I'm mean, obviously I'm the BBS fan. Literally. That archetype is inspired on real life persons. Person. Me.

It's not a logical jump to equate sales with future production values, but with so many people moving to digital sales, Oricon is becoming an easier target. Does any service keep track of digital sales like Rekochoku or Chakauta?

[quote="yuzuriha"] I am the type of fan that cringed at a lot of her pronunciation.  Does that make me a weeaboo?   AIRY PAWN.  I CAN'T WAIT FOR AIRY PAWN TO GET A PHOTOBOOK GUYS.  AND EVERYTHING IS SOONKOOS FAULT OK.   I'd say I'm an old fan except old fans accepted 12 year old in the gro...

Whose brilliant idea was that phrase? They're still auditioning for another new girl!

Maybe releasing the week after AKB is sandbagging from management. Three #1s in a row is a tough sell and MM could lose steam real quick. If they can't make #1, they were just stuck in the wake from an AKB single, and if they get #1, they triumphed over the reigning idol master group for a brief mom...

(Spoiler zone!) Wow, a two parter! I don't like how they kept Makoto's water thing so fuzzy, but we need some deep heart to hearts next week. I'm a little too splashed for the normal rigmarole, but I thought the new episode was a little too slow to get to the meat (the island) and didn't give us eno...

Probably some of the recent shows are 4K. 1080 HD would've most likely been through an HDV solution from mid-00s on. Some googling also shows HDCAM as a tape solution since 1997. The cost between contracting a future-proofed HD solution and an SD solution probably wasn't too high, especially given t...

The new episode of Free! should be going online today/tonight. We should be headed straight for a race, right? We don't need to see the minutia of swimming practice, so hopefully we skip some time.   [quote="Al Kusanagi"] You can keep watching your nekkid dudes. <a href="https://www.y...

So, I know this is a double A-side, but it Wagamama the lead single like Brainstorming? Thinking about it, Wagamama is the catchier song, has the more expensive PV, and is now first billing on the covers. The release of the Gundan PV first threw me off this whole time...

Reminder/notice that this weeks episode has been delayed due to some sort of swimming event in Japan and will return next week, so you have plenty of time to catch up or start fresh. How about a Most <del>Valuable</del>Useless Ship of the Week? There have been big returns on Nagisa-Rei in the show's...

Watching the Wagamama PV has endeared me to it a lot more. The theater is marginally better than a sound stage and I think the lighting is actually pretty killer compared to the recent bout with green skin. It also feels like there's a silver lining in such a ho hum setting; the editing has to be a ...

[quote="Anderei"] Morning Musume were on FNS:   <div>M6 Help me!! モーニング娘。</div> <div>M7 LOVEマシーン (1999) モーニング娘。</div> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AcolhtF9b2E">M49 風になりたい (1995/THE BOOM) 宮沢和史×E-girls×乃木坂46×モーニング娘。×ももいろクローバーZ </a>   http://i....

[quote="Shoujo Q"] Morning Musume sang Help Me and Love Machine on the FNS special, <a href="http://youtu.be/IuLaHKli9YQ">watch it now before it disappears! </a>   I love the part at 0:56 when Sayumi sounds just like Riho. I guess her mic died? xD [/quote]   That was awesome! Oh ...

Oh my god, I've seen Jumper on DVD and never noticed that they were there... Did he even go to Japan? I thought that movie mostly took place in bank vaults and Egypt. It wasn't a great movie, but I would definitely turn it on to find those songs.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="showraniy" data-cid="159001" data-time="1375151566"><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="neshcom" data-cid="158993" data-time="1375150384"> Better than Kimi Sae an...

Better than Kimi Sae and I'm glad they finally got some angle work going on, but it's wasted on the idea of them performing to an empty theater and also performing backwards to an empty theater. At least the song is good. They keep doing that standing tall, body straight forward, marching into next ...

Ah, I just meant pissed Haru off the day of the relay. Yeah, he was definitely depressed that he killed Rin's motivation. Rin is definitely still angry.

Episode 4 spoilers/discussion~   What happened to the indoor swimming membership plot line that got planted last week? Seems like I misunderstand why that was even a thing, though I suspect it was just a reason to reiterate the need for four swimmers. Per my predictions, I was WAY off. No new charac...

Episode 4 "Captive Butterfly" is now live on Crunchyroll. Make some predictions before you watch! I don't remember the preview from last week, but they do need to address the whole Ryu swimming thing, so... I'm guessing 1 totally new character and 4 kirakira/dramatic shirtless men shots. A...

How does that skeleton tattoo <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQb4bMI ... r-model</a> guy keep getting work? Also, I'm sorry, was that a damn lightsaber and Admiral Ackbar?

Welp, so much for the #1 string. The chorus is nice, but ends very weakly and the verses and instrumental sections are just bleh. The horns could have been okay if it wasn't mixed with that faux-Skrillex vocal editing and half-beat. Either way, both are pretty much ignored for the chorus anyway. I t...

Ho my gay. So, I'll talk about Dynasty Warriors 8 and Yakuza 4 when I've spent more time with them, but I need to tell you about the temptress called Time & Eternity . This is a turd wrapped in fantastic cover art and marketing, but do not be fooled. You play an hero who is about to marry his pr...

Finally got to see episode three. I put some beautiful, spoiler-filled screencaps on imgur: <a href="http://imgur.com/a/2rR2Q">http://imgur.com/a/2rR2Q</a> So, we only got one new character introduced, but there was a lot of shirtless ogling and "beautiful" was mentioned dozens o...

I haven't seen episode 3 yet (keep the pace! don't hit the wall!), but anyone want to do another over-under? It's pretty clear we'll be getting Megane added to the cast proper, so how about the over-under on new characters making an appearance? Last week had a number of them like Megane and Cleavage...

[quote="Kalle"] Also god I am so sick of double A-sides, literally everyone but Juice=Juice has had one at this point and I'm like STOP. [/quote]   Wait, why? Two PVs, two songs to feature on TV, reduced chance of a crap lead song. The only downside I could think of is a more stretched pro...

(OMG THE NEW BOARD HAS AUTO SAVE AND SAVED THIS FROM DISAPPEARING TWICE IN THE AETHER OF THE DIGITAL AFTERLIFE ILU BBS NEW.0) Okay, album review of Namie Amuro's new album, FEEL .    Alive is the starting track and, considered in the context of the next few tracks, it works best as an album opener. ...

Makoto's big and gentle, so maybe a whale or manatee? Maybe a sea lion? Makes me wonder what Megane's animal is... 

(Spoilers below) Your #1 was just being shirtless, but still definitely service-y. My favorite shot was definitely during the montage and the three are looking at the crack and Shota is just on the bottom of the frame peeking up to see it. That and the art club shot. It's interesting that Haru is al...

Namie said in an interview that, since many of the producers are foreign (like, Zedd produced <del>Heabun</del>Heaven), the original demos were in English. During the production process, there were a lot of instances where the translations wouldn't flow and harmonize as well as the English. Would ex...

I couldn't find a dedicated thread (I thought I just put it in here), but Namie Amuro's new album "FEEL" is out now! Day one of sales came to 111,458, well trumping the next place album of ~60,000 and is a safe bet for this week's #1. The album has leaked online, but I'm waiting for my phy...