Banner image: BNSI.
I’m hanging out in Vegas this weekend, so I’m going to keep the preamble short: welcome to your 486th consecutive weekly digest of chika idol news, releases, disbandments, and unexpected revivals.
YURAPICO is returning to the US alongside Aonyan, Yurimaru, and CANO and SARI form yuomenosay. They will all be at the OC Japan fair on April 4th.
Zenbu Kimi no Sei da. is nearing the end of their marathon European tour. They are in Paris today after spending the week in the UK. Tomorrow they head for Amsterdam before the tour final in Cologne, Germany on Monday.
Broken By the Scream announced an extensive European tour of their own for this summer.
We got the debut MV and first album from the new Pour Lui project, PIGMONZ.
One of the most highly anticipated albums of the year is finally here: the Queen of Idol Punk, MAD JAMIE, has released HYPER NATURAL after a short delay.
While on the topic of idol royalty, it seems undeniable now that SITUASION have officially picked up the Rave Queen crown dropped by MIGMA SHELTER.
CYCLONISTA, leaders of the Nagoya punk idol scene, have dropped a new EP.
The new animated MV from Hellzapoppin’ comes with English lyric translation if you hit the CC button.
THE ORCHESTRA TOKYO released an MV for one of their best songs from 2023.
A live PV from NEO JAPONISM following a short MC by Nao.
Another week, another MV to dance along to from FOKALITE.
Still one of the best kept secrets in chika idol, RETRORAIN share a PV with us.
Makafushigi Henkakusha -DeathDeath- release an MV about the quest to answer the eternal question: “How do I get paid to stay at home and do nothing?”
Circle Lychee’s more adult-themed unit, verotica dropped a new MV.
Meet nemco, who just celebrated her fourth anniversary as a solo rock idol from Kanto, but is making her Homicidols debut thanks to being discovered by BobIsRandom over on the Homcidols Discord server.
Let’s check in with rookie unit BNSI (derived from, “bonsai”), the group whose ambitious goal is to subtract unwelcome noise from the world so we may grasp on to what is truly important in and live in the present. They have just released this MV for their new single.
Oshiloss Corner
On Thursday it was annouced that Tensai Uyu-sama would graduate from Odoro effective immediately. Ren Nekota and Kimura Omaru. will be graduating on May 14th following the unit’s performance at the Chelsea Hotel.
Nyaruchi has been dismissed from BrainBeat “due to actions that violated the terms of the contract,” namely, “working or being involved in restaurants and other establishments that involve customer service” without prior approval.
Yuuyu Asahina and Momo Amano have been dismissed by MOON RABBiTS as “incidents have been identified that make it difficult to maintain a relationship of trust.”
Most of BiSH showed up for the last live of BiTE A SHOCK.
Oshifound Corner
After the ambiguous end of 8BitBRAIN, CmajorWorks has rebooted the group as 8bitZERO. They debut tomorrow.
BABYMETAL or, more specifically, SU-METAL are featured in this collaboration with Tatsuya Kitani proving that Suzaka Nakamoto would have a thriving career as a vocalist in any genre.
Meet the new Hikicomoteikoku unit, SICXXX.
PANDAMIC, the unit with the name most perfectly balanced between cute and unfortunate, is rebooting as PANDA CLUB.
https://twitter.com/pandamic6/status/2031686753174867986
