Category Archives: fripSide

miracle luminous lyrics

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miracle luminous
lyrics: yuki-ka, Satoshi Yaginuma
music&arrangement: Kai Kawasaki

I’ve been sitting on this one for months, but because one word in the second chorus is hard to make out, I never posted it. These lyrics are from ear and are missing this one line. Sorry! I had help with the ear copy as well! Hopefully the new compilation includes the lyrics ^^

hey, what do you know! My copy came in and I was able to check the lyrics and fill in that one blank =)

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fripSide not on iTunes anymore?

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I caught wind of this all thanks to keywords like ‘fripside removed from US itunes’ this morning.

It appears that fripSide’s US iTunes store was taken down recently. They would not be the first Japanese artist removed from US iTunes as Ayumi Hamasaki’s and Namie Amuro’s stores have also disappeared in the past month or two.

This really makes me angry because it was a very cheap and legal way for us to get fripSide’s music. I honestly wonder what’s going on that many J-artist stores are disappearing.

However, their discography is still available on Japan’s iTunes store, but as far as I know, the songs cannot be easily purchased.

fripSide = eyecandy in your subways

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If you are one of the many people to travel on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya line over the week, make sure to stop in Akihabara. Ad posters of fripSide and the girls of A Certain Scientific Railgun are hung near three exits in the station. The posters will be up for one week starting from Dec 12 and ending Dec 18. Isn’t it great that the official website made no mention of this until Dec 13?

Take a look at Ota☆Suke which has a few close-ups.

And look at A Certain Shop’s Super Corner at the area’s Toranoana store:

urgh, when you buy the DVD edition at Toranoana, you don’t just get the Railgun poster – you get one that actually has fripSide on it!!!! How frustrating ;_; Someone get me one, please? =D

Sources: Official site, Ota☆Suke, Toranoana

fripSide talks about new single as well as 2011

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Another interview with fripSide recently hit the web. It’s much longer than the previous and I don’t really have the time to type out the entire thing, so I decided to summarize it instead.


picture from Hobby Channel

Animelo Summer Live 2011

Nanjo had a lot of fun. “It was a wonderful stage of happiness. I even laughed unintentionally. During rehearsal and the real thing.”

Sat believes that fripSide is able to show its entertainment side during Animelo performances.

Heaven is a Place on Earth

Sat thinks it’s important that fripCDs reflect not only the season they are released but also the work they are connected with. He also stated that he originally thought about doing a ballad but didn’t feel it would have been ‘fripSide.’  “Even though we didn’t go with the ballad idea, I made something that I considered to be an emotional song.”

Nanjo thinks that Heaven has a sprinting-feeling that is different from the Railgun songs. It’s not a battle song and feels more youthful.

way to answer – the music

Sat wanted to do a complete 180 from the previous themes. It’s full of rock flavor and aggressive sound. The English interludes were meant to be drawn out and he feels that these sections are very close to the original sound fripSide had before Nanjo joined. He hopes that such sound will be refreshing to those following fripSide’s 2nd generation. The ‘shift up’ in the chorus is very fripSide. The music itself is very ambitious.

Nanjo thinks the introduction sets the song up in a different way than the others have. The song has a different direction than previous ones.

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