B’z Whereabouts After Great Tohoku Earthquake
News As you probably know, last friday, 14:46 local time, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit Northern Japan and caused major destruction resulting in the death of at least 1700 people. Right now, Japan is facing another problem as nuclear power plants Fukushima 1 and 2 have been damaged by the aftershocks and tsunamis that hit the coast in Japan and lost cooling function. Hopefully they will be able to resolve the situation as quickly as possible. The last time Japan has experienced a huge earthquake was the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. If you’d like to know more about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake
B’z Management has issued a statement that all B’z members are fine and unhurt. (via B’z Official Website as well as B’z PARTY Official Website)
If you would like to get the latest on the crisis in Japan, you can watch Japanese TV live on UStream or watch Yokoso News which is run by a Japanese person who translates the latest news to English.
Here are the links:
NHK World TV (English): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv
NHK (Japanese): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv
TBS (Japanese): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/TBStv
Yokoso News Live: http://www.yokosonews.com/live
“Sayonara Kizu Darake no Hibi yo” On Air
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Starting today, B’z new song “Sayonara Kizu Darake no Hibi yo” will be broadcasted by radio stations throughout Japan. People in Japan can also download the chaku-uta version of the song to use it as a ringtone for their mobile phone. The single is going to be released on March 30th, 2011.
Additional Info About “Don’t Wanna Lie”
News News has finally reached official channels as B’z Official Website and Conan-Movie.jp have been updated to report that B’z will indeed serve the theme song for Detective Conan’s 15th theatrial movie called “A Quarter of Silence”. But that is not all: The very same song is going to be the new opening to the anime series as well. Starting April 30th, the song will be the opening theme to Detective Conan on TV.
A release date has yet to be determined, but considering it is going to make an appearance on TV as well, I say we can expect further news in April.
Oh and don’t miss the chance to check out the theatrical trailer which features a small part of “Don’t Wanna Lie”. Just head over to www.conan-movie.jp, click on “Trailer” and select the first one at the top.
B’z “Don’t Wanna Lie” Theme Song For Conan Movie *Update*
Feature Some person on the Japanese bulletin board 2ch leaked the information that B’z will do the theme song to the latest Detective Conan movie “A Quarter of Silence” which will hit theatres on April 16th. The Detective Conan series is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Here’s the picture that has been posted on 2ch:
The song is called “Don’t wanna lie”. There’s also a message from B’z in the blue box. Unfortunately the resolution of the picture is too low to make out what the text says but someone on 2ch was kind enough to type it up:
“Congratulations to Detective Conan celebrating its 15th anniversary.
We have been offered to produce a song a lot of times for Detective conan. The song is closely related to the movie.
It has been 5 years(*) since our last production for Detective Conan, we have put a lot of enthusiasm into it. It’s a great honour for us.
The song is about the will to not lie to yourself in important situations in life.
Please enjoy “Don’t wanna lie” along with the Detective Conan movie.”
(*) They did “Shoudou” and “Yuruginai Mono Hitotsu” in 2006 for Detective Conan
More information is expected to surface soon. The song should appear in the theatrical version of the trailer which is expected to air in a few days. Also, the announcement, along with details, is expected to be in the next issue of the Shounen Sunday magazine, hitting stores next week on Wednesday.
*UPDATE*
Here’s a picture of the article in the morning paper:
Stay tuned!
Source: 2ch (Japanese Bulletin Board)
Happy Birthday to Masuda Takanobu!
News Masuda Takanobu, recurring support member in B’z LIVE-GYM tours, has turned 50 today. Masuda was also involved in the recording for various B’z songs: DIVE, STARDUST TRAIN, ONE, Pleasure ’98, SLAVE TO THE NIGHT, and many many more. He has received a lot of messages from fans, old friends and young musicians. “[…] I am very happy today […]” he writes on his blog. He also received a special gift from two very special people: Tak Matsumoto and Koshi Inaba.
He posted a picture on his blog:
Happy Birthday, Masuda Takanobu! お誕生日おめでとうございます！！
Source: http://jap.sblo.jp/article/43600995.html (Masuda Takanobu’s Blog)
Charts: ~en II~, TAKE YOUR PICK
News Last week, as we know, Koshi Inaba LIVE 2010 -enII- was released.
With not-so-much-surprise, it reached #1 on Oricon on dvd and blu ray charts, with 27.000 and 21.000 copies sold respectively.
Oricon also notes he’s the first male solo artist to reach #1 on both charts, just like B’z were the first group to achieve this last August.
Due to the Grammy effect, Take your pick re-entered the Oricon chart, reaching #18. The album even made it up to #4 on the daily album chart for a short period of time. Last week this album was off the top 300, so it’s definitely a good result for them.
Source: Oricon
