How can the song and its lyrics be judged when all we have is part of the chorus, I'd say, and the information that it's likened to "independent" and "EnergizE"?

A drama tie-in is nice. At least something different than the usual Panasonic and music.jp tie-ins. ^^

that's exactly how i feel :yes

nice info thanks^^

*inhale...hold breath...exhale...*
this is SO exciting...

ahh, i just realized that Ishiguro Hideo was the same guy in cat street. i love him and that drama! :laugh

/random :tipsy

Gyaaa! I love CMJK! He uses such an electronic style...It's great.

And I'm definitely excited about the drama and hearing the preview of the song!!

It's gonna be great!! Everybody cheer up, it's a summer song after all!

Oh cool! I love that this song has a drama tie-in. It's been too long! :D I'm not disappointed with the lyrics. Many drama tie-in songs don't have deep lyrics.

Wow! This is so exciting! :D

yaaaaaay!!!! I'm excited!

wowow.. this is v interesting!! I may watch the drama if it's a nice show.. =D

I'm glad they finally are doing a drama tie up for her, but why in general does Ayu always get the crappy drama tie ups? I don't really see this show doing too well.

^exactly....but its a nice change. Hope the trailer will be up soon.

^ There's already "mini" trailers for the dorama on YouTube. None include the theme song, though =/

^ Can you post the youtube links? I'm just curious what the trailers look like.

^ Sure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAVrmKdAVrg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj4pkPRw-8E

Because a preview was on news shows yesterday..

Thanks for the info! I think this sounds really interesting. :yes Maybe I'm going to watch this drama. And this is really good for Ayu, even if the drama is not going to be very popular. I also like the part of the lyrics.

im surprised there's still no preview... o.o

That's not what I meant. It's just weird when people say that the lyrics are typical and things like this, when we have only a little part of the lyrics. Before "NEXT LEVEL" was released new songs where likened to other ones based on the ringtones, but in my opinion none of them really sounded like those. There were also comments on how there is more English than on "RAINBOW", but that also didn't really prove to be true.
I just think it's better to keep a wait and see attitude. One can be excited or not, but it's difficult to judge anything at this point of time, in my opinion.

True, but people are always quick to judge. It's human nature.. in judging others, songs, animals, shows, clothing, everything!

^It's the awful thing called "First Impression".

First impressions always ruin things.

I don't think that this gist is even so repetitive.
Just because of the use of reach and voice?

The trailer looks nice, thx. :)

great news, hope it will help boost the sales until at least platinum...

i think ayu song is help the dorama viewership rating...
not the dorama that will help ayu sales...

I think maybe the first episode will have high viewers, because us Ayu fans (especially here in Japan) will want to hear what the song sounds like.

If the dorama is good, people will continue to watch it. Otherwise, they won't watch it, and they'll just listen to the song online afterwards. lol

http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Dandy_Daddy%3F

too bad there's no actors/actresses that I recongise from the casting credits

if not I definitely will watch it :P

i hope u make a good song hana nishimura-san!
and the drama title is lol ~
the lyrics is sweet!^^
thx for sharing :)

uhm..
im AGREE ~ !! ^^

Less than a week until the drama premieres! How exciting.

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/7950/loveisall.png

Anyone up for translating the comment?

hrm this sounds like a DBZ tie-in... where it's a good way to tie it in but the actual tie in flops so it doesn't help =/
but you never know

No one [seriously] thought DBE was going to do well as a tie-in, so get that thought out of your head, haha.

Yeah ^^ Rule/Sparkle did well regardless of that (and I am not even going to start naming another few singles by people who seem to have had better tie-ins and did a bit worse) so even if the Dandy Daddy doesn't help much I am pretty sure the single will do just fine :)

Like honestly, all Dandy Daddy can do is help. So far her lowest sales seem to be 120-130k.. and then add a tie-up on top of that, and she'll probably hit at least 150k-170k..

Google translation of a chinese translation I found at ayuchina XD :

It's a comment by Ayu herself :


Original Chinese translation if someone can translate Chinese :

its exciting to know that she is very delighted about this song

Seeing as how Sunrise was specifically done for the series [see: fated/HEAVEN/Rule].. we should expect Sunset to be a completely different song until proven otherwise..

110k to be more precise (talkin' 2 myself), but yeah the drama can't reflect negatively on the sales. I don't expect it to sell less than glitter/fated.

I don't know if t2m should count since that was her first mainly rock single and probably turned casual fans off, haha.

lol that's odd :P t2m doesn't count because it's rock? :P

Yes, that's right, ho. Ohoho.

It doesn't count because it was really her first NOT MAINSTREAM AT ALL single [for Ayu]. Ohoho.

Considering that it got a lot of TV promo, I simply think the lyrics didn't make it too easy to "swallow" for casual listeners. I don't really think that it turned off the fans :)

Yay! I'll watch the drama!

It's been a long since I've written a theme song for a TV drama, this time, to be able to receive this invitation (to write Sunrise), I feel really honored.

After reading the script and carefully understanding the feelings of the role played by -the male lead's name-, and through my own understanding, I have written these lyrics.

It's a song that gets everyone to be energized and happy, I hope everyone embraces this summer's memory, and look forward to this song.

Wow, thank you! Beautifully put, by both you and Ayu. lol

So they asked her to write lyrics for the Drama?
That's great! Thanks =D

You're welcome!

Haha, apparently so. Since Sunrise is like totally written FOR a drama, then I think like someone else (truehappiness, I think) has said, it is extremely likely that Sunrise and Sunset do not share any similar tune like Yume no Uta/Futari de...

But maybe they'll share similar PVs like glitter/fated, since fated was written for that whatever movie, yet fated's PV is intertwined with glitter. :yes

I will add the translation to the first post!

hmmm thisll be interesting

If someone is interested, Dandy Daddy's first episode is available with english subtitles at d-addicts! : http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_76695.htm

Thank you very much!
I will be sure to watch that :yes

Thank you Luna :)

Oo, I have been watching without subs for a while~ thanks for that.

It's so funny hahahahahahaha.

any hot guys in the drama? or just the old man? lol... aiyaaa ayu's song should be the theme for the new Yamapi drama! buzzer beat

There are some pretty cute guys from the old man's daughter's school :yes

Just finished watching the first episode and it really looks like a pretty nice drama.
Really good and I will keep watching that. ^^
I'm happy it isn't a bore.
ayu's songs also flows really well with the ending. =D

The drama is oke, no hot guys imo, at least not yet >.< Will be waiting for the 2nd epi. subs.

How do you play .ass file? :(

those are just the subs, you can find the actual video file among d-addicts torrents :)

^ ok i downloaded the video, but when i try to play it it says there's no video file. and how do i put the subs to it?

If you've got the right file 704 x 396 (RAW) just make sure the subs and the video file have the same name, for example:
Dandy Daddy ep01 (704x396 XviD).avi
and
Dandy Daddy ep01 (704x396 XviD).ass
and that they're in the same folder.

Just play the video in vlc or Media Player Classic and the subs will start along with the drama. But if you can't play the video it prolly means you need codecs. If that's the case get CCCP.

Here's the first episode for streaming with siubtitles burnt in already. :) http://www.mysoju.com/dandy-daddy/episode-1/part-1/

njanjayrp: Ok thanks! I'll try that ^^
Evolution7/4: Awesome, thanks!!

The audience of the third episode of Dandy Daddy is 5.2%

That doesn't sound too good.

But eh, I'm okay with it. I like the drama.. haha. I guess that the Summer dramas don't do as well as the other seasons'... I wonder why.

Well dramas are usually should go with romance, I guess that it goes better in winter and with ballads.

Dandy Daddy has pretty much average ratings, not high and not the worst.
If the single can sell on its own without the drama's help then it would be the best. xD

Episode 2 has english subtitles now! : http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_76695_0.htm

A music box version of Sunrise was played for a bit during the 3rd episode!~ Probably might be on an OST? Haha.

Kinda pretty~

70s+ of Sunset was played in the episode. IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

ep 3 subs out : http://d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_76695.htm

Dandy Daddy is over now, the whole show had 8 episodes for an average rating of 6,5%

^HEE i thought the show will be 11 episodes...
i'm downloading episode 7, right now...but not watching it yet
will watch it after the whole english subtitles are available

huh....
end already?
i still haven't watch 1st episode yet 0.0

It ended sooner because as you can see ratings were not very good