Hi all! Last week, I was still too busy getting everything settled in my new home, but thankfully Maniac, Supreme Nothing and co. took over to tremendous success!
#DrawAnIdolMascot
the banyana monkeys pic.twitter.com/Vo70fQpEb7— D4rkWzd (@D4rkWzd) January 24, 2020
#DrawAnIdolMascot
This one can't get more obvious pic.twitter.com/OkNnUmx0KC— D4rkWzd (@D4rkWzd) January 24, 2020
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First oshiloss corner of 2020, everybody! It’s been a while; if you missed it, this column got downgraded somewhat to an occasional Weekender segment, known as “Oshiloss Corner” because, well, there’s not usually all that much to talk about when talking about idols who are no more, is there?
But I also promised that Withdrawn Wednesday as a standalone column would infrequently return on those rare occasions where we get lots of content in a short space of time, and this week was one of those special weeks! Let’s take a look at what a bunch of our lost oshis are doing now!
Could Go Zeela‘s future career path be in the world of pro-wrestling?
https://twitter.com/MatsumotoMiyako/status/1220731243978883072
I don’t want to have to watch it again! So let’s dispense with the incredible urge to pun this thing to death and instead focus on how Watanabe clearly wanted to get back to the magic of “Hoshi ga Matataku Yoru Ni” by taking a hopped-up punk number and literally turning his performers into human toilets. Even the choreography recalls “Hoshi ga”!
Good lord. BiS2’s album is out next Wednesday. May the gods have mercy on us.
Yes, friends, I can apparently keep up with new idols, as was my new year’s resolution on repeat. Such a promise was made in the hopes that 2020 will bring the same kind of greatness that 2018 did, and we’ll all forget that 2019 even happened. Fingers crossed, we’ll at worst feel good about it.
Which brings me to Lesson Number Umpteen on why you should make friends with people in idol! My pal with the old connection to Candye Syrup tipped me off a few days ago that there was a new group debuting soon, with an obvious connection to said defunct group, and then followed up this morning with the first best debut so far this year.
Meet FaM (Twitter), which yes relates to “family.” This was a relief, because upon seeing that I worried that it didn’t have any particular meaning, not even as a clever way of capitalizing a common shorthand greeting/pronoun kind of thing among the youngs in my country. What do they sound like? Continue reading
I was definitely going to skip idol today, gang. I’m tired and there’s a lot of work to do besides, and the last thing I wanted to see were DMs, because the mere suggestion of DMs means that idol things happened, and I usually want to at least pretend to follow up on them. But what a choice to make to look! There are things! Posting things!
First up today is the latest two-hour (guffaw) preview from the chaos merchants at KAQRIYOTERROR, who will make this official release next Wednesday but right now really want you to listen to “Persona” and talk about it online with #Persona_! Which is likely because there’s all kinds of stuff related to the video game on Twitter right now, a very happy coincidence no doubt. Anyway!
[解禁]
2/5(水)リリース KAQRIYOTERROR 1st配信シングル「Persona_」を公式サイトにて2時間限定公開！新しいステージへ向かう為の大切な曲です！タグ #Persona_ にて、皆様の想いをお伝えください！#KAQRIYOTERROR https://t.co/dGbmnLzldg pic.twitter.com/qYK1OqClx3— KAQRIYOTERROR (@kaqriyoterror) January 27, 2020
You know what to do. Continue reading
It’s highly likely that what I’m sharing with you here is something that you already know, but for the sake of posterity and because we want her to have nice things and not at all because Derek asked nicely, I here am following up on Brian’s lovely review of YONEKO’s excellent new single with the fully fledged real-deal MV for it.
Just, like, definitely go read the review and then come back, fully prepared mentally and physically, for this assault of awesome:
Wait for it …
Why make more of it? The young woman is talented and creative as hell. We love her, you love her — now take this and go make a bunch of other people who’ve never even heard of her before love her, too.
Well, I guess the fact that YONEKO is now officially moving into the post-idol phase of her career (apparently in all projects?), so technically this is the last we’ll post about her in a dedicated way, but that’s nonsense and of course we’ll keep the updates coming, YONEKO occupies a special place for us and it doesn’t matter how or when or why she performs, we’ll be there.
Good morning! Did you all have a good week? Mine was interesting, marked largely by the fact that it started a nice, long stretch of relative freedom during which I am going to get so much stuff done, you guys, that I can barely stand it. It’s an amazing feeling to have no pressure nor expectation of the same, and to know that it’s going to last almost until you next have to hit the road. Ah, liberty.
I can understand that you may not be so enthused, though, yourself. We’re basically just moving between disasters out there in the world, and then you get to add the incredible political theater that is the impeachment trial — like, a person can be forgiven for feeling stressed and looking for diversions. I’m personally going to spend the weekend half in and out of doing stuff because stuff must as always be done, but I’m also going to be ignoring mass media for a couple of days and, well, checking out mentally.
So with that in mind, I did everything I could to pack as much as I (reasonably) could into this week’s Weekender. Between that and the Fun, which I hope you have more time to play now, there should be more than enough idol stuff to keep your brain occupied and spirit in a restful place.
The incomparable human goddesses Yanakoto Sotto Mute are going major and have their first single coming so soon that I’m afraid that I might wet myself:
【お知らせ】
定期ワンマンライブ『NINE Vol.8』ありがとうございました！
2020年3月25日(水)
ユニバーサルミュージックよりメジャーデビューシングル発売決定！今後ともヤなことそっとミュートをよろしくお願い致します！#ヤナミュー https://t.co/vjTIPNBjaW pic.twitter.com/vdWMj9Ynsy
— ヤなことそっとミュート (@YanakotoSM) January 25, 2020
Apologies in advance! Kerrie is still mid-move, so you’re stuck with the boss for today’s Fun, and I won’t even pretend that it was my idea; it was, in fact, Kerrie’s. But still, someone gotta write it!
Before we begin, of course, let’s look back at last week’s view of possible scandals in idol:
In a bombshell interview, Hashiyasume Atsuko admits that in private moments of self-doubt, she occasionally questions if she really does in fact, have “The Best Music”…. #predictanidolscandal pic.twitter.com/tdaIv16qkz
— supreme nothing (@supreme_nothing) January 18, 2020
#predictanidolscandal Pour Lui leads a hostile takeover of WACK. Makes Watanabe run a marathon to keep a stake in it.
— GloucesterInTX (@GloucesterTx) January 18, 2020
#PredictAnIdolScandal Ayuni D reveals where the "D" comes from
— Matt Oronar (@AngrodOronar) January 17, 2020
All in all, I’m disappointed in you guys. Nobody thought to use “horribly overworked iconic center of massively popular group suddenly quits and sparks huge backlash”!
Anyway, let’s get ourselves some kind of Fun. Continue reading
Holy zszhit! After starting out strong with their dark take on Neverland with Peter Peter, months of teasers on Twitter and a quick YouTube drop of Shokuji/EAT, Zsasz’s digital debut is finally here!
For those not in the know, Zsasz are produced by the legendary and incredibly handsome gothic Vocaloid producer UTSU-P! Eagle eared listeners might have even heard several of their songs before, for instance the lead track on the album originally had vocals from digital diva Kagamine Rin. We at Homicidols tried to reach out to Miss Kagamine to learn how she feels about the cover of her song, but on account of her not being a real person she just didn’t want to give any comments! Celebrities can be so difficult. Continue reading
Apologies for the so-late-it’s-just-awkwardness of the post, but I forgot that I wanted to make a big deal out of this on Friday because such is life. And what is life, even, now that we have the literally eternal — that is, existing infinitely, beyond the bounds of time and space — presence of NECRONOMIDOL looming within the shadows of existence? Worthless, that’s what it is, but the question is also rhetorical flourish and all right let’s just skip to the point.
NECRONOMIDOL, beloved and befeared like few others, revealed at the risk of inducing utter madness among their followers (or, at least, those who aren’t already under complete spiritual enslavement) some upcoming plans, and yes, I do believe that we’re all going to be happy people:
【発表】 pic.twitter.com/JPFakCi0l1
— NECRONOMIDOL (@NECRONOMIDOL) January 17, 2020
