Good morning! Man, I may state a hard preference for autumn as my season of choice, but this rough midpoint of Actual Spring is something else. The air is cool but the sun is out and it’s just colors on top of colors on top of BIRDS SINGING OUTSIDE MY WINDOW FROM PREDAWN TIL THE STARS COME OUT. Savage. Like, I don’t begrudge you all your reasons to sing, and yeah it’s kind of my fault for encouraging bird habitat around Maniac Mansion, but still. Let a man sleep a little. It’s bad enough that billions of cicadas are due to arrive basically any day now and given us six full weeks of awful cicada hell-sounds.
I’ll be honest with you, gang: This is a really light Weekender! Lots of time demands in the first place, and also it seemed like idol kind of chilled out after a busier period. And that’s fine. There have been 229 others of this thing, they’re not all going to win awards. Just prepare yourself accordingly.
But I’m now off to see to some auto repair and then get my final COVID shot! If you haven’t done the latter, please do it as soon as your local authorities will allow, so that you can be safe!
There Is No Safety
Somebody with more energy than me and more time than sense in general write the blog post that discusses whether WACK has full-on jumped the shark OR if it actually broke the mainstream:
Yuki Kashiwagi, of AKB48, has announced on YouTube that she will join with all 7 WACK groups, to participate in a project to create new songs. The 29-year-old's single last month was produced by WACK's Junnosuke Watanabe. https://t.co/F9j3UiMwQW pic.twitter.com/49KnH0SSeR
— J-Pop Project News (@JPopProjectNews) April 9, 2021
Upcoming single from BiS that’s sure to be very good:
【BiS 新シングル詳細 & 新A写解禁!!】
5/26(水)発売、
2nd SG「TOUCH ME / タイトル未定」の「タイトル未定」となっていた楽曲タイトルが「 LOVE 」に決定!!「TOUCH ME / LOVE」詳細
▷https://t.co/q3CDguSseLチェックよろ。#BiSに触れろ pic.twitter.com/kipYEDbWoD
— BiS−新生アイドル研究会-オフィシャル (@BiSidol) April 14, 2021
If you’d told me that ZOC had never previously released a full (original) album, I’d have made a really confused face, like I did when I saw this:
【お知らせ】
初のオリジナルフルアルバムリリース決定💿
6月より全国22会場42公演に及ぶライブハウスツアー開催決定🎵詳細はHPをご覧ください❤️https://t.co/gBHeqf3eSa pic.twitter.com/PJZ2Dat3Wx
— ZOC (@ZOC_ZOC_ZOC) April 15, 2021
Also, the boss is releasing a bunch of stuff, she busy
Yeah, new NaNoMoRaL!
They’re really going to milk every last possible thing from the last generation of WILL-O’, aren’t they?
💐
Coming Soon…🎧
Face Myself by WILL-O'https://t.co/Xn5zL3HLkO#WILL_O pic.twitter.com/K6llcdoqXp— WILL-O' #WILL_O (@WILLO_info) April 11, 2021
Who is this, and why don’t they have anything else on YouTube?
Which wave of ska is this?
These outfits though:
「tour 不正」を駆け抜ける最新アー写です。
■hair&make
TOMOKA SASAGAWA(@TOMOKA0923)■photo
小松陽祐(https://t.co/2ucq1WuAFf)#代代代 pic.twitter.com/WKCvgR3KkN— 代代代 Official info. (@daidaidai_info) April 14, 2021
Idol in Focus
This week’s Idol in Focus is Land mine, who haven’t actually debuted yet but are about to. Nevertheless, we already have several different “guide” track demos to highlight the music they’ll be working with, including these two new ones:
【オリジナル曲情報】
Land mine
『ごろにゃ〜極』
guide vocal versionをYouTubeにアップしました💊
是非ご視聴ください❤︎❤︎
・+・・・・+・・・・+・・・・+
Land mine
デビューLIVE2021.5.22
・+・・・・+・・・・+・・・・+
『ごろにゃ〜極』
guide vocal version↓https://t.co/F2kt7I8onO pic.twitter.com/dgzL2xIZv4— Land mine (@landmine_boooom) April 13, 2021
【オリジナル曲情報】
Land mine
『殿へ』
guide vocal versionをYouTubeにアップしました💊
是非ご視聴ください❤︎❤︎
・+・・・・+・・・・+・・・・+
Land mine
デビューLIVE2021.5.22
・+・・・・+・・・・+・・・・+
『殿へ』
guide vocal version↓https://t.co/HY1KbsUlga pic.twitter.com/ZicSz4AYiQ— Land mine (@landmine_boooom) April 13, 2021
And in case I forgot to mention it before, the members-to-be do have their own identities:
【新アイドルユニット/東京】
2021.5.22新アイドルユニットのデビューが決定!!
Land mine @landmine_boooom
〈メンバー〉
きゅあ薬てぁ@ykt_landmine
天使みゆ@miyu_landmine
高嶺レオ@Takane_landmine
姫咲ロゼ@Rose_landmine
月影カズキ@Kazuki_landmine
七星朱莉@akari_landmine pic.twitter.com/nTFh18HaXQ— McDog Works Inc. (@McDogWorks) April 2, 2021
You too will be able to stream BABYMETAL from Budokan:
世界最速配信決定!!
10 BABYMETAL BUDOKAN WORLD PREMIEREhttps://t.co/n3wjUJZbBu#BABYMETAL #BABYMETAL_BUDOKAN #10BMY pic.twitter.com/NdcZD9UpEx— BABYMETAL (@BABYMETAL_JAPAN) April 15, 2021
You don’t have to pile on, we lost AYUMIKURIKAMAKI years ago:
Meanwhile, let’s hold out hope that Minna no Kodomochan is able to return someday:
Tell me you wouldn’t be okay with Cinnamon just fronting a band full-time, though
Here’s Satanic Punish live:
I realized that I’d skipped a week in my otherwise relentless NEO JAPONISM promotion, so here:
Have a great weekend!
This one’s for Cal
Just saw where Rina Hamu is starting up a new idol group with Pan Luna.
https://twitter.com/rinahamu/status/1384079069986181123
Meant to post this tweet.
https://twitter.com/rinahamu/status/1384079069986181123
Aw fudge, you’re right. I meant to add that. 🙁