Trailer for Kokuhaku Jikko Iinkai Renai Series

Honeyworks

The first anime film project from Honeyworks’ is being released this week in Japan, entitled Kokuhaku Jikko Iinkai Renai Series.  Honeyworks’ is a vocaliod song project that consists of composors Gom & shito, guitarist Oji, illustrators Mogeratta & Rokuru, video productionist ziro, keyboardest cake and drummer AtsuyuK.  Their first anime film project is I’ve Always Liked You: Confession Executive Committee that is based around the singles “Kokuhaku Yoko Renshu” (Confession Rehearsal), “Hatsuki no Ethon” (The Picture Book of the First Love) and “Yokimochi no Kotai” (The Answer to Jealousy).  This looks to be an interesting project and with Aniplex backing it hopefully we will see it distributed in the North American market.  Thanks to AnimeNews Network, Dennis R., and the film’s official website, Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita and DailyMotion, for the following trailer:

Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita ~Kokuhaku Jikkou… by pKjd

Sakura no Ame Trailer

sakura

Sakura no Ame is set to open on March 5 in Japan.  It was inspired by vocaloid composer halyosy’s song of the same name.  Hopefully this is one that a distributor will pick up for a Blu-ray release for the North American region.  Thanks to the movies YouTube channel for the trailer:

New Weiss Schwarz Expansion Set

bushyroad

Bushiroad is giving TCG fans a new expansion set after the New Year.  The expansion set will be for the Weiss Schwarz TCG that will feature the vocaloid Hatsune Miku for the second time.  The set will be called Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd.  The set will be comprised of 116 cards and 39 parallels and will be available February 6, 2015.

Sega streams Hatsune’s “Decorator”

Sega is streaming the theme song video “Decorator”, by livetune, to it’s Hatsune Miku-Project DIVA-F 2nd, on it’s YouTube channel for the game.  “Decorator” will be released as a single on March 5.  Sega also stated that the game for PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 has been delayed from it’s March 6, release to a March 27 release.  Enjoy the music video below.

Bushiroad gets Miku

Here’s one that might have some cross over appeal.  Bushiroad is adding to it’s Weiss Schwarz trading card game with the set entitled Hatsune Miku Project Diva f.  This will appeal to your CCG collectors, Hatsune Miku fans, and J-Pop fans.  The set will have 100 cards and has a planned release date of November 1.  The set will include gold foil chase cards and autographed cards by Saki Fujita, who voiced the vocaloid.  The set will be sold in Trail Decks and Booster Packs.  However, for the collectors that want the whole set seven of the cards are exclusive only in the Trail Decks, so you will need to get a Trail Deck no matter what for you gaming collection.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/26637.html

Mushibugyo Character Songs Streamed

The Avex music label has begun streaming two dance music videos for Mushibugyo’s upcoming character song singles.  The characters spotlighted in the singles will be Haru and Hibachi.  The internet Idol Kozue Aikawa cosplays as the two characters in the music videos below.  Haru’s song, “Haru Ooh Lala – Momorarura”, which is the first video, is sung by Satomi Akesaka.  The Hibachi song is “Gekijo Paramoia” sung by Rumi Okubo.  Both songs were composed, arranged and written by vocaloid song artist samfree.  Thanks to AnimeNews Network for the notice and videos:

Hatsune Miku’s “Tell Your World” iTunes Release

iTunes has added Hatsune Miku’s “Tell Your World” to their catalog and will be able to download on March 20, from the vocaloid’s album Re:Dial.  The original song was wrote, scored, and arranged by composer kz.  So if your fans of Hatsune remember to download the song, by marking your calendar.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-03-11/hatsune-miku-tell-your-world-song-gets-english-release-on-itunes

 

Hatsune Miku’s latest Music Video Teased and Concert Video

 

The Vocaloid Hatsune Miku’s newest song “Redial” music video has been released as a teaser by Livetune.  The music video was directed by Takashi Murakami.  The album Re:Dail that the song is featured on will be released March 20 for 2,5oo yen and a CD/DVD limited version will be released for 3,500 yen.  Also the Hatsune official YouTube channel has posted a roughly six minute video from the Sapporo Snow Festival for 2013.  The song ‘Senbonzakura” is featured in the video and then their is a short interview with Crypton Future Media’s CEO Hiroyuki Itoh.  Thanks to AnimeNews Network for the heads up and if you’re a fan of Hatsune be sure to watch these two short videos or if you are not sure what a vocaloid is check out the concert video the vocaloids are very cool.

“Redial” Teaser

Sapporo Snow Festival 2013 Video

Opening for PSP Rhythm Game

Thanks to AnimeNews Network for alerting us of Asgard’s ParaPhray development division’s streaming of the opening movie from Megpoid the music PSP rhythm game based on the Megapoid Vocaloid voice synthesis software.  In the video Megpoid’s mascot girl, Gumi, dances to Hiroyuki Maezawa’s song “Maybe Maybe”.