American Thanksgiving is just past which means that we have officially entered the Western holiday season. For the Homicidols calendar, that means that it’s time to kick off the annual Best of the Year awards. Nominations are now open, so please be sure to let us know who you would like to put forward for consideration between now and December 15th.

While we in the US were having Thanksgiving, our friends in the UK were celebrating a different festival of gluttony and consumerism: WACK in THE UK, Volume 4 featuring ASP, ExWHYZ, and MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN TONAIBOUSHO a.k.a. MONSTER IDOL.

https://twitter.com/gg_WACK/status/1862216234432913884

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We’re just checking in to make sure that you haven’t been crushed by the tsunami of Black Friday advertising and let you know that preparations are well under way for the annual Homicidols Best of the Year season. Nomination will be opening next Friday, so start scouring your playlists for those songs, albums, and MVs that helped get you through 2025.  As evidenced below, some artists have waited until the last minute to submit their best entries for considerations. AiNA THE END is being particularly strategic and dropping what looks like a monster of an album this Wednesday, one of the final days of eligibility. It will also make a great Christmas gift, so if anyone was wondering what to get the most tolerable chika idol blogger on their list, the Limited Edition ships worldwide!

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We are in mid-November and usually barreling towards winter except, this year, the temperatures are still summery and the leaves on the trees around here have yet to change color. Mount Fuji didn’t even have any snow on it until last week. As we enter the era of climate-change induced dystopia, rest assured that one thing about this time of year will remain a constant: the coming of Homicidols Best of the Year Season!  We are just in the initial planning stages now, but look for more details in the coming weeks.

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It’s been a pretty disastrous week, especially if you happen to be like the members of Team Homicidols or the artists that we celebrate and support, the vast majority of whom are women and/or LGBTQ+. I don’t like to dip into politics on the site much, primarily because idol is a place that many people go to escape the disappointing and often depressing realities of the world. In fact, as the US election results became clear earlier this week, I tried to think back to how I mentally persevered that last time we were confronted with similarly distressing circumstances in 2016. That’s when I remembered that much of my psychological survival was due to immersing myself in the world of Japanese independent and underground idol. So, if there is anything good to come from events of November 5, 2024, it may be that they have ensured at least another four years of Homicidols. 

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Happy Halloween! Sure, Halloween was a couple days ago on the calendar, but here at Homicidols we celebrate the alt, underground, and indie idols for whom Halloween is every day. 

Case in point: one of our most closely watched rookie units this year is the retro-horror themed, Phantom Siita who, strangely, have not spent their first year of existence behaving like freshmen.  I mean, how many indie idol units hold their debut live at the Budokan? The group  continues to act like storied veterans announcing their first world tour including several dates in both North America and Europe.

https://twitter.com/PhantomSiita/status/1852319930017829162

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