Featured Image: REIRIE.
500 Weekenders published over the course of 500 consecutive weeks. If you do the math, it works out to just over nine-and-a-half years. That is nearly a decade of spending Friday nights digging through the dark, chaotic, endlessly weird and wonderful corners of the alternative, indie, and underground idol scene to deliver this synopsis each Saturday morning.
When The Weekender first started, groups were disbanding and re-emerging in new formations and under new names faster than we could keep track of, and most of the MVs were live performance clips and badly lit dance videos that looked and sounded like they were shot on a toaster.
Nothing has changed.
What also remains a constant in this beautiful, chaotic mess of a sprawling scene is that the raw creativity and magnetic appeal of the idols never wavers. The ever shifting groups and lineups may be as transient as cherry blossoms, but the sheer talent, DIY hustle, and sincere efforts behind the units and the music that they create remain bulletproof.
Idols have an unmatched ability: whether it’s a tiny basement stage or a massive arena, they can turn any room into the center of the universe. That hasn’t changed in the last 500 weeks and let us all hope it never does.
A few things are different all of these years later. Machine translation has improved in leaps and bounds, and idols moved away from a reliance on physical media and embraced streaming which has made their music much more accessible to fans overseas. We also now have the Homicidols Discord server where a dedicated community of opinionated wota help us unearth and share all of the global happenings in this ever-changing and madly productive genre. It takes a village to keep track of all of the new releases, tours, debuts, graduation, and reboots so a big, “Thank you!” to everyone who contributes. We wouldn’t be able to keep up with all this stuff without your help.
Most of all, whether you have been here since Weekender #1 or just stumbled in bewildered, “Thank You!” for reading Homicidols Dot Com. The idol kami have blessed us in our 500th week with many pleasant surprises for the Oshifound Corner, so be sure to read to the end.
But first up:
YURAPICO is spending the weekend entertaining Australia
Yura will then be heading off to Los Angeles and Anime Expo where she will be appearing with You’ll Melt More! and (just announced) pinponpanpon.
Zenbu Kimi no Sei Da. are heading Down Under in early July for several shows.
SITUASION dropped their new album, PALE IN FIRE, one week too late to make the Best of the 2026 (so far) post, but their MV for the title track scores the top spot on the 500th edition of The Weekender, so they will always have that.
This site’s favorite besties, REIRIE, released an MV to help us celebrate reaching 500.
In their new MV, Quubi brings two of our favorite things together: hard rock and potato chips.
YAMIKUMO release a new tune to destroy stuff to.
The new single from LΩPARA gets rave reviews.
In their sophomore year, Nagoya’s Y∀KiN have just got around to releasing their very first MV. I don’t know much else about them but, based on “noise rain,” I would like to know more.
We got an MV from CUBΣLIC and their new six member system.
Death Candy, one of the most promising debuts from late last year, drops their first MV of 2026.
Yua Hoshino of Asls wanted to make her own MV for her favorite of the group’s song. After a successful crowdfunding project, here are the results:
Affection from AVAM comes with a warning label.
CYNHN show off their raw power in this live MV.
Oshiloss Corner
Here’s the last MV from GANG PARADE to support their final album. They still have their final tour to complete, including three August dates in the UK, before their last live which they have just announced for October 10th.
They were the most elegant unit in underground idol before going major label: Dance for Philosophy, has officially come to an end after eleven years.
Reze=Ilulu was “engaged in private interactions with fans” and has left Sect effective immediately.
Oshifound Corner
The new member of SUPER MACARONI SALAD is a familiar face: it’s cyd! The kaigai idol can now drop the “kaigai” after landing a spot with YABACUBE’s Super Happy Idol Group and we are super happy for her!! Her lifelong goal of snagging the notice of URBANGARDE’s Tenma Matsunaga has officially reached its next stage.
Meet NORMALIZE, a “triple guitar / vocal sound chaos pop band” made up of Mao (RAY), Ui (XUDAN), and Kozue (BELLRING Girls Heart) with Oji Ogura (DEMON TAPES) on drums and producing.
Both fans and members of Yanakoto Sotto Mute gathered together in unofficial 10 year reunions.
HANANO (ex. BiTE A SHOCK) joined YOLOZ.
Satanic Punish, who have been on hiatus since last June, are up to something. We will find out just what later this week.
It also looks like GALS, who we last heard from in 2023 may be getting back together.
Brazil and Rere (ex. MIGMA SHELTER) are appearing in this live action, sci-fi, disco musical.
