Japan Box Office Report & Trailer Park – April 20th/21st

(02) 'Crayon Shin-chan' / (01) 'Meitantei Conan' / (03) 'Lincoln'

(02) 'Crayon Shin-chan' / (01) 'Meitantei Conan' / (03) 'Lincoln'

‘Meitantei Conan: Zekkai no Private Eye‘ experienced a fantastic first weekend, taking over the box office chart and putting itself in great position for the upcoming Golden Week holidays.

The new ‘Crayon Shin-chan‘ film also did quite well and managed to rank in second place. Naughty little Shin-chan might actually be …


SEKAI NO OWARI providing theme song for new Crayon Shin-chan movie

SEKAI NO OWARI will be providing the theme song, “RPG“, for the upcoming anime film, ‘Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Baka Uma! B-kyu Gourmet Survival!!‘.

“RPG” is described as a fantastic number with the themes “friendship” and “adventure“. This will be SEKAI NO OWARI’s first new song since releasing their hit album, “ENTERTAINMENT“, last July.

‘Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Baka Uma! B-kyu …


Kyary Pamyu Pamyu to provide theme song for anime ‘Crayon Shin-chan’

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s new song, “Kimi ni 100 Percent“, has been picked up as the theme song for TV Asahi’s anime, ‘Crayon Shin-chan‘.

Kyary announced the news herself during her stage at ‘TV Asahi Dream Festival 2012‘ on October 6th at Yoyogi National Stadium. The anime’s main character Nohara Shinnosuke also made a special guest appearance and commented, “I’m like ‘hooray!’ that Kyary …


Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 holds a drawing competition at Crayon Shin-chan’s movie event

On April 27th, AKB48’s sub-unit Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 attended a greeting event at Shinjuku Walt 9 for the Crayon Shin-chan movie, ‘Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Arashi wo Yobu! Ora to Uchuu no Princess’, which will feature their May 30th single, “Shounen yo Uso wo Tsuke!” as its theme song.

The members of the group held a friendly competition in which …


Japan Box Office Report – April 14th/15th

"Battleship" / "Meitantei Conan" / "SPEC~Ten~"

"Battleship" / "Meitantei Conan" / "SPEC~Ten~"

“Detective Conan” once again solved the secret on attaining first place of the box office chart, but he is being pursued by a “Battleship“, a group of people with “SPEC“, a kindergarten-aged boy called “Shin-chan“, and even “John Carter“.

The yearly ‘Golden Week’ will bless the entertainment and travel industry very soon, but the movie …


Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 to sing for “Crayon Shin-chan” movie + voice act for TV anime version

Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 will be singing the theme song for upcoming anime film “Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Arashi wo Yobu! Ora to Uchuu no Princess,” which is scheduled for released on April 14th.  This will be the 20th movie of the “Crayon Shin-chan” series, and centered around “Himawari”, the younger sister of “Shinnosuke”. It will be a story about “family bond.”

Since 


Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 holds “Kibou Sanmyaku” event in Santa outfits

On December 3rd, AKB48 sub-unit Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 held their release commemoration event for their latest single, “Kibou Sanmyaku”, at Yomiuri Land in Inagi, Tokyo.

Although it was raining, all 7 girls made a lively appearance in red and white Santa dresses. The energy on set got an additional boost thanks to a cameo from Crayon Shin-chan himself, whose animated …


Preview revealed of Watarirouka Hashiritai 7’s new song, “Kibou Sanmyaku”

A preview of Watarirouka Hashiritai 7’s new song, “Kibou Sanmyaku”, has finally been revealed.

This song is being used to give hope to the people of Japan, and has musical elements from the 1970s-1980s. Additionally, the PV is said to reconstruct the Utague Coffeehouses that were popular in the 1950s to 1970s, where customers would gather and sing songs …


Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 to sing the opening theme song of “Crayon Shin-chan”

Watarirouka Hashiritai 7’s new single, “Kibou Sanmyaku“, has been picked up to be the opening theme song for anime series “Crayon Shin-chan“! Their song will start playing on November 4th’s episode.

“Crayon Shin-Chan” has been airing since April of 1992, and it’s garnered a substantial fanbase since then. Member Watanabe Mayu is a fan herself, and felt delighted about this collaboration. …


Japan Box Office Report – May 21st/22nd

“Pirates of the Caribbean:On Stranger Tides” had an overwhelming first weekend in Japan with box office revenues of more than 1.5 billion yen (18.6 million USD), including the Friday opening where it premiered on 800 screens across the nation. No other film was able to have a stronger first weekend than Johnny Depp’s pirates in 2011 so far, proving that …


Japan Box Office Report – May 7th/8th

The live-action adaption of Ishidzuka Shinichi’s best-selling manga “Gaku“, starring Oguri Shun and Nagasawa Masami, managed to capture the hearts of many mountain-lovers across the nation. It opened on 315 screens and was able to attract a lot of people, making it the most successful movie of the past weekend. In total, 208,416 people went to see the movie, resulting …


Japan Box Office Report – April 30th/May 1st

“Detective Conan” managed to outsell “GANTZ PERFECT ANSWER” at the box office thanks to increased sales of 20% compared to the previous weekend.  Despite a strong following among young people, it simply was too tough for “GANTZ PERFECT ANSWER” to compete against the popular anime and the hordes of families that decided to watch it during the Golden …


Japan Box Office Report – April 16th/17th

Continuing it’s history of success, the new “Detective Conan” movie once again managed to debut at the number one position for it’s opening weekend. The anime series is celebrating it’s 15th anniversary this year and what would be a better way to celebrate than to open at number one on a total of 332 screens. 453,618 people felt attracted to …


Kanjani8 reveals short PV for “T.W.L” and “Yellow Pansy Street”

We previously announced that popular idol group Kanjani8 would be releasing three new singles in three consecutive months.

Well, the group has just released a short PV’s for the first of their three singles “T.W.L / Yellow Pansy Street”.

“T.W.L” is currently being used as the theme song for the anime “Crayon Shin-chan” and “Yellow Pansy Street” will be used as …


Kanjani8 to release 3 new singles in 3 consecutive months

Popular idol group Kanjani8 are going to release three new singles in three consecutive months!

The first single is called “T.W.L / Yellow Pansy Street“, and will be released on April 20th. The two songs on the single are written by Yuzu’s Kitagawa Yujin “T.W.L” is currently being used as the theme song for the “Crayon Shin-chan” anime, while “Yellow Pansy …


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