If somebody ever told you that Christmas is about togetherness and family, they lied to you and you should stop talking to them. Christmas is about gifts, sometimes expected, sometimes unexpected. The culmination of the PARADISES audition gave us the expected Christmas EP featuring some of the WAgg girls and also the unexpected results:
1. Utauuta will be promoted to PARADISES
2. Tsukino Usagi will join trainee group WAgg for 6 months
3. Yuina Empire, formerly of EMPiRE, BiS2nd, BiS and CARRY LOOSE, will join WAgg
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The Wonderful Future of PARADISES and WAgg
If you loved the PARADISES single from the other day you’ll be very pleased to know that they have five more songs out today! Let’s hope you really liked that song, because their new releases are the same song but recorded with each individual member of WAgg. You wouldn’t be far off thinking this is another strange WACK marketing tool, but this is actually the result of the latest audition from Watanabe and his conglomerate of girl gangs.
A WACK Way to Deal With Cancelled Shows
If you’ve been keeping up with the news, both regular and idol, you’ll probably know that Abe Shinzo issued a countrywide order temporarily banning all large scale public entertainment events because of Novel Coronavirus fears. ZOC cancelled their entire FINAL INNOCENT ZOC tour, Aya Eightprince cancelled a smaller public appearance and Pour Lui cancelled the shooting for her upcoming idol group’s music video to name a few. Things have been cancelled harder than a celebrity who’s angered a kpop fanbase.
Currently, WACK are meant to be embarking on their nationwide WACK FUCKiN’ PARTY tour but alas even Watanabe Junnosuke who has objectively more clout than the prime minister can’t get around a ban on public events.
Just kidding, yes he FUCKiN can!
2/29 18時〜 WACK TOUR 2020 “WACK FUCKiN’PARTY” NO AUDiENCE LiVE 生中継ニコ生で行うことになりました。プレミアム放送はなくどなたでも見れます。
— 渡辺”ジュンジュン”淳之介 (@JxSxK) February 27, 2020
よければご自宅でお楽しみいただければと思います。3月1日も何かしら用意できたらと動いております。
よろ。https://t.co/G2t3FpWPcp
This Saturday at 6pm JST, the show will go on! NO AUDiENCE LiVE is exactly what it sounds like – nobody is going to be there. You can’t cancel a public event that isn’t a public event. The entire thing is going to be broadcast on Niconico so everyone will be able to be there in spirit. A premium subscription is only around $5USD too, so hey, if you’re spending your time indoors as a health precaution why not spend it with the idol fanbase’s favourite women’s prison colony?
It’s been a rough week for a lot of people on Earth because of the you-know-what, but in a dire time things like entertainment are what make it manageable! So, cast aside your worry, wash your damn hands regularly and enjoy your time at home.
And if you’re in need of a little something extra, BiSH and EMPiRE made a few previously limited broadcasts available on their YouTube channels as a sorry for cancelled shows too.
Remember, while this is a lot of fun content for us overseas, fundamentally it’s a sorry to people living in a country that’s tightening it’s grip attempting to deal with a pandemic, so remember to be respectful! Or if you’re living in a country that’s going through the same thing do what you want, we’re not the reaction police over here.
The Age of WAgg Is Upon Us
All right, when the heck was this thing announced, the WACK trainee unit? I don’t even remember. The last I heard of WAgg, jokes were being made at its expense, and that was (/checks notes) a couple of months ago at least. See, I don’t know if anybody ever really expected this thing to happen — WACK hasn’t tended toward things like trainee anythings, like ever, instead preferring to slide undeveloped talent straight into the mix. And yet, here we go!
【東名阪仙ツアー『WAgg the beginning』実施決定！！】
9/9(日)の東京お披露目公演を皮切りに東名阪仙の4カ所を巡る『WAgg the beginning』ツアーの開催決定！
お披露目の東京公演はスペシャルゲストも！
本日22:00よりFC最速先着先行受付開始！！よろピヨ
URL: https://t.co/rbKi1XcMep pic.twitter.com/VQ5JxXxozI— WAgg (@WAggidol) August 14, 2018
The black eyes thing happens to make this lot look particularly alien
Kicking things off with a tour that commences in a few weeks, naturally. And without a shred of music or anything yet to their credit! Continue reading
WACK Wins by Having Nothing to Apologize For
All of my reactions to WACK news lately seems to be along the lines of “well, that happened.”
It all started on Friday, with this foreboding billboard atop Shibuya’s famous 109 building:
なんですかこれは？？#WACK#BiSH#BiS1st #BiS2nd #GANGPARADE #EMPiREIDOL pic.twitter.com/wQQ8x50Enp
— ㋑㋷㋓㋸ (@fromLA12) June 23, 2018
“We haven’t done anything yet, but we apologize in advance?”
Well, that’s ominous. Granted, I can think of many things WACK should apologize for, but this is now. Well, the future. Eyebrows were raised. Questions were asked. Just what exactly is this future scandal WACK have had to apologize in advance for? It got even worse when Watanabe tweeted out the words many a WACK fan dread; “Announcement at 24:00.” There was panic, theorizing (mostly from me) when eventually, the fateful moment came. Continue reading
Kerrie Is the WACK Idol Nostradamus
Well, that happened.
【WAgg立ち上げます!!】新世代のアイドル育成プロジェクトWAggを立ち上げにつき、オーディションを開催します！！！対象は12歳から１７歳の女子!!前途ある未来のWACKアーティストの応募待ってます!!
詳細→https://t.co/cEFYeLYIoa
twitter @WAggidol pic.twitter.com/TxoPDf4VFs— 渡辺”ジュンジュン”淳之介 (@JxSxK) May 28, 2018
Much like the rest of the western WACK fandom, my feelings on this are complicated, but I think it can be summarized in three main points:
- Oh, Watanabe, please, stop feeding me so much Friday Fun fuel, I just made a WACK fun last week!
- Whatever happened to “I can’t handle more than four groups,” now you’re going to try your hand at running an entire UK Secondary School too? Good luck.
- CALLED IT.
