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hitomi - Fight for Your Run☆

September 4th, 2008 by 1337rice · 1 Comment · ★★★★½

Fight for Your Run☆, an upbeat song described as “breakbeat meets rock”, is dedicated to all women (from HITOMI LOVE).

LOVE IS BORN ~3rd Anniversary 2006~

August 26th, 2008 by Aprilis · 3 Comments · ★★★★½

To celebrate her third year since her debut, Otsuka Ai held a special concert at Hibiya Yagai Ongaku-Do on September 9, 2006 entitled 【LOVE IS BORN】~3rd Anniversary 2006~. But this was more than an anniversary concert for her, as September 9 was also her 24th birthday and hence the title of the concert “Love is Born”.

Rocket Sneaker / OnexTime

August 5th, 2008 by DJAeon · 5 Comments · ★★★★½

Five months after the under appreciated Pocket was released, a new single Rocket Sneaker/OnexTime was announced.

Ai Otsuka - Pocket

July 9th, 2008 by DJAeon · 1 Comment · ★★★★½

em>Pocket(ポケット/Poketto) was first heard by fans back in 2006 at Ai’s LOVE IS BORN ~3rd Anniversary 2006 tour~, and a year later it was finally been released! “Well, in the beginning, there weren’t any plans to release the song, Pocket” Ai told excite; Pocket appeared on the preliminary tracklist for LOVE PiECE but was later replaced.

Kuu’s ‘Moon’

June 25th, 2008 by DJAeon · 16 Comments · ★★★★½

Most quad a-sides are quite good, when released by Kuu. This single is no exception. To add extra hype, tie-ins with American star, Fergie and Raggae artist, pushim, were announced. As a result, first day sales have surpassed all of Koda’s previous releases of the same type.