[Utada Hikaru] The New Album 「Fantôme」 on Sep 28, 2016! ʕ•̫͡•ʔ the 54th thread

[Baco__]

Originally Posted by ahtka-chan

^Who is your friend? Tetsuya Nomura?

Neither Hikki or Teruzane officially stated that she'll do a theme song for KH3.

Considering she promoted the trailer for KH 2.8 on her twitter, It's likely she's under contract with Square, but that's still wishful thinking.

HAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHAHAA 😂😂😂 Yeah, my friend is Nomura himself!

My friend told me Teruzane has confirmed this in a tweet, but maybe he was talking about that mistaken tweet back in 2013. I just wasn't interested enough (yet) to look for the veracity of my friend's message.

So let's enjoy one more remix of Hikari while waiting on real news lol

[amorphose]

I don't like the new Hikari/Simple and Clean remix. Sadly, I don't have any interest in Kingdom Hearts anymore... I feel like they ruined the series by making too many spin off games.

2.8 Final Chapter Prologue? Sorry, but even the title is dumb and shows they are just milking this cause they have no real plans for KH3.

[YUKARI]

wah the album is out already?! just bought it at itunes. after listening it I will decide to buy or not the real cd

[Maemi]

Originally Posted by DeepRiver

Pictures from the PMC Magazin Shooting ... She is so pretty ...

Source : Twitter

She is

[pedronekoi]

Originally Posted by DeepRiver

Pictures from the PMC Magazin Shooting ... She is so pretty ...

Source : Twitter

Who's the guy?

[DeepRiver]

Originally Posted by pedronekoi

Who's the guy?

Noda Yojiro, the frontman from Radwimps ...

[Maemi]

[salina]

great pic

[koumori]

Gorgeous

[Earth_maiden]

^I would have preferred that pic as the album cover, honestly.

[visionfactory]

Originally Posted by ayu-fan

I wonder why she managed to break top 5 in North America?? I mean she's known for KH for sure but that's about it.

I've seen many press coverage on Utada's new album.

At least for my country, many facebook pages including an anime TV channel had covered her comeback.

The coverage content is poor and regular people should think she IS the only singer Japan or something and end buying the tracks on iTunes because they would like to be introduced to japanese music (Theory).

[EndOfTheWorld]

To be honest I can't really explain how the heck Utada managed to crack the top 10 in the US. I think timing could have something to do with it. There isn't any BIG release out right now, so there isn't too much competition going on in the charts. I am almost positive it will sink quickly.
Utada is the most well known Japanese singer here, Kyary is probably the second. She has a small but highly devoted fanbase so what I think happened was even though she has a small cult following, a lot of the fans actually bought the album, allowing it to chart high briefly. It actually happens a lot here. Some lesser known album will randomly appear and then in a day or too disappear because all the die hard fans bought it day one and then it stops selling because the mainstream doesn't care.
I won't even say anything about the KH/Utada fans here, simple and clean and passion on repeat for the rest of their life.
But I would say there is a strong chance she will return for the new game. The demand here is very strong. I mean she even did Sakura Nagashi while on hiatus just to honor the Neon Genesis film series.

[Gubsi]

i'm still shook she's bangin' worldwide on iTunes!
well deserved tho!!

even one of my friends who doesn't like slow-/midtempo songs that much, loving this album so much!
and i'm really digging the new 光/Simple and Clean remix, hope we get a full version in the near future!!
even my boyfriend likes Vacancu and Ore no Kanojo and he doesn't like j-pop/pop music that much

[Minttulatte]

I need the full version of that Simple & Clean/Hikari remix. I love it so much~

As for the album, I haven't listened to it yet but I will once I'm not busy with life anymore.

[S4MU3L]

How weird is that "Fantome" is charting much better in usa than "This is the one"?? lmao. I kinda love that.

[bluegie]

Maybe people think her Japanese materials are better. At least I do .

[amorphose]

Anyone see any booklet scans anywhere yet?

[Maemi]

^ they are in the first post under News.

[EndOfTheWorld]

Utada is surprised by Fantome's success as well.
http://aramajapan.com/featured/utada...ver-did/64944/

[~StarCatcher~]

I saw her tweets yesterday. She is so funny and I love how down to earth and "normal" she reacts, so lovely <3

It is a huge success for a Japanese singer!