Watanabe Junnosuke
The Future of the Idol World is in YOUR Hands. Again.
Just like WACK’s Audition Camps have a redemption challenge, so does the online version! Everyone that didn’t make the top 50 has a chance at victory once again, which means we’re in for another week of idol adjacent antics.
【WACKちん通過者発表及び10回目チャレちんについて】９回目チャレちんの通過者を発表しました！そして悲しむなかれ、10回目も審査は、通過者を除く新たないいね上位50名が通過となります。詳しくはHPを参照よろ。締め切りは8月14日23時59分まで。
— 渡辺”ジュンジュン”淳之介 (@JxSxK) August 4, 2020
https://t.co/4S5evulvU3 #ProjectWACKちん
The Future of the Idol World is in YOUR Hands
Remember that online WACK audition where anybody from any country of any gender could participate on Twitter? The chaotic mixture of WACK fans, girls from previous streamed auditions and children who should really have their internet usage monitored by their parents? Great news! It’s reached a mass voting stage so YOU, the reader, can be more involved than ever!
EMPiRE’s Early EP Release is SUPER COOL
WACK and Avex’s collaborative group (no, the other one) have decided to get a little 70’s to switch things up and boy do these EMPiRE SOUNDS feel SUPER GOOD.
For Him? For Her? It’s POUR LUI
Is this the longest downtime between albums in idol history? Seriously, we’ve been waiting for 10 years!
Today the sequel to Pour Lui’s original solo album “Minna no Pour Lui” aptly titled “Minna no Pour Lui II” drops and oh boy was it worth the decade long wait.
As you can see we have a full double album here! Eight brand new songs and a second disc of re-recordings from the original Minna no Pour Lui.
The initial sound is what you’d expect from a WACK and SCRAMBLES production – it’s solid alt-rock that makes you want to slam your head back and forth, with opening track “I’m in love” featuring some guitarwork that wouldn’t go out of place on an Iron Maiden album. Pour Lui would kill Run to the Hills but could Bruce Dickinson do THIS? No, because he can’t speak Japanese.
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.
Watanalien Vs Predator-chan
Our apologies to AKB fans, women and anybody with any kind of common sense – that man Kuro-chan is unfortunately relevant again.
Remember the hot new unit from WACK who became so popular overnight they gained upwards of 1.5 million views a day? They debuted on a segment on the most popular prime time TV show in the entire country? They had an extremely successful “vote with your wallet” sales campaign? Those MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN girls! They’re back with not one but TWO new songs and of course, a campaign to go with it:
豆柴の大群、2曲の新曲MV同時公開！クロちゃん vs WACKで再生数対決が勃発（動画あり）https://t.co/OnH9N6O3h7
— 音楽ナタリー (@natalie_mu) February 12, 2020
#豆柴の大群 #水曜日のダウンタウン #大丈夫サンライズ #ろけっとすたーと pic.twitter.com/eimBROdvUZ
Can Anyone Be Ready for this BiS?
The people have spoken(?) and Watanabe has reaggregated BiS as a nine-member unit. Not one to do things halfway or with subtly, the infamous adult patient neglecter has endowed the group with their own “Bohemian Rapsody”, which is a whopping 11 minutes and 47 seconds.
Grab your coffee or tea and sit comfortably to take in this grandiose venture:
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.
It’s a Shame That This Is the Only ‘Spark’ MV That We’ll Ever Get
They warned us. They warned us, and yet the world was unprepared not just for the musical stylings of one Watanabe Junnosuke and his long-time partner, Matsukuma Kenta. Even when the track was announced as the kick-off to that WACK shuffle album, we were unprepared. And now, the wages of our inattentiveness are wrought:
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