The Imperial Presence Hyoutei CD announced!

タイトル：ミュージカル『テニスの王子様』The Imperial Presence 氷帝 feat．比嘉 青学4代目 vs．氷帝Aキャスト（仮）
発売日：2008年11月5日（水）
品番：NECA-30236
価格：￥2，800（税込）
初回封入特典：特製封入キャストステッカー（予定）

Title: Musical “Tennis no Oujisama” The Imperial Presence Hyoutei feat. Higa – Seigaku 4th cast vs Hyoutei A cast (temporary title)
Release date: 2008.11.05 (Wednesday)
Code: NECA-30236
Price: 2800 yen
First press bonus: Cast stickers

It’s a temporary title? Aren’t the soundtracks usually the exact same title as the musical? Maybe it’s because of the 4th cast vs Hyoutei A cast thing. I’m wondering if they’re going to release more than one soundtrack- maybe one with 5th cast vs Hyoutei B cast? They are releasing three DVDs for it, after all. XD
I can’t wait to see this musical. GOLDEN PAIR SYNCHRO FTW! 8D As for the soundtrack, it comes out a bit before the DVD…I don’t want to hear the music until I see the actual musical. XD Well, whatever…

So, if the Seigaku regulars had Facebook…

My annoying younger sister’s odd relationship status somehow reminded me of an idea I had a couple days ago, and this just kinda…happened. o_o Discussion goes from statuses, to games, to camerawhores, events, groups….eventually moving onto blogs, and hey, I even threw a #wotachat plug in there! XD (#wotachat on rizon.net!)
Warning: long XD

I think I have a new favorite pirate song.

I mean, until now it’s always been Morning Musume no Hyokkori Hyoutanjima, right? (Not that there are many j-pop pirate songs out there, but whatever.) And I absolutely LOVED the performance of it in Single Daizenshuu.
However, this amazing song has just totally pwned Hyokkori Hyoutanjima.

OH HIGA. *dies*
Oh Kai. How I love you so much. Even though you lost to Eiji. Actually no, if you beat Eiji I’d probably hate you, so I suppose it’s for the best.
My friend told me yesterday she doesn’t like Dream Lives. DUDE. Dream Lives are my FAVORITE, for the random scenes like this! xD Even if they have a crappy selection of songs (none of the songs in Dream Live 4th stood out to me at all originally, so I didn’t recognize any of them in the DL) there are always hilarious skits!
Although, I have to say, I wonder why they’re dressed up as pirates when the song is called Viking Horn, based off of Kai’s move. o_o Pirates =/= Vikings, right…?
This song also gets some love from me for being the first memorable song since Hyouteimyu! YAY! xD Legit, if I looked at the tracklists for Rokkakumyu or either Rikkaimyu, I wouldn’t be able to hum the tune for any of the songs, and Higamyu was going the same way until this song. xD (Well, I guess that’s an exaggeration, after listening to them a couple times I know a bunch of songs from those musicals, but none of them really stuck the first time through)
The original version in Higamyu was funny too, even though they weren’t dressed fully in pirate outfits, just their normal Higa outfits (with swords, flags, and Kai had a pirate hat!), but it was funny because it was so unexpected. o_o And Kite was sword-fighting with Eiji (who was using his racket of course) in the background lol. xD
Anyway, this song is catchy. Vi-vi-vi-vi-vi-vi-viking horn!

Fangirl time, aka “YESASIA SELLS DOUJINSHI!”

Now, as I bet most people reading this blog don’t know, I’m a huge yaoi fan. xD Mostly Prince of Tennis yaoi, but I’m starting to get into other actual yaoi manga (as opposed to doujinshi/fanfics). My favorite Prince of Tennis doujinshi artist is Kodaka Kazuma, a professional yaoi mangaka that just happens to write PoT yaoi also. <33 I love her art, it’s really great when it’s serious and really adorable when it’s chibis. I love her stories too! She just so happens to write doujinshi for my FAVORITE pairing, the golden pair, and I own her golden pair anthology called Darling. I also own her hilarious comedy doujinshi Seishun gakuen Paradise, with lots of mini stories including yaoi sex ed, a school festival, evil!Fuji…
According to Wikipedia, Kodaka Kazuma’s manga Kizuna was one of the first and most popular yaoi manga. I still think it’s so cool that she does PoT doujinshi too~
So anyway! I was on Yesasia, looking for Kizuna volumes, because I’ve been thinking about reading it and apparently the English version is totally censored. My search was pretty unsuccessful (I only found Chinese versions), but it lead me to an amazing finding!
YESASIA SELLS DOUJINSHI!

Sanada Genichirou – D Kimochi cover

As shown on the Prince of Tennis music site (http://tennipri-indexmusic.jp/index_swa.html), Sanada’s upcoming single now has a cover! Yaaay.

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

You know, I really don’t have too much to say about this one. Hmm.

In the same news post, they reposted the basic details about Renji’s upcoming single AGAIN. Nothing has changed since the first time they announced it! I mean, it still doesn’t even have a TITLE. I’m totally not gonna even bother translating it cause I’ve already done it twice.

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…

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