Sato Kenken will performed at Nippon Budokan

On April 9th, it was reported that Plastic Tree’s drummer Sato Kenken has been discharged from the hospital. He will officially resume his activities in the band’s one-man live, ‘Ao no Unmeisen Saishuu Kouen: Tent (3)’, at Nippon Budokan on April 14th.

Sato was hospitalized last month due to acute hepatitis, and was forced to cancel his appearance from the band’s tour. His appearance at Nippon Budokan was decided after careful consideration from the members and management.

Below is a translated message from the members of Plastic Tree:

From Plastic Tree to everyone.

We apologize for causing everyone so much worry regarding Satou Kenken's hospitalization.

We have received news that Satou Kenken is able to safely leave the hospital at this time.

In addition, for the 4/14 "Ao no unmeisen finale: Tent 3" performance at Nippon Budoukan, Satou Kenken will be able to stand on stage as a member of Plastic Tree.

This decision is based on the doctor's judgement and Kenken's own health, and the members and the manager have taken both into consideration in addition to the following:

With such a special place as the Nippon Budoukan, unless all four members can perform, it would not be a happy event.


On this fine day under the tree that never rots.
We're so excited to meet with everyone.

Plastic Tree
Arimura Ryuutarou
Hasegawa Tadashi
Satou Kenken
Nakayama Akira

Below is also a message that Kenken posted in Plastic Tree Official Website


先日、無事に退院する事ができました。

今はとにかく、メンバーやみんなに感謝の気持ちでいっぱいです。

そして「ただいま」「ありがとう」をちゃんと言えるように、準備に集中しようと思います。

14日、日本武道館で会いましょう。

楽しみにしてます。

Plastic Tree
佐藤 ケンケン


(From Satou Kenken to everyone.

I was safely discharged from the hospital a few days ago.

I'm so full of grateful feelings to the members and everyone else.

And for me to say "I'm home" and "thank you" properly, I think I should concentrate on preparations.

Let's meet at the Nippon Budoukan on the 14th.

I'm looking forward to it.

Plastic Tree
Satou Kenken)


He is also started to tweet again.


@Pla_kenken: 先週末、無事に退院する事ができました。みんなの気持ちや声、ちゃんと届きました。おかげで、ドラム叩けるまでバリ元気になれました。ありがとう。早くみんなに会いたいです。4月14日の日本武道館、楽しみにしてます。
(I was safely discharged from the hospital last weekend. I received everyone's feelings and voices. Thanks to that, I've gained the energy at rehearsal to play the drums. Thank you. I want to meet with everyone soon. Looking forward to the 4/14 Nippon Budoukan.)


Welcome back, Kenken! おかえり♪ ヽ(´▽｀ヽ)

Source: Tokyohive, twitter @Pla_translate and Plastic Tree official website

Kenken message to Plastic Tree Fans

Plastic Tree blog has been updated with Kenken comment for all fans, please check the translation below:
[Official] Today we received a message from Satou Kenken himself for all of the fans.
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I have caused everyone so much worry over my sickness this time.

I'm really sorry.

I look out the window everyday.

Honestly, I can't find the right words to properly convey my current feelings. But I think I should start at the beginning.

Under the current conditions, I'm not sure when I'll be discharged from the hospital, but while I wait to hear "tadaima" from everyone when I finally recover, I'll rest.

I've troubled everyone with so much worry, so I truly apologize.

Together with this tour "Ao no unmeisen," please continue to look after me.

And all of the members.

Thank you.



Of course I wanted to meet everyone on this tour.

These feelings and everyone's support are important and will be my provisions until I recover.

Until then, it would make me happy if everyone has fun on this tour.

Plastic Tree
Satou Kenken

Let's hope that Kenken will be better soon. And don't forget to keep support Plastic Tree (^^)

Plastic Tree to continue with their tour

Plastic Tree just announced that they will still continue their National Tour (Ao no Unmeisen) but without Satou Kenken because Kenken must still hospitalized until the next two weeks. Here is the translation of their announcement on the official website at http://www.plastic-tree.com

[Official] Regarding Plastic Tree's spring tour "Ao no unmeisen," we previously announced that Dr Satou Kenken was hospitalized with acute hepatitis.
As the result of a thorough examination, the diagnosis has determined that he needs rest and must be hospitalized for two weeks without seriously doing anything. We hope he makes a strong recovery, but based on the examination results, Satou Kenken must not perform for the time being.
However, to fulfill the desires of all of the fans looking forward to the spring tour, as a result of a conference with the members, the performances will continue as planned with a friend of Plastic Tree filling as support drummer.
For everyone who has bought tickets, and for all of the fans looking forward to the performances, we deeply apologize for causing you so much worry.

Plastic Tree / J-ROCK / AKATSUKI label
Questions: AKATSUKI label 03-5485-5678 (11:00~18:00)

And a message from the Plastic Tree members regarding this decision.

Under the current circumstances with Satou Kenken in the hospital, we are truly sorry to cause everyone to worry so much. We apologize from the bottoms of our hearts.

We have decided to continue this tour "Ao no unmeisen" as planned with a support drummer.

All of the members, including Satou Kenken, exist together as Plastic Tree. And so it greatly troubled us and we thought long and hard about making this decision.

However, without being locked into an option, completely of our own free will, we feel that we have made the best decision for the sake of his recovery, and for the sake of Plastic Tree.
Even though Satou Kenken's absence is truly unfortunate for all of the fans, and for us as Plastic Tree, we will take his spirit on the trip with us.

If we could somehow take that feeling from everyone at all of the venues and through the music, it would make all of the members happy as well.

Still under the tree that never rots.
We hope to meet everyone.

Plastic Tree
Arimura Ryuutarou
Hasegawa Tadashi
Satou Kenken
Nakayama Akira


So if you find that there's a news about Plastic Tree cancelled their National Tour, its definitely NOT TRUE
thanks for your attention.

Plastic Tree drummer hospitalized

It’s been reported that visual kei band Plastic Tree’s drummer, Sato Kenken, has been hospitalized due to acute hepatitis.

Sato was absent from the band’s single release event on February 4th due to poor health conditions. He then immediately went to see a doctor, who later diagnosed him with acute hepatitis. Details on Sato’s condition will be announced later. Satou Kenken participated in the event in Osaka on March 3rd but afterwards he complained about his poor physical health and went to hospital.

After welcoming their 15th anniversary year and transferring to FlyingStar Records, Plastic Tree released their single, “Joumyaku“, on February 29th.

Source: tokyohive and jpopasia

GET WELL SOON KENKEN

V-rock disney link download

The compilation album of V-rock Disney has just been launched yesterday. On this album, the visual kei rock bands are remaking the Disney's song that used to be so touching into a rock style. Plastic Tree also participated in this album and will be remaking "chim-chim-cheer-e" from Mary Poppins.
Here is the tracklist of the album:

< Track List >
01. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (‘Fantasia’) – NIGHTMARE
02. Friend Like Me (‘Aladdin’) – NIGHTMARE
03. Beauty and the Beast (‘Beauty and the Beast’) – Kawamura Ryuuichi
04. Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride (‘Lilo & Stitch’) – PENICILLIN
05. Chim Chim Cheree (‘Mary Poppins’) – Plastic Tree
06. This Is Halloween (‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’) – Sadie
07. Can You Feel the Love Tonight (‘The Lion King’) – Aoi
08. Supercalifraglisticexpialidocious (‘Mary Poppins’) – THE KIDDIE
09. When You Wish Upon a Star (‘Pinocchio’) – NINJAMAN JAPAN
10. Heigh-Ho (‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’) – CASCADE
11. You’ll Be In My Heart (‘Tarzan’) – DASEIN


You can download the full album HERE


Meanwhile,here is the Plastic Tree cover of "chim-chim-cheer-e"

Plastic Tree Ammonite Night 4

Sorry for the long update about Plastic Tree.. I also forget to update about Ammonite Night 4 that already showed tonight at 21:00 JST m(_ _)m
but I have several pictures about Ammonite Night 4 tonight. In Ammonite Night 4, they also played the "natsu ni daisankakei" PV (the song which Kenken sings in Ammonite Night 2).
I will update about Ammonite Night 4 as soon as I get a new information. For this time, please enjoy the picturesヽ(ﾟｰﾟ*ヽ)  

Plastic Tree Ammonite Night 3 schedule

After the succesful of their Ammonite night #2 show, Plastic Tree will continue to perform on Ammonite night show on Nico Nico Douga. The #3 show of Ammonite Night will be held this August 25 started from 23:00 JST.
here is the link to watch it: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv59437250

Plastic Tree x PEACE NOW collaboration

To celebrate Plastic Tree Ammonite (dai) Live Tour 2011, Plastic Tree is now collaborating with one of the clothing line PEACE NOW, introducing their latest collection with Hasegawa Tadashi and Sato Kenken as their model.
Plastic Tree will held their last concert of national tour (アンモナイト (大)) on October 08 2011 in Ryogoku Kokugikan and to commemorate this event, om August 27th 2011 (Saturday), Plastic Tree will launch a collection with PEACE NOW and the name of this collaboration will be announced on Friday, August 19.
After last year participate in the collaboration with Hello Kitty, Hasegawa Tadashi and Satou Kenken appointed again to become a model. The reason of this collaboration is that Ammonite really represent the unique of Plastic Tree world.
So to celebrate the launch of this new collection, the PEACE NOW x Plastic Tree collaboration will be open in Marui 1F on August 19th (Friday) until August 29th (Monday).

Plastic Tree Ammonite Night 2

This Tuesday is the time when Ammonite Night 2 was aired on Nico Nico channel.. For those who can not see the show, here's a screencaps and also video of the show.
the themes is about a summer festival now so Plastic Tree member wears a summer yukata.. and check out Kenken sings here on the video.. its so funny (^__^)


     
     

   

Picture Credits to: Universal Plastic Tree

The video: 








●◎●◎●◎●◎●◎HAVE A GREAT SUMMER HOLIDAYS MINNA-SAN~~ ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪

Plastic Tree Ammonite Night 2 schedule

After getting a lot of viewers on the first Ammonite Night on July 16th, Plastic Tree will held another Ammonite Night show again on Nico Nico Douga this August. The Ammonite Night show itself already become a regular program on Nico Nico which might be held monthly.


This month Ammonite Night will be held on August 09, with an earlier time from the previous show. Ammonite Night 2 is on August 09, 2011, at 19:00 - 20:00 JST. Here is the link to watch it: http://live.nicovideo.jp/gate/lv56749872

Plastic Tree also opened up their Nico Nico channel at http://ch.nicovideo.jp/channel/plastic-tree

Plastic Tree to collaborate with Harajuku Laforet

This year in April, Plastic Tree have released their 11th album "Ammonite" and from September they will be going on their second tour with it. The first tour had been sold out in many places leaving great expectations for the next part.

Moreover, it has now been revealed that the band will be collaborating with fashion super store Harajuku Laforet, starting on July 27th, whereas any purchase of certain stores that surpasses 5,000 Yen, will earn a special poster present.

Live Schedule:
"rockin'on presents ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL 2011"
2011/08/07 (Sun) Hitachi Seaside Park
OPEN 8:00 / START 10:30 (Cancelled in case of heavy rain)

"LIVE TOUR2011 Ammonite"
2011/09/17 (Sat) Nagoya Club Diamond Hall
2011/09/19 (Sun) Zepp OSAKA
2011/09/24 (Sat) Fukuoka DRUM LOGOS
2011/10/01 (Sat) Zepp　SENDAI
2011/10/08 (Sat) Kokugikan


Source: musicjapanplus


JAPANESE

東京・ラフォーレ原宿にて明日7月27日からPlastic Treeのキャンペーンがスタート。対象店舗で5000円以上の買いものをした人を対象に、非売品スペシャルポスターがプレゼントされる。

このキャンペーンは初の両国国技館公演を含む全国ツアー「LIVE TOUR2011『アンモナイト（大）』」の開催を記念して企画されたもの。詳細は明らかになっていないが、キャンペーンの一環としてポスタープレゼント以外にも「ラフォーレ原宿ジャック」が計画されているという。

ポスター配布が実施されるのはB1F、B1.5Fの各ショップ。ポスターがなくなり次第配布は終了となるので、早めにラフォーレ原宿に足を運んでおこう。

TOUR2011「アンモナイト（大）」

2011年9月17日（土）愛知県 名古屋 CLUB DIAMOND HALL
2011年9月19日（月・祝）大阪府 Zepp Osaka
2011年9月24日（土）福岡県 DRUM LOGOS
2011年10月1日（土）宮城県 Zepp Sendai
2011年10月8日（土）東京都 両国国技館

Source: natalie.mu

Plastic Tree on Nico Nico

it is just announced that Plastic Tree will have a show on Nico Nico Douga this Saturday (16/7) titled [ ammonite night (dai) ]. this will be a regular program on nico nico and it will start tomorrow. All Plastic Tree member will appeared on the show. so don't miss the show which will start tomorrow night at 22:00 JST.
here is the link to the show: http://live.nicovideo.jp/gate/lv55879135

JAPANESE: 
【7/16 (土) 】22：00～　ニコニコ生放送「アンモナイトNight（大）」Plastic Treeのレギュラー番組がニコニコ生放送でスタートします。メンバー全員出演予定。
URL : http://live.nicovideo.jp/gate/lv55879135

Source: Pla_info twitter

Plastic Tree on V-Rock Disney

Plastic Tree already confirm that they will be participated on a Disney album called 'V-ROCK Disney'. Not only Plastic Tree but others visual-kei band will also participated in this tentative album. It is sure will make both Disney fans and visual-kei fans excited.

Check out the tracklist below!

01. Ryuichi Kawamura – Beauty and the Beast [Beauty and the Beast]
02. NIGHTMARE – Fantasia [Fantasia]
03. NIGHTMARE – A Friend like me [Aladdin]
04. Plastic Tree – Chim Chim Cher-ee [Mary Poppins]
05. PENICILLIN – Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride [Lilo & Stitch]
06. Ninjaman Japan – When You Wish Upon a Star [Pinocchio]
07. CASCADE – Heigh-Ho [Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]
08. The KIDDIE – Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious [Mary Poppins]
09. DASEIN – You’ll be in My Heart [Tarzan]
10. Sadie – This is Halloween [Nightmare Before Christmas]

Plastic Tree new look

Plastic Tree just updated their official website at http://www.plastic-tree.com in Profile section with their new look. In this new look, they also include the image of a girl who is sitting behind Ryutaro and thus make some kurage questioning who is that mysterious girl..
Feel free to have a look at their new look here:

ammonite live house tour photobook

just in case that you guys didn't know, there'a a photobook from ammonite live house tour and someone got it during their perform in Kaohsiung Taipei.
You can find the whole scans in http://tiffa666.livejournal.com/155116.html if you are interested to see the picture on this photobook.
but i will upload some parts of it here

this is the cover of the photobook

Credits to: tiffa666

Plastic Tree to release a live dvd

Plastic Tree will release a new Live DVD from their performance in 【ゆくプラきたプラ】
The live DVD contains 2 disc, Disc 1 contains the live dvd of 【ゆくプラきたプラ】and disc 2 contains Plastic Tree special theatre + offshot.. The DVD price is about ￥6,500 and it contains a special bonus for the member of FC.
it will be released on September 7th 2011. Just wait for it!


Japanese:
【ゆくプラきたプラDVD化決定！】■DISC1-「ゆくプラきたプラ」ライブDVD（全曲収録予定）■DISC2-土曜プラトゥリ劇場（3話）+オフショット影像■価格￥6,500（税込）FC会員向けの購入特典企画もあります。詳細は http://www.plastic-tree.com/

Source: plastic-tree.com

Plastic Tree update activities

Plastic Tree just finish their performance in Tokyo Dome City Hall. After last year cancellation because of Arimura Ryutaro's sudden illness, Plastic Tree managed to do the another performance called 「ゆくプラ　くるプラ」. It is succesfully held yesterday on June 22, 2011.


They perform a total of 20 songs - among them are "nemureru mori", "ruisen kairo", "kuchuu buranko", "ghost" and "reset".

During the MC Ryutaro said laughing: "It does feel like the end of the year, doesn't it?"

When the members were to recall something that left a strong impression on them in 2010, Sato KenKen said: "Tent 2 was overflowing." 

Hasegawa Tadashi added: "2010...I forgot about the things that are so long ago. And 2011...I have no idea about something that is so far ahead."

Nakayama Akira stepped into that saying: "I only ever remember that autumn was fun...", but then, half of 2011 is already over, too, so remembering something from that long ago might not be easy.

the performance is about two and a half hour, and there's also an intermezzo of 「土曜プラトゥリ劇場」(where Plastic Tree makes the parodi of Edogawa Ranpo, Ryutaro as Akechi Ryutaro and the other as tanteidan or detective boys).


Source: http://ro69.jp/blog/japan/53594/

Plastic Tree official facebook page

this is about my previous entry which stated that Plastic Tree have the official facebook page. here is the link to it: http://www.facebook.com/PlasticTreeOfficial

please, feel free to like it and share all your thoughts about Plastic Tree there.

Plastic Tree Update

Plastic Tree just opened their official Facebook account. When they first published it,many of kurages think that this is not the official account (especially in their info Ryutaro's name written as Ryutaro Nakayama),but they already stated it on their official website that it is their official facebook page. 

Please don't hesitate to like the official facebook page of Plastic Tree!! (^o^)/


Also on June 10th, Plastic Tree held a free live in Taiwan. The concert celebrated the band’s Taiwanese release of their latest album “Ammonite” on June 9th (previously released in Japan in April). Although this was the sixth time Plastic Tree performed in Taiwan, it was their first free live.

Despite the heavy rain that day, approximately 1,000 fans showed up to listen to the band perform for about 30 minutes.

Vocalist Arimura Ryutaro was the MC for the night, and he impressed fans with his humble attitude. The star expressed, “We’re a Japanese band and we’re so grateful to everyone in Taiwan. We want to thank you all for so many things”. The thankful comment was made in reference to all the support their Taiwanese fans gave to Japan after the Great Tohoku Earthquake.

Ryutaro even say thanks to the Taiwan fans in his twitter: @Pla_ryutaro: 高雄アンモナイト、無事に終了ー。メランコリックの雨はまるで祝福でした。三日間、ライブづくし。謝謝。謝謝。謝謝。打ち上げ。今日という今日は呑む (ﾟOﾟ) 

Source: Tokyohive, natalie.mu, Ryutaro's twitter

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[Kuro Tent] Plastic Tree - Psycho Garden

Now I just want to share for you an old video from Plastic Tree.. its from Kuro Tent live, and the song is Psycho Garden..

Lately I'm in the mood to see the old Pura-tachi when Akira's hair is still red and they perform with a lot of energy.. and the drummer is still Takashi Oshodani..

well, I love this song and I love their perform here. Ryutarou is so full of energy *look on how he smash the microphone stand* and other member too as well.. look at nearly the end of the song where Ryutaro's sitting and headbang and also Tadashi, Akira and Takashi's energetic play that makes Tadashi seems like collapse at the end of the song *of course he is not really collapse*

PSYCHO GARDEN wa saikoo~~