PARTY! PARTY! -Translation-

Well since I thought it was pretty awesome that Nana released a song called PARTY! PARTY! in honor of my birthday (which was today), I thought I'd celebrate by trying to translate it (Blacky, maybe you can have your friend check if I did a good enough job xD). Anyways, I think PARTY! PARTY! will now be my official birthday song every year! Haha even my mom got into it today when we were listening to it in the car..

TIME SPACE EP

FINALLY I have heard all the songs! And I am quite happy! \o/ Really needed something like this right now. Nana is always thinking of my best. <3

So yeah anyway, since I've already talked about [METRO BAROQUE] and [ONE] before, I will focus on 時空サファイア (=Jikū Safaia) and PARTY! PARTY! in this entry. So... let's get to it!

METRO BAROQUE PV in Full~

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! (<- I said that in similar fashion as Nana in Zankou no Gaia) I have been so eagerly waiting for the full version after the amazing preview came out and finally it's here! I was going to post this entry yesterday, but due to an excessive amount of morning shifts at work I couldn't stay awake and had to succumb to sleep. But here it is now! Enjoy my rambling after the PV itself (and of course, enjoy the PV).

28th single and some other things!

So Nana has now announced her 28th single!

It will be released on the 1st of August (why so late?! ; ;) and will include the theme song and insert song for Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha THE MOVIE 2nd A's, and also the theme song for Dog Days'. I was really hoping for a double release, one for Nanoha and one for Dog Days (kind of like she did with POP MASTER and SCARLET KNIGHT), but I am happy with one release too. I bet it's gonna be a really amazing single considering what Nana has said about the Nanoha theme song and if the Dog Days' song follows in the footsteps of SCARLET KNIGHT's epicness (I don't even know why I said if, of course it'll be epic). Looking forward to hearing the names of these new songs and then of course hearing the actual songs too! Not to mention seeing the Nanoha theme song's PV. According to Nana it's like a trip into the world of the movie and she started crying while singing the song. I really love and admire how everything means so much to her. <3

ONE

Okay so, I am trying to write more often like I said I would...  so to follow my METRO BAROQUE entry, here is one about, well, ONE! I was really itching to hear a longer version of this, since the very short preview that was available before was really pretty and the lyrics really moved me.

Needless to say that when I heard the longer version, I really liked it. There's one part of ONE that is really interesting with all those random noises in the background, makes me feel like they depict memories and I actually think that part of their purpose is to awaken memories of the listener too. Like the clink of a swing (well that's what it sounds like to me anyway), does give me quite a nice nostalgic feeling. Also, I think it's pretty great how at first glance all these songs on TIME SPACE EP seem very different and like a pretty mixed bunch, but when you sit down and have a proper listen, they do seem to fit together. There is something that connects them all together, just can't quite put my finger on what it is though. Maybe the piano?  Well in any case, I can't say anything about PARTY! PARTY! yet since I haven't heard it, but I am sure it will fit along with the rest too. This is Nana we're talking about after all!

Also, before I end this post - have you seen the Blood C The Last Dark trailer that has METRO BAROQUE on it? Yes? No? Maybe so? Well, here it is just in case:
[Blood C The Last Dark - METRO BAROQUE trailer]

METRO BAROQUE

Yes! Finally got to hear METRO BAROQUE last night after I came home - definitely a great way to end a really good day. ^^ 

Man this song is really, classy. I have to say I am really in love with the piano in this song.  I think it was a really brilliant move to have piano be dominant and the violin in a lesser role in METRO BAROQUE, and having it the other way in Junketsu Paradox. It really makes all the difference in the atmosphere. Where the violin made Junketsu Paradox sound more traditional, the piano in METRO BAROQUE gives it a modern contemporary twist. It actually does make it feel very metropolitan and makes me think of the lights of the city, dark alleyways with strangers smoking on the street - which is very fitting considering how Blood-C The Last Dark is taking place in the city. Just like Junketsu Paradox fit the series with its more traditional feel.

Awaiting releases~!

New design to celebrate the approaching release of NANA MIZUKI LIVE CASTLE x JOURNEY (and also due to my undying lust love for King Nana)~! I really cannot wait to get my BDs and relive LIVE CASTLE. o(´∇｀*o) Also I am really pumped up about getting to hear Nana sing more old songs in LIVE JOURNEY, since when she sang Supersonic Girl at Niigata it was simply stunning and so different from what it was when Nana first recorded it. I do kind of hope that the making of  LIVE JOURNEY would have Supersonic Girl on it so I could hear that again too, wah~. I also hope my package arrives one day before the release again as it did with Synchrogazer, since then I could lock myself into my room, get absorbed into blissful 7th Heaven and be completely oblivious of all of Finland going crazy and getting wasted due to May Day (yeaaaah, I don't like May Day xD).