In the most predictable move ever, MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN got their major label debut on Avex and oh boy is their first major album just as cute as you’d expect from a group who’s name is akin to “puppy horde”.
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Let’s Discover Some Idols: AKIARIM
All right, let’s get back to Discovering Some Idols, shall we? I feel kind of badly that more than a few of these groups that I’ll wave in front of your face did in fact debut at points in the past and some of them are pretty good so they’re never be eligible for the kinds of major awards that can make or break an idol career, but that’s okay. We’ll enjoy ’em on their merits anyway!
And what merits! Friends, I introduce you to AKIARIM (Twitter), who are … okay, so you know how there was this global outbreak of a potentially-deadly-and-even-under-the-best-of-circumstances-difficult-to-treat pathogen and, you may recall, it kind of got a whole lot of things canceled in the early parts of 2020? Yes, like almost a year ago? Okay good. So that’s basically AKIARIM, who if I’m following the timeline correctly were like, hey, we’re a cool group with some talent behind us and some resources and we’re debut– well okay, let– WE’LL JUST DO IT LATER THEN. And so began their life in earnest a few months ago:
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There Is a New ZOC Single with Two Chances to Like It
Well this turned out remarkably well, didn’t it? ZOC is … actually, I have no idea how to preface this. If you know ZOC, you know about all of the ZOC stuff most likely, and if you don’t know ZOC you may wonder why we like to talk about them. I find them an interesting between-the-lines act, as one would probably expect from a subversion-minded Oomori Seiko-led idol unit on a major label during this particular era, but it may well be the Seiko fact that keeps the whole thing from hilariously unraveling, as to say that one is a thing and then to be it are two very different things.
Anyway! New single, double A-side(?), out today but a couple of days’ existence for the two MVs in support, and as the title implies your own personal satisfaction mileage may vary depending on your a) taste and b) relationship toward the ZOC thing:
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Reaping what you sow: The Flowers of Passion, Episode 1 Reaction & Review
It’s not every day that we get new long form content from the underground idol scene, especially now that we are in this whole sanitary disaster. So it was with great curiosity that I rented Derek Vasconi’s first episode of his documentary series Flowers of Passion.
The hour long episode, first of a series of five, seems centered on the production and self-production aspect, as well as the historic roots of idols. It revolves mostly around Asakura Mizuho via Bellring Girl’s Heart & Saka-Sama, NaNoMoRaL, Usakura Beni from avandoned, and finally, Merry Bad End.
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GRATIA-ALA’s Just Cranking Out MVs These Days, Man
Well this was originally going to be a different post about not all of the things in it, but some of the things, yes, which is an excellent lesson in why it can be good to wait — completely unintended consequences of the thing you didn’t even mean to do can work out!
Which brings us to GRATIA-ALA, for whom I’ve always had a nice packet of love tucked back in the chika-reserved corner of my heart, but from whom we don’t always get a ton of media. Well, friends, let me tell you that we are currently in a glut — yes, a glut! — of GRATIA-ALA video, and I see no reason to further forestall getting into that.
The first, the most recent? My personal favorite:
This song is basically everything I always liked about GRATIA-ALA. They’re like the melodic answer to those even synth-heavier idolcore groups that sprang up like weeds in 16 and 17 (which … wow, GRATIA-ALA’s four years old, my goodness).
This is the one you call Idol On A Budget:
“Say, is that garage empty?” “Empty enough, let’s film there.”
These first two get Nagi writing credits (plus it’s her birthday?); this one, by Miyu, is actually my favorite of the lot:
And in the span of a few minutes I’m reminded of why I liked GRATIA-ALA so much in the first place (though I definitely don’t remember harsh vocals, so), and also a little annoyed at myself for letting them slip off the radar. This is a good group, and I hope they keep releasing media for us all to gawk at, especially if there’s no real rhyme or reason or album or anything. Just pump out fun things, idols!
In the meantime, go explore on GRATIA-ALA’s streaming option of your choice:
【お知らせ】
Amazon musicをはじめ
各種サイトにて
配信開始いたしました‼︎詳しくはこちらから
↓↓↓【Towards the future】https://t.co/MNHEGwhKQ6
— GRATIA-ALA 公式 (@Gratia_ala1218) January 18, 2021
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Weekend Livestream Spotlight: RAY, SAKA-SAMA, Banana Monkeys and Many More at the (Free) Online YOIMACHI
I took a break from the Spotlight for the holidays but have returned to make sure you are aware of the (FREE!) Online YOIMACHI festival being broadcast across four YouTube channels this Sunday (JST). The line up is pretty mind blowing:
【拡散希望!!】
1月17日開催
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YOIMACHIの無料オンラインフェス#オンラインYOIMACHI△▽△▽△▽△▽△▽△
タイムテーブル発表〜!!!!!!
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YOIMACHIサイト内特設ページから
各チャンネルご覧いただけます↓https://t.co/35Vjk3KlEF pic.twitter.com/m8mJ9EQNlr— オンラインYOIMACHI (@otsuka_yoimachi) January 14, 2021
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Dan te Lion: The Hardest Working Unit in IdolRock
If, like me, you have spent the COVID crisis bingeing chika idol livestreams from Japan, then you have probably come to be familiar with Dan te Lion. When I started keeping The Calendar back in mid-July, they had just hosted Volume 35 of their Diffusion Φ Brightness Twitcast performance series featuring agency mates Chu Kiss RIP, KANARIA and recurring guests like ZOMBIE POWDER and (personal favorite) Lil na Valley. This past weekend, they broadcast Volume 61, which is a remarkable pace made all the more impressive by the fact that they typically perform two-to-three other shows each week on top of that.
Dan te Lion took a break from their relentless live schedule to drop a new MV on Tuesday that serves as the first single from their new album, [GO], which they then proceeded to drop on Wednesday.
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It’s a GREAT MONKEYS RE:START!
Heck yeah, GREAT MONKEYS! What a group. Just like the totality of idol in here, and they’d be about six months old at this point if– well, if you haven’t been keeping score at home, they:
- Released one of the awesomest songs of 2020 as a debut single
- Actually debuted
- Almost immediately went on hiatus
- Announced that the group was disbanding
- Clarified that it was only mostly disbanding actually
- Proved it
- Set a re:start date of tomorrow
- Dropped the below this morning
Absolutely my kind of project. I love fun things, and I love chaos for the sake of it; if they started doing atmospheric blackgaze and gave themselves names like Idol ov Hell, they’d be my literal perfect musical interest ever. But! As it stands, this is what we have with the re:start:
So really more of a re-shuffle in fact
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Time for the First TOKYO Tefutefu Video
So we’re Codomoblog for a few days, no big deal. You take what the universe gives! But you guys, you’ve heard TOKYO Tefutefu to date, but now it’s time for their whole first digital single (technically tomorrow, no doubt on all of your favorite streaming platforms) in music video form!
You may have the same thought as multiples of Team did: Man, that is some high pitch! And yes it is. And that is a cool song and it would be nice if we could get some more. It’s also the first release from a new Codomomental project that didn’t have me immediately trying to connect the dots to other Codomomental projects, so that’s fun. Now let’s see where it all leads!
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I’m Sorry, Have We Not Been Talking about Kamikaze SENSATION This Whole Time?
Prepare yourself for a new Deeply Stupid Moment in Homicidols History, friend, because it is deeply stupid.
I have in the past humblebragged over the total number of idol acts whose work has graced the hallowed halls of this here fancy-ass website. I’ll even update that number for the anniversary in a few weeks! The point is, we cover a lot of idols, and though it seems like there’s never any shortage of new ones to come along (you should see the Let’s Discover queue!), the good ones at least always get held up for at least one or two posts because it’s hard to ignore a good act. Yeah, maybe there’s a weird gimmick of something, or they wind up being not as good as the thing that got you excited in the first place, and so we stop covering them unless something else particularly interesting happens, but in general if the hypothetical you that is an idol in this particularly poorly crafted sentence have done some good work and it is loud, we’re going to blog some posts about you.
Except Kamikaze Sensation, apparently! The excellent media you are about to consume dropped a tiny little bit ago, and I was like, oh that’s weird I don’t remember Kamikaze SENSATION that way, and so for evidence I started a search for Kamikaze Sensation inside of the bowels of Homicidols Dot Com and found only three draft posts that said nothing. So give me credit for on several different occasions meaning to write about Kamikaze Sensation, if nothing else.
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