i remember this clip from a while ago
http://youtube.com/watch?v=crUSVdi8cK4
yeah...alot of the big anime people are american.


i think third eye got to like 21 or 17 (one of the other) on the top 30 singles in japan on the debut week. so look at that how you want to

[quote="junkun"]:sick:

what i thought the pillows were pretty damn mainstream in japan!!

dont they have music videos and shit that play on the air?? (or did?)

i thought just in america its not that big??

i mean they are even borderline mainstream in america..

isnt anime much bigger in japan???????/ [/quote]
No. Yes. What. No. Yes if you're weaboo.

WEEABOO! WEEABOO!

So I'll be in Japan starting at around the 22nd of this month, and they will be playing in Osaka (which I will be a short and easily traveled distance from) about a week after I get there! The biggest problem being that I'll be there doing missions work, and therefore will have terribly limited funds, so it'll probably work out that I'll be sitting about listening to recordings of pillows music while a supremely incredible concert is ripping along mere miles away.

I suppose I can just watch 9/16 and pretend.

Though I dunno, Sawao was rocking that Alaska jacket during th last US tour, and I AM from Alaska... anybody know an email address that might get forwarded to the pillows eventually? :0) Oh such dreams...

[quote="Josher"][quote="junkun"]:sick:

what i thought the pillows were pretty damn mainstream in japan!!

dont they have music videos and shit that play on the air?? (or did?)

i thought just in america its not that big??

i mean they are even borderline mainstream in america..

isnt anime much bigger in japan???????/ [/quote]
No. Yes. What. No. Yes if you're weaboo.[/quote]

I heard everyone in Japan rides a Gundam to work.

[quote="Jomei"][quote="Josher"][quote="junkun"]:sick:

what i thought the pillows were pretty damn mainstream in japan!!

dont they have music videos and shit that play on the air?? (or did?)

i thought just in america its not that big??

i mean they are even borderline mainstream in america..

isnt anime much bigger in japan???????/ [/quote]
No. Yes. What. No. Yes if you're weaboo.[/quote]

I heard everyone in Japan rides a Gundam to work.[/quote]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVwbUljGs3g

[quote="Jomei"][quote="Josher"][quote="junkun"]:sick:

what i thought the pillows were pretty damn mainstream in japan!!

dont they have music videos and shit that play on the air?? (or did?)

i thought just in america its not that big??

i mean they are even borderline mainstream in america..

isnt anime much bigger in japan???????/ [/quote]
No. Yes. What. No. Yes if you're weaboo.[/quote]

I heard everyone in Japan rides a Gundam to work.[/quote]
You lie. They use Poke'mans to get around.

[quote="Kaze no Mirai"][quote="Jomei"][quote="Josher"][quote="junkun"]:sick:

what i thought the pillows were pretty damn mainstream in japan!!

dont they have music videos and shit that play on the air?? (or did?)

i thought just in america its not that big??

i mean they are even borderline mainstream in america..

isnt anime much bigger in japan???????/ [/quote]
No. Yes. What. No. Yes if you're weaboo.[/quote]

I heard everyone in Japan rides a Gundam to work.[/quote]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVwbUljGs3g[/quote]

Fuel cost must've been hefty.Oh wait.

[quote="junkun"]what i thought the pillows were pretty damn mainstream in japan!!
dont they have music videos and shit that play on the air?? (or did?)
i thought just in america its not that big??
i mean they are even borderline mainstream in america..
isnt anime much bigger in japan???????/ [/quote]

pillows are on a somewhat major label.. but not mainstream.. mainstream bands get a lot of publicity and funding and stuff (like use of a really nice studio, prime-time television time, commercials, etc). From what i've seen.. pillows have been in indie-band and anime magazines, had some radio time, no commercials, they have their own studio above someone's house, and.other things. It may well be that pillows stay low-key by choice - which is what a lot of bands do.. they like the comfort of being like an independent band which lets them create their own music.. although they have time constraints and such. but not as crazy as mainstream.

ok.. back on topic...... I LOVE 'SIGN' and 'KURUMI'. and the three or so songs that Mr. Children featured Sawao on were pretty good~

but arent the mr. children music styles more different from pillows now?.. pillows have gotten really hyper pop lately.. and mr children is mellower..

actually i read very recently (on the japanaese bbs) 'gazelle city' was apparently featured in a commercial. o_o

The single CD Gazelle City? O_O

Yeah Gazelle City was used in a market's commercial.

sweet, any idea what the commercial was for? and is there a video of it on youtube or somthing?

seico mart.

dunno if the video is out there anywhere... haven't looked.

I've looked for a while but couldn't find anything.

Plus it wouldn't make much sense to simply record a TV commercial.