Wagamama Kiite

Here’s Your Chance to Embrace Wagamama Kiite

/ Homicidol Maniac / 1 Comment

Their plan to secure 500 RTs and release the MV for their upcoming single release worked like a charm, and the world was greeted today by maybe the best thing that Wagamama Kiite has done to date:

I don’t have the depth of experience with the group that Kerrie does, but I know what I know, and I know that right there is some darn tasty idol rock that somehow also includes percussion from a hardcore breakdown. It honestly reminds me a lot of OG Himekyun Fruit Can, and yes that’s a big compliment. Kerrie says that it tops anything on the record that she sleepily reviewed, and who am I to argue? This is the kind of material that I signed up for … lordy, it’s been four years.

Anyway! The single is out on Oct. 10, and I’m heartily recommending that you pick it up. Here’s the B-side:

On pace to be re-recorded, I’m guessing

Not all loudol has to be all that loud, and quality rock songs need to be appreciated, particularly when they make you feel like you can conquer the world.

Kerrie Reviews Things Sleepily: Wagamama Kiite | ‘for my Dear’

/ Kerrie

Let me tell you a story, while I’m still awake and waiting for my CD to arrive in the mail. A story that starts in early 2017. It was the beginning of the first WACK audition (y’know, the one that brought us Momoland, Pan Luna Leafy and EMPiRE? Yeah, that one) and the happy (but not for long) campers were gradually being revealed on Twitter. The first girl to be shown was “Cent Chihiro Tatta”.

I thought “She’s really pretty, I wonder how well she’ll do?”, as Watanabe continued to reveal more auditionees. One of the next girls to catch my eye was Michihayashi Rio. I thought “Wow! She’s adorable in that sort-of awkward way I love! I hope we get to see more of her!”

More and more audition profiles started, a few more girls caught my eye, I was excited for what’s to come. But then everyone I was rooting for failed the audition anyway, I was bitter, yadda yadda. Eventually, I found out one of the girls I really liked had gone on to do Miss iD and I was happy again. But I was still, in the back of my mind, wondered, “Whatever came of those other audition girls I liked?”

Fast forward to July 2018, in the WACK Discord, where the subject of Wagamama Kiite?? came up. “Hey, did you know a couple of the girls from the 2017 WACK audition are in this group?”

I looked them up and there they were! Tatta (now Moe) and Shirio (now Asaka)!

I was hyped! More girls from the audition out there doing new things! I vowed, “I was rooting for Asaka in the auditions, I’ll root for her in her new career too!” and went on to order their debut EP, “for my Dear”, which only just arrived on my doorstep yesterday.

Anyway, Kiite have a new single out next month, so what better time to review their first release while horribly sleep-deprived? Other than when it actually came out, I mean. Continue reading →

I’m Rectifying a Longstanding Omission: Wagamama Kiite

/ Homicidol Maniac / 1 Comment

Now, before I start to actually blog this post with all the decorum and professionalism of a person who goes by Maniac online, allow me to acknowledge that this is so incredibly far from being a hey-look-what-I-found moment, but a I-know-you’ve-been-bugging-me-about-this one. Who hasn’t brought up Wagamama Kiite (Twitter) at some point in the last couple of months? And I get it, they have a sound and a fun name. They should get attention!

So here’s attention. In fact, attention ever since you started to point at them and scream, you animals, because I don’t know when I started to Twitter and Soundcloud follow them, but it was definitely long enough ago to forget that it had happened, and now look, there’s a new track on Soundcloud, platform of champions, and we’re going to sit here together and enjoy it:

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