▲4.242ndアルバム発売GARNETCROWpart.13▲

CD The 10th single, “Yume Mita Ato de,” is now on sale! Second album “SPARKLE ~Sujigaki Dōri no Sky Blue~” will be released April 24! Hitoshi Okamoto's first album “a first fine day” is now on sale! Official website: http://garnetcrow.com/ TV Ending theme for “Detective Conan” Opening theme for WOWOW's “The Adventures of the Fluttering Airship” “PASTIME PARADISE” from 4/27 (the MUSIC 272 / SkyPerfecTV) TBS TV network “Sunday Japon” ending theme: “Sky Blue” Fuji TV network “Kandō Factory Supōtsu!” image song: “Spiral” Magazines 4/10: Music Freak magazine 4/14: WHAT'S IN 4/16: Yokohama, Chiba, Tokai, Kansai, Kyushu, and Hokkaido Walker 4/18 or 4/25: weekly oricon 4/19: Zappii 4/20: CD deータ, CD HITS 4/24: TV Guide, TV Life 4/25: Shinseido PAUSE 4/27: B-PASS Radio Every other Saturday on α-station: “PASTIME PARADISE” (Okamoto) “Yume Mita Ato de” is receiving heavy airplay on Tochigi Broadcasting! ◆ Please do not cause trouble for other people. ◆ Ignore persistent trolls. >>2 Member profiles

Yuri Nakamura Born July 4, 1977 (?) in Kyoto, blood type O; animal fortune: panther. Composes all of the group's songs. On “GIZA studio R&B RESPECT Vol.1 ~six sisters selection~,” she covered Groove Theory's “Tell Me.” At “Net.Liferium2001” in Pacifico Yokohama, an event introducing IPv6 technology—the next-generation broadband network environment that was rapidly being developed—she appeared in the world's first live online broadcast using IPv6 technology, GIZA studio R&B PARTY at the “Hills Bread Factory” [Horie] vol. 1. A live DVD is also on sale. AZUKI Nana (“Azuki Nana”) Born July 29 in Shiga Prefecture, blood type AB (official age undisclosed). As a lyricist, she has provided many works for Soul Crusaders and others. Her collection of new photographs and self-portraits taken by AZUKI Nana herself, together with previously unpublished poems, AZUKI Nana PHOTO & ANTHOLOGY “80,0” (read “hachimarumaru”), is now on sale. Hitoshi Okamoto Born June 12, 1976 (?) in Mie Prefecture, blood type A; animal fortune: fawn. Active as a studio musician. He participated as a guitarist in ZARD's cruise concert. Under the name Hitoshi Okamoto, he composed “Hypnosis,” the B-side of ZARD's “MIND GAMES.” He also arranged that song with Hiroto Furui. He is pursuing solo activities alongside GARNET CROW. First album “a first fine day” is now on sale! Hiroto Furui Born February 7, 1967 (?) in Tokyo (?), blood type A; animal fortune: koala. Also active as an arranger for GIZA-affiliated artists. He is also an instructor at the GIZA Creator Academy. >>3 Previous threads

▲ GARNET CROW pictures? ▲ http://piza.2ch.net/musicj/kako/976/976175655.html ▲ Everyone who likes GARNET CROW, come here!! ▲ http://piza.2ch.net/musicj/kako/979/979816266.html ▲ GARNET CROW is the best ▲ http://piza.2ch.net/musicj/kako/987/987850657.html ▲ GARNET CROW is super the best ▲ http://curry.2ch.net/musicj/kako/989/989919165.html ▲ GARNET CROW is super ×2 the best ▲ http://music.2ch.net/musicj/kako/997/997427455.html ▲ GARNET CROW is super ×3 the best ▲ http://music.2ch.net/musicj/kako/1004/10048/1004872105.html ▲ GARNET CROW is super ×4 the best ▲ http://music.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musicj/1011515064/ ▲ GARNET CROW — Until the End of Reincarnation, Vol. 5 ▲ http://music.2ch.net/musicj/kako/1013/10137/1013791100.html ▲ First TV appearance!! GARNET CROW part 8 ▲ http://music.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musicj/1015220448/ ▲ GARNET CROW part 10 ▲ http://music.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musicj/1016195334/ ▲ GARNET CROW while appearing on TV!! part 11 ▲ http://music.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musicj/1016614918/

What the heck!

You idiot.

Good work!

Good work-curry!

These people are just the best.

>>8 I totally agree! There are a lot of people here who can read the room properly—except for one person (lol). The thread title is the best, Old #1.

Number 1, thanks for your hard work. You probably should have put “>>3 Previous threads” in post 1 too. That would increase the number and make it easier for new people to find the old threads… I also wish the thread title had a little more room, especially around “4.242nd.” Just saying this now, though.

>>10 >I also wish the thread title had a little more room, especially around “4.242nd.” Totally agree. Number 1, good work (´ー`)y~~

>>1 Good curry. I’ll make the futile defense that leaving out spaces is actually nice because the titles don’t overlap in tabbed browsers (lol).

Finished cleaning up the previous thread! >>1 otukare!

>>13 Nice cleanup of the old thread.

(・∀・) Repeating “No way!” over and over wore me out.

Thanks. I’m grateful for the warm words. ◆ Please don’t cause trouble for other people. ◆ Ignore persistent trolls. What do you think of these? Are they unnecessary?

I managed to go too, in the end. <The public recording> Wow, Yuri Nakamura was cute… I got to watch the 8 o’clock one from the very front row (although it was far away), and Yuri-san waved at me… (so happy) >1, 13 Good work~ >16 I think it’s fine.

Good work to the cleanup crew too. Actually, I like the really mellow atmosphere of the leftover posts after the next thread has been created… (lol)

The posts after 953 in the previous thread are hilarious.

I listened to the album preview~~~~!!

1000 Name: Anonymous Songwriter Date: 2002/04/08 23:27 ID:7uA3EW6E 1000! Even after lining up all these words, the previous thread’s >>1000 was so cool!

About 90% of them were men, and the place had become an alternate universe completely cut off from the atmosphere of Tower Records. There were lots of people who looked like they normally would never set foot in Tower Records. Even just changing your shoes and bag would make a huge difference. The two members had small, beautiful faces.

>>20 You can already listen to it? What does it sound like?

>>22 Σ(´Д｀;) Seriously?! >There are lots of people who looked like they normally would never set foot in Tower Records. >Even just changing your shoes and bag would make a huge difference. Fans lowering the value of their own artist… Nothing is more painful than that. It’s pretty awful that they aren’t even aware of it.

Lots of 2ch users say the public recording was nothing but otaku. So statistically speaking, that would mean the 2ch users here are nothing but otaku too (huge lol). In reality, the proportion of people who were both 2ch users and GARNET CROW otaku was probably pretty high (lol).

>>Previous thread 807 I’m so jealous I can hardly stand it. Lucky you~ I wanted to go… to the public recording. By the way, does reserving the album at any Tower Records get you a poster? If so, I’ll go reserve it even though the store is a little far away.

>>24 What’s wrong with that? It’s not like we’ll get a chance to interact with them anyway. The fans might sink themselves before they can lower the artist lol

>>25 I think they mean that, even among otaku, there were a lot of gross otaku. People go to see them precisely because they’re all otaku.

The only people who looked like otaku were the ones who had staked out the places with the best view. The people quietly watching around them looked normal. Well, I’m an otaku too, though~ (lol)

Self-loathing among your own kind is uncool.

>>28 just said something good! At least dress properly!

The spectators’ clothes and Yuri and Nana’s clothes really were like “the moon and a turtle”—worlds apart. But whatever, I live in the suburbs rather than downtown, and I thought most people were dressed pretty normally. They’d come from quite far away, so they were dressed like country folk. There were lots of people in suits too. On their way home from work? Good job, everyone. It wasn’t really bad enough to say, “At least dress properly!” Tower Records spectators > Mylord spectators.

Damn, I forgot to watch Supōruto.

>>33 I forgot to watch it too. I was completely swept up in the radio festival…

It’s depressing that they didn’t broadcast the radio show in their home region of Kansai…

“pray” and “Holy ground” were ballads. Personally, I thought “Naked story” had turned out nicely too. As for the remixes, “Mysterious” wasn’t that great, but “Timeless” was good. That’s just my personal opinion.

Come to think of it, there was a kid carrying a portrait. It had a nice, careful touch. They were good.

I’ve wondered this for a while, but is Nana-chan a little airheaded? When asked, “If one wish could come true right now,” she said, “I haven’t eaten anything since this morning, so my stomach is…” (the rest was omitted)—what was that about? (lol)

Correction: “大して” … X “対して” … ◎

↑ Airheaded Nana-chan is moe~ ♪

Yurinee before going to school.

>38 That made me laugh. Is she really naturally airheaded after all?

What was Yuri-san like in front of the fans? I want to know whether she was “expressionless and sulky,” or “quite attentive, flashing professional smiles.”

Tower Records, especially the left side (in front of the big screen), seemed to have a lot of gross otaku… The people standing modestly toward the back seemed normal, which was nice. There were a fair number of women too. I’m imagining Nana, hungry after the Mylord recording, being given a Chupa Chups (lol). >>43 The latter, I think.

Maybe once they realized their fans were mostly otaku, they lost the motivation to create anything.

>43 I thought it was the latter too. >Tower Records, especially the left side (in front of the big screen), had lots of gross otaku. Oh, I’m one of those people too (lol). I was also surprised that there were several elementary-school kids who clearly seemed to have become fans because of Conan.

>>43 The former is probably for the music video. Even on the recent Meccha E, she was the latter. >>45 Otaku buy multiple copies by themselves to get the bonuses, so they might actually be happy about it.

Is there no god who can transcribe what they talked about yesterday?

>48 It would probably be faster to go to a fan site.

>>47 No matter how much I wanted the bonus, I can’t imagine buying several copies of the same CD. Not me, anyway. If they became like ZARD in 1999, that would be a different story (lol). Unrelated, but I listened to “Futari no Rocket” about three times yesterday. It might be the song I’m most hooked on right now…

Most ordinary GARNET CROW fans didn’t even know there was a public recording. You had to be online to know about it. There was no way the otaku ratio wasn’t going to rise.

>>51 When ignorance reaches this level… Look up the number of internet users in Japan yourself. Even if they don’t visit places like this, fans at least check the official site, don’t they?

“Yume Mita Ato de” — GARNET CROW Rank: 19th Weekly sales: 6,430 copies Cumulative sales: 73,590 copies 6th → 14th → 19th → 19th The level of this chart is way too low. Under normal circumstances, it would be in the thirties.

I have a feeling Meccha E will broadcast footage of the public show before long. Part of me wants to see it, but part of me doesn’t.

The chart ranking is just inertia. Some people mistake this for selling well and are happily deluding themselves.

How many people came to the public recording?

>>53 >6th → 14th → 19th → 19th Is that the weekly chart? It’s unusual for the rank not to change.

>>56 What, they were on TV?

>56 Definitely at least 100. I was near the front and didn’t look behind me, so I don’t know the details.

>58 LOL

>>57 Yeah. The figures were: 40,140 → 16,850 → 10,170 → 6,430 copies. The chart ranking really is just inertia.

>>53 I’ll try to think positively: it’s good that they’re selling close to 100,000 copies. >>56 It’s an unusual event.

>>52 When stupidity reaches this level… Look up the percentage of ordinary GARNET CROW fans who check the website every week yourself. An ordinary fan might visit the official site once, but checking it every week is something only an otaku would do. And nobody is going to read every last detail of all those tiny topics, are they?

>>48 There was a parody segment of “Money no Tora.”

>>63 That’s a bit of a stretch (lol). Do you really insist on defining an ordinary fan as “someone who barely uses a PC”? (lol) It’s fine—no need to get so worked up in a place like this… Anyway, the point is just that people should properly check the official site.

GARNET CROW selling 70,000 singles! Incredible! Without the TV appearances, it probably would have been 10,000–20,000 copies…

To avoid missing information, update-checking software for websites is essential.

>>66 I’m not asking for anything extravagant like 70,000 copies for a single. I just want them to reach 300,000–500,000 copies with an album, at least.

In the thread “Are there any singers with beautiful faces?”, Yuri Nakamura is doing pretty well. ttp://music.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musicj/1016734258/

Azuki Nana, number seventy.

>70 Kind of meh lol

>>69 For some reason, Sakai from ZARD’s name appears an unnaturally large number of times. Could Being employees be posting there?

>>69 I feel like it’s self-promotion too…

Host: “…right?” Nana: “…yanen.” Yuri: “…desu.”

Maybe I’ve been listening to the CD too much, but GARNET CROW songs keep playing in my head even while I’m at work…

Lately I’ve been into fibrous things.

>74 Was Nana-chan really speaking full-on Kansai dialect?

Maybe the thread is moving slowly today because one event has ended. How was the radio broadcast, everyone who listened?

>>77 Yes, she spoke Kansai dialect. >>78 It was pretty good. My impression was that Nana-san was confident and naturally airheaded, while Yuri-san was nervous and ordinary. I’m glad I stayed up until 3 a.m.

>>79 Thanks for the comment. I’m jealous that you got to hear Nana-san speaking Kansai dialect.

>>80 It wasn’t a really thick dialect.

>>81 Was it a gentle-sounding Kansai dialect? I’m from Kansai myself, and I love women speaking Kansai dialect when it isn’t the really thick version. By the way, does Yuri-san, who’s from Kyoto, speak Kansai dialect too?

>>82 Yes, it was a normal, gentle kind of Kansai dialect. Yuri-san let a little of it show too. They played “Yume Mita Ato de” and “Naked story.”

Nice, GARNET CROW appearing on Udo Bar. Maybe GC can do it too?

They just aired the episode of *musix* with GC on it. As expected from a local station—how many weeks behind are they? (lol)

>>85 I saw it too.

In Hokkaido, tonight’s “Meccha E!” is a GARNET CROW special. I think it’s the broadcast of the segment they held back after all the complaints last week.

It’s tomorrow in Hokuriku. <musix I’m really looking forward to it. It’s the first time since Music Station (lol).

Mie TV already finished airing “Meccha E!” (depressed).

This is Mai Kuraki’s “A Little Break,” you know.

AZUKI has studied cultural anthropology, hasn’t she? I became convinced after reading the lyrics to “white out.” Through the fieldwork of love, the supreme pleasure of finding oneself in others and finding others in oneself must be what motivates her to write lyrics. I’m sure of it.

I wrote 91 to summon Rage, but I didn’t get a bite… Maybe he doesn’t look at this place anymore? It’s boring if Rage isn’t around, so maybe I’ll graduate too.

>>92 I’ll vote that Rage just doesn’t know the lyrics to “whiteout,” so he can’t respond.

91 and 92 are Rage. He’s posting to himself so that it’s easier for him to make an appearance. Nobody in the world likes Rage more than the people in this thread.

Seriously, stop it already. ◆ Please don’t cause trouble for other people. ◆ Ignore persistent trolls. It says so right there.

It’s probably 25 minutes late because of the extra innings in the night game… “Meccha E!”

In Hokkaido, it had already started before I realized it…

>>94 I’m not Rage. I was one of the people defending him. But I’ve completely given up on him now. I think it’s only natural for a fan to want to get to the essence of their favorite artist’s work, so don’t bash people like that. (I still wonder why you do, though.) My impression is that Japanese pop music is only this deep after all. If Nagato is going to interfere with GARNET CROW, it doesn’t seem like we can expect much from their songs going forward. I also learned that a lot of the fans are just shallow trend-followers. Anyway, thanks for everything up to now. Goodbye, GARNET CROW thread. Goodbye, Japanese music board.

>>98 It is true that we can relax now that Rage is gone. Maybe he really was talking about the essence of the music, but those consecutive posts were starting to wear me out too. His writing was also difficult for ordinary people to get into. Sorry we couldn’t leave him alone either. See you.

GARNET CROW is here! ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!!

I watched “Meccha E!” Nana-san and Yuri-san were wonderful… I was so happy I almost started crying. I’m genuinely jealous of everyone who made it to the public recording. Anyway, I’m going to bed.

>>101 Yuri-chan’s outfit was pretty moe, wasn’t it?

>>91 Since you seem to be someone who reads books, I recommend this paper: Masachi Osawa, “Loneliness, Eros, and Faith,” included in *Eros and Capitalism* (Seidosha). It discusses in detail why love leads to loneliness. Incidentally, “loneliness,” “love,” and “faith” correspond exactly to the major themes in AZUKI Nana’s lyrics. So this paper should surely help with interpreting her poetry.

Why are “Meccha E!,” “Best of J,” “Supōruto,” and “MUSIX!” all airing at the same time in Niigata, YO! I need some highly skilled remote-control work here.

>>103 The ID is rejecting GARNET CROW.

>>103 Yurinee, Rage, Yurinee.

>>103 Yurini.

I’m sick of the regional-TV talk already. And the nitpicking too.

I watched “Meccha E!” Awful. It looked like an amateur band. That was like watching a rehearsal for Music Station.

>>106 LOL

>>103 >>91 said they weren’t coming back anymore. Who are you replying to? Or was it self-posting after all? Either way, drop dead, idiot.

Since the previous thread, the people attacking Rage have started to look like trolls. Stop overreacting.

Sorry if all 11 tracks planned for the album have already been revealed: Last love song call my name Timeless Sleep Yume Mita Ato de Sky Blue pray Holy ground Yuudachi no Niwa Please, Forgive me Wish Naked story

>>113 Isn’t the order different? By the way, “Naked story” is a mellow song.

>>113 Why is it different from the official information? Will it be updated eventually? http://www.giza.co.jp/garnetcrow/menu/news_newrelease.html

“Naked story,” yay yay yay ♪

“Yuudachi no Niwa”?

Which one is correct, I wonder?

I mean, normally I’d think the official site was the correct one.

>119 The official site isn’t reliable. Even when something changes, the information may be outdated. There can be typos too. I suspect site management is left entirely to an outside contractor.

MFM had the same track order as the official site. “Yuudachi no Niwa” and “Spiral” weren’t on it.

>>120 I hear www.giza.co.jp is managed by Being. So does that mean Being is the unreliable one…? >>121 When the R&B album came out, MFM even printed a photo of Maho Furukawa, and then they replaced it, so anything goes.

What kind of song is “Yuudachi no Niwa”?

Is Miguel Sa Pessoa not participating in the arrangements this time? I sincerely hope he gets a chance to shine.

They said on the radio that there would be 12 songs.

How do you pronounce “Miguel Sa Pessoa”? And what country is he from?

With the album release being the time to make money, aren’t they planning to get even more exposure than they have recently?

Their skin exposure is definitely going to increase, I’m sure.

↑ >>127

Nana-chan is expected to go “No Sleep.”

>>126 Maggie Shiro.

I wish they’d end Kuraki’s column in JGM and hand it over to AZUKI… I’m not interested in Kuraki at all.

>>130 “No Sleep”? No Sleep? “No sleeve”—a women’s garment with no sleeves.

>>130 No sleep (lol). Were you influenced by “Timeless Sleep”?

>>130 Does it mean Nana-san is so busy with publicity work that she gets “No sleep”?

Even “Naked story” is funny if you translate it literally in a deliberately mean-spirited way.

>>136 Scandalous revelations.

>>136 A naked story.

>>136 A frank confession.

GARNET CROW [garnet crow] Pomegranate stone crow.

Why does AZUKI show so much skin? I can’t think of any explanation except that she’s trying to provoke people. Or is she competing with Aiuchi?

>>69 I don’t know if it’s because you posted that link, but it’s turned into a disaster! There’s no way to tell what a fair evaluation is anymore!

>>140 A garnet-colored crow. Crow sounds better than karasu, anyway. >>141 Naked Nana.

>>142 That thread was weird from the start. Who even is Jun Shibata, ranked second?

>>142 It isn’t a direct link, so it should be fine, shouldn’t it? More importantly, does having lots of votes for Yuri-chan make the evaluation unfair? Just saying.

>>145 Yeah. I can’t believe it. Everyone near the top of that list is…

>>146 So, as 144 says, it was a joke thread from the beginning, then.

>146 >Yeah. I can’t believe it. Stop dismissing everyone else’s values.

Awful. Are they putting Yuri-chan on blast?

I can’t see introducing a thread like that as anything other than an attempt by fans to coordinate a mass vote. Isn’t the fact that the votes for Being-affiliated singers increased after it was introduced proof of that?

>>150 They apparently had a lot of votes even before it was introduced. The mid-count in that thread says “a lot compared with their sales” (depressed), doesn’t it?

Then let’s say everything is >>69’s fault.

>>151 What about how high the numbers got after the thread was introduced at 18:18 on April 9? Evaluation threads like that carry the risk of coordinated fan voting, so I think people shouldn’t tell everyone about them so casually.

>>153 You’d have to say that to >>69 too. Well, if a man got three votes, it wouldn’t be strange for Yuri-chan to get eleven, would it?

So we’ll say it’s all Anonymous Songwriter’s fault.

Getting it on the 23rd is normal, right? Is anyone getting it before the 22nd?

Supōruto bump: 99 yen each.

Aiuchi had a comment aired on Supōruto, but does GC have an appearance planned?

Has anyone bought the book Nana-san published? What kind of content does it have? I can’t decide whether to buy it.

“Spiral” was pretty good.

On today’s “Best of J” they played: Timeless Sleep Holy ground Yume Mita Ato de Sky Blue Please, Forgive me Naked story Last love song call my name Wish Yuudachi no Niwa PRAY The bottom three might be in the wrong order.

The mysterious “Yuudachi no Niwa.”

Oh, right. We could ask the person who previewed the album (>>20) whether “Yuudachi no Niwa” was included.

If “Spiral” isn’t on it, does that mean “Spiral” is a new song?

>>159 Do you mean “80,0”?

>>161 They said on the radio that there would be 12 songs, so maybe “Yuudachi no Niwa” became the B-side of “Spiral,” or it was so good that they’re saving it for the single after “Spiral.” The worst possibility is that it was such a bad song that they decided not to include it and dealt with the problem by adding one more bonus track. Anyway, as >>163 said, it would be nice if >>20 could tell us.

Can you really listen to an album before it’s released? Was >>20 just joking? It hadn’t even been pressed yet on April 8, had it?

>>165 Yes, that’s the one. Do you know anything about it?

Maybe “album preview” means a sample copy.

“Love advice” sounds suspicious, they say.

It’s just >>20—the only person claiming to have previewed it. Obviously a lie.

>>171 I knew that much from the very beginning.

>>20 What kind of song is “Yuudachi no Niwa”? What songs are on the album?

>>167 It had already been circulating for pressing purposes ages ago, though.

>>174 Maybe the older lady hosting the radio show said she’d heard it too.

Aiuchi is number one on the daily chart, huh…

According to the information here, it’s the same as the official site: ttp://www.mfmagazine.com/top_page/other_contents/backnumber/previous_year/2002/02_04/0204_tokushu2.html What on earth is “Yuudachi no Niwa”?

>>174 Was it really already circulating on April 8?

In yesterday’s “BEST of J-GROOVE” album feature, I saw the music videos for songs like “Last love song” for the first time. Nana-san is really beautiful. I wish they’d release a collection of the music videos. I started listening to GARNET CROW after being knocked out by Nana-san on the cover of “Yume Mita Ato de” (lol), but now the music itself has completely knocked me out too.

>>177 It sounds like it might be a good song. >>179 Totally agree.

>>179 You’re a good person.

>>Everyone Which song are you most looking forward to on the album?

The MFM advertisement for the album jacket (the gatefold spread): All four of them are wonderful!!! The background is great too!! The first album moved me, but the second album has already moved me just from the jacket!!!!!

There’s a review of the second album on page 36 of MFM, and even allowing for self-praise, they really lay it on thick… “In an age when optimistic music that exists on more or less the same plane is flooding the market, this band deliberately continues along a solitary path… It has ample potential to become a charismatic band with enough presence to be talked about for the next ten years.” Of course I completely agree, but still…

>>182 “Yuudachi no Niwa,” in every sense.

>>184 MFM always writes like that, so I read it without thinking twice (lol). >>185 Is “Yuudachi no Niwa” on the album?

>>159 You absolutely should buy it. The photos of Nana-san are great, and I personally like a lot of the poems too. >>182 “Naked story” and “Sky Blue.” Actually, I’m looking forward to every single one.

Twelve more sleeps and we’ll be able to hear it.

>>178 Of course it was… These days it’s often tapes rather than CDs, though.

>>184 People are always saying their sales are low, but it hasn’t even been three years since their first single came out. Their media exposure has started to increase a little too, so just like that article says, GARNET CROW is only getting started.

>179 That moved me. ･ﾟ･(ﾉД`)･ﾟ･｡

GARNET CROW’s three great principles: Koso-ri — quietly Mata-ri — mellowly Yuta-ri — leisurely

Sometimes we go off topic~♪ And sometimes we all hang out together~♪

I can’t even imagine a life without coming to this thread anymore—no, I can’t! I can’t! I can’t!

>>192 For a moment, I thought “Yuta-ri” said “Yurinee”…

Did someone call me?

Once the album comes out, I expect the number of haters and trolls to increase, so the mellow crowd should prepare themselves mentally now.

>>196 Who are you?!

>>187 Understood! I’ll order it next time I go out. Once I get it, I’d like to write my impressions.

I got post 200!!

A big gathering of lookalikes.

>>159 It’s really good!! Buy it!! Some of it is moving enough to make you cry, but some of it is pretty weak too… And it’s expensive… (the price). >>182 All of them, but especially “Yuudachi no Niwa.” It feels like something might happen, with the album as the catalyst…

I thought it was going to be a tough one.

>>203 That’s way too forced, YO!

>>204 Same goes for you. Ugepy. How about “morning-stand crocodile”?

Could you finally tell us the answer to the little “Happy Pet” joke? (lol)

>>206 A scene from *Titanic*. Pay attention to the third and ninth lines. I’m not completely sure, though… I’m taking her to rest. No. Come on, Nana. No! Tell us, Rose. It’s been 84 years. It’s okay. Just try to remember anything, anything at all. ……

↑ Oh, I forgot to fix my name. Utsuda.

>>184 This review is incredible…

>>208 M-my stomach hurts…

It’s sunk pretty far down, so I’m bumping it.

When is the album coming already?

Are there any songs with a rock-flavored, melodious sound like “whiteout” and an extremely deep male vocal?

(゜д゜) Oh no! They’re appearing as radio guests to give comments, but I can’t listen to any of them, YO! ━ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ━(ヽ`Д)━( 　ヽ`)━ヽ(　　　)ﾉ━(ヽ　　)━(Д´ヽ)━ヾ(;ﾟ;Д;ﾟ;)ﾉﾞ━!!! Ughhh!!

It’s sunk pretty far down. The calm before the storm…

The album commercial aired on channel 272.

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>>216 What was it like? Details, please!

>>184 I understand the feeling very well. But in music history, artists described as “solitary” or “charismatic” have mostly not been commercially successful. On that point, I’m not sure whether to feel sad or happy…

Who else is releasing an album on the same day as GARNET CROW?

17 *Singles 2000* — Miyuki Nakajima 17 *my back pages* — the tambourines (lol) 17 *Lights2* — globe These are from the previous week, but I listed the artists who looked likely to remain next week too. (The middle one is different.) 24 *HEAVEN THE CUSTOMIZED LANDSCAPE* — PIERROT 24 *Goodbye Yesterday—the best of—* — Miki Imai 24 *Gin no Shizuku* — Youmi Kimura These are the ones that look likely to make a real impact. PIERROT had reasonably good first-week single sales, Miki Imai is an established artist (and it’s a best-of album), and Kimura has the Ghibli connection, since her single sold well, so I included her too. I pulled all of this from Oricon, but I think you need to do at least a little research yourself.

What is this “(w)” stuff? “(w,” seriously… Fine, I’ll buy them. I’ll buy the tambourines! ・゜・(ノД｀)・゜・｡ Waaah!!

>>221 Thanks for the work. Do you think they can rank higher than last time? Unrelated, but I’m buying the tambourines too.

New Being thread: “We’re going to reform the suspicious music-production company Being!” http://music.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/music/1018589528/

>>221 If “Chijō no Hoshi” is included, it’ll boost sales mainly among the salaryman generation, but otherwise Miyuki Nakajima won’t be a real threat. Will “Itsumo Nando Demo” be included on Youmi Kimura’s album? If it is, that would be a powerful competitor. Either way, the strongest enemy is “public recognition,” rather than the songs themselves. …Though there’s no point competing over sales, really.

Where is the god who will upload photos from the public recording?

More major releases on April 24: *HIGHVISION* — Supercar *Flow of Soul vol. 1—TAKURO meets Vanessa Mae—* — TAKURO *Intimacy* — Yuki Koyanagi and BOYZ II MEN Untitled — Noriyuki Makihara Untitled — TWO-MIX (lol)

And more: Saturday, April 27: Best album of singles — 19 Best album of fan favorites — 19 Two best-of albums released on the same day by 19, who have announced their breakup.

Wasn’t Oda Kazu also scheduled for something? I heard a rumor that he was releasing a best album.

>>229 He is, on the 24th—and it’s a best album too. For the album rankings, it looks like: 1. Kazu Oda 2. Miki Imai Who else is releasing an album on the 24th?

The week starting on the 24th is going to be a parade of best-of albums. The second album should aim for 100,000 copies and a top-ten finish.

>>227 Noriyuki Makihara’s live album has been postponed to May 9.

You’re still a beginner if you worry about which competing artists are releasing things.

>>233 = Master.

I don’t care what other artists release either. I’m just hoping for a good album. I’m hoping for some deep songs.

>>235 >I’m hoping for some deep songs. What kind of songs? Something like “Mizu no Nai…”? If so, I totally agree too. It would be nice if there were one song like “Happy Pet” as well.

By the way, where are the photos from the public recording by 739 in the previous thread?

>229 >231 You should do some research using searches on the Oricon site before you speak. Miki Imai hasn’t been selling many albums lately, so she won’t rank above GARNET CROW. If the target is 100,000 copies in the first week, saying the goal is a top-ten finish makes no sense. They can aim for second or third. Among the albums released on the 24th, they should be second behind Oda. They can beat PIERROT. Among the releases already out, KISHIDAN’s album from the 10th doesn’t have long legs, and given Miyuki Nakajima’s recent performance, the album from the 17th won’t do much the following week. So they can aim for second behind Oda. Even if they lose to PIERROT, they’ll be third. Anything below fourth would be a complete failure. Even the first album sold 53,000 copies in its first week and ranked sixth (fourth on the daily chart on its first day), so where is this top-ten target coming from? When the first album entered the chart, it was a bit of a story: a group whose highest single ranking was 21st had reached sixth.

>>237 Hey! Put “sama” after the name! 739-sama (´∀｀) < WASHOI! When it gets uploaded, keep the thread in sage mode.

>>238 What about 19’s best-of album? Will it be okay? I hope it sells well.

>233 >234 >235 I don’t worry about it either, but I do predict objectively how high they’ll rank. That’s because sales results often lead to revisions in the schedule and even the musical direction of later releases. I’d like an album every year or so; any shorter interval hurts the content, while any longer interval means the company won’t put enough effort into it. I don’t get emotionally swept up in sales or rankings, but being indifferent doesn’t make someone an advanced fan.

>>240 You’re right. I thought 19 was the following week. It comes out on Saturday the 27th, but that makes it number one, right? (Oda might be number one because 19 is split into two releases.) So does that mean GARNET CROW will be fourth or fifth?

Some people just like GARNET CROW and want to hear the next album quickly, while others want the album to rank well and sell strongly. Of course, there must also be people who enjoy comparing them with other artists. Just saying.

Yuri Nakamura: “Deep down, I desperately want you to buy only my album♪”

>241 And Nagato○ is the one who decides that, so I’m even more worried about that part.

>>244 That’s way too much of a stretch (lol).

Yuri Nakamura: “Even if you line up more than a thousand rentals…”

Hey! No matter how cute and beautiful Nakamura is, don’t go off the rails, YO! That thread on the Japanese music board has turned into a garbage thread.

>>226 >>237 >>239 I’m right here, everyone. I’m posting anonymously for now, but… Sorry to keep you waiting for the photos. I was busy because I still hadn’t done my spring-break homework, but I finally went to get the film developed today. I think I’ll be able to pick up the finished photos tomorrow.

>>248 Please be patient for Nakamura and Nana of GARNET CROW, whose voices are trembling with nerves on the radio.

There’s no point in you worrying about what other artists are doing. It won’t change their sales. Or are you just out of other things to talk about? Sorry if I offended you.

>>739 I’m looking forward to it~

>>739-sama You’ll pick up the photos tomorrow! ｸﾙ━━（ﾟ∀ﾟ）━━（ ﾟ∀）━━（ 　ﾟ）━━（ 　）━━（ 　）━━（ﾟ 　）━━（∀ﾟ ）━━（ﾟ∀ﾟ）━━━!!!

>>251 You’re forgetting one decisive point. The amount of media coverage and press attention is different. When a big artist releases something at the same time, attention gets drawn to them instead. But if the other artists aren’t a big deal, attention naturally turns to GC. So sales might increase…

739 = God.

>>248 I can’t even look at that thread anymore. Should we ask its number 1 to invalidate the votes for Nakamura? To be blunt, if things continue like this, it’ll just expose how incompetent GARNET CROW fans are.

>>God-chan Upload it already, please. †

I want the album already.

I want the album already too, please.

To the 739 from the previous thread: By publishing photos taken from that angle at the public recording, you’ll spread your location around the world and expose your face to all the otaku who went to the recording, but good luck. Is it blind otaku behavior to want them to sell lots of albums and rank as high as possible, based on how happy they looked when they made the top ten on Music Station?

>260 So are you saying I shouldn’t upload the photos here?

“Seni-jō” gets so emotional toward the end that it almost makes you cry.

They’ve only just started getting on track, so how could you not hope for a good ranking? >>739 = God The otaku probably don’t want their faces exposed. If there’s no problem, upload the photos anywhere you like.

Once you’re on track, you’ve got to increase the popularity budget♪

Every morning when I wake up, I think about the album; even the start of the day is album♪

260 is the otaku from the fan site who went to the public recording.

Nakamura: married.

>>263 Understood. I personally don’t care at all if everyone knows what I look like, so if there aren’t too many complaints from the people here, I’ll upload them.

>>260 Masturbate and go to bed already.

Shut up, idiot.

Flying get, as if dreaming♪ Mellow, mellow, mellow.

>271 Not that it matters, but shouldn’t it be “gone” rather than “get”?

>>272 I think they were making a pun on “flying-getting” the album.

>>268 When you upload the photos, why not disguise them or embed them somehow? (lol) Of course, keep the thread in sage mode.

I’m not happy that “Mysterious Eyes” is on the album. “Timeless Sleep” is good, though. They say it’s a bonus track, but if the former is included, it isn’t really a bonus anymore (… Nana-san on the album jacket looks like a different person. Yuri-san does too…

The un-sung lyrics in “in little time”… I suddenly wondered whether they were trying to do something like the ending of *Dancer in the Dark*.

>>274 Why would you need to disguise photos just to upload them? (lol)

I looked it up, and TWO-MIX’s release is a best-of album too. (How many times are we going to say that?) There are so many best-of albums.

>207 Thanks~ *Titanic*, huh… No wonder I didn’t understand it—I haven’t seen it (lol). Come to think of it, at the previous public recording, Yuri-san said she watches popular movies. She said the movie she wanted to see recently was *The Lord of the Rings*. I haven’t seen that one either (lol).

>>277 Because photography was prohibited (lol). I’m fine with disguising them, putting them behind a password, or whatever you like ♪ If you don’t want to show your face, wearing a mask is another option (lol).

>>219 Agreed. There are practically no charismatic artists who have achieved commercial success. I think the Beatles are the one and only exception.

Sorry, completely unrelated, but I heard “Mikansei na Neiro” for the first time today. Damn, it’s incredibly good!! lol Now I’m even more excited for the album. That’s all—sage.

I got the title wrong. It’s “Mikansei na Neiro.” I’m genuinely sorry about that.

What are “Mikansei na Neiro” and “Yuudachi no Niwa”?

If GC beats 19 and takes the top spot… Just a thousand “It’s here!” posts ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━!!!! would probably be enough to push the thread past 1,000 replies.

>>285 We’d become like the rabid Hanshin fans when Hanshin wins the championship.

Upload it already! This is a test of urging, provoking, and egging them on.

Tonight should be a good time, I think.

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Fever.

“There are practically no charismatic artists who have achieved commercial success” (← If they’d sold 100 million copies, surely you wouldn’t complain.) “The Beatles are the one and only exception” (← They’re not the only one; there are quite a few.) “I think the Beatles are the exception” (← Rage really is a little weak in the head, isn’t he?)

>289 Nostalgic (・∀・)!

>292 Strongly agree. Did Yuri-san’s way of drawing her eyes change?

Her ears disappeared.

>>294 No, there have been versions without ears since the old days too.

A mellow lunchtime listening to “first kaleidscope.”

http://www.mfmagazine.com/top_page/other_contents/backnumber/previous_year/2002/02_04/0204_tokushu2.html

Myth- and fairy-tale motifs like “Mizu no Nai…” and “Mikansei na…” are good too.

Did anyone watch the probably-Kansai-local program “SO-HOT” yesterday? GC gave a promotional comment for the album.

300!!

>>297 They’re calling her “Yuri-chan”…

She used to be “Yurippe,” didn’t she? In Nana-san’s mind, did Yurippe get promoted to Yuri-chan?

Maybe she was demoted instead (lol).

Maybe Yurippe calls Nana “Nanappe” instead (lol).

Correction: read ×, call ○.

>>299 I watched it. They didn’t say anything particularly important. Also, it felt like they had the lights turned up way too bright…

In the programs I’ve seen GARNET CROW appear on, Nana-chan either doesn’t speak or speaks standard Japanese. I want to hear Nana-chan’s Kansai dialect—huff, huff (´д｀；) Beautiful women speaking Kansai dialect is cute—huff, huff (´д｀；)

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Yurippe (´д｀；) huff, huff.

I picked up the photos. I picked them up, but… …………………………………………………… …………………………………………………… …………………………………………………… For now, I’m going to disconnect the line, hang myself, and go off to die…

>>310 Hey! Upload them before you hang yourself and go die. Go die after uploading them.

>739 What happened?

Gaaah—(ﾟДﾟ;)—what happened to 739?! Now I’m curious, YO! (((;ﾟДﾟ)))) Shake shake tremble tremble ━ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ━(ヽ`Д)━( 　ヽ`)━ヽ(　　　)ﾉ━(ヽ　　)━(Д´ヽ)━ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ━!!! Waaahh!! Hurry up and upload the photos, come on (ﾟﾛﾟﾉﾉ☆

I’m not used to taking photos, so there isn’t a single one that came out properly… Some of them only show the back of the head of someone from the fan site. I’m really sorry… I’m going to disconnect the line, hang myself, and go off to die again…

There was a ghost reflected on Yurippe’s shoulder.

Was nothing captured, or were the photos blurry? State your reason for not uploading them. We won’t get angry. Or did you actually not go to the public recording and make the whole thing up?

>739 It happens. Don’t let it get you down.

I wanted to see my beloved Yurippe…

Yurippe seems like she might have a strong sixth sense!?

I think 739 imagined what would happen if they uploaded the photos and got scared. The claim that they weren’t taken properly is probably a lie too. Let’s forgive them already (lol).

>>316 Two of them had nothing in them, and one photo was blurry. >Or did you actually not go to the public recording and make the whole thing up? If you look at my report from the previous thread, posted before the radio broadcast—“The fan-site group brought drawings,” and “The difficulty of ‘Please, Forgive me’ is super C-class”—you’ll see that I wasn’t lying… >>320 They came out so badly that even the fan-site otaku couldn’t tell who was who, so that isn’t something I’m worried about.

Did you actually look through the viewfinder when you took them? If they’re photos of otaku, you’d better throw them away quickly before you get cursed (lol).

>>319 AZUKI Nana seems like she has a stronger sixth sense than Yuri Nakamura. Maybe she has a crystal ball at home.

>739 (ﾟεﾟ) Don’t worry about it!!

>>319 They say people with a strong sixth sense also have a strong sexual sense. >739 Don’t worry about it. I wasn’t expecting much in the first place.

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Photography was prohibited in the first place (lol). Wait, there were idiots filming video too? (;´Д｀)

I switched my browser to Opera and now I can’t view the official site. This is depressing… …Though I do have IE, so it’s fine.

Just ten more days to endure.

A serious answer: Yurippe’s lyrics are hard to make out when she sings, but I think she probably does that deliberately. On “first kaleidscope,” for example, she sang every single word clearly in the early days. In that respect, I think she sings “Yume Mita Ato de” very well. The parts meant to make you cry are harder to understand, but that gives them more depth.

>>282 I’m still a fairly new fan, but I bought “Futari no Rocket” today. Then I heard “Mikansei na Neiro” for the first time. That line, “I left this world”… It made me feel kind of melancholy.

>>307 I watched “Meccha E!” too, the one with the studio live. Nana-san wasn’t speaking what you’d call Kansai dialect, but I think her intonation had a little Kansai flavor in it. I’m from Kansai, and it made me feel nostalgic.

>>331 “Futari no Rocket” is good, right?

AZUKI-sensei made the jacket photo.

>>334 Exactly. Those shooting-star-like rays have a nice occult vibe.

>>334, 335 Huh? She did more than just take the photos—she produced it too?

>>336 Probably just the photography. Even so, “Mikansei na Neiro” is absolutely overflowing with sadness.

>>307 It’s great~ In an interview on an earlier “Meccha E!”, she said, “Since they brought this frame, I’ll color this one~♪” I nearly ascended (lol). There was also her saying “noshi te,” and it was really good. This episode is one to preserve forever.

I saw the album commercial on CDTV. I’m sure they’ll air it again next week.

AZUKI did the narration, right?

It aired twice… By the way, was I the only one wondering why they didn’t play “Last Love Song”? This week they were 19th, by the way.

19th. They’re moving up.

>>339 I saw it too!!

>>333 “Mikansei na Neiro” completely knocked me out, so “Futari no Rocket” left a slightly weaker impression. But songs like “Jewel Fish,” which initially made a weak impression too, have started to feel really good now. I’ve been listening to CDs constantly at home since I started buying them, so I think some songs gradually sink in over time. Like dried squid.

I haven’t seen it… (tears)

I got mixed up (lol). I meant the album commercial.

>>341 Nana-san in the “Last love song” music video shown during the “BEST of J-GROOVE” album feature left a strong impression on me, so it was disappointing that part wasn’t in the commercial. >>340 Is that voice Nana-san’s? It’s a very soothing voice.

>>331, >>344 I used “Mikansei *no* Neiro” twice in a row. I’m reflecting on that…

“Futari no Rocket” sounds kind of lewd, doesn’t it?

It’s more like two people and a rocket, right? <idiot

I saw at a rental shop today that the first album has 12 tracks with the paper sleeve on, but 13 with the sleeve removed. Is the extra one a secret track exclusive to the first edition?

>>349 “Last love song” is even lewder. >>339 So you’re hoping for a music-video collection too. Yuri-chan is so moe, moe, moe~ >>351 The bonus is “Natsu no Maboroshi,” right? Was it first-edition limited?・?・?

>>352 I realize I also chose the wrong way to make the joke, but 349 meant that the phrase “two people and a rocket” sounds lewd, not that the lyrics are lewd, right? To explain it in Rage’s style: The rocket here symbolizes the male organ through its cylindrical shape and the images of launching and reaching space… Don’t make me say any more (lol).

What a rich imagination (lol).

Anyway, when all is said and done, “Futari no Rocket” is the best.

An SS-class FP has appeared, thanks to that imagination!!

>>355 Strongly agree, I tell you.

I recently became a GARNET CROW fan, and I like “Futari no Rocket” too.

I have a feeling “Spiral” is going to be a huge hit…

I have a feeling “Happy Pet” is going to be a huge hit.

“Sky Blue” sounds pretty good too.

“Sky Blue” was added to GIZA’s mobile-site ringtones. It’s a pretty good song. Let’s all request “Spiral” as a ringtone too, while we’re at it. I wonder why they won’t make the “Kaleidoscope” songs into ringtones.

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>363–366 …

…This thread has fallen too. It’s become a den of moe otaku.

I could spend an hour wondering why only 364 has the garbled character. >>367 Are you just going to stay silent? >>368 It’s better to be mellow than to be attacked by trolls.

>>369 If you look closely, 367 does say something.

Who is the person singing the chorus of “Happy Pet”?

Ah, I’m really looking forward to the album.

I saw the comment on “SO-HOT,” and Furui-san is a full head taller than the other members, isn’t he?

Reading the posts so far, it seems a lot of people came to like “Seni-jō” relatively late. They weren’t fans of it at first. Same here. Listening to “Seni-jō” this evening as I think that… …Ah, “Meguru Haru ni mo” is good too.

>>374 I also started to appreciate “Seni-jō” once I really savored the lyrics. “Meguru Haru ni mo” is deep, isn’t it? I interpret it as a poem about longing for a beloved person who will be reincarnated, though.

At this time of year, when you listen to GARNET CROW in the evening or early morning… People with spring fatigue or a tendency toward depression, be careful…

“Futari no Rocket,” “Happy Pet,” and “Jewel Fish” are safe. The dangerous ones are… there are too many.

I’ll keep running until I reach your house. I tried seriously thinking about happiness. It’s a draw.

>>378 Either the protagonist is Abebe, or “your house” is really nearby.

Ten days until release. Nine days if you get it early. Even at this point, the true identity of “Yuudachi no Niwa” is still unknown.

When is the single “Spiral” coming out?

>>379 They keep running all the way to your house. If the lover who had gone outside to wait for them lived that far away, they’d knock her over when they arrived, play around like dogs until they’d confirmed their feelings, then start getting hungry, go inside, and eat delivery pizza. What a happy life.

>>382 If “your house” was far away, that’s some incredible stamina (lol).

If the house were next door, it would be a completely nonsensical song. …That’s my deliberately cold take on it.

>>384 LOL But you’re only allowed to eat the pizza after 48 hours of the ascetic ordeal of staring into each other’s eyes.

>>371 Maybe it’s the backing chorus of B.B.Queens after Keiko Utoku left.

>>383-384 I laughed when I imagined it.

>387 Strongly agree.

I seriously thought about the lyric, “I’ll run until I reach your house.”

>>378 What the heck are you talking about? Details, please.

I seriously thought about how I got hooked on GARNET CROW. At first I bought “flying” with this embarrassing feeling: “Wow, this is so GIZA,” half making fun of it while being unable to resist wanting it. But I couldn’t make fun of the music or the singing, and the B-side “Cried a little” strangely hooked me. So I went back through their history, buying up the singles, and ran into “Chii Sen Ijō.” In particular, “blue bird” never makes a showy appeal; it just passes smoothly through you when you listen to it, yet has a depth that makes you unable to resist thinking, “Should I try listening one more time?” They were a wonderful group that touched a string in my heart. Before I knew it, I realized I was a fan and thought, “GIZA is not a company to underestimate!” (lol)

The album commercial was amazing. I was struck by Yurippe’s expression in “call my name,” by Yurippe’s outfit and the way she kept the rhythm in “Timeless Sleep,” and by Yurippe taking the wind in her face in “Yume Mita Ato de.” It was moe, moe, moe all the way.

Are you all reserving the album? I think you can buy it without reserving it. It’s such a hassle.

If you reserve it, you can get a poster, you know.

I’d have no complaints if the order were “call my name” → “Last love song” → “Yume Mita Ato de.”

It’s a shame they didn’t use footage from “Last Love Song.” I timed the commercial and it was exactly 15 seconds, so I figured they couldn’t fit all four singles’ music videos into such a limited time. (That’s just speculation.)

>>394 I went around quite a few CD shops near me, but none of them had the reservation bonus poster. (´･ω･`) So depressing.

By the way, is there a Porno otaku mixed into this thread?

>>398 Sorry.

400

There are a lot of strange people at GIZA. But I think Rina Aiuchi is in a class of her own.

>>401 I think Rina Aiuchi’s speaking voice is strange too.

>>402 I’m an Aiuchi fan, but I like both her strange everyday speaking voice and her singing voice. Simply put, I like the contrast between them.

Maybe “call my name” and “Last love song” aren’t both used in the commercial because their choruses sound similar.

>>377 The tune itself is safe, but wasn’t the deeper meaning of “Jewel Fish” “water burial”? (See the previous thread.) After struggling to understand how that song could be “water burial,” I concluded it was about a traffic accident. If anyone else reached the same conclusion, please raise your hand… “Shingoo, it was over in a moment… now we’re far apart~♪” …I’m off to die.

This thread is getting kill-number collectors now… or so I say. >>393 My regular shop gives double stamp points if you reserve something. If I reserve and buy two albums, I get ¥1,000 off the next purchase. There are major benefits to reserving it!

>>405 What kind of person is Nana-san, doing something that dark over a tune like that?! >>406 At my shop, when I reserved it, they recommended the *Harry Potter* DVD. I don’t want it. <sales clerk If you have time to recommend Harry Potter, play GARNET CROW all over the store on the 23rd instead. <store manager

It seems like a lot of people want the posters, but nobody has mentioned what they use them for, so I’m conducting a survey. Question 1: Tell us which GARNET CROW posters you own. Question 2: Do you have them hanging in your room? Does anyone keep a collection in a large poster holder?

1: I don’t own one, but I want one. 2: I don’t hang it because it would be a waste, but I look at it whenever I feel like it.

Keep it stored without hanging it up. Then brag about it to a GARNET CROW fan who doesn’t have one.

>>392 There’s another commercial too. It isn’t “call my name”—the “Last…” one airs instead. In that one, Nana-san’s face made me ascend (lol).

“Last love song” also has two deaths: “you who disappear” and “me who falls over,” right?

What is “Yuudachi no Niwa”? Where did that information come from?

>>408 1: I only have the “call my name” one. 2: No. I left it rolled up in the corner of my room. I don’t intend to hang it, but throwing it away feels wrong.

Honestly, I want a music-video collection more than a poster.

>>413 >What is “Yuudachi no Niwa”? I still don’t really know. It’s unclear whether it will be on the second album or not. >Where did that information come from? Read everyone’s posts properly.

>415 Strongly agree. Someone wrote somewhere that a DVD was being produced, but was it a music-video collection? Maybe the information itself was a hoax…

>417 The information itself. I’m depressed…

>Where did that information come from? >Read everyone’s posts properly. I was too lazy to read them, so I asked. Maybe it was on “Best of…”? WINMX is slow when I’m using it. Actually, listen to this: I was downloading a song on WINMX and the other person’s ID was RAGE~. Could it be the real one?

I’m still deciding whether to buy the album. I’ve been spending too much money lately, so buying it is a problem… Well, I started liking AZUKI Nana because she looks a little like someone I like.

>>411 There’s a “Last love song” version too? I didn’t know that. I want to see it soon.

>>419 Reported.

Sorry, the “Shibai” after my name is just a mistake. >411 I’d like to see that version too—Nana-san is the best.

By the way, which artists besides GARNET CROW do you like? Being artists, after all?

Come to think of it, there used to be someone who said my older sister looked like Nakamura. If she were my sister, I might cross the line—huff, huff (´д｀；)

I don’t listen to Being artists. GARNET CROW only.

>424 I listen to Spitz, Makihara, Tadashi Hirosawa, and MISIA.

I listen to everything from anime songs to prewar blues, without restricting myself, and I listen pretty obsessively. Got a problem with that?

>>426 Same here.

>>427 I listen to Spitz too. >>425 Nakamura’s rhythm when she sings is definitely cute. But if you’re going to fantasize, choose someone else so you don’t have to cross the line (lol).

>>428 Same here, but what’s your point, >>424?

>>424 It’s cliché, but Rina Aiuchi. And a little Tokyo Pudding.

Is Aiuchi appearing on tomorrow’s HEY×3? The GARNET CROW commercial might air too.

Tomasson, Ono’s teammate, if you know what I mean.

>>434 What the heck is that?! But I laughed so hard.

>>405 I love “Jewel Fish” as a song, of course, but the source film was pretty surreal and memorable too. I’m so moe for Nana-san’s sense of naming that flying, flounder-like fish “Jewel Fish.” >>408 1: Two “Last love song” posters with the jacket image, plus one of the other version. One “call my name” poster. 2: For now I’ve put them in frames and hung them up. (I put the two Last posters side by side in a large frame.) I passed on “Timeless sleep” because it didn’t do much for me.

I lied—I’m just 419. Being artists? I own every CD by Miho Komatsu, if that matters. I also own the imported edition of the Beatles’ *1*, if that matters.

>>405 “Jewel Fish” is great. Let me try an even stranger interpretation. “When we actually met, we were supposed to feel something…” Maybe they were in an online relationship or something and were meeting offline for the first time. Then there’s a traffic accident right in front of them… Nana-chan is way too dark (;´Д｀)

The “Timeless sleep” music video is good.

>438 I hadn’t thought of that interpretation~ It does make the song fit together nicely. People have been saying for a while that they got hit by a car, though.

>>438 It says “we were supposed to feel something,” not “we were supposed to meet,” so I think that interpretation is wrong.

There are so many possible interpretations, aren’t there~

>>441 You have a point. Sorry for the leap in interpretation (lol). >>442 The meaning changes dramatically depending on where you break the lines.

So when 436 says the flounder-like fish is the Jewel Fish, does that mean it got run over and flattened? That’s pretty dark.

>>444 Look for the *Arizona Dream* DVD. The Jewel Fish appears on the package too. To me it looked more like iron or aluminum.

>>445 Jewel Fish seems to be a real fish. It wasn’t flat.

>>424 I hate Being artists, but I huff over GC and Miho Komatsu every day (´д｀).

>>445 I searched Tsutaya’s website and found *Arizona Dream*. So that’s the Jewel Fish… It also looks like a ring pull.

>>448 In the film, that fish is caught by an Eskimo in the protagonist’s dream at the beginning of the story. When its organs are inflated, it becomes a balloon (lol). It appears several more times afterward, floating and swimming through the desert. Am I really the only person here who has seen it?

>449 Ah… so that’s why the lyric says, “Your silhouette crossing the desert, so cute”…

>>449 The desert appears in the lyrics too. Maybe that’s why they chose Jewel Fish?

Reading the interview in J*GM, they said they imagined the fish living out its days like a human. So maybe the fish was also the one that got hit by the car, and the one who witnessed it (lol). Am I really the only person besides the poster who has seen *Arizona Dream*? This is depressing.

>>452 A merman? This really is one of the Seven Mysteries of Nana.

>452 I’ve seen it, but I watched it before I knew GARNET CROW, so I don’t remember it in that much detail, YO! ━ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ━(ヽ`Д)━( 　ヽ`)━ヽ(　　　)ﾉ━(ヽ　　)━(Д´ヽ)━ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ━!!! Waaahh!!

>>424 Miho Komatsu, ZARD, and Hysteric Blue. There are some Aiuchi songs I like too, but the person herself is just… (the rest omitted). I don’t listen to any other Being artists at all. There are people at Being I dislike too. B’z are the worst! I don’t like Kuraki either. Uehara and the others are out of the question. I quite like ELT, though.

This writing makes no sense… I’m off to die.

↑ Sorry… I’m 455.

These people are unusual even within Being. The members handle all of the lyrics, composition, and arrangement themselves. I find that kind of thing somewhat appealing.

>>449 That fish is cute—it looks like a pufferfish.

>>458 Maybe it’s Being staff and… (lol)

>458 That’s just Being’s strategy.

>>458 Okamocchi is the only one with nothing to his name… He’s a capable kid when he puts his mind to it, though. I bet it would end up sounding Western.

Since he belongs to Being, it might end up sounding like straight-up Western music.

│＼ 　　　　　　　　│　 ＼≡(`Д´;))≡= >The members handle all the lyrics, composition, and arrangement themselves. 　　　　　　　　│　　　＼≡//　))≡= 　　That line always baits someone, doesn’t it? (lol) 　　　　　　　　│　 　　≡」」」≡= 　　　　　　　　│ 　　　　　　　　│ 　　　　　　　　│ 　　　　　　　　│ 　　　　　　　　│ 　　　　　　　　│ 　　　　　　　　│ 　　　　　　　　│ 　　　　　　>>460-461

I’ve always thought GARNET CROW was formed by gathering people who write lyrics, compose, and arrange, and then adding Okamoto. What do you think? Even an indie album was the sort of thing that felt very common these days. But even while thinking that, I got hooked because I like the music GARNET CROW makes as a finished product. That’s how all Being artists are! Long live GIZA (lol).

>>424 Mr. Children was good in the old days… “Everybody goes,” “Futari wa makenai yo,” “Nariyuki makase no koi ni ochi,” “Haa—te—shi—na—i la la la la…” Mr. Children had great lyrics and melodies. That’s the point they have in common with GARNET CROW.

>>465 Correct. There aren’t any GIZA bands that were active as bands back in their amateur days. They were all assembled from different people. So it makes you wonder whether they’re actually close.

>>452 Was that the one with Johnny Depp?

GARNET CROW was created around the theme of being a group that only appears self-sufficient. It’s sad to support Being artists.

bury at sea To perform a water burial.

Eight days left, if anyone cares.

Looks like I’ll have to wait until May 1 to buy the second album… I’m depressed~~

There’ll probably be people who somehow get it early around February 22.

I might have to wait until after May 12 to buy it because of my exams. I’m depressed…

>>473 Hey, wait a second (lol). It’s April 15 right now!

I reserved it on my way home from school. They said there’s no reservation bonus, though (lol).

Will GC come to record stores in Osaka to promote it on the 23rd?

>>477 They’re not struggling musicians or an amateur band, you know (lol).

Well then, I think I’ll listen to “Naked story.”

I seriously thought about whether reserving it comes with a bonus.

>>480 And your conclusion?

I’m thinking about going to Spain-zaka on the 20th. It’s a Saturday, after all.

>481 I seriously thought about asking the store clerk first. >482 I seriously thought about going to Spain-zaka on the 20th.

Could it be that GC is going to do a public appearance at Spain-zaka?

>>482 Off topic. And we’re going to miss each other anyway.

398: Anonymous Songwriter | 2002/04/14 20:28 | ID:yhNJNM96 By the way, is there a Porno otaku mixed into this thread?

If the album sells well, call and eat GIZA, wow~

I was listening to “Jewel Fish” just now and had a thought: Could it be that not only the protagonist’s lover dies in an accident, but the protagonist commits suicide too? Am I overthinking it?

The protagonist definitely commits suicide in “flying” too.

In every GARNET CROW song, someone is destined to die. Got a problem with that?

>>487 Ahaha…

Yurippe speaking: Track 4 on the album, “pray”: This song was created under the influence of classical things such as Japanese music, folk songs, and traditional music from other countries. When singing it, I consciously used distinctive vocalization and ways of handling dynamics. I’m really looking forward to this song.

>>408 I always reserve at Disc Pier, so I get a B2 poster. I’m a working adult with room in my budget, so I always put it in a B2 wooden frame (about ¥3,000) and hang it on my wall. I’m almost out of space, so for the next poster I’m thinking of taking down the Conan version of “Yume Mita…” and putting it there instead. I also have a Beatles poster up in an aluminum frame (about ¥2,000). >Rage ◆qoVUMoeA You should look at the GARNET CROW interview in the April 10 issue of *WHAT’S IN*! AZUKI says that the most fundamental, underlying theme when she writes lyrics is “shogyō mujo” (the impermanence of all things). The review says, “…melodies with a crystalline quality that also evoke British and Nordic music, as well as classical music…” Also, “Sky Blue” is available for preview on the official site. The discography now lets you preview the indie album and all the singles too (one song at a time). New fans, go take a look!!

http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/45647335 Someone buy this for me~

>>493 Where do they sell wooden frames for posters? The frame I’m using looks cheap (lol).

The content of *WHAT’S IN* was more than enough to read in the shop. I was in a hurry, so I bought it anyway.

You can find them at the usual DIY home centers; a large store might be best. Of the four near me, two carry them. (The dimensions differ from jigsaw-puzzle frames, so make sure it explicitly says it’s for a B2 poster.) I insist on putting GARNET CROW in a wooden frame. By my values, they’re above the Beatles now (whose poster is in an aluminum frame).

I’d hang a “Futari no Rocket” poster (it’s highly artistic, and AZUKI-sensei took the photo), but the new album’s jacket photo is a little… Personally, I like that it looks like a Western rock album, with none of the actual members visible.

The members themselves.

Album commercial bump on Conan.

I was sage-ing it.

>>492 Didn’t Nana-san mention in some article before that Yurippe sings something like folk music? I think it was around summer? I was typing that when the commercial came on Conan. Yurippe is so moe~

They changed the preview format to .asx this time. Do you think there’s some reason for that? Either way, people who can save it will save it, and people who can’t won’t… It isn’t as if saving it has any great meaning—or causes any real harm.

In the end, it’s a problem.

Sorry for the consecutive posts. I just listened to “Sky Blue,” and it has a feeling similar to Miyuki Nakajima’s “Saigo no Megami.” Personally, I think the lyrics are great!!

>>493 Was “Kaleidoscope” available for preview before? >>503 I’m sure the person in charge is just at that age in life.

We have to keep watch for the *Hey Hey Hey* commercial too.

The lyrics and the sound fit together perfectly. >“Sky Blue”

>>508 Strongly agree!! Still, today’s *Hey Hey Hey* was…

Delete.

>>506 No, I don’t think it was available before. By the way, lately don’t you think a lot of record stores have the first album out of stock? Instead, I’ve started seeing *Kaleidoscope* in stores much more often. Also, the nearby Tsutaya rental shop has started putting the first album at the beginning of the “Ka” section. It’s a really big deal that Tsutaya has started giving them more shelf space!!!

I don’t know how far back “before” means, but by the time I started listening to GC a lot, it was available for preview, YO! Around last December, I think.

The first album is treated like a classic at rental shops.

>>511 >The nearby Tsutaya rental shop has started putting the first album at the beginning of the “Ka” section. That’s good, that’s good. By the way, is HMV and Shinseido still the convenient place to buy *Kaleidoscope*?

“Yume Mita Ato de” seems to have a secret version!! I don’t know whether it’s the first track or whether it’s included separately as track 13, though.

Even though they’re all Kansai dialects (or accents), Nana-san’s and Yurippe’s are pretty different from Aiuchi’s, I think. Just a test post.

Yuri.

>>514 I’m from Kansai, and *Kaleidoscope* has always been stocked at Disc Pier and HMV, but lately I’ve started seeing it in ordinary record stores too. Also, recently most stores have stopped lumping them under “Ka and others” and made a separate “GARNET CROW” section.

So what exactly is “Yuudachi no Niwa”…? No, let’s just forget about this song already.

>>518 They’re gradually becoming established.

>>519 Just from the name, it sounds like it’ll be a masterpiece.

>>515 >“Yume Mita Ato de” seems to have a secret version!! It’s not secret at all (lol). Everyone knows about it.

>>522 Be careful: it may not be the album version!!! On the first album, “Natsu no Maboroshi” had a secret version that was included as track 13, separate from the single version on track 3, right? (Look at the official discography—the table of contents has only 12 tracks and doesn’t list it.) What I mean is, if it’s the album version this time, it’ll be track 1, but if it’s a secret version, it might come after the 12 tracks, separately from the single version.

>>523 Isn’t it listed on the back of the jacket? Will it be one of those things that surprises us when we listen to the album for the first time?

>>488 >>489 “blue bird” managed to stop short, then. Is “Sky” a double suicide?

If there’s one secret track, that means one more dead person in the lyrics…

>>526 Don’t say things like that…

What’s the building in the “Futari no Rocket” jacket photo?

I laughed at 528’s “salmon photo,” and then noticed the typo in my own post at 525. I’m depressed…

>>526 LOL

Oricon’s review: “GARNET CROW’s new album, following the March single ‘Yume Mita Ato de,’ which debuted at number six on this magazine’s chart. What an incredibly cool subtitle. With a cool-toned feel just like its subtitle, it ranges from refreshing, liberating sounds to serious ones. The two bonus tracks are also appealing.” ttp://www.oricon.co.jp/cd_detail.asp?cdno=149236&k=2&m=2 There were no reviews for *19 BEST ● Blue*, *19 BEST ● Spring*, or *Self Best*. Maybe the Oricon reviewer liked GC too, I’m just saying…

>>525-526 They seem popular with middle-schoolers because they put images of death into their lyrics. Middle-schoolers are weak to words like “live” and “die,” you know (lol).

>>532 >Middle-schoolers are weak to words like “live” and “die,” you know (lol). So are old people.

Everyone interprets things differently, right? There’s no way to know which interpretation is correct.

And that’s exactly what AZUKI intended.

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>Middle-schoolers are weak to words like “live” and “die,” you know (lol). But Azuki never explicitly writes that anyone died, so depending on the interpretation, it could turn out that nobody died at all.

Everyone interprets things differently, right? Maybe we’re imagining too much.

Number of dead people in GARNET CROW songs = (number of GC songs) × (Azuki coefficient) ÷ (Yurippe moe index)

Hemp.

Drugs.

Are bad.

Everyone in the Kanto area! GARNET CROW is going to be on Chiba TV right now~

(〃・∀・) Great!!

Wipe~ away~ the tears~

People who saw it earlier already said this, but they really did turn the lights up way too bright (lol). It’s so (・∀・) great even without doing that…

I still haven’t managed to see the “Last love song” version of the commercial… I also bought *Hokkaido Walker*. It included the reading for AZUKI Nana: “Nana, key.”

>>546 Was it the same footage as “Meccha E!”? I can’t watch Chiba TV, so I consoled myself by getting excited over Ronaldo and Owen on Supōruto. >>547 That version isn’t actually going to be included, right? Maybe it was a joke?

In “Until I reach your house,” did someone get bored with living, run off to die, eat pizza, and then die of food poisoning?

>>548 I’m looking forward to this week’s “Meccha E!” and “BEST of J-GROOVE.” If it doesn’t show up there either…

Um… I don’t know this band very well, but are the lyrics really that dark? I borrowed “Yume Mita Ato de” and am listening to it now as a test, and it seems pretty good. Maybe I’ll buy the album. Though the record company…

I don’t really like Being, but I’m a GC fan…

>>551 Try listening to some previews. http://garnetcrow.com/

>>493 Thanks!! I have about three of them in frames too, but they only sold aluminum frames, so I had no choice but to use those. What a waste—if the price isn’t much different, wooden would have been better. ━ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ━(ヽ`Д)━( 　ヽ`)━ヽ(　　　)ﾉ━(ヽ　　)━(Д´ヽ)━ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ━!!! Waaahh!!

Just… just one more week. One week is all I need… Please… hold out for me… my… li— *cough*.

>>555 was a good person. But he’s no longer of this world… ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ Waaahhhhhhh!

Hajime Chitose is just a one-hit wonder, right? Why did someone like that reach number one on Oricon?

>>557 Because she’s a one-hit wonder, that’s why she reached number one.

>>551 Rather than being dark, the songs have more of the quality of requiems, so I think you could call the lyrics gentle. May >>555 be able to get the second album by “Meguru Haru ni mo,” amen.

I use “Kimi no Ie” (the single, first version) as my alarm, and it really is good. It lets me wake up feeling refreshed.

>>559 said something good.

Everyone keeps focusing on the lyrics, but talk about the melody team—Furui, Nakamura, and Okamoto—too. Or is that too technical for people to understand?

>>562 Furui’s skill as an arranger? Okamoto’s guitar technique? Nakamura’s chord progressions and harmonies? I don’t know anything about that. But are there any amateur GARNET CROW cover bands? The sheet music hasn’t come out yet, has it?

No matter how much you like the poetry, it’s still the music and the singing voice that matter. It doesn’t necessarily have to be Azuki’s poetry, I guess…

>>563 There seem to be piano scores for things like the *Detective Conan* theme-song collections. I buy MIDI data, edit it, and turn it into scores.

Furui’s arrangements are a little… The arrangement of “Mysterious Eyes” is (・∀・) great! The others are so-so.

On Planet’s weekly chart, “Yume Mita Ato de” is at number 25. It’s holding on right before the album release. It didn’t become a huge hit, but you can definitely call it a long-running hit. They probably ran up a huge deficit with all the advertising, but it also promoted the album, and at least people in the industry have become familiar with the name GARNET CROW. I think quite a lot of people have listened to the first album too.

Does Nakamura herself realize that she’s a moe character?

Ukyaaa!!

The Wild Animals board.

>>568 Does 568 realize that their own head is a little rotten? (lol)

>>568 Stop! It would completely shatter Nakamura’s serious-looking image with a loud crash (lol).

People at Being all have this sort of honor-student aura, don’t they? It’s like they’re hard to joke around with.

I can’t tell whether “Naked story” is anime-song-like or not, or whether it’s dark or bright. >>573 Aiuchi too?!

I watched *HEY!!!!HEY!!!!HEY!!!!* yesterday, and Aiuchi looked the best by far. “Country whatever” was just sexual gratification. All I remember of Hamasaki is the dog. The last one was beyond the pale. Ahh, I can’t wait to hear the “Mysterious Eyes” remix.

>>575 >Revival >>555 Are you a zombie?

>>573 What about King Opal? (lol)

Yurippe and Azuki are shut-in candidates.

That’s not true.

>>573 I don’t think it’s right to lump all Being people together like that. It feels like it diminishes the significance of each individual.

Listening to the two albums so far, I thought Yurippe sings with all kinds of different voices, like the Edogawa family.

I previewed “Sky Blue” and grabbed the ringtone too. It’s a good song.

Hey, you guys: Does today’s *Walker* magazine have a full-page GARNET CROW article nationwide? At least it seems to be in my Tokai *Walker* and >>547’s Hokkaido *Walker*.

Was Yuri-tan’s “Tell Me” good?

The Yokohama *Walker* had a full page devoted to them.

According to the official site, it’s in Yokohama, Chiba, Tokai, Kansai, Kyushu, and Hokkaido *Walker*. So I guess it isn’t in the others. I didn’t see it in *Kobe Walker* (though I might have missed it since I was only browsing it in the shop).

Now that I think about it, isn’t the most important region missing from that list? <*Walker*>

My region was left out, so that’s fine. (lol)

A bump for “Sports.”

Please don’t talk while “Spiral” is playing. <The two announcers>

>>548 I don’t think it was the same, but the outfit was the same as in “M no Mokushiroku” (or was that the title?), which was on quite a while ago. Nakamura Yuri’s outfit really stood out to me. >>590 I strongly agree! With “Sky Blue,” at least, you can listen properly without any noise… Though these days you can listen to it on the official site anyway. (w)

（｡Д°）When is the second album cominggggg?

The second album will be released once we draw five or six more skulls on the calendar.

>592 （;｡Д°）The calendar was from last yearrrr. I can’t wait, so I’ve been playing the first album over and over ljkfgshr;3w

I just can’t manage to watch the “Last love song” version of the music video… Does it really exist?

>>595 The “Last love song” version of the music video What do you mean by “version”?

>>596 Please see >>392 and >>411. We’re talking about the commercial for the second album.

>>597 On SkyPerfecTV channel 272, the “Last love song” version is being played constantly. Conversely, I’ve never seen the “Last love song” version on terrestrial TV. I wonder if they’re doing that intentionally, or if it’s just coincidence.

The Tsutaya near me has had the first album rented out nonstop lately! It looks like they’re getting a lot of attention.

600!! ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ <Only six days to go.

>>599 Maybe someone has it overdue.

>>598 Oh, I see… Thanks for the information. I’ll wait patiently.

I’d like them to air the “Last love song” version on terrestrial TV, around *Meccha E!*.

In the end, it’s just a combination of the previous music videos, so don’t worry about it too much.

Azuki with one eye covered by her hair in the “call my name” version is pretty darn occult.

Azuki in the second album’s cover photo and the “timeless” music video has such a slender, model-like figure. Moe~.

Looking at the photos in *Walker* and the second album’s cover, GARNET CROW really is cool! They’re “shy artists,” but they’re incredibly cool!! And the music is great too!!! Also, I have a request for Mr. Kanonji: please get them a dedicated stylist. Yuri and Nana would become even prettier. It’s such a waste!!

But their ordinary, casual clothes that they chose themselves are moe too. (w)

Ms. Nakamura’s long skirt is lovely.

Don’t you want to see GARNET CROW speaking?

This week’s Oricon: “Yume Mita Ato de” Rank: 30th Weekly sales: 5,170 copies Total sales: 78,760 copies Its chart history so far: 6th → 14th → 19th → 19th → 30th 40,140 copies → 16,850 copies → 10,170 copies → 6,430 copies → 5,170 copies The ranking fell, but sales haven’t dropped that much. It’s about to pass 80,000 copies, but rather than buying “Yume Mita Ato de” now, I’d say buy the album instead.

>>610 They’ve shown them speaking quite a lot in the TV appearances since last month. What more do you want?

---------- April 17 ---------- Miyuki Nakajima / “Singles 2000” YCCW-37 ¥2,940 [BEST] “Tabibito no Uta,” “Sora to Kimi no Aida ni,” “Jōchū no Hoshi,” and 11 others, 14 tracks total globe / “Lights2” AVCG-70011 ¥3,059 ---------- April 24 ---------- Kazumasa Oda / “Jiko Best” FHCL-2020 ¥3,059 [BEST] “Love Story wa Totsuzen ni,” “Oh! Yeah!,” “Tsutaetai Koto ga Arunda,” “Sayonara,” “Kirakira,” and 10 others, 15 tracks total Miki Imai / “Goodbye Yesterday—the best of MIKI IMAI—” WPCV-10185 ¥3,059 [BEST] “Goodbye Yesterday,” “AQUA,” “Shiosai,” and 11 others, 14 tracks total Yuki Koyanagi with Shawn Stockman & Nathan Morris (BOYZ II MEN) / “Intimacy” HDCA-10093 ¥2,625 Stardust Revue / “LOVE SONGS 2” EPCE-5147 ¥3,059 [BEST] (previous album peaked at 10th) Yumi Kimura / “Gin no Shizuku” TKCA-72350 ¥2,500 PIERROT / “HEAVEN THE CUSTOMIZED LANDSCAPE” UUCH-1051 ¥3,059 TWO-MIX / “7th anniversary BEST” WPC7-10136 ¥3,059 [BEST] GARNET CROW / “SPARKLE—Suji-gaki Dōri no Sky Blue—” GZCA-5013 ¥3,059 Mongol800, Ketsumeishi, BoA, DAI, and WOMAN3 will probably remain in the chart, but I wonder how high they’ll get. They probably won’t beat Miyuki Nakajima or Kazumasa Oda, though…

>>611 I predict the album will sell 1.5 to 2 times that amount. The first mini-album and the first album had different flavors, and this one will probably be another good album with a different character. I burned a hypothetical album to a CD and have been listening to it for a week straight. >>610 You mean Okamoto-tan and Furui-tan? I’d actually like to see a one-time project featuring a duo of Okamoto-tan and Yurippe.

>>610 If it’s just Yurippe, you can hear her live singing and interview, and see the live Yurippe, on the “Pan Kōjō DVD.”

Sorry for posting repeatedly. Since it was recorded on a DVD, it wasn’t actually “live” after all. (depressed)

When will GIZA’s website finally put them on the front page? They’re being released on the same day as Kuraki, so I’m worried.

Sorry, I accidentally wrote “sage” in the name field. (depressed)

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The appearance of someone who uses lots of ASCII art means the percentage of middle-schoolers is rising. That’s an established fact!

They aren’t a troll, and there’s no particular problem with it, though.

Is “Jewel Fish” a cover of heaco’s “Laugh at Someone Like Me” (composed by Shoko Suzuki, released 1999/10/21, ESCB-2028)? No matter how I listen to them, they sound like the same song.

>>611 Oh no… my job… ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ Waaaaah!

>>622 All right, then I’ll laugh at it as you requested. Hahahahahaha.

When I close my eyes, Azuki is the very first person I think of…

>>624 　.'⌒⌒丶 　||/从 从） 　ヽ ´ー｀）　　Hahahahaha 　（　つ「￣￣] 　（ 「￣　七 ｜ 　.　|＿_iiiiiiiiiiiii

April 24, 2002: The story begins. “Love Story wa Totsuzen ni ~Oh! Yeah!~” Man: “There’s something I want to tell you.” Woman: “Goodbye.” Sparkle…

>>622 …It seems both songs were probably borrowed from the same Western song.

>>622 http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arch/KS/Heaco/ESCB-2028/index.html I listened to the preview. The endings really are similar.

>>628 What’s the source material?

It’s the sort of moe song Yurippe, the composer, might listen to, but the decisive difference between “Jewel Fish” and that moe song is the lyrics.

>>629 It’s not just that the endings are similar—they’re the same. (w) I never imagined they’d be this alike.

>>630 Wasn’t it Britney-tan? Maybe it’s a parody song intended for the B-side, since it also includes a parody of a movie.

>>613 TWO-MIX / “7th anniversary BEST” WPC7-10136 ¥3,059 [BEST] This jumped out at me immediately. I’m curious, I’m curious—what the hell?! (ﾟдﾟ) Huh?

>>629 If you call this plagiarism, there’s no hope for you. Similarity and plagiarism are different things. There are only so many chord-progression patterns, and if every straightforward melody whose next phrase can be predicted by humming it counts as plagiarism, then everything is somebody’s copy. Copyright becomes an issue when four or more bars overlap. There has been a court case where eight overlapping bars were judged copyright infringement, while in another case four overlapping bars were not considered identical because one note had been changed. That said, in the world of arrangers, borrowing is standard, and people even say a good arranger is someone who is good at borrowing. People who can’t come up with an original melody arrange rather than compose. The ability to come up with melodies is innate. Nakamura Yuri has that innate talent, while Furui doesn’t.

>>613 Number 19 is missing.

There was a two-page spread advertising the second album in *Men’s Club*. I was surprised.

Black.

I saw Yurippe in “Tell Me” on the DVD, and she’s incredibly moe.

Of the songs played in the *Best of J-GROOVE* album preview, I liked “Naked story” and “wish★.” But the song I’m looking forward to most is “Please, Forgive Me.” Apparently it has the most difficult rock sound they’ve done so far, according to Nakamura.

>>635 Even one bar should constitute copyright infringement, I think.

>>613>>636 I’ll just point out that Supercar is missing.

It is similar, but “Timeless Sleep” was even more questionable…

>>629 alone could be dismissed as “similar,” but after listening to the full songs, there are several more parts that are even more similar—in fact, identical. It’s not a matter of how many bars match; I honestly had a hard time finding the parts that were different. (w) Is this the “original melody” >>635 was talking about? There’s at least one note that’s different, after all.

>>640 Is it true that, as Nakamura says, “wish★” is a song you can dance to?

>>644 I was shocked when I listened to the full version too. It’s practically identical from beginning to end.

I want to believe it was an instruction from Nagato…

Don’t let the media lead you around by the nose.

Has anyone heard “Holy ground”? I’d like to hear your impressions.

Neri.

Now that they’ve appeared on TV, Nana should be able to face forward on the album jackets too.

>648 I wonder when I was dancing along to the news about Aiuchi’s live show being postponed and her album release being postponed.

That photo was taken on the rooftop of some building in Osaka, right?

I wonder if today’s *Meccha E!* will air the “Last love song” version of the commercial.

“Keep on Dancin’” Lyrics: Kanako Oda / Music: Koji Yamane and Hirohito Furui / Arrangement: Kosuke Oshima Can someone tell me what this song is like? DEEN had just debuted, and I assume Furui was assigned to help with the composition, but I guess that means Furui can compose reasonably well too. I’ve never heard this song myself, though.

Honestly, I won’t be surprised no matter what similar song turns up from now on.

At this rate, it’s a race between the next thread and the release of the second album.

>>655 I think he really only helped a little. Yamane probably wrote about 90 percent of the song.

I’m not surprised, but this will make perfect fodder for the antis who are bound to appear. There are even middle-schoolers who join the anti-fan ranks of artists they don’t actually dislike, just because they’ve found a weakness.

>>659 The fans already know all the openings the antis are likely to attack: bad singing, heavy photo retouching, plagiarism, being for anime otaku, Azuki maybe not being able to play piano, Nakamura maybe not being able to compose, a crappy agency… No matter what they say, I won’t be shaken. (w)

“Laugh at Someone Like Me”… Hmm, how should I put it? Weak impact! It’s about as similar as Juri Mari’s “KYOTO” and Whiteberry’s *Meccha Ike!* ending theme. It’s just nitpicking. Are you really going to call this plagiarism? It seems you can’t definitively call something plagiarism unless it’s at Furuya’s level. Come to think of it, “Spiral” has become a ringtone. I’m happy. (lol)

>>660 Being deliberately leaves openings for the antis to exploit. Ah, this is such a pain…

>640 *Best of J-GROOVE*, huh… On Chiba TV, it’ll probably be tomorrow (the 18th, from midnight to 1:00 a.m.). The one I’m looking forward to is “Sky Blue.” I want to hear the full version soon! Apparently *Meccha E!* will introduce all the songs next time, but by then the album will already be out. (w)

I like that song. DEEN’s first album didn’t have any bad songs, but this was one of my favorites among them. So Furui composed it, huh? Yamane may have done most of the composing, as >>658 says, but I honestly think it has a good melody.

If you worried about plagiarism every time, you’d never be able to write a song. Oh, the “Inori” by Secret Garden that I’m listening to right now sounds exactly like a huge Mr. Children hit! “It doesn’t know how to stop—♪”

Wish★ is here━━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━━━━!!!!!!!!!!

>661 Thanks for the information~ I got the ringtone right away! Please play it for this long on *Sports* too. >662 Why would they need to do that? >665, 666 Your IDs are SKY.

>>662 I see. Since the antis dig up everything around them, it gives them a first-rate image by comparison… Is Being hoping for that?

The antis do the advertising for them, so they can save on promotion costs.

>>667 Oh! You’re right!! I feel like there’s something fate-like about it.

>>667 >>670 Thinking about the lyrics of “Sky,” I can’t exactly celebrate without reservations… But it really is unusual.

Timeless Sleep~ gentle sleeep~

I just saw *Best of J-GROOVE* on TV Saitama. I got the impression that they’re exploring a new GARNET CROW while preserving what makes them GARNET CROW. I’m relieved that there doesn’t seem to be any of the rumored change in direction.

>>622 >No matter how I listen to them, they sound like the same song. Don’t worry—no matter how you listen to them, they aren’t the same song!

>>660 >Nakamura maybe not being able to compose There’s no way that’s true. I can’t imagine Nakamura herself being able to endure telling such a serious lie.

Don’t worry. The DVD will show you that Yurippe is GIZA’s number-one moe character, and that she can sing live with a reasonably strong voice. Her outfit in the first interview is moe~.

>A favorite of anime otaku They aren’t selling because Conan fans aren’t making them their favorite.

How should I put it… Everyone, you’re trying awfully hard.

This is the kind of scene you see in every thread on this board whenever a new song or album is released.

I don’t think there’s any malice behind it. But right now, the only way to find out whether something resembles another song is to ask people around you. I wonder when we’ll be able to do this with a computer.

Next week’s *Meccha E!* is definitely one to watch.

>>661 You’re trying awfully hard. (lol) >It seems you can’t definitively call something plagiarism unless it’s at Furuya’s level. So you can definitively call “Jewel Fish” plagiarism. Furuya-level plagiarism only has a similar chorus melody, whereas “Jewel Fish” is similar from beginning to end—in the melody, the development, and the arrangement. >>674 It is a different song, sure. The lyrics are different.

>682 Maybe they heard it somewhere long ago and it remained in their subconscious. That sort of thing can happen. They may not have realized it themselves.

>>682 You’re really desperate to nitpick. (w) As someone who isn’t a fan, they both look equally guilty to me. (w) Oh, I don’t dislike them either. I’m completely neutral.

>>675 People trying to succeed are all thick-skinned at heart. You shouldn’t expect musicians to have admirable personalities.

>>683 GARNET CROW is still Being, after all. There’s no way it’s a coincidence.

Whenever a new song or album comes out, the antis and the believers on the 2ch Japanese-music board all get desperate. Copyright is a matter for the people directly involved; if they want to sue, they can sue. In the first place, it has nothing to do with the interests of the antis, the believers, or neutral people like me. If you listen to a song and think it’s bad, you can simply stop listening. If you think it’s good, you can listen to it even if it’s a rip-off.

I first learned about GARNET CROW through “flying,” the theme song for *TOE*. Are there a lot of people like that?

>>688 Or a lot of people probably discovered them through the Conan opening “Mysterious~.” I got to know them through the chain Miho Komatsu → Furui → GARNET CROW.

I’m thinking of buying “Yume Mita Ato de,” one of GARNET CROW’s songs. Wait, wasn’t this one a Conan song too? There sure are a lot of Conan tie-ins…

I got here through GIZA studio R&B PARTY → Nakamura Yurippe → moe → GARNET CROW. >>690 For such a famous long-running anime program, Conan is used a lot, but it doesn’t show up in the sales. (depressed)

According to *MFM*, Yurippe was injured just before recording the vocals for “Last love song.” Σ(ﾟдﾟlll) Gaaah!

>>Everyone ◎◎◎◎◎○○○○○●●●● IMPORTANT ●●●●○○○○○◎◎◎◎◎ I listened to the entire album. The lyric booklet is 18 pages, with lots of photos of GARNET CROW. I won’t say where I heard it. I’m debating whether to reserve a second copy for safekeeping. “Yume Mita Ato de” is the same as the single version; there’s no secret version. So there are 12 tracks in all. Well, to my ears, the album tracks were better than the singles again this time!! They make “Yume Mita Ato de” fade into the background!! I won’t give details because I don’t want to spoil it, but I’ll comment only on the remixes: “Mysterious Eyes” sounds like the version used on the Conan broadcast. “Timeless Sleep” sounds like the “call sky mix.” Also, Yurippe’s singing ability is dramatically better than on the first album. The copy in a Celsior commercial said, “Only a Celsior can surpass a Celsior.” So I’ll say: only GARNET CROW’s second album can surpass GARNET CROW’s first… ◎◎◎◎◎○○○○○●●●●　　　　　●●●●○○○○○◎◎◎◎◎

Reservations at the Nipponbashi Disk Pier store have exceeded 100 copies.

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>>693 So “Holy ground” really is good?

>>693 Of the songs on the new album, “Holy ground” feels closest to GARNET CROW’s early style.

Does that mean it’s similar to “Eien ni Hōre” and “sky,” and songs like that?

So that means a lot of GARNET CROW fans are anime otaku.

700 get!!

To describe it abstractly so I don’t spoil anything: “pray” — the image of an ABBA song “Naked story” — good enough to release as a single “Sky Blue” — definitely better if you listen to the whole thing “wish★” — a dance number that would probably be a huge hit if offered to Aiuchi “Please, Forgive Me” — a band-like song with an original ending “Holy ground” — classic GARNET CROW sound That’s just my personal impression. I think people may feel differently.

Ahh, which one should I buy… the second album or the “Yume Mita Ato de” single…

>>701 You’re a good person. Thanks for the info. I even got a milestone number, so I’m going to log off. I’m looking forward to the 23rd.

>>702 If I had to choose, I’d recommend the former. But the latter has a song called “Happy Pet,” too.

>>702 Obviously, rent the single and buy the album.

Buy both~.

Has anyone here become a fan because of this song? >>704 I see… Maybe I’ll just buy it at this point.

>>706 Ah, that would be the best choice, but…

Can I ask one more question? Um, has GARNET CROW released any music videos yet? There’s nothing about it on the official site, so I assume they haven’t released any yet…

>>709 They haven’t.

>>709 There aren’t any music videos, but if you only want Nakamura, footage of the live GIZA female-singer broadcast was released on DVD.

Someone please upload GARNET CROW’s page from *Walker*~~~~. I’ll tell you where to watch the music videos again in return.

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>>701 The jacket, booklet, and contents are all great! Isn’t that a little too much good stuff in one package? (w) GARNET CROW always gets my dreams—or delusions—running wild, and it’s becoming a problem.

An initial sale of 50,000 should be easy. It would be great if they took fourth place, though…

An unauthorized GARNET CROW power play at the entrance of a CD shop.

Will they beat the sales of Mai Kuraki’s first album, *delicious way*, from two years ago?

I’ll withdraw my savings and buy it.

>>718 No way. That’s my serious answer.

【Collection of moving scenes, part one】 To you who set off before me, I whisper, “Don’t go.” Because I know my words won’t reach you, I can cry today without worry. Can I cry, Yurippe and Azuki?

Sex.

Just release the album tomorrow already! ━ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ━(ヽ`Д)━( 　ヽ`)━ヽ(　　　)ﾉ━(ヽ　　)━(Д´ヽ)━ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ━!!! Waaaaaahh!!

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What is this atmosphere in this thread…? It’s incredibly mellow. You guys are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I want to poke Yurippe’s cheek. ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`)

>>727 Σ(ﾟдﾟlll) Gaaah! Everyone’s Yurippe…

Ahh, I’m really looking forward to the album… Lately the days have been passing so slowly. (w)

>>729 My days are frighteningly short! I have things I need to do, so I won’t even be able to listen when I buy the second album… I need time. I need time. I need time.

Yurippe.

>>727 That was more moe than any of the obscene posts so far! (lol)

Yurippe’s cheeks are a little sunken.

I prefer Nana’s cheeks to Yurippe’s. I want to poke them. ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`)

Me too, me too~.

>>733 The fragile, ill-fated look is the strongest.

When listening to Yurippe’s “Tell Me,” you should listen to the CD, or listen without looking at the DVD screen. Yurippe’s movements while singing “Tell Me” are too cute and don’t match the song at all.

>>736 Moe for the delicate Kyoto woman!!

People called it camera magic, but she blows that theory away. I actually prefer Ms. Yuri when she isn’t in a music video.

>>736 >The fragile, ill-fated look is the strongest. It suits the content of the songs, doesn’t it? If they had shown her natural face from the start instead of awkwardly retouching the video images and CD photos to make her look cute, people might have accepted that this is simply what the vocalist looks like. I really like Yuri’s face that looks like someone with severe nearsightedness has just taken off their glasses.

They process her into the cute type for the jackets and so on, but in person she’s probably the beautiful type, on the level of Izumi Sakai.

I prefer her in person, though.

Yay! My ID is GC! That’s all.

I’m not wavering anymore. I’m definitely buying the second album. (Then I’ll hunt down all the singles.) By the way, are the indie mini-albums being sold anywhere?

>>744 Lately I’ve been seeing “Kaleidoscope” fairly often even in ordinary CD shops.

>744 There were tons of copies at Tower Records in Shinjuku!!

The fastest places if you order are HMV and Shinseido. My impressions: “Kaleidoscope” — Yurippe is heavily featured. “soundscope” — Nana-tan and Furui are heavily featured. What will the second album be like?

I’m 744. Actually, I don’t own even one GARNET CROW CD yet, but I think I’ll start with the new album if I’m going to buy one. I’ve heard a little of GC’s music in games and on TV, but I’ve never owned any of it. Still, the songs made by the vocalist and the other three members are soothing, or something… Sorry for the long ramble.

Was “Spiral” playing on *Sports* just now while Beckham was on? And “Even if you get hurt~♪” fits Beckham perfectly.

>>749 Ah, I heard it too. Come to think of it, it seems to be the theme song.

Owen is here!!

>744 I became a fan because of the first album too. Then I started collecting the singles because I wanted to hear the B-sides, and after learning that the indie albums existed, I went from CD shop to CD shop looking for them. (w)

>>744 Please buy the second album! Help contribute to the sales. (w) If they’re aiming for a high ranking, the first-week sales are what matter. It probably won’t be as easy as it was for Mongol800, though.

This is the calm before the storm. It’s a festival wasshoi~ ever since *Music Station*.

*J-GROOVE* played all the singles and three album tracks. They sounded pretty good…

(・∀・) A festival?

Cool.

Sorry for the childish question at this point, but is “Yūdachi no Niwa” not included?

That’s a secret.

>>755 I heard it too. (;´Д`) Haa haa >>758 Why is your ID hidden?

“That’s a secret,” huh… >>760 >Why is your ID hidden? I don’t know myself. Why is it??

【Collection of moving scenes, part two】 “Let’s go to the town where we can see the sea. Let’s lure out and bring back that day that only you could see.” It’s fresh and heart-fluttering, yet somehow makes you cry. <Ms. Azuki>

Ah, I was watching *J-GROOVE* and GARNET CROW appeared… It was my first time seeing them on TV. I heard “Yume Mita Ato de” too, and now I’m even more eager to buy it. I can’t wait… the 24th…

>>758 Are you a resident of the Legal Affairs board? Then you’re one of us.

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,, 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　,,,,, 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣＼ 　　　　　　　　,,,,　　　　　　|　Would you like some tea with us?　| 　　　　　　　,,,,,　　　　　　　＼＿＿＿＿　＿＿＿＿＿＿＿／ 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　∨　　Rest time 　　　　　　　　∩ ∩ヾ"　　＿（ ´ー｀）　　　　／■＼ Wasshoi 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　|＼ （　　　）＼　　∬（∀｀　　）　　　人　Sparkle too 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　|　 （　（　ﾉ　　.＼　日日日⊂　）　／ ﾟo＼ Alpools 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　＼ し し　　　 　 ＼ ￣￣（￣（　（　（´∀｀Ｏ）

What’s wrong, boss?　| 　　　　　　　　　　　／　We can’t keep up with production of the second album. ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣Ｖ￣￣　￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　.＿＿＿＿_＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿__ 　　　　　　　　　　　　 ／ ＿|＿＿| 　　　　 //∧＿∧ ＼＼ 　　　　　　　　　＿__／　 　.（･∀･　）　　　..//（´∀｀　）..　＼＼ 　　　　　　　　　　＿＿(＿Ｚ＿_.＿⊆⌒⊆___）_　　//~~￣)　　　）..___.|__)ー-、

It looks like Furui is also arranging Aiuchi’s tour! I saw him in footage of Aiuchi rehearsing. Is being in charge of arrangements basically like being the foreman on site? Surely Kanonji doesn’t do the hands-on work too, right?

Professor Furui is GARNET CROW’s boss.

>>764 No, no, no. That’s not it. (w) Please, someone tell me why my ID disappeared.

Bump.

When I see “GC,” I think of “Gurachan.”

I’m starting to understand the comment on *Music Station* that they couldn’t appear because they were busy. Furui is being reused everywhere. (w) Don’t work yourself to death from overwork.

They broadcast the GC match yesterday, didn’t they?

Honestly…

Azuki gets 776!!

And Azuki gets 777 Sparkle!! Whoosh!!

I’ll just say that I’d like to hear a song with lyrics written by Nakamura.

Mellow.

Me → ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`) ← Yurippe ヾ(;ﾟ;Д;ﾟ;)ﾉﾞ Uviii!! ← the other anxious fan This (`∀´)ヾ is good.

We’ve settled on the next thread title: ▲ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`) GARNET CROW part 14 Σ(ﾟдﾟlll) Gaaah!▲

In my mind, I’ve formed the equation: GARNET CROW = punyu. Is that because their cheeks are so squishy?

>>782 Yurippe is slim, so her cheeks aren’t squishy-squishy. But she’s moe enough that you want to poke her.

▲Album Release Wasshoi GARNET CROW part 14▲—just testing it as a possible title. I have a feeling someone will reply, “That’s copied from the Aiuchi thread!” (w)

This one seems better: Yurippe → ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`) ← me

>>772>>774 …GameCube. (muttered)

Before I know it, I’m seeking it. Love that isn’t the same passes by. Longing for something without a form. True. 　｡　｡ ( Д ) Huh? For “Mysterious Eyes.”

In magazines, Azuki Nana looks more petite than Nakamura Yuri, but on TV, Azuki Nana looks more petite than Nakamura Yuri. Especially Yuri’s thighs are something else.

Azuki Nana appeared in my dream and said one thing: “The women’s restroom is on the fourth floor.” (True.)

>>788 I’ll just say that Azuki has the bigger chest. This is only a test.

>>787 That’s why it’s “Mysterious.” >>788 You’re quite the Yurippe expert yourself. >>789 When Azuki says it, it sounds like something might appear there—the fourth floor, the floor of death.

>>789 I dreamed about Yurippe too. In the dream world, Nakamura was a girl in my class. But even in the dream, I knew that Nakamura was GARNET CROW’s vocalist. The teachers and students at the dream school didn’t know she was an artist. Then my homeroom teacher said, “Nakamura, clean the classroom,” and when I heard that, I was like, “Nakamura is busy! I’ll clean it for her.” Dreams seem so stupid when you think about them after waking up, but I didn’t want it to end. When I woke up, I actually said, “After I dreamed a dream~.” Sorry for the long story. I really wanted to tell someone. (w)

>>790 Exactly. And doesn’t Nana subtly emphasize that too? Personally, I prefer Yurippe, whose overall proportions are more balanced…

Light.

To be blunt, Yurippe has a somewhat long torso and short legs.

▲ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`) GARNET CROW PART 14 Σ(ﾟдﾟlll) Gaaah!▲ ↑ That’s a pretty well-balanced thread title.

>>795 That’s not true at all.

Friday, April 26 9:00–10:35 p.m. “Music Square,” NHK-FM I wonder what kind of program it is…

Will moe Yurippe and moe Nana be appearing on it?

AZUKI Nana’s photo-and-anthology collection, made up of newly shot photos, self-portraits, and previously unpublished poems: AZUKI Nana PHOTO & ANTHOLOGY “80,0” (read “hachimarumaru”), now on sale.

>>799 Apparently there will be comments about the second album (according to the official site), but isn’t NHK-FM serious and stiff in the same way TV is?

Where can you listen to NHK-FM?

Squishy squishy ( ´ｰ`)… I’m buying the single… squishy squishy. (I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore.)

>>802 It’s nationwide, obviously. (lol)

>>798 >>801 *Music Square* is a cool, pretty good program. It’s been around for about six years now, quietly doing its thing. (w) They introduce new songs by all kinds of artists, without distinguishing between major and indie. I personally like that there’s none of the unnecessary stuff like quizzes, prizes, or live phone calls. They always do a countdown on Fridays, and in between there’s a segment called “Weekly Picks” that features notable new songs and albums. I assume that’s where they’ll probably have a GARNET CROW feature.

It doesn’t feel overly serious or stiff. The DJ herself is actually pretty relaxed.

The *J-GROOVE* episode the day before yesterday was good. Both commercials were the “call my name” version, though. In places, Nana also sounded a little Kansai-like.

>>805 Thanks. Actually, I tried listening to the one that’s on now. It’s a good program. The sound quality is good too.

>>798 I listened to it about ten years ago. Back then, Miyuki Nakajima was the Friday host, and her talking made me a fan of Miyuki Nakajima. (lol) I don’t know what it’s like now, though. Maybe I’ll listen again for the first time in a while.

>>809 Ten years ago, I was in elementary school. It really is a long-running program. I’d like to hear a talk show with Nakamura and AZUKI just once.

>>810 (・∀・) Ten years ago, I was in elementary school. (ﾟДﾟ) Huh?

>>811

>>796 Please don’t make that the final title. Apparently Aiuchi will join Kuraki’s live show, but what about GARNET CROW? I’d rather they didn’t do that either, though.

Punyu. 　 ／￣ ヽ　　　／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ 　 |^◇^　ヽ　＜　Please don’t poke Yurippe. 　（　　　　 ）　　＼＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ 　　''ゝ'''ゝ´ 　　　　　　　　　Punyu

Yuri and Nana appear in my dreams every day. So what?

Please spread your wings and fly to the true world of freedom.

I listen to *Music Square*, and it’s a really good program. On the countdown two Fridays ago, “Yume Mita Ato de” was around number eight and they played the full song. (w) >>805 >There’s none of the unnecessary stuff like quizzes, prizes, or live phone calls. “Music Gift” seems unnecessary to me.

I forgot to mention it: this program is what got me hooked on GARNET CROW. One year and two months ago, I was listening to the usual countdown when a segment called “Album Pick-up” (that’s what it was called then) said, “This week’s feature is GARNET CROW’s first album, released on January 31…” I remember Nakamura’s comments too, but I’m too lazy to write them out. She sounded incredibly nervous.

>>815 815 → ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`) ← Furui

>>818 Nakamura saying she’s afraid to walk through Tokyo alone is moe.

>>820 I’m so afraid I can’t walk around alone either. Will you find me moe?

>>821… (:.;ﾟ;Д;ﾟ;.:) Haa haa

Nakamura freezing up at the number of people during a public radio recording—moe.

There’s some kind of backing vocal during the chorus of “flying,” right? This is what I hear: “you waste me, fly… you waste my heart you waste me, fly… you waste me… you waste me, why? you waste me…” Did nobody else notice this?

347 名前：名無しの歌が聞こえてくるよ♪ 投稿日：02/04/20 09:22 ID:??? “HOT ROD BEACH PARTY” Mai Kuraki: “DON’T WARRY BABY” (The Beach Boys) Rina Aiuchi: “SURFIN’ U.S.A” (The Beach Boys) Azumi Uehara: “Yume no Hawaii” (The Beach Boys) Aika Ohno: “GOOD VIBRATION” (The Beach Boys) Yuuka Saegusa: “SURF CITY” (Jan & Dean) Aiko Kitahara: “LITTLE HONDA” (The Beach Boys) Yumi Shizukusa: “CALIFORNIA GIRLS” (The Beach Boys) Ami Matsunaga: “FUN, FUN, FUN” (The Beach Boys) Yuri Nakamura: “Grandma in Pasadena” (Jan & Dean) Who is Yumi Shizukusa…? ttp://tochu.tokyo-np.co.jp/00/hou/20020420/spon____hou_____000.shtml ttp://www.sanspo.com/geino/g_top/gt200204/g_top2002042004.html ttp://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/kiji/2002/04/20/01.html ttp://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hochi/geinou/apr/o20020419_40.htm

>>824 I listened right away, but I can’t really make it out.

>>825 Only *Tōchū* wrote about Yurippe. (depressed) She’s the most moe one in that lineup…

>>826 Listen again. (w) You should be able to hear the English lyrics.

>>825 Who are numbers five, six, and seven…? The annual crop of lousy rookies, or what? I can’t take this anymore… So Miho Komatsu isn’t included after all. Well, I wasn’t expecting much, but still…

>>829 They chose rookies with a chance of selling over Komatsu, who doesn’t sell.

>>830 Am I the only one who feels bad just hearing “GIZA rookie”? I might rent them if the songs are good, but I won’t even have a chance to hear the songs before that.

My bad feeling about the Kuraki live turned out to be right… What if Nakamura ends up with Kuraki’s bad image attached to her too? YO! And why is Nakamura the only one covering Jan & Dean instead of the Beach Boys? Could she be the hidden main attraction? (w) I wish they’d leave Nakamura out of it, seriously. (´ー`)y~~

Even so, I’ll probably buy the DVD again just to see Yurippe.

>>830 Even if they release it, it’ll be outside the rankings anyway. Below Komatsu.

Does “MAI-K & FRIENDS” basically mean Mai Kuraki and a bunch of other people? That’s depressing.

There really aren’t many good rookies these days.

∋oノハヽo∈ 　 （　´Д｀) < Three days until the album

During the online live show, our Yurippe was casually standing in the middle alongside Kuraki.

Looking at the official site, I suddenly noticed something: From the indie releases to the second album, the member photos on the jackets have gotten larger. So the third album’s jacket will definitely have close-up photos of Nana-tan and Yurippe.

Not “3nd”—“3rd.”

Three times.

>>839 Will the back cover have close-up photos of Mr. Furui and Okamochi?

I laughed so hard at that.

>>817 True. (w) The Friday “Worries Pick-up” segment might be unnecessary too… Well, that much is okay. Ms. Rie Takagi is an experienced woman, after all. (w) The members of GARNET CROW might even be happy to appear on a program like that.

When are they going to upload the “SPARKLE” TV spot?

>>839 So will the fourth album have close-ups of Yurippe and Nana’s nostrils? (w)

＿／￣￣￣￣＼　 Yurippe has a high nose. 　　Q　　　 ∪　´∀｀）　Mokyu, mokyu.

I don’t have money to buy the album… What should I do…? Maybe I’ll buy “Mysterious Eyes.”

Album addict.

“HOT ROD BEACH PARTY”—using Kuraki as the advertising face to promote the others seems like a good strategy. The Pan Kōjō live DVD was good too. It’s worth buying. (I got a used copy for ¥2,500.) Also, this year’s rookies Yuuka Saegusa and Aiko Kitahara looked much cuter than Uehara on *Meccha E!*. Since Aiuchi, Nakamura, and Uehara have all made the top ten even apart from Kuraki, this might actually succeed. Off topic, but Kuraki’s new song is catchy. It might sell as well as “Stand Up.”

>>844 Are they still doing “Worries Pick-up”? I’d rather they put it on one of the days from Monday to Thursday instead of Friday. They give it about 35 minutes, after all, and play three songs too.

“HOT ROD BEACH PARTY” >A very famous guitarist representing Japan, both in popularity and ability, is also scheduled to participate… That must be Tak Matsumoto from B’z. It was probably all Kanonji’s idea.

For the people who are fans of moe Yurippe, the Pan Kōjō live DVD is highly recommended.

>>852 Matsumoto’s name is actually in the article from >>825.

I stopped being a fan after the first album, but they’re being pushed incredibly hard lately. A year ago, they’d release something and then completely abandon it afterward. This change is honestly frightening…

>>855 Why did you quit being a fan? (w) It really is strange that they’re being pushed so hard now.

>>856 Because I knew this would happen. (Just kidding.) Yuri got me hooked on Alanis Morissette and Sheryl Crow. It’s not that I started disliking GARNET CROW.

>>856 Because there’s nobody else they should be pushing, obviously.

>>856 Just look at the members of the live show above. Yurippe is number one in both looks and vocal skill. Then there are Nana’s lyrics and Professor Furui’s arrangements. Who else should they push besides GARNET CROW? I want to know. I really want to know. For an hour. (truncated)

>>859 >Yurippe is number one in both looks and vocal skill. (ﾟДﾟ) Huh?

I just hope they don’t get crushed or dropped because they’re being pushed too hard.

>>861 Me → ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`) ← Yurippe They won’t be crushed or dropped from this level of pushing. (w) By the way, the image at the top of that site really was Kuraki. (depressed)

>The GIZA top image It was just as expected, so whatever. (´ρ｀)

Are we definitely getting a poster this time?

>>860 You’re the one going “Huh?”

>>860 You’re the one going “Haa haa.”

Long time no see.

http://www.dgcr.com/jam/backnumber/021/garnet%20crow/garnet.html An interview about the album.

Next week, maybe? GIZA’s top image will be GARNET CROW.

>>868 Thanks for the info!

Make it, make it, make it, make it—squeeze!

I want Azuki’s rosary. What am I supposed to do?

Make one out of papier-mâché.

There were tons of Azuki beans sitting on my balcony, so I swiped seven of them. I’m feeling happy.

Nakamura: “GARNET CROW, always carrying shadows.” They haven’t forgotten their original spirit. Good, good.

http://www.furia.com/twas/highlight.cgi?find=garnet&in=twas0367.html Can someone tell me what this page is? It talks about GARNET CROW in English…

>>876 I’m Japanese. Sanpei-like days.

I tried it with a lousy translation program: “I bet the GARNET CROW keyboardist, Azuki Nana, was working there on the way to the show and quiet fall at Newbury Comics in Tokyo. Somewhere tonight, GARNET CROW is playing for a few astonished people who don’t understand why they aren’t world-famous.”

“In a small room, these four people, whom I strongly suspect have never attended music school, are playing music that should never be put in a case. [Untranslatable sentence] There are local bands that sound like local bands, asking and rounding people up until they can’t support it anymore, as if they had planned well enough to win fans all at once. There are also ‘national’ bands that sound like this for that very reason.”

“Then there are bands that skip the pathetic first stage and start writing sufficiently good, sufficiently ruthless, completely placeless pop songs that are unique nowhere except in radio and TV commercials and shopping malls. If the idea of a sparkling Mistle Thrush is something like obsidian moonlight, GARNET CROW is sunlight through clear leaves onto rippling water, or the winking signal of a traffic light in the city. If most things aren’t young Japanese Roxette, then GARNET CROW might be young Japanese the Corrs.”

That’s only about a third of it. It’s hard to read, so I’ll stop here. Sorry.

Hmm, there were some pretty good expressions, so I’ll continue a little longer. “Those versions of sparkling pop are pastel and weightless, old-fashioned and bendable, with a girl-jazz quality; everything except the motel is melancholy; polished by Bruce Hornsby, cleaned by Clannad of the Sirius era, with the delicacy of Don Lewis, the exuberance of Parachute Club, and the restraint of a step-ballad. Shimmering keyboards, drum programming, and an airy arrangement center on Yuri Nakamura’s silky, faintly breathy voice.”

“Track 5 is a gently bubbling ballad with a classy choir pushing into huge soundtrack territory, but ‘Happy Day?’ is faster because it reminds me of Shona Laing, or perhaps Euroglider. ‘Mysterious Eyes’—the song I fell in love with on a random J-pop compilation—strikes me as remarkably similar to the verse melody of Suzanne Vega’s ‘Luka,’ taking that core and reimagining it as one of the most effortless and elegant pop songs since ‘(I’m Glad I’m) Not a Kennedy.’” Even foreigners notice that “Mysterious Eyes” sounds like “Luka.” Music has no borders.

Let me continue. “Rhythm” winds its way along as one of the most Corrs-like interludes on the album, while “Holding you, and swinging” tries to harmonize a hip-hop drum loop and oddly bundled-together vocals with a contemplative reverse-funk bass line. Put simply, it only saves itself for me when it drifts into rambling mutters like an Alanis Morissette outtake. The bouncy drums on track 11 are a little too prefab for my taste, but “Wonder Land” shows a somewhat wider range and makes me wonder what it needs Nanase Aikawa’s “7 Seas” for.

Since “shadow” is the intermediate stage in the dialectical development from GARNET CROW’s existence to its concept, people who don’t own the first album shouldn’t talk about GARNET CROW. (I got a little carried away.)

>>885 Who do you think you are? A child?

>>886 My condolences.

>>886 In a way, that’s a pity.

>>852 >“HOT ROD BEACH PARTY” >“A very famous guitarist representing Japan, both in popularity and ability, is also scheduled to participate…” Their names are actually listed: Haruhata from TUBE and Matsumoto from B’z.

So in the end, all we learned is that translation software can only produce translations below the level of a middle-schooler, and that Nakamura Yuri is a moe character.

／￣ ヽ　　　／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ 　 |^◇^　ヽ　＜　Two days until the album 　（　　　　 ）　　＼＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ 　　''ゝ'''ゝ´

>>890 In other words: me → ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`) Yurippe That’s what you mean, right? (w)

It’s nice that there are no songs about love and romance, meaningless cheer songs, or youth songs. I like the highbrow quality. I wish Komatsu would learn from them.

I like that they aren’t straightforward.

↓Nakamura launches a huge ASCII-art retaliation at the person who poked Yurippe in >>892.

Before buying the first album, I’m thinking of getting one of the indie mini-albums from a used shop, but there aren’t any… On top of that, the first single isn’t available either. It looks like I’ll have to wait a little longer before buying an album.

>>896 Considering the effort of searching all over used shops, you might as well buy a new copy. Unless you have a lot of free time or enjoy hunting around, that is.

>>896 Why not contribute to the second album’s first-week sales for now?

I went to Amazon and found the indie album…

I rented the “flying” CD today… It’s good—GARNET CROW.

Yesterday I was browsing *CD Data* at the bookstore. Looking at an expressionless photo of Yurippe made me go (*´Д`) Haa haa, so I ended up buying it. The jacket photo is a close-up too. Moe~.

If you’re buying “Kaleidoscope” online, I think HMV had it too…

>>893 I’m both a GARNET CROW and Komatsu fan, but I think that opinion is a little off. Including heavy themes like death and separation doesn’t automatically make something highbrow. I think both of them write good lyrics… Actually, why do the people in this thread keep treating Komatsu like an enemy at every turn? Because they used to have similar sales?

>>903 Komatsu, the big boss.

>>902 I bought it for ¥1,620. But I had to wait about ten days.

>>901 The photo of Nana in *CD Data* is actually pretty good too. Both of them looked good in *Walker* as well. *Zappii* was tied up with string, so I didn’t look inside. Can someone who saw it tell me what it says?

>903 The Komatsu who’s on her way out of the spotlight isn’t even on the radar of GARNET CROW fans today.

>>907 Then why do people keep bringing her up as a comparison?

>>893 is a Komatsu fan.

>903 >Why do the people in this thread keep treating Komatsu like an enemy? It’s probably less about treating Komatsu herself as an enemy and more that fans who didn’t discover GARNET CROW through Komatsu feel that Komatsu fans give off the impression that their presence here is a given. That gets annoying, so they express it by treating Komatsu herself as an enemy, basically meaning, “Shut up already!” Komatsu fans should be aware of that.

There isn’t a shop near my house that sells “Kaleidoscope,” so I’m going to order it online. Is HMV still the recommended option?

>907 Maybe it’s the psychology of laughing scornfully at a loser.

Because people keep bringing her up even though it’s off-topic. That’s why they’re hostile toward Komatsu.

>>908 Komatsu, the big boss.

>>912 I meant >>908.

>>903 I’ll just say that Being is entirely to blame for releasing “Call my name” and “Saigo no Toride” on the same day. This is only a test. I hope GARNET CROW sells as much as Komatsu did back then. At the moment, GARNET CROW doesn’t even have a single CD that has sold more than that “Uyaiyaiyai” song.

>>909 Correct.

Old Komatsu… Now she’s a thing of the past…

>903 It’s a strange analogy, but… It might be like a young Giants fan who was born after Nagashima retired, looking down at the feelings of a smaller-company employee toward the older Giants fans who think it’s obvious that a Giants fan should know the greatness of Nagashima and who only talk about his playing days.

The content overlapped with someone else’s post. What I wanted to say is basically the same as >>910.

>919 In my case, it feels like being an employee at a small company looking down at employees of a once-powerful major company who are now being laid off.

I just want to make Yurippe nationwide—the “Nakamura big boss”—like Komatsu used to be.

>>916 Around the week after next, “Yume Mita Ato de” should overtake it. I think “Uyaiyaiyai” sold around 83,000 copies. It’s probably about time for the next thread.

>>909 I see. That makes sense. >>910, 919 Ah, yeah, I kind of understand. This is a GARNET CROW thread, and we young Giants fans want to talk about GARNET CROW. The Komatsu fans—the Giants fans from the Nagashima era—who keep bringing up Komatsu are annoying. I think I understand now, so I’ll disappear here. Sorry for cluttering up the thread.

>>907 If there are GARNET CROW fans who say they don’t care about the charts, and there are people like you too, then GARNET CROW fans really are a diverse bunch. Stop lumping all fans together based on the fantasy that you’re speaking for your own opinion. Even to a non-otaku GARNET CROW fan, it looks pathetic. (lol) >>909 I totally agree. 893 is a Komatsu fan. >>910 >It’s probably… That long-winded theory won’t convince the majority. You’re the only one who thinks that. (lol)

Captive breeding.

>920 Shall we get married? Incidentally, I’m actually a hardcore Komatsu fan. From a Komatsu fan’s perspective, compared with other GIZA artists such as Aiuchi, Kuraki, Montevideo, 4D, Yoshida, Matsunaga, and Uehara, GARNET CROW is the easiest one to get into, so I also drop by the GARNET CROW thread.

http://music.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musicj/1019379110/

↑ That’s the new thread. Continue the discussion here as it is.

>>911 The Pit One near me had “Kaleidoscope” in stock. They even have a GARNET CROW section.

A little side story about Yuri.

I like that they aren’t vulgar or ordinary.

Today I bought “first kaleidscope” and “Natsu no Maboroshi,” so I finally have all the CDs.

I’m actually relieved that no music videos have been released yet. I’ll collect everything while I still can.

∋oノハヽo∈ 　 （　´Д｀)

Tell me what’s in *Zappii*, please…

Now that everyone seems to have moved to the new thread, I’ll say this: What exactly is beautiful about Nakamura? I can’t believe it. In my eyes, she falls into the ugly category.

>>937 If you watch the Pan Kōjō DVD, I think you’ll be saying “Yuri-taaan” too.

(・∀・) Pointless!!

>>937 You’re ugly too.

(・∀・) >>937 is ugly!!

Nakamura Yuri is ugly.

Hey, hey. You call this cleaning…?

Yurippe is ugly.

I vote that Nakamura Yuri is ugly.

Whatever.

Then I’ll join in too.

I like the part of Nakamura Yuri that’s ugly.

AZUKI is too perfect. It makes me uncomfortable.

Nakamura Yuri and AZUKI Nana both have drooping eyes, so am I imagining it, or does Nakamura Yuri look harsher?

You’re not imagining it. She really does look harsh. Nakamura Yuri has the eyes of a middle-aged woman.

Both Ms. Yuri and AZUKI have reptilian-type faces.

Yurippe’s brown hair doesn’t suit her.

Furui would look better without his sunglasses.

AZUKI is beautiful for someone over thirty, but somehow she makes me uncomfortable.

Okamoto looks quite different in photographs and in person.

Miho Komatsu doesn’t look over thirty.

Nakamura Yuri looks like my mother, and it’s depressing.

Her hairstyle tied back at *Music Station* was well received, but thinking about it now, maybe the hairstyle with two ties on either side of her head is good even if it’s supposedly unfashionable.

I’m depressed because people mistake me for AZUKI Nana.

By “two ties on either side of her head,” I mean the hairstyle with two tied sections on the left and right of her head, like in the music videos and advertisements.

Aiuchi is fat.

I’m tired.

People criticized their TV appearance by saying, “Are they wearing funeral clothes?!” AZUKI and the male members might look better in bright colors, but I think Nakamura Yuri should wear pure black.

I want AZUKI to wear Pink House-style fashion.

Nakamura would have been incredibly moe if she had worn the outfit from the “Yume Mita Ato de” jacket.

>>965 Yumi Morio.

ZARD.

Yurippe has a worn-out look, like a housewife exhausted by housework and raising children, and I like it.

“flying” with AZUKI Nana.

Yurippe in “call my name.”

Yurippe is a moe character. So what?

Are they disbanding after announcing the second album?

>>973 Nooo.

(・∀・) Pointless!!

(・∀・) Impossible!!

(・∀・) Difficult!!

(・∀・) Mush!!

(・∀・) Raiyo!!

(・∀・) Cleaning?

(・∀・) What is this supposed to be?

Cleaning has arrived━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━( ﾟ∀)━( 　ﾟ)━(　　)━(ﾟ 　)━(∀ﾟ )━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!!!!

In the next thread, all this “Komatsu, Komatsu” stuff—Komatsu otaku are annoying!!

(´ー`)y~~ I’m going to claim 1000 this time.

>>983 (・∀・) Calm down!

The fibrous-number-grab battle begins! (・∀・)

Komatsu-otaku annoyance index = 1000.

1,000,000,000!

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(´ー`)y~~ I’ll decorate 1000 with a Nakamura-moe heart!

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(*´Д`*) Haa haa.

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ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`)

1000!!

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ﾌﾟﾆｭ( ´ｰ`)σ)Д`) 1000

Nakamura moe♥

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