I've Sound + Kotoko topic

[Kacku]

It's news time! Featured today: KOTOKO and Mami Kawada (what a surprise)!

KOTOKO's new (and her 19th) kinda-I've single Restart (リスタート) is going to be released on December 19th! I say kinda-I've because it's KOTOKO working with I've producers (Maiko Iuchi on the A-side and C.G Mix on the b-side called "Largo"), but it seems like a one-off special thing. I've singers are just ignoring all the fuss about labels, what with Mami randomly releasing a single under Warner and then returning to Geneon, and now KOTOKO first migrating to WHV for a few releases and then popping back to Geneon to release this single. ANYWAY, previews for both Restart (sounds nice) and Largo (sounds like a more boring Kikoeru, but I wasn't really expecting anything more from C.G Mix), as well as the single's pretty cover, are available on KOTOKO's Geneon site!

Then for the Mami news. Mami Kawada is gonna get busy in February, what with her releasing a Best-of album AND a single in consecutive weeks! I don't really get why they're releasing them like this but eh! The best-of album, titled MAMI KAWADA BEST -BIRTH-, will be released on February 13th, comes in a regular version and a limited edition with an extra blu-ray disc containing the live recording from Mami's 2012 Live Tour SQUARE THE CIRCLE. The tracklist contains her Geneon singles (so no Serment, it seems) and her debut song Kaze to Kimi wo Daite and more for 16 songs in total. Now, warning, the following statement contains some good, strong bias: this album already seems waaay better than KOTOKO's compilation. More songs, BETTER songs, way better extras - I'm extremely tempted to preorder this right away just for the live recording - and a better title (okay, that was petty, but I actively despise KOTOKO's compilation's name). I'm really excited for the final tracklist and covers - we only know 12 out of 16 tracks that will be on the album, so we have four wild cards and no idea what they will be (prayer circle for Koubou getting put on this album anyone?)!

Oh yeah, I think I mentioned the new single too. Mami's 13th single will be released on the week following her Best-of album, exact date Februare 20th 2013. No title yet, but the song will be the theme song for To Aru Majutsu no Index the Movie (or whatever the title of that thing is). Also, for some reason, the song is also on the best album released one week before the single and I don't really get why but okay?? Seems like there will be no PV, since only one version is listed on Mami's Geneon site.

For more info on Mami's new releases (like the unfinished tracklist for the Best-of), visit her Geneon site.

And finally, not news but I'll just now officially acknowledge that there seems to be no sign of Eiko's single Yellow ever gracing our lives in any form. Oh why couldn't it get the Onkalo treatment. :'C

EDIT: I Google Translate'd stuff and I got the impression that out of the four unknown songs on MAMI KAWADA BEST -BIRTH-, at least one will be new and some will be "songs from popular tie-up games", meaning eroge songs. Still hoping Koubou will somehow end up there.

Also, I just now noticed, where's Prophecy? What, was that single not succesful enough to be included? Seems weird that it's not there at all. Serment too.