"Shinjuku Anime Song Scope" is a website where anime buyer Higuchi Sho from Tower Records Shinjuku, known for its wide selection of anime songs, reports on best-selling anime songs and the voices of the sales floor. The number one single at the store from October 20th to 27th was "Haito Inori" by the idol unit "GEMS COMPANY" produced by Square Enix.
◇Last week's results
"Haito Inori", which took the top spot, was released on September 4th and has been gaining popularity. It took the top spot this time due in part to an event held at the Shinjuku store. The song is the ending theme for the second season of the TV anime "NieR: Automata Ver1.1a", with lyrics written by Yoko Taro and composed and arranged by Okabe Keiichi of the creator group "MONACA".
In second place is "Crier", the solo debut album by voice actress and singer Tanaka Yuki, known for her role as Serizawa Asahi in "The Idolmaster Shiny Colors". In fifth place is the female duo ClariS's "sequel" best album, ClariS ~SINGLE BEST 2nd~, released in 2015.
In sixth place is Given THE BEST, a best album featuring the theme songs and songs from the anime series Given, based on Kizu Natsuki's popular BL manga, and in seventh place is Memento Mori Lament Collection Vol.2, which includes character songs from the smartphone and PC RPG Memento Mori. In tenth place is DAISUKI FULL POWER, the ending theme song for the third season of the TV anime Love Live! Superstar!!.
◇This week's trends
We are focusing on "THE IDOLM@STER MILLION MOVEMENT OF STARDOM ROAD 04 Oshitte Honto", the fourth release in the "MOVEMENT OF STARDOM ROAD" CD series for the popular game "THE IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE! Theater Days (Mirishita)", and "Happy Surprise Trick!", which includes the ending theme and insert song for the "Halloween Live" episode of the TV anime "THE IDOLM@STER Shiny Colors 2nd season".
We also expect strong initial sales for "BURN! BURN! BURN!", the CD commemorating the 30th anniversary of "Macross 7" from the popular anime "Macross" series, and "Otogi no Gingadan", a two-disc album and best-of album commemorating the 10th anniversary of Harumaki Gohan's career as a vocaloid producer and singer-songwriter.
◇Tower Records Shinjuku store anime song corner ranking (from left: title, artist, title omitted)
1st place: "Ai to Inori" GEMS COMPANY single
2nd place: "Crier" Tanaka Yuki album
3rd place: "Bring the LOVE!" Watanabe You (Saito Shuka), Uehara Ayumu (Onishi Aguri), Shibuya Kanon (Date Sayuri), Hinoshita Kaho (Neyuri Nozomi), Kosaka Honoka (Nitta Emi) single
4th place: "TARINAI/Tremolo Eyes" Poppin'Party single
5th place: "ClariS ~SINGLE BEST 2nd~" ClariS album
6th place: "Given THE BEST" Various Artists album
7th place: "Memento Mori Lament Collection Vol.2" Various Artists album
8th place: "THE IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS ECHOES 06" Noctilum Single
9th place "Fanfare!!!" Mirakura Park! Single
10th place "DAISUKI FULL POWER" Liella! Single
◇Profile
Higuchi Sho, Anime buyer at Tower Records Shinjuku 7th floor (Japanese music sales promotion). Transferred from Machida store in 2014. He got into anime because of 1990s works such as "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "BLUE SEED", and "VS Knight Ramune & 40 Flame", and among anime songs, he loves character songs, especially songs related to idol anime. His favorite anthem is "Up! 10sion Pleeeeeeeeease!" from "The Idolmaster Million Live!". His favorite anime and games are "Pretty Rhythm", "The Idolmaster", "Photo Kano", and "Sakura Wars".
