Banner image: TOKYO Tefutefu.
I haven’t really touched on it yet, but 2026 so far has been a monster of a year for new music. The sheer quantity of high quality releases has been difficult to keep up with. I will try to synthesize it all in a post soon but, for now, I’m just trying to categorize it all into overstuffed playlists.
This week is a perfect case in point with a dozen new releases from S and SS-Tier Homicidols units. I will be honest with you: so much dropped this week that I haven’t been able to listen to it all. Luckily, I have the Weekender to help keep things in order.
As always, we start with overseas tour news, which is usually good stuff. Unfortunately, this news flash dropped while I was finishing up the Weekender and directly impacts the ongoing Zenbu Kimi no Sei da European Tour: Mei Yui Mei and Nene Komochi have withdrawn from the tour and suspended all activities. Their future with the group and Codomomental will be decided after the tour.
PassCode are providing this opening theme for an anime in their signature, brutal fashion.
After spending last weekend in Thailand, SITUASION dropped a new EP upon their return to Japan.
MAZARI slip some power metal into their latest post-hardcore single
On the other side of the genre spectrum, pupa!! add an EP to the deep catalog.
Our favorite Circle Lychee unit, Clara Magura delivered an MV to promote their latest single .
meme tokyo. borrowed some guitars from somewhere and went louder than usual for their latest
One of the most consistently excellent units out there, kinopo. delivers a new single.
I’ve had this album from AVACLUB blasting in my car since it dropped earlier this week.
Dance along with FOKALITE in their latest lyric MV. It’s good cardio.
The new lyric video from ASP features a large, lonely rubber ducky.
Shirai doubles up in the MV she released for her birthday single.
In a normal week, this would definitely rank higher up the page, but ferocious upstarts NARUKAMI got a little buried by new releases from their seniors. Still, they are creating some of the best music in the genre right now, so don’t let the relative position of their latest single distract you.
AFTERS celebrated the successful completion of their one-man tour with a brand new single.
The wonderful TOKYO Tefutefu released their first single in just over a year.
Idol vocal project U3NEKO released an MV for their first song featuring tapi (aka the idol formerly knew as Kotetsu ).
Everything PLANCK STARS releases these days is in the form of an apology.
Mirror,Mirror gave us another peak at the fun they had at their 4th anniversary live.
Oshiloss Corner
The terminally underrated AKUMATICA celebrated their third anniversary and also held their last live this week. Here’s their final MV.
Following the 8th anniversary of pupa!! , Taruto Amane of will be taking a five day break from anything to do with being Taruto Amane for no particular reason.
This one was a roller coaster: ZENON announced that Amagi48 had suspended activities, deleted her SNS, and that no one was able to contact her. After getting calls from worried friends and family, Amagi48 said she was fine, reachable, and quitting the group.
HOTALOOP is dissolving in May due to the expiration of all of the members’ contracts with their current agency. The producer and all five members will be continuing activities together as a new group with new songs under a new name.
MiSAKA is graduating from one of our overseas favorites, Thailand’s ANGeVIL✟.
https://twitter.com/misaka_angevil/status/2029526837131657537
Oshifound Corner
Meet Karma, a new cursed cat idol unit that shares a few concurrent members and a management agency with scura . They debut on Monday.
PIGMONZ, was formed by prospective candidates with no idol experience auditioning in front of the legendary Pour Lui (BiS, BILLIE IDLE® , PIGGS) and veteran Yumeka (ASP, CARRY LOOSE) through a competitive process broadcast on YouTube. It has been discovered that selected member Sena not only hid the fact that she has two years of prior idol experience, but she commandeered the group’s SNS to delete comments unmasking her. While the group has decided to publicly reveal the newly uncovered information, Sena remains a member for now just two short weeks from the unit’s debut.
Io (ex. NightOwl) is relocating from Osaka to Tokyo to pursue her solo career.
https://twitter.com/io_nightowl/status/2027703341778923632
Over on the Homicidols Discord server , Chougoro discovered that, the day before graduating from Aqubi Rec, Mizuho Asakura (ex. Finger Runs, SAKA-SAMA, THERE THERE THERES, BELLRING Girls Heart ) performed a mini ATOMIC MINISTRY set.
Dorthy Drop is officially back as Dorothy∞Drop.
