Wow the album making bts video is just the kind of thing I want to see included with an album.. any  album from any artist to be honest! I really hope someone subs it one fine day because insight into how they're making and thinking about their music is basically my number one most wanted thing.

The DVD is a really precious thing. Some scenes were:
-Rina playing the guitar woohoo)
-Mami recording Hon wo Yomu
-Different lyrics of Image ._. idk. lol.
-and other stuff~ hahaha

Oh god can't wait to see it then RINA playing guitar?

HaRuRiNaMaMiToMo wrote:Oh god can't wait to see it then RINA playing guitar?

yup. it's not that long though. She's practicing Oyasumi~

alrick13 wrote:some of Oyasumi's parts sounds distorted (for example 00:25 -00:38, 01:30-02:20) in all of my headphones (ATH M50, ATH ES700, ATH IM70, Sennheiser Momentum on Ear) but it does sound fine in our 30 yr old JVC speakers

note: playing it in ipod touch 3rd gen and Asus K55V laptop using itunes)

Mine too. Is it not originally distorted? I am also using iTunes... I listened to the snippet in HMV, and the part 00:25-00:38 is distorted too.

At first listen, excellent album they always amaze me. Besides the songs we knew, I love onegai (inevitably) Hon o yomu and love in action

finally is here .wow. unfortunatly i must pay the taxes for dogana.
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schiapcom wrote:finally is here .wow. unfortunatly i must pay the taxes for dogana.
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whaaat? .wtf.  mine, according to the tracking, has not even arrived in Italy...

i have used the fastest ship options for CD Japan (with fedex courier),2 days from Narita airport,shure is very expensive.
Cd Japan sent Hello World to me 2 december,and today is here ^_^

I really need to stop using the fedex shipping... it's cheaper at the start but they always charge me 20$ in duties and taxes when ems doesn't ~_~

I've used EMS. The last time something was shipped with EMSit took 3days....oh well, I hope it arrives at least...

For example with Image i used air mail ship,with 7-8 days arrives here,without any taxes.

I've just finished listening to the album and it's so gooood. My favorite songs are Image, Graduation and Kan Biiru.  .smile.

Thanks for the feedback guys! I'm excited to hear Hon wo yomu since you said it's an all Mami voice song.. .happy.

I will hear those song soon.. I just have to wait for my bonus next week so I can include Scandal vs Budokan dvd and Queen are trumps album in my order!

Those sales number are high! Good job Scandal!

I loved the new album<3 it's so good dudes, I'm so happy for my girls :3

I ordered the T-shirt and DVD version~
It is a very good album to me!!

HMV says it's ready to ship for me, but I ordered it with another album that isn't released yet. So I still have to wait . . .

Still no album for me
Image came here in less than 2 days, so I'm starting to suspect customs.

Mentolo wrote:I've used EMS. The last time something was shipped with EMSit took 3days....oh well, I hope it arrives at least...

I use EMS and I've got the message that the album was getting shipped on Tuesday but I unexpectedly received the album the next day which is faster than I expected, maybe you can get the album within this week

#4 on Oricon daily charts

Weekly ranking so far:
1. Atsushi - 35,972 + 18,735 + 7,645 = 63,352
2. SCANDAL - 18,967 + 6,518 + x = 25,485 + x
3. Ohtaki Eiichi - 17,388 + 4,808 + 3,734 = 25,930

Finally, I received my Hello World LP via EMS. It was dispatched from Kanagawa on 12/02 and received in Manila yesterday. EMS is such a wonderful delivery service! I just paid two dollars and a quarter (PhP100) to the delivery man.

Thank you CDJapan and SCANDAL!!! Will post some pictures tomorrow night.

Great album! We could heard like the half of it before the release, but it was full of surprises anyway!

Definitely switched to team MAMI! She's just amazing.


Love in Action > Hon wo Yomu > Anything else in the universe.

hapihapi wrote:

Mentolo wrote:I've used EMS. The last time something was shipped with EMSit took 3days....oh well, I hope it arrives at least...

I use EMS and I've got the message that the album was getting shipped on Tuesday but I unexpectedly received the album the next day which is faster than I expected, maybe you can get the album within this week

I hope so... frankly I'm starting to get worried, the last update on the delivery status is that it was dispatched form outward office of exchange this tuesday.
it never took so long to arrive to customs, I guess I have to buy the digital download now

Best songs are Onegai Navigation, Graduation and the single tracks of course. I didn't know Haruna wrote Runners High, so that was a pleasant surprise. Hon wo Yomu is interesting, it's good, but not great. Winter story is probably their most boring song yet. The rest of the songs aren't too bad, nothing exceptional though. 

I really thought this album would be better than what it turned out to be. It's nowhere near Standard or Queens Are Trumps IMO. The songs composed by the girls before always had a unique flair, even if they had a predictable arrangement like Emotion, you could still hear the passion in the song. They were experimental, yet catchy and personal. It just sounds like they rushed making some of these songs, and the end result for some of them isn't so good. 

In the DVD Documentary you can tell they look SO tired, Mami especially looks like a zombie. Between this new expectation of them composing/writing more songs and the day-to-day radio, tv, online promotion and photo shoots, not to mention rehearsing for lives, you can tell it's all weighing down on them. What they really should do is take a hiatus after the upcoming world tour. That's what they should do. They probably won't though, as they're making lots of money for a greedy recording label. So that's sad.

All in all this album wasn't bad, there are a few really strong tracks that make up for the more mundane ones. Even so, this isn't the best that these talented women can accomplish. What does everyone else think? I'm not looking into this too much, am I? Haha

Mentolo wrote:

hapihapi wrote:

Mentolo wrote:I've used EMS. The last time something was shipped with EMSit took 3days....oh well, I hope it arrives at least...

I use EMS and I've got the message that the album was getting shipped on Tuesday but I unexpectedly received the album the next day which is faster than I expected, maybe you can get the album within this week

I hope so... frankly I'm starting to get worried, the last update on the delivery status is that it was dispatched form outward office of exchange this tuesday.
it never took so long to arrive to customs, I guess I have to buy the digital download now

The same here! The package hasn't moved since 2nd december .waaa. , the last update is the same, also CDJapan hasn't discounted the money from my credit card