Watch BACK-ON’s “flyaway” PV in full online!

This is the video that we have all been waiting for since news of the flyaway PV was first announced by Sesshy at Sound EX, and we’ve been able to share it here with everyone thanks to Sok who found the video of the PV on Veoh!

The PV, which was uploaded by raykennedy, is 3:56 minutes in length and features BACK-ON performing on a sunny beach and in a dark industrial warehouse with various background images of urban buildings panning in and out. Very interesting camera work imho and it is definitely a must watch for the song AND the video! The director is none other than 須永秀明 (Hideaki Sunaga) who also directed BACK-ON‘s Sands of time PV!

You can watch the PV by clicking on the direct link below or after the cut (as usual):

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v17144930HrJcS5sk

and if you would prefer to watch it in HQ on Youtube courtesy of funkeejap (original by Sok) please visit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf06dyEmR9o

Now you can even watch the subbed version of the PV (with karaoke effect) with thanks to BenBoomZ right here (in HQ as well):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md6ukDBj7dY

You can also download the mp3 (PV rip courtesy of Sok) or download the PV (courtesy of Umm) or even view some of the quick photo stills of the PV that we have uploaded to our Flickr account:

Keitai Sousakan 7 – First PV/Trailer released!

Following our previous post about Back-on singing the ending theme for the new jdrama Keitai Sousakan 7 (Cellphone Investigator 7/Cellphone Detective 7) we’re happy to announce that the production team have released the first promotional trailer for the series!

Alas we don’t get to hear the OP or the ED songs in this 4-minute preview clip, but it does give us a good idea about what the show will be like. As far as I can see, there is definitely some quite high-budget-looking CGI going around (think of the movie: Transformers (2008)) which includes the Phone Braver series characters (There’s at least one evil Phone Braver!) as well as a scary looking digger-truck that threatens the main protagonist at the start and end of the trailer.

The news comes courtesy of Affenheimtheater.de, who have cited Ryuganji.net as their source, although the video has been uploaded by tenmusu66 on Youtube. We’ve included the video at the end of this post, but a thank you to the three people above!

Let us know what you think of the PV? I have to admit I’m not convinced that I’ll like it yet, which is a view shared by Todd Brown of Twitch, as well as some commentators on Japan Probe, although trailers can be quite misleading and the series might turn out to be alot better! Either way, we do know that Back-on are practicing hard at their new song Sands of Time (pictures taken by Teeda from their official blog)!

flower single : a glimpse into the extra music clips on the disc

As you may already know, the flower single came with a promise of bonus content: music clips of flower, BLAZE LINE and a day dreaming…. At the time, I was speculating that they may be just short clips, but as it turns out, they are the full music videos or pvs!

However, what Back-on have done is to package everything into an .exe file so if you viewed the CD content itself, all you see is:

So what does the interface look like? :) The background is literally Back-on‘s flower single cover, then on the top left of the screen is a video player with orange control buttons along the bottom. To the right is first Back-on‘s new logo (in orange) followed by the text flower, BLAZE LINE and a day dreaming… directly below it. These are clickable, so you would click on them to choose the video.

Having said all that, it’s probably better to show a screenshot, since a picture *is* worth a thousand words, so have a look at the thumbnail of the screenshot below!

Revealed: Hayase Erina – the actress in the flower PV!

The Back-on Messageboard hasn’t been updated in awhile, so it was a pleasant surprise to find that a message (#237) has been posted about the actress in Back-on’s flower pv! *drumroll* The lucky lady’s name is:

早瀬英里奈 (Hayase Erina)

A quick googling returns a number of references, including the fantastic Wiki@d-addicts, which shows that Hayase Erina is quite an up-and-coming actress, especially in jdoramas! You can see a picture of her below, courtesy of her agent – Stardust Promotion – with some details from her profile:

Watch the Butterfly CM, and the ending credits and preview trailer for Shinjuku Swan!

The Butterfly PV isn’t out yet, but several associated videos are already available for us to watch! These include

• the CM (Commercial) on Back-on’s Myspace,
• which is also available on Youtube courtesy of blueblueblue
• and also the ending credits of 新宿スワン(Shinjuku Swan) first uploaded by gangangan03 and then blueblueblue on Youtube!
• we’ve also uploaded a trailer or preview video sourced from the official Shinjuku Swan website as well!
  

So in essence: 5 videos in one news post! You can click on the individual links above to watch the videos, or as usual, it is possible to watch the three different videos below (we’ve picked the best available formats where possible):

Watch the flower PV in full on Youtube!

Just when (I) we thought that the Myspace preview of the flower PV was the best thing we were going to get for the week, it turns out that blueblueblue has yet again surprised us by uploading the full version of the PV on Youtube! Thank you! This latest news comes courtesy of Sound EX via this forum thread, and Back-on have yet again gone in a new direction from their previous work, where the band enter a (rather nice) room with modern decor that has extremely rich colours – particularly dominated by the red sofa – and perform flower.

It isn’t all singing and playing – Back-on eat snacks prepared (by a very lucky lady) and have a little fun as a group too, so it’s quite an interesting video to watch, especially if you’re enjoying the music as well!

You can watch the video by clicking on this direct link, or scrolling further to watch it directly on BOO! Why not let us know what you think too in the comments section? :)

Update 28/12/2007: Thanks to TELO for letting us know about the video going offline! We have now updated the link with the same PV that has kindly been uploaded by dualimaen.

Preview of flower PV on Back-on’s Myspace!

The video preview of the the flower PV was actually released last week (around the same time as the music clip I believe) but alas, I managed to completely blank it, so gomenasai for not including it in the previous news post! >_< Without further ado, you can click to visit Back-on’s Myspace for the preview clip, or watch it below on BOO! Please let us know what you think! :)

p/s: I ask this, because not only do we get to see Teeda‘s new hairstyle, this is also perhaps the first time that there has been an acting 3rd party (girl, in this case) in one of Back-on‘s music videos! Who is the lucky person, and how come it isn’t *cough* umm, seriously though, what does it take to be the lucky girl!?

Answers on a back of a postcard (or comment section) please! :)

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:

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:

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: