Λucifer (really) are back!
- Posted on April 8th, 2010 by Henkka
- Categories: Blog translations, News
- Tags: lives, mayu shinjo, Λucifer
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Things were looking grim after my last post, but I’m very glad to have been proven wrong!
Aucifer now has a new site that promises to open in a bit over a week from now, on April 20th. For now, the site has links to the members’ respective sites. Looking pretty snazzy! There’s also a mobile version.
Here’s a portion of Mayu Shinjo‘s announcement:
Aucifer 10th anniversary
Finally, they’ve announced it!
I already wrote about it in a previous blog, but as their website was in preparation and none of the members posted any official statement, a lot of fans must’ve thought “is it for real?”
However, after lots of fine-tuning, their site is up.
This time, I can announce it loud and clear:
For a limited time, Aucifer are back!
On a related note, and this might just be entirely my imagination (or my limited Japanese skill), but Mayu might be hinting at some possible upcoming Kaikan Phrase activity. Whether she means another game, the manga or even — dare I say it?! — more anime, I know not. But again, this could just be nothing, so take this bit with a grain of salt.
Atsuro, Towa and Santa also posted messages about this on their blogs, all basically just throwing the announcement out there and saying they’re looking forward to it. However, there is one thing of importance all of them seem to be saying. I’m sorry to say this to all those hoping for new Aucifer songs (me included!), but for now it appears that it’s going to be a live reunion in nature. I’m hoping they change their minds because while I’d love to go catch them live, I don’t see that happening.
Ah well, if nothing else, we can at least hope for a live DVD, right? According to Towa’s blog, their rehearsals have already begun. Behold, this is where the magic (supposedly) happens:
Lastly, TNB Entertainment has also posted an apology on their site, basically saying they’re sorry for the wait. I don’t know about you guys, but considering the nature of the news they’ve just given us, I’m alright with forgiving them!
Limited Japanese skill? Come on man, you were tweeting manoeri in Japanese these days. It’s 100% hinting at something more, and it promised another announcement. Good to see this, I thought it was over with the last post.
Haha!! I was just “happened to be there” when they made the announcement, that’s why I got the news quicker than you XD And my timezone is just 1 hour behind them, so it’s another advantage to me 😛
Anyway, this is a good news, and I’m looking forward to it. Just hope that Makoto’s voice can return to it’s best, not like what he did in his “Flair” album, which was…..weird.
@phr: Hey, limited is limited! Alright, my Japanese might be better than someone’s who’s learning it solely through anime subbed (and dubbed) in English or something, but it’s still nothing to write home about. 😉 As for the Mano tweet… what can I say? Adorable Finland-loving idols can make me try harder than usual! Anyway, thank you for confirming that, I was hoping I wasn’t just imagining it!
@GN-0015: Hehe, alright, you’re excused this time. 😉 Makoto’s voice on “Flair” huh? Hmmm. I didn’t really notice it being awful or anything — honestly, it was the songs I was disappointed in. I admit though that I barely listened to it (even though I bought it), I should probably give it a few more spins to refresh my memory. “Secret Colors” was a cool song though, I thought. Very Aucifer-ish!
@Henkka
Secret Colors was cool, no doubt. Maybe it was the best from “Flair”. But his voice in that album was like “too dry”, maybe as dry as Mojave Desert. For me, he was at this best on “Element of Love”, also his “Vibration” mini album. Anyway, I’ve made a forum thread about Λucifer in jpopasia.com, hope you can join the site and we can talk about them more. I’m kinda…had enough being the only Λucifer fan of that site, so maybe you can bring other fans to that site and we’ll rule it!!
@GN-0015: Ahh right, I see what you mean. You might be right about that. It’ll be interesting to see how it is on any possible upcoming Aucifer releases. Can’t imagine it being horrible though — it IS Aucifer, after all. About the forum though, I’m sorry, I’m a ridiculously lazy forumer! I found the thread though. I’ll bookmark it and silently observe… 😛