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Just a quick reminder that one month from today is US Idol Fest. YURAPICO will appearing alongside kaigai idols from all over the world. Homicidols will be there too. We’re presenting a panel and have some other surprises to be announced as well. If you are thinking of attending, I recommend picking up a badge very soon.
Next up in our Best of Homicidols countdown to our 10th anniversary, we would like to revisit one of the most popular articles we’ve ever published.
Back in 2022, Cal and I teamed up for a feature exploring the dearth of male idols in the alternative and underground idol space while, at the same time, boy groups dominate large sectors of the mainstream J-Pop charts. We also wanted to recognize those groundbreaking male idols who were making significant contributions to our favorite genre.
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It was a good week in chika idol! For the record, the barometer for “good” is any week where the Oshiloss Corner ends up shorter than Oshifound. Here’s the deets:
ASP are back in the UK and warming up for their three-date tour with a couple of free events in London this weekend. Today, you can catch them for cheki at Worlds End pub in Camden. Tomorrow they will will holding a free live and cheki in Trafalgar square.
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Homicidols dot com turns 10 years old next month, so we have been getting a bit nostalgic around Team headquarters. We have published just slightly less-than 5,000 articles since the site went live in mid-October of 2015, and while we certainly can’t remember all of them, there are quite a few that we are particularly fond of. Over the next few weeks, we will be resurfacing some historical posts that we feel are of particular significance and worthy of renewed attention. Perhaps, none more than our first entry in this series:
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I almost hit “Publish” without drafting this preamble which would have been a tragedy because I know how this opening paragraph is what everyone looks forward to the most on every Weekender. For those of you not immediately scrolling down to the idol content, I want to remind you that US Idol Fes is coming up this Halloween weekend in LA. YURAPICO (and many other idols) will be there and Homicidols will too, so we would love to see you there.
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This week was quite eventful. We had new releases dropping from A-listers almost every day plus a couple of surprise member ADDITIONS which is unusual in a genre that specializes in unexpected member subtractions. We welcome this the new trend! Since there is a lot to get through, let’s just jump right in:
