Footage of BACK-ON’s Anime Matsuri Concert by Anime Access!

The news of this fantastic video, featuring a quick interview of Back-on and also their full concert rendition of Chain, comes courtesy of both Akari and also Ichiban!

You can watch the video by visiting The Anime Network at:

http://www.theanimenetwork.com/animeaccess/index.php?access_num=8

Update 27th June 2009: As the video is no longer available at the original link above, we have decided to upload the clips relating to BACK-ON to our Youtube account. You can watch the video below or by visiting this link:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XzPa0wqQP8

but if you want to take a peek at the contents, we’ve taken a few screenshots from the video of scenes with Back-on. Take a look below (there are 12)!

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Icchan models the new Back-on T-shirts and new live dates announced!

During the past few months, Back-on have tended to update their website once-or-twice a week with news updates, but in this month alone, they’ve made a record 9 news posts in the first two weeks!

Our main focus is on the T-shirts (Merchandise) that were announced at the end of last month, because the latest news post features Icchan and the T-shirts! Yup, he models all 4 colours of the latest design, and looks so sweet when he smiles. :) Take a look below, especially at the pink t-shirt, as the website says it is particularly recommended by Icchan!

If you want to see how the t-shirt fares under colourful spotlights, Back-on.com also provides a photo of Shu with the new-t-shirt as well~

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BLAZE LINE/a day dreaming… single released today!

BLAZE LINE/a day dreaming… is out today! The single cover featuring Teeda is shown below and clicking on it will take you to an even larger picture in the Gallery.

The tracklisting includes:

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Watch the BLAZE LINE PV!

We only got a glimpse of the new PV yesterday, but this time, you can watch the full PV courtesy of gangangan03 on Youtube! The video is 4:21 in length, and as yesterday’s teaser suggested, features the video of Back-on’s live rendition of BLAZE LINE as well as other clips of the band at Anime Matsuri!

You can watch the video by visiting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbUJ6VXSRrA

or (as usual) you can watch the video below:

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Watch a clip of the BLAZE LINE pv on Back-on’s Myspace!

It’s out! :D I love what we can see so far, as the music video appears to be Back-on’s performance of BLAZE LINE at Anime Matsuri! We get to see shots of all the members, especially Kenji03 in this clip, as well as a close up of the audience!

You can watch it by going straight to Back-on’s Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/backonjapan! Alternatively, you can also watch it below:

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Gori and the Hamburgers, plus ‘Fabio’?

Gori rarely ever updates his blog so when he does post something, a Back-on fan must always take a look! :) This applies also to other members of Back-on that maintain a public blog, such as Teeda and Kenji03!

It’s already been mentioned before that Back-on were particularly keen on hamburgers and Gori in particular seems to adore them! He writes:

I recall that on day one, I ate a hamburger the size of my hand in a bar!

On day two, for lunch, I ate a hamburger from the hotel.

On day three, I ate a hamburger from a takeout(?)/or outside.

On day four…

Gori stops at this point… where he says the memory of eating burgers everyday keeps popping up! :D

He obviously enjoyed being in America, and has posted a group picture which you can see above! Like Teeda and Kenji03, Gori thanks the people in America for being so good to them. He is also very much looking forward to Canada, so to all the Canadians – please do make an effort to support them at Anime Evolution if you’re around the area!

On another note, active forum users will most likely already know this video, but during Anime Matsuri 2007, one very lucky person by the name of Fabio was ’serenaded’ by Back-on! The video has been uploaded by buehrer on Youtube, and Fabio has kindly allowed us to post it here:

We get to see Kenji03 strumming on his guitar singing Fabio, fabio, fabio… with the rest of Back-on joining in at the end of each sentence with Fabio! At the end, Gori says the sweetest thing.. I love you!

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Anime Matsuri 2007 – Back-on Concert Pictures!

With thanks to happysky, miyu-chan, ichiban and many other users, we’ve been able to share all sorts of Back-on related Anime Matsuri 2007 multimedia with everyone! :) This time, we are featuring concert pictures taken by Anime Matsuri themselves! They have kindly agreed to allow Back-on Online to post them here and also in the Gallery, so a big thanks to the Anime Matsuri staff, and enjoy!

Click on the pictures below to visit the gallery and view the rest of the pictures!

There are some great shots of Teeda and Kenji03, as well as two taken from the other side of Back-on’s crowd shot! :D

p/s: The gallery doesn’t support sub-albums fully yet so it’s a little disorganised, but everything will be reorganised when this feature becomes available. Gomen!

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Back-on’s first thoughts about their trip to America

The main content from this post is taken from the blogs of Teeda, Kenji03 and the official blog, as there are now posts on all three regarding the recent trip to America. :) It’s evidently been a blast for the the Back-on fans (see all the Anime Matsuri related threads in particular) but what did the band think?

The official blog thanks both the welcoming team in Houston, and the supporting team in Japan profusely, and goes onto say the time in America went by in a flash, it was (I think this is what they mean:) an eye-opening experience where they learnt alot. (specifically, it was a time of growth… or something like that) They then go onto remind everyone that they will be showing a video on May 10th at Shibuya Ruido K2 of their experience (with some little souvenirs?)

Teeda also thanks everyone at the end of his post, which mentions the friends that he has made in the 10 days spent in America:

Jhon. denis. david. aki. tony. favio. nick. james. jason. ven. leon. chris.
lita. mc. naomi. koshi. alex. fizz. akiyama.　　and more….

(lucky people!) but he evidently enjoyed himself as (I think) that he didn’t want to come back from Texas. However, he does delve a bit deeper and ask questions such as:

Why does a song that I usually listen to suddenly sound so good? (I think)
Why did I spend more time looking at what was a very ordinary view?
Why is warm beer so nice?
Why…?

He mentions the sky – that he’s never viewed the sky from any other island (apart from Japan presumably) for the past 22 years, but it is totally different when viewed from another island. Teeda then goes onto mention a (probably profound) point:

One normally perceives something in a certain way, but when you view something from a different perspective, at a different angle, you then know the depth of that something.

(apologies for the shoddy attempt at translation here… please do send any corrections in because I know how annoying it is if I got it all wrong!)

Kenji03 kept his thoughts very brief, but he also thanks those who are afar(?). The 9 days went by very quickly, and (I think he says) despite the differences in race and in language, music was the common point that connected everyone. However, Kenji03 does say he would like to learn some English before the next trip, as well as avoid burgers for the time being… ;)

Finally, on a totally unrelated note: the raw for Eyeshield 21 episode 104 has finally been released on torrent! You can find it at Tokyo Toshokan courtesy of [l33t-raws].

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Watch the 4th opening of Eyeshield 21, Episode 104, BLAZE LINE

It was just less than a month ago that Back-on’s a day dreaming… featured as Eyeshield 21’s 5th ending theme for the start of the anime’s second season. On Wednesday, May 2nd 2007, BLAZE LINE became the 4th opening theme, starting from Episode 104: 一つ欠けたライン (Missing a line).

It’s been quite hard tracking down the raw version of the episode this time round, but thankfully a Youtube user, MamoriAnezaki, has managed to find a raw version and upload the opening for the anime!

Update – May 8th 2007! However, the video has since been deleted (neu!) and we have uploaded an alternative version, but due to some odd video compressions by Youtube, the quality of the file has been severely diminished. We will continue to work on providing a better quality file.

The song BLAZE LINE is unlike a day dreaming… as it’s very fast-paced, and imho nor is it like any of the songs from the New World album, so in fact more like a throw back to songs from e.g. Baby Rock. The main focus of BLAZE LINE is on Kenji03’s(?) singing – for both the verse and the chorus – complimented by a Teeda rap-interlude in-between the two.

Please watch the video and see what you think? :)

I guess listening to this song will dispel any myths that Back-on are the Japanese Linkin’ Park because their style is only occasionally similar! In addition, having briefly heard EYES as part of a recording made during Back-on’s Anime Matsuri concert (courtesy of Happysky), it seems the single BLAZE LINE/a day dreaming… which collates all 3 songs is potentially a compilation of 3 different Back-on musical styles.

This is probably something that we can elaborate on when the single comes out on June 6th 2007, but in the meantime, please let me know what you think of BLAZE LINE from this clip! :)

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Anime Matsuri 2007 – SoundEx’s interview with Back-on Video

Nao (SoundEX) must have been incredibly busy during Anime Matsuri, as yet again there is new video footage of Back-on provided on the:

SoundEx Youtube Channel

With reference to the video captions by Nao, in the first 50 second clip, the translator Tomo runs through the list of the questions to ‘prep’ the band. I’ve taken the executive decision to use a picture of Tomo (and Nao’s head?) for the screenshot, since by all accounts on the Forums (ok, I meant Ichi), the official translator is meant to be very cute! Click on the picture to go straight to the video.

 In the second interview clip (with a running time of 4:02 minutes) we get to see/hear each Back-on member give a brief account of their “typical day“, which was the opening question so there are presumably more coming up! (I’ll try and find out more about the answers either from the Forums or by listening to the clip again.)

This is the video that highlights that all the band members look incredibly cute when they’re smiling (smile more!) and Gori definitely struck me as a very happy man, because he was smiling from the start of the clip! Hence we have his picture for the screenshot below. :) As before, you can click on the picture to watch the clip.

There are also more videos (in sequence) of the Post Autograph session which are worth watching too, so do pay a visit to the SoundEx Youtube Channel! Apparently it’s already one of the top 100 most watched channels in the Musicians category today. ^^

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