Featured Image: Maison de Queen.
It’s October and the Idol Halloween Season has officially begun! Halloween lives are already happening and Twitter feeds have begun to fill up with idols in Halloween costumes. Idol Halloween is arguably the biggest idol holiday of the year (competing only with Idol X-Mas and Idol April Fools) but it is undisputably the most bloody, hence Homicidols’ favorite. This year I will actually celebrate Idol Halloween in Japan! I am very excited to be able to check that item off my bucket list.
But, you don’t have to fly all the way to Japan to see idols! Some may be appearing near your, like:
If you are in LA today, I highly recommend making your way to the Plum Valley Idol Fes to see Taiwan’s NO FACE NO REaLiTY (who has graced these pages multiple times) and Ruka Banana. They will be appearing alongside LA’s top kaiga idols including local powerhouse Moe↗Age! and the always quirky and delightful Kiki.
14th Generation Toilet Hanako-san, Satanic Punish, and Ayame Oguma have successfully destroyed the Netherlands and are now heading for Cologne (tickets here).
Isiliel launches the final leg of her 2026 world tour next week.
The new song from PIGMONZ was written with crowd participation in mind.
Here’s a free dose of YA’ABURNEE in the hopes of getting of you hooked in time for their mini album drop on Halloween.
We are already on record stating that “scenario” by Maison de Queen is one of the best singles of 2027, but they released an MV in an effort to convince the unbelievers.
Much of the BELLRING Girls Heart catalog can be found enshrined in the Chika Idol Hall of Fame, so any new addition to their mythic legacy has a lot to live up to. The foundational unit’s new EP, Noir, measures up to the task.
Almost a year into the revival of Melancholic Cinderella Story, we’re stilled thrilled that they picked up where they left off.
AHNE, the brand new “ultimate cutting-edge girls group project” from Tribu and the producer of SAZANAMi Λug., dropped their very first album on the eve of today’s debut one man live.
Verotica get NSFW in their MV for the hyperock “Ticatica.”
Ill is lost in their head and wants you to join them in there.
TENRIN rocked their 6th anniversary band set.
Asls are stunning in their new red outfits in this mesmerizing Dance MV.
XINXIN somehow successfully mix electro swing and metal in their excellent new single.
Mio Monster kicks off the Idol Halloween season with her new song, “Love Zombie.”
GREAT MONKEYS goes full punkabilly and it’s as fun as a barrel of you know what.
AQ released a Live MV in the lead up to the release of their second album this week, and second anniversary live next week.
Drawry. celebrate their one year anniversary of being lovely.
Sweet revenge false idol-pop project LOVEIZNOTENOUGH may very well want to kill you.
Last but not least, here’s the latest from the mask girls of KAMENJOSHI.
Oshiloss Corner
Speaking of KAMENJOSHI: Tomoka Igari is hanging up her mask and leaving Alice Project in the spring.
Mikoto Doufuku is leaving Axelight on November 30th.
The management of Scura announced that, “due to mismanagement on the part of the management team,” the unit is going on hiatus for the rest of the year while they figure out just what the hell they’re doing.
IVY has not only fired Yuno Arisu, they are scrubbing her from existence, removing all recordings with her voice to be re-created without her. There is no hint of what specific “conduct that has deeply betrayed our trust” she committed, but it was undoubtedly really, really, bad: “Due to this incident, all the days we spent together—which should have been happy ones—have been turned into dark memories, and all members and staff are feeling profound sadness and intense outrage.”
Yuka Hinata is graduating from AIBECK on November 10th.
Kanako is graduating from HATENO on November 3rd.
sommeil sommeil is also calling it quits in the spring.
Oshifound Corner
The venerable SHINGEKI is conducting auditions for a reboot
Emiru Kurihara is returning from hiatus and rejoining Kingsari this month.
