Galileo Galilei announced on their website that their new song "Asu e" (To Tomorrow) will be featured as the opening theme song for the upcoming anime series Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. The anime will premiere in Japan on October 9. The CD for the song, the...

Popular female singer-songwriter, YUI - gave a free live street performance in downtown Shanghai, China. Normally security is such in China that a Japanese singer performing on the street is rare but it is "Shanghai Japan Week". There was little notice beforehand of YUI's street performance so only small crowds filter...

ViViD has announced their third single “FAKE” will be officially released on November 9th! "FAKE" had been previously announced as the theme song for the band's love game, “Koi to Shigoto to Kimi no Produce”. Since the game was announced around 60,000 people have signed-up. The game features ViViD members’ voices for their individual characters....

Korean girl group RAINBOW took the stage and performed “A“, their Japanese debut single on today’s episode of Happy MUSIC. With a heavy dose of “kawaii” the girls shared two things that make them “happy”: milk and the debut single. In addition, the members also gave a...

EXILE topped the Oricon charts this week with their latest single, “Rising Sun / Itsuka Kitto...,” selling almost 202,000 copies. This is their 11th number-one single and their 2nd in a row. Morning Musume is a distant #2 and Korean girl group RAINBOW continues the K-pop invasion with their debut Japanese release hitting #3 (a...

K-pop group MBLAQ announced details of their second Japanese single to be titled, “Baby U!” and set for released on October 26th. It had previously been stated that their new single would be used as the next opening theme song for Nippon TV’s anime “Beelzebub”. "Baby U" will be available in four editions: Limited Edition...

2NE1 just started their Japanese debut tour on September 19 at Yokohama Arena. The girls - CL, BOM, DARA, MINZY - will perform just six shows in three cities and it’s predicted that they will bring about 70,000 attendees! With that many projected to see 2NE1 it will significantly surpass Korean group SHINee's debut tour...

[Update - new post with release details and jacket covers] The girls of SCANDAL announced that the band's new single "Harukaze" will be the next opening theme song for anime Bleach starting October 11. This coincides with the anime begining the Shinigami ...

Metal band Maximum the Hormone's song “Black ¥ Power G Men Spy“ which was released in 2007 on their album, “Bu-ikikaesu“, is selected as the opening theme song for upcoming drama “QP”. For the ending theme song, Lenny Kravitz’s song, “Looking Back on Love...

Koda Kumi’s new single, “Ai wo Tomenaide” is set to release on September 21st. The new single will be her 51st single and it will be featured as the theme song to Japanese drama, Second Virgin. The single will come in 3 versions – Type A...

Elisa's concert scheduled for October 2 at the Tokyo Globe-za theater has been cancelled, as well as other future scheduled concerts and events. Elisa's social media, such as her Twitter account, will not be updated while she is on hiatus. Her management agency Smile Company made the announcement on Sunday that singer is...

Manga and anime quartet CLAMP and musician GACKT have combined to bring an original work to life next year. In July 2012, GACKT will star in a theatre play called ‘MOON SAGA Yoshitsune Hiden’ (‘MOON SAGA: The Secret of Yoshitsune’). It’s scheduled to run for one and a half months from July 15th to August...

Aoi Eir will release her debut single “MEMORIA” on October 19th and it will come in three editions, standard, limited, and anime (only one pressing). It will also be featured as the ending theme for upcoming anime “Fate/Zero”, the highly anticipated prequel to “...

School Food Punishment continues their string of anime theme songs with “How to go”, a song that they made with some guidance from director Mizushima Seiji about how to best express the world of “UN-GO”. The song will begin distribution on October 19th via Chaku Uta. "UN-GO" will air starting on...

Standard and limited edition of “nexus” released on September 14th and put ClariS’s third single 5th in Oricon’s daily rankings. The limited edition is packaged in anime illustration digipack and includes a bonus DVD with music video for “nexus”. The single and even ClariS are tied-in with the ninth...

Landing in the #1 spot this past week was J Soul Brothers (3rd Generation) with their first #1 and 4th single, “FIGHTERS.” The song sold over 83,000 copies to beat the latest release from KinKi Kids member Domoto Tsuyoshi. Previous week's #1 "Kazoku ni Narou yo / fighting pose" from Fukuyama...