The Official Riisa Naka ~ ZEBRA QUEEN Thread

[Mai82Go]

Naka Riisa is a japanese actress and will make her singing debut in April as Zebra Queen. The Zebra Queen is a character from Takashi Miikes next movie Zebraman 2: Vengeful Zebra City. Riisa never sung before so she had to practise a lot for this. There are two songs so far. One song is called

NAMIDA～ココロアバイテ～
(NAMIDA～kokoroabaite～)

A PV has already been released, you can watch it here:



The other song can be heard in the trailer for Zebraman 2.



You can also watch the trailer at the official website here.

Or even better visit the website of the Zebra Queen herself! Not much info there yet, though. Quite mysterious that woman.

Naka Riisa is a huge Ayu Fan and an up and coming actress in Japan. I follow her blog, and she seems like a fun and sweet person who does fangirl Ayu a lot, so she's probably similar to a lot of us here. She acted in quite a few dramas and movies, her next movie is another part of the Toki wo kakeru Shoujo Story, she also was the seiyuu for the main character in the Anime that was released a few years ago, but has a different storyline. You can also see her in the PV's Nostalgia and Toki wo kakeru Shoujo from Ikimono Gakari. Her next drama will be Yankee-kun to Megane-chan with Hiroki Narimiya, also coming in April. So 2010 is going to be her year for sure!

NEW INFO

Official Artist Page from Sony with covers

Release date is 21st of April 2010!

Yesasia Links:
Normal Edition
Limited CD & DVD

The Zebra Queen Website was updated. Watch the complete PV here.
Or download the PV from this thread. Thanks Zemus!

You can download the performance from Music Station on the 30th of April here. And don't forget to thank Zemus for it.

You can watch the video for the second track Theme of the Zebra Queen here.
Thanks Beauty4123!

Performances
The Zebra Queen will perform at MUSIC JAPAN (NHK). It'll be broadcasted on 2nd of May! Watch out.

Music Station performance on the 30th of April.

Another TV performance 7th of May HAPPY MUSIC on Nihon Terebi 24:54.

There seems to be another performance for TBS Show The Music Hour on the 11th! Yay.

Sales
Zebra Queen debuted at 19 for the daily single charts. Weekly charts position is 23.
Sales 1st Week: 4110 Position 23
Sales 2nd Week: 3963 Position 22
Sales 3rd Week: 3123 Position 29
Sales 4th Week: 2,322 Position 42
Total 1st month: 13,518

Sales 5th Week: 1,481 Position 47
Total so far: 14,999 Haha, just one more and she sold 15k! Go, Riisa.

[Corvina]

NAMIDA～ココロアバイテ～ is pretty catchy, I like the song! But the PV is a bit weird, all those strange face expressions from her. XD
I really like her logo with the wings and the crown as well.
I gonna keep an eye on her!
Thanks for introducing her.

[ohsixthirty]

wow, i love the PV and the song! wish this single was out now so i could listen to it in full quality.

[Mai82Go]

@Corvina
No problem! Her facial impressions, yeah, I think it has to do with her character, I think the Zebra Queen is crazy or at least not completely sane. Which makes me like her. haha.

@touchedstar
I will buy the single for sure.

[ohsixthirty]

do you know what day in april it releases on?

[Mai82Go]

Unfortunately the site still only says 2010.04. The film will be released in May so I think it's probably end of April. It's not listed on yesasia yet.

Here is another YT link to the PV which cannot be embedded.
Zebra Queen PV

This is from Tokyograph:

"Up-and-coming actress Riisa Naka (20) will be singing for her upcoming movie, "Zebraman 2." She will provide the film's theme song and an insert song, though the titles and release dates have not yet been revealed.

The film, which is Takashi Miike's sequel to his earlier "Zebraman," once again stars Sho Aikawa (48) as the titular superhero. Naka plays a character known as the Zebra Queen.

To complement the near-futuristic setting (2025) of "Zebraman 2," Naka's songs are up-tempo trance tunes. For three months, the actress had to undergo voice training and dance lessons.

The two songs are expected to be released in April, before the movie opens in theaters on May 1."

[Beauty4123]

i KNEW that was her in your set! she looked so familiar despite being in black and white

i'm gonna watch the PV soon! i'm turning into a real fan of naka riisa now.

[Tom Punks]

Omg, she has the same birthday as me.

She seems cool.

[AyUta]

She's cool! I'm going to keep a close eye on her .

[ohsixthirty]

Originally Posted by Mai82Go

Unfortunately the site still only says 2010.04. The film will be released in May so I think it's probably end of April. It's not listed on yesasia yet.

Here is another YT link to the PV which cannot be embedded.
Zebra Queen PV

This is from Tokyograph:

ok, thank you! it'll be hard to wait till april for this!

[Beauty4123]

wow, i didn't expect her to sing something electro-pop-ish. it's aweeeesome! the PV is a bit too much though, haha. but i like it! can't wait for her debut (and her drama with nariyama )

[dreamland2.0]

I love the Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo movie! (the animated one)
I will check her music and acting out now

[visionfactory]

WOW! the PV is really interesting and the song is good too.

[Mai82Go]

Originally Posted by Beauty4123

i KNEW that was her in your set! she looked so familiar despite being in black and white

i'm gonna watch the PV soon! i'm turning into a real fan of naka riisa now.

Yes, that's her. I changed it from Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo to Zebra Queen to promote her debut. I admit, I'm a fangirl when it comes to Riisa! I'm happy that people seem to like her. Yay.

[zyoeru]

NAMIDA is so catchy, but her lip syncing is just sooooooo bad. XD

[Mirai Noah]

Wow, I really like NAMIDA!

[Corvina]

Ah, so she's playing the character the Zebra queen in the PV.
Mai82GO, is that the only release from her under that name? Or will she continue? Or start to release under her own name after that? Do you know something?

[happiholic★]

^Yes, I'm wondering this too. I mean, she is an actress who is singing for a role she took on. What about when the movie promotion is done and over with? Will she continue on doing both?

[Tom Punks]

Originally Posted by zyoeru

NAMIDA is so catchy, but her lip syncing is just sooooooo bad. XD

That video is also slightly out of sync.

[Mai82Go]

^yep, the sound for that video is slightly out of sync, that's why I posted another link to an alternative.

Originally Posted by zyoeru

NAMIDA is so catchy, but her lip syncing is just sooooooo bad. XD

No PV is live, of course it is "lipsynched" if you want to call it lipsynching.

@Corvina & Love Shine
I think this will depend on how succesfull the single is going to be. And if she continues as Naka Riisa, I doubt she'll have that ZQ image. Which is sad because it's different from what other actresses have done who started a music career. Let's just wait and see.

According to Wikipedia the single will be released on 21st of April 2010. That's not officially announced though by Sony (her record company) yet. But that date makes sense.

Tracklist from Official Website

M1「NAMIDA～ココロアバイテ～」
※映画「ゼブラーマン ゼブラシティの逆襲」主題歌
M2「ゼブラクイーンのテーマ」
※映画「ゼブラーマン ゼブラシティの逆襲」挿入歌
M3「NAMIDA～ココロアバイテ～(inst.)」
M4「ゼブラクイーンのテーマ(inst.)」
※初回限定盤DVD付（M1・M2ビデオクリップ）