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11-11-2009, 01:06 AM
Anime's "only my railgun" song by fripSide (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=71858) sells 26,000 CDs in debut week
The CD single for "only my railgun," fripSide (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=71858)'s opening theme song for the To Aru Kagaku no Railgun television anime series, debuted (http://www.geneonuniversal.jp/rondorobe/music/fripside/news/hp0001/index00190000.html) at #3 on Oricon's CD single ranking chart for the November 2-8 week. It sold 26,000 copies in its first week as fripSide's first top-10 single. Producer Satoshi Yaginuma formed fripSide in 2002 and Yoshino Nanjou (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=55281) (CANAAN (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10270)) had only just been hired as the group's new vocalist earlier this year. The group had previously sung the Koihime†Musō (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9498) anime's opening theme "flower of bravery," which landed at #26 in July last year.
Director Tatsuyuki Nagai (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=19866) (IDOLM@STER: XENOGLOSSIA (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7442), Toradora! (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10050)) and J.C. Staff (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=478) are adapting (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-03-18/to-aru-kagaku-no-railgun-light-novels-anime-green-lit) Motoi Fuyukawa (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=71653)'s To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10706)) manga for Japanese television. The To Aru Kagaku no Railgun manga is itself a spinoff from Kazuma Kamachi (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=71650)'s To Aru Majutsu no Index (A Certain Magical Index (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10044)) light novels that are set in Academy City, a city where about 80% of its 230,000 citizens are students. The spinoff deals with the adventures of Mikoto Misaka, one of the Level 5 psychics in the original light novels. The anime premiered on October 2.
Courtesy: ANN, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web (http://mainichi.jp/enta/mantan/news/20091109mog00m200038000c.html)
The CD single for "only my railgun," fripSide (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=71858)'s opening theme song for the To Aru Kagaku no Railgun television anime series, debuted (http://www.geneonuniversal.jp/rondorobe/music/fripside/news/hp0001/index00190000.html) at #3 on Oricon's CD single ranking chart for the November 2-8 week. It sold 26,000 copies in its first week as fripSide's first top-10 single. Producer Satoshi Yaginuma formed fripSide in 2002 and Yoshino Nanjou (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=55281) (CANAAN (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10270)) had only just been hired as the group's new vocalist earlier this year. The group had previously sung the Koihime†Musō (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9498) anime's opening theme "flower of bravery," which landed at #26 in July last year.
Director Tatsuyuki Nagai (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=19866) (IDOLM@STER: XENOGLOSSIA (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7442), Toradora! (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10050)) and J.C. Staff (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=478) are adapting (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-03-18/to-aru-kagaku-no-railgun-light-novels-anime-green-lit) Motoi Fuyukawa (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=71653)'s To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10706)) manga for Japanese television. The To Aru Kagaku no Railgun manga is itself a spinoff from Kazuma Kamachi (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=71650)'s To Aru Majutsu no Index (A Certain Magical Index (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10044)) light novels that are set in Academy City, a city where about 80% of its 230,000 citizens are students. The spinoff deals with the adventures of Mikoto Misaka, one of the Level 5 psychics in the original light novels. The anime premiered on October 2.
Courtesy: ANN, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web (http://mainichi.jp/enta/mantan/news/20091109mog00m200038000c.html)