CATDOLL: First week sales of only 40,000, Mizuki Nana's new single suffered a Waterloo

On October 15, the super popular voice actress and singer Nana Mizuki released her latest single "Forbidden Resistance". This is Nana's 30th single since her debut as a singer, and she was also responsible for the lyrics of this song. According to the latest statistics, the sales of the single exceeded 40,000 copies in the first week - perhaps for most singers, a single with sales of over 10,000 is already a big achievement. But Nana is an exception. Previously, her single sales usually maintained at more than 50,000 copies, and this time the results also dropped by 20,000 copies compared to the initial sales of the previous single, and the downward trend is very obvious.

Many fans have pointed the finger at the new October animation "CROSS ANGE: Rondo of Angels and Dragons" which uses this song as its theme song. This work produced by SUNRISE and with the participation of big-name voice actors for free should have boosted the song's sales, but the extremely bizarre plot and the fact that the heroine Anqi played by Nana was despised by countless people may have had a negative impact.

However, it seems that Nana herself has invested a lot of emotion in this song. She also said the following in an interview with the media:

“In fact, I once wrote in my personal blog, ‘I fell down the stairs~’, and on that day, I finished writing the lyrics roughly (laughs). In this work, many of the heroines, including the protagonist, are not on the same page. Therefore, I felt that if I used positive and straightforward words to write lyrics, it would not be connected with the world view of the work…

So, I had an idea: I hope that this lyric can allow everyone to have their own understanding as the plot develops. For example, at the beginning, everyone may think that the lyrics mainly reflect the pain, sadness, and hesitation of the heroines, but as the number of episodes increases, we can see their growth, and we can also find a ray of light in the reality full of entanglements. This is the content I want to give to the lyrics, and among the lyrics I have written before, this is also a particularly difficult one. From what angle should I dig? This made me very troubled, and I held my head in pain and said: "What should I do..." I was thinking about this problem while going down the stairs, and I fell down suddenly. But at that moment, inspiration flashed, and I said excitedly: "This is it! " (laughs)

Because of the scratch on my knee, I felt so painful that I was bleeding and crying... However, due to the shock, something seemed to have landed in my heart, allowing me to write the lyrics very smoothly. I was surprised by this myself. Although I don’t live in the world like An Qi, this song is a work that was truly created while bleeding! "

I wonder if Nana's fans will be willing to pay for the video after seeing this behind-the-scenes story? Let's wait and see!