Juice=Juice reveals the preview of her new music video for Next is you!, one of the two A-sides of their new single, Next is you! / Karada Dake ga Otona ni Nattan ja nai (Next is you !/カラダだけが大人になったんじゃない). Juice=Juice sing this song under the name NEXT YOU, for their drama series Budokan.
Almost half of this week’s episode is footage of Nama Tamago Show, the concert of Hello Pro Kenshuusei.
ANGERME’s Wada Ayaka is the guest host of this week’s GREEN ROOM. The show starts with Kamikokuryo Moe, new member of ANGERME, and her vocal lessons for the song Taiki Bansei. Then there video footage of Ciao Bella Cinquetti, previously known as THE Possible, shooting the music video for their new song, Ichigo Ichie.
The offcial social media accounts of the Idol group BABYMETAL have announced that their live video of Gimme chocolate!! (ギミチョコ！！) have passed the 40,000,000 views in youtube.
ANGERME’s Nakanishi Kana and Country Girls’s Ozeki Mai host this week’s Hello! Project Station. In this episode we see footage from Sayashi Riho’s last concert with Hello! Project in the Year’s End Party they held, Buono! was present there making an special performance for the occasion.
Rev. from DVL, the Idol group of Hashimoto Kanna, released their new single titled Okujou no Sukima Shiroi Sora (屋上のスキマ 白いソラ) on January 5th. The title of this single would be translated as Roof's Gap, White Sky. This is the sixth major label single and eighth overall released by Rev. from DVL. They uploaded two versions for the music video of the main song. At the beginning of the full version video, the new member Ikematsu Airi is added to the group.
Dempagumi.inc member Mogami Moga announced her first solo photobook on November this year and it was released on December 10 in Japan. Some manga magazines had previews for this photobook that looks cute and sexy, with some cosplay, bikini and interesting outfits. Here are a few scans.
On february 15, 2016 Nippon Ichi Software will release the remake of Yuusha Shisu. (勇者死す。), the video game titled Hero Must Die in English. On the company’s official channel on youtube they published a System Introduction trailer this Sunday. The game was released originally for cellphones in 2007.
On February, 2016, Inaba Manaka will release her first Blu-ray image video titled Greeting ~Inaba Manaka~ (Greeting ～稲場愛香～) and the order period for this release started on December 25 and will be available until January 13. Inaba Manaka is a member of the uber cute idol unit Country Girls, she started in Hello Pro Kenshuusei, but on November last year she was choosen to form the new unit in Hello! Project.
Singing and dancing queens of Jpop, ℃-ute, released a live performance video for their one of the songs from their new album, ℃maj9. This song is titled Iron Heart (アイアンハート) and the video was previously released in this week’s episode Hello! Project Station.
AKB48 and NGT48 member, Kashiwagi Yuki, is featured in the cover and inner pages of the recent combined No.02-03 issue of the seinen manga magazine, Young Magazine.
This week's Hello! Project Station started with the bad news of Tamura Meimi announcing her graduation from ANGERME and Hello! Project. She stated that she wants to continue singing, but she wants to be a musical actress too. Her graduation is expected to be on spring 2016.
Japanese actress, singer and gravure model, Shinozaki Ai graces the cover of the first volume of Young Animal Magazine of 2016.
Morning Musume have released the full music video for one of the songs in their new single titled Tsumetai Kaze to Kataomoi / ENDLESS SKY / One and Only (冷たい風と片思い／ENDLESS SKY／One and Only), a triple A-side that will be released on December 29, 2015 in 6 editions: 3 regular and 3 limited editions. This will be the last single to feature Sayashi Riho who will be gratuating on December 31th.
A new episode of Hello! Project Station has been released and this time we have a preview ofr one of the song for Morning Musume's new single. The song is titled ENDLESS SKY. Then the girsl announce their concert at Anime Matsuri in Houston next year, Nonaka Miki does a great job translating the message in this video.
℃-ute's member, Suzuki Airi is featured in a TV commercial promoting the Suzunoya Kimono Shop, in these video she is, of course, wearing kimono and shelooks great, as always. In the store's youtube channel there are two versions of this CM, the 15 seconds version and the 30 seconds version.
Sakura Gakuin is celebrating it's 5th anniversary and to conmemorate it they will release a special photobook with a singular feature. The book will be titled ever after and it's pages will contain QR codes that will grant the reader with voice comment from the girls. Sakura Gakuin employs a line-up changing system with members joining and leaving. Since the group is conceived as consisting of girls up to junior high school, when a member graduates from junior high, she graduates from Sakura Gakuin too.
AKB48 has released the rest of the music video previews for their new single Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby (唇に Be My Baby), for the songs "Kimi wo Kimi wo Kimi wo...", "Yasashii place", "Madonna no Sentaku" " Nanka, Chotto, Kyuu ni..." and "Oneesan no Hitorigoto", that in addition to the two videos previously released for "Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby" and "365 Nichi no Kamihikouki". Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby (唇に Be My Baby). "Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby" is the 42nd major single (44th single overall) released by AKB48 and it well on stores on December 9.
Hashimoto Kanna is starring a new movie titled Sailor fuku to Kikan juu (Sailor Suit and Machine Gun), in this story Kanna is the daugter of a Yakuza boss that dies and she inherits the clan. This movie is based on a Japanese novel writen by Akagawa Jirō and this has been adapted previously into a live action movie on 1981 and a television series on 1982. The new movie wellbe premiered on March 5, 2016.
Today, during PlayStation Experience 2015 Square Enix showed the first footage of the Final Fantasy VII Remake that will be released on PlayStation 4. In addition the company re-released PC version of the game on PS4 today.
℃-ute’s ninth original studio album will be released on December 23, and it will be titled ℃maj9. This will come in 3 different versions, a Regular CD-Only Edition, a First Press Limited A CD+DVD Edition and a First Press Limited B CD+Blu-ray Edition. The tracklist for this album is huge, 20 songs, but it’s been two years since their last album, and normally Hello! Project groups release albums every year, so this one contains a lot of previously released songs from singles, and about 7 new songs, one of them in two different versions.
