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REIRA starring YUNA ITO - ENDLESS STORY

October 8th, 2005 by Rinoa · 24 Comments · ★★★★★

Yuna Ito, a new artist in the Japanese entertainment scene, debuts with “ENDLESS STORY”, an excellent single full of emotions and hopes for the future for this upcoming artist.

Ai Otsuka - Planetarium

October 7th, 2005 by eyn · 72 Comments · ★★★★½

Ai Otsuka’s 10th single, “Planetarium”, was released on 2005.09.21. “Planetarium” gained the first place on the Oricon daily single charts on its first day of release. This single also managed to achieve the top position on the Oricon weekly single charts, having more than 121,000 copies sold so far. This is Ai’s first ballad single that has achieved such excellent results, which is quite a feat.

flashback to “heavenly”

September 27th, 2005 by Leanne · 6 Comments · ★★★★½

The album “heavenly” by L’Arc~en~Ciel is oft abandoned by new fans. It doesn’t maintain the importance that “Tierra” had as their debut, nor is it distinguished as being a million seller as with the band’s first #1 junior effort “True”. It’s the middle child of the sakura-era albums that’s lacking much needed attention and needs to be recognized. Let’s see how this much forgotten album fares…

Ai Otsuka - LOVE PUNCH

September 18th, 2005 by eyn · 13 Comments · ★★★★☆

LOVE PUNCH, Ai Otsuka’s debut album, was released on 2004.03.31. This album debuted at #3 on the Oricon album chart, which is an impressive feat considering that she had only been in the industry for 6 months, and was also facing strong competition from more experienced artists such as L’Arc~en~Ciel and Utada Hikaru…

HEAVEN

September 16th, 2005 by Rinoa · 11 Comments · ★★★★★

Ayumi Hamasaki’s 37th single “HEAVEN” was recently released on the 14th September 2005. Apart from being Ayumi Hamasaki’s 3rd single for this year, it is also the theme song for the highly anticipated movie “SHINOBI -heart under blade-”.