Good morning! Is everybody having a nice holiday season so far? Here at Maniac Mansion, it’s been a (frankly, annoying) non-stop rigamarole of visiting people and cooking and going to see GWAR and long-term planning and the like. I am beat. And, wouldn’t you know it, idol decided that this was the Christmas week to actually be fairly active and interesting! So while I tried to capture as much of the engaging stuff from a wild week, I didn’t get anywhere near all of it. And, knock on wood, we’ll get to cover a couple of these things in more depth in the next day or so. And definitely stay tuned for the Year in Review in Review, coming … Monday or Tuesday. Probably Monday.
I’m personally gassed and staring a long day of driving and brunch and driving and dinner and driving in the face, so I’ll cut it short. Go play the Fun, naturally, and then get down into this big ol’ mess. Love your idols.
But Where Is Everything?
If you hadn’t seen yet, next year’s Tokyo Idol Festival is being mercifully moved to October. This is good news for everybody’s health; I feel that all we lose in this exchange is excuses to make puns about the Heat Garage:
TIF2020開催決定‼️<初の10月開催>
TOKYO IDOL FESTIVALは、2020年10月2、3、4日、お台場・青海周辺エリアにて開催することが決定いたしました‼️
詳細は追って発表いたします。https://t.co/8ZCvYK9GJk#TIF2020#10月です#お台場 pic.twitter.com/xkpPFplCZQ
— TIP&TIF 公式 (@TIP_TIF_staff) December 17, 2019
Yamaguchi Kassei Gakuen, who never age or change in any way, are releasing their fifth(!) album in February; here’s the lead MV:
Our friend and yours Rain went to Bangkok to see the immaculate Yanakoto Sotto Mute and wrote a thing about it:
new blog post:
Yanakoto Sotto Mute in Bangkok, Day 1#ヤなことそっとミュートhttps://t.co/fm9H8875qs
— RxC (@raincontreras) December 27, 2019
This Q’ulle special feature broke my damn heart:
Who doesn’t enjoy some nice CY8ER?
Okaki got herself a guest vocal spot here:
MALIKLIYA 1st full album 誄-condolence-
コミケ12/31西H02b
2,000円
9曲+CDのみ新居昭乃”昼の月”カバー収録
Guest vocal: 柿崎李咲 @kakizaki_risaki
Art work: イヂチアキコ @akiijiko
Malikliya logo design: リブユウキ @yuhkiICDD
その他:私 pic.twitter.com/X1yPrqcA6D— 修平 Shuhei/Shuhei Malikliya (@shuheiMLKLY) December 23, 2019
I hope you all enjoy the new one from Emomomomo more than I did:
They lost a SODA but gained a new single at their one-man last weekend; I speak of course of CROSSNOESIS:
【重大発表1】
ニューシングル今春リリース決定5月29日(金)1周年ワンマンライブ開催
詳細後日発表#クロスノエシス#クロノス pic.twitter.com/6eriWnKlxf— クロスノエシス (@CROSSNOESIS) December 21, 2019
Inoue Yume is still the best thing that ever came out of 969:
This photo:
ステージに全部置いてきた pic.twitter.com/FTAbvRlRn4
— 星熊南巫(我儘ラキア) (@rakia_minami) December 28, 2019
Idol in Focus
This week’s Idol in Focus is nobody because I only looked at Twitter like twice over five days. Instead …
Clip Corner
Here’s a very good cut of 15GERM:
Also excellent I.D.And FlyLooM:
BURST GIRL:
第9回目「爆裂集会」
@新宿レッドノーズ
爆裂女子🐶🐹🐻🐺🦩今日は最初から最後までクライマックスだった🍩🍩
ヤバすぎ😊😊
全部動画あげたいが😭😭
全員が振り切れてる最狂のファンタスティックという言葉が似合う🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻#ゆらぴこ🐶#りんちゃま🐹#都子🐻#路亜🐺#あんく🦩最高で最狂🥴#爆裂女子 pic.twitter.com/Vk60vZlg6j— ゆうたろう🦍あだ名しげる🦍 (@yutarou01070) December 27, 2019
The goddess-level work of HAMIDASYSTEM:
This is excellent GARUDA:
I probably haven’t mentioned Kozuki Serena in literal years, but here you go anyway:
前回のアニソンワンマンのセトリからもたくさん歌います!
アイドルファンもアニソンファンも入り乱れて楽しみましょう!
フロアはめちゃくちゃ広いので、皆さん思い思いの楽しみ方で!
静かに見たい人だって大歓迎!アニソンの予習はこちらのハッシュタグから↓#アニクラせれちゅ pic.twitter.com/uqBgQgfpgQ
— 上月せれな@元旦BLITZワンマン (@Serena_Kozuki) December 28, 2019
We don’t get a lot of SHINGEKI live video, so:
Killing it as always with Devil ANTHEM:
Get a little denpa in your life from Anthurium:
Our Eternal Oshi is getting herself involved on some really interesting stuff:
【トレーラー公開✨】
2020.1.18-19
Manhattan Attitude第3回ダンス公演
「重なり 往くさき」ホームページhttps://t.co/AUtQ00Y88U
チケットご予約https://t.co/Hce2sAUt6s
公演当日まで1ヶ月を切りました!
トレーラーぜひご覧ください😊https://t.co/AfxvEY3gnP pic.twitter.com/TQPDWwgQd2— Manhattan Attitude (@manhattitude_) December 22, 2019
New MV from tipToe.:
The final look for Party Rockets GT:
Party Rockets GT 新ビジュアル解禁 pic.twitter.com/afEHII6gbq
— Party Rockets GT | パティロケ (@Party_Rockets) December 28, 2019
You’ll Melt More! showing both how the sausage gets made and also how small Younapi is in real life:
We usually skip over BiSH items in this space just because there are dozens every week, but, uh, here you go!
【『LiNG LiNG wo FUCK and FUCK』発売決定】
『FUCK and FUCK』最新号「LiNG LiNG wo FUCK and FUCK」発売決定!撮り下ろしは服部昌孝によるスタイリング/写真家の水谷太郎が撮影!
只今より予約受付開始!
※予定冊数に達し次第、受付終了
チェックよろ!SW通販サイトhttps://t.co/OqI36ohXT2 pic.twitter.com/cPzCUMMKkk
— BiSHオフィシャル (@BiSHidol) December 24, 2019
I have no idea what this was, but it looks like it was fun:
Aphroditeさんに企画して頂きました🎄
Cadeau de la nuit sacrée
~聖なる夜の贈り物~クリスマスコスチュームのAphroditeさん、最強でしたね😵
音に拘った3組のライブお楽しみ頂けましたでしょうか😊
お越し下さいました皆様、有難うございました🙇♀️🙇♀️ pic.twitter.com/qS9PuDorpj
— LiLii Kaona(リリカオ)【公式】2020/4/26(日·昼)月見ル君想フ3rdワンマン! (@LiLii_Kaona) December 24, 2019
A very special message from Atarashii Gakkou no Leaders:
Have a great weekend!
This is terrible