Oversea fans don't bring any money. its just a very small fraction so there is nothing to force here.

Since the Global FC is pretty much abandoned, I believe they just don't care.

LAST ANGEL



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULMAoJX1jF8

The Global FC started well, then just they forget about it. And I'm always like "thank you for the six month ago entry" :rolleyes
And now we can't buy it material from there

To be honest I always felt that FC is something that should have stayed in the 2000s. It is no different than famous people doing OnlyFans nowadays.

Maybe I feel this way because the way things are sold in her FC are pretty much tie-in sales, which are prohibited by law in Brazil.

Indeed. And as Kaled pointed out I feel like it already came a bit too late, it was around HOTEL that it went global iirc? I regret renewing earlier this year so much... I think I'll just do it again when I have plans to go to Japan again and that might happen only in 2023 or later. A pity.

And omg 13 years from LAST ANGEL means it's almost 13 years since I became a fan of hers, I remember it had been just a while the song had been released. Almost half of my life. The nostalgia is making me feel a little less mad her now hahahaha

When I saw the FC release, I was actually planning to join for the first time. The irony.

I was planning to cancel my membership since the issue with re(CORD) but I'm still here... lol

I can't believe LAST ANGEL was released 13 years ago D: I feel so old

You can look at it the other way round, too.
Why should they pay for worldwide rights if only a bunch of the FC edition is sold overseas through her FC?
It's not profitable.

Their big mistake is and was tho that they put it up for preorder although it wasn't setteled at that time and now they have to cancel.
Could have prevented that with waiting like with what they told CDJapan in the beginning and then put it up later after negotiation and only putting it on the FC edition.
Still sucks for overseas fans not being able to directly buy it ofc.

Yup, you're pretty much right, it should have never been put to pre-order in the first place :/ But it looks messy to start selling something and decide to add stuff like this. In the end I know overseas fans arent that many but it's frustrating cause it's not just a product in a shop, cause I pay a signature to that shop and can't buy it. Probably it's not even worth the trouble of making an overseas fc version so they just canceled it all. A pity.

It seems to be Kumi's standard to announce albums while still finishing them tho. I can recall that happening in the last years, so maybe that's part of the problem.

I'm honestly surprised LAST ANGEL MV was added since Tohoshinki aren't together as the full 5 members they originally were when this came out. Still I'm super happy the MV is up on YouTube now. I still remember the day that the single arrived at my door. However I think my most fondest Kuu memory is when my copy of TAKE BACK first arrived at the end of January 2001. I heard it for the first time from an exchange student at my school 2 weeks beforehand and immediately went and ordered my copy after school that day.

^ Woow! Nice to see some people here were able to support Kuu from the start!

Glad for LAST ANGEL!
sad they skipped Dance in the rain...

Did they also skip Can We Go Back?

digital photobooks are nice, but you know what I really want? the japonesque photobook that was released w the album in HQ and live performances (also (re)live). it is her best look and tour imho.


also I have to laugh about the urusei yatsura × suki3 situation. it is SO random. an old song with an even older manga. i love rumiko,l and urusei yatsura, but this makes no sense. sorry to all who can't get their FC editions bc of this mess.

^manga get rereleased every now and then, especially right now. I did not check, but it could very well be an Urusai Yatsura Anniversary.

Indeed it's celebrating 40 years.
The first volume of the manga was released in 1980 (after its successful run of its first part of chapters in a weekly magazine) and Takahashi received the renowned Shogakukan Manga Award for it in 1980.
It was her first series and at once her first hit.

From what I remember, they skipped the following videos :
- Can We Go Back (maybe because of MJ dance break)
- real Emotion (FFX-2 copyright probably)
- Ai no Uta (single version)
- Dance in the rain

They might have skipped SHAKE IT & 24 from secret except if they would update it for girls~Selfish release later this month.
They also did not updated the dance version of the PV from Bounce & Lovers with the exception of Hot Stuff (that was pretty successful for her standards).

They also skipped

W FACE
SO FEVER
NEVER GIVE IT UP
Kimi Omoi
Love goes like...

^SO FEVER and NEVER GIVE IT UP are not official releases (along with Kimi Omoi -until Shhh!) That could be a reason

Also didn’t they updated Love goes like... but the video was not reachable via her page ?

I wonder if they will updated (re)CORD video that were included in the (re)LIVE DVD.