In a remarkable little coincidence, I had gone looking up YKG the other day to see if they were doing anything notable, and I was happy to see that they have activities planned around their fifth anniversary(!):

山口活性学園 結成5周年記念ライブ

【WE ARE THE RUN.05 -REVENGER-】 pic.twitter.com/Llap4OjzAp

— さく@れなにぃ (@saku_renachan) December 6, 2016

You can learn more about that stuff and even look at the … look, idol merch is idol merch; if you want a tote bag with your favorite group’s one-off event logo on it, you know what you’re getting yourself into.

But then your friend and mine, Phillter, the world’s greatest YKG fan, sent this neat little video of them doing a live cover of BiSH’s “Hoshi ga,” and …

Holy shit

They actually did a whole series of covers of idols who are their friends, labelmates, etc., called MONOMANE CAMP (imitation camp! Google comes through!). It’s cool.

Osaka Shunkashuto:

PIIIIIIIN:

MAPLEZ:

Uh, Lovely Doll!:

So that’s pretty cool.

Also, what the hell is wrong with me? They released a single months ago and I feel like I didn’t even know:

いよいよ本日より『シャクネツ』iTunesにて配信開始！！

5,000DLで地元企業とのコラボ企画スタート！

山口活性学園「シャクネツ – Single」https://t.co/gxMZ5VBTOu

— 【公式】山口活性学園 (@kasseigakuen) September 21, 2016

I literally posted about them the week after this was released. Was I drunk?

Possibly