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Where can you order this? I just saw the news. Thanks

Froglet wrote:Where can you order this?  I just saw the news.  Thanks

Since the release date is far away still I think the albums might show up as pre-orders on sites like Yesasia and such. But the 30th of March is still far away so it will probably take a few weeks before sites allow you to order them.

Yeah I was just wondering too and I found this! Hopefully other sites will have it too!

http://www.yesasia.com/us/best-japan-version/1038170689-0-0-0-en/info.html

Babbitkpop wrote:Yeah I was just wondering too and I found this! Hopefully other sites will have it too!

http://www.yesasia.com/us/best-japan-version/1038170689-0-0-0-en/info.html

Great job finding it! I hope they will add the other versions soon and on other sites too so I can compare the prices because getting all 4 versions won't be cheap!

Yeah they have two other versions on Yesasia!
http://www.yesasia.com/us/best-album-mv-dvd-japan-version/1038170688-0-0-0-en/info.html

http://www.yesasia.com/us/best-album-live-dvd-japan-version/1038170687-0-0-0-en/info.html

But they are a bit expensive so I'm determining which one or which ones to buy!
P.S. Where do you usually get your Japanese albums?

Babbitkpop wrote:Yeah they have two other versions on Yesasia!
http://www.yesasia.com/us/best-album-mv-dvd-japan-version/1038170688-0-0-0-en/info.html

http://www.yesasia.com/us/best-album-live-dvd-japan-version/1038170687-0-0-0-en/info.html

But they are a bit expensive so I'm determining which one or which ones to buy!
P.S. Where do you usually get your Japanese albums?

Yep the DVD one is more expensive than expected. I don't think yesasia is the best place to get it then. I will search H!O to see if the Morning Musume fandoms knows things, I con't have an account to it might take me a while to find it so if anyone else know a better place then please share. If not the H!O people should know since they is crazily good at pre-ordering things.

I have found something that might be helpfull! Right now I don't have the time to read it all. Or well I do have the time but I think it would benefit me if I don't look like the living dead tomorrow. But I will do some investigations and such on the sites listed in this post tomorrow.
http://www.hello-online.org/index.php?/topic/811-hp-product-purchase-guide/

I'll look into it after I finish my homework!

Babbitkpop wrote:I'll look into it after I finish my homework!

I have had some time to look at it now and 98% of what i will be saying is a doubble post from the ASDaze site with the Yesasia info. So I hope you won't mind that

So far it looks like Yesasia will be the cheapest, but I am not sure about it since I have not had the time to look into it money conversion wise at least not yet. The thread said to be vary of cdjapan, but that was back in 2006 so I would assume it is better now considering I could not see anyone mentiong anything bad about the site aside fom that one user.

http://www.hmv.co.jp/

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/

http://www.jpophelp.com/ (They have not yet added the albums but since they have Dress To Kill I think it is only a matter of time.)

Taiwanese versions are sometimes chaper but I think we should all avoid buying them because they won't count in Oricon and I think we need to make sure Best Of does sell well considering Dress To Kill did not do so well. For me it looks like I will buy the Best Of album from Yesasia now, as for my other items I want I ill look into the prices for those things But so far I am going with Yesasia for all for versions of the album (unless I can find an even better place within the week before the release.)

So I just found out that Oricon does not reflect international sales anymore... Now I am furious...

Amazon Japan, YesAsia, HMV Japan and CDJapan are all useless now! I will still buy the albums but now it almost does not matter anymore, now I might as well get the cheapest version possible because it won't make a difference or maybe the Taiwanese versions. *Sighs and pouts*

Yeah I was reading the fine print and it just makes me mad! Why does it not count! We are still buying it ughh just frustrating! Do you think maybe buying it digitally would make an impact? I like buying physical albums though..

Babbitkpop wrote:Yeah I was reading the fine print and it just makes me mad! Why does it not count! We are still buying it ughh just frustrating! Do you think maybe buying it digitally would make an impact? I like buying physical albums though..

It makes me really mad too and apparently the changed the rules in 2014. Why do people always have to make it hard for us international fans? I have no idea on how to get the album digitally in Japan. I will stilly buy all 4 copies in the physical form because even if Oricon refuses us the album will still sell and if it sells out I think Avex will notice it. Even if is is not reflected on the chart I bet they know how many of they physical albums that sells overall. At least this is what I am hoping.

SOS! I am back in the thread with questions! I will pre-order all versions of the album. But on Yesasia I found that the mu-mo shop version was not listed. So I investigated and found this:

"Album AFTERSCHOOL BEST comes on three editions plus a Limited mu-mo shop version. The Limited LIVE & MV edition First Press versions add trading card (1 of 8 ) and b2-size ad poster. Regular edition includes 4 bonus remix tracks plus First Press version adds trading card (1 of 8 ) and b2-size ad poster.

The mu-mo shop version is tied to release event March 22nd 2015 – details just posted will have 3 parts. Part 1 (Limited mu-mo) all member high-touch and photo, Part 2 (Limited MV via mu-mo) individual member handshake and photo session, and Part 3 (Limited Live via mu-mo) individual member handshake and autograph."

So then I will hunt on ebay for the mu-mo version on the 23rd. But that gives me another question. Are the ones on Yesasia First Press Editions? Because I want photo/trading cards will all the versions I will be getting. For Dress To Kill and all the other Japanese albums the photocards have been there in all albums I have except Bang JPN. So there must be photocards in all the versions here too, except the mu-mo version? Also which mu-mo version should I be getting once it is released? And the different photos in the mu-mo version are just extra things right? So I will still get the cd and DVD?

Sorry for the questions but since I will get all versions it is a lot of money so I want to make sure it is right.

Also here is my source about the mu-mo version.
http://www.comtrya.com/2015/afterschool-japanese-best-album-release-details/

And it seems based of this Dress To Kill mu-mo unboxing that the mu-mo version does not come with the standard photocards at all and extra things instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzKQY-pjuUU