With a strong closing week to their Campfire campaign, 2018 Corenament defending champion Minna no Kodomochan hit 100% of their all-or-nothing fundraising goal with just two-and-a-half days to go. This means that Everyone’s Children will now bless us all with a new song for each of the next five months and follow that up with a 15-date, Japan-wide tour.
They immediately celebrated their campaign’s success by releasing a dance MV for “Shoujo A”.
Is this donation tax deductible?
Ya’ll know Bekah and Ashley, right? They’ve been doing charming dance cover tributes to some of our favorite idols and sharing them on Bekah’s YouTube channel, and they’re pretty darn fantastic at it. Pure heart and lots of energy, with a heaping dose of pure fandom love for what they do. They even received well-deserved praise with one of their Billie Idle covers!
Anyway, I kinda-sorta knew this video was gonna happen, cause Ashley and myself are both unabashedly devoted Avandoned fans, and a while back I dropped a not very subtle hint that I’d love to see them do this song. (Actually, I think I said “PLEASE DO THIS SONG!”) It turned out Ashley was already intending to do it anyway, cause she’s cool like that, so this video is something I’ve been looking forward to for quite a bit. So without further ado, here’s Ashley and Bekah saying “Hello”!!!
Much like that Under Beasty post from a little while back, this is one that started off as a Weekender item and then ballooned into something more. This isn’t going to be complicated, but it is a whole stack of items, and maybe I feel like being a little extra generous.
Anyway, in their post-Alloy incarnation as themselves, WILL-O’ have a (pretty cool) new look:
WILL-O'
衣装担当しました pic.twitter.com/MxvIVxcLww
— どくきのこぴんく(パロール) (@kinokopink) June 9, 2018
And a new logo to go along with it:
#新しいプロフィール画像 pic.twitter.com/A57Gex0ukf
— WILL-O' 6/10お披露目 (@WILLO_info) June 9, 2018
This Here at Homicidols.com, we believe that one of the best ways to make more fans of idols is to lift up and celebrate those fans who are really doing it right. Take, for example, Bekah and Ashley, whose self-produced dance covers of essential idol videos prove just how fun this whole business is.
They released this cover of BiS’s “SOCiALiSM” —
— which was a nice reminder to catch up with their work. They’ve been busy! Continue reading
I’m going to refrain from giving you guys a bunch of crap like last time — maybe it’s Facebook’s fault that nobody sees these, or maybe the radar here is so high that anything related to REGiNA KiSS is naturally going to fly right under it — and instead simply say, hey, there’s more dance video from REGiNA KiSS, and I think you might like them if you gave them a chance, so why not press Play and give it a go?
I was kind of eagerly anticipating this one, gang, on account of You’ll Melt More! being one of my back-pocket favorite things in idol and their previous stuff from discopsychedelica being up to the group’s normal high level and all of that. It dropped, I very eagerly clicked to YouTube and:
There’s even a helpful dance tutorial:
Man, this is just proof positive that we really are the best fans.
Ashley shared this in the Idolmetal group, and I was going to make a little bit of a deal out of that, but then this happened:
Bekah and Ashley Dancing to Billie Idle – ANARCHY IN THE MUSIC SCENE https://t.co/wvaoUfnl1k @YouTubeさんから
— BILLIE IDLE® (@b_idle_official) February 14, 2017
Bekah and Ashley dancing to Billie Idle – Nakisou Sunday 「踊ってみた」 https://t.co/vEwG3IXCgk @YouTubeさんから
— BILLIE IDLE® (@b_idle_official) February 14, 2017
Not all idols are particularly great at Twitter, or they don’t care enough to use it, or their manager doesn’t care enough to require them to, etc. Who is great, though, is MAINA, Osaka Shunkashuto’s doll-sized vocal powerhouse and objectively one of the cutest human beings alive.
More importantly, as those of us who count themselves as MAINA marks will tell you until you beg us to stop, is that she’s a ridiculous all-around talent, such that she’s often doing performance work outside the bounds of SSFW, as we’ve seen before.
Proving both points made so far, she very casually shared this on Twitter yesterday:
YUIさんのCHE.R.RY歌ってみました🎶#大阪春夏秋冬 pic.twitter.com/G3P67T1uVy
— MAINA 大阪☆春夏秋冬 (@ssfwmaina) December 7, 2016
This is your periodic reminder that not only did Osaka Shunkashuto begin their lives as a high school dance unit, they remain right in the top part of the pile in terms of what idols can do to interpret their music, not just make it:
やっぱ踊っている時がなにもかも忘れられてストレス発散なるよねっ🎶最近ストレスなんてないけど、、、笑
でもやっぱダンス大好きだ❤️#大阪春夏秋冬 pic.twitter.com/rGkT1X4sIx— MAINA 大阪☆春夏秋冬 (@SingloveMaina24) October 17, 2016
Of course, they’re actually improving with age.
Remember a few months ago when Babymetal agencymates Perfume released their video for “FLASH” and everybody lost their damn minds? And then remember that fun back-and-forth here a few weeks ago about the relative dance merits of Parallel Japan vs. Babymetal?
It’s about to get weird.
Because Babymetal and Perfume have the same choreographer, see
