KAMIJO - 2018

2018

2018 begins with a sharing of an image by the Japanese members of the FC as of January 1. Kamijo's wishes show a new costume. Only these members received this image, members of the FC outside Japan did not have one and he did not even publish wishes on twitter ... and this sharing of something which usually remains secret is enough rare to be notified.

The DVD covers coming on January 31 are unveiled, both are very beautiful.

On January 8, the year's activities begin with the FC's New Year concert at the Tokyo Kinema Club.

@KamijoOfficial twitter

vidéo viewable sur @rei_yk twitter

On January 9, he was invited on the Nico Nico Video channel for a program with the Heidi group, visible in stream from the channel.

@nico_visual twitter et @KamijoItalia for caps

January 12, we stop the news anymore since a single as part of the collaboration with Hatsune Miku is announced for March 21, which is also the day of release of the album "Sang". This single has 4 tracks, "Sang" plus a song whose title is to be defined and their instrumental versions. The same day, it was pre-ordered on CD Japan. The cover will be drawn by the duo Peach Pitt. Two better quality photos also accompany the numerous online press articles announcing the single.

January 16 release of Nosferatu it is on spotify for free listening at midnight! CD Japan publishes photos of details and the same day it is on sale in a store for Tower Records, it is also present at the expo which is held in Marui for its collaboration with Hatsune Miku. Different objects are exhibited there: the dress created by Mana for her brand Moi-Même-Moitié. This enticing Vampire Fes on paper is actually a promotional operation in the Marui shopping center in Shibuya, a bit like the one made by Versailles in September 2016. Kamijo will be present on certain days and goodies and objects will be exhibited.

Twitter @tomozo_0315

Sources : CD Japan Twitter, Tower records Twitter Mana & Kamijo official twitters.

January 17 Kamijo announces the date for the sale of tickets for the Japanese "Sang" tour

On January 21, the promo at the Vampire Fes at the Marui shopping center in Shibuya continues with an appearance, and a selfie with Machigerita a composer using the vocaloid system. His songs are rock / metal with the theme of horror. Kamijo today promoted the indescribable Pop Corn derivatives ...

Sources : @KamijoOfficial et Instagram & Machigerita twitter

On January 23, he puts fans in turmoil by publishing, like that for no apparent reason, his full story on his ameba blog, which has been more updated since 2016. On January 23, 24 and 25, he therefore delivers 18 chapters in all its history clearly explained. He spoke of this desire to explain his story in 2017, that's it. The upcoming album "Sang" seems to tell another story given the planned single called "Sang -Another Story". This new story, or rather this new chapter to come undoubtedly motivated the artist to deliver the previous chapters for a clearer reading of the rest of his repertoire. You can of course discover this story translated by motivated fans in the section dedicated to stories.

On January 31, a streaming rich in announcements takes place in the Ameba studio and broadcast on Fresh Live TV. During this streaming we had the opportunity to see the photographer Takaaki Henmi and the artistic director, the musicians also came on the set. Various announcements were made such as the participation of actors on the next Sang tour. We also learned that vocal actors will play the role of the characters in the story: The Count of Saint-Germain will be interpreted by Seki Tomokazu - Napoleon Bonaparte will be interpreted by Sugita Tomokazu - Marie-Antoinette will be performed by Aoki Ruriko - Beethoven will be performed by one with a strong and vibrant voice, Kondo Hiroki. No specific details on the form of this story and the narration.

We also announced a collaboration with "sisters" is being organized by animate café. Duration of the collaboration: from Tuesday March 20, 2018 to Sunday April 15, 2018. There will be three drinks available. The tasting will take place at the store: Sisters Ikebukuro - 170-0013 Tokyo, Toshima, Ikebukuro, 1-8-1 WACCA Ikebukuro F1 - Open from: 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. All info will be given on these links : http://www.sisters-tapioca.com
Twitter officiel : https://twitter.com/sisters_tapioca.

The covers of the three editions of the new album were unveiled, the pre-setting was instantly activated onr CD Japan.

Regular - Limited - Limited Blu-Ray deluxe

During this stream was broadcast the PV of Nosferatu very small in a tiny window, as well as an extract from the DVD Epic Rock Orchestra which was released the next day on January 31.

On January 31, he was on Yoshiki TV. You can watch more captures of the show on the website of the Street Team Italienne.

In the following days a dedicated site was put online. It contains all the information given previously clarified.

"Epic Rock Orchestra" released on DVD on January 31

When pre-ordering at CD Japan, if we bought the single "Nosferatu" and the DVD of "Epic Rock Orchestra" the preco bonus was a DVD of 8 songs from the concert of Moshijo in December 2016. Many people were a little disappointed to see on this DVD songs already published on Kamijo's official Youtube account and very little new material while the concert contained other unpublished songs. This preco bonus was very successful because there could not be one for everyone. There remains a version of "Nosferatu" with this instrumental introduction as it was presented during the 2016 lives and which disappeared thereafter. Download the full DVD HERE.

At the beginning of February, some tweets suggest that Kamijo is in recording, first the chamber music album which will be with the Deluxe Limited Edition of "Sang", the same type of tweets at the end of months will talk about the album itself. New photos appear, he also announces that he will do the choruses on a song at the final concert of the 10 years tour of Matenrou Opera on March 2. On February 12 we see it in store promo. On February 16 a new preco bonus is added on CD Japan: a broadcast of a mini live acoustic and a talk show will take place on July 8 for all those who pre-ordered one of the three versions of "Sang".

February 27 the site Nippombashi announces that for the 160th anniversary of Franco-Japanese friendship a festival will be held at the "Nihonbashi Street Festa" in Osaka with the "Japan-France pop culture exchange project" where Kamijo will be invited as ambassador. the opportunity to see an additional photo of the new costume.

On March 2, the end of the Anniversary tour of Matenrou Opera takes place, Kamijo is in guest to play the choristers. On Spotify you can listen to the song where it is backing vocals : "Hadou no hi yo". Some photos were shared by Kamijo on his Instagram account. The video is visible HERE !

On March 7, two new bands at Château Agency unveil the cover of the single with Miku and the final visuals of the Blood CDs as well as important information on the number of tracks on the album : 14.

On March 9 the setlist is revealed by Kamijo himself in several tweets: Tweets 1 - Tweet 2 - Tweet 3 and Tweet 4 - where he details each track with a description for certain. I translated the tweets into English via Google Translate, the Japanese / English translation works pretty well. The French versions are only derivatives of the English version and are always a bit fanciful. There were 4 tweets in all: "L'Album" Sang "I want everyone to hear soon.

- The 1st song is "Dead Set World", it is an instrumental song. It means an ideal world. By the time the tour ends, I think that I can tremble when I hear this song.
-The 2nd song is "Theme of Sang", it is literally the theme melody. You can easily imagine the guts pose of everyone at the moment you heard.
-The 3rd song is a single "Nosferatu". In order to naturally make a connection from the second song, I changed MIX for single. I have put out more songs in advance.
-The 4th song is the instrument which imaged the news program "Bloodcast - Interlude -"
-The 5th song "Vampire Rock Star" is very Yavy guy. Scream!
- "Emigre" of the 6th track is the official title of E.R.O - Prologue -, of course new record.
-The 7th song "Mystery" is a mystery that is extremely bright and habit.
-The 8th "mademoiselle" is recorded as single.
- "Castrato" is still single, but the SE part of the head and the main part are divided into track 9th "Delta-Interlude-" and track 10th "Castrato" by separating. And this tightening is the flow. I will leave it in detail yet.
-11th track "Ambition -Interlude" - 12th track "Sang I" - 13th track "Sang II" - 14th track "Sang III"

Small image infographed by me of this tracklist with the visual of the 2018 calendar which was finally put on sale on CD Japan and whose visuals were revealed.

The more the release date approaches the more the tweets are numerous announcing interviews, publishing photos and trailers ... blessed bread for impatient fans. On March 12 he released the tracklist for the Chamber Music CD: "Chamber Music Ensemble - ????????????????????????KAMIJO???????????????????????????9????1. Heart - 2. Presto - 3. Romantique - 4. Royal Blood - 5. ?????????? -6. Royal Tercet - 7. Louis ????????????? - 8. ?? - 9. ????????" he publish too an album trailer in his YouTube account...

AN interview on Jungle Life reveals new very beautiful images. This interview is very interesting and has been translated by Merithorus Slifer HERE. Two days after this first article, a second interview appears in Gekirock . The translation will be linked here once available, after reading with Google translation, it is also very interesting and talks more about recording and sound in general. These interviews reveal important information: the new titles are all in English !

From March 20 to April 15 collaborations between KAMIJO and the bubbletea shop Sisters. Kamijo coasters offered among 6 models for each purchase. These are flavored teas with tapioca balls in them. The next day Kamijo publishes a trailer for the single with Miku on his twitter, the title song seems to be a duet. On March 14 an interview with no subtitles is published on Youtube by Visulog. In the background a longer extract which seems to be the song Sang II.

The week ends in style with the publication of a video on the album page of CD Japan. This is the full report of Nosferatu with the trailer for the album "Sang". A message de Kamijo is also posted on the same page. This message is subtitled as often on CD japan.

On March 18, Kamijo therefore participates in the Nipombashi Festival as an ambassador for French culture and chairs the cosplay contest that closes the day. It's outside, there is a parade in the streets and a superb harvest of very pretty photos of Kamijo in his new costume and without photoshop retouching. Rarely have so many photos been tweeted. Visibly when it is not prohibited we give ourselves to heart.

Vidéos du festival :

An article on this Cosplay festival on Anime News Network.

On March 20, the album seems to be sold in stores the day before the official release and Twitter is invaded with photos of the CD in store and of people who have already bought their copy. No upload via Spotify and no sale via I Tunes ... fortunately Chaotic Sorrow is there to make up for this lack and make waiting for the reception of the CD easier ... overview of track 2 and link of Download in the description of the video. For my part I added the complete Chamber Music album which is part of the Deluxe BluRay set.

The concert tour begins on March 24, and a photo is published, then nothing for a month, not a backstage photo before concert few tweets ... except a tweet where he seems to protest against people on the networks tell the story told during the lives ... nothing. The concern for quality and how the show is received seems to concern him. He asked internet users in a tweet to say his impressions on the lives or the album, with the #kamijopoison. Some people including me were surprised to see that Kamijo Official followed them after that!

So after a month of touring, the photos start coming back and there is no shortage of posts on Instagram, he also posts messages and pictures on LINE, different from twitter and Instagram. The Facebook account also relays the publications made on Insta.

On these pictures, we can see the video screen which participates in the narration of the story, we also see that the two costumes are used during the live performances, the new one by Sang and the black coat by Castrato, it is new at him. It seems to start in Castrato in view of the comments on the photos. Lots of photos with Anzi too, Meku appears less often ...

On May 7 he announced a new series of concerts, all on Tokyo, in August, entitled Sang project Act II: Tokyo-Bastille ", and as the tweeets suggested, he therefore recorded a second part of the narration with the actors, the story on stage therefore evolves over the lives.

May 12 is announced a new European tour for September, "Sang Project Act III": - September 13 (Thursday) London-UK @ the Underworld - September 15 (Saturday) Helsinki-Finland @ Gloria - September 16 (Sunday) Amsterdam @ Melkweg - September 18 (Tuesday) Cologne @ MTC - September 19 (Wednesday) Munich @ Backstage - September 21 (Friday) Barcelona-Spain @ Apolo - September 22 (Saturday) Paris-France @ Backstage by the Mill.
The Netherlands and Germany were added after the first announcement: - September 16th (Sunday) Amsterdam-Holland @ Melkweg - September 18th (Tuesday) Köln-Germany @ MTC - September 19th (Wednesday) Munich-Germany @ Backstage

May 17th announces the online streaming of the album "Sang" on Spotify and on I-tunes in digital download (he could have put it directly from the start which could have encouraged people to put less links to pirated files and no longer a link to a legal platform)

June 2 surprise announcement of a July 18 single announced by a CD Japan tweet: "Sang - Kimi ni Okuru Namae -" with a new song, "TOKYO BASTILLE" and in the title song "Sang ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? "Japanese version of" Sang III ", the third track" ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? "is a cover of Miku's song by Kamijo. The limited version of this single offers a second CD with 14 tracks, the instrumental versions of the album "Sang" in full!

The month of June sees the end of the tour on the 16th, before the Final at Zepp in mid-July. On June 6, an article announces that the next winner of an ECG - European Cosplay Gathering cosplay competition will win a trip to the Nipponbashi festival in 2019 and that he will parade alongside Kamijo, who is the project's ambassador. All the details HERE. Promo video HERE.

June 21 is finally unveiled the Sonoca bonus which appeared in the limited single with Miku. Two nice photo slideshow of the lives of the tour. Last event on June 23 for Animate.

June 24th is the 11th anniversary of Versailles with a concert meal. Special atmosphere obviously for Kamijo in view of public tweets and writings on the FC ...
On June 26 a tweet talks about a new costume ... probably for Tokyo Bastille. On June 27, announcement of a special live "Triumphant return to Europe tour" will be given on September 24 for FC members. On June 29, he finally shared the PV of Nosferatu on his channel.

On July 1 he participated in an event for Zeal Link. Small selfie glasses. The same day another event for Brand-X, a telephone brand. On July 2 the official youtube channel is enriched with the minutes of "Castrato" and "Mademoiselle" not ciglés. July 3 interview on Barks with a great photo to announce the final of July 15, this interview also talks about the concert and history, Google translates this very correctly provided you choose English. On July 6, the new cover of FC magazine, an outdoor Kamijo, is unveiled ...

July 8 takes place le stream avec CD Japan,early blood bonus. On the same day Kamijo participated in two store events, one at Tower Record and the other for Like an Edison.

Photos by Yakkun and on official account Like an Edison

An interesting interview, a live accompanied by Meku, only two songs, and the sequence of questions and sentences to pronounce which will see an epic moment of tasting of Bourbon wafer and penguin ... Surprise, the full stream with the live remains online available as is after the broadcast, with real-time chat!
A captioned summary was made public on CD Japan's account at the same time as the version sous titrée complète intended for bonus beneficiaries :

the public stream

On July 10, a message on LINE announces the addition of 3 new chapters on the blog. The story continues. Chapter 19, Chapter 20 & Chapter 21. The same day an article in Jungle Life appears the same day, translation available on Alla Corte di Kamijo. He talks about the next single and the Japanese version of "Sang III". On the 13th a Meet and Greet is announced for the Final at the Zeep on July 15th. The 14 Kamijo unveils a preview of the Pamphlet put on sale for the final, it seems interesting unfortunately it will be sold out as soon as the sales open ... I do not give up hope of finding it one day to scan it seems to be in English ... (but sold exclusively in Japan ...)

The live looks really superb, with a very large screen for narration and smoke games. Before the live, people could see exposed the frame in which the video screen was placed during the tour. You could also take a picture of yourself in the frame as shown in a photo of Kamijo on Instagram. A nice article in Jungle Life relates the concert with very beautiful photos. Other images on Kera Style.
Live that you can discover for download HERE.

July 17 new chapter, 22 on the blog Ameblo. The next day the new single is released. The single is available for listening on Spotify. The Limited version includes as a bonus the full "Blood" album in instrumental version audible here, it is unfortunately not available on spotify.

Extract from the live ( DVD relaease on December 20 ) "Barawa Utsukuchikuchiru" :

On July 19 there is a special concert for his birthday, accessible only with the "Emigres Cards" system distributed during the purchase of the album. The white gave the right to gifts distributed in events stores, the red had a photo with Kamijo on the day of the live anniversary taken with the personal device of the fan, and the blue gave the right to enter the live which took place at the Chelsea hotel. . Social networks must have contributed enormously to exchanges and various sales. For my part, I had a red that I sold to a fan from the Netherlands who was going there. Incredible thing, magic and unimaginable .... the live was broadcast in live stream via Instagram, and even announced in advance on twitter, I could see at the time a little bit then it cut and I cut also without knowing that he was going to resume. Luckily Cantavanda managed to capture it and share it some time later. Thanks to him.

instagram Stream by Cantavanda !

In August there is a series of very close concerts in Tokyo in three different halls. It's Act II of "Sang" and it's called "Tokyo Bastille" like the song number two of the single. On July 20, a banner had teased the thing with a photo that immediately stirred the fanbase, this sexy look leading to all speculation on the rest of the costume ...

The first two lives took place two days in a row at RizM in Aoyama, then three consecutive concerts at Rex in Shibuya and a final at Rex in Takadanobada. Yakkun and other fans made all the dates, twitter was taken by storm and all told their feelings, I rarely saw that, people are often stingy, except Yakkun who always shares a photo of the room and other small things. The atmosphere seems to have been cheerful, we had regularly shared set lists, he played little-played songs such as Heel or Audrey ...

Kamijo - Masashi - Anzi and Yuki official twitter.

The photosets presented on the Château Agency store being of good quality I was able to crop these photos and thus have a glimpse of the outfit that put the fans in turmoil ...

At the end of the month Kamijo appeared on a TV show in Japan following a poll and votes from Mexican fans.

During this month of August was unveiled a project in progress for several months. A group of fanartists from all backgrounds has produced a series of illustrations to put their story into pictures throughout the chapters. The project is visible HERE . Apart from the beauty of this project, it is even more remarkable because the artist himself received it and tweeted an "Amazing" with the photo of the booklet. It's really a great project, go watch it.

Following the Tokyo Bastilles finale, various announcements were made. A Zeep Final DVD will be released for December 20. We also announce the festivities for Halloween including a Masked Ball on D-Day, the information available is in line with the Royal Night of Paris. An event concert is also planned for the DVD release, a 3H live with songs of his entire career and different musicians, we talk about duets too. More information on Château Agency google will help you understand everything.

September begins with an announcement on the 6th: on December 20 will be held an exceptional concert "The Sangs" at the Asaka Navi Blitz with guests including Mayu his friend from LAREINE.

On the 13th the event announced for months: Malice Mizer - Deep Santuary VI - 25th Anniversary in which Kamijo is invited with two other singers to interpret songs by Malice Mizer. I made a little teaser for the occasion. The Set list of day 1 is available HERE.

Kamijo Instagram

The 3 vocalist, all were roadies for Malice Mizer ! Source : Hitomi Twitter

Images of what is happening around the event

On September 13 begins the European tour of Kamijo. Small homemade teaser ...

Sang Project ACT III - Europe Tour

Sang Europe Tour ACT III, the long-awaited tour begins in London. This tour was very different from the others on a lot of points. Already B7 published beautiful photos fairly quickly from the start, more too much later but it should be noted that we did not have to wait for the weeks following the end to see them. Another originality, two fanartists in particular, Emn and Pookie Esukiro had fun creating pretty funny images on twitter, taking the selfies and instagrams published by Kamijo and the musicians or imagining other situations. Another notable thing, a summary of the story was broadcast by Kamijo via Twitter and in English. So that European fans can follow the narration !

On September 15, in Helsinky, in addition to the concert, Kamijo was a "surprise" guest at a demonstration by Lolitas who saw the presence of Mana. Kamijo was his voice of the day !

The live report of Paris by my prose available ICI ,the set list was quite similar for all the dates, we did not have "Mystery" like the day before in Barcelona ... It was amazing on stage, vocally and tactfully according to the first row ...

After a return to the country and a well deserved rest took place on September 28 a concert FC "Shepherd of midnight - Triumphal return from tour in Europe" the title dates before the tour ... With the flag signed in Paris in the background stage !

October 11 announcement of a new concert with BeChoir on December 18 "Moshijo the fourth : The New Order"

For Halloween, three dates and a big special evening for the 31st with the Masquerade Ball. Some nice pictures and great fanarts, it definitely becomes a tradition this case !

Draws about on the official goods

by Emn sur son Twitter

On Halloween night, the big masked ball finally takes place. Although the photos were authorized, little filtered, foreign fans mainly posted small things on Instagram, so an unexpected and unexpected first photo ! A video from the ball was also posted by a South American fan bambitsukiyama.

Photo by pinkgothduplica

We had to wait for a live report from Gekirock to see more. Translation from Italian by Kamijo Italia. Professional dancers animated the track, porters brought a coffin, opened it and it was empty and Kamijo appeared masked on the balcony. Cendrillo, the Phantom of the Opera, Marie Antoinette were present. There was a concert with the ex-Takarazuka singer Yu Emao and Jaguard. Kamijo invited many guests to share a dance step with him.

The event took place in the same building as the Tokyo Kinema Club and surprise, a secret concert was given in this room and the guests were guided there.

A temporary work announcement for interwiever Kamijo that evening had been passed through the temporary work site Baitoru fin septembre ,this partnership materializes on December 10 with the publication of the thing and photos. The original interview is on the website of Baitoru. Small video message

Translation of the interview on Kamijo Italia Wordpress.We learn a lot about young Kamijo and his little jobs where he took care of Wasabi in a restaurant and his activity as a Ramens delivery man! He also talks about his roadie experience for Malice Mizer where he took care of, among other things, Fan Club mail and CD shipments.

Petit Fanart de Emn encore elle

On November 2 a Symphony of the Vampire tour is announced in addition to the symphony concert of March 27.

November 18 publication of a trailer for the future DVD of the July finale which is scheduled for December 19.

On November 9 details on the upcoming concert "the Sangs", there will be its usual musicians and in addition to Mayu Daishi and Shigure will be there, a surprise guest is announced, we do not know who it is.

he same day small visual for the next Moshijo. November 11 small banner to confirm the Symphony of the Vampire tour and the dates for the sale of tickets. On November 19 is published the interview made during the masked ball on the Baitoru website (read above) and on the 22nd Gekirock's article publishes the live report of the same event with the photos. On November 17, a new FC trip is announced, it's been a long time since there has been one. It will take place on January 20.

On November 25 he publishes via twitter additional lyrics to his songs which are sung by the choir members of BeChoir during the Moshijo concerts. He is progressing more and more in the communication around his history, whether with these publications or in his latest pamphlet which is no longer just a collection of photos but contains many more explanatory texts.

On November 30 a DVD of the concert with Malice Mizer is announced and will be sold by mail. An audio document of the thing recorded in secret has been broadcast on youtube, it is no longer available. After rehearsals with Be Choir, it's the concert at Moshijo. Some photos published on twitter by guitarist Kelly Simonz and on Kamijo's instagram and e Be Choir Instagram Account.

So on December 20, the concert "The Sangs" takes place, a live of almost 3 hours if I remember correctly is announced with a retrospective of his entire career, title level. The surprise guest is Jun from Golden Bomber who was an actor in an epic scene according to the assistants: he appeared in a white horse costume and straddled by ... Kamijo ... vision immortalized by Emn on twitter.