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.
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.
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.
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.
℃-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.
Ex Oha Girl, Taira Yuuna is co-starring a new commercial for Y!mobile service along with a serious looking cat dressing a police uniform. This is the video of the 15 seconds CM, and after that there behind scenes footage and a final comment by Yuuna and the cat.
Today was released the 32nd episode of GREEN ROOM, the web show that features all the things related to Up Front Agency, including current and former groups of Hello! Project and many more. In this episode we can watch C-ute’s and Hello Pro Kenshusei’s rehersal, Morning Musume’s concert director preparing the stage and Up Up Girls (Kakko Kari) backstage make up.
The end-of-year special edition of the CLASSIC ROCK magazine is on sale and in the cover it features several of the most important faces in the world of rock this year, including BABYMETAL… and the pop Francis. Check below the full cover.
This week’s Hello! Project Station (Haro!Sute,ハロ！ステ) is hosted by ANGERME’s Tamura Meimi and Kobushi Factory’s Hamaura Ayano. It starts with a performs by C-ute, they show a new song titled Jounetsu Ecstasy (情熱エクスタシー) from their new album °Cmaj9 that will be released on December 23. Then, some footage from Fukuda Kanon’s graduation performance at Nippon Budokan, she leaves a message in the behind the scenes footage. After that, ANGERME performs one of their Indie singles (as S/mileage) Suki-chan. Then there’s a live performance from Country Girls in the Kashiwa PALOOZA event. And finally, it’s the turn for Morning Musume’s Haga Akane to show her hair arrangement.
Kakusei WOW WOW (覚醒WOW WOW) is the second single of the Idol group Devil ANTHEM. and it will be released on December 15. This relatively new group is formed by 5 girls, AI, SATSUKI, KURUMI, NANOHA and RIRIKA. Their sound is a bit rockish and speedy, their costumes are cute, but devilish, much like cute Halloween costumes. Their first song was titled Devil Anthem ~Kimi No Heart Wo Seifuku-Chuu~ and was released on September 27 this year. The music videos for both singles have been posted on records youthsource channel on youtube.
the official website for the Rock/Pop Band formed by Kuromiya Rei (vocals) and her sister Kuromiya Aya (bass) was updated with their first music video for one of their new songs 14sai Byou (十四歳病). BRATS released their first single on April 10, this year but the band has been active (more or less) since 2011. Originally formed by four junior idols, BRATS has seen changes in it’s align, original members Gotou Seira (guitar) and Maria (drums), leaved the group in August and November of 2013 respectively. A new member named Hiyori joined this year with the release of their first single to play the guitar.
Last Friday, Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku’s official youtube Vevo channel was updated after several months with the music videos for their two newest singles that they released this year, Natsudaze Johnny (夏だぜジョニー) and Superhero (スーパーヒーロー). Natsudaze Johnny was released on June 17 as one limited edition, one regular edition and an online edition. Superhero was released on October 21 with two Limited Editions and one Regular Edition.
It’s been announced the first stage musical based on Fushigi Yugi, the manga created by Watase Yuu. This will be the first of a two part proyect and it will be titled Fushigi Yuugi ~Ake no Shou~. The stage play will run from April 8 to 15 next year in the Owlspot Theatre of Tokyo. there will a total of 15 performances. The company that’s running this adaptation have worked before in other stage play adaptations of this manga but this is the first musical.
