Yoru no Odoriko music video revealed!

Just less than an hour ago, the music video for Yoru no Odoriko, which releases tomorrow, was put up on Victor Entertainment's Youtube Channel! Please check it out below!



The director of this PV is Tanaka Yusuke, who previously worked on the award-winning "Bach no Senritsu wo Yoru ni Kiita Sei desu." music video. The styling and creative direction was helmed by no other than Kitazawa "momo" Hisashi who has been indispensable to Sakanaction's works.

With the thick traditional-style makeup and kimonos, the band members and the two dancers performing at the foothills of Mount Fuji, it is a music video with both impact and a surreal feel.

In addition, the release commemorative Ustream (link) to be held on 29 August 10PM JST has also been revealed to have director Tanaka and creative director Kitazawa as guests. The choreographer of the two dancing women in the music video, Hananomoto Kai, will be appearing as well in this talk session.

sakanaction to appear on Music Station!

Airing on 31 August, the Music Station music program will feature sakanaction!

The popular Asahi TV program that airs every week at 8PM JST will have sakanaction perform their latest single "Yoru no Odoriko" on next week's show.

sakanaction appeared for the first time on Music Station last year, 22 July, to perform "Bach no Senritsu wo Yoru ni Kiita Sei desu." Since then they have not had the opportunity to appear on the program again, even when "Boku to Hana" was released.

An appearance on Music Station again was hoped for by many fans, as performances on television will help the band to be known and it helps the sales as well. Thus far, Music Station is the only music program which has had Sakanaction on it.

Check out the performance list for 31 August below! (May not in performance order.)

sakanaction to release official band score books

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For the first time ever, sakanaction will be releasing official band score books. There will be 2 books released one month apart from each other.

TItled SAKANA ENSEMBLE 2007-2009 and SAKANA ENSEMBLE 2010-2011, the books featuring the music scores of sakanaction's songs will release on 12 Sep 2012 and 12 Aug 2012 respectively.

It's uncertain at this point if the usual avenues like CD Japan and HMV Japan will be retailing these books. For now, the only confirmed site for overseas fans to buy the books without using a proxy service is Amazon Japan.

Update: You can currently order the book at either Amazon Japan or HMV Japan.

Tracklist after the cut.