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I have a cold.

So, what better way to drive away the blues than by getting hold of the package that houses another bunch of CDs to add to my mountain of rubbish eh?
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I’m sure a few people are wondering how well all the anime-related releases are doing on the first day of the sales week – here’s a quick whip through the charts.

Singles
3. Monochrome Kiss. Sid (Kuroshitsuji OP) 7,233
6. Ame ga Furu. Sakamoto Maaya (Linebarrels ED)
7. Tan Tan Taan!. MilkyWay (Kirarin Revolution OP7)
12. motto☆Hade ni ne!. Tomatsu Haruka (Kannagi OP)
13. PSI-missing. Kawada Mami (ToAru OP)
25. Akashiya Moko Chara Song 1. Mizuki Nana (RosaPan CAPU2)
26. Kemeko Deluxe. Various (Kemeko Deluxe! OP)
28. F.D.D. Ito Kanako (Chaos;HEaD OP)
34. Zettai Otome. SUN&LUNAR (Seto no Hanayome OVA OP)
36. Pre-Parade. Kugimiya Rie, Horie Yui, Kitamura Eri (Toradora OP)
38. bloody Ponyo song. Ossan & little girl
41. Vanilla Salt. Horie Yui (Toradora ED)
42. Aoi Hana. Color Bottle (Casshern Sins OP)
43. GO YOUR OWN WAY. Shizukusa Yumi (Conan ED31)
44. Hyakunen no Kodoku. Garnet Crow (Hokuto no Ken movie)
46. Try Real!. Sakakibara Yui (Fate/Tiger Colosseum Upper theme)
47. Lion. May’n/Nakajima Megumi (Macross F OP3)

Albums
14. THE IDOLM@STER MASTER LIVE ENCORE. Various
17. Nanoha StrikerS Sound Stage X
26. Macross F OST2 Nyan-tora. Kanno Yoko
39. Hetalia Drama CD. Various
48. Blooming Voices. Yukana

Comments
-This is a relatively competitive week where 12 out of the top 15 singles & 17 out of the top 20 albums are new releases.
-Kanjani8 have surely sewn up No.1 spot, crushing Kobukuro in the process.
-Unsurprisingly Sid came out top of all the anime CDs – the former VK band have a sizeable fanbase & I’m sure a lot of fujoshi out there bought it as well. I like the song a lot myself, it reminds me of some of the older VK-ish bands like Pierrot & Janne da Arc.
-Maaya had a pretty good debut as usual, I like the c/w song more than Ame ga Furu actually.
-motto☆Hade ni ne! did better than I expected, so I guess Kannagi is really quite popular after all. I would like to know how many people bought the Kannagi version and how many bought the regular Tomatsu versions though…
-I wish Color Bottle did better, I liked them back in their indie days =_=
-Woah, Yukana is selling well. I’m not a huge fan of her myself but nice to see a seiyuu album breach the top 50 for once.
-Actually, No.7 for MilkyWay is kind of shit. I actually thought that the song is more tolerable than most of the poncey Hello!Project crap but the fact is that they still lost out to a bunch creepy crossdressers.

-Oh yes, I like to traumatise people so watch Yajima Biyoshitsu’s PV above. God, they make me laugh (there’s a sly dig at Ponyo at the end too). Ishibashi (the one with the afro) is sooooooooo stiff xD I like the song though, much more than those shitty Shuchishin ones but too bad they only got to No.5 today.

A brief look at some of the Kannagi cast & staff interview specials out recently.
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I’ve been giving a bunch of radio shows a go over the past week, and jotted down a couple of notes for each as I was listening. Maybe I’ll start covering them more regularly if I do it this way…
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Rumours abound. Anyway, it seems there’s a new character (the one on the bottom right?) for the next Eva movie Evangelion: 2.0 – You Can (Not) Advance. The flyer above also mentions interviews with Miyamura Yuko (voice of Asuka) and Tomatsu Haruka (Nagi in Kannagi etc) so naturally… Tomacchan’s gonna voice that new character, right? I’m told that the new character is Yamagishi Mayumi. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong.

I’m probably the only person on the internet who doesn’t give a shit about Evangelion but if it’s true that Tomatsu’s gonna be in it – my god. How on earth did Sony blag their way to getting her involved with one of the legendary anime franchises. GJ!

On the other hand, I’d be totally amused if it was fake. I’m sort of hoping it is fake, I can foresee a lot of anti-Tomatsu threads popping up pretty soon…

Anyway, off for a short weekend trip (it’s Deepavali holidays here) which I’ll no doubt spend playing Castlevania. See y’all around!

These pictures are from the Shiokaze Hosokyoku~Minato Radio show (for the KimiAru game), which Rie guested on this week – there was a conversation about (female-on-female) sexual harassment More on that and a couple of other radio shows, later.

Anyway, RieRie has had an ‘inflamed throat’ for most of the week which forced her to cancel her usual weekly appearance on Mu-comi with Yoshida Hisanori. They were running the special LoveComu series this week, where a seiyuu is invited onto the show and reads listeners’ love stories live on air, and Rie’s management called in on Tuesday saying that she couldn’t appear because she had lost her voice (Horie Yui ended up subbing for her).

Get well soon, Rie!

Rejoice! Kaneda Tomoko has started a blog. Titled カネトモ地獄。早起きは三文の毒!! (KaneTomo Hell. ‘Getting Up Early’ is a Three-Word Poison!! – sorry for terrible Engrish translation), it’s bright, cheerful and… empty. Nope, there aren’t any posts on it at all =_=

And yet it’s No.2 on Ameba’s blog rankings under the seiyuu category. Certainly, the blog has generated a fair amount of publicity on 2channel and I’m sure we’re all looking forward to whatever shit KaneTomo-sensei puts out. I mean, just look at her damned profile on the page:

趣味：じゃがいも食べ歩き。 [Hobby: Eating potatoes while walking]
特技：鳥のくちばし。[Special Skills: A bird's beak]
自己紹介：ヘリウムガスを吸っても、あまり声が変わりません [Self-intro: Even if I inhaled helium, my voice wouldn't change that much]

Seriously, I have no bloody idea what that is all about. I just know she’s got twenty thousand screws loose in her head and I want to read more of her philosophical ramblings. So hurry up and update the damn thing, you loli-obasan on helium.