Frick and frack, you guys. I’ve largely been spared the personal worst of disbandments so far, but along comes the demise of one of my favorite Osaka groups. PiGU, one of the neatest of rock idols (regardless of the flavor they embraced at any moment), are being brought to an end by POP iD:
— PiGU Official (@pigu_official) April 22, 2018
I’ll just go ahead and let Chris explain it all:
Shite. 😲
PiGU, one of my favourite groups are disbanding on Wednesday. But U'chel is fronting a new group that will take over their songs. Kind of like a Bellheart to There There There's thing then.— Christian Winsall (@toxicbreakfast) April 22, 2018
Looks like a sudden meltdown over the last few weeks. Rinka has been on long term sick since last year, then the previously infallible Keikarin went sick a few weeks ago and hasn't come back yet (and looks like she's gone now) and now Kiki wants to leave, leaving just one member
— Christian Winsall (@toxicbreakfast) April 22, 2018
So it goes, I guess. It’s a general win that PiGU’s music will continue on, and Spiritwalker/POP iD will keep things alive in-house (will they still be cafe staff?), yes. Silver linings kind of suck, though. Keikarin was long one of my favorite idols, cemented after her incredible accidental solo live well over a year ago now, and I’d even gotten pretty solidly behind Rinka before she went on hiatus. But speaking realistically, after a really solid run of singles etc., the group never really fully recovered from Rino’s graduation last year, and now here we are.
I’ll look forward to whatever it is that comes next, and choose to remember PiGU for the boss’s largesse in sharing pretty nice prizes in the Best of 2016 voting, for having one of the greatest Spotify accounts in idol, and for giving us one of the most nihilistic look at the idol-wota relatonship in “DAY”:
A very Homicidols best to you all!
