Akiko Shikata Fansite!

Gooood morning =D
Just yesterday I created a fansite for Akiko Shikata, and I thought it would be good if we associate the site whith this forum! What do you think? The site has a section called "Forum", where I put link for the forum... take a look!

http://akikoshikata.altervista.org

Obviously the site is in Italian ^^''

Good job!! The site is good,and I understand it ....what is very weird since I don't speak Italian

And good look trying to find her first CD's lyrics,because I tryed and I couldn't find...



Maybe one day I will make a fan site in Portuguese to take out my people from the dark age

Oooh, are oy talking about Midori no Mori de Nemuru Tori's lyrics? >8D Because I've already found them out~

OH MY AKIKO SHIKATA

I just found them to,I searched it in July when I got NOTTE sheet music,but I could't find it.

Now I searched and I found....very strange....

NOTTE's lyrics are very strange... They're supposed to be in italian but.... they don't make sense D:

Maruko wrote:NOTTE's lyrics are very strange... They're supposed to be in italian but.... they don't make sense D:

Maybe it was made by a young girl that were in the middle of her Italian classes....
What is good for the "she started singing very young" theory
Anyway,sometimes her lyrics dont make sense,or you can understand but it still strange, like Luna Piena...

Anyway,if I had a Brazilian fan site it would be:

http://letras.terra.com.br/shikata-akiko/

Because I posted 20 of 25 musics there ._.

And they are bad and had't accepted any AT music

And now I will try to find a new lyric site for her....

Anyway,I'm getting off topic

Good job
and Good luck at "Shikatazing" Italy

do you think i could make a english one too and link the forum to the site? kekeke i notice theres no english fansite of hers..only threads in different forums

Wow, Maruko, that is so amazing! Thank you so much for putting the link of the forum there. Although I didn't understand Italian at all, I think it's a great start. We can work to put some more contents to it. I can help you if you want. ^^

And trying to combine ourselves with Artesox and Wasabi, is it possible to make it the page to be in different language? I can make one for Indonesian too then, haha~ XD

One more thing: I just want to know if you're sure with the website host. I mean, if we're really going to put efforts on it, building it and such, are you sure it won't suddenly lag or get some error or something? I'm just asking because I'm totally not familiar with web hosts...

In any case, you have my biggest appreciation.

Altervista is quite good, there wouldn't be any problems =D

kekeke i get on to it when i get my internet back

@Maruko: Can we change it to english translation? .for us all to understand it. ?

then we can discuss further with the affiliation for ASH and your Site! ^^.

Well, I don't really mind the site to be in several languages.. Akiko herself loves to sing in various languages so if we can make it in different language, maybe we can reach more people. ^^

Though it's up to everyone here. If you're willing to maintain a site of your language on your own, we can do it. If not, just stick to English and put all our efforts into it. ^^

Hummm..... I want this site to be as "professionl" as possible, and I can't make like this in English xD Buuuut, maybe I can translate the news... Oh well I don't know @__@ I'll think about it and reach a conclusion =/

Wow~~ good job Maruko! Although i don't understand Italian at all, but i love the banner <3 Keep working on it ya~~

Oh yeah.. i like phio's idea.. several languages is fine.. but you know.. english is an international language meaning. many people will understand the site more..

but hey.. give some ideas more.. until we make the right decision..

also phio? we say go to the affiliation with Maruko's site?

cause for me i say yes.

I agree that we still have to make the English one, just to make it universal to everyone. As for the affiliation, in fact, I have added the site in our affiliate box in the portal. So it has been a yes from me from the beginning.

I was thinking, if we are to make such a big project... Is it possible to contact Shikata herself directly and tell her about all of this? I mean, we're the only one of our kind, right? Shikata doesn't have a fan-forum nor websites in different languages for herself and her works. If we can get her support, it will mean a lot... I had tried contacting her through her website by sending e-mail, but since I don;t understand Japanese, I felt like the e-mail went to someone's junk or something like that... ^^"

It's simple yet beautiful! Good job Maruko! =)

Em... I don't think there's any other forum dedicated to Shikata san, at least not within my knowledge. There is one other fanclub though~ [nicotto town] (I'm kinda disappointed to see the small number of members there T_T)

Phio~ what happened to that email in the end? Managed to get any reply?

waaa! let's contact Shikata!! :x3 please we need her support.. i know there's not just us who loves Akiko-Shikata ^^. i think there's like many more waiting for them to be awakened.. lol ^_^

@Al: You want to know what happened? Nothing. I got no reply. ^^" I think I might send it to the wrong address. There was this two option of where to send the address, and maybe I chose the wrong one. I don't know. XD

So, that being said, anyone can give it a try? Maybe through her website, her blog, or her Facebook account?

i'm not sure if i can.. my exams are on 15,16 and 17..

and i have to make the thing we've talked in the staff forum

can anyone help phio with this guys?

I can try to email her after my exams (but that's even later than Marvin's end-of-exam)? Will that be alright?

^waaaa! thanks
its worth a try ALT.. hehehe
sure.. ^^.

Yep, Marvin is correct. I appreciate your help a lot, everyone. It means a lot to this forum, not to myself. As Marvin said, it's always worth the try. ^^

And if you guys really want to contact her, maybe just choose one way to get in touch with her. Does she update her Facebook often? Or maybe we can contact her through Twitter? She seems pretty active there, and since she writes the tweets herself, maybe it's best if we can approach her from there. Your thoughts?

Oki... I'll first have to confess that I have neither a facebook nor twitter account (I only read the stuff she wrote on her webpage/blog). But i can set an account up if you all prefer to get in touch with her using either one of them

P.S: My last paper ends on 22 Dec~

@Marvin: Good luck for ur exam too!

HUmm there's a little problem D: The images we use for the banner and in general for the forum/site are copyright of Akiko Shikata D: She will not allow us to use them anymore... and that will be a problem D: The forum's and site's banner features concerts images (except one photo in the site's one), and that won't be a problem... anyway this thing is applied also to the Cover Arts of CDs D: We can't use them because they're copyright of respective owners.... I think we must not tell Akiko about the Forum/Site D:'

@ALT: thanks pal. you too ;)

Maruko wrote:HUmm there's a little problem D: The images we use for the banner and in general for the forum/site are copyright of Akiko Shikata D: She will not allow us to use them anymore... and that will be a problem D: The forum's and site's banner features concerts images (except one photo in the site's one), and that won't be a problem... anyway this thing is applied also to the Cover Arts of CDs D: We can't use them because they're copyright of respective owners.... I think we must not tell Akiko about the Forum/Site D:'

Ouch. Is that so? Right, it's about copyright, I remember now... If we tell her about this place, we will have to take off all download links available here, and I think it's not good for the community... Argh~ This is troublesome. I suppose we don't need to contact her after all?

@Al: Nah, no need to. Actually this forum has a Facebook and Twitter account, managed by Wasabi. If we really want to contact her, we can use those, but...

If ASH really becomes the official fansite, yup, we'll have to remove every single download link available, since they violate the *ahem* law. We'll have to really think about it...

That's why I didn't put the download links in the site.... We must support her, and support is made by buying her CDs D:

It is not my fault that I can't buy her CDs...
Really, every time that I go to any major Anime event of my country I search,I talk,I request,I beg,I cry,I blackmail and I kidnap....anyway....to have her CDs....But I can't get anything,the only thing that I got until now was a KOKIA Infinite original CD (that will arrive in some months) and a Clarie Drama CD from AT I, and my dad don't let me spend a lot of money or buying things from another country....I actually have one little box named "Founds to buy Shikata's CDs...." but it is not getting a lot of money...

Anyway,It would be very bad if she saw the site and demand to we take of the pics and the albuns...And IDK if she would do this or not,mainly because she have a high history of asking strange things (like being cut off the DVD E_E )

Anyway,if we have a project of a official site,we could just make an official site with just previews of her musics,and official site not directly related to this forum.......so it would be legal don't?And even if she see it (what would be a very amazing and rare situation) I don't think that she will have any problems with Images and Previews ^^

That's my opinion

Edit: anyway,the forum moved really fast while I was sleeping

...I think we have no other choice but not to tell Shikata about this. How could I totally forget about that law and copyright matter..? Anyway, I guess all we can do is to make a website dedicated to her. All without her knowing it. XD

why don't we just remove the download links here in our site.. but i think the pictures are okay.. cause duh! its a fan site.. and i know many fansites that uses pictures.. and its okay. [as far as i know]

and its best to just make discussions about her musics and all but downdload links.. remove it

Yes I agree that we should buy her CDs to support her. I use my own money to buy, and I have a trustworthy online retailer, so I'm pretty okay. Only that there are some CDs I can't get, like those that ship only in Japan. So for these I will resort to downloading. Else I'd buy without so much as blinking an eye.

Actually wouldn't it be nice if Shikata knew about this? At least she'd be heartened that her music was appreciated internationally. Only that we'd have to remove the album and CD downloads. I think pictures are fine; they're released by other news websites, after all. Previews of music would be good

(Maybe we could keep download links to PMs or something?)

Oh, well, the reason I made this forum in the beginning is to provide members with all information I could get about Shikata's works. So if it's okay for you, the members, that we removed all download links available here, then sure, it's okay for me as well. This forum is made for you in the first place, anyway.

For me it's okay, maybe we can send the download links via PMs...

I'm same as tiredeyes~ just that i'm a little luckier to have people staying in Japan and shipping them over for me >_< Is it possible to have like a locked section in the forum whereby all the links will be available there?

@Al: Like a hidden forum, is that what you mean? So members who want to see the download link must be added in a special group? Is it okay to "cheat" like that? I'm a bit worried. ^^"

@Wasabi: That's a great news! Good luck with it.

Hahaha~ that's true too =X Cause I was thinking about those who cannot get original copies of the CD... emm~ if that's the case, a separate website, like what others have mentioned, might be a better solution.
As for the images, I think it should be alright to use them on the site. Well, a safer approach will to credit the images (to whichever source)!

@Wasabi
Yay! A Shikata San fansite~! Good luck on it too~ but don't be too stressed *points to status*

I can actually make something like that... If everyone really agrees with it. I will let all of you have the decision. I'm going to open up a poll soon and send a notification e-mail to every members of this forum regarding this matter, since it is a big change, don't you think?

Thank you for all your concerns.

Mmm, that might work, I think. I'll do the same way here at the forum too, in my imagination so far. XD

em isit possible to have a forum topic here which is only visible to registered users?

I think that making just a sub forum where the downloads are is not going to solve the problem : <

IF something as rare as Akiko see this site happens,having a open to any member section is not going to be good,we can get reported easily : <

We have to select who will be able to see or not

I can adjust that. I can make an entire forum only accessible to specific members. The only problem maybe is how we can trust the members not to tell others about it.

Okay, we can talk through PM onwards as well.