This week, Kis-My-Ft2 topped the Oricon single chart with their new single “Sha la la☆Summer Time”, selling 266,799 copies in its first week.
RADWIMPS topped the Oricon album chart with their new album “Kimi no Na wa.”, selling 57,878 copies in its first week.
Daigo Matsui‘s newest movie “Azumi Haruko wa Yukue Fumei” (Haruko Azumi is Missing) is heading to cinemas in December ’16. The project is lead by Yu Aoi, who portrays a 28-year OL who suddenly dissappears. It’s been 7 years since Aoi’s last leading-role movie “One Million Yen and the Nigamushi Woman” in 2008. Check the teaser trailer, extended cast and other details after the jump!
Taguchi Junnosuke, a former member of KAT-TUN who has left Johnny’s at the end of March, has opened his official website! In addition, it was announced in the said site that he will be releasing his solo single entitled “Hero” on November. This will be his comeback in the music industry.
Earlier tonight famous Japanese singer/songwriter Yumi Matsutoya revealed that she will be releasing a brand new album on November 2nd. “Uchuu Toshokan” will be Yumi’s 38th studio album and is set to include previously revealed tracks “Kidzukazu Sugita Hatsukoi” (the theme song for the Japanese release of film “The Little Prince”), “Tsuki made Hitottobi” (the CM track for Mitsubishi UFJ NICOS’ MUFG credit card), and “Nokoribi” (the theme song for film “Sanada Ten Braves”) in addition to nine new songs for a total of 12. Prior to the album’s release, “Nokoribi” will be made available digitally on September 21st.
Yumi has described the creation of this album as “an unprecedented journey beneath the surface which forced her to face both the sadness and loneliness inside herself”, the result of which will be seen in the record’s refined Pop-Rock sound. In addition, Yumi intends to embark on her largest tour yet in support of the release, planning a total of 80 stops with an intended audience of over 800,000 people.
Read on below for previews of “Kidzukazu Sugita Hatsukoi” and “Nokoribi” and look forward to future updates as more information about “Uchuu Toshokan” is made available to the public.
Two months after we got our hands on the first stills for the upcoming Fullmetal Alchemist live-action movie, the official twitter announced yesterday that the 3-month long filming for the movie has ended on August 26th. The filming started in July in Tuscany, Italy, before moving to Japan. The film is set to release sometime in Winter 2017.
Ex-BiS member Yufu Terashima is releasing her first album 9.21 and she has released a new PV to get fans excited.
‘Watashi ni Naru‘ is set in a fictional little village of a daytime drama. In it we see Yufu working in the local restaurant, serving mochi, when a foreign saleswoman comes and gives her a book on how to make pancakes. Yufu is so excited; she starts trying to make the new snack. Through trial and error, she finally gets it right! At the end she gets to serve it in the restaurant she works in. Will the villagers like it?
Come watch the video!
Having a career that has spanned the entire history of TV anime, 79-year-old voice actress Masako Nozawa, has noticed that there is a lack of uniqueness in today’s VAs.
Nozawa began her career in the early 60’s and has since voiced characters from classic anime such as Tetsuro Hoshino in Galaxy Express 999, Kitaro in GeGeGe no Kitaro (first and second series), Guilmon in Digimon Tamers, and Dr. Kureha in One Piece, and she actively voices in what is arguably her best known role, Dragon Ball’s Goku.
With perspective from a career that spans six decades, Nozawa isn’t impressed with the current state of the industry to say the least.