The young BiSer known as Peri Ubu kept coming up on Twitter the other night, and I was forced to admit to a certain plan for an upcoming Monday Match Game, and it got me to thinking, Hey, what’s uBu even been up to since that whole terrifying episode with the members leveling up?
Leave it to the vital @sbsk_weekend to provide:
11/26
秋葉原PULM LIVE STAGE
『新生uBuワンマン』
uBu pic.twitter.com/qNUSQZWuAr— 愛と勇気と絶望のベズ柴崎㌨（12） (@sbsk_weekend) November 27, 2016
Something or another prompted me to look up KeePXOUT the other day. Maybe it was a reference to visual kei, or a photo, I don’t know. But an amazing thing, something that I was yet to experience, happened instead.
Look at the official Twitter. Or the company’s. Or the staff account. Nothing for well over a month now, and not a single notice as to a farewell live, graduation, spontaneous human combustion, anything. Instagram? Deleted. Website? Doesn’t exist. One of the members has disappeared from Twitter completely (or, rather, that account did), and the other has moved well beyond the group (and loves cats!). It’s like walking through an idol ghost town.
Being the intrepid not-journalist that I am, I decided to look into this. Continue reading
Our anonymous benefactor strikes again! After translating those awesome liner notes on Yukueshirezutsurezure’s Post-Catastrophe album, he provided some additional very topical translation that paints a very interesting picture of how we got to where we are today with Codomomental and Zenbu Kimi no Sei Da.
Seriously, friend, you’re doing a tremendous service to us
After the tumult of the past couple of weeks, this look back (about a year, in fact) to this blog post on the Codomomental website tells a vivid story. How is it that a video production company turned out some of the most compelling stuff in idol? Who were the movers? Who, and what, inspired them? Guess you’ll have to read the whole thing. Continue reading
This is a sad, if predictable, end to the whole situation we laid out a couple of weeks ago. Kanna, the active half of BUNNY KISS, tweeted this on Monday:
アメブロを更新しました。
「今後について。」→https://t.co/gxZFXYJ5nM— BUNNY♥️KISS…kanna (@bunnykiss_kanna) November 28, 2016
Go ahead and click through. Or, you know, just read the gist. Continue reading
This is pretty amazing, even just run through a translator:
久しぶりの深夜Blogです。今回GESSHI類が書いてくれています（珍しい事この上ない）。→ポスト過多ストロフィー ライナーノーツ（前半） https://t.co/bGL17RfHRm #ゆくえしれずつれづれ pic.twitter.com/cjh75fawPw
— codomomental/コドモメンタル (@codomomental) November 28, 2016
GESSHI writes the lyrics and stuff for Tsurezure’s psyche-shattering songs. This blog post on the Codomomental website isn’t the lyrics, but his thoughts on the lyrics and how the songs came together. Continue reading
I feel like I was right to get excited about Alloy! Fans of petit pas!, you may find their sound … somewhat familiar:
In this case, very familiar
They’ve actually spent the past week trickling tracks out onto Soundcloud (very much like Nozomi’s former group did prior to the release of Refrain), with very nice hard idol rock and stuff going on: Continue reading
In case you somehow missed the Zenbu Kimi no Sei Da thing or the Sakura Yuki thing, we’ve been talking about the rules of idol quite a bit lately — what they mean, their effects on the people involved, the ancillary and collateral outcomes, etc.
Never really ones for “normal” when it comes to idol, Guso Drop has rules of their own, distilling the unique will of their producer. They are about what you’d expect:
偶想Dropメンバールールは、、
◼︎悪口陰口言ったら殺す
◼︎女のぐちゃぐちゃした関係になったら殺す
◼︎自分を大切にしないと殺す
◼︎腐ったみかんになったら殺す
◼︎楽屋綺麗に使わないと殺す
◼︎挨拶しっかりしないと殺す
◼︎仲良く楽しまないと殺す— 偶想Drop《世界で1番激しいIDOL》 (@gu_dro) November 28, 2016
Or, translated: Continue reading
There doesn’t seem to be all that much video available from MAWA LOOP’s big-ass idol festival over the weekend, but Mistress recorded their entire set, and we can be the lucky ducks to benefit. (Thanks to Pure Idol Heart for the find.)
Welcome back to the Monday Match Game! Last week’s contest saw Billie Idle crush their poor namesake (Billy Idol) in a mismatch as complete as it was expected.
This week, we complete the run of puns based on idols’ names by getting a little monstrous. Yes, folks, while it’s fun to pit like-named human beings against one another, it’s quite another to stand up idols against analogous primal forces with the very future of the nation of Japan at stake.
In this corner, the most iconic movie monster of all time, a prehistoric reptilian mountain of destruction whose very name evokes fear, awe and probably a little bit of pants-wetting in those who hear it. In the other corner, a newcomer to the idol game but no stranger to fear-inspiring behavior in her own right. Two powerful enigmas enter, but only one will leave! Continue reading
I guess I could only take the Romero reference so far with this one, huh?
Nonetheless! Living Dead I Dolls are still a little bit away from their debut, but they have a look and they have music, and cross your fingers and throw salt over your shoulder and spit into the wind and/or whatever it is your do to ward off the evil dead, because:
Thank the gods. Continue reading
