More accurately, we lightly panfry dragons, season them, whip them into a fondue and spread them on our toast after they fall dead at the mere suggestion of the possibility of our imminent presence.

Hidari shall fall. It is written.

The Secret Plans centuries in the making have finally been revealed. Truly, the day of reckoning draws nigh, and the Gauntlet of Power has been thrown. I Fight Dragons possesses state-of-the-art 8-bit technology, granting them the speed, stamina, and power to triumph over all opponents. Your childlike delusions of grandeur amuse us greatly, and we smile at your ignorance, yet we shall destroy you all the same. Weep, ye mortal musicians of Hidari, as you behold the full splendor and glory of I Fight Dragons.

Primitive beings often hold the delusion that the written word holds a sort of power, as if merely scrawling something on a flat sheet of pulped wood will make it reality. What these young, impetuous upstarts fail to realize is that the prophecies they allude to were written by ancient powers they cannot begin to comprehend, translated through a hundredfold more languages than have ever been spoken on this Earth. As everyone surely knows, the word ‘apocalypse’ originally meant ‘revelation’.

One week left.

ChocolaTommy is the single of the week on iTunes Japan. You can download it here for free (link opens iTunes). It’ll be gone in a week, so hurry!

We got the music video for Budou-shu Sanka yesterday. It is glorious.

We’re not allowed to show you yet, so to tide you over for the moment here’s the old video for Shojo B:

If that doesn’t play in stereo, here’s a link to a high-quality version.

Hopefully we’ll be able to show you the new one soon.

If anyone can think of a better romanization for that, do please share.

The first single is in the process of being spread around. I’ve uploaded it to thesixtyone if you’d like to give it a listen.

Anyone who uses last.fm should help us centralize things by heading over to the Hidari entry and clicking the “Suggest a correction” link at the bottom of the right sidebar. The correct answer is “Hidari should link to ヒダリ.”

We got a sample of the album from the factory the other day. It’s real. It exists.