Banner image: SICXXX.
Everyone must be distracted by cherry blossoms and forgot to upload any MVs this week. Its weird. With a few notable exceptions, there’s a dearth of new music videos to share. We still have plenty of intriguing new music and heartbreaking oshiloss news, so we are not lacking for content. Oh yeah! The WACK auditioned camp happened this week as well. We saved that bit of meh for the end.
As always, we start with the good stuff:
Next Weekend, YURAPICO will be back in LA and appearing at the OC Japan Fair alongside AONYAN, YURIMARU, and others.
Our friends at IDLE RAGE have a whole slew of idol events planned, so follow them for even more stuff to do next weekend.
https://twitter.com/iDLE_RAGE/status/2036880954997039301
PPPR!! is working on something for us overseas fans in the run up to their upcoming visit to Germany in May.
We got a powerful new live MV from our idolcore legends PassCode.
Not Secured, Loose Ends released their first new music in two years and it’s like time stopped. We need more like this please.
SICXXX., the new unit produced by Ricca Hikicomo (former member/producer of Hikicomoteikoku and ex. PLANCK STARS) released their debut single.
ponderosa may bloom delivered a pair of live MVs this week. Picking which one to feature was a nigh on impossible task.
Tamane (FOKALITE, ex. MIGMA SHELTER and BELLRING Girls Heart) has released a double-sided solo single. Here’s her performing both songs live.
AQ goes rock for their new digital single which is part three in the Land Arc for anyone who understands what that means.
DIAVEL released a pair of singles this week. The one below and “Stargazer.”
AFTERS continue to be too much fun.
I’m sure there is a simple (and, probably, obvious) explanation behind the name, “Drawry,” but I can’t but I’m always thinking it’s like when someone’s an artist and they drawry and paintry and sculptry and dabble in photographry,
I really enjoyed the new GLIM of GRAND so, ONWARD!
Yua Uchiyama (RAY) was tapped for a collaboration with minimalist dance-rock artist, WOZNIAK.
Oshiloss Corner
Clara Magura has announced the end of their current system on May 20th. The future of the members is as follows:
- Gon Anli: Graduating on May 20th
- Rin Loxo: Postponing her April 24 graduation until May 20th.
- Nagi Reizuki: Was difficult to contact, but when they finally reached her about the end of the system, she requested to graduate on March 25th.
- Mice Aoizo, Karami, Nasuzu Tsuyoi, and Alice Sinoah: Will remain members of Circle Lychee.
Neochi, who disband on Monday, gave us one last album to remember them by.
Yukine is graduating from tonalia on May 6th.
Ayano Asahi will be graduating from PRSMIN in December. After 15 years on stage, she says that she wishes to continue performing without letting her age hold her back.
Rito Nichinan is graduating from Merry BAD TUNE. in June.
Long-lived and beloved cat-maid idol unit Wasuta will disband this coming winter.
Oshifound Corner
LuciDreaM, who is currently down to two members, is leaving their management company effective tomorrow and rebooting on April 10th as a foursome. In the meantime, they have released a new Live MV from a recent band set.
gl1tch.bby, the new project of manako (killmilky, ex. BiS) and Rin (UTERO, ex. yumegiwa last girl) released a new single and MV.
MAGMAZ has unveiled their new, 5-member system. They hold their pre-debut tomorrow.
If you want to get in on the ground floor of a new idol unit meet b∞km@rk, a new discovery by BobIsRandom over on the Homicidols Discord server. They have less than 100 followers on YouTube and Twitter, so you can be an genuine early adopter. We don’t know much about them except that their motto is, “A Bookmark for Life, on This One Page” and they debut in May. They also just dropped this excellent MV.
We will end on this bit of whatever:
The audition camp to cast the next generation of WACK started last Sunday and devolved into total car wreck with remarkable speed. The only current or former member of WACK that auditioned was NAMELESS (ASP) and she was unceremoniously eliminated on day 1. By Tuesday, all but one candidate had been eliminated and Watanabe opened the auditions to anyone who could make it to the camp site on Iki Island within 24 hours. The camp has now concluded with no successful candidates.
