[Koda Kumi] The 205th Thread - angeL & monsteR

[KarenPang]

Separate position and sales for angeL & monsteR

angeL - #123 ; 442
monsteR -#129 ; 428

https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7137971076

Oricon count the minis as albums , not singles

[kaled kalil]

Ouch, that's rough. 7845 copies besides FC versions.

Funny enough it wouldn't matter if it was together, it would still be less than 8463 copies, which was SEVENTEEN's number on top 11.

[AndyF]

Low numbers even for a 2020 release... Sad, but there's no effort to promote her new music, avex is basically a Live Nation, selling tickets is all that matters.

[voltron]

Listening to Alarm was driving me crazy, because I could swear it was from something else. I thought it was in a Pitch Perfect movie, and I finally figured it out. I didn't see it mentioned anywhere, but maybe I missed it. The notes are almost identical to this.

[melissalove]

The albums are both available for download here, if anyone is interested.

https://www.jpopsingles.eu/album-kod...er-my-name-is/

[KarenPang]

Behind the scenes

Koda Kumi

Not just Kuuchan but her team members were all so nice and cool. Team Sora was really impressed and felt so happy working with them

I love how her entire team has the same mind as Kuuchan to provide entertainment and happiness to the world

https://twitter.com/imsora_desu/stat...59585307922434

This's not mentioned but Kuu is the 1st female solo artiste that Sora Senpai Club interviewed

Before her , they interviewed some male seiyuu's , Sako Tomohisa & GARNiDELiA

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KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2020-2021 MY NAME IS... COUNTDOWN EDITION will be streamed online via Thumva

https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...74306228617216

[RainbowFive]

Originally Posted by KarenPang

https://twitter.com/imsora_desu/stat...59585307922434

This's not mentioned but Kuu is the 1st female solo artiste that Sora Senpai Club interviewed

Before her , they interviewed some male seiyuu's , Sako Tomohisa & GARNiDELiA

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KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2020-2021 MY NAME IS... COUNTDOWN EDITION will be streamed online via Thumva

https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...74306228617216

Guys, the countdown streaming live is available also for overseas? Please help me

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by RainbowFive

Guys, the countdown streaming live is available also for overseas? Please help me

No it's not :x

海外から視聴したい

動作保証ができかねますため、サポート対象外とさせていただいております。
（※Thumvaアプリは日本国内のみのご提供となっております）

https://info.thumva.com/html/help.html
https://thumva.com/events/cXpxMBqrw6NpExb

I never heard of Thumva prior to this so I also don't know if the video quality you watch online will be good or bad

So far ZAIKO is the only 1 I've seen that its video quality is fantastic ie. Blu-ray quality

[Corvina]

Kuu posted in her stories, that they're currently working on a dance version of the Killer monster PV cause they got so many requests about it!

Originally Posted by RainbowFive

Guys, the countdown streaming live is available also for overseas? Please help me

It says in the FAQs they don't support oversea viewing.
The app is only available in Japan, tho the site works.
But mu-mo also states it's a Japan only service and it works nevertheless.

[RainbowFive]

thank you guys for the clarification! So bad that we could not watch it, there is a possibility to sent a email to the staff all together and ask for also a overseas streming service?

[kaled kalil]

It is just like mu-mo, you can try watch the trial video and see if it's available where you live. It's available in Brazil, so I think it is worldwide.

- Please be sure to check before purchasing.
Please watch the Thumva experience movie before purchasing, check whether it can be watched in your own environment, and check the recommended environment before purchasing.

Thumva experience movie
https://thumva.com/others/trial_movie

* Even if the Thumva experience movie can be played without problems, the video may not be viewed smoothly depending on the device you are using and the network environment. Please note

The quality of the video is definitely better than mu-mo, it's pretty much like the one used for a-nation 2020, but don't expect much since the tour is heavy based on those big screens and even the TV broadcast was low quality looking because of it.

[RainbowFive]

Thank you @kaled kalil !

[Ayu_Love]

Seems to work for me, hopefully this means we may be able to watch it like the Mu-mo lives!

I managed to get the FC edition of AngeL X MonsteR, I'm so happy! This will be my first Kuu FC edition I've been able to afford, so I'm super pleased I was able to finally get one on her 20th anniversary! <3

I'm very excited to have a look through those photobooks a million times lol.

[Rainbow141]

Originally Posted by KarenPang

You can see how overwhelmingly touched Kuu was in the 1st 2 dates of the tour & of course during the tour final too

Kuu has been in the industry for so long already & I feel she's already at a stage in her life that she feels content and she also did said in the part 1 of the Sora Senpai Club interview she still wants to continue to try more new things too
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Also for the record I'm also the rare few that do not like streaming sites either . I never get why others like using them but to each his own

Just watched the Sora interview today--one of few interviews I've been able to enjoy thanks to subs--and it seems we the fans really motivate her more than I thought. The love she's felt this year and during this tour and the fact that we still care about her now, combined with everything she said in that interview, as long as we can keep showing her that "people want Koda Kumi" (paraphrased) I have faith she'll keep going strong.

Even if someday she just performs and doesn't hammer out new albums every year I'll be grateful just to see her.

Thankfully I'm not the only one here lol! It's just... I listen to really obscure 90s and 00s anime and J-pop music that I can barely even find on Suki, and of course Spotify has never heard of it... So I guess I'll do streaming for her major releases in the first week to bump her numbers, but otherwise, I'm still into digital.

Originally Posted by Corvina

It indeed looks simple - people are not buying music anymore, they stream it, either for little money on apple music/Line/Spotify or for free like on youtube e.g..
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I also still remember one number regarding the rise of concert ticket sales. It went up 25% (!) in five years in Japan 2019 iirc.
So that Kuu loves performing and doing tours so much is a really good thing looking at the market
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Though in Japan physical will most likely never go away and it's going to settle down on a certain number definitely higher than in the rest of the world in the next decade.

That makes sense, streaming is sadly apparently the future, but the fact that there are so many options and so many people not even streaming or doing a mix of streaming and digital/physical makes it... I dunno. I don't think streaming will ever fully replace the other mediums.

It's funny you mention physical in Japan never going away, because the first thing that struck me as odd about J-Pop was that even singles got physical releases--something not really seen in America for decades. So yeah, I can very much believe physical is there to stay. It's a different market.

Very good to see the numbers increasing. I just learned recently--thanks to COVID--that the truest way entertainers make money is by touring. So if that turnout keeps rising and Kuu keeps on keeping on, it's looking good.

Originally Posted by kaled kalil

As Corvina pointed out some pages ago, Kumi was talking about trying to do kinda the same thing from reLIVE with two performances per day, one for monster and other for angel, so that's probably in the plans if things get better with the covid situation:

As for reLIVE, the other two options she picked were TRICK and Kingdom

This is great news. I still have yet to see the re(LIVE)'s--working my way through all the ones I haven't seen, currently on WOML Tour--but I heard they were great. And I'd kill for more TRICK Tour. If she can actually improve anything from that show, I'd be amazed. The dancing and stunts were very top notch. Kingdom is one of my least favorite tours for one of my most favorite albums, so I would love to see her make it more interesting.

Originally Posted by Corvina

Kuu posted in her stories, that they're currently working on a dance version of the Killer monster PV cause they got so many requests about it!

Omg thank god. That dance is almost simple-looking but super hypnotic. Choreography by not only MAIKO but Fuko too (who was lurking in the video the whole time and I didn't even notice her...) I'll be looking out for it.


I've missed my chance twice now to see her on streaming, so if I can't make it for this one, I'll be bummed but not shocked.


And, finally, for anyone who wants a glimpse, I scanned the angeL + monsteR CD+DVD release and preorder postcards. My scanner is about 5 years old so the pictures aren't outstanding, but I did my best to color and level adjust in Photoshop lol >.<;;

Scans album

Here's the postcards for a teaser:

Spoiler:

[KarenPang]

The thought of streaming music online never appeals to me from the very beginning

Why I don't know but I want audio & video files that I can personally keep in my hard disks

People in Japan still will buy physical music releases even though the number keeps decreasing as each year goes by but I still feel physical releases can thrive in the country

CDs wouldn't go obsolete anytime soon just like vinyls which some people still buy to this date

So while physical music releases' sales go down , streaming will go up and that's the new reality in the current ever changing music industry

Kuu related wise , I think the 1 thing that still kept her going on in the industry for so many years is the fans that have supported her through the good , bad & worst times

[Zeke.]

She’s adopted a very messy sound. It’s unappealing.

[Corvina]

From the rehearsal photos for the CDL she's going to add Killer monsteR to the setlist!
Cause that airplane or wing dance move we can see in one of the photos is part of the choreo.

She's also wearing new earrings in the photos and her manager tagged them with "coming soon".
So looks like we get a third round of goods for this tour and the anniversary.
I'm happy about more jewelery!
Still love the 15th anni necklace.

The Buzzryrhtm performance is tonight!

[Ayu_Love]

Looking forward to seeing the Buzzrythm performance!

I'd also love to see her re-do the TRICK and Kingdom tours. Kingdom used to be one of my favourites, but I agree that the ballad section is quite long and I never really cared for the cute section either, it was mostly the beginning I loved. I feel like there is so much potential with the Kingdom theme to do something even cooler!

Thank you for the scans, Rainbow! I honestly can't express how much I love this album photoshoot. <3

For streaming, I think it's a case of money + convenience for people. I think for people (including myself) it's cheaper to stream instead of buying a lot of CDs, it frees up the need to store CDs in your house (obvs not an issue buying digital), you can have all your music digitally in one player that will auto-update with any new releases (plus being able to find new music via recommended), and there is no need to rip those CDs first which adds extra time and inconvenience to people who in general have busy lives and not enough money etc (I think more people are switching to tablets and laptops for convenience, and I'm not even sure if most new laptops come with a CD drive nowadays? Mine didn't, so I am going to have to use my partner's PC tower to rip my FC editions CDs when they arrive, if I don't need to buy a CD drive for it first.)

For me it has always been a case of money, although I am in a much better financial situation now so I can buy things like FC editions, I think there are many fans who cannot afford to buy all their fav artists releases. If it wasn't for forums like this when I was younger, I don't think I ever would have been able to listen to as much JPOP or watch as many tours as I did, so I'm always super thankful to everyone here.

I do honestly think physical sales would increase again if they sold more goodies with the standard editions (For example, I think the standard edition of BoA's 10th Korean album comes with a photobook that also has short paragraphs inside talking about each song). I think for people on tight budgets, it's just not worth the money and space to buy a CD when you can stream it. :/ (Unless you really want to support your favourite artists, obviously)

I tend to be someone who will listen to a song I like on repeat (and will continue to listen to those songs for years after), so I would be interested in finding out how many streams it takes to effectively give the artist the same amount of money as buying the album. (just as an interest)

[RainbowFive]

Originally Posted by Rainbow141

Scans album

Here's the postcards for a teaser:

Spoiler:

Thank you Rainbow141 for the scans

[Rainbow141]

Originally Posted by Corvina

She's also wearing new earrings in the photos and her manager tagged them with "coming soon".
So looks like we get a third round of goods for this tour and the anniversary.
I'm happy about more jewelery!
Still love the 15th anni necklace.

The Buzzryrhtm performance is tonight!

How on earth do you manage to get those goods?! Every time I go on GUMI it's sold out the minute I find out about it. TT____TT Like that neon-colored pouch they recently released with her MY NAME IS... image on it. I wanted that so bad lol....

I didn't know there was another performance Hope she doesn't sing something like "you" again =___= Something new. So disappointed in that performance, I wish she would have sung "RUN"...