We are just having fun reviewing and discussing comic books, graphic novels, manga, anime/animation, music and movies that we have recently read, listened to or watched.
Just found these ads for Toyota Corolla that features the Virtual Idol Hatsune Miku. Your patrons that like JPop, Anime and Manga will be interested in these ads. I’m going to try and keep up with these, but I know I’m coming to the game a little late so the next few times I make posts might have Toyota Ads until I catch up with the storyline. The video below comes from Toyota’s YouTube page.
X Japan’s new single “Jade” will be released on June 28th for North American, European, and Latin American markets in digital format. Let your patrons that enjoy JPop know so they can plan to download “Jade” as soon as it’s available.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-06-14/x-japan-single-jade-launches-worldwide-june-28
L’Arc~en~Ciel will be having a world tour in 2012 and one of their stops will be in New York. Other stops will include Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Bangkok, London and Paris. If your patrons are into JPop let them know about the tour and dates will be forthcoming when they become available. Thanks to AnimeNews Network’s site for the early heads up though.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-05-29/larc-en-ciel-to-hold-world-tour-in-8-cities-in-2012
Let your patrons that like JPop know that Sony is releasing Flow’s album Flow Anime Best and supercell’s single “The World is Mine feat. Hatsune Miku” through Amazon and iTunes this week. For the full article and pricing follow the link to AnimeNews Network.
AnimeNews Network’s site, linked below, reports that the JPop band Perfume will have one of their songs in the movie and on the album of Disney and Pixar’s Cars 2. Perfume will be heard singing the song “Polyrhythm” at a party the night before the Grand Prix’s World Race race in Japan. Librarians be sure to let your JPop fans know about this so they can listen for it during the movie.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-05-09/pixar-cars-2-uses-j-pop-perfume-song-worldwide
AnimeNews Network’s site, linked below, has announced that the Japanese Band Sadie will be the music guest of honor for the Japanese Pop Culture Convention AM2, July 1-3. Librarians, in the Anaheim California area, can pass this along to their patrons that enjoy JPop and other Japanese music.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-05-06/california-am2-to-host-visual-kei-band-sadie
Librarians in the Illinois area and Northern California area need to relay this information to their patrons that like JPop. The group Flow will be performing at the Anime Central convention in Illinois, on May 20th, and again over the May 27-30 weekend, at the FanimeCon 2011 MusicFest. Watch the bands two announcements below.
The following songs are from Anime News Networks’s site that were issued by Sphere and Yoko Kanno and posted on YubTube, for the Earthquake and Tsunami victims. Follow the links below to the actual article as well as audio to listen to the songs or listen to them below.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-03-14/sphere-milky-holmes-support-quake-victims-in-words-song
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-03-13/yoko-kanno-posts-song-to-support-quake-victims
Attention all J-Pop fans mark your calendars. All librarians that have J-Pop fans in the following areas let your patrons know about Girugamesh’s U.S. performances. After the bands Anime Boston performances April 22-24, the band will perform in the following three cities: April 25 – Philadelphia, PA; April 26 – New York City, NY; and April 27 – Springfield, VA. Linked below is the link to the short article.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-04/girugamesh-to-perform-in-philadelphia-nyc-virginia
All you Massachusetts librarians that have anime and JPop patrons need to direct them to the link below. Anime Boston convention, April 22-24, will have Stereopony, an all girl JPop band will be performing.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-09/anime-boston-to-host-female-rock-band-stereopony