Gogai! Gogai! T.M.Revolution at New York Comic Con! (Or Tatara Makes Revolution!)

Peter Tatara back again from the Communications Dome on Level 44-C of BEA Tower, next door to the Aquasphere, where Lance is currently trying to get stingrays to recite Milton. Lance is pretty confident in this project and expects to have a symphony of stingrays greet BEA attendees with a slightly bubbly rendition of Paradise Lost. I'm not too sure fire and brimstone is what we want to hit attendees with as soon as they pass through the door. Also, I'm not too sure stingrays can talk.

You know who can talk, though? No, even better than talk, you know who can sing? New York Comic Con's newest Guest of Honor, a revolutionary man I hinted at a few weeks ago, a revolutionary man whose voice and image are known the world over, a revolutionary man who was born with the name Takanori Nishikawa -- but is better known as T.M.Revolution.

I've been working quietly with T.M.Revolution's management for the past handful of months to bring the star to NYCC, and all of five minutes ago, the news broke in the Japanese press -- meaning it's now okay for me to gab about it. We're of course blasting out a Press Release shortly, but I know if there's one thing Medium At Large readers crave, it's to be on the bleeding edge of the Japanese pop music scene.

For the .3% of you who haven't heard the name T.M.Revolution -- which is short for short for Takanori Makes Revolution -- he's one of Japan's biggest stars with an absolutely massive following in his home country and a fairly rabid international fanbase as well. He broke into the world spotlight in 2002 with the release of "INVOKE," the theme song to the anime series Gundam SEED and followed up quickly with "Ignited," the theme to its sequel, Gundam SEED Destiny.

(Here's a fun fact: T.M.Revolution, in addition to performing the openings to both series, is also a huge Gundam fan and worked his way into a few episodes, voicing the characters Miguel Aiman and Heine Westenfluss. I'm hoping to use the exact same strategy to work my way into The Venture Bros.)

For the past few years, T.M.Revolution's been performing with the group abingdon boys school, a band most known for "INNOCENT SORROW," the opening theme to the anime series D.Gray-man, but now that abingdon boys school is a success, he wants to return to his roots and make New York Comic Con a new personal start.

(Note that T.M.Revolution's band is -- at the insistence of their Japanese management -- always spelled in all lower-case letters. I'm all about the grammar, punctuation, and proper wordly stuff, and I just wanted you to know it's "abingdon boys school" and not "Abingdon Boys School" because that's the way Mr. Nishikawa wants it.)

We've got some big plans for T.M.Revolution, some pretty amazing and unprecedented things that I hope to talk more about soon. What I can say is that with everything that's coming together, this will be the biggest performance ever given by a Japanese pop star in North America. Big words? Absolutely. Are they going to come back to haunt me? I sure as hell hope not.

Tatara Makes Revolution!