Mass wig snatching in 2014. Hikaru Utada to celebrate the 15th anniversary of First love with a re-release and unreleased material.

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Asia's best selling album of all time - Hikaru Utada's First love - a special anniversary re-master of the aforementioned album will be released on March 10, 2014. The re-release will be available in a standard and deluxe edition, which should be re-named basic and money edition and you'll soon find out why.

The basic edition will come with a CD of the album itself, re-mastered by Grammy award winning chief mastering engineer Ted Jensen of Sterling sound - who also mastered Hikaru's fifth Japanese studio album Heart station. The basic edition will also come packed with a DVD featuring footage of Hikaru's 1999 LUV LIVE concert in Tokyo.

Fans who have been pining for something new from Hikaru will want to cop the money edition, because it comes with 2 additional discs: One featuring karaoke / instrumental versions of select songs from the album and another featuring previously unreleased material and all of Hikaru's B-sides from her First love era. The money edition does not stop there. It will also come with a hardback book featuring previously unreleased photos, handwritten lyrics and little personalized treats and trinkets. The money edition will be limited to just 10,000 copies. This is 5,000 more than was originally planned, due to almost all 5,000 copies of the money edition being snatched up as pre-orders the second it was made available. If you want the money edition and you live outside of Japan, you need to either start wishing on stars, sacrifice an animal and do a ceremonial dance in black robes or be prepared to pay extortionate prices on eBay.

In terms of promoting this re-release, nothing has been said by Hikaru or her blabber mouth father Teruzayin' Too-much Utada. I'm not expecting Hikaru to do any kind of promo for this album what-so-ever. She will tweet about it and Instagram a picture of Kuma the bear with a copy of the money edition, which is about as much promo as we will get from her. I will be starting a prayer circle this Sunday if you would like to join and put your hands together for Hikaru doing a one off gig with the Japanese philharmonic orchestra for a live orchestrated rendition of "Automatic" and "First love", along with a special first ever performance of "Sakura nagashi". I would die if such a thing happened, in which case I would want one of you to send me the money edition of First love to my next of kin so that I could be buried with it.

Hikaru has marked her date. Any act other than AKB48 or Morning musume will push their release back if they know what's good for them. If Ayu had any plan to release anything in March, then she needs to change that release date to TBC until Hikaru is out of the charts. Even Namie wouldn't dare touch a week when Hikaru Utada is dropping something. She knows Hikaru's chart game is adamantium.

First love is the only Hikaru Utada album which I do not own, so I will be picking up this anniversary edition for sure. I love Hikaru Utada more than members of my own family. But I can't be making myself broke and fucking up my credit for the money edition, so I'll be about the basic edition.

Album reviews: Deep river | Ultra blue | Heart station | Exodus | This is the one