Good morning! I almost forgot it was Saturday — the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA was this past Thursday, but I’ve been off work since Wednesday and very deliberately avoiding things that required me to think or do too much. Rhythm’s off, sleeping in … oh hey, suddenly it’s the weekend! Fortunately, this is a busy time in idol in general, so I have lots of things for you to peruse when there’s little else very interesting to do.
One thing to do is going to be the Best Of voting, which I can tell you is imminent because part of why this Weekender is a few minutes late is that Team is finalizing the Team picks that we use to filter the noise from the community nominations (and also do ourselves completely independently for the staff and personal picks). The only thing I think I can guarantee for you is that we’re going to see a doubled-down diversity in winners like we finally achieved last year. It bodes well for this thing we all like!
Anyway, get to it. It was kind of hastily put together, but it’s still a lot of good stuff!
Worst Weekender Ever
Prepare yourself for Yanakoto Sotto Mute’s first major full-length:
【「Beyond The Blue」予約・購入者様特典のお知らせ】
12/23発売のアルバム「Beyond The Blue」限定盤または通常盤の予約・購入者様対象でオリジナルA2ポスターをプレゼント!
新アー写も公開!!
対応店舗様の情報はHPからチェック!https://t.co/oePXnmTRrq pic.twitter.com/mH87oyVTKx— ヤなことそっとミュート (@YanakotoSM) November 27, 2020
There’s never a good reason to not share any of RAY’s multiple max-length streams:
Now that I’ve been properly introduced, I think it’s getting to be time to talk more about Her knuckle:
I don’t care if it’s really late, this is awesome work by Himegami CRISIS:
We’ll have a lot more on it, but just in case you forgot that INUWASI‘s new EP is out on Monday:
[INUWASI – 1st MINI ALBUM]
「Aquler」
2020.11.30(月) Release
・ジャケ公開 / Art Work – @gairin
・サブスク等での先行配信 – 2020.11.24(火)予定
・計6曲収録crier[MUSIC VIDEO]https://t.co/jjrwvmCX4L pic.twitter.com/ZBcNTBVLsl
— INUWASI (@INUWASI_O) November 20, 2020
You may notice a bit of a Best Of trend due in no small part to Chiaki just cranking out gems this year:
At least once per month I must THIS IS NATS:
NELN making the sausage:
Oh look, another new Candy GO!GO! single:
【info~New Single!!】
★CANDY GO!GO!
活動10周年の〆、リリース!
「Since 2010~」12月9日発売!!
・TYPE-A、B 各3曲入<インストア>
12月8日~13日迄、連日開催予定!*今年最後のバンド主催
11月30日O-NEST(渋谷)にて開催、
予約受付中~特典付き!!https://t.co/oZ61losboy#CANDYGOGO pic.twitter.com/slgyTPU7i6— 【公式】CANDY GO!GO!@11/30重大発表!! (@onecandygogo) November 24, 2020
Pretty cool of Dempagumi.inc to do a number and video that would’ve been super exciting five years ago:
(for instance, like something STARMARIE would have done, so … this is the first STARMARIE I’ve seen in ages):
Wyenra’s been doing, uh, these things:
This is self-aware on so many levels:
some kinda anime theme tune intro@BABYMETAL_JAPANhttps://t.co/kKSvmwYu7o#BMTHS3 #posthumansurvivalhorror #bringmethehorizon #BABYMETAL pic.twitter.com/hUipSuucxg
— Bring Me The Horizon (@bmthofficial) November 27, 2020
More NEO JAPONISM dance practice:
Producers need to stop trying to do these things when the sound quality is this bad:
However, yandoll does it kind of deliberately, so:
I watched way more of this ostensibly Oyasumi Hologram/Goodnight Records video than I ordinarily would because I kept hoping for 8-chan to show up, or like Younapi to arrive and announce herself as the new half of the duo or something:
SAKA-SAMA!
For anybody who forgot how boss my girl is:
【NYLON1月号】
BiSHティザームービー公開💖
最後はセントチヒロ・チッチのムービーだよ😍✨@BiSHidol @Chittiii_BiSH11.27発売のNYLON JAPANのNYLON guys表紙は#BiSH ⛓❤️⛓
付録には両面ポスター付き!🔽予約は下記URLからhttps://t.co/jPxZOZ2qp5#nylonjapan #BiSH #セントチヒロチッチ pic.twitter.com/tuxNuUsFt0
— NYLON JAPAN (@NYLONJAPAN) November 25, 2020
I enjoyed it:
This is for you 3776 people:
Have a great weekend!