Happy new year! I know it’s the 5th, but spare me your malcontent recriminations — we can wish each other well all the time, not just in the immediate afterglow of balls dropping and the people you spent a couple of weeks rounding up for a surprisingly affordable private party in a very accessible location all deciding within 10 minutes of each other that they really should get home, it’s late, and you realize how old you’re getting and how amazingly lame your friends have become, so you drag yourself and your partner, your lone holdout, halfway across town (“it’s on the way home!” you tell yourselves) to another neighborhood where no private parties, per se, are to be found, but instead lots of well-lubricated revelers and “specials” that can only be described as such in a context akin to “I feel really special when I’m singled out for larceny” and a very friendly bartender who insists on doing shots with you, all within a 15-minute window because there’s a last train that you absolutely must catch. It’s pretty simple!
The first week of the year was a good one for idol. I actually skipped a couple of posts on account of working for a bona fide lunatic whose conception of “catch up back in the office” is actually “let’s very quickly find plural projects that must be completed within 48 hours,” but I hope to be able to make it up. That’s right — what you see here before you is actually real-deal legit Weekender material! Correct, no need to cheer, Weekender stuff is the fill-in! Yeah!
We had an amazing first Fun of 2019, too, so go play it, then take all this in stride, do what you need to do on account of it being time for a nice ol’ break from the slog of modernity, even if for a few hours, and look ahead to what the gods owe us — a year that doesn’t make just about everybody want to scream in existential agony!
Chipper
You’re wrong if you aren’t totally excited about the double A-side from Zenbu Kimi no Sei Da:
ぜんぶ君のせいだ。、2/6に両A面シングル『Natural Born Independent / ロマンスセクト』リリース決定 https://t.co/C9kWEaEoFS pic.twitter.com/KTDUjju46E
— Skream! (@skream_japan) December 31, 2018
In addition to that other thing, AIBECK dropped this demo the other day:
oh look a new BiS single
【BiSのメジャー4thシングル情報詳細!!】
メジャー4thシングル詳細!!!
完全生産限定盤には、Zepp Tokyoでのライブ映像、写真集も封入!!— BiS−新生アイドル研究会-オフィシャル (@BiSidol) January 2, 2019
Here’s some good ol’ live KING RAGE:
『サバイバーDEATH』落ちサビ#えむ壁#キングレ pic.twitter.com/NERLHdE3os
— KING∞RAGE公式【4/12(金)2ndワンマン】 (@newkingrage) December 28, 2018
And some live IVOLVE!
And some live Marionet!
マリオネッ。チャレンジ!!『1COIN×100人公演vol.2』
来場者数『119人』で前回に引き続きチャレンジ成功する事が出来ました!早い時間から足を運んで頂き有難う御座います
1/20 深月かおり生誕祭では正真正銘『6曲目』の新曲披露&重大発表もさせて頂きます。是非に。
⬇️予約https://t.co/a71WHIrbKy pic.twitter.com/jtLqOf9Lc7
— マリオネッ。【公式】 (@marionet_staff) January 5, 2019
Have you heard Auhby’s Minna cover?
Hey, a Kupipo release!
【嬉しいお知らせ①】
◆くぴぽ 1st mini album
「We are the Worst famous idol in Osaka!!!!」発売決定!!!!
ライブでお馴染みのあの曲や未発表の新曲も含めた全7曲収録!#くぴぽWWO pic.twitter.com/9GdckzMfZR— くぴぽ(公式) (@qppo_idol) January 3, 2019
SAKA-SAMA a go go!
めろん畑a go goさんとの年忘れツーマンライブありがとうございました!たくさんのお客様と一緒にライブ納めができたので、安心して年を越せます!
めろん畑さん本日も最高でした!また来年もよろしくお願いします! pic.twitter.com/1g1hjgIzYS— SAKA-SAMA公式 (@sakasama_info) December 29, 2018
There being no vocals makes this OWARANAIDE YORU demo tough to figure out:
This WILL-O’ thing, your guess is as good as mine:
A little live look at Zeikin5%:
The Devil ANTHEM girls finally get their own Twitter accounts:
新年明けましておめでとうございます。
本年よりメンバーのTwitter、個人アカウントを開設させていただきます。
今年もDevil ANTHEM.をどうぞよろしくお願いします。KURUMI.:@DANTHEMKURUMI
AIRI.:@DANTHEM_AIRI
AKIRA.:@DANTHEMAKIRA
YUME.:@DANTHEMYUME
KAEDE.@DANTHEMKAEDE
#デビアン pic.twitter.com/CoWdJUsIiS
— Devil ANTHEM. (@devilanthem) December 31, 2018
The person who brings me a copy of this from Kaishin no Ichigeki will be paid well in delicious seasonally appropriate cookies:
会心ノ一撃の新しいアルバムもゲットできてホクホクしてます😇 pic.twitter.com/E5HTQRM3KS
— ましろんぬ(zzz…)🐧🌻 (@_marsh_ma110w) January 4, 2019
No, they won’t be poisoned, you weirdo
Prepare for a 2019 filled to the gills with DAIDAIDAI:
【明けましておめでとうございます。】
代代代は新体制6人で活動を展開致します。新体制初の音源『そういえばFOREVER』『8BEAT GANG』をワンマン公演2/23『白い夜』3/3『黒い朝』にて限定販売致します。
本年も何卒よろしくお願い致します。https://t.co/wEWoRmIbnD pic.twitter.com/buvHbyWLr0
— 代代代 Official info. (@daidaidai_info) December 31, 2018
Idol in Focus
This week’s Idol in Focus is Yanakoto Sotto Mute, who are going all the way in on this whole business of being cooler and better than everybody else alive, truly the perfect modern idol. This interview just about seals it:
And then this live, may the gods help you, is like the backboard-shattering dunk that turns opponents’ wills to jelly:
I missed Yanamyu when they were in California. Some very rich crazy person needs to please pay for them to come play a ton of gigs in the 95 Corridor so that I can see them.
Dig on this interview with THERE THERE THERES:
So Re:LAYz seems like a whole barrel of monkeys:
Ricca in Malaysia:
マレーシアでのライブ動画👀🎬
・KAMENエボリューション
・I swear#JAPANEXPOASIA pic.twitter.com/vH9NogOL5M— 立夏-Ricca-🌹🎧 (@ricca0702) January 4, 2019
Imagine that you’re in some makeshift backroom lounge somewhere, and FRUITPOCHETTE wanders in to cut a promo:
明日1/6はついに!
『孕みと猟美』~新年特別企画”ハラミのジャンvs FRUITPOCHETTE” Band Confrontation~@ 松山SALONKITTY
開場19:00/開演19:30
生バンドでハラミのジャンさんと対バンです。遅れないようにきてね!
あした松山サロンキティでお会いしましょう。お待ちしております🤘🏻 pic.twitter.com/c2HR5dtnVJ
— FRUITPOCHETTE 公式 (@fruitpochette2) January 5, 2019
I hate that there isn’t enough 969 in the world:
2018年、969を支えて頂いたファンの皆様、関わって頂いた全ての方に感謝します。ありがとうございました🔥🔥🔥 #クロック pic.twitter.com/0YxpSN210K
— 969【新メンバー募集中】1/5(土)ちりめん生誕ワンマン (@969official) December 31, 2018
I haven’t made a big enough deal out of them in like a week, so HAMIDASYSTEM it is!
A very happy new year’s greeting from Yukueshirezutsurezure:
新年明けましておめでとうございます!変化の多かった2018年でしたが、2019年は今まで以上に強く攻撃的なゆくえしれずつれづれをお届けできるようメンバー一同頑張っていきたいと思います!本年も何卒よろしくお願いいたします!#ゆくえしれずつれづれ pic.twitter.com/Yrj63mDJgU
— ゆくえしれずつれづれ (@yukuetsurezure) January 1, 2019
Or how about NEO JAPONISM?
https://twitter.com/NEOJAPONISMinfo/status/1080427354638278657?s=19
Just remember that First Summer Uika is the world’s greatest divinity:
ヘッドホンの上からでもOK✌️#とれせん pic.twitter.com/bTVk8KZiiG
— ファーストサマーウイカ (@FirstSummerUika) January 3, 2019
Have a great weekend!
finally some love for Zeikin 5% again.. so much has happened with them last year.
many lineup changes, loads of sick live videos that now got removed again.. a new MV for an old song. infultrating the Idol scene quite a bit too.
recently Maimo got in a big fight with Aprodite management and fans after playing a gig with them. what exactly happened i dont know, but it got quite nasty from Aphrodite’s side.
Aphrodite’s management gets into fights with everyone xD
i noticed that yeah, went to the profile to see if the tweets where still up and the first tweet i saw was them attacking someone random for calling the group boring or something like that.