It was also announced on avex’s official a-nation website that ALTIMA will be performing at ANISON GENERATION stage at Yoyogi Daichi on August 5. ANISON GENERATION is part of a-nation’s music week this year. I’ve been keeping an eye on the a-nation site for a few days now, hoping that either fripSide and/or ALTIMA would be announced as a performer!!

Sources: a-nation, ALTIMA official site

I have nothing to update, but I just wanted to say I didn’t forget about this place. fripSide is just awfully quiet at the moment.

spoon’s release is this week (the unit made up of the girls who won the LisAni audition) and the new Fortissimo is supposed to finally come out next month. Sat mentioned on Twitter not too long ago that he was making new songs, but he didn’t say for who or what ^^;

Hoping for some new fripSide soon!! I miss the Sat+Nanjo pair.

enjoy this preview of the upcoming KOTOKO song produced by Sat!

That short preview of the verse sounds so Sat-like

Niconico Super Party

I feel like it’s been forever since we’ve had fripSide news! Things have been silent since PC game compilation, and now we are getting a live performance! Quick and fast details:

Niconico ChoParty. Two nights of live performances of various artists and talents.
April 28+29. fripSide will perform on the 29th.
Day 2 starts 4PM JST
Page for watching the performance -> Niconico ChoParty-Last Night ~2.0~
A virtual ticket must be bought -> Ticket Prices

The virtual ticket, after you buy, will give you a serial number. You input the serial number at the concert viewing page.
The ticket for Day 2 costs 1500 points. You must buy the points first, then use them to get the serial number.
I found a good guide to buying points in this post on Dreamwidth. It can be done if you don’t live in Japan.

The concert can be “time shifted”, so if it’s going to be 5am where you live, you’ll be able to reserve it for later viewing. Usually, free account holders will only have 7 days to view after the original broadcast. The page says the concert will be available to watch on time shift until December 31, 2013, but I assume this is only for premium members.

→unfinished→

You probably heard already, but Sat’s is involved in a new song of KOTOKO. The song is called →unfinished→, composed&arranged by Satoshi Yaginuma. The single will be out May 16. It is the ending theme of the anime Accel World. I’m also personally interested in the coupling song sakura no ame moegi no yo as it’s composed & arranged by Shinya Saito. I’ve come to like the songs he is involved with.

ALTIMA’s ONE on Oricon

ALTIMA’s 2nd single debuted on Oricon weekly at #27 for first week with 3,767 sold.

Sources: fripSide Official Site, KOTOKO Official Site, Oricon