Anyone heard of Maaya Sakamoto? Voice actress and singer Maaya Sakamoto’s latest album, Everywhere, the 15th anniversary “best” album sold 47,000 copies in its [...]

A big wave is coming over to Asia this 2010. Singing voice of Sheryl Nome, May’n will be making her way to Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan for her Asia Tour.
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If you watch Valkyria Chronicles, you might know HIMEKA, who sings the OP1 theme song (Asu e no Kizuna) of the anime series! Apparently, at her recent LIVE performance at ANIMAX Concert in Osaka, held on the 22nd of November[...]

Was listening to this song just now, and I was blown away by the vocals of Youko Hisaka (Seiyuu of Akiyama Mio) in Fuwa Fuwa Time, and yes Aki Toyosaki is singing in Fuwa Fuwa Time with her hoarse voice XD.
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14 anime singers have recorded John Lennon’s “Imagine” song in a charity effort to fight world hunger. The song is available for download since last Friday(Not available for download services outside of Japan). 100 yen from the proceeds of each download of the song will go to the World Food Programme (WFP) – United Nations organization that fights world hunger and poverty.

Singers involved in this are:

Mami Ayukawa
Yoshifumi Ushima
Minami Kuribayashi
Hiromi Satou
JAM Project (Hironobu Kageyama, Masaaki Endou, Hiroshi Kitadani, Masami Okui, Yoshiki Fukuyama)
Hiroki Takahashi
Kaori Hikita
Faylan
Yumi Matsuzawa
Shunji Inoue

It’s true that I’m turning into …

More ticketing information for AFA09: I LOVE ANISONG has been updated over at the official website.

There are a few concert passes available for folks to purchase:
2 DAY CONCERT PASS – SGD$188
21st (SAT) November

中川翔子 SHOKO NAKAGAWA
初音ミク HATSUNE MIKU ( Special Appearance )
水木一郎 ICHIROU MIZUKI

22nd (SUN) November

福山芳樹 YOSHIKI FUKUYAMA
MAY’N

INCLUDES:
OVER 4 HOURS OF CONCERT PERFORMANCE
1 X CONCERT PASS
2 X LIGHTSTICK
AFA09 2 DAYS ENTRANCE TICKET
Tickets on sale from 19 October, 2009 at SISTIC Outlets!
1 DAY CONCERT PASS – SGD$108
21st (SAT) November

中川翔子 SHOKO NAKAGAWA
初音ミク HATSUNE MIKU ( Special Appearance )
水木一郎 …

Folks who are a frequent buyer of Japanese Music will be pleased to know that Play-Asia is currently having a promotion: 10% off Japanese Music CDs!

And it doesn’t matter if you the items you want are not ready for shipping within 24 hours. As long as it has the 10% logo listed on the product page, you’re good to go!

So hop on over to Play-Asia to grab more Japanese Music CDs now! Hurry ^^

An advertisement for the upcoming Inuyasha: The Final Act anime series has confirmed that the pop music group Do as Infinity will perform the anime’s opening theme song. Inuyasha: The Final Act will return next month, October 3.

Fans of Inuyasha will definitely remember Do as Infinity as they performed the ending theme songs for the first Inuyasha television anime series.
The “super entertainment group” AAA will perform the new anime’s ending theme song.
While I enjoyed the first season.. I might catch the 2nd season. Hopefully they don’t run for over a …

An Cafe, a famous Visual-Kei band, will be suspending activities after their live concert on January 4 2010, at the Nippon Budokan.

Announced on the official website on Monday – The band had many discussions with their staff, and it was decided that the members would take some time to recharge and prepare for an eventual restart of the band. However, the length of their hiatus was not specified.
Formed in 2003, An Cafe has found popularity not only in Japan, but overseas as well. They have performed multiple times in the …