One of the more emotional bits to emerge over the last little while was this MV, out as final promo for the final release for DESURABBITS before they disband forever. In context, while the song is in a lot of ways a very nice modern idol song and in every other way DESURABBITS to the core, really the most important thing about it is its emotional heft and the special place that DESURABBITS has in loudol history.
But first, MV:
@homicidols Anything to say about the announcement that DESURABBITS have decided to end next June after 7 years without ever changing a member like most idol groups do. That must be some kind of world record achievement for a Japanese idol group? https://t.co/VMKpCJElRT
— youthinasia (@youthinasia_) November 13, 2020
Yeah yeah, give me a minute. Continue reading
There is no question that 2020 has so far been full of dark days with signs of more to come. Parts of the world are retreating into another round of COVID lockdowns, the US may be just days away from going into full-on “Purge” mode and Hachigatsu-chan just left Oyasumi Hologram.
Into this bleak landscape, FAREWELL, MY L.u.v have dropped a bright, shiny groove-and-reggae-infused nugget of joy in the form of their second EP, GOLD. And just in time too. The only thing that’s been getting me through the day lately is this track on repeat:
The Cyclone is a small black box theater in a Shibuya basement which, according to the posters it uses for wallpaper, has played host to gigs by just about everyone over the past 20 years, including Cthonic, Crossfaith, Abigail Williams and every chika idol unit you’ve ever cared about. This past Saturday, it also hosted Yukueshirezutsurezure’s Emergency One Man Live, the emergency being Futamaruya Shidare’s sudden exit from the group.
— Daemon ☠ Shidare 2/2 (@DaeMetal) February 2, 2019
The Cyclone’s capacity is 300, which seems to have been determined not by some safety conscious fire marshal, but in response to a challenge to see how many people one could stuff into the space, shoulder-to-shoulder, wall-to-wall.
You all should just be thankful that I walked myself back from a “lost your Marbles” pun
This is dumb, bad news, you guys. Remember Marbles? Remember how it was like “oh neat, hardstyle idols, one of a kind!” and there was much praise? Well, on that original post, this happened:
Prophetic! Continue reading
Among all of the brutal graduations of 2016, the departure of Guso Drop’s Saki from the group she’d help make into the underground’s heavyweight champions was understandably a sad loss for fans (and poor Boss didn’t seem to be taking it well, either). The final live with the group’s long-time center was, of course, a very fun show, and it also brought out an old friend and the new guns.
Bellring Girls Heart went into dormancy yesterday with their HELLO WORLD live that was streamed live on YouTube and then, after a little while, mercilessly taken away from us, thereby robbing untold dozens of international fans of the opportunity to see idol’s murder of crows go out like only they could.
Good thing for us, then, that Bellheart re-published the video!
That’s not the only gift that Bellheart left us, though. Continue reading
It looks like the stream is over; there’ll hopefully be caps of it available soon.
Man, a guy goes to sleep expecting recordings, not to wake up to a live stream of the end of an era.
Embedding’s been disabled, so click here for the YouTube stream of the HELLO WORLD final performance of Bellring Girls Heart, going back through their huge catalog.
The stream will end; when that happens, it’ll hopefully have been archived, and I’ll update accordingly.
The tweet kind of makes it sound like Spine EP is something that we’ve known about for a while, but I swear to Xenu that this is the first I’m seeing the title.
①【リリース決定！】
BELLRING少女ハート待望のシングルCD「Spine EP」¥1,000（税込）CP-17
12月22日に赤坂BLITZワンマン「BABEL」の物販より販売開始！
ご予約受付期間12/5〜12/19となります。（続）#ベルハー— BELLRING少女ハート：公式 (@BRGHead) December 4, 2016
So this is the going-away disk for Ayano and Mizuho? Regardless, now is apparently the time to reserve it, as well as line up your spot at the BABEL pre-farewell one-man that looks a lot like it’s being set up for a DVD. [Adding:] According to Babatus, it should be available by normal means; these reservations are about bypassing the usual cheki procedure associated therewith. Continue reading
You may have heard about Bellring Girls Heart being gutted in the very near future when Ayano and Mizuho graduate, and the group going on a I-believe-it-this-time temporary hiatus before a very soft reboot next year.
What you may not have heard about is how they’re going to go out as vividly as possible.
【告知】BELLRING少女ハート／みずほ・あーやん卒業＆活動休止直前企画「Shallow Grave」シリーズ開催！
12/5「ベルめるモ！」
12/31「BELL/CODE」
他日程も続々発表予定！待ってて！https://t.co/ykzSHIczNI#ベルハー— BELLRING少女ハート：公式 (@BRGHead) October 19, 2016
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