Did she put herself in blood of youth? How come she looks younger than before

mu-mo happy box 2015



http://rhythmzone.net/koda/news/detail.php?id=1016872

Anyone doing a group order of happy boxes? I need one!!!

I want to get a Happy Box as well.

What's the box's content?

¥9,000?
Steep...

But, who knows what's in it! That's half the fun!!

Kuu looks young because she's the immortal Goddess of Love! Love from her fans and family keeps her alive until the end of days!

Just joking. ;)

Honestly, you're not totally joking, love and happiness does keep one looking young, and I'm sure Kuu is super happy and loved. Also, she's rich. That helps.

^I know. I just had to say I was joking because some people will take it as a offence instead because they hate the fact that Kuu still has fans. :D

My goodies from the first class 2nd limited live were dispatched today! :D

A video from her official facebook, it's about dancer's audition for her anniversary tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmoq...ature=youtu.be

Wow, nice they're promoting Kuu this way, not only punctual things on her releases! A shame the video didn't have subs tho :P But it's a start hahaha Thanks for posting!

I love that video though I didn't understand what they were talking there. The ending scene was the best part of it because it made me smile. :)

//And I'd also like to request a audio rip version of Let's Party Vol.2. It really bothers me that I have every other concert audio rip but this one's still missing. :<

Does anyone know how much time will tenso let me wait till I pay the shipping for home? My items arrived there but I intended on paying the next shipping only after Christmas

^ I don't know the exact time, but I had parcels for more than 2 months so don't worry :)

^ That's a relief! hahahah Thanks for the help :)

Dancer Audition Pt. 3

Guess we're getting a special concert at Yoyogi?

The MUSIC FOR ALL, ALL FOR ONE live is at Yoyogi tomorrow. That's what they were referring to I believe. :)

And she will sing BE MY BABY and Loaded, such a surprise... haha

And here I am still hoping for a proper full performance of HOTEL

She coUld perform BE MY BABY until the end of time and I wouldn't complain one bit. Song is fire.

Right. Hasn't aged a day. It and Megumi no Hito both tbh.

BE MY BABY is getting in the same category of Ai no Uta: No problem when it's on tour, but I'm done listening on those festivals.

Setlist of MUSIC FOR ALL, ALL FOR ONE:

01. POP DIVA
02. BE MY BABY
03. Shake It Up
04. D.D.D.
05. Lollipop
06. Dance In The Rain
07. you
08. LOADED
09. IS THIS TRAP?
10. Poppin' Love Cocktail
-ENCORE-
01. Lady Go!
02. Megumi no Hito

Dance In the Rain! Finally! And good to see Shake It Up and Lollipop. I hope SIU is that remix from Kingdom Tour, that was amazing.

Anyway, part 3.5 is out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxdJajU5UXw

^ ARGH!! Damn it!
If I knew she's gonna sing that many, I'd go there for sure!!
Would love to see Dance in the rain and Loaded!
Stupiddd meee!!!!! :headache

Love the set list!

A pic from the live, from her FB page


Daaaaaaaaaaamn Kuu, everything bout this outfit is on point, I absolutely love it :thud

Woah, great outfit and good setlist!
A mix of older and newer stuff. Hope she continues with that.

Oricon's yearly charts are out.
Kuu's Bon Voyage is at #88 for albums (ayu's Colours is at #98).
It's sad - just 45 albums crossed the 100k.
And the Top 50 of singles is pretty much idol groups only.

Thanks for the link and pic. Damn, she's looking good these days. I'm loving the more high fashion costumes that she's sporting. Hope she continues with this for a bit.

I love Megumi no Hito and Be My Baby so always happy to see those on the set list as well as Shake It Up of course!!

She is so on point in that picture.

dear mother of Kuusus :love

Final dancer audition is out on Line. I'm still not sure how many people she was looking for. Were there a certain number of males and females?

I ordered Koda Kumi's Happy Box today. If anyone is interested in seeing it's contents, I would be more than happy to post a picture of what I got when it arrives. Did anyone else order one?

I ordered one yesterday as well.^^
I really wanna see your content once you have it. :)

Yes! Please!! Congrats !! ^^

Guys, do you have that link posted here to an interview with the fashion director (?) of Dance In The Rain? I tried to find it on this thread on the last pages of the previous one and couldn't find it... I remember it had texts both in Japanese and English, and wanted to review somethings said on that...

KUU & MASAO : DDD
+ pic of all new dancers

http://i.imgur.com/3oqoc1I.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Kj4WJvE.jpg

from masao's instagram

Here u go! http://www.tokyofashiondiaries.com/k...e-in-the-rain/

^ Thanks a looooooot!! :D :D :D

From Kenji's Instagram

#HAPPY
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...a69e81b66f52ac

No kidding! I saw this on FB today. Boy, oh boy she looks so friggin hot!
And I'm glad she removed navel piercing again, I don't find it attractive at all.

she looks gorgeous with that hair. but did she get rid of her old dancers and why?

^ No, she didn't.
Some of her old dancers are still working with her backstage, and sometimes show up on stage. (i.e Jungle, Fuuko, Shintarow)
Some of them are not anymore (maybe pursuing different path) like Sexnosuke.

Because she needs more "on-stage" dancers for her 15th anniversary, she had the audition. Plus it gives chance for newcomers to enter the showbiz and also new ideas/style for Kumi herself. She also had the same audition for her 10th anniversary (Fantasia) last time.

Koda Gumi vol. 27 was added today to the Koda Gumi website

I guess you can't download it, yeah? There are some outtakes from the HOTEL shoot that are simply gorgeous, I guess I'll print screen them :P

^Can you? PLEASEEEEEEEEEE *^*

I hope that in January I can join the club (I'm poor right now *laughts*)

So, won't she announce anything till the end of the year? That is a new thing, there's always something to look forward. I know she's recording the album and stuff, but still. haha

Well, she started to do things a bit differently this year (just an album and one physical single, no ballad, no proper news till now and so on).
Which is great considering she got pretty predictable.
I'm craving for some news regarding releases, but it's a great anticipation!

I wonder if she'll come back with those singles released right before the album, but I myself couldn't care less for it. They made a big buzz back then but I don't think it's worth at all releasing them nowadays... A summer single is almost certain, but I'm still expecting this 15th to refresh her release pattern a bit :P

Yessss going with Lee-chan, MissElin, and some other friends to the tour final in June!!!

I CAN'T WAAAAAAAAAAAIT

^So lucky! Does she usually extend her tours? I wish she'll do a concert in July or August so I can go...

I think because the album is being released around Mid-March (as far as I think anyway) instead of Feb we won't get any big news until a week or so after New Years

Seeing that this is her 15th anniv tour, all bets are off--no one really knows if she'll add dates or not. I hope you get to see her someday, but I hope she doesn't add any dates because I want to go to the final :P

If she doesn't extend the tour perhaps you could see her at A-Nation with Ayu :)

If she has plans on doing OS dates, it'll be unlikely she extends het tour, but it's not impossible

I guess she won't add dates. The tour happens in the first half of the year and is shorter than usual. Seeing that, I do have the feeling they' re planning something different for the second half.
But it's just a guess.

@chocopockymaster:
Then I'm one of those friends! :D
Won tickets for the tour final in Saitama as well! Wohoooo!

seeing the final is on 28th june maybe I can go a week earlier...how did you buy tickets corvina?

Ahh that's so exciting! Can't wait. ;) よろしくね！

Sorry it took me so long, I forgot about it hahahah I finally print-screened the Koda Gumi Magazine pages from the HOTEL shooting, and here are the .png pics :)



-edit-
Oops, just after posting I realised photobucket shrinked the pics, the originals are ~1300px wide. Does anyone know where I can upload these without having to shrink them? Or if anyone wants the bigger pics I could try email-ing them or just uploading a .jpg...

@Pandy & @Rika: LOL It means.. 4 of us (incl. Gubsi) won the lottery.
Now we have 7 tickets + 7 extra tickets for Final show :roflmao
14 tickets gawd... :happy1:

Are you going the 27th too, boo? :heart

@Pandy: No no no.. only the final one. I won't be able to afford another date, 'cause I'm sure that I'm going on a rampage and buy all of her goodies. (Either another date or goodies... ) Usually she does something different for the final (eg. black cherry).
Would you like to attend 27th?

User a455348 just posted a pic of Kuu wearing a wedding dress on baidu, but seems like she/he doesn't know what it is for

http://i60.tinypic.com/2mi3qm8.jpg

Looks like a magazine shooting for me, but then why'd they publish it on the first day of 2015...?

You can't hotlink from baidu, you need to reupload the pic otherwise no one will be able to see it ^^

Oh, sorry for that :P Edited my previous post already

She could be "pulling a Beni" and doing a dress collection. "Koda Kumi - Love Wedding - Dress Collection" haha

^ She got it as a present from her stylist's friend Hisako Takayama (wedding dress maker). So pretty.. She should hold a wedding party~

I would love for her to do a wedding dress line. She's so cheesy, it suits her and her kimonos were amazing!

I wouldn't mind that wedding dress collection tbh. It would be epic. Although it could be for her new album too. Or maybe she's going to release another single before the album and this wedding dress picture will be used for that. It's hard to say what Kuu's up to. She's not so predictable. But the photo is gorgeous~ :heart

By the way I saw a glimpse of Kuu on my TV last night. I was watching the Asian Music Awards and they showed a clip from the previous ones. It was just for few seconds but I was able to recognize Kuu anyway from the 2011 MAMA clip. It felt awesome. Now I have seen both Namie and Kuu on my TV. :D

Just re-watching the Bon Voyage tour on Blu-ray so it is looking gorgeous!! And will now finally get round to posting some random thoughts:

* Love the first section - Let's Show Tonight through to Butterfly! My only nit-pick is that I would have liked the original, up-tempo arrangement of Butterfly along with the choreography! Also love the inclusion of Rock your Body!
* She looks beautiful throughout but especially in the crown and dress for the ballad section.
* The snippet of Real Emotion during the medley sounds amazing with the band! I would love to see a full version someday! Speaking of Someday, this song would have fit in quite well in the first section I think, along with Feel.
* The interlude videos are cute! And the show looks great throughout especially the first and ballad sections!
* I also surprisingly enjoyed Koi no Tsubomi

it may be the mag photoshoot or the single/album cover shoot or loveil/perfume shoot. it could be so many things tbh:D

She's been quiet lately and I'm actually glad she's taking her time.
I think something big is coming our way (a best album with 50 versions big) LOL jk

Ssshhh, let's not give avex ideas on this :laugh I'm already afraid that the first class live will be split in two separate versions instead of one, hopefully not...

Oh ok, 15 versions then, to match her anniversary :grouphug
Better start saving some bling bling because that's all she wants :laugh
Watch out for those fanclub versions :laugh

lool :roflmao I'm sure there'll be at least one FC version, but I want just one, tenso is already too expensive for one item and it'll almost always get taxed here in Brazil... Not to mention my credit card limit :laugh

2 original album or 2 mini plus brand new album

Is there anybody has an instrumental of Dance In The Rain? , please.

is there anyone with the single? HAHA

I ripped the instrumental, but I'm travelling and left my computer at home...

I'm still severely in love with Dance in the Rain. I don't know what it is, but I haven't enjoyed a song this much in a long time.

I need news from the new album :(

I really hope this new album will have a sexy and/or club song. we haven't had one since 2012 with Lay Down. Those are her best songs!

https://www.mediafire.com/?7ywq7y0q33mp0ib

really? LOADED? Money in my bag? So fever? those are sexy songs for me...


I'm also really excited for some info about the album, can't wait!

^Alright let me change what I meant. We haven't had a club banger since 2012 with lay down.

Thanks a lot but it set to be private?
How can I download?

Koda Kumi turns into her 15th year!

Koda Kumi turns into her 15th year! An arena tour has announced!

Koda Kumi held a live which she invited 10,000 fans (limited to fan club members) in commemoration of 15th anniversary of her debut on December 6th. The venue, STUDIO COAST, was the venue for her long-cherished first one-man live. The reason she picked STUDIO COAST as the venue was that she has been having "a passion for singing" and "feelings of gratitude to supportive fans" since her debut.

The live started with her latest single, "Dance In The Rain". It was composed of all of her 58 singles, including her debut single "TAKE BACK". The set list was, you can say, the best singles collection. It was the super-premium live that you could enjoy her career path in one day.

She talked to us looking back on her career path, "I'm grateful for things that I could've done; to tell people the importance of love, and to give someone a supportive push through my voice and music. I'm also grateful for conducting the lives and releasing singles that impressed fans. Mostly, I was very glad to hear the supporting voice from fans. At first, my CD didn't sell well, so sometimes I thought of quitting, but the fans were waiting for me and gave me a supportive push. I learned that the music that I want to do doesn't always become a hit. A good luck and good timing are also important. After 14 years, I still think it's important to believe that you can make it come true if you keep on believing even when you are in an unpleasant situation. I owe what I am now to my fans and staff, not on my own. I'll keep on singing with all of my experiences."


She rushed through her 20's. She appeared on a lot of media, held tours and made new songs in between. She used to have a full schedule, however, she committed to music again this year and concentrated on producing. She had achieved many milestones: releasing singles 12 weeks in a row, double million sales of her best album, holding lives at Tokyo Dome twice, and making the world's first virtual reality music video. What does she aim at now?

"I still like J-POP, but from now on, I'd like to be more flexible and try other kinds of music. We made the world's first virtual reality music video this year and I met new people such as a new director and a new cameraman. Meeting new people, which happened a lot, was very nice. When trying new things, there are always unexpected happenings. Then, you find new aspect of yourself due to those happenings. I felt it very strong in this year. I came up with ideas based on my experiences, so our works were beyond our expectation when we finished; it happened a lot. I am glad I can go on a tour next year, and I will make it wittier and more entertainment. I will do my best to make the next year to be memorable year to my fans."

She has been unconventional and challenging new things actively, so she is continuously evolving. She is called "QUEEN OF LIVE KODA KUMI". We cannot stop looking forward to what queen would do in her "Koda Kumi 15th Anniversary Live Tour 2015 supported by Mercedes-Benz"

She performed 58 songs? woah.

^ It was a medley, and she split the singles into two setlists. There were actually four small one hour long lives, and in each she sang half of her singles

Gosh, this text made me anxious for her album! I hope it really means new things on it. I wonder if it's finished by now, at least the recording process. Hope we get a date soon!!

They must have done something, files never were set to private after uploading,
try now :)

http://www.mediafire.com/download/7y...trumental-.mp3

On Ayu's CDL I got a piece of paper with Kuu and tour dates.

I'm a little surprised that her virtual reality music video isn't at least a bit more recognized. I mean, I can't help but feel if Beyonce or someone had done it there would be a big fuss. I guess because Kuu is an outdated J-Pop singer no one cares :P I just hope that a more popular Western act doesn't try to claim they did it first and everyone believes them because they are more popular.

Oh yeah! I would love to get another song like Lay Down or V.I.P. or Under. She must have song like on of those on each album as mandatory.

To me a club banger is a song that people can get down to in a club lol if that's the case I think she had quite a few since 2012 like Dreaming Now!, IS THIS TRAP?, LOL, SHOW ME YOUR HOLLA, CRANK THA BASS, etc... maybe the description you've been looking for is a slutty sexy hot club banger :laugh but to me SO FEVER is the definition of that :love

I must be the only person that can't stand Lay Down. My most recent club-banger of hers is totally XXX. :heart

Lay Down is boring. She hasn't had a good club banger in years.

Loved reading that article - can't wait for more news on the next album!

I love Lay Down. Gives me so much energy when I'm working out

Yeah Lay Down is amazing. Have you guys heard it properly with a subwoofer? The bass is so intense. I just wish she didn't fuck it up with the horrible pronunciation. Lay Down the Raw.

I both massively stan for Lay Down and find it super boring at the same time. idk