音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Evil Thursday!
I mean my TA session is still from 8:30 to 11:30, which is exactly like last winter term, which means I have to get up at 6:00. But I'm a half-owl!!! orz
So does it mean I should re-tune my inner clock? u_u
Yet I enjoy being awake at silent nights and watching horror animes.
I do admit that's a good excuse to do nothing on Thursday because we have regular lab mtg in the afternoon which will interfere what you do on this day anyway.I bet actually no one really loves the mtg except the boss...

Now something exciting...

↑ 2/3 of my late-August orders arrived--and my Noriko copy is on its way--sweet! Though I'll only have enough time for the DVD in next long weekend. ^^;;
Also for Akiko's Umineko. There were only 3 in stock when I ordered mine. Today, when I finally received the disc, I went to amazon.co.jp again, and found that this item was out of stock! Therefore, I'm wondering who ordered the rest two after me! xD

↑ Autume just came so suddenly. You haven't even noticed it, and the world is mostly in golden. Each time when I take a snap, the melody of FJ YUUKA's "blessing" comes into my mind.

Update:
BLOGGER HAS BEEN ALL TURNED TO THE NEW INTERFACE!!!
AND IM NOT AMUSED. GIMME BACK THE OLD CLASSIC INTERFACE!! (ﾉД`)ｼｸｼｸ

With Noriko first time referring to the special page for "vierge automatique" in her blog, she revealed more details about the songs themselves--since that album hasn't got released "in public" (it was already released on her 8/24 live!), nothing about the concepts yet.

So today, 9 days ahead of its official release, I wanna transport the digest of what Noriko mentioned in her blog.

and thus, here let me also show this kinda-creppy album jacket again~
- The cover doll is also from Dollhouse Noah, which is the same as the first single.
- The jacket designer is the same person as in "Yoruoto Hyouhon": Maeda@The Monneyless Vincent Imitation Graphica.

1. vierge automatique
⇒A new song for opening the album. Written in self-made language and like a hymn, arranged by multiple chorus. (Ar Tonelico?!).

2. Mindsphere
⇒The arrangement won't have too much of change. But this time, the vocal and mix were remade. A re-recording.

3. 百花庭園の幻影 (Phantom in the Flower Garden)
⇒This song was only ever performed on the live exhibition in 2004--and there were only 30 people in each time. (What a phantom song!) Therefore, even this song was "rearranged", since it never got released, it can actually be called a "new" song.

4. cercueil blanc～白の柩～
⇒The arrangement, vocal and mix all got changed a lot here in the new version. A real "rearranged" song. Plus the rearrangement was done by Naruki from ORITA, this song will be in ORITA-style. (I'm looking forward how it sounds after rearrangement. I do love the first version!)

5. 廃墟の心臓 (Heart of Ruins)
⇒A new song that was asked to be written in "progressive rock" style. Also just from the title, it's obvious that this song was written for the album. (hmmm, I don't know how prog-rock sounds like, what I know is only about GARNET CROW's J-rock.. orz)

6. 白繭の城 (Castle of White Cocoon)
⇒A song that was composed by Noriko herself! "A secluded girl eventually made a song! (Mitose N, 2012)" This song was born so naturally, yet was also born to be for this album. (It's so great that Noriko got some self-composing!! What kind of aura this song will have? I would say it's "Centifolia" like, but who knows. xD)

7. とおりゃんせ (Touryanse)
⇒An awfully arranged children's folk song. It was supposed to be the "Horror Touranse" like on "Yorlga" live, but here, it turned to be even more horrible, or I would rather say it evolved much more from that point. (But Touranse from Cotton#2 isn't that horror. I'm so curious about this, especially because the arranger is Yoshitaka Hirota.)

8. 薄氷<うすらい> (Thin Ice)
⇒About 15 years ago, Noriko did the lyrics for this song, and it was composed by Saneatu Shinomoto. Noriko only performed it on Kirche live once (another phantom song?!). So this time, it's the Noriko version of "rearrange+cover", and doesn't it sound like another new song?

9. カナリヤ機械 (Automatic Canary)
⇒Even though this song was performed a lot of times through Kirche lives, it never got released. Yet this song fits the motif of the album, it got rearranged specifically and finally will be released. In brief, this song is "Kirche's Mitose self-cover + new recording + first release". (Even only the title attracts me very much!)

10. 伽藍の空 (Temple's Sky)
⇒A new song. Noriko was trying to compose it on her own, yet she couldn't come up with a satisfied melody. Therefore the composing was asked to be done by the one who can create the same sense.

Things like that.

Just simply feel the titles, this album will be even darker than album "Centifolia"--but Noriko really fits such dark songs perfectly. I thought like this natually even I'm not that good at guessing. However, she does have the power to create the unique and delicate metaphysics of imagination.

Being in full-live-mode for more than half year, Noriko now already announced two new releases. It was rather a rush to me, since I just pre-ordered one of her new releases...

Anyway, I just read the second release from her blog this morning:

Mille-feuille ～Noriko Mitose Pop Works Best～
Centifolia = hundred petals; Mille-feuille = thousand leaves.
Obviously, it's a sister album of her Centifolia--by simply looking at the style of the album title.

Using Noriko's own idea, Centifolia contains all her "art" works, which are difficult to sing and the aura is rather darker. However, this time, in Mille-feuille, songs will be more "pop". Extremely catchy and cute, you may sing with the music even just after one time of listening.

Now the thing is, should I order this album as well? Maybe I'll decide when the official tracklist is revealed. I do wonder what songs will be in this album. Pop, catchy, cute, huh... I would say I prefer Noriko from the dark side, but I don't refuse the bright Noriko. So I'll see. (´・ω・｀)

At the end of that post, she finally mentioned her "vierge automatique" and linked it. But, why didn't she link it to the special website instead of its amazon page--what are you planning for?? Σ(ﾟДﾟ)

Also, Noriko did mention that, in case of mille-feuille, the pastry is more well-known, thus I went to check how this kind of pastry looks like (I'm quite slow in memorizing food names orz). They look so nice (I did ever eat them, without known the name of that kind of food though)! Then I was like dead--I MEAN I HAVE TOTALLY NO RESISTANCE TO THEM. =w=

I changed my blog background on August 29. The reason was simple: summer has gone, staring at the jellyfish will just make you feeling cold. ^^; Due to having no idea for another theme, I tried various photos or designs. At last, I came up with one season word of autumn:
Lycoris radiata.

Even a little bit red, it's not that bad, is it? And my previous colour scheme fits the image perfectly! So on that night, I started to loop Noriko's "Manjushage" for a while. XD
I LOVE MANJUSHAGE!!
Probably I'll keep this background until it snows. :3

Speaking of lycoris, in the next day, I somehow did some scribble, the motif was "katana and sword". But maybe because I didn't outline on my pencil draft, I couldn't do that as what I thought first via tablet.

Guardian Souls: Mihane side

Guardian Souls: Tohne side

I spent almost entire Sunday working on this, or maybe I could say these. Since it was supposed to be in one frame. I'm just not yuri enough to get perfect arrangement of the characters.
Major elements I already decided before finishing up included: moon night, field with flower, breeze. In case of "katana", I chose Lycoris radiata without hesitation. and shrine maiden custom ftw! However, I took much longer for the "sword" side. What flower I could use? I don't exactly know how I eventually got my way to daisy (some impression from tsukihime). Yet soon in the next day (I mean today) I began to regret. Even though the final version is satisfactory enough to me. I don't mean I don't like daisy, I merely blaming myself for forgetting the classic flower that matches a sword! I feel like I completely lost. °A°

...bury me using thousands of Lycoris!
(つд⊂)
↑...and recently I do love and use this emoji quite a lot!

Now, waiting for the arrival of KOKIA's "History", and do a countdown to the release of Noriko's "vierge automatique".
September 20... still long to wait...
(つд⊂)