You guys, it’s Golden Week. I love Golden Week — so much happens! I also hate Golden Week for the same reason. Would you believe that I originally wanted to publish this almost a full week ago? Madness. And yet, here we are.
Idol projects, like superheroes, are never guaranteed to stay dead, no matter how gruesome their demise. I bet that if a snap of the fingers wiped half of all idol from existence, a good chunk of them would still find a way to return even without the intervention of some cosmic power; it’s just the way that idol works.
That being said, I currently know of at least three idol projects that are on their way back to life.
Living Dead I Dolls, that we were already aware of; now they have a fixed return date:
7/1(土)昼 渋谷
新グループお披露目
project LIVING DEAD 第1弾楽曲は市原メイン、ディレクション僕で
来月にはHPやら情報随時出しますので
是非よろしくお願い致します— 石岡 治樹 (@HK_DER_P) April 22, 2018
Just a few weeks after we celebrated their life among the living, and right on the heels of post-them group QUEENS debuting, Tobi provided the tip that none other than PIIIIIII will return to life:
【重大発表】
この度PiiiiiiiNは
2018年5月26日(土)に
新メンバーで『再結成』致します!!お披露目ライブ会場は
恵比寿CreAtoにて開催!詳しい詳細、お披露目ライブ参加予約受付等は後日発表!https://t.co/cnRYCDzf47 pic.twitter.com/2J0qbyLlWd
— PiiiiiiiN (@PiiiiiiiN_1218) April 23, 2018
Weirdest (and soonest!) of all is Checkmate, who were in fact one of my favorite heavy chika projects until they just kind of flickered from existence. The only official announcements in the past were kind of vague and incomplete, but they did acknowledge that the group had gone into general inactivity. So imagine the surprise of seeing this countdown series:
— ◯◯◯◯◯◯◯◯◯公式 (@checkmate_1105) May 3, 2018
Added the latest one for today
So we’ll get tipped off in a couple of Mondays, then. Good! I have questions, like is the name changing, and will they still sound like hell boiling over? We’ll find out!