snow again

seems like the weather can't decide if it wants to be warm or cold. 2
days ago at the same place we had sun and blue sky. Jesus

Concert Releases!

It's been a while since we (H!F) released new Concert performances.

Don't be mad at us for being late with all these releases, but what can we do. We're pretty much working alone and I'm the only karaoker, again. Haaaaaa, work's just piling up and I don't know what and when to do them. It's prett y bad right now.
But we'll get through it.

SC seemed to have ants in his pants as he was frantically timing new performances as soon as he saw that I had some more free time or will to work on new stuff! Anyway.
There are a lot of new performances coming out soon and we hope you'll all enjoy them. The first ones to go around are these two:

1.) Petitmoni V - Pira!Otome no Negai (H!P '09 Summer Kakumei Gannen ~Hello! Champloo~)
This song is just sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome. When I first saw it on YouTube I just knew I had to do it. Unfortunately SC didn't want to time it as those parapiraparappo where too much for him. Luckily I had my timer Lailu jumping in - thanks again for your help, Lailu - and thanks to him we were able to release it only 3 days after considering working on it. The colors are just great and I worked on one of my custom fonts again to make those dots in a half circle.
I'm still watching that song twice a day because I so adore it. I hope you guys will too!?
Let us know how you liked it!2.) Matsuura Aya - Watashi no Sugoi Houhou (FC Event '08)
The second song to be released was from a Fan Club Event back from 2008. Asagi, one of H!Fs timers had this project timed and lying around but he couldn't work on the effects for some time and in the end asked H!F if we were interested in doing it. Since I am a huge Matsuura Fan we agreed and released it a few weeks later. Thanks again Asagi for letting me work on it. I really enjoyed it!

Other Concert releases coming soon, so check back here in a few days!

Bye and good night for tonight!

The Only Winter Love

A while ago there have been a two new Mognet releases.
I'm very happy about those as Mognet was basically the group which inspired me to work on karaoke in the first place some 5 years ago. Later I then joined the team and we became fast friends. They also provided me with a platform to work on PVs with German subtitled videos, which I greatly appreciated. Today Mognet is unfortunately pretty much inactive as members left and the initial group members grew up and started a working life.

Oh well. In January we released two winter-themed PVs.

The first one was Yoshii Kazuya's bakka. The title of the song itself is quite funny as Ba(k)ka can actually be read as "Idiot", but in this song it's considered meaning "only". The song is simple in its sound but the meanings of the lyrics are very deep, so please make sure to read them thoroughly. We decided to keep the karaoke effects very simple and we played around with the blinking lights of the night to go with the flow of the city. This PV also featured artists of the very famous band KREVA!

Kumama loves this song and so I was very pleased to hear that she enjoyed this! I hope you will too.

The other we released was a song I insisted on doing because I really loved it. We had it lying around for over 2 years until I finally had the time to work on it. We're talking about BoA's Winter Love, a quite ballad where BoA is encased in ice cubicles singing about leaving the love of her life if it's better for it.
Still quite lovely!Please enjoy those two releases and I hope we're soon going to release the other songs we already finished!

Lots of new releases!

There've been lots of new videos out from my karaoke studio, but I was too lazy to update my blog and then I forgot (yes, that's my line of the day) and now there are a lot of them and I don't remember the timeline.

I'm just going to do it with the flow and update in the couple of next entries what was released. Sorry if it's not in the right order!

First thing out I remember was a release for Hello!Fansubs. I'm not really a fan of this particular song but SC and I are trying to get all of them out so I had to do it. What I'm talking about is °C-ute's latest single "Shock", which we correctly labeled "Suzuki Airi feat C-ute - Shock", as that song was purely Airi with some "Uh, Ah, Chu" sounds from the other C-ute members plus 4 or 5 lines of chorus, repeated twice. The song itself was boring but I had fun working the lightning into the Shock word. SC enjoyed the effect, which was what I was aiming at! YAY!Following this release I finally was able to work on Buono! - Take it Easy! I'm sorry guys, that it took us sooooooo long to finish it but I really had other stuff on mind and sometimes a good work just need some time to stew. After taking my break I finally regain some of my creative ideas and I was able to finish this off in only 2 days of work!
We played with the background colors of these gorgeous shots as well as parts of their "costumes". I loved the outcome and I especially love the colors!
Colorful Karaoke Are the Best!! (o^_^)b

That's it from this front. Following up are Mognet and H!F Concert Releases! Stay tuned!!!!!

Updating Mediafire Anime Account!

Just so you guys know I'm currently updating my mediafire Anime Clip Account.
There were a few new vids done in the last couple of weeks.

The last time I remembered updating my account mediafire has been off and I forgot again.

So this time I'm doing it!!

HA!

my yummy package arrived!!!!!

Finally, it arrived! I've been waiting for it! I ordered some goods from a japanese supermarket via my friend Kumama. A month ago I asked her if it's possible for her to send me a package with a few things. I still had 4 manga I wanted to get but I was unable to optain in Europe and I also wanted some Hi-Chew! She promised me she'd send those goodies over whenever I was ready for it and a little over a week ago she said she's sending it over! Today first thing in the morning it arrived and as you can probably see I already had a Hi-Chew gum in Dragon Fruit flavour!!!!!!!!

THANKS AGAIN, KUMAMA!
So yummy!

I also had some instant curry for the "hard" times when I'm broke or too lazy to get money from my bank account and starve myself for half a week. ;-)

YAY~ *chews on a cherry flavour Hi-Chew* yumm, though I still like the blood orange ones best!

good morning everyone

time for breakfast!!! Yeah, I know weird breakfast!
I've been up since around 2am, but have been lying around in the dark in bed till around 6am listening to some audio books. Then I took a bath and made myself presentable again.
Since my stomach was really making aweful noises I decided to make breakfast. I decided on some salted rice and I still had fish with cheese crust left over which I also made for breakfast.
It was really great!

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm still alive. Also, there've been a few new videos released. I'll update this blog as soon as I have more spare time.

freezing Cold

Happy Valentine's Day!

Yep, so true!
I still wish everyone a very pleasant day with your friends and family and your loved ones!

cold

seems like i've catched a cold, again. that also means that I have
time to update my blog again!!!

Last week was really busy as I had friends over the whole week. It was
fun!!! We drank a kot (Pictures following in the next entry). I was
able to finish some long forgotten translations and I backup-ped my
karaoke folders, which basically was a good idea because my external
hd seems to hate me right now.

more following soon!!!
As I'm going to take some rest now - good night everybody!!

itadakimasu!!!

i'm currently with a friend at an all you can eat japanese Restaurant.
this was my last dish. God, I'm stuffed!!!

yummY

I had something really yummy today. Looks good right?
Marinated steak, some left over pasta from yesterday in a slightly steemed teriyaki sauce and white rice. I was trying to work all the left over ingredients into it. Looks like I made it! And it was so good. *is still drooling over how good it was*

Cut my hair

I've had long-ish hair for a while now and finally shortly after
Christmas I cut it really short!!!
that's the shortest since my High School days!

Latest 2 releases

Oh, sorry for being late on this post.

Yesterday I heard that I was not going to take part in the exam which would have been tomorrow. Oh, well....

Here's what we released last week:
The first one was the last single this girl released under UFA, before leaving the whole Hello!Project thing. This video was released under H!F somewhen Saturday before last? Or so. I don't really remember and it's not like it's important.
I really loved this song when it came out and was happy to work on effects. I tried to make them a little billowy and cloudy as it fit with the background. It's actually not one of her best song by far, but oh well! Here's Abe Natsumi's - The Screen.


The other video we released is a really "old" one. At least, it's old-ish. The song is called bakka by Yoshii Kazuya; With a cameo from KREVA who's posing as a retailer here, a really popular japanese artist. I can't say that the song is terribly exciting. We used subdued effects with sparkling lights, as the main character of the mini-drama is running around at night in the entertainment circles, or whatever it's called.
As unexciting as the song might be as exciting are the lyrics, which are really great. I also liked that it's a christmas themed song, so please enjoy this Mognet release way after christmas. It still actually fits a little as it's snowing like crazy around here!

Releases are available through the torrent trackers at Mognet and Hello!Online, respectively.

Exams!

Hey everyone!
Sorry for being lazy with my posts but I'm currently in the middle of my exams.

2 down and 3 to go.

Unfortunately I'll probably have to redo one of the exams, so far. I was stupid enough to change perfectly fine answers and change them the wrong way around. *sigh*
I could still bash my brain against the next hard surface, but it wouldn't change the outcome anyway.

Today I had my final English CLT exam. It's actually half of the IELTS exam for students to take with only the writing and readings tasks being done. It's kinda strange that they don't let us do the listening and speaking parts too, but maybe that comes at a later stage? I'm not sure yet.
I kinda have a good feeling about this whole exam thing so far. Hopefully it'll go well.

Next exam coming up is on Tuesday. The last for this semester will be on Feb 1st and the first exam of the next semester will be in March.

I hope to do well on them too.
Again. Let's wait and see!

Latersssssss~~~~

Oh, and two releases are out, but I'll write about them at a later opportunity.

Snow on campus

Keep the love coming!

One never can have enough releases, right?
Well, that's why there is another one coming along in a few hours. SC just informed me, that our newest (well, actually it's been hanging around for a long time but I totally forgot about it after some time and it surfaced in my christmas holidays) release will be our first-since-a-long-time concert performance.

and it's quite old too.... H!P '08 Winter ~Wonderful Hearts Nenjuu Mu Kyuu~. Takahashi Ai & Tanaka Reina will spread the love. ;) please enjoy!

Mano Erina #2

There we go again!

Here is another of our new releases (H!F) for you to enjoy. We decided to release the second Mano Erina song we had prepared. We're sure to be doing a few others of her songs, so just be patient with us.

For now there is this one: Mano Erina - Hajimete no Keiken!
Please enjoy.

As always, Torrents are available through Hello!Online.

Love & Peace = Paradise

Hello everybody!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope you all had a great New Year's Eve Party and everything?

I'm going to keep this simple.
There's a new release out and here it is:
Mano Erina - Love & Peace = Paradise

I had lot of fun doing this.
Thanks to Bambus and OutlawJonas for helping me with the angel wings. Without their help it wouldn't have been possible to do this.
Only comment I got from SC: "the wings are freaking amazing". Well, yeah, they are.
Have fun watching this.
I hope you'll enjoy the upcoming releases too!

Yours,

Tomo