We’re back with this week’s edition of Oricon Flashback. This is where we look back on what topped Oricon this week 5, 10, 15, and 20 years ago. Think of it as a way to reminisce and learn about the past of Japanese music.

On the single side, Hey! Say! JUMP topped the chart with “Chau# / Wo I Need You”, with its CD+DVD Limited Edition selling 73,613 copies. Two editions of this single took the top 2 spots on the chart. Between its 3 editions, “Chau# / Wo I Need You” sold 156,584 copies, making it the best selling single this week.

On the album side, Hamada Shogo took the top spot with “Journey of a Songwriter ~ Tabi Suru Songwriter”, with its CD+Blu-ray Limited Edition selling 28,230 copies. Two editions of this album took the top 2 spots on the chart. Between its 4 editions, “Journey of a Songwriter ~ Tabi Suru Songwriter” sold 73,514 copies, making it the best selling album this week.

This week’s guests were Nishino Kana, Nishiuchi Mariya, TRUSTRICK, and WEAVER.

Nishino Kana – Moshimo Unmei no Hito ga Iru no Nara

Nishiuchi Mariya – Arigatou Forever…

TRUSTRICK – Mirai Kei Answer

WEAVER – Kuchizuke Diamond

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This week’s guests were GENERATIONS, V6, LiSA, Eir Aoi, Superfly, and the telephones.

GENERATIONS – Evergreen

V6 – Timeless

LiSA – Rising Hope

Eir Aoi – IGNITE

Superfly – Beautiful

the telephones – Monkey Discooooooo

Hello readers! Check out the latest box office ranking, which due to the Golden Week holidays, was a bit delayed. The top 3 of the charts remained the same, with Cinderella scoring huge during the holidays. New movie Biri Gal debuted at number 4.

See below for the latest ranking.

This week’s episode was a 2 hour special. The guests on this episode were Ayaka Hirahara, Daichi Miura, Flower, Shizuka Kudo, Nana Mizuki, Hideaki Tokunaga, Yoshikuni Dochin, DAIGO, Masuda Takahisa, Eri Nobuchika, Ms.OOJA, Shoko Nakagawa, May J., Tomomi Kahala, Demon Kakka, Yuki Koyanagi, TeddyLoid, GILLE, Saho Aono, MACO, Yamamoto Takushi, Ide Ayaka, Kawakami Daisuke, Fujii Shuka, Sato Harumi, Oosawa Yoshiyuki, Nakada Yuji, Shota Shimizu, Moriyama Ryoko, Akiko Wada, and Charlotte Kate Fox.

They sang songs by the likes of Ozaki Yutaka, Kome Kome CLUB, Yumi Matsutoya, Namie Amuro, Ann Lewis, Yuki Koyanagi, Akina Nakamori, Porno Graffitti, and ORIGINAL LOVE, as well as the themes from Cutie Honey, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, and Attack on Titan.

After a long wait, more details have finally been made available to the public regarding the special 15th Anniversary Project for the Digimon franchise.  While it had previously been reported that Digimon Adventure tri. would be a full-fledged sequel series to the original Digimon Adventure, the venture will actually take the form of a 6-part theatrical release, with the first movie (titled “Saikai” / “Reunion”)  set to hit theaters on November 21st of this year.

In addition, as part of this announcement the staff also published the voice cast for the chosen children, revealing that they would be going with an entirely different set of voice actors than the previous entries in the Digimon Adventure series (though the cast for their Digimon partners remains the same).  Luckily though, it was confirmed that Wada Kouji (“Butter-Fly”), AiM (“I wish”), and Miyazaki Ayumi (“Brave Heart”) will all be returning to provide updated recordings of their classic songs from the original show.

You’ll find a fully subbed version of the teaser that was released along with all of this information, which includes the full list of new VAs for the human characters, right after the jump, so please do read on!