Arashi ranks 1st and 2nd places on Oricon’s 41st annual sales

by Fiona

Oricon had announced the results for their yearly sales ranking today and Arashi takes first and second places on the chart.

Omedetou Arashi!!! *excited* Such subarash sales for their singles:

  • Truth/Kaze no Mukou e with 618,000 copies sold
  • One Love with 524,000 sold

They are the five artist to dominate both!!! So proud of them!! This calls for a special celebration, cake and champaign anyone?

Also, a notable mention that Arashi ranked 5th and 12th places as well, this is for Beautiful days and Step and Go, respectively.

The Yama pair went to receive the award:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdfAMkI-aWo

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Nodame Cantabile – Two more live-action movies to be filmed

by Fiona

I am sooo ecstatic, not one, but two live-action movies will be released in 2010. Am I reading this right, (**double checks the article again and grins lol)? I haven’t seen Tamaki-kun and Juri-chan in a while, especially adore their pairing as Chiaiki-sama and Nodame. Cannot wait to see this!

I know that the live-action was highly anticipate, however, sequels usually are not filmed until years later. Since the two-night TV special was only aired in January of this year, my prediction was another release in three or four years. Who would have thought? *excited* This is certainly a marvelous surprise!!

This year’s 24th issue of Kodansha‘s Kiss magazine has announced on Wednesday that two live-action films based on Tomoko Ninomiya‘s Nodame Cantabile musical romance manga have been green-lit for 2010. The two movies will continue the story of the 2006 live-action television drama series and this year’s two-part Nodame Cantabile Shinshun Special in Europe television special (pictured at right). Specifically, it will continue the Paris chapter of two budding musicians  who met each other as a student-teacher pair in Japan. Juri Ueno (live-action Young Kindaichi Case Files, Kodomo no Kodomo, Warau Michael) and Hiroshi Tamaki (MW‘s Michio Yūki, GTO drama guest star) will reprise their respective roles as Nodame and Chiaki. The first film will open in January 2010, while the second film will open later in the spring of 2010.

A sequel to the ongoing Nodame Cantabile: Paris anime series has been announced for fall 2009 in the latest issue of Animage magazine on Wednesday. Ninomiya has been drawing the original manga version runs in Kiss magazine, although she has taken a break to give birth to a son. Del Rey published the 15th volume of the original manga in North America last month.

Source: Anime News Network

Also, congrats to Ninomiya-sensei on becoming a mother!

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Takeuchi Mariya – Another Jewel of Japan

by Fiona

A few months ago, I had stumble upon the beautiful voice of Takeuchi Mariya (竹内 まりや) while watching Around 40, which had starred Amami Yuki and Fujiki Naohito. Shiawase no Monosashi was featured as the theme song to this romantic comedy drama. It was such a pretty and catchy song that it become an instant favorite of mine. As always, I went searching for more of her songs.

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It appears that she has quite an impressive resume as a singer-songwriter, and was very popular in the last 1970’s and 1980’s. Now-in-days, her songs can be found within the folk songs genre.

To the present, Takeuchi-san have released 11 studio albums, 35 singles, several compilations, and a live album which was recorded in 2000. Its sales have estimated more than 15 million units. In particular, her 1994 compilation Impressions was sold more than 3 million copies in Japan only, and became the best-selling album for her. Source: Wikipedia

Besides Shiawase no Monosashi, my other favorites include Genki wo Dashite, Chance no Maegami, EKI, Un Buco Nella Sabbia and a few more.

Somehow, Takeuchi-san reminds me of the infamous Teresa Tang (鄧麗君), very popular and influential Chinese pop singer. This is probably due to similar song genres, singing styles and period when they were most popular. Just my two cent though.

Chance no Maegami – Themesong to Around 40 starring Amami Yuki
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfx99RSirTQ

Genki wo Dashite
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsJTYcoBwVc

Official Website: フレームに対応したブラウザでご覧ください

Special 30th Anniversary Tribute to Takeuchi Mariya
http://wmg.jp/mariya/

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