I'm at the point where I really just don't care. What real difference is there between major and indies anyway, besides the number of CDs they sell? Is having an indies period really doing them any good? It's not something to celebrate when they're an H!P group, like "OMG someone finally recogn...

I think I would cry if Ruru joined ANGERME.

I think UFP just doesn't know how to promote non-idols. LoVendoR and Bitter&Sweet seem like they're trying to go for more of an "artist" image, yet UF has them performing at Tokyo Idol Festival every year.

Except that they'll never be as successful as Morning Musume.


I might audition for Miyabi's unit just for fun, since I missed out on all the Morning Musume auditions. (Age range for Miyabi's group is 18~22, I think).

^ Get regular edition, with all 3 CDs. If you get limited you won't get the covers.

Koi no BELL is the perfect song for J=J, and Last Kiss is one of my favorite H!P songs ever. This is gonna be good. :)

At least we'll probably get a real MV for Nen ni wa Nen (I hope). I'm so ready for this multi-A-side trend to be over though.

Guess I should do some updates now that Uta is gone: [quote="WonderBuono"] -Morning Musume- Favorite member: Nonaka Miki Favorite past member: Tanaka Reina or any of the 1st gen Least favorite member (past or present): Yoshizawa Hitomi, Fujimoto Miki, Ikuta Erina, Haga Akane Best looks: Sa...

THE Possible is changing their name to Ciao Bella Cinquetti. Apparently "cinquetti" isn't even a real word... what the heck, I'm so tired of all these pointless name changes. Source: https://www.facebook.com/notes/up-front-link/en-new-name-for-the-possible-ciao-bella-cinquetti/896354237090...

That's terrible... what's really sad is that I saw this coming. Like, the whole thing where she said she was gonna divorce him and then backed out all of a sudden... I just knew he had to be manipulating her and I suspected abuse. I swear my heart breaks for Kago every day. I hope the police are doi...

It would be me, Nonaka Miki, and Mitsui Aika; an English-speaking/singing group of course. Don't ask me to name it; every band name I've ever come up with has been absolutely terrible. :D

Don't forget Country Musume's Rinne and Asami. :)

I like it! Looks like we've had two great "Cupid" songs this year. (The other is by Oh My Girl.)

I saw Tomorrowland today. I had high hopes for it since I love Brad Bird (and pretty much anyone else who has ever worked with Pixar, haha). It was cute, but it was definitely his weakest film. The beginning was pretty awkward, but it mostly got better after that. Several scenes looked REALLY GOOD, ...

Translation of the Hello! Station announcement from Tokyo Girls Update: http://tokyogirlsupdate.com/kanon-fukuda-angerme-graduation-20150545909.html

Wow, I'm shocked. Really, in hindsight, I should have seen it coming, but for whatever reason I didn't... I always kinda thought she and Ayaka would graduate together. It's a shame, too, because I just realized within the past few weeks that she's actually a pretty talented singer, she's just always...

YESSS I love when idols and magical girls come together. :D I should get around to watching Sally the Witch sometime...


(As far as I know there's no Sally reboot in the making.)

Truthfully I don't really know much of Matsuura Aya's music outside her early singles, but I know from some concert clips I've seen that she has an amazing voice. So when I said I want her to make a new album, I really mean I want some new (good!) music to listen to so I can appreciate her voice mor...

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Plus, new albums are cool in the sense that they prove our old idols are still active but, like, isn't it sad if Nakazawa ends up stuck with enka again? 
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But.... I like enka...

Gaki has an instagram now: https://instagram.com/risa_niigaki1020/

Today's episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfJQ_c8StQ
 
Behind the scenes with Morning Musume '15, C-ute's lighting people, and Kikkawa Yuu. Guest MC is Kanazawa Tomoko.

Tsubaki Factory has their official artist page up now: http://helloproject.com/tsubakifactory/Profiles are all the same though.

Hello! Project is holding an audition exclusively for girls from Hokkaido... But, why?
 
http://www.hokkaido-audition.com/

[quote="Anderei"] Abe is putting out a new album on 6/17, titled DREAMS. This will be an original album and not covers. http://www.neowing.co.jp/product/DAKUFCW-1101 [/quote]   I just noticed looking at the Up-Front Works page that it comes with two CDs: a studio version and a live version.

I'm just glad that at least Abe is still making music. I do wish Matsuura Aya would consider releasing a new album, though.

BoA - Kiss My Lips
 
Beautiful as always. :)

^ Tsugunaga Momoko is on there, too; to the right and up from Morning Musume.

Furusato

Make It Pop is getting a second season!: http://youtu.be/FYgmg83lL_w


(I'm way behind on the episodes... haven't had time to watch any since over two weeks ago.)

First of all... it's KSS. Kenshuusei. :P


Anyway, I know pretty much nothing about any of the members, so this should be interesting to watch. Hopefully they'll have a more interesting indies debut than Kobushi. I didn't really like how they handled them.