Peachy Project Updates

Advent Children Complete Reunion Tracks featuring music from the new cut of the film and the On The Way To A Smile anime has been added to US iTunes. It's hiding away on a different Nobuo Uematsu artist page than the one with the rest of the FF soundtracks. And it's only $9.99! Without me importing it first!

Similarly, the Dissidia soundtrack -- complete with shitty emo tracks -- is also available under SQUARE ENIX MUSIC for $15.99. The only track worth buying is the newly-re-arranged FFIX battle theme. It's like a crazy dance mix only not.

I have no idea why I'm awake.

Amazon.com: Final Fantasy and Philosophy

The first essay: "The Spiky-Haired Mercenary vs. the French Narrative Theorist".  CLOUD VERSUS BARTHES IN THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY.

Ayu's latest original album NEXT LEVEL has been released on US iTunes for $11.99.

After a brief absence, the listings for Avex artists like Ayumi Hamasaki, Namie Amuro, and BoA appear to have been restored on US iTunes. BoA's page was actually updated with two additional albums (OUTGROW and VALENTI) in addition to her latest US single and video.

Apparently ESRB posted a new rating for FFVII for the Platforms "PSP, PlayStation 3".

No release date is available yet. E3?

• ESRB Search Results
• Kotaku.com: ESRB Confirms Final Fantasy VII for PS3, PSP

As part of its "Next Big Thing" feature, the US iTunes store has put J-pop superstar BoA's US debut on sale for $6.99. Check it out if you haven't already!

Asian Superstar BoA's US debut hits stores today! Check out her self-titled album's lead single "I Did It For Love" featuring producer Sean Garrett (Usher, Beyonce):





See BoA's Official Youtube Channel for more previews.

• Buy Physical or Digital Album from Amazon
• Buy Digital Album (with exclusive remix bonus track) from iTunes.

The album is also avilable for purchase from Target, Best Buy, FYE, and other major music stores. Canadian fans will be able to buy it domestically next month.

Ayu's new single Rule/Sparkle is available for purchase on US iTunes. The single is available in three different versions, each with different b-sides (unfortunately, the PV included with the "CD+DVD" version is not up for download). This is the first time her music has received a simultaneous release in Japan and US. 

Check out Ayumi Hamasaki's artist page on US iTunes

Edit: Checked some international stores; it looks like this single was released to all versions of the iTunes Music Store like GUILTY.

Kotaku is reporting a trailer posted on GameTrailers that is allegedly for a North American version of Advent Children Complete. This version will be released simultaneously internationally. But we've heard promises like these before.

We knew the Japanese version came with an English language track, but the trailer has no new dialogue in English (and has a shitty, Albert Wesker-esque narration). I would write this off as a fake if the trailer wasn't listed alongside other "official" (or otherwise not user-submitted) trailers on GameTrailers.com. However, keep in mind that Square Enix has said nothing about it on its official site. Until a press release is posted on Square North America or Square Enix Holdings, consider this a rumor.

Hopefully it'll be confirmed/denied by Square corporate in a few hours and this won't be AC all over again.


Related Edit: Still no confirmation on the alleged US release, but the Japanese version at least will definitely come with a new anime OVA retelling the "Case of Denzel" story (FF7AC reunion).

TSENG AND ELENA! ON THE WAY TO A SMILE FLASHBACKS! OMFG!

Classes begin again today and the Peach-Arrow Network will again enter it's semi-comatose state (not that it was updated much over the break). Fanlistings and Ayu news will continue to be updated regularly, and I'll continue to chip away at the new content at Strife until I have time to really invest in my projects.

Ayu-Vogue has been the only site consistently updated through the break with news updates, including one today.

Passing along the good news first posted in ffchaoticcosmos

Square NA announced today that Dissidia will be coming to the US summer 2009 along with the traiding arts figures:

http://na.square-enix.com/dissidia/

This almost makes up for GREEN/Days and Days/GREEN getting lost in the mail! 2009 is already shaping up to be awesome.

The Resident Evil: Degeneration theme song by Anna Tsuchiya is on US iTunes! Hopefully we'll get her new album next month when Europe does...

• Guilty "Resident Evil: Degeneration" Ending Theme - Single

In other news, I got my CLOUD message and RE: books. Updates will be made later this week...

Today is the day BoA's debut single drops in the US! "Eat You Up" -- produced by Bloodshy & Avant -- is now available for download from iTunes and Amazon. It will be available for download in an additional 30 countries tomorrow (October 22).

US iTunes link
Amazon (US) link

THE GREATEST ALBUM EVER IS ON US iTUNES!!!!

Peach-Arrow Network database is totally broken, so all fanlistings, galleries, and the Ayu-Vogue news blog are all down.

Host has been notified and hopefully everything will be straightened up soon. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Edit: Haven't heard back from our host, but they seem to have worked their magic anyway. Please reply here or contact me if you have trouble with the fanlistings or news blog.

http://www.boaamerica.com/

Check out her debut single "EAT YOU UP" coming to digital retailers this October! 

Famitsu reports that Dissidia -Final Fantasy- will be out in Japan December 18th. It will be available in a normal edition (6090 yen ~$55USD) and a Limited Edition version that comes bundled with a PSP (25890 yen ~$240USD).


(Happy birthday icemilk and spaceworrier!)

New Tidus vs Jecht movie available on the official site. The extended gameplay trailers look like the same organized chaos the Kingdom Hearts battles were. I like that very much.

As an exhausted aside: I hate that Jecht is the villain representing FFX. The whole "needed Jecht to have Tidus as the hero" logic is bullshit. It totally wastes the father-son dynamic that should have been used for FFXII with the more twisted and charismatic Balthier and Cid, and Jecht is... not really the villain. He's a Douchebag Deadbeat Dad masquerading as a Super Villain. Being posessed to become Giant Whale of Eeevil doesn't really count in my book--and appears to be irrelvant to Dissidia, though maybe they'll surprise us. It should have been Yuna (with the option of turning to her less obnoxious, gun-totting self) versus Seymour. That'd shake up the gameplay (so not everyone's using some variation of Giant Sword X), and create a feud that actually elicits, you know, some kind of danger.

(now public for your viewing pleasure)

I belatedly discovered this Toy for J-pop Bragging Rights. Although not totally complete, it has a hefty, interactive database of J-pop to choose from (and options to add more). Now I only hope I haven't condemned it by plugging it. All music collection communities seem to crash after I set up an account.

And: HEY SQUARE-ENIX IS ACTUALLY TARGETING WOMEN WITH A SPECIAL EMAIL CAMPAIGN. Too bad they started with the wrong franchise. I hope this is a sign of things to come.