Well in a stunning turn of events, they're all winners.

TRIANGLE was a good play but a shit musical, honestly. The songs were all really short and uninteresting, except maybe 4 of them. The only way to acquire the full cast recording is to buy the DVD, anyway. But even if you were fine with that, I still wouldn't recommend it. However, if you're digging ...

Tracklist: 01. Roulette 02. Egoistic (エゴイスティック) 03. GIRLS PRIDE (reg A) BLACK OUT (reg B) Think over (reg C) 4-6: instrumentals Limited edition features only the first 2 tracks & their instrumentals + DVD featuring Roulette PV. GIRLS PRIDE and BLACK OUT were supposed to be on their "postpon...

Sad to see Sakurako go, she's my favorite. But I'm not surprised by her decision, she has no reason to stay in the industry. Hamachan isn't a huge surprise to me either, I'm certain I remember reading something before about her having insecurities about singing. She has my least favorite voice anywa...

[quote="JPope"] Come on, Maimai was not as bad as these girls. I don't think she was even as bad as Sayu, Konno or Koharu, tbh. Mai was like a Rika Ishikawa who didn't improve quite as much by the time she left. [/quote] Mai started fine. But the last 4 years or so of C-ute were a STRUGGLE...

Obviously she was hired for her looks and dancing ability, but it's pretty fascinating that H!P hired a girl who is COMPLETELY not made for singing. Even her speaking voice sounds choked up. Could she possibly be the worst singer H!P has ever had?

Miyo gives me such big dick energy LOL
 
Utano definitely doesn't bring down BEYOOOOONDS with her poor, poor vocals.. but it's pretty bad in such a small group. Yikes. Great performance though.

Have they really been doing ANY H!P events? They've not been guests at a Harocon or anything. (Well, Miyabi has.) They did the Buono! concerts, but I don't know if those even technically count as H!P events. That being said, I'm really happy for them, but also worried. Up Front groups slow WAY down ...

They've never performed Iroppoi Onna ~SEXY BABY~, so I'm glad they found the time to learn something new. Also the first time CG performing Shining Itoshiki Anata will be on a DVD, which I'm excited about. I'm most interested in Idol Sotsugyou Chuuijikou though, I wonder what they do. Maybe they go ...

The name(s) listed after the song title is the person(s) who chose that song to be on the album. Nothing is re-recorded, far as I know.

I liked "Are you happy?", but everything after that has been hot garbage IMO.

This song is definitely in the lower half of Tsubaki songs, IMO. They're great about putting out standout tracks, and this is just okay.


Sidenote: do you believe they have the best singers, or are you just polling the room? Lol

Live performance of Gannen Bungee Jump, from the opening act of Juice=Juice's 12/4 concert.

[quote="JPope"] BTW, they got number 2 daily on Oricon with 19,744 sold. I don't think that's to bad for a new act with only one single to their name. [/quote] Definitely. That's a little better than the first day sales of Morning Musume's 2017 album. Not to mention higher than the first W...

I quite like her singing voice, but it's definitely not versatile. So unless she sings slow songs and jazzy tunes for a whole set, I dunno what to think lol.

First Karin, and now a live tour for Tomoko. I'm truly confused. What are you up to, H!P?

Preview for "Koi no O-swing".
 
It's apparently led by Rika and Minami in the guise of their "Megane no Otokonoko" characters.
 
This album continues to snatch all of my wigs. I love it.

Oh my god. I don't know about Uwaki na Honey Pie, but I have a STRONG feeling Uta would be on Hajimete no Happy Birthday! since she was still in the group when they debuted the 2015 updated version at that year's Hinafes. I'll die if it's true.   Side note: I can't believe we've hit the end of Count...

^ Maybe no one's clicked the link, haha. I love it, it's a lot of fun.
 
The full video for Atsui! is now out.

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Nayok-Kihara on H!O posted these. Apparently the wacky shots in Atsui are all parodies from rock videos of yesteryear.

It's a level of ridiculousness that H!P has not attained in a long, long time. I'm happy with it.
 
There is also now a radio preview of "Gannen Bungee Jump": https://mobile.twitter.com/mcyc19/status/1194551225007476736

https://youtu.be/dIV05VpavRQ


The Atsui PV preview is on HaroSute. It's a journey.

They changed the cover of the limited edition. That was quick. The new one is nice, but regular edition is still best.


On a side note, Zutto Zutto was choreographed by Funaki under the name MUSU. It's nice that Up Front gives girls opportunities in the fields they're interested in.

CG made me interested in idols, period. Prior to that, I only did virtual idols (iM@S). This really guts me.

[quote="DonJuan"] ^Only Rina's solo was digital afaik, so it's not impossible for Kana to have one, too. Especially since they've been talking about her graduation since the beginning of the year. [/quote] It's a digital pre-release. The song is included on ANGERME's upcoming single as a B...

Escape and IDENTITY are really strong songs, I'm glad they picked good ones. I honestly don't like a lot of "Do me a favor", so I appreciate Airi putting her best foot forward.   I'm surprised that the single kind of followed the DMAF formula by having a "C-ute song" and a "...

We completely ignored the release of Airi's single, so I made a topic for it.
 
They've also announced her second album to be released in December.

Airi's first major single, released in 3 regular editions and 3 limited editions.   Escape PV                                         IDENTITY PV   Regular edition tracklist:   01. Escape 02. IDENTITY 03. DAYLIGHT *regular A only*       THE BRAND NEW LOOK *regular b only*       Watashi no Migigawa (...

Hina Fes 2015 is the only one that released them all separately (there were only 3 concerts as opposed to today's 4). Everything since then has been like this. If they released full recordings, it would very likely be one of these two options: 1) Each concert gets its own bluray release. About half ...