My heart broken...

Hello everyone. It's a happy new year but my heart is going to burst because saori said that she'll finish her music activity.
I feel empty though I also think that she isn't young as Idol but young as a person, so it's a good timing for her to start her life again.
Her attendance remain unchanged so I believe if she were to continue music activity, she couldn't increase her fan base.

As you likely know, it's a one of my motivations that support her activity, so I think it's time to close my blog.
I thought of continuing it with introducing you ohter subculture news, but I don't wanna waste my life with updating article which I can't blame if someone steal. I must rebuild my life too.
Maybe I'll update one more time to introduce you her last performance but I don't know. Please let me be by myself now...

Moe anthropomorphism of Android cellphone

As you likely know, some comic artists make a caricature to explain complicated real-world event clearly. And in the comic which serialize at shukan Ascii, moe characters explain the world of smartphone industry.
Related post Moe anthropomorphism of twitter's whale
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Evangelion movie become tetralogy

Evangelion official HP announced that "Evangelion Q YOU CAN (NOT) REDO" will be released at autumn 2012 and "Evangelion ?" will be released at 2013.
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It's a New Year's Eve

Hello oversea nerds! It s a New Year's Eve night in Japan and needless to say this year is a hard one for Japanese.
I believe Earthquake is a natural disatser but radioactive pollution is a human disaster.
The earthquake contribute greatly to strengthen our bonds and speed of the recovery of quake-hit area is so fast, but I feel hopeless that Government, academy, and news media work not for people but for rights of nuclear power stations, and as a result they put our life in danger.
So This year I'm proud I'm Japanese but also I'm ashamed I'm Japanese... Maybe It's a matter of common occurrence in democratic countries and I shouldn't get so serious.

Whatever the case, everyone think about what can they do for Japan and Yoshihiro Togashi is one of them. He mentioned in a postscript of Shounen Jump that he wanna draw a comic as long as possible for disaster victims and he still serialize "Hunter x Hunter" without interval. So 2 Channellers can't use their annual joke "If Togashi work, I'll work too." anymore. LOL.
To be honest I think "chimeraant series" is more boring than "Greed Island series" or "Genei Ryodan series". but last scene is so beautiful and I'm excited Yoshihiro Togashi describe such a pathos at Shounen Jump, which primary schooler read too.

I think of music, My favorite are Bremen"Skin", LIL "Syncronize", Sakanaction "Documentaly", Aira mitsuki x Saori@destiny "X park of safari".
Especially LIL's female vocalist Ucio is a very gifted girl, She always write lyrics in English and really sing at performance(You may think it's a natural but so many Electronica vocalist do lip-sync). I'm not native English speaker but I think her English pronunciation is good so she has a chance at oversea. I've introduce you before cardigan's cover song , so I introduce you other song.


And it's not released this year but I'm impressed De De Mouse "Journey to Freedom". Title song reminds me of SquarePusher's classic Drum'n bass tune "Journey to reedham", but his sampling of folk music is very funny so I say it "Enigma meets Squarepusher"! He is a talented man whom I wanna introduce to the world too.


Finally I wanna introduce you Animal video, which is already popular at NicoNico Douga, because I hope your coming year will be full of laughter. It titled "a Dog has difference of motivation whether food are there or not"

A man who trying upskirt with Loveplus 3ds

The article said that he couldn't see her panty because of specification of the game. so It's a joke video but funny one.

Early on the morning of Comic Market

I never go to this kind of event but heared that It's a battlefield, and I understand it watching the video. Convenience store is over with a lot of portable rations(Yes, they can't stop at there!) and pocket warmers.
OFf course some of them are reseller of Doujinshi so not always stand in line just for the passion to the Subculture.

Rumor:Rurouni Kenshin original comic restart next May

As I've introduce you several times, Some people can get magazines earlier than sale date and upload the picture of it. Off course there's a possibility it's a "Usobare"(which means "Fake leak". you may have looked the picture that hunter x hunter's character Gotoh is still alive!).
But anyway this picture reprint the Jump Square said that famous comic Rurouni Kenshin will restart in the June issue of the magazine.

Aira Mitsuki×Saori@destiny Oneman Live in Glad

When I heard that Saroi release the album with Aira Mitsuki, who has more strong fan base than saori, I thought maybe it'll be a chance for her to do performance in front of big audience.
But rank of the album at first week is 206th place, with about 600 copies sold. And the venue of the release party is Shibuya Glad, at which Saori always do solo live...
I think there is more than one reason why Aira lost her sales. (It's just a personal analysis and I have no intent to blame Aira and her staff. Needless to say, the biggest reason are Japan's recession and overflow of pirate file.)

1)When she released 3rd album "6 force", she adopt band sound but songs which produced by Japanese electronica band Sawagi were so boring... It's a good way of business that at first musician imitate style of selling band then make their originality while they are watched. so Aira lost a biggest opportunity for erasing the image that she's just a copy of Perfume, Japanese most popular techno idol.

2)In her 4th album "???", she coverd famous song Kenji Ozawa's "Aishi Aisare Ikirunosa" and it made an enemy of some music fans. If Britney Spears sing R&B version of "Yesterday", some of you may think it's a stupid gimmick and disrespect for Beatles, How about you?
Additionally, one song was written by K-POP staff. For a fact some Japanese like K-POP but most nerds dislike it because Korea is a one of the most anti-Japanese countries so they might think she's just a fashion monger.

3)Her live performances are all the same, with 4 back dancers and CD sounds. Personally speaking I like her dancers who always smile with hard dancing, but even Aira mania doesn't think they must go every lives. The biggest change in recent years is that She got a bit out of shape...

But I think of 3rd reason, Members of today are irregular, 2 singers, Saori's 2 back keyboardists and Aira's 2 back dancers take turns on stage.
For example, wheh Aira sing her song(e.c. "Yellow Supercar" or "Summer set"), Aira and 2 dancers and 2 keyboardists are on the stage.
And when Saori sing her song(e.c. "Funny Parade" or "Wowwow techno"), Saori and 2 keyboardist are there (as an exception Aira and Saori sing "I can't" and "Grotesque" together).
And offcourse when they play songs from their new album, all the members are on the stage. It's a shame that I can' tell you in words how pretty choreographies of "Discovery", "Panama", "Wowtown" are! One thing can be said, when Saori and Aira say "Pow!" they raise the index finger like a Michael Jackson!

It's a fantastic night and 2 hours passed very rapidly. But it's like a one night festival only for D-topia fans and after the festival is finished, we must live our daily life.
This year 2 japanese techno bands with female vocalist, Sweet vacation and Jaccapop announced thier cessation of activity.
Music market is going down rapidly so I don't know how long Aira and Saori can do music activity.
Sales copy of the Album is "Idol one rap behind" but in reality quality of thier songs and performances are not far behind from Carry PamyuPamyu.
Even so I think If they wanna do it, they must change something right now, without relying on purchase power of nerds, but having will to get a new customers.
Offcourse if anyone understand what something means, it isn't difficult. Only few people can be successful at showbusiness world so I know I shouldn't be sentimental but I have indescribable feelings of stagnation...