ayumi hamasaki will provide new theme song for Tales of Xillia2
 

just saw it on announcement Tales of Xillia2 for PS3, and there was ayumi hamasaki conference video again. She's said that she'll very happy for provide new theme song again!

YAY !! =D

OMG SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!! THATS SO FREAKING AWESOME

Great news! :)

thats awesome really

Awesome! it's kinda sad that we still didn't get Tales of Xillia in EU/US.

Hope that means we'll have a new single soon!^^!

I don't think that the new Xillia will be out that soon. Hopefully we'll have a single before that.

I really enjoyed "progress" and I hope the next theme song will be similar.

OMFG finally!

You're right!
I just saw this:
http://gematsu.com/2012/06/tales-of-xillia-2-announced

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I'm excited to hear what the song will sound like....progress was wonderful to me.

yeah it's Ayu again!!

After an artwork tease and 19-day countdown site, Namco Bandai has attached a title and platform to its next mainline entry in the Tales series. Tales of Xillia 2, a sequel to last year’s Tales of Xillia, is in development for PlayStation 3.

Set one year after the events of Tales of Xillia on the planet Elenpios, the game stars hero Ludgar Will Crusnick (CV: Takashi Kondou) and 8-year-old heroine Elle Mel Marta (CV: Mariya Ise), who has a pet cat named Lulu. Daigo Okumura is character designer, and Ayumi Hamasaki is back for the game’s theme song. Ufotable is once again on animation. The story features player decisions with branching cutscenes. Like Xillia, the sequel’s characters are built to realistic proportions. The game’s battle system makes use of a new “Weapon Shift” system, allowing Ludgar to change weapons mid-combat – from twin guns to a two-handed hammer or twin swords.

The game’s official site will be accessible shortly at tox2.tales-ch.jp. It is due for release this winter in Japan. A final date will be announced on June 27.
source : http://gematsu.com/2012/06/tales-of-xillia-2-announced

If it's out this winter is it possible it could be for a new studio album at the end of the year?

she just confirmed it on twitter, thats amazing!

I want a single, not a new album. :grumpy

I hope this time she is smart and she release this song as a single. If progress had been a single, Party Queen (or the album containing progress) would have had way more sales, I think :D

Yeahhhh! Epic singer sing an epic song for an epic game!
but Xillia2 is definitely different from the first episode

Xillia had major success in Japan didnt it? Now thinking about FIVE's success is actually really amazing hahaha

Im sure this will do awesomely :)

AYU NEEDS MORE OF THESE TIE-INS!

Her outfit in that recording is very cool.

Great news! :D

WOW!!!! OMFG!!! Hopefully a new single will be out....we need more info!!! Yeah!!! I thought is getting boring since no new releases....but now!!!! Yeah!!! Time to check your wallet guys!! :)

Yeeeeah I hope the song will be as good as progress if not better!

Still want that summer single announced asap :innocent

good news
and lol at her outfit from tour

I hope whoever created that "making fate" hoax is up for the challenge. My expectations are pretty high.

YES YES YES YES YES

THIS IS WHAT I WANT MORE VIDEO GAME MUSIC FROM AYU YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMFG EXCITED!

I really hope they'll tease us soon! And this time I want another upbeat song with a lot of guitars, pianos and strings. Make it sad emotional and upbeat please!

This is really great news!
Can't wait to see what she brings out :)

OH MY GOD!! I'M SO HAPPY ABOUT IT!

Good good. I'm hoping for a single as well. :yes
A lovely summer single now and then a double A-side single for the winter with a winter ballad and a rockish xillia song. :smitten

Great news.

Hopefully a summer single first, since there has not been any since 2009!

Great news! This coupled with a summer single would be perfect. :luv2

Cool. Nice to have some type of confirmation on new material.

Omg I'm super excited :D hope the new song will be amazing as progress :heart

great news. I hope the song'll be as epic as progress^^

I think this may be a winter single then...or...she may just throw us another album when the year end comes with that song as the promo song?

I definitely need a summer single...craving for an ayu single!!!!!!!!!

This sounds really good! I loved progress, so hopefully the new song will be something similar. I'm always excited for new material, hahah!

that's awesome news! hoping for a new single with a track like progress!

Awesome, What a great news....

Progress was amazing, cant wait to hea the new song...

If the xillia2 out on winter, i guess we will get a winter single or a new album....

The first game is getting it's international release announcement next week, I hope for Progress ~English Version~

ahh..this is so cool

this is Great news ^^

WOW!! cool news!! i want a progress ~episode II~

Ah, finally! Well, I'm satisfied with the Japanese version.

My problem with english versions are usually the change of the lyrics to a cheesy version that might lose its original meaning.

The best we can expect is that they actually include the original track and not just the inst. ver.

With tales games they usually cut out the lyrics and we overseas people just get the instrumental (which is cool if its progress!)

As for this news, this could be cool!...
but it could also mean just another stupid mini... lol... I want a single and an album ayumi!!

But its also good news that she has another major tie-in.
Tales of Xillia was the best selling tales game since Rebirth! they had themselves a hit and I hope it this one will do even better!

I wonder of we will get an album or single ...

GR8888!!!!

GOOD!!

Yay! I'm excited!

Can't wait!!

so what? progress was meh, another progress to come?

I think your one of the few that feels that way.

as for the rest of us, WOAH! we can party all night long!

I only hope she'll release a single, not a mini-album again!!! Because lately I've got the feeling that she may release a mini-album again :( noooooo, I want a single!

physical please :D

To be honest, i'm expecting another mini-album, i think she doesn't wanna release more singles

Yaaay! I'm so happy Ayu has such an awesome tie-in. Hopefully the song will be just as (if not more) amazing as progress. :)

I'd actually like an English version of progress(for the international release of the original game, even if it's very unlikely). Her vocals improved greatly since the studio version was recorded and the one thing I always disliked about progress were her vocals in the high parts, they sounded screechy and weak.

And for this...I'm gonna take whatever she gives us. Single, EP, album...I hope for another album though, but with some promotion this time.

YESSS finally some news!! XD

YAY!

She looks like a monster in those screen-captures from the conference video. Especially that second photo!

OMG THANK HEAVENS !!!!
Progress was such an amazing song,and I am really hoping for Tales of Xillia 1 to come to EU!!!!
Dunno what to say about possible lyrics translation for progress but i hope the song will stay INTACT !!!!

New theme song? This might mean new single! AAAH :) I know Party Queen just came out... but I need that summer song ASAP

YAY! ^_________^

Considering that the game is out in the winter time, it might be an album track for a winter album.

If you screencap people in motion, it tends to look odd.

According to comments it always seems as if we would be completely lost if ayu would quit singing haahaha XD

It's like this warm super happy feeling when we see something new, especially songs from ayu never dies.

I wouldnt want a winter ballad, unless it was more awesome than the rest of her ballads... but I tend to like them so, I think I would be happy...
I just hope it gets singled and not put on a mini again.

Although she might single it because of the amazing chart run the first game had...

well, when I'm livestreaming that new Tales of announcement, ayu appeared and my brother suddenly behind me asking, "Who is it? Lady Gaga?" *facepalm* :thud

Watch it be a mini-album XD

Actually I don't really care what she gives us. I just want avex to do a good job on the promotion, I want this release to be smashed in everyone's face. "BOOM ayumi hamasaki's new [...] in stores [...]" kind of commercials but a month before release, spam everything with commercials this time avex!! This release must make up for the Party Queen ranking (2nd place). + I want progress -instrumental- !!!

I'm sure it will sell right, because these days people who play the game tend to buy the soundtrack along. And like (already said) ayu's voice are superb in her latest releases and I can't wait to hear them in a new song!

i hope it's summer single...

^

like this

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM3wXfH7nxQ

Off topic, but AWWW... is that a new single or something from them?

that's pretty awesome

well yeah! even if it's a mini-album, please promote it as it's your last release *____* awwwww

YAY I'm happy she's doing the theme song for the game again! Hopefully it will be as great as progress!

I know I was just commenting on how extremely odd and unflattering those screencaps were, lol.

And wow people, progress was not that great...

Yeah well, no one said that the new theme song will sound like progress =P

yup! its their 33rd single that will be released on 7/25! the song's title "777" refers to their 7th anniversary (=
it reminds me of "glitter" era...

wow dude, why so negative?

Anyway, this is great news! Allthough we must probably wait for a long long time.

great news, i really enjoy progress :)

All i know is...this is probably gonna be another EPIC track...whether it is gonna be like progress or not doesnt matter :)

The theme for this game is very epic sounding.

"ARE YOU PREPARED TO SAVE THE WORLD FOR THE GIRL?"

With all sorts of very epic sounding quotes from the game...

I imagine that the song will be about changing the future with decisions in the present, since there's an element of "weaving the future" through your choices in the game.

What is possible release date? If somewhere in December, I'm afraid it may be a ballad.

I hope she release something this summer or autumn -_-

YAY! just hope it's not a ballad -__- winter is my hibernation season (aka ballad season)

Wow <3
nonstop-Ayu!

to me it sounds more like a typical cliche rather than something epic.

Great news! Is it for opening song or end song? Like what we have for Shin Onimusha 3 Dawn of Dreams. It used Startin' for op. and Rainy Day for ed. If thats true then it would be double awesome.

Maybe it is progress part II hahahaha j/k.

Well let's wait for a preview at least to see how it's like :)

YAY! Great news.. Progress is still as epic as when it came out. So i'm excited!

progress to me was almost everything that made old ayumi great.
I. just. loved. it!

I don't understand why some of you guys are so negative and keep complaining like "so what? new progress? progress was not that great"! why aren't you open to something new? who said it's gonna be something like progress? why do you really want? do you want ayu to stop making music and quit or what? why so negative when we finally have some big news?

When it comes to RPG's aren't they all cliche, lol.
But I do think that is not that epic (because it has been done before) but at the same time it is epic, because of the theme itself.

As for that matter, I never played the first one... i wonder how it ties in with it?
Its not even the same main character is it?

just calm down~~:D

^ lol yeah

but this just really makes me sad -.-

What's important now is that she has a new song...i hope for a physical single...not digital..but, it was a really good news that Ayu will do another theme song for a game~let's hope this single or whatever will it be when it release, going to attract new fans and also....get ready your wallet guys~~ LOL

I just wish it wouldn't be a ballad. I want something fresh and epic with decent vocals ^^

Let me fix it.

Also if you want to know more the catch copy phrase/theme of the game, I'll just put it here.

Maybe it's not Ayu-related after all.
All of these were found in the countdown of New Tales series website before.