One of the most popular visual kei rock bands Alice Nine brings their 5th album "9" on February 22, 2012!
Limited edition comes with a bonus DVD with a music clip of "Subete e," its another version (multi angle), and its making-of. Features an original slipcase and pictured label featuring a member (random).
In commemoration of concerts in 2012 in Japan, Yes's 15 mini LP reissues will be reissued again! All of which feature E-type cardboard sleeve design, 2009 digital remastering, and the high-fidelity SHM-CD format (compatible with standard CD players).
Moreover, each contains subtle features faithfully replicating its original LP. Check out each item's description.
Sion Sono's film Guilty of Romance (Koi no Tsumi)" is now available for preorder with 10% extra points for limited time only! This film is based on a true crime event which shocked Japan and tells the tale of three women sucked into a hell of love.
Plot: On a rainy day, a woman's dead boy is found in an apartment at a love motel alley. Female detective Kazuko (Miki Mizutani) is in charge of the case. Although Kazuko has a happy life with her family, she cannot stop meeting with her lover. While following the mysterious murder case, Kazuko finds out the secret of university assistant professor Mitsuko and Izumi who is a devoted housewife of a popular novelist. . . *Rated 18-and-over.
Nobody can stop AKB48's movement. Their new single "Give Me Five!" will be out soon on February 15! Its first pressing of regular edition type A and B come with a CDJapan original photo. Both come with a bonus track different from each other.
Addition to that, their new DVDs "AKB48 Kohaku Taiko Utagassen" and "AKB48 in a-nation 2011" have been listed! Each DVD follows their latest performances, one is in "AKB48 Kohaku Taiko Utagassen," the other is in AVEX's deluxe event "a-nation."
Directed by Hideaki Anno ("Evangelion") and character designed by Haruhiko Mikimoto ("Macross"), Gunbuster is one of the most popular OVA SF series and the first success of Gainax!
Plot: It depicts how a boy challenges the overwhelming consensus of the country while a girl stands by him during a period of 11 days. In the very near future, the main character named Akira Takizawa, who has no memory for unexplained reasons, is forced to "lead the country to the right direction" with a cellphone that is charged with 8.2 billion yen in digital cash. A mysterious organizations has ordered him to this task along with 11 other members, with an assurance that they will be executed if they fail to accomplish it. Furthermore, only one of the chosen 12 members is to survive...
Complete box includes the complete six episodes. Contains a 100-page booklet featuring setting guides, image board, and more. Also contains a special disc with untrimmed original version of the sixth episode, the rough telecine transfer version of the fifth episode that was made for the episode's dialogue recording, footage from the video magazine Denei Teikoku, footage from the VHD magazine "Anime Vision," a collection of production materials (displayed as still frames), and the video footage from the earlier Gunbuster Perfect release's bonus extras disc such as video comments from the staff and cast..
=>Gunbuster (Aim for the Top / Top wo Nerae!) Blu-ray Box Complete Edition
=>Gunbuster (Aim for the Top / Top wo Nerae!) Blu-ray Box
=>Gunbuster (Aim for the Top / Top wo Nerae!) Perfect Guide
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Popular visual kei band, vistlip brings new single in three editions (vister, lipper, and regular edition) on April 11, 2012.
Furthermore, their collaboration items are now available at CDJapan! Japanese apparel brand SUPER LOVERS releases 3 collaboration fashion items with vistlip (jump suit, parka & shorts set, backpack) in March 2012. Quantities of them are very limited, so hurry to check out!
New greatest hits album from Hayley featuring Japanese popular songs will be out this March! Happily, this album contains four newly recorded covers "Asu to iu Hi ga," "Ruriiro no Chikyu (Seiko Matsuda)," "Arigato (Ikimonogakari)," and "Haru yo Koi (Yumi Matsutoya)" (subject to change) in addition to the songs selected from her previous albums "Jun - 21 Sai no Deai (UCCL-9058 and UCCL-1126)" and "Kizuna (UCCL-9060 and UCCL-1138)."
This album also contains an official song for the Rugby World Cup, "World In Union." Limited edition comes with a bonus DVD.
Korean up-and-coming group U-KISS brings their new single "Forbidden Love" and new album "A Shared Dream"! Two editions are available for each title, one comes with a bonus DVD, and they feature different jacket design. They will be out on the same day, February 29th.
Additionally, new DVD of the group will come out on March 28, containing private footage that shows their activities in 2011, starting with their visit to Japan in June to the release of their new single in December.
A live action film based on a popular comic "Usagi Drop (Bunny Drop)" is available on DVD & Blu-ray on February 2, 2012! Its original manga is written by Yumi Unita and also adapted into anime series by Production IG. Stars Kenichi Matsuyama, Karina, and Mana Ashida.
Plot: Daikichi is a normal 27-year-old single man. When he attends his grandfather's funeral, he meets his grandfather's illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl named Rin is just six years old, but everyone in Daikichi's family do not want to take her in charge. Daikichi decides to raise Rin by himself to prove his manliness. Daikichi has no experience in raising a child and soon learns the difficulties in raising a child as a single parent. . .
L'Arc-en-Ciel brings new album "Butterfly" on February 8, 2012! It is the first album in about four years and includes seven single tracks and more for 11 tracks.
Limited edition includes a bonus CD "P'UNK IS NOT DEAD" (*P'UNK-EN-CIEL 1st Album) and a bonus DVD with a special program "Best Hit LEC" commemorating the 20th anniversary of the band's career.
New album of Sachi Tainaka is produced by Tadashi Hirosawa. Features enhanced CD format containing a music video of a leading song of the album "Flower Dance." This is the second album from her own label, tutu records. In the album, she creates high-quality pop songs based on collaborations with Japanese skilled artists and musicians such as Kotringo (piano), SINSKE (marimba), and more.
Included 13 songs depict a journey looking for the true beaury. Why not join her story?
One of the US leading bands in the 80's, The Cars. This time, their all 6 studio albums released in the 70's & 80's will be reissued featuring digital remastering and the high-fidelity SHM-CD format (compatible with standard CD player).
Furthermore, each package is cardboard sleeve (mini LP), which faithfully replicates the original US LP artwork and comes with an obi, a description, and lyrics. All titles will be out on March 7. Be sure to check them out.
"Tokyo Park (Tokyo Koen)," the film directed by Shinji Aoyama ("Eureka") for the first time in four years, is out on DVD on January 27, 2012! This film received the Golden Leopard Special Jury Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2011.
Plot: Koji (Haruma Miura) is a college student who hopes to become a photographer. When he snaps photos in a park, he is interrupted by a man. The man offers him to follow a woman and take photos of her. He accepts this job without really understanding the meaning. . .
Blu-ray release from the anime series "Eden of the East" created, directed and written by Kenji Kamiyama, known as the director of "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" series, and features original characters designed by Chika Umino ("Honey and Clover" series). Animation created by Production I.G and music composed by Kenji Kawai of "Mobile Suit Gundam 00" fame. Intro theme "Falling Down" sung by OASIS.
The story depicts how a boy challenges the overwhelming consensus of the country while a girl stands by him during a period of 11 days. In the very near future, the main character named Akira Takizawa, who has no memory for unexplained reasons, is forced to "lead the country to the right direction" with a cellphone that is charged with 8.2 billion yen in digital cash. A mysterious organizations has ordered him to this task along with 11 other members, with an assurance that they will be executed if they fail to accomplish it. Furthermore, only one of the chosen 12 members is to survive...
Box includes the complete TV series (248mn), theatrical version ("The King of Eden" 82mn, "Paradise Lost" 92mn), comments by members ("Air Communication" 125mn), sticker card and leaflet in a beautiful collector box!!
=>Higashi no Eden (Eden of The East) Blu-ray "Noblesse Oblige" Box
=>Ghost in the Shell: SAC manga
=>East of Eden Profile Book 2
=>Theatrical Anime Higashi no Eden Original Soundtrack
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the GazettE, who will hold their 10th anniversary live in this March, brings the latest live DVD featuring "TOUR11-12 VENOMOUS CELL -FINALE- OMEGA" held on January 14, 2012 at Yokohama Arena! Its release date is May 9, 2012, and limited edition is now available.