2011 is ending soon, but things concerning I've are only getting more and more interesting. The newest development seems to be Mami Kawada doing a KOTOKO: she's apparently also moving from Geneon Universal to Warner Home Video. Find her new site
here and also hear out the previews for her new single Serment, coming out on the 1st of February 2012.
However, unlike KOTOKO, Mami Kawada seems to be keeping her I've ties intact. Serment is fully I've-made with Kawada's go-to guys Tomoyuki Nakazawa and Takeshi Ozaki handling the compositions and arrangements. I wonder if this means I've as a whole is breaking up with Geneon. Considering Kaori Utatsuki is releasing a single under I've in Comiket right about now, MELL is quiet and LSP never was under Geneon to begin with, it certainly seems so.
Oh, speaking of LSP, they're releasing their second single on January 25th. It's called "Trip -innocent of D-" and, surprise surprise, also has an anime tie-up. More interestingly, the cover and full credits are out:
Trip -innocent of D-
Lyrics: Airi Kirishima
Composition: C.G Mix
Arrangement: C.G Mix and Takeshi Ozaki
Chapter.5
Lyrics: Airi Kirishima
Composition: Kazuya Takase
Arrangement: Kazuya Takase and Takeshi Arai
It's nice to see Airi writing the group's lyrics. Oh and I suppose there's also a preview up for the a-side but I'm too lazy to dig it up at the moment.
And finally, Comiket 81 starts today if I'm not mistaken and we have three products of potential interest to I've fans: the aforementioned brand new single from Kaori Utatsuki, called Toki no Tsubasa and featuring three new songs; a first release from LSP's quiet-until-recently girl, Rin/Lin Asami (how does one romanize), a single called "Got it!! -Extended ver.-" containing Got it!! -Extended ver.- (would you believe it), and English version of the song (I'm dreading it) and an instrumental; and finally, a brand new Eiko Shimamiya produced mini album called 5TEARS and featuring vocal talents such as KOTOKO, Eiko Shimamiya herself and Tae, who might also be familiar to some under the name lela. Oh and some women called karuta and Kaori Tsubaki, completely unfamiliar names to me. I'll admit I'm the most excited for 5TEARS since there's been a Promotional Video floating around for a while and I've loved most of what I've heard.
Someone else likes it too, right? And if anyone's interested, some small previews for Rin and Kaori's singles can be found on I've's official site (
http://ive.mu/c81.html).
Anyway, here's me, waiting for the Comiket goodies to pop up.
(I meant for the opposite of this long-ass infobomb to happen.)