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Together with the announcement of the album, also comes the information about the concert tour of this album.

There are 3 dates planned:

October 24th 2008: O-EAST in Tokyo
October 30th 2008: DIAMOND HALL in Nagoya
November 14th 2008: Namba HATCH in Osaka (right on my birthday ^^)

Doors open at 18h and concert starts at 19h.
Tickets are 5000yen (standing, no seats)

After 7 singles and some anime character singles, Hirano Aya is finally releasing her first full album. Title and track listing is still unknown, but the album will be released on July 16th 2008. As bonus a special AYA pack is included, of which the contents are still unknown as well. She has already quite a repertoire of songs to fill 2 albums. Will she just stick to (a selection of) the official singles? Will there be new material on the album? Still many questions ;p

Update June 2nd 2008:
On her blog, Aya announced the title of her first album as "Riot Girl" with accompanying PV (is Riot Girl also a song on the album?). From looking her webpage, songs included in the track listing are: Breakthrough (album version), Bouken Deshou Deshou?, Asu no Prism, Yorokobi no Uta (Asu no Prism's second track), LOVE GUN, NEOPHILIA, MonStAR, Maybe I Can't Good-bye, and supposedly new tracks as well. So the album will include all of her solo single A-tracks, one B-track and one B-track from an anime ED single.

Update June 17th 2008:
Again on her blog, Aya posted what seems to be preview of the album cover. She also mentions that the PV is ready. Only one month to go until the release ;p

Update June 18th 2008:
Aya just posted a bigger image of the cover, which I think is very cute ^^
Also new picture on her website & blog.

Update (2) June 18th 2008:
After consulting with the official Lantis website, it seems that the full track listing has been published! And also a preview of the RIOT GIRL PV

1. LOVE GUN
2. HERO
3. MonStAR
4. Asa no Prism
5. Breakthrough (Album version)
6. Bouken Deshou Deshou?
7. Aimai Scream
8. Yorokobi no Uta
9. Maybe I Can't Good-bye
10. NEOPHILIA
11. Harmonia Vita
12. For You
13. Hoshi no kakera
14. RIOT GIRL

Keep you updated on more info ;p

Support Hirano Aya!

Hirano Aya, the famous seiyuu of Haruhi & Lucky Star, will be releasing her first trading cards.
They will be out in July 2008.
Aya will also be releasing her first album "Riot Girl" on July 16th.

The official site of the trading cards
12 preview cards (aren't they lovely ^^)

Hirano Aya's newest release is an anime character single called Unnamed World. It is the ED song for the anime Nijuu mensou no Musume (or The Daughter of Twenty Faces) in which she also voices the main character Chiko. Because it is a character song, it is not part of her single series as a solo artist, so it's not her 7th single.
This single also features her new look, which we had already seen on her photo blog. It gives her a less playful and a more serious style and look.

Release date: April 23rd 2008
Catalog number: LACM-4485

Tracklisting:
1. Unnamed World
2. Maybe I can't good-bye
3. Unnamed World (OFF VOCAL)
4. Maybe I can't good-bye (OFF VOCAL)

Support Hirano Aya :
Hirano Aya - Unnamed World on YesAsia

Here's a piece of the PV:

During their latest news video from ANN TV, AnimeNewsNetwork showed an subtitled interview with the main "Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu" cast: Hirano Aya, Yuko Goko and Chihara Minoru. The interview was done the day after their live performance at the Anime Expo in Los Angeles.

I must say, they looked very good and very kawaii as always. I like how they liked the American fans and I hope they will be invited to some anime convention in Europe as well. Would love to see them as well.

MonStAR [CD+DVD]

Release date: December 5th 2007.
Catalog no: LACM-4436
This is the third release in her three consecutive singles-release, which will have a happy sound.

Tracklisting:

1. MonStAR
2. HAPPY

PV:

Support Hirano Aya & buy on YesAsia:
Hirano Aya - MonStAR [CD+DVD]

Neophilia [CD+DVD]

Release date: November 7th 2007.
Catalog no: LACM-4430
This is the second release in her three consecutive singles-release, which will have a concept-style touch.

Tracklisting:

1. NEOPHILIA
2. forget me nots...
3. NEOPHILIA(OFF VOCAL)
4. forget me nots...(OFF VOCAL)

From the short clip of the PV, I like this song, but I need to hear more. The PV reminds me of PVs from Ayumi ;p
After hearing the full song, I think I only give it 3/5, it might need to grow on me, but I loved Love Gun from the first listen.

Full PV:

Support Hirano Aya & buy on YesAsia:
Hirano Aya - Neophilia [CD+DVD]

A Big update on Hirano Aya. After the release of her first photo book "Stairway to 20", she will now start a triple single release spread over 3 months. The first new single will be released on October 10th, while the next will be on November 7th and December 5th respectively.
The new single is called "Love★Gun" which will have a strong rock sound to it. B-side will be called Glitter. Also an extra CD+DVD edition with a DVD that contains the PV for the song.

Tracklisting
01. LOVE★GUN
02. GLITTER
03. LOVE★GUN（OFF VOCAL)
04. GLITTER（OFF VOCAL)

Watch the PV on Youtube:

Buy Love Gun on YesAsia: Hirano Aya - Love★Gun