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Upcoming: 6th Single, Concert DVD&BD, Live Performances

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Been a while!!

New Releases

6th single: sister’s noise

Releases May 8, 2013
【CD+DVD】 GNCA-0280, 1890yen (Limited Edition)
【CD】 GNCA-0281, 1260yen (Regular Edition)
CD includes sister’s noise, a coupling song, and two instrumentals
DVD includes PV, PV making, and special CM video
sister’s noise is the theme song for the upcoming new Railgun series Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S

Live DVD&BD: Title to be announced

Releases May 8, 2013
【Blu-ray】 GNXA-1024, 5250yen
【DVD】 GNBA-1400, 4725yen
Recording of fripSide 10th Anniversary Live 2012 ～Decade Tokyo～ at STUDIO COAST on Dec. 22, 2012
nao + special guest appearances included
Tons of bonus footage including backstage video, interviews, and more
Tracklist can be viewed here at fripSide’s Official site

Live Performances

STUDIO MUSIX

April 7, 2013
Broadcaster: ANIMAX
Performing sister’s noise

LisAni! CIRCUIT Vol.03

Date: March 22, 2013
Place: Tokyo SHIBUYA O-EAST
Opens: 6PM. Starts: 7PM
Featuring fripSide & ALTIMA

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Source: fripSide Official Site

‘Decade’ short radio preview

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If you want to spoil part of Decade…!!

Check out Sato Rina no Ano Sora de Aimashou, a web radio program at animate.tv. Sat and Nanjolno start talking around 22 minutes and Decade starts after 35 minutes.
Scroll down to the section with the blue & white tabs over a yellowish text box, where it says 2012-11-22. There’s a huge blue button with a play button on it. That’s it.

As for the talk, they mention briefly their Singapore performance, then get into album specifics around 29 minutes. Decade is a song encompassing these last 10 years.

It looks like fripSide is set to be a guest next week on this program as well.

Source: fripSide_fan

I love it ;_; nice lyrics and melody~

fripSide is going all out with Decade

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It’s time to celebrate a decade of fripSide!!

Release date has now changed to December 5, 2012, and will include “fripSide Premium Live Infinite Synthesis～The Eve of Decade”

–NEW Details–

First-press editions:
Blu-ray+CD (GNCA-1350) ￥5,040
DVD+CD (GNCA-1351) ￥3,990
Regular editions:
CD-only (GNCA-1352) ￥2,940
December 5, 2012 release (previously Oct. 24)

Changed release date and DVD first press.

First Press Goodies (DVD and Blu-ray editions only)
Decade PV (nao x Yoshino Nanjo duet)
fripSide Premium Live Infinite Synthesis～The Eve of Decade (footage from the upcoming Oct 8 concert at CLUB CITTA)
Infinite Recollections ~Geneon fripSide Festival 2010~ (clips from the 2010 concert, included on a special DVD. Must preorder to get this!)

The reason why they are delaying the release? There were flaws found in the sound recording while they were mastering the GENEON fripSide festival footage. It seems all the footage that they will be giving us will use the tracks from the CD, not the live. So we will be getting the fripSide Premium Live instead~!

SPEAKING OF LIVES….

fripSide Premium Live Infinite Synthesis～The Eve of Decade
October 8, 2012
CLUB CITTA in Kawasaki

Planned performances:
only my railgun
closest love
future gazer
everlasting
悲しい星座
trusty snow
fortissimo -the ultimate crisis-
way to answer
Heaven is a Place on Earth
come to mind
(and more)

How nice of them to get us excited with part of their hopeful tracklist♥

fripSide 10th anniversary Live 2012 ～Decade Osaka～
December 9, 2012
ESAKA MUSE

fripSide 10th anniversary Live 2012 ～Decade Tokyo～
December 22, 2012
Studio Coast

These are being promoted as “one man lives” aka only fripSide will be performing (not like the GENEON Festival thing with infinite synthesis). I’m really impressed by Studio Coast because, if I recall, that place holds over a thousand people! I think it’s possible to hold over 2000, actually.

Let’s end this with a pic of fripSide trending on Twitter:

All this good stuff came from the official site. Except for the Twitter cap, of course. That was me being lucky enough to catch it!

Never thought I’d see nao in a fripSide video again…

DECADE Coming Out 10-24, Will Have Blu-ray & DVD Editions

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Sat published earlier in the day that DECADE will be out on October 24, 2011. And then I went to bed and woke up to find this:

Release: 10.24.2012

First-pressing Goodies:
Blu-Ray + DVD editions
Blu-ray: 5,040yen
DVD: 3,990yen
○Special packaging
○Video discs include (both editions)
-PV for the nao x Yoshino Nanjono duet
-infinite synthesis concert at Stellar Ball on 12.05.2010

Regular CD edition: 2,940yen
Will not come with any of the above goodies

Tracklisting will include:
Heaven is a Place on Earth
way to answer
fortissimo -the ultimate crisis-
fortissimo -from insanity affection-
come to mind (cover)
message (cover)
Decade (nao x Yoshino Nanjo duet)
-nao solo song-
new songs
13 tracks expected

Source: fripSide official site, HMV

August 12 edit: Sat has said on his blog that the name of the Yoshino x nao duet is called: Decade. Such a fitting title!!

Colorless fate -ver.Luna 2011- lyrics

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Colorless fate -ver.Luna 2011-
words: nao
music: Satoshi Yaginuma
arrangement: Satoshi Yaginuma

There are some differences in this version than the original. Just like the lyrics of bright days -version2005- are different than bright days. Also, when I ripped this album to my computer, this song was marked as a ‘nao’ song and not ‘fripSide’.

The lyric changes also apply to the ‘erica demo version’, except the pre-chorus is the “ano toki ni…” section.
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Random Info, Jan. Edition

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I don’t know what to call this post.

Finally found a couple photos from the special December concert! They are small but Nanjolno looks nice.
axive Report

You can buy a couple leftover goods from this concert online now at Okutte Yando. I doubt that it ships overseas. The goods are only available in limited sizes anyway since they are leftovers.

nao complete anthology also went on sale again but I still can’t afford it ;_; I only need it for Rabbit Syndrome, re:product mixes, and the unpublished songs, then my collection will be complete. I never bought Rabbit Syndrome because I couldn’t afford it at the time (I only like あっせんぶる☆LOVEさんぶる anyway), and the remix album was a Comic Market-only purchase.

Also, nao finally has her own official site! It’s about time, really. It’s called Gakkari naosun. I have NO idea why it’s called orz-naosun but it’s kinda funny. It’s quite cute! Her special talents, according to her profile, are sleeping ad infinitum and piano. lol. She also set up a Myspace page which you can get to from her site (the raccoon is adorable). naosun’s site reminds me how much I loved the blonde and pink hair she was rockin last year. By the way, she just turned 26 a few days ago! Anyway, it should be easier to keep up with her solo activities. I might stop making new posts about her now =/. However I’ll keep updating this post. So, if anyone was actually interested in these updates or knows of a fan site/blog that regularly posts about nao’s activities, let me know. Believe it or not, nao & DystopiaGround is actually my most-viewed post but I don’t know if most people go there just looking for downloads.

I’m very interested in the lyrics for Red Data Girl and せな★せな@ultimate!! if anyone has these! Kanji only, please!

Lastly, I haven’t forgotten about the history of fripSide 2009-2010. I ended up being really busy translating a few magazines for friends and I’ve also been busy the past month in general with life. This is also the time to tell me if you guys want the rest of the Lis Ani vol. 1 interview done. Oh yes, and off-topic, but I *might* make a super image post in the future (no promises!) including some HQ scans and just random pictures. This kind of HQ. That image is pretty rare and awesome, that’s why I scanned and uploaded it ^^