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Title doesn’t really make any sense, sorry, but it was the best I could come up with for today.

So here’s the story: I was in the middle of replying to comments last night when my computer was struck by a nasty malware attack. Nothing dangerous really, just extremely annoying, and I spent the rest of my Saturday night getting rid of it and fixing my computer. When I got up this morning things were back to normal and I was about to go back to my regular schedule which, on a Sunday morning, involves hunting down the Yan Yan JUMP and School Kakumei Live Stages. Usually by the time I get up they’re already there to be found somewhere, but today: nothing. Not on YouTube, not anywhere else. At the same time I was being told that a 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan at exactly one minute before the end of Yan Yan JUMP and 21 minutes before the start of School Kakumei. I don’t really know where my regular sources are located, but today I’m thinking they might be in Taiwan, and instead of recording and uploading those Live Stages like they always do they may have been busy doing something else today, like running out onto the street screaming. Or maybe they didn’t panic at all but the earthquake affected their Internet connection or something. I don’t know. All I know that right now now we don’t have those two Live Stages, so I’m gonna have to come up with something else to talk about.

Like SUPER DELICATE sales figures.

109,647 + 58,722 + 25,768 + 18,556 + 15,537 = 228,230

Okay, very nice. Already more than Magic Power (or indeed any other of their previous singles apart from OVER and Ultra Music Power) had in the entire first week, but it’s also already almost 14k behind OVER after 5 days. First week for SUPER DELICATE will probably be somewhere between 240k and 245k, which is more than satisfactory as it would be their 3rd most successful 1st week to date (UMP had ~247k, OVER had ~265k).

In other news, apparently Johnny’s Net has changed its site structure. It still looks the same, basially, but a lot of the links have changed. Like for example the page that used to be at http://www.johnnys-net.jp/j/artists/hsj/index.html is now at http://www.johnnys-net.jp/page?id=artistTop&artist=15. And some pages, like the calendar, seem to be gone for good, or maybe I just haven’t been able to find them yet. That is of course extremely annoying because the calendar was the Johnny’s Net page that I used the most, and my life as a fan will be considerably less convenient without it. Also a great deal of toolbar links to Johnny’s Net are now broken and need to be replaced. It’s gonna take me forever to do that, for which I apologize in advance.

Add to that some nasty back pain and you have all the ingredients for a pretty crappy weekend. Oh well. =/

Jaa~