"Sake no Sakana" Mini Screenshot Gallery

Yesterday night, it was the "Sake no Sakana" Ustream. 

The two guys played games and answered questions from fans, and had their usual acoustic guitar singing corner, entertaining and indulging all the fans viewing.

The mini setlist for the singing section was:

1. Fukurou - Yamaguchi

2. Film - Hoshino

3. Boku to Hana - Yamaguchi

4. Yume no Soto e - Hoshino 

Oh, by the end of the program, they had hit over 70,000 combined total views, and the hashtag #sakenosakana was the top Twitter trend in Japan.

congrats!

And now, on to...Gallery - Lots of Yamaguchi and Hoshino fooling around. Enjoy!

Side note: Ugh, didn't capture the part where Yamaguchi was showing off his toned stomach muscles ._.

"Sake no Sakana" returns!

About seven months have passed since the previous "Sake no Sakana" on New Year's Day, and now it has been announced that Yamaguchi Ichiro and Hoshino Gen will once again get together to do the Ustream program!

This Tuesday, 24th July, at 9PM JST, they'll stream on Victor Music Ustream Channel. This time, in addition to the two just talking, there will be games during the show and also a Q&A corner for fans. The questions will be taken from Twitter. Fans can send the questions by mentioning @VictorMusic while using the hashtag #sakenosakana.

Fans have been anticipating the next "Sake no Sakana" for awhile, and just a couple of weeks ago, Yamaguchi and Hoshino were tweeting each other for fun and brought up "Sake no Sakana" and how they would like to do it again. They did a mini version of "Sake no Sakana" on Twitter, by playing shiritori with each other with the topic of "things you like". The game was cut off as Yamaguchi was tweeting during his break at a Sakanaction recording session and he was required back to work.

Yoru no Odoriko full tracklist revealed!

Freshly announced minutes ago, the full contents of Sakanaction's 7th single, Yoru no Odoriko, has been revealed!

Besides title track "Yoru no Odoriko", a new track called "multiple exposure" as well as Sakanaction's own remix of previous single "Boku to Hana", will be included in the CD. "multiple exposure" is a song that was approached with a chillout sound and its lyrics talks about realistic perspectives towards modern society.

The limited edition version comes with a DVD that includes selected live performances from the rehearsal for the final leg of SAKANAQUARIUM 2012 ZEPP ALIVE tour on 19th June. It was specially recorded in a way that would let viewers feel like they are actually experiencing the live.

Tracklist

CD
01. Yoru no Odoriko [夜の踊り子]
02. multiple exposure
03. Boku to Hana (sakanaction Remix) [僕と花 (sakanaction Remix)]

DVD (limited edition only)

SAKANAQUARIUM 2012 "ZEPP ALIVE ALONE"
- Boku to Hana [僕と花]
- Boku to Hana (sakanaction Remix) [僕と花 (sakanaction Remix)]
- Native Dancer [ネイティブダンサー]
- Identity [アイデンティティ]
- Rookie [ルーキー]

SAKANAQUARIUM 2012 "ZEPP ALIVE"~
- Yoru no Odoriko [夜の踊り子]



What do you think of the contents? Are you excited? I've already pre-ordered my copy yesterday! 

Yamaguchi Ichiro produces new song for SMAP!

Today, it was revealed that Sakanaction's frontman Yamaguchi Ichiro is the composer and lyricist behind the title song of the new single of longtime-popular Johnny's boyband SMAP!

The new single is called "Moment" and will be released on 1 August 2012. In addition, the song is also the theme song for Japanese television station Tokyo Broadcasting Station (TBS)'s telecast of the 2012 London Olympics. This program is co-hosted by SMAP member Nakai Masahiro. 

In short, the song will be getting a lot of publicity. You can hear a preview of it here, starting around 0:48. The video will be taken down soon so hear it while you can!

It's amazing to have Yamaguchi producing the song for SMAP. This marks the second time he has worked directly with SMAP, but this time the song will be more prominent because it is a single. Previously, he wrote and composed "Magic Time" in for SMAP's 2010 album "We are SMAP". 

Of course, not forgetting that Sakanaction was behind the theme song for the recently-concluded drama 37sai de Isha ni Natta which starred SMAP's Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, it seems that record label Victor Entertainment has decided to push Sakanaction by giving them these opportunities (the two bands are signed to Victor). Let's hope that Sakanaction will go even further!

Sakana LOCKS! Homework #7 and #8

Check out the Sakana LOCKS! homework #7 and #8 now translated below!

Sorry about these updates being rather irregular. I haven't been following Sakana LOCKS! ever since Keyhole TV took the Tokyo FM channel off.

However, there is still a way to catch back Sakana LOCKS! episodes at your own convenient time - a Nico Nico Douga user uploads them every week. All you have to do is type in サカナLOCKS in the search bar.

Without further ado, on to the homework assignments!