Good morning! I don’t know about anybody else, but I just had one of the hardest weeks imaginable, just work-addled and stressful and barely coherent. Last night, I went to a holiday party that ended pretty early, only to get home and almost immediately pass out. Delicious. And next week’s only going to be worse! In fact, I’ll say it now: It’d be super if nothing of consequence happened.
Because! Let’s call today the last chance to add any final Best Of nominations (it’s not looking good for additions, tbh), so we can prep for real-deal voting next week. I’d like to throw in a few wrinkles but may simply be left out of time. So let’s get down to it — if you haven’t yet, play this week’s very good Fun, and then settle in for one weird-ass week in idol.
How Weird Was It?
It was so weird …
Someone got down to the driving force behind the effective end of Ladybaby:
The real story behind Rei Kuromiya quiting Ladybabyhttps://t.co/R67vQVEwyE
— Rei Kuromiya News (@kuromiya_news) December 3, 2017
Ha– Hanako-san?
海へ行ってきました🙋 pic.twitter.com/Mdd2SGCEZV
— てゐきち@しゃんだらりん (@satorihoric) December 4, 2017
sugartrap, please keep doing more:
https://twitter.com/s_tofficial/status/938736595074564096
https://twitter.com/s_tofficial/status/937200232051257344
New Devil ANTHEM — check it!
All right, who can tell me about this amazing project?
It’s the Babyraids JAPAN Super Live!:
https://twitter.com/lespros_ricopin/status/937326408283516928
Tweet of the week?
https://twitter.com/starmarie_hamu/status/938780643030319104
Himekyun Fruit Can Generation 2 went and added yet another member:
sorry, it's 8, not 7 pic.twitter.com/dyxMPbiVHv
— ポニメタ@LiSAッ子 (@ponimeta) December 7, 2017
I’ll share FunFunFun until the end of time, or until Ruru stops posting tracks to Soundcloud:
Momo!
【 貴重 】
BILLIE IDLE® モモセモモ
弾き語り動画 「正しい街- 椎名林檎」 pic.twitter.com/ZU6hwUtLHp— ファーストサマーウイカ (@FirstSummerUika) December 5, 2017
Surreal:
Forever #TeamCinnamon:
Japanese idol Cinnamon – of Minna no Kodomo-chan, known for their song "I Wish I Were Dead When I Wake Up" – on the street in Harajuku w/ all white style & large illustrated signboard #原宿 @kodomochan_47 https://t.co/attlUklPbP pic.twitter.com/KWMyRdXon4
— Tokyo Fashion (@TokyoFashion) December 3, 2017
Amazing:
@homicidols @ramenshuriken Kamen Joshi member Nanaka Kawamura won her mixed martial arts match at the Deep Jewels 18 fighting event on December 3.
Kawamura is the first active idol to participate in this type of athletic contest in the history of the Japanese idol genre.— Reign Eternal Idol (@Pureidolheart) December 8, 2017
Here she is training:
This is why you need to get into uijin:
Oomori Seiko is best:
Kindan no Tasuketsu is the most prolific thing in the world:
Sakura Gakuin managed to get another graduate into a metal project; this time, it’s Mirena in some opera doodad:
This tweet has me really excited to check out Pooping Emo someday:
【イベント公開！！予約受付中！】
DDD 2nd@池袋Space emo
12/23(土)16:00/16:30
1,500円/2,000円AIBECK
Pooping Emo
le biglemoi
NEO JAPONISM
あそびダンジョン
No,SateLight↓予約はこちら！↓https://t.co/GFYnrxTeqh pic.twitter.com/FujxSdfXNj
— DDD (@dis_ido_dep) December 2, 2017
That’s a joke, people; they’re Popping Emo
And speaking of Poppy:
Have a great weekend!
Speaking of Sakura Gakuin graduates, have you checked out Saint Snow from Love Live?
They are releasing a new single soon, preview thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF_UA3Kf5FY (THAT LAST SONG THOUGH)
Here is their song from last season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-_rLgn2O7w
Holy crap! Japanese studios just crank out these totally enjoyable tracks to support mf-ing 2D idols, and Western bands take years to write mediocre pablum. Don’t get it.
I had to Google why that sounded familiar to me (it had been a long-ass time since I checked in on the SG Reddit) — so that’s where Hinata landed! Good for her.