Mrs. GREEN APPLE will release the new song Soranji on November 9. The 10th single comes over three years after the group’s last release, and the Utopia ARENA SHOW Blu-ray and DVD will be released on December 14, 2022.

The music video for Soranji has been uploaded to YouTube. The song will serve as the theme for the film With Love from the Gulag, scheduled to be released in theaters nationwide on December 9. Motoki Ohmori is credited as the Music Video Planning Director, and the lyricist worked closely with video director Seri Yoshiharu to bring the song to life.

Soranji – Mrs. GREEN APPLE

https://youtu.be/44cICMd3jW4

The Soranji single also includes a cover of Ado’s I’m Invincible, currently a hit track due to its inclusion in ONE PIECE FILM RED, and Floriginal, a song being used in the fragrance and music collaboration project PARFATUNE. The limited first edition includes a bonus DVD with documentary footage of the production process, as well as a luxurious original sleeve case and a 24-page Soranji photo book.

The Utopia Blu-ray and DVD will include all 23 songs from the one-night-only live performance held on July 8, 2022, as well as special behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage. 

Five-member Japanese rock band Mrs. GREEN APPLE partnered up with Universal Music Group to launch the all-new “Project-MGA.”

Project-MGA aims to expand the activities of Mrs. GREEN APPLE globally a vision of ‘Continuing to provide excitement to people around the world with the best possible entertainment’. Mrs. GREEN APPLE announced a hiatus back in July 2020, but the launch of “Project-MGA” marks the beginning of a new chapter for the group.

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Naoshi Fujikura | President and CEO, Universal Music LLC

“Mrs. GREEN APPLE and Universal Music Group have decided to launch “Project-MGA” (Project MGA), a new partnership together We are thrilled to be able to start this wonderful collaboration with one of our leading artists, Mrs. GREEN APPLE. We hope that the launch of the project, will be a big step to building a new community of artists and delivering their works to audiences around the world for many years to come.”

Sir Lucian Grainge | Chairman and CEO, Universal Music Group

“We are very excited to launch this new project together with Mrs. GREEN APPLE, who in recent years have helped drive the music streaming market forward in Japan with their great success. Under Naoshi’s leadership, we look forward to utilizing the global resources, expertise and passion of our company to help create new opportunities for Mrs. GREEN APPLE and their music to succeed not only in Japan, but also in Europe, North America, and beyond.”

Japanese “hybrid” bookshop honto, which is co-managed by Junkudo and 2Dfacto, has used its online and physical book sales data to rank the top 10 manga series of the current 2020 summer anime roster. Their ranking was released on July 2.

Ito (PR, honto) | Comment

“The 2020 summer anime roster is about to start. With people staying at home right now, there is more opportunity to watch anime, so there must be a lot of people looking forward to the new series coming. So we are releasing our own ranking of manga and light novels from the anime series that are airing this summer. Let’s peruse series that are in the spotlight right now by dividing the ranking and the differences in age of people buying the books.”

*Data is based on the sales taken from the first half of 2020

The Top 3 Series

The slapstick love comedy Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (Volume 4) by Take clocks in at number one. The series has sold over 1 million copies in Japan. The data shows that the series is most popular with people in their 30’s, who rate at 41.2% of the sales. Will they be watching the anime adaptation too?

In 2nd place is Fire Force (Volume 22) which is serialised in Weekly Shonen Magazine. This series is most popular with those in their 20’s. Season two of the anime series will premiere on July 5.

And in 3rd place is Sword Art Online (Volume 24), a series loved by fans the world over. This hugely popular series has sold over 20 million light novels, and is popular in all age groups, with the biggest percentage of sales going to those in their 40’s at 28.2%. The first season of the anime adaptation aired back in 2012. The second half of the War of Underworld will begin on July 11.

Full Top 10 List

1st Place: Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (Volume 4)
2nd Place: Fire Force (Volume 22)
3rd Place: Sword Art Online (Volume 24)
4th Place: Kanojo, Okarishimasu (Volume 14)
5th Place: Baki Dou (Volume 5)
6th Place: Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (Volume 22)
7th Place: Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater (Volume 6)
8th Place: My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected (Volume 14)
9th Place: Super HxEros (Volume 9)
10th Place: A Certain Scientific Railgun (Volume 15)

*According to honto

Mrs. GREEN APPLE has just dropped a music video for PRESENT (Japanese ver.) which is taken from their upcoming first greatest hits album 5 set to commemorate the rock band’s 5th anniversary and hit shelves on July 8, 2020.

The original English version of the track was released on April 10, 2020 along with a music video. The song has proven popular overseas, even earning a mention on the official Billboard US website.

Check out the Japanese version below to compare and contrast with the English version.

Mrs. GREEN APPLE – PRESENT (Japanese ver.)

PRESENT (Japanese ver.), along with a remastered track of their hit song Infernoーfittingly titled Inferno (Remastered 2020)ーare now available to pre-order on iTunes and Apple music, with the former now also now streaming on Spotify. PRESENT (Japanese ver.) chartered in at No. 1 on LINE MUSIC.

Limited Pressing Edition copies of Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s upcoming 5th anniversary album, which is being called the 5 COMPLETE BOX, comes with its own original design as pictured above. Orders for this edition are open until May 19, 2020.

Lenny code fiction dropped their 5th single Nounai on December 11 last year. They kicked off their Japanese nationwide tour “Lenny code fiction Presents 5th Single Nounai Release Tour ‘Rock no Fukken'” to promote the single at LOOK in Chiba on Monday January 13th.

The band has just released a live video of them performing Nounai, which is used as the ending theme for the hit TV anime series Fire Force. The footage is taken from their show at Shibuya WWW X held on December 10 to celebrate the release of the single.

Lenny code fiction – “Nounai” (LIVE Ver. @ 2019.12.10 Shibuya WWW X)

Fans can now relive the exhilarating debut performance of the song. The band are touring through the next couple of months until March, so if you’re in Japan during this time, don’t miss the chance to catch Lenny live.