Before going on a months-long expedition to distant, monster-inhabited parts unknown*, Mr. Viz Major shared something that he knew would probably get me irrationally excited for at least a few minutes, which is to say live video of Aphrodite:
You look different, Aphrodite. You sound different, too. Did you get a makeover or something?
Basically, yes; the Aphrodite you may have known and loved is effectively gone. Honestly, I’m not even sure that it makes a different — raise your hand if you knew of Aphrodite prior to this very moment, and raise both hands if you know them independently of me or Pure Idol Heart or some other chika obsessive putting things on the Internet.
Well, while you take a minute to look over their stuff, it helps to know that they have a single coming out at the end of the month:
🆕Aphrodite『moirai』リリースイベント発売記念イベント🆕
2018年1月31日(水)
OPEN 19:00/ START 19:30(入場整列18:30~開始可能)
※18:30 ~dues入口にてイベント入場券+特典券付きCD即売を開始致します。 https://t.co/T9r4PExrid pic.twitter.com/rUJ3lNl53R— dues新宿 (@dues_shinjuku) January 13, 2018
Got that JyuJyu visual influence going
It’s the first in a series of three, which is apparently a thing right now.
Not everything happening is exciting ol’ Maniac so much, though:
【早くも第6回定期公演映像公開】
昨日大興奮の中、代官山SPACE ODD
にておこなわれた第6回Aphrodite定期公演のライブ映像を早くも公開!https://t.co/a6kwnfa9knhttps://t.co/qi4Exc8xTShttps://t.co/cKM2nHOcwb限定公開ですのでお早めに
3回にわけてます!
— Aphroditeアフロディーテ(公式) (@aphrodite_idol) January 17, 2018
Which, you know, that’s the kind of thing that happens when a group goes through … at least three major membership revisions that I know of. In case you needed a reminder of what they used to be like:
*Japan