Original post In this month’s Bibibi post, Ranko talks about Kazuo Umezu’s Scary Book Series! Violet’s note: this post comes later than usual because I was reading horror manga, and I wanted to include some buy links for the featured books. Kazuo Umezu is the grandmaster of the horror manga genre, and his works influenced the universally-acclaimed Junji Ito. Not… Read more »
““Tears and smiles are amplified.”I long stopped hearing this aphorism someone made up.” Welcome back to our usual review corner! This time my copy of the new album is stuck in America because wooo, shipments from Japan to Italy are blocked again. However, for the usual CD pic, I decided to ask people in TC’s Discord server to take their… Read more »
Happy birthday to the artist behind all the cool BUTAOTOME cover arts and design, and the best dancing bunny! For this year, other than your usual pic (no showcase of random Italian food), I’m planning to do something new. This year is my 10th anniversary as a BUTAOTOME fan, so I want to dedicate each member’s birthday post to talk… Read more »
Oemgad, we reached 200! Congratulations to me! I was supposed to get my copy of Pokémon Legends Arceus today, but it still didn’t arrive… so here is the OG duo in The Ruins, ready for new adventures! It’s been a while since the last proper post, what happened? Well, let’s start with… Website updates First of all, Hyakumannin no Heikou… Read more »
Original post In this month’s Bibibi article, Ranko talks about how she writes lyrics and records vocals, with some behind-the-scenes tidbits about Hyakumannin no Heikou Hifuu! I’m Ranko, the BUTAOTOME vocalist.This is a series of articles where I introduce my favorite manga and anime in whatever way I like, and sometimes I write a production diary. Happy New Year, everyone.I… Read more »
Welcome to 2022! Website updates Lyrics translations have been added to the following albums and songs: Bowling Chess Heisei Kaisei Dottenshan Loftiness Dream and Sousei Kango Sign (😱) With this update, every original song has been translated*! Now, where is the 3rd major album… *yeah, yeah I know, Tanjou is still untranslated, and there are also some rhythm game songs… Read more »
And here we are, with the last post of 2021. A year that was pretty much an extension of 2020. Covid is still ruining our lives, so there was a lack in activity. Not a lot of new music, and the few live concerts are still live-streamed. Here are some nice stats: Touhou songs: 15 (including the 3p remix and… Read more »
Oooooh, welcome to this new pre-review! After 2 years, a physical Comiket is finally happening, and BUTAOTOME is going to release their smallest album ever. An Hifuu-only album consisting of two new songs and two new versions of old tracks. This C99 is gonna have some very good Hifuu stuff, with a new ZUN CD and also the upcoming Diao… Read more »
This time we’re gonna get a very short release! 100bannin no Heikou Hifuu (100万人の並行秘封, One million parallel Hifuu girls) is a Hifuu EP, with 2 new tracks and Ranko versions of sachlich songs! ボトリング創世記 | Bottling Souseiki [Bar Old Adam] わたし集合論 | Watashi Shuugouron [Futsukayoi no Doushouimu] ミステリーは既知の外 [ランコver] | Mystery wa Kichi no Soto (Ranko ver) [Nihonjuu no Fushigi… Read more »
The Comiket 99 release is 100% done! We are currently waiting for an official announcement. Maybe during the weekend? It’s yet another slow period of news. The sisters are still constant with their Fanbox radio (latest post here), Ranko published a new Bibibi post (translation here), Chrono Circle has been released on Japanese arcades, but it doesn’t have its Buta… Read more »
