6 posts tagged “shiina ringo”

VARIETY IS OUT!!!!

*downloads*

(I really should buy some of her CDs... why doesn't Recohan have any?!?! ;-; )

OMG~!  Thanks to Ringo Catalogue again for posting.

<33  I CAN'T WAIT!!  AGGGGH!
(Translations by me... <33)

    01 Ramp (ランプ)
    02 Mirror Ball (ミラーボール)
    03 Kingyo no Hako (金魚の箱) [Goldfish Box]
    04 Shiseikatsu (私生活) [Private Life]
    05 OSCA
    06 Kronekodow (黒猫道) [Kanji: Kuro-neko-dou... Black Cat Road]
    07 Fukushu (復讐) [Revenge]
    08 Botomin (某都民) [Kanji: Bou-to-min... A Certain Metropolis Nation?]
    09 SSAW
    10 Tsukigime hime (月極姫) [Monthly Princess]
    11 Sake to Geko (酒と下戸) [Sake and the Non-drinker]
    12 Killer Tune (キラーチューン)
    13 Metro (メトロ)

Hey, isn't Kronekodow the name of that one site?
http://www.kronekodow.com/
...

[edit]
I was looking at the Ringo profile on RC, and Kronekodow is apparently her "trademark symbol".  I had seen it around recently but never knew what it was.  The last kanji is different, though - 黒猫堂.  RC translates it as "The Magnificent Cat" which I think works... maybe that's what Ringo calls it in English.  But if you translate all the kanji, it would say "The Magnificent Black Cat"... not a big difference really

Kronekodow

(pic stolen from RC >.>)

you know, I kind of feel like I want to blog more about Shiina Ringo.  I've been loving her a lot recently.  So, I think I'll start RIGHT NOW.

The Ringo-hime has got a new single coming out on August 22 with Tokyo Jihen.  It's called "Killer Tune", and I love it to death.  It's crazy catchy, and the video is fun too... see for yourself.

Here's the tracklist & credits from RINGO CATALOGUE:

01 Killer Tune (キラーチューン)
Lyrics: Shiina Ringo
Music: Izawa Ichiyou

02 BB.QUEEN
Lyrics & Music: Ukigumo

03 Karada (体)
Lyrics: Shiina Ringo
Music: Ukigumo

There's also a new album coming out from them, too.  "VARIETY" is released on September 26, a month after the single.  I'm more a Ringo fan than a Jihen fan, but this new song makes me very excited for the new album.  Oooh, I can't wait~~!!

My favorite shiinaringo.se says this about the album:

The name will be "Variety" (バラエティ), or written 娯楽 with kanji which normally reads Goraku, meaning pleasure/amusement. The album includes thirteen songs and will be released September 26, 2007.

It has been noted on some websites, including  this page at Tower Records, that the running theme of Tokyo Jihen's albums has been television genres, rather than stages of life.

Kyouiku represented children's television, which relates to the title, as well as the simple, illustrative design of the cover, and the Tokyo Incidents Vol.1 cover.

ADULT represented, as the title suggests, the adult television genre. The theme was represented through the suggestive, provocative covers of the album, as well as the Shuraba single cover, the ADULT VIDEO cover and the Just Can't Help It cover.

The theme for the upcoming album VARIETY is obviously variety TV. So far, this relates to the overall television theme, and the shared songwriting efforts of the band.

oops, changed my layout again!

brown for fall!

shiina ringo for love!

"innocence moratorium"!  I don't wanna grow up!!

that's how long it's been since I've updated.  WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?

I guess I just haven't had anything to blog about over the summer.  I'm so sorry.  (who am I apologizing to, anyway?)

I made a new banner today but it won't upload right now.  Dang you, Vox!  :(  I guess my old one will have to do.

Let's see...... I guess I should give an update of my life, since I haven't in forever.  Though, it feels like I don't have anything to update on.  I've been working and sleeping, pretty much.  And being on the computer a lot.

さくらん 特別版

I just saw the movie Sakuran yesterday.  Tsuchiya Anna is in it and Shiina Ringo did the music.  I probably died, it was so amazing.  Not only is the combo AWESOME, the movie ruled beyond belief.  I think that maybe at some point I got confused with some of the flashbacks, but I'm not entirely sure.  I was just too in love.  You know who else is in it?  Narimiya Hiroki!!  I was really excited to discover this.  At first I read it wrong and thought he was the character Seiji, but then I looked again - he was Soujirou.  I was a bad fangirl, though - I didn't realize it was him.  He seemed familiar (and extremely hot), but those damn top-knot hairstyles throw me off.

In other Japanese entertainment news, I've also been watching Yamada Tarou Monogatari and Hanazakari no Kimi-tachi e ~Ikemen Paradise~ (aka Hana Kimi).  I love them both.    Yamada Tarou has Sakurai Sho and my beloved Ninomiya Kazunari in it <33  double-time ARASHI!!  And as bad as I feel for my MatsuJun (I was baited), I am loving Nino more and more.  (as a side note, I'm starting to like Leader more too... <3333)

Anyway, beyond Nino and Sho, the drama is so much fun.  I laugh a lot at it, and my favorite character is the nervous homeroom teacher.  I also like the principal.  He was the grandfather in Gokusen!  He's such a sweet-looking ojii.  (Wow!  He was born in 1931!)

As for Hana Kimi, it took me a bit to enjoy it.  I never read the manga, so I didn't have that connection like I did with Hana Yori Dango.  In fact, if it wasn't for Oguri Shun, I probably wouldn't have kept up with it.  But, after the first episode it got better.  Now I'm in love with it. 

I do feel bad that I haven't watched Bambino! at all.  MatsuJun got an award for it.  -_-;; I feel like a bad fangirl.  Italian is my favorite style of food, too!  What better combination?!  I'll have to watch it after this season of drama ends.  Yamada Tarou and Hana Kimi are 11 episodes each, you know.

In normal life news, I'm going back to school next week!  Hooray~~!!!  I leave to move in on the 17th.  Holy CRAP, I can't wait.  Don't get me wrong, I love my family.  But I'm definitely ready to go back.  Ha! Ha! Ha!  (too much Harvey Birdman, lately...)

There's a week before we actually start classes, though.  So I think I'll be going on a road trip with some of my college friends for a few days then.  Seems like Kansas City and Worlds of Fun is the destination of choice.  Woohoo!  Roller coasters!  Twice in one summer!!

Unrelated, I'm kind of sort of working for Ochibi-chan Scanlations now.  They do the scanlations for the manga Lovely Complex, which I believe I mentioned in a post before.  The entire series has been released in Japan, but they're only on volume 8 of 16 scanlation-wise.  Their translator had disappeared for a while, I guess, and so they were SOL for a while.  I offered my (weak) services and they took it up.  I did the first chapter of volume 9 as a test, and it seemed to go over pretty well... now I have chapter 2 to finish up.  I'll be working on it after this, actually.

So, uh, if you happen to read LC from them... sorry if there are any mistakes.

Okay, I'm bored of typing now.  Besides, this post has gotten really super long.  I'm outta here.

so Ringo-hime has two new singles that came out today.  I watched the PVs to see what they sounded like...and, well, they're interesting.