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Arigatou Gojaimasu (Single)
Artist: Doz
Release Date: 12/8/10
Price: 1000 yen (CD Only Version), 1800 yen (CD+DVD Version)
Hip-hop comedy duo, Doz, get the remix treatment from Prog5, Overhead Champion and DJ Command. The song is basically the same three words sung over and over again. o_O
Link/Ring
Artist: Usa
Release Date: 3/9/11
Price: 1905 yen
Utatte Mita singer, Usa, makes her major label debut in an explosive fashion! Here, she takes on classic vocaloid songs rearranged by Ram Rider and Akiba Koubou. Definitely one to look out for.
Anime Euro Best ~Complete Edition~
Release Date: 2/23/11
Price: 1905 yen
Aww, they changed the title slightly from the redundant Anime Euro Best ~Best Edition~. Ehh, still the same crap track list. Dreamusic have decided to reward their fans with a one disc compilation of repeats from the three AEB releases. They couldn’t at least make it two discs and include full versions? To make matters worse, there are no new songs or even resings at all. And how dare they release a best-of compilation without including “Gekitei”!
Kouryaku Gundan presents J-Euro Buchi Kamashi Slo Pachi Best
Release Date: 2/23/11
Price: 1905 yen
Formerly known as J-Euro Pachinko Big Hits 20 Ren Chan. It’s a blatant ripoff of Tokuma Japan’s popular Geki Atsu! J-Euro series, which focuses on Pachinko/Pachislot themes. Sousei? Check. Zankoku? Check. There are a few new songs on the album, however, which I’ve bolded below. One of them is an original song by DJ Command… I guess I need to get this after all >_<
Super Vocalo Beat
Release Date: 3/9/11
Price: 2405 yen
Just a quick update with some of the announced tracks. There’ll be 15 tracks in all on the final release.
Anime Euro Best ~Girls Edition~
Release Date: 1/19/11
Price: 2286 yen
Only 3 new songs, and one of those is a resing. 🙁 One of the new songs is by DJ Command, while Sumijun of Halozy is responsible for the other two. “Shinryaku no Susume” is certainly up to DJ Command’s usual standards, and I actually really enjoy Sumijun’s work, but 2286 yen for a handful of new songs sure is a lot to ask.
Super Vocalo Beat
Release Date: 3/9/11
Price: 2405 yen
A few months ago Avex announced a compilation titled “Vocaloid Eurobeat,” which was to feature eurobeat covers of Vocaloid songs and was to be produced by Akiba Koubou. However, Avex quietly canceled the CD, which supposed to be released on January 19. Well, it seems that the project has been reincarnated as “Super Vocalo Beat.” Presumably it will still be produced by Akiba Koubou producers, with Utatte Mita singers providing the vocals.
Kiwami Euro Best
Release Date: 3/2/11
Price: 1900 yen
Whyyyyy? Oh, Avex, you never cease to amaze me. Instead of doing another release in the Super J-Euro Best Mix series, Avex have instead decided to blatantly rip off the Wa Euro Best series. Kiwami (Extreme) Euro Best will be produced by DJ Yossy, and will include many tracks already featured on other Akiba Koubou compilations. Yes, that means “Zankoku” and “Sousei.” AGAIN. Not to mention “Soko ni Aru Kamoshirenai…” There do appear to be some new tracks, but for the most part this serves as yet another reminder why Japanese eurobeat sales have been going downhill: TOO MANY REPEATS!
Anime Euro Best ~Best Edition~
Release Date: 2/23/11
Price: 1905 yen
Seriously?! Dreamusic will be releasing an AEB best-of collection next February despite there only being 3 albums in the series so far, and a majority of those tracks were repeats from the Super Anime Remix series. The only upside about this release is that it’s 2000 yen instead of the usual 2400 yen.
30 tracks in all, with perhaps 2 or 3 new songs.
Anime Euro Best ~Girls Edition~
Release Date: 2/16/11
Price: 1905 yen
A blatant ripoff of Tokuma Japan’s popular Geki Atsu! J-Euro series, which focuses on popular Pachinko/Pachislot themes. So far the list is composed only of old Akiba Koubou productions. It remains to be seen if that will change.
Anime Euro Best ~Girls Edition~
Release Date: 1/19/11
Price: 2286 yen
The Anime Euro Best series continues with an edition focusing on girl anime themes. 13 tracks have been announced, and so far they’re all repeats. Assuming that there will be 16 tracks on the final list, that means there’ll only be 3 new tracks.
Wa Euro presents Tokumori Anime
Release Date: 12/8/10
Price: 1500 yen
A special, limited release featuring the best of Wa Euro anime covers. In other words, yet another excuse to reuse the same old repeats. “Tokumori” is used in Japanese restaurants to refer to and “extra large” portion of food, so think of this as an extra helping of Wa Euro. I suppose 1500 yen for a CD release isn’t too bad, but after Premier Euro I don’t see a need for yet another best-of compilation.
As I said, the CD saw extremely limited release, so you won’t be able to find it on most online retailers. It looks like it won’t be available digitally, either. What? If EMI can reuse the same old tracks, I can reuse the same old descriptions. 😛
Wa Euro presents Tokumori J-Pop
Release Date: 12/8/10
Price: 1500 yen
A special, limited release featuring the best of Wa Euro J-Pop covers. In other words, yet another excuse to reuse the same old repeats. “Tokumori” is used in Japanese restaurants to refer to and “extra large” portion of food, so think of this as an extra helping of Wa Euro. I suppose 1500 yen for a CD release isn’t too bad, but after Premier Euro I don’t see a need for yet another best-of compilation.
As I said, the CD saw extremely limited release, so you won’t be able to find it on most online retailers. It looks like it won’t be available digitally, either.
Utatte Mita! Uta Gassen ~Minna de Tanoshiku Utacchai Mashita~
Release Date: 12/1/10
Price: 2405 yen
Spiritual successor to last December’s hit release, Nikonikouhaku ~Minna de Tanoshiku Asonjaimashita~. Once again produced by Akiba Koubou.
DJ Command fans will be happy to know that he’s responsible for 4 of the tracks here, though only two are new, with the other two being re-sings. In fact, there are a lot of old productions with new vocals on this. There are also guest producers like Sumijun, Asahi, and DJ Katsu.
J-Pop Extra Beat Densetsu
Release Date: 11/3/10
Price: 2284 yen
There’s a surprising amount of 2bad on this. He has a total of 6 songs on the album, the same as valle blanco (though he may actually have 7; I forget who did “Ai ga Tomaranai”). Rayto has 4 tracks, though most of them are repeats or resings from other albums. And although there are two DJ Command songs, only one of them is new.
I got my copy of this the other day and it’s a pretty enjoyable listen and almost makes up for the repeat-fest known as Anime Euro Best ~Robot Edition~. While this also contains a fair number of repeats, the new songs are worth it. Standouts include “Linda Linda,” “Return to Myself,” and “Sekai de Ichiban Atsui Natsu.”
The digital version available at iTunes includes full-length tracks. Unfortunately, it’s 1800 yen and isn’t even iTunes Plus.
DanceMaster | 
02 15th, 2011| 
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