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JYONGRI - Love Forever

July 2nd, 2008 by 1337rice · 4 Comments · ★★★★☆

About a month ago, JYONGRI released her 5th single, Unchanging Love ~Kimi ga Ireba~. Today, she releases her 2nd album called Love Forever. It currently sits at #13 on the ranking chart.

Shinku/Ai no Uta

September 30th, 2007 by Rinoa · 13 Comments · ★★★★☆

“Shinku/Ai no Uta” is Hitomi Shimatani’s 26th single, with a tie-in with “Another Century’s Episode 3: THE FINAL”…

Garnet Moon/Inori

April 16th, 2007 by Rinoa · 1 Comment · ★★★★½

Garnet Moon was Hitomi Shimatani’s 17th single. It was a continuation of the overall mature-sexy image from 2004. avex wanted to ensure that this single would be fairly popular with the audience by attempting to target this single towards the young adult audience.

real Emotion / 1000 no Kotoba

March 5th, 2007 by Rinoa · 16 Comments · ★★★½☆

Koda Kumi’s first success was the Final Fantasy X-2 single, “real Emotion / 1000 no Kotoba”, which was just the beginning of Koda’s rise to success.

Ultra Blue

August 27th, 2006 by tomba · 26 Comments · ★★★★☆

Utada’s 4th original Japanese album “Ultra Blue” topped the charts but only sold a modest amount. Released 4 years after her last effots, “Ultra Blue” shows a large development musically for Utada.