Odd Crossover Thought of the Moment

You know, sometimes I get these weird thoughts that I really could live without. This happens to be one of them.
I was thinking about Prince of Tennis this morning, probably fanfic ideas, and then all of a sudden Resonant Blue just randomly pops into my head. So I’m humming Resonant Blue and thinking of PoT fanfic ideas and then all of a sudden it just HITS me that 9 Seigaku regulars = 9 Morning Musume members and immediately I have the mental image of Seigaku singing/dancing Resonant Blue!
Er, what…?

For some odd reason I’m imagining Eiji, Fuji, and Ryoma as the leads. After that, I really don’t know…

Mutou Mika graduating from Hello! Project

So, Some Boys! Blog today reported that Mutou Mika is graduating from Hello! Project in order to lead a normal life. =(
I’m not a huge fan of her- I mean, I barely know the Eggs in Ongaku gatas. But right after Mano Erina graduates to become a solo artist, we have another girl leaving. What does this mean for Ongaku? I really hope they don’t just disband. I really loved their singles; not so much their album tracks, but still! Maybe it’s time for new members, or maybe they’ll just continue on with the girls they still have. Either way, I really want them to keep going and releasing new stuff…

Well, good luck to Mika. Sad to see another H!P member leave, but if it’s what she wants, then it’s good that she actually went ahead and quit.

Holy crap. MORE??

Why does it seem to me like the Prince of Tennis music is getting way more busier than usual even though it’s ending really soon? xDD
No, seriously! 7 news items in one day! Info about 7 CDs, some new and some announced earlier. And this is the day after they released covers and info about 4 other CDs!

FIRST!
Sanada’s upcoming single has a title now! =D

タイトル：Ｄ気持（初回生産完全限定盤）
アーティスト：真田弦一郎
発売日：２００８年５月２１日（水）
品番：ＮＥＣＭ－１０１０２
価格：￥７７７（税込）

Title: D Kimochi (limited release)
Artist: Sanada Genichirou
Release date: 2008.05.21 (Wednesday)
Code: NECM-10102
Price: 777 yen

D Kimochi? O____o
Oshitari had a single called “A Kimochi” once. Is it somehow related…?

4 new Prince of Tennis covers. (finally.)

All 4 upcoming Prince of Tennis character CDs have finally been given covers on the Prince of Tennis music official site. Finally, considering one of them is coming out tomorrow. No tracklist yet though? Huh, guess we’ll just have to wait until it comes out. xD

Ikemen Samurai - Dear Prince ~Tennis no Oujisamatachi e~
This one’s so weird. xD What is Atobe wearing? Well, I guess it fits in with the “samurai” thing. Can we see the other regulars cosplaying? xD Where are the others in Ikemen Samurai, anyway?
I would actually LOVE to see them play tennis dressed like this. Sadly, that’s not going to ever happen, right?

Ooishi Shuuichirou - Koikaze ~Windy day Mix~
Ok…

Echizen Ryouma - ICHIGAN ~2008 version~
Uhhh…creepy shadows? O__o

Tong-tai - Ya.ki.ni.ku
So, here we have almost-bald Kabaji, really creepy Chinen, and the fat-ass Tanishi. Oh man. Dx I don’t think I’ll buy this one. Chinen will haunt my dreams.

So, Dear Prince is coming out tomorrow. Koikaze and Ichigan are coming out next Wednesday, and Ya.ki.ni.ku is May 9th. I can’t wait for Dear Prince! <3 (I really couldn’t care less about the others…)

OH NO

(This is referring to the anime versions of all three series, not the manga)

After evaluating the sales potential of Full Moon wo Sagashite, Hikaru no Go, and Prince of Tennis, Viz has decided to hold off releasing any further volumes of these three series.

ASDFKJASDFKJASDKFJ NOOOOOO
SHIT
NO
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Well it’s not like they ever gave Prince of Tennis much of a chance anyway. Were they really expecting it to sell well with basically NO advertising except for maybe a blurb in Shounen Jump for each box set? I mean, SERIOUSLY. It was advertised on Cartoon Network for a bit when it first started on Toonami Jetstream, but that stopped really soon after. It had a TV run for a REALLY SHORT amount of time, but they skipped like half of the episodes! And then of course, they canceled it. FAIL!
And, and, they only released box sets of the anime. Nope, no separate DVDs. You know, I think MAYBE it would work for a popular anime that aired on TV, because people will have had the chance to see it and see if they like it without having to buy the $40 box set. But no! For Prince of Tennis, if you want to see what it’s like and try out an episode, you have to buy the entire fucking thing! I can’t imagine that draws in anybody at ALL. If you’re not a fan before, you’re not going to buy a box set just to try a new series!
Dammit Viz! What the hell. If you’re going to cancel series that don’t sell well, then don’t just fucking half-ass a series and not even advertise it! How could you POSSIBLY expect it to sell well like that??

I’m just soo pissed off at Viz right now. I hated the dub, but I bought the series to support it anyway because it’s my favorite series. And then this happens!
I hear this means they’re just “taking a break”. Honestly? With the way Viz has handled Prince of Tennis in the past (even the manga has lots of its own issues: typos, mis-romanizations (”Oshitori”), idiotic naming policies (NO ONE SHOULD CALL TEZUKA “Kunimitsu” EXCEPT HIS FAMILY DAMMIT), stupid dialogue (”Did I make a boo-boo?”)…but I’ll save THAT rant for another time) I’ll be really surprised if they ever continue the DVD release.
If we’re lucky, maybe Viz will give up the license and then another company will get the rights. Then maybe we’ll actually have a good dub!

However, even though I am really angry about this, I’m glad they finally said something. It was taken down from Toonami Jetstream a couple months ago, and the most recent DVD set feels like it was forever ago. I’d been anxiously waiting for a release date for volume 5, but nothing came up…at least now I don’t have to wonder. D:

Buono! - Kiss!Kiss!Kiss! covers

The covers for Buono!’s upcoming single, Kiss!Kiss!Kiss!, are out! The limited edition is on the left, and the regular edition is on the right:

For some reason, I like the normal edition cover better than the limited edition. That’s been happening a couple of times lately, but it’s not good because I always want the limited edition. D: Well, I’m sure I’ll end up with the limited edition in the end…
I’m totally in love with Kiss!Kiss!Kiss!, from the Shugo Chara ending preview. It’s a great song, and I definitely can’t wait until the PV comes out. Minna Daisuki, the b-side, I don’t like as much…it’s an ok song, but it’ll probably take me a bit to really start liking it. I’m sure I’ll like it eventually though, somehow Buono’s songs always do that. xD

Resonant Blue covers + DVD info

Yes! The covers for Morning Musume’s 36th single Resonant Blue were posted on Some Boys! Blog today, and then the content of the limited edition DVDs was posted there a little later. Both are things I’ve been waiting for for a while (though mostly the DVD content because I wasn’t about to just gUESS which one would have better content and pre-order like that!), so I’m so happy to finally get this info.
First, the covers:

My thoughts on the Morning Musume spring concert setlist

Here’s the list, which I took from the OTHER Resonant Blue blog. It confused me when I saw it on my google desktop RSS feed thing cause I was just like “I didn’t post that!”

Sono Bamen de Bibiccha Ikenai jan! radio rip

I just found out that a radio rip for this song was out, so I went and searched for a download. This song is the b-side to Morning Musume’s upcoming single Resonant Blue.
There’s a lot of talking over it. It seems like a pretty good song, and the line distribution seems more even than in Resonant Blue…but I’ll wait for a better quality version to come out before I really go into my thoughts on it.

Download here

How did I miss this?

I just now noticed for the first time EVER the covers of Berryz Koubou’s Munasawagi Scarlet.


It’s TENNIS! 8DD
If you know me at ALL you should know immediately what I thought of.
PRINCE OF TENNIS! 8DD

And there’s 7 of them! THEY CAN BE THE HELLO PROJECT KIDS REgULARS! 8D
It’s too bad I don’t know anything about Berryz other than their names and their music. Otherwise I’m sure I’d be matching up Berryz members with Seigaku regulars right about now…

EDIT: You know, I realized after typing this up (well actually I’m editing this the next morning but w/e) that even though only 7 people actually play per match (2 doubles matches, 3 singles) there are actually almost always 8 regulars on a team because of the substitute. And of course on Seigaku there are 9 cause Ryouma screwed the whole thing up. =P (Cause at the beginning of the series they made a huge deal out of Inui being off the regulars, and then after the next ranking tournament it was Momo, but then once Ooishi got hurt I think they just decided to screw the whole thing and start just treating the 9th member as another substitute cause it changed each match. xD)
So maybe the Berryz comparison wouldn’t work even if I knew enough about them….