting box and then you can continue on and vote for your favorite songs to be played as well. There are currently over 51,000 votes, so if you want L’Arc to play in your area, get your friends and family to vote along with you.

You can vote here.

Source: Tokyohive