This post started off as a little blurb about Yamaguchi Kassei Gakuen having an album coming out soon, a fact completely neglected in that business about their big headliner show. But that’s okay, because what happens when idols have albums to promote?

山口活性学園インストアライブ＠タワレコ横浜 https://t.co/dWOGjTYSWq

— 山口活性学園【公式】 (@kasseigakuen) January 6, 2017

They do release events at record stores?

Well, that too, but I was getting at:

アルバムNOTE 3収録曲

【MV】山口活性学園 「mama」https://t.co/V3rI2Bvmgb

公開しました！

— 山口活性学園【公式】 (@kasseigakuen) January 3, 2017

That’s a nice little idol ballad, isn’t it? Because he’s their biggest gaijin fan, Phillter and I were discussing YKG the other day in the context of his having seen them live, and we agreed that they’re in a weird tweener space between being traditional and new-school, indie-like and mainstream, and that what they need to really break out is a signature song that would get someone — regular fans, people like us, etc. — excited. If this is it, then where they’re aiming to go is pretty obvious, huh?

Still, it’s pretty sweet.

Also, you know what’s cool about being like the biggest thing in your otherwise unglamorous neck of the national woods? You get to be in lots of commercials.

1月13日（金）に山口グランドホテルで開催される「ふるさと山口就職ガイダンス」のCMが公開されました。

【CM】ふるさと山口就職ガイダンス「山口活性学園」 https://t.co/DCV54zKR3n

— 山口活性学園【公式】 (@kasseigakuen) January 4, 2017

その1

地元（山口県）のチラシが見られるサイト「ジモチラ」を「常岡もい」と「森脇優依」がラップで紹介します。

【CM】ジモチラ 15秒 RAP編 – 株式会社アピールコムhttps://t.co/gqWhofoCyF

— 山口活性学園【公式】 (@kasseigakuen) January 4, 2017