Greeting WME members,

A new Wangan Midnight album has been added to the Soundtracks section. This album Wangan Midnight The Movie Special Driving Style had been released since early September 2009. You will find that most of the songs are a little different than the past Wangan Midnight OSTs in that this album features quite a few English pop songs that generally add to the depth of the characters in the movie.

There are a couple of fast pace songs such as Come Back by Go Go Girls. It is rather rare to see Eurobeat on a Wangan Midnight album to be honest. I highly recommend anyone out there to purchase this album if you are a big Wangan Midnight fan.

This album was purchased using the funds from an ongoing project in IDW called MSRP. I hope you enjoy the album as much as I did! Click here to visit the discussion thread for this OST.

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Good afternoon WME members,

Recently, I've noticed an increase in disrespectful expressions being made toward our sister site IDW throughout WME. As the site operator for both sites, I understand the needs to express yourself on a subject, but this is simply not acceptable. I would like to take the chance to thank the members, both on IDW and WME, who remain neutral throughout the recent debacle. It involved a group of members here trailing a particular board member whose name I will not mention, all the way to IDW and caused quite a scene.

As a result, I have pull the plug on the free hosting funding for WME. All hosting fund provided by IDW for WME has been retracted retroactively. It is unfortunate that a couple of bad apples had to ruin the whole barrel. But I suppose WME is big enough to support itself financially.

It just seemed ridiculous to me that a sister site which is paying for the hosting fee for this site, gets bashed to no ends. I still see subtle sarcastic remarks toward IDW here and there, you know who you are. There is a limit to leniency, let's try not to push it any further.

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Long time no see, everyone! This is Nomake Wan with a little update on the recently-announced Wangan Midnight movie. The official news site has been updated with a little snippet about the news conference in which the movie was officially announced. Here's an English translation for all of you who can't read Japanese.

On April 27th in Roppongi, the news conference announcing the new production occurred with Yuichi Nakamura, Kazuki Katō, Kōsuke Yonehara, Masaki Sata, and director Atsushi Muroga appearing on stage.

In the assembly hall the "Devil Z" Fairlady S30Z and "BlackBird" Porsche 911 Turbo also made their grand appearance!!

Please, by all means look forward to the public release of this newly started production!



So there you have it! The earlier release announcement actually didn't mention whether the movie would be live-action or animated, but this particular release confirms that it will, indeed, be a live-action adaptation. While that makes me somewhat depressed, I suppose that a proper modern-day adaptation would be cool. If they do it right and it's realistic, this could be very awesome. And just think... there'd probably be a blu-ray release of it as well!

Let's hope that the film does very well in theaters this summer. If so, you can bet that there will be more Wangan Midnight content in the future! Perhaps another season of the Anime? Who knows. In any event, see you next time!

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Good evening WME,

Earlier today, the official website of Kodansha Comics¹ has confirmed that a Wangan Midnight live action movie will be open in theaters over the summer. Similar to the manga / anime plot, the theatrical release will be focused on a high school student named Akio Asakura who salvages the "Devil Z," a custom-tuned Datsun Fairlady S30Z with a supposedly cursed history.

The movie is going to star Yuichi Nakamura, Ryōko Kobayashi, Kazuki Katou, Megumi Matsumoto, and Yoshihiko Hakamada. More information on the movie will be available at the official homepage soon. - http://www.wangan-movie.com²
Click here to speculate and talk about this release.

• ¹ Kodansha Comics is the publisher of Wangan Midnight manga series.
• ² Courtesy of Michiharu Kusunoki / Kodansha, Wangan Midnight The Movie Production Committee.

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Greetings WME memers,

This update will bring you up-to-date with the current progress WME is making in terms of members count and posting activities. For comparison purpose, data from 2007 to 2008 was added alongside. Both set of data were taken from April to March on a weekly basis. Trend lines were also added to the graphs for simplified viewing.

WME has been growing steadily since mid 2007. From 10 new members per week to 35 new members toward the end of 2008. One interesting fact is there seemed to be a big dip in new members in both December 2007 and 2008. I believe that is the Christmas / New Year long weekend.



As far as posting activities go, we've seen a much bigger increase in 2008 compare to 2007. Posts per week has increased at least 3 times. From roughly 1000 posts weekly toward the end of 2007 to as high as 7000+ posts weekly toward the end 2008. It is also worth mention that we had a huge dip in both December as well. Posting activities almost grind to a halt around December in both 2007 and 2008. The number of posts per week really started increase beginning June 2008. I believe that is when summer started.



Posting activities as of late has returned to roughly 700 posts per day, that accounts for about 5000 posts weekly, which is slightly lower compare to earlier this year. With the current rate of posts being made per day, we will hopefully reach the 500,000 posts milestone by the end of January 2010.

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