[miwa] the attic's cat is singing guitarissimo in her 3rd thread
 

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miwa Official Website
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Birthday: June 15th, 1990
Birthplace: Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Raised: Tokyo, Japan
Blood Type: A
Height: 149 cm
Instrument: Guitar & Piano
Favorite Sayng:
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
"千里の道も一歩から - senri no michi mo ippo kara"
Cherished Things: Friends & Family


Miwa (stylised as miwa) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2010 with the single "don't cry anymore," used as the drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi's theme song. miwa currently DJs a monthly radio show on All Night Nippon, miwa no All Night Nippon R (miwaのオールナイトニッポンR), every third Monday from 3:00am to 5:00am.

miwa was born in Hayama, Kanagawa, however moved to Tokyo at a young age. Since her father had a great love for a music, miwa naturally began to enjoy music as she grew up. miwa began writing songs at 15. She started self-learning how to play the guitar after she entered high school, but gave up and paid for professional lessons after finding she could not make a lot of progress learning by herself. Her High School had a ban on students having part-time jobs. Despite this, Miwa secretly worked, and eventually used these savings by her second year of high school to buy a Gibson J-45 guitar. After this, Miwa played live concerts mostly around Shimokitazawa in Tokyo and in Okinawa in the summer (her parents had a house there). Due to her high school also having a ban on students working in the entertainment business, she had to do these lives in secret (without even telling her school friends). In this time, Miwa released two self-published independent singles, "Song for You/Today" and "Soba ni Itai Kara" in 2007 and 2008.

miwa was signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan during her third year of high school. She debuted as an artist in 2010, while attending Keio University. Her debut single, "don't cry anymore," was chosen to be used for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi's theme song. The single was a minor commercial success, breaking the top 20 on Oricon's single charts and being certified by the RIAJ as selling 100,000 full length cellphone downloads a month after its release. In April 2010, the song won the award for best drama theme song at the 64th The Television Drama Academy Awards, beating out songs such as Arashi's "Troublemaker" and Mr. Children's "Hanabi."

miwa released her second single, リトルガール (Little Girl) in late June. Her third single, "chAngE," was the twelfth opening theme song for the anime BLEACH, and was a top 10 single. For the animated film adaptation of Eto Mori's novel COLORFUL, miwa covered two songs by famous Japanese artists. Yutaka Ozaki's 僕が僕であるために (Boku ga Boku de Aru Tame ni) was used as the film's image song, and The Blue Hearts' song, 青空 (Aozora) was used as the ending theme song of the film. Both songs were released as digital downloads on August 12, 2010. On February 23th 2011, she's releasing new single, 春になったら (Haru ni Natta ra) which is a tie-in to SUSUME DOCOMO! the song to encourage entrance exam taking students. A week after the release of the single, she's announced her very first album, guitarissimo. Which is gonna be released on March, 30th 2011.

Her latest B-side song, from 441 single, which is titled "Chasing hearts" is gonna be used for Fullmetal Alchemist new movie theme song!

miwa considers her favourite Western musicians to be Sheryl Crow, Deep Purple, Carole King, Avril Lavigne and Taylor Swift.[4] Her favourite Japanese musicians are Aiko, Angela Aki, Radwimps and Yuki.


NEW RELEASE / INFO
On early November 2011, miwa gonna released a song "Futari no Saturday" which gonna be the theme song for Mezamashi TV in October, as the latest info, the song is gonna be released digitally.

For another info, miwa is confirmed to sing the theme song for SEGA Nintendo3DS' game, "Rhythm Kaito R", no song title and preview at the moment. The info is revealed on Tokyo Game Show 2011.

DVD/Bluray
miwa ~live tour 2011 "guitarissimo"~
2011.12.21 | SRBL-1502 / SRXL-24
01.ありえない!!
02.リトルガール
03.ハツナツ
04.you can do it!
05.friend～君が笑えば～
06.オトシモノ
07.don't cry anymore
08.ウソつき
09.hys-
10.Dear days
11.醒めない夢
12.chAngE
13.あなたがいないと世界はこんなにつまらない
14.Wake Up, Break Out
15.春になったら
-encore-
16.めぐろ川
17.441
18.僕らの未来
-double encore-
19.Chasing hearts
20.つよくなりたい

Single
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8th Single - 片想い (Kata Omoi - Unrequited love)
2012.02.01 | SRCL-7846/7484
1. 片想い / (Kata Omoi)
2 クレアデルネ / (Clair de Lune)
3. acoustic live tour “acoguissimo”メドレー
～441～Wake Up, Break Out!～don't cry anymore～Chasing hearts～FRiDAY-MA-MAGiC～chAngE～めぐろ川～
4. 片想い～instrumental～ / (Kata Omoi ~instrumental~)


DISCOGRAPHY

1st thread | 2nd Thread

congratz on the 2nd thread! ♥
regular edition first press left 6 copies at CDJapan

I have an advice, it would be better if you put the guitarissimo promo pics or cover outside the spoiler ;)

Anyway, there are some live performances from the last 2 weeks, but seems like nobody rip it.

okay dear mellody, edited~

OMG I love the covers. Particularlt the rainbow guitar *.*

nice for the 3rd thread

here is Haru ni Nattara at Music Fair
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8NEKVPC1

i haven't youtube links sorry.
thanks to fairylandjpop

and thanks HTMSD, really good first post

Tracklist : (From mixi)

1.ありえない!! (Arienai!!)
2.don't cry anymore
3.friend～君が笑えば～ (friend~kimi ga waraeba~)
4.春になったら (Haru ni Nattara)
5.hys-
6.オトシモノ (Otoshimono)
7.Dear days
8.醒めない夢 (Samenai Yume)
9.chAngE
10.めぐろ川～strings version～ (megurogawa~strings version~)
11.ハツナツ (Hatsunatsu)
12.リトルガール
13.僕らの未来 (Bokura no Mirai)
14.つよくなりたい (Tsuyoku Naritai)

Don't know if it's true.
...and the transition from chAngE to strings song would be so... weird.

The covers are very pretty!

6 pre-released songs, correct? Leaving us with 8 songs? w00t! (:

the cover with the cat *_*

the tracklisting is fine if it's true, all a-sides, megurogawa strings version and the rest of it are new tracks!

and "hys-", I wonder what does it means..

I'll assume this as a rumor until Sony gives out the OFFICIAL tracklist.

Well, the tracklist is official : http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arc...a/?info&365497

STRINGS VERSION! HALLELUJAH!

Finally we're all set!

Sony changed the layout of the website:
Here is one of the pic:
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/271/73685068.th.jpg

^ nice picture :yes


I translated the titles:

01. No Way!!　　
02. don't cry anymore
03. friend～when you smile～
04. In Spring
05. hys-
06. Lost Things
07. Dear days
08. Endless Dream (lit: "dream I don't wake up from")
09. chAngE
10. Megurogawa＜strings version＞ (*the name of a river)
11. Early Summer
12. Little Girl
13. our future
14. I want to become stronger

It says 'hys-' is pronounced as 'hisu' (which means 'hysteria' is Japanese)

thanks to dissidia 012, I haven't opened forums for 3 days, and now the tracklist is official xD~

@Yoake & Tenshi
thanks so much for the info! xD

thanks for the translation tenshi.

thanks for the pic and trans :D
so hys- means hysteria, I see~

images extracted from official page (credit to RiP70R @ little-miwa)

thanks~ the cat looks so fat in HQ XD

i always love sony for announcing everything so fast(except the release date which takes them hundred years to announce it) :p

thanks for the pics.
& yeah the cat looks fat.^^

@y_nathz
I'm not seeing cat... I'm just seeing little tiger sat along with miwa :lol:

^LOL!! tha cat is adorable and really big!!
miwa is gorgeous in those pics

@HTMSD lmao tiger :roflmao

I kinda hope the cover with the cat is for CD+DVD though.. my auntie pre-ordered that version for me XD

ahahaha the cat is actually kinda creepy...staring into my soul XD

LOL MTE, that cat is stares directly into my soul :laugh

Btw, something new:
http://www.nikkansports.com/entertai...08-746172.html

I guess she will become the first female representatives for something related to sport?
I need tenshi XD

Well, this could be interesting...

First Press poster from CD+DVD and CDonly on HMV is SOLD OUT.
And HMV write this on CD+DVD information :
which is very rare for HMV to write that. Usually only happens on Johnnys' artists.

And of course, CD+DVD+poster on CDjapan is sold out, and CDonly+poster remain 4 only.

I hope the sales is good!

that's good for the sales, maybe she can sell more than 50k !!!
if she is getting more famous, i hope the OS press then!!!!

http://ameblo.jp/miwa-guitar/entry-10827893327.html
According to her latest blog, she's fine! >__<
I'm worried about her after the news of the earthquake T___T

Yeah, and apparently, due to that, Bokura no Ongaku is cancelled and is subject to rescheduling...

I guess every schedule is canceled, almost for all artists.
Not sure if release date for album is postponed too.

I'm not sure how it will go, especially with the aftershock effects still ongoing...

thanks to god she is fine

As Ayu's stuffs are postponed I think Sony 'll do the same thing & postpone miwa's album.

avex postopned all releases for 23 and 30 maybe sony will do the smae

Official announcement from Sony, guitarissimo release date postponed.
Let's focus to the disaster for now.

There's no time to fool around - miwa's postponed, even Ayu, AKB48's postponed. They're still worried with the aftermath of the big earthquake, especially when there was two 6.0+ earthquakes recently.

It's good !!! the people and the country are first.

I know that album will be postponed for sure but there was an offcial statment from Sony or this is just yours preditions?

mellody said it's official here:

you can see on the official web: http://www.miwa-web.com/info/

From Sony Music Website.

I've got late word that the delay will end up only a one-week delay; guitarrisimo will be released on April 6th.

EDITED: Luckily I'm not double post.

guitarissimo release date pushed back to 6th April, confirmed by Sony.

just some random images of the magazine I found in Yahoo Auction...


^2011/03/09(水) PATi PATi
the magazine just contain 1 page of miwa...


^2011/03/12(土) CUTiE
upper right images, is that miwa? '__'a


^2011/03/14(月) WHAT's IN?
this 420 yen magazine have special booklet of miwa, which some of picture is that~


^2011/03/14 WHAT's IN?


^RandoM (dunno which date, seems 2010)
Contain 3 pages of miwa :p I like the tagline~ "Little-but-big" xD

and some random free (and rare) magazine :D

^music UP's VOL. 78
this free magazine contain 2 pages interview about guitarissimo.


^the source said that this pic is also contained in some pages in music UP's VOL.78. Am I see little miwa there? '__'a
AND... according to this, this magazine is released on 2011/02/20, which is about 12 days before the information about guitarissimo on official website (2011/03.04), weird? '__'a


^High schoolぴあvol.1
some promotion about Haru ni natta ra in free magazine for student :D


according to http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/146387069, BARFOUT! 2011/04 contain 5 pages of miwa. and also, miwa is appear in 2011/02/28(月) ROCKIN' ON JAPAN, but I can't found any picture of the mags.

and miwa will also appear in
# 2011/04/01(金) SEVENTEEN
# 2011/03/28(月) ROCKIN' ON JAPAN
# 2011/03/26(土) GO! GO! GUITAR 表紙＆インタビュー
# 2011/03/29(火) B-PASS
# 2011/03/23(水) Ray
# 2011/03/24(木) COOL TRANS
# 2011/03/24(木) B.L.T
# 2011/03/23(水) Soup

let's see if I can find some picture of the magazine :D

EDITED 1:
I do remember that mellody ever posted something like Haru ni Natta ra in JR-Line... And I found this~


EDITED 2:
I just found another 30s CM of DOCOMO~


EDITED 3:
And I found this live of Haru ni Natta ra + chAngE on バレンタイン・ＳＰライブ ＠SHIBUYA-AX

^thanks a lot!!
the orgel ver. sounds so cute, i really want a full version!!
and her performance is nice !

Hmm...an orgel version? For what? No matter what, that seems to be interesting!

Kinda off topic.

That 30s CM, what is the biggest resolution available?
I just checked and it's 4,096 x 2,304 *o*

Whoa, 4k's a lot... VERY RAW that I can't even play sufficiently in my computer...

188MB MP4 video on Epic Definition ~__~"

The previews for her new album songs are up (go to her official site and then to discography)

Arienai and samenai yume are nice, hys- is my favorite. The rest is kind of bland to me. I prefer her uptempo songs to her ballads/mid-tempo songs and unfortunately a lot is mid-tempo >.>;

I really can't wait to get a taste on miwa's new songs!!!

i hear all the previews, and this is gonna be a really good album, a lot of medium ballads, and some upbeats

My interest to miwa is basically like this:

Up-tempo song > Mid-tempo song > Down-tempo song / ballad

I think all the previews sounds great, the only one that I think is bland is Dear days.
Tsuyoku Naritai is surprisingly awesome for me, it was aired last week, in her radio show.

oh she's so cute on the magazine's pics.
Nice to see a release date for the album.

^ BARFOUT! 2011/04
I want this pic to be on the BOOKLET!!
EDITED 1 : Bigger Picture
Source : http://barfout.jp/dailybarfout/april...187690-319.php

EDITED 2 :

^ 2011/03/26(土) GO! GO! GUITAR 表紙＆インタビュー

so, we still need pics from :
# 2011/04/01(金) SEVENTEEN
# 2011/03/29(火) B-PASS
# 2011/03/23(水) Ray <- fashion magazine
# 2011/03/24(木) COOL TRANS <- fashion magazine
# 2011/03/24(木) B.L.T <- fashion magazine
# 2011/03/23(水) Soup <- fashion magazine

And seems like she's popular among girls now, since she's so fashionable :p

i'm so happy for hear that, this album is gonna sell well !!!
she is getting more popular.
Oh, and the first pic is beautiful

I think she's getting more popular...

The lyrics for the new album tracks have already been added to uta.net => here

...hmm which ones should I translate first~


EDIT: translations for 'tsuyoku naritai' & 'arienai!!' are up at my LJ.

I finished translating all the new songs. They're on my LJ.

All the lyrics are really nice imo :yes good work, miwa~

Thanks for your hard work tenshi, I really appreciate it :D

EDITED:
Seems like Bokura no Mirai and hys- is my favorite lyrics for this album.

Don't you think that most of miwa lyrics are easier to understand?
Most of them has "normal conversation and daily activities" theme, I think.

^ yeah, I like how she focuses on little daily moments, like waiting for the bus or walking to school.

Thanks for sharing tenshi! But I kind of want the kanjis in text, still...

thanks tenshi!!


Another info~
guitarissimo CD+DVD already sold out on amazon.

Amazin~

wow.the album will release in 3 days time!has CDJ ship the album out?

a bit of megurogawa ~violin~ and full song of Tsuyoku naritai


EDITED 1 :
Let's LOOK at the sales ranking on some online sites!!






EDITED 2: POSTERS!!
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#1
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#2
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The pics are not available

No hotlinking, it says... Use original image codes...

Dear HTMSD, please remember that one of AHS forum rules is never hotlinking any images to the forum. At least use some well-known imagehost like photobucket, yfrog, twitpic, or maybe imageshack.

I'm not sure about how guitarissimo will stay on chart, even if it's not that great, at least please make it charting in more than 50 weeks like Otsuka Ai single Sakuranbo.

Ah, gomen~
Since I made the post, lulzimg is a bit problem =="
I tried using images-whatever to upload before...

FIXED!!


EDITED 1:
http://lulzimg.com/i17/11afe6.jpg
and HMV edited :This is an extremely popular item and therfore is available for up to 1 copy per customer, <- ONE COPY ONLY.

CDJ just shipped the CDs xDD

both posters are amazing!!!
guys, the first press of the CD+DVD jacket is just the poster ????

Watch out...miwa could be ONE GREAT COMPETITOR this week.

can't wait to hear the full album.

http://lulzimg.com/i17/e470b8.jpg
The obi color is light brown, eh? '___'a

LOL.so,who won?

So, the winner is~~~
nana-chan~~~ :innocent

yay!yay!i demand for a present . *cough* use all your points and buy me CD only *cough*

Does anybody think that C-ute is better than miwa? I'm not sure, but we might see a #1! (But let's not get too excited...)

for me c-ute is <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Miwa

I I could sent some CDJ points, I'll sent it. But since it's not Jpopsuki, I'm gonna give you hugs :innocent

Another Magazine Scan~
B-PASS 2010.10


B-PASS 2011.05


COOL TRANS 2011.05



guitarissimo limited looks like~ :love
http://lulzimg.com/i17/9143a0.jpg
http://lulzimg.com/i17/412a7f.jpg
http://lulzimg.com/i17/6eb793.jpg

aww,thanks for your hug *blush* LOL

so,is it confirm that the DVD only has a less than 5 minutes clip?anyone mention about it on 2ch,ameba or hatena?

wow, the physical cd looks amazing

http://lulzimg.com/i17/9d3f99.jpg
miwa x Kotomi Aoki

http://natalie.mu/music/news/47363

EDITED : LYRICS!!
1. ありえない!! (arienai!!)



3. friend～君が笑えば～ (friend～kimi ga waraeba～)



5. hys-



7. Dear days



8. 醒めない夢 (samenai yume)



11. ハツナツ (HATSU NATSU)



13. 僕らの未来 (bokura no mirai)



14. つよくなりたい (tsuyoku naritai)




EDITED 2 :
CD Album sales Ranking from TSUTAYA for today, last update : 4:30 PM (Japan Time)
http://lulzimg.com/i17/3f3d7c.jpg

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

Had the earthquake did not happen, she would not have had a chance. Now this:

I LOVE IT!!

DO I SEE IT RIGHT? MIWA FIRST OF ORICON?!!!!

and also 14 k on rirst day?

Yeah, you just read the truth.

OMFG!!!! ITS LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE xD well at least earthquakes have some advanteges too!

Congrats on #1, miwa ^-^

What's everyone's opinion about the new tracks?

Personally, I love hys-, arienai!! and Dear Days the most :heart
And I think all of her lyrics are lovely ♥ They make me reminisce about high school (makes me feel old XD)

HTMSD - will you release gutasimo like u did with other miwa releases?

@Aitakute
after I get my CD, I'm gonna rip those ;)

great I love you dvd rips ;D

me too, we wait for your rips !!!
and she deserves that No.1 !1!!!
congratz to our little girl

Just got my copy and here's guitarissimo booklet scans.

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4896/scan0015ml.th.jpg http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/7...an0014o.th.jpg http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/3...an0013q.th.jpg http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2...an0012p.th.jpg http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9...n0011jt.th.jpg http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/6...an0010p.th.jpg http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/9...an0009u.th.jpg http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/1...n0008lj.th.jpg http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/5...an0007v.th.jpg
http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/8...n0006mk.th.jpg http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6...n0005wp.th.jpg http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/9...an0004i.th.jpg
http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/2...an0003p.th.jpg http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5946/scan0002rx.th.jpg http://img615.imageshack.us/img615/7447/mfn0.th.jpg

^ thanks ♥

Thanks mellody ;)
I'm already got the CD, but my computer's mouse still broken.
Gonna bought it tomorrow and rip it :)

1st Day
Position: #1
Sales: 14,343

2nd Day
Position: #1
Sales: 9.765
Total Sales: 24,108

^number 1? wow..that's good...

another #1 yay!!!
she could sell 40k in the first week !!!

Still going consistent.

1st Day
Position: #1
Sales: 14,343

2nd Day
Position: #1
Sales: 9.765
Total Sales: 24,108

3rd Day
Position: #1
Sales: 4,612
Total Sales: 28,720

I have a feeling that she could be the first female soloist since ayaka in 2006 (First Message) to have their debut album ranked #1, something that Ayu surprisingly did back in 1999 (A Song for XX)!

Seventeen 11-05
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