Solarblade wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:32 pm 5. Furusato / Makino

Woah. I guess we're gonna find out if she learned how to sing over the last year!

I'm honestly pulling for her based on how she handled her crash-and-burn at last year's Shinden test. I'm also looking forward to see how much Nina has progressed.

"Sugar Bomb" is more solidly in the K-pop realm than "Click" was, and doesn't stick with me as much. This is more like what I was expecting from the start, tbh.

"Sugar Bomb"

OCHA NORMA / MORNING MUSUME ROUND 1 is now live. You get 6 votes, which isn't enough even for me on this one. Hoshibe's work with MM is sparse, but spectacular. OCHA's basically fighting for the final two spots for me.

Honestly didn’t listen to the concert rip so that dance break felt like such a record scratch. It’s okay but it’s missing a pop. Like it’s not going to its full potential. The vocals just aren’t hitting me right. I feel like Karin could have added a lot to the vocals if she were still in the group....

It would appear that we are all in agreement on this one.

Last year I posted some YT vids of a guy who did voice replacement of newer H!P songs with OG voices. I think they're in the H!P spam thread, but not positive. They were pretty hit-and-miss. I haven't messed with A.I. that much myself.

EDIT: Found it

DonJuan wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:10 pm Kassa got really thin huh.

There's been some discussion on Twitter about whether the company made her lose weight or if she has an eating disorder. I'm not gonna speculate on the why, but she is really thin compared to just a few months ago.

DonJuan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:31 pm I think the world was not ready for 1oku3zenman Sou Diet Oukoku.

I know I wasn't, lol. It's one of my favorites now.

FFS.

Poll is fixed.

Here's a Twitter thread summing up Newbaki's interview in the lastest issue of UTB. https://twitter.com/realskoban/status/1776850826256101865 You can click on the date to go to the full thread, but I'm gonna post this one here just because I think it's really cool: https://twitter.com/realskoban/sta...

The first of the multi-group Round 1 polls features Juice=Juice and Country Girls. As with all the previous polls, you get six votes. I should probably keep a public tally of the winners and losers of each poll, so I'll add that to the first post some time this week. And yes, I have been keeping tra...

Shoujo Q wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:29 am One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is peaking my senses. You see a group of not Japanese names and you know you have my attention.

I see a Scandinavian sounding name and just assume I'm getting a Kpop song.

PV for Mai Ozeki's "Yes! Hare Yohou" dropped this morning:

That song is awesome. Not sure why Reina is buried so far down in the mix, though.

Those covers are very H!P . Nothing wrong with any of them, and a couple are very nice, but pretty formulaic for the company by this point. It seems like OCHA and Biyo are the only groups who get to color outside the lines in terms of cover art.

"Naimono Love" PV is live:



It's a nice looking and well-shot clip, but it feels like every other J=J and Anju vid look like this.

Not my favorite chunk of Berryz singles here.

Maki Goto x Ami Suzuki - "BABY Koi ni KNOCK OUT!"



What a long, strange trip it's been for Gocchin.

Well, shit. Please no great Biyo exodus. I think that's exactly what we're gonna get. I said something about feeling that the Biyo magic was gone a few months ago, and it seems like at least some of the girls feel that way, too. Yuhane :tears: I really liked her. I wonder if she’ll stick with Up Fro...

This is pretty cool.


Translation: Rin Kawana appears as the main character, Kaoru Gero, in the Saikyo Jump Channel voice comic “The Girl I’m Curious About Is a Frog Lover”

Seeing a vote for "Zanshin" makes me happy, because I wanted to vote for it, but there were just too many I like more. I really dig that song, though.

They all still had that baby-deer-in-the-headlights look when they were brought out at HinaFes, lol.

Here's J=J's "Naimono Love" performance at the HinaFes Angerme Premium. Somehow YT found no copyright issues, lmao! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULws4q-gKM8 Aari gets a nice feature before heading to M-line. During the stream, Chuzz said this reminded her of "Shut Up and Drive,&quo...

Hoshibe composed all three new Biyo A-sides, so that's great, lol. I'll let them simmer and add them to a later poll, or something.

First post updated with release and song info. "Hai to Diamond" is awesome. It fits Biyo's vibe without tethering them into their past, which is kind of cool given the circumstances. I know they're the "theatrical" group, but I really love seeing them in full-on idol group mode, ...

I honestly struggled between two songs for my last vote, to the point where I had to flip a coin, lol.

BLUEMOON BLUES full MV is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rA33lCPQLg This song has a very turn-of-the-century Jpop feel to me, and the decision to shoot the video in 4:3 really accentuates that sense of nostalgia. I like the song right off the rip, and I think I'll like it more with repeated l...