音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

No doubt, this is probably my first time being kiyo-ed at Haruka seriously.
After the rather dull September, this album for sure exicates me. I just got this album on Friday morning, and since then, I've been keeping the songs on and on and on for 2 days and I can definitely keep going.
My last being-kiyo-ed record should be in this March, when I played KOKIA's "Where to go my love?" for 500+ times. I may not be able to break that record this time, but I did get satisfied.
So, let's bow to shimotsukin haruka for this excellent music! m(_ _)m

What? You don't know what I'm talking about?

2013.10.09, 『レムルローズの魔女 (Remlerose's Witch)』
Official HP: http://www.fwinc.co.jp/music/remle_rose/

At the very first, this album sounds a bit like the old Sound Horizon, but this one is indeed much, much better than even the old Sound Horizon!

Project: Shimotsuki Haruka, Hiyama Nao (The perfect music-story combination!!)
Musicians involved are great too (although I had no idea about who Sakamoto Hideki is... ^^;).

I couldn't recognise Yoshitaka's arrange/compose, but I did get MANYO's track 3 and most of Haruka's composing melody, which made me happy.

While listening to all these songs, even after days, I still keep exclaiming how amazing, gorgeous and perfect the songs are. So if you by chance see me, I'll always be with a blessed face, being drunk in Shimotsukin's marvellous world.

And, I CAN'T pick up my favorite track. They are equally great. So is the connection between every individual song. Tr.1 and Tr.2 bring the opening of story, Tr.3 is a link between "now" and "past". Tr.4 is in an epic-poem style telling, bringing us to the "past", and in Tr.5, it goes back to the normal timeline. Finally, Tr.6 concludes the story while Tr.7 is like a summary.

Then, the booklet is so well-designed. The illustrations triggered my nerve of moe again! But what's behind the illustrations? What's the story about the songs?--Everything is there in the lyrics; it's pretty straightforward comparing with Sound Horizon's written riddles--it doesn't mean I don't like hidden message! However, I'm not digging into the story. You should have fun to derive your own fantasy from the songs while reading the lyrics. If you don't understand Japanese, it's your fault~ :3

Haruka is perfect too! I mean her newest photo, found on Remlerose's HP.

GothLoli Harukaaaa!!!!! <33333333333

Since everything is so perfect, I decided to buy myself a real copy.
....BUT THIS ALBUM IS TOO PERFECT TO ALLOW ME BUYING ONE!
Yesterday evening there were still 17 in stock on amazon, but this morning, when I was going to order it, it says it's out of stock and the next arrival is not set up..
WTH! Σ(ﾟДﾟ；
I can only wait. Hope they get some in future soon. u_u

Another bad news, for some reason, the release of Akiko's Laylania 2013 concert DVD got delayed to next March. Fine, I still have KOKIA's DVD for this winter--haven't got time to watch all of them!

And the jacket of Turaida is out now.

This kind of colour scheme keeps ringing in my head about KAGAYA--especially the background purple-blue sky. Oh well, I shouldn't pick on such things, I'm a fan of KAGAYA. XD
Yet still... the jacket looks a little weird. Something about balancing the front and back colours but I can't explain.
I do perfer her RAKA/Harmonia much more. :P

Also, I'm not used to her short-cut yet (even it's not my first time seeing it). I keep thinking she's Nagi because of the hair! But, on the other hand, she looks perfect with this hairstyle. Because she sang for Saki in A.T.3, who has a quite similar hairstyle. lol
By all means, it's my own feeling that I can't imagine how she actually sings "EXEC_EP=NOVA/." (again, something hard to explain regarding to people's appearance and actions).

Akiko (and Kokia too) will always satisfy us. So I have no worry about what I can listen to for the rest of October and the early November. But I also realised that my extreme love toward Haruka this time masked other nice works released around the same time. So guess I should give the rest of this post to those works.

Kalafina - アレルヤ
Thanks (?!) to Kara no Kyoukai, this song is definitely better than what I expected. I'm happy they didn't sing like a cheap Jpop that even an amateur artist can achieve, although the overall image isn't my favorite "dark song", it's okay, they were sing for a story so they might simply not be able to sing dark. But I'm not saying I like the rest songs. I have totally no comments for "dolce" and I don't like the live versions of "fairytale" (I didn't even try Tr.4 because that song is never in my fav list).
Alright, I'm not leaving. I'll go with you for a little longer anyway, like what I promised before. They'll have another single(?) in November for Madoka's new movie, but I'm not expecting too much for the music/song since I've got my lesson from the previous Madoka movies. I just wish the movie itself being good, the old one is nothing but a shortened TV flow!

Mitsumune Shinkichi - Rozen Maiden Original Soundtrack
That's the person who composed for "Shoujo Kakumei Utena"! I love the strings and piano in this work. I also appreciate that they didn't include the song used in anime this time. However, it would be nice if there are tracks for all dolls that are all under the naming style "roze of xxxxx".
Saying about Rozen Maiden, I haven't even touched the later episodes since I'm now in Detective Conan mode. Maybe I should do a little switch and move the finished stuff to the EHD.

because...

see my miserable hard drive!! XD

Ordered a bit late, while their delivery service was unavailable for about 5 days, I couldn't receive it until today.

No matter how long I wait, KOKIA is just pretty that makes you having nothing to complain.
Although I have the impulse to
So, this post, which was supposed to be written in my "otherworld", is still white. :3

--Nothing to complain, just this time, I'm really a little depressed.

KOKIA - 2013 release - Where to go my love?
Yes, I love them all. But I'd still like to have a few "special" pieces.
So, if not including the one recorded in concert...

HOWEVER!
In this year's concert, two of them were not performed...
Why!??
I want to hear KOKIA singing all my favorite pieces in concert so hard! But seems luck isn't by my side. Anyway, look at the setting list, 8/10 were there, in the same order as shown in the CD; was it hard to arrange the rest two as well? Or KOKIA you have some reason to not sing these two?
I don't understand. u_u
Well, maybe I should say I still have some luck since there is still one of my top 3--guess I'll cry if not (although missing two thirds IS indeed making me want to cry... .__.)

September is toward its end. A dull month with no exciting new releases. The last (and is also the only new) release in this month is Mitsumune Shinkichi's Rozen Maiden 2013 OST, released on 9.23. Rozen Maiden is probably the most well-drawn anime in this season (yet it's one of the only two animes I'm following ^^;). The previous OSTs are not bad (not as good as Shoujo Kakumei UTENA), so I believe this one will be good too. Right now, solely from watching the anime, I haven't felt any piece of melody sounds especially beautiful, but there should be some impressive pieces so I'll keep a copy that will be the only entry in 2013 September (Ahh, never mind what I'm writing here, I just realised there is nothing in November yet!).

Then, I've said before, in early October, Haruka's new release will definitely be my love (I wish?! xD), a few days before Haruka, I'll be nervous about Kalafina's new single. And right after these two releases, it's this year's biggest (?) impact: you know, Akiko Shikata's first concert DVD plus her fourth (of course it's not the real 4th) album (by some reason, this way of counting someone's album is silly)--Well, the first is much, much more important.

-- We know that Akiko sings so well in concert that the quality can compete with recording in a studio, do you think this Akiko will also be the same? :P

Saturday evening, the happiest moment of the whole week--especially when it's getting cold. After taking a shower, stay snug and warm, and enjoy some exciting murder scenes.
In fact, I've been in Detective Conan (D/C) mode since 3 weeks ago.
Although stalled for quite a while due to Kogoro's cast voice got changed, I decided to resume during the summer. One of the earliest animes I ever loved, and one that connected me to several nice GIZA artists. --And it indeed does have its long-and-well-being. Being not a simple daily-life-cuts styled work, it does have its main story and, how many years it have been since its first on air in 1996 (I can only talk about the anime since I'm never a manga girl)?
1996, I was merely in the fourth grade, GARNET CROW (GC) hadn't started and KOKIA didn't debut... yet magically they are still trapped at that time, now in 2013, in which GC arrived their terminus and KOKIA had her 15th anniversary!
Anyway, I'll remember to pray for this anime ends peacefully without any other disruption (it hurts when someone "changes" his/her voice by any reason!).

So, after some nostalgic memories, I'll show my big thanks to my dear laptop. I've kept it on for almost two weeks without even turn it to sleep--Because I was passionate about getting a complete copy of all D/C animes on my hard drive.
At first I thought it would be super hard unless you buy its DVD releases, but there are just that many Conan fans and nice people who're happy to share.
A total of 152GB including all ep's from 1997 to 2011 plus movies and OVAs and magic files. WHAT A MONSTER! This delicious sweet thus locked my laptop for two weeks. I didn't even dare to run some heavy-duty programs or I might harm the system. ^^; And don't ask for too much, you can always find out the most recent releases. :3
Another thing I know is I won't be bored for this xmas. I was on J-horror mode for last year's winter season, it's time to switch (I'm actually out of J-horror movie stock, what I have left is only Silent Hill 4: The Room, which is J-horror, but isn't a movie. And someone suggested me trying Hard Action Mode, without knowing how bad I'm at action games!).

Now I'm wondering when I'll be able to catch up the only two animes I'm following "Monogatari 2nd" and "Rozen Maiden". The latter is probably the most gorgeous anime among this season. However, I'm NEVER a fan of Shinku the standard tsundere. Tanaka Rie Suigintou is my choice! (´∀｀)
As of it. Seems I don't really dislike tsundere people. What I don't like is twin-tail plus this personality => the stereotype. --Did I ever mentioned I'd go to Chroche route first if I have a chance to play Ar Tonelico 2 (the best one among A.T. games)? XD

Enough about D/C, now lemme change my gear.

About 10 days ago, when I was ordering KOKIA's newest concert DVD.
Even though they said they support international shipment, I couldn't do it due to their destination form was designed for Japanese addresses. But on that day, I re-checked their faq section.
"For international shipping, we use tenso.com."
...
I was such a fool who did't see that! Σ(ﾟДﾟ；
At least now I know it...

Till now I've been giving my working email address to 5*24+20 people in total, but none of them recognise it, which confirms that neither KOKIA nor Ar Tonelico is really popular here. ゜д゜)・・・
It did turn me a little bit down.
However, out of this many of people, there are two told me that they felt the email address is cool.
Fine, I know they know nothing more about this, so I told them that is a song.
If they are curious enough, they may youtube it, though I guess they'll never do it.
The world I'm living is for sure different from theirs!

Finally, probably because I watched too much D/C, I was getting interested in Okonomiyaki.

↑ My first trying, isn't bad!
I've never known that cabbage can be so delicious! (･∀･#)