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Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nogizaka46's ‘Navel Orange' Debuts at No. 1 as Ketsumeishi's Cherry Blossom Hit Returns to Japan Hot 100
Nogizaka46's 'Navel Orange' tops this week's Billboard Japan Hot 100, on the chart released April 2. The 38th single by the popular girl group launched with 611,511 CDs after dropping March 26, more than its previous single. The song tops sales and comes in at No. 9 for downloads, No. 13 for radio airplay, and No. 21 for video views to give the group its 28th leader on the tally. More from Billboard The Hives Plot World Tour to Accompany New Album, 'The Hives Forever Forever The Hives' Morgan Wallen Launches 'Get Me to God's Country' Merch Following 'SNL' Walk-Off Selena Gomez & benny blanco's 'I Said I Love You First' Debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales Chart Mrs. GREEN APPLE's 'Lilac' drops a notch to No. 2, but continues its domination of multiple metrics. The Oblivion Battery opener rules streaming for the 30th week with 9,912,320 weekly streams, video for the 13th week, and karaoke for the 12th week. Sakanaction's 'Kaiju' holds at No. 3. Downloads for the Orb: On the Movements of the Earth opener are down to 74% compared to the week before, streaming 92%, radio 60%, and video 62%, while karaoke gains for the second week in a row to 113%. Mrs. GREEN APPLE's 'Darling' rises 6-4. Karaoke for the three-man band's latest hit increased for the ninth consecutive week to 105% and radio is also up to 103% week-over-week. The band's long-running hit from 2023, 'Que Sera Sera,' follows at No. 5, jumping 6 slots this week to re-enter the top 10. The song logs its 101st week on the Japan Hot 100 and boasts over 600 million total streams. Outside the top 10, JO1's 'BE CLASSIC' debuts at No. 11. The lead title track off the eleven-member boy band's best-of album, released Apr. 2, tops downloads and comes in at No. 18 for streaming and No. 4 for videos. Also, cherry blossom season is in full gear in Japan and Ketsumeishi's 'Sakura' from 2005 has re-entered the Japan Hot 100. Downloads, streaming, videos, and karaoke for the classic seasonal staple have increased and the track hits No. 89 this week. The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data. See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from Mar. 24 to 30, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan's English X account. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Japan Times
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Japan Times
‘My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999' shows that even stoic gamers can fall in love
Male heartthrobs in movies based on shōjo manga (girls' comics) generally share one attribute: They're romantically unavailable to the frustrated female protagonist in the opening scenes — or even for much of the film. The latter dynamic is at work in 'My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999,' Yuka Yasukawa's sweet, leisurely paced romantic comedy based on a bestselling manga by the single-named artist Mashiro. The college student protagonist, Akane Kinoshita (Mizuki Yamashita) falls madly in love with Akito Yamada (Ryuto Sakuma), a high school student who is not only uninterested in romance (and tells her so to her face) but also emotionally blank with a vocabulary that doesn't extend far beyond 'yes' or 'no.' Nonetheless, at his elite high school Akito makes female classmates swoon just by walking through the halls. Seeing this comically staged spectacle, Akane starts to lose hope. Given this swarm of rivals, what chance does she really have? Akito is also a pro gamer who dominates an online RPG called 'Forest Of Savior,' and Akane first meets him through the game, of which she is a novice player. (Her ex-boyfriend got her into it before brutally dumping her in the film's first scene.) Invited to a party for the game's hardcore devotees, she spends days slimming down, shaping up and refreshing her wardrobe with the aim of showing up the ex, who has since acquired a new girlfriend. Once at the party, however, she embarrassingly trips and loses a shoe. The good-looking guy with kind eyes who hands it back to her is none other than Akito. Her new Prince Charming helps her in other ways, too, from bandaging her bruised ankle to taking her home after she passes out drunk. Thankfully, he never takes advantage of the situation, and Akane sees signs — or perhaps just imagines? — that he might, in his own inscrutable way, reciprocate her one-sided love for him. The story unfolds slowly with feather-light comedy inserted between the highly charged encounters of Akane and Akito at meetings of their game 'guild,' of which he is a much-admired leader, and elsewhere. Though her bestie, Momoko (Mahiru Coda), urges her to make her feelings known, Akane hesitates. That is until a rival appears, Akito's nerdy classmate Yukari (Mizuki Kayashima), who is even more hopelessly head-over-heels than Akane is. How this love triangle will resolve itself is hardly a mystery, but Akito proves to be more than a living simulacrum of his expressionless game avatar. As played by ACEes boy band member Sakuma, Akito is gently ghost-like through much of the film, but gives subtle indications early on of suffering an inner pain that has left him wary of expressing emotions despite his good heart. As Akane, former Nogizaka 46 idol group member Yamashita lights up the screen with a perfect, if often forced, smile and makes her character both relatable and sympathetic in her abject misery. To brighten the gloomy clouds hanging over the film's central relationship, everything from Akane's room to the coffee shop where she meets Akito and other guild friends is filmed in perky pastel shades. But 'My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999' is more than a warmly colored romantic fantasy, exemplifying as it does that ancient truth: It hurts to be in love, but it hurts even more not to take a chance
