The Bonkurasu Brigade

Here’s a translation done by taka02 from Perfume City Forums:

['Friday' (2009, July 3 issue) article]

“In the middle of May, a little past 10:00 p.m. in Sangenchaya, Setagaya Ward. There was a quiet cafe at a corner of a residential area. In front of the terrace facing the street, a tall man was talking into a cell phone.
Five minutes later, a woman came walking down the street leading from a thoroughfare to the cafe. It looked like a rendevouz. The gray one piece the woman was wearing was super short on the legs and, extending from under a white camisole over it, her long legs were conspicuos. Her clothing looked quite nudy from a distance, but didn’t show gals-like erotisism at all. Recognizing the man, her pretty eyes smiled through the glasses. Her expression was girlish, which made quite a contrast to her nudy clothing. She looked like a heroine from a moe[1] anime or an Akihabara style two dimentional idol. No wonder, since she was Yuka Kashino(20), also known as Kashiyuka from Perfume.
Meeting in front of the cafe, Kashiyuka and the tall man went inside through the door beside the terrace. They went into the only private room there was in the crowded cafe.

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Left : Nocchi/Omoto Ayano from Perfume Right : Atsushi Horie from STRAIGHTENER

Firstly, I got that rumour floating about with regards to the magazine ‘Friday’ that ‘revealed’ nocchi’s relationship with STRAIGHTENER’s vocalist through Perfume City forums, so this article from Tokyograph basically just sums it all.

My thoughts? even if they were to date, Atsushi looks decent and actually quite compatible with nocchi, looks-wise. But since the management (probably either from amuse or TJC) maintained that they are just friends, let’s just leave it at that. As much as my heart wished that they (Perfume) will continue on like this forever, I know for a fact that they would eventually need (yes, need; I feel so sad that they have no dating experience ;_;) to have a boyfriend soon.

Nocchi can’t be like toshiko or Yasutaka all the time; being single and trippy. 8D

The CD covers of Perfume’s upcoming album is out on the official site.

LE cover

Normal cover

Looks sweet. Very tempted to get both. One to keep, one to rip and put into my MP3 player.

Yes, that’s what it is. and below is the song list. New songs are in bold.

収録楽曲 (Song list)
1.Take off
2. love the world
3. Dream Fighter
4. edge（⊿-mix）
5. NIGHT FLIGHT
6. Kiss and Music
7. Zero Gravity
8. I still love U
9. The best thing
10. Speed of Sound
11.ワンルーム・ディスコ
12.願い（Album-mix）

初回限定盤DVD特典映像 (First press Limited DVD contents)
『I still love U』Special Video Clip
『NIGHT FLIGHT』LIVE@代々木第一体育館 May 10,’09
『edge』LIVE@代々木第一体育館 May 10,’09 ⊿-version
『love the world』TV-SPOT
『Dream Fighter』TV-SPOT
『ワンルーム・ディスコ』TV-SPOT

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The album will be on sale from July 8th onwards. Information from Perfume’s official page.

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Thoughts:
What I’m happy about is that they released ‘edge’ with another mix again. I personally like ‘edge’ better ever since I saw their Budoukan performance. I suppose the ‘edge’ in the album is the same one we all saw for the WOWOW recording. The Limited DVD release is made sweeter with the inclusion of ‘NIGHT FLIGHT’ and ‘edge’ performance.

Very happy indeed. Hopefully I am able to go to their ‘Triangle’ LIVE TOUR at Sapporo later this year in late August.

What ‘batter’ way than to entice the girl-group-loving testosterone-filled males than to have the girls battle out on a match of table tennis! I’m no fan of Momosu (short for Morning Musume), obviously, but watching the video clip can be quite fun, too.

Wonder who won in the end? Watch the video to find out! (or you can click on to find out more)

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News came in droves from Perfume the moment their Yoyogi LIVE ended yesterday, but firstly, here’s the set list to expect of the LIVE:

M-1.One Room Disco
M-2.Polyrhythm
M-3.Secret Secret
M-4.edge
~MC~
M-5.Computer City
M-6.plastic smile
M-7.Macaroni
~MC~
M-8.love the world
M-9.SEVENTH HEAVEN
M-10.NIGHT FLIGHT
~Intermission”What is Disco?”~
M-11.Yoyogi Disco Disco Mix Medley
Baby cruising Love ~ GAME ~ Computer Driving ~ Oishii Recipe - Linear Motor Girl - Ceramic Girl - Sweet Donuts
M-12.Dream Fighter
M-13.Perfect Star Perfect Style
M-14.Jenny wa gokigen naname
~MC~
M-15.Chocolate Disco
M-16.Puppy love
~ENCORE~
EN-1.Perfume
EN-1.Negai

Onwards to their announcement! –>
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The LIVE’s goods list have been released onto Perfume’s official site. Even though they provided a link for online buying, the site wasn’t updated with Yoyogi’s goods list; probably after the concert. The goods can be bought at the entrance, though, but I’m not too sure if you need to have tickets in order to get the items.

Items on sale:
【販売アイテム】
■VネックTシャツ　￥3,000
■ワンピースTシャツ　￥3,500
■フェイスタオル　￥1,500
■ストラップ　￥1,500
■ポーチ　￥2,000
■ラメミラー　￥2,000
■ラメピルケース　￥2,500
■星型ステッキガム（りんごチャーム付）　￥1,000
■クリアファイルセット（ステッカーシート付）　￥800
■ショッピングバック　￥500

My picks (in bold) are the Black shirt, towel, handphone strap, pouch, that star wand thingy, and clear file set.

“spacecadet” from Perfume City Forums posted and translated natalie’s post on “NIGHT FLIGHT”, Pino’s latest collaboration with Perfume.

“Perfume appears again on a new CM of Morinaga Milk’s ice-candy “Eskimo Pino”. In the CM they play as cabin attendants and run in an airplane with a cart full of Pino. The theme song is their new song “NIGHT FLIGHT”.

Morinaga sponsors Perfume’s Live at Yoyogi National Gymnasium “Disco!Disco!Disco!” on May 9 and 10. Perfume’s costume in the CM and posters are going to be displayed.”

The CM will broadcast all over Japan’s network starting from tomorrow (04/29).

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Well, concert-goers to DISCO DISCO DISCO might get to see Perfume’s full dance for “NIGHT FLIGHT”. This news was also released on Perfume’s ‘news’ segment at 24:00 GMT+9, about 2 hours ago.

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EDIT: A new site has surfaced in the light of the new CM. Pino sure did better than the previous year with this ‘pinoairlines‘ site. There are 2 versions of the CM, and apparently there’s a ‘campaign’ that lets you exchange pino coupons via mail for some freebies, such as a travel luggage, umbrellas, and more.

Continuing off from Part 2.

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Continuing off from Part 1.

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4 plastic smile

Plastic Smile is yet another song from previously that never got a chance to be performed, especially during their GAME LIVE TOUR. At least this time, it was performed at a more than just decent live house. In any case, although Plastic Smile wasn’t one of favourite songs from their GAME album, I found that I was better at appreciating the song after watching their performance of it at Budoukan.

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