The Pillows to do Ben 10's Japanese Ending Theme.

[ChibiGoku]

Recently, looking up on Read Me! Girls, there was information about Ben 10's ending. Apparently, The Pillows did the ending theme for the Japanese airing of Ben 10. The song is called "Ladybird Girl".

http://www.pillows.jp/p/disco/20070815.html

Not sure if they're changing the opening theme...

[Mugen]

Is this airing on CN Japan and if so, is it on their Toonami?

[D Dubbs]

Wow. That brings back some great memories of FLCL. :anime:

[Kurokawa41]

What program uses the .RAM filetype?

[D Dubbs]

RealPlayer worked for me.

[Kagetsu]

Wow. That brings back some great memories of FLCL. :anime: :sweat: I thought "The Pillows" were a group created just to make the music for FLCL. and that's so old I'm surprised a group is around that long.:sad:

What the heck is a RAM file? I picked up a DivX player that's supposed to ply nearly everything without the annoying need to find new codec's. Though thanks to a very good friend at another site who always seems to have the "know" about music/vid files, I can now handle most that I come across. (my favorite part about small forums)

[D Dubbs]

:sweat: I thought "The Pillows" were a group created just to make the music for FLCL. and that's so old I'm surprised a group is around that long.:sad:


Nah. The Pillows existed way before FLCL. But they did become a big hit once FLCL was released, which is part of the reason as to why they're still making music today.

[ChibiGoku]

http://www.cartoon.co.jp/program/200709.html

Looks like it's airing on Thursdays at 12pm/8pm, starting September 13th.

[The Wolverine]

:sweat: I thought "The Pillows" were a group created just to make the music for FLCL. and that's so old I'm surprised a group is around that long.:sad:

Heck no.

It's just that they're only popular because of FLCL and nothing more. If it hadn't been for that anime taking off here, they'd still be a garage band (most people in Japan actually have no idea who they are).

[Sprocket]

Uh, they've been around longer than that. In fact, the songs used for FLCL were all taken from old albums the band had done.

The Pillows have been producing music since 1989; like the Monkees, they started out as a cutesy pop quartet with a carefully crafted image, but like the Monkees, they tenaciously adapted to the changing wants of the music market and became adept at crafting good music. Despite that, they've never been a huge success in their home country. When Gainax got together to create FLCL, director Kazuya Tsurumaki approached the group, now whittled down to a trio, and asked them if they'd like to contribute music to his new project's soundtrack. Intrigued, the band offered various versions of songs from three of their albums (1998's Little Busters, 1999's Runner's High and Happy Bivouac), and thus the soundtrack to FLCL was born.

[ChibiGoku]

Japanese Cast for Ben 10:

Ben - Toshimi Kanno (冠野智美...?)
Gwen - Sayaka Maeda
Max - Kazuya Tatekabe

The first one, I'm not quite sure if that's the right seiyuu. Searching around didn't help much, so I included the Kanji for the actor. (I'm not good with Kanji, especially when it comes to names.)

Regardless, it seems the dub is using lower profile actors, with Toshimi Kanno being new to the scene. Only credit I could find on this seiyuu was for Ghost Hunt as Katsuki/Teruka Yoshimi.

Well, that's all from me.

[Bubblegum Girl]

Japanese Cast for Ben 10:

Ben - Toshimi Kanno (冠野智美...?)
Gwen - Sayaka Maeda
Max - Kazuya Tatekabe

I wonder who'll the voices for Vilgax, Kevin, and Tetrax? :p