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Sunday, 30 October 2011

Photobook gets no.1 on Oricon book ranking and 'Okaerinasai' ranks no.7 on the daily chart

Maaya's newest single came out on Wednesday and ranked in at no.7 on the Oricon daily singles chart, just as 'Buddy' did the week before. It's interesting that despite two different tie-ups the rankings didn't reflect the more popular anime. Maybe the weekly ranking on Wednesday will show a bigger difference.

I guess for now all we can say is that the hardcore Maaya fans (myself included) must have all pre-ordered both singles and got them to no.7 on the first day!!

The second piece of ranking news is that Maaya's photobook of the You Can't Catch Me 2011 Tour got no.1 on the Oricon book chart last week! Apparently it sold 5,000 copies in its first week. I hope that people who didn't know who Maaya was saw the book in the shops at no.1 and picked it up for a browse. It'd be nice if Maaya could be more widely known. This is her second no.1 this year after all (after the album got no.1 at the start of 2011...I know books and CD's aren't quite the same thing but still!)

Moving on, one of this blog's faithful commenters pointed me in the direction of this news over at Anime News Network about a new book/recital that Maaya is involved in from the people who brought you the Full Moon Recital Hall project and the Type-Moon series. It's in a similar vein to the previous works and I had seen it mentioned on Japanese Maaya fan sites but wasn't sure exactly what it was so it is nice to see it explained in so much detail in English!!

Aaannd finally! I know, right? But I've been sick = lack of updates!

On the 18th of November Maaya's radio show Vitamin-M will be broadcasting LIVE at 12:30 at night, Japanese time (that's 24:30!) on the radio and through U-Stream to celebrate it's 500th show! See the official announcement over at her info page. This is rather exciting! I wonder if she'll sing any of her songs live...anyway, so please send in your emails to Maaya at Vitamin-M with how her radio show has connected with you etc. Anyway, as it is on U-stream all you Maaya fans around the world can also tune in and enjoy the show for free! Just remember to factor in your time zone ^^

Phew! Hope you're all well, I can't believe it's November the day after tomorrow.

2 comments:

ct760ster said...

Just a curiosity, a day technically have 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds, if the appointment is for 24:30 of November 18th that mean it's for the next day? (?_?)

On the other hand take whatever time you need to rest and recover your energy, like I said before don't overexert yourself, there is always plenty of ways to catch up with the latest from Maaya neesan in the forums and links from your useful blog. So はやく元気になってください。

grapefruit said...

Thank you :D

Aaahh the time means that it is half past midnight ^^;;