Angerme – BIG LOVE Since 2014, Hello! Project has stuck to a fairly consistent schedule where their groups release an album every three-ish years, and Angerme’s BIG LOVE just barely missed creeping through the 4-year window by a mere two months. I suspect the company decided to hold the album back to more closely align with the coming graduation of...
Angerme – Kuyashii wa / Piece of Peace ~Shiawase no Puzzle~ Soooo, I’ve been gone a while, eh? And I was doing so good keeping up with the new releases this year, you know, right up until I wasn’t. Ah well, there’s no internet law against late reviews (yet), so I’m gonna play catch-up starting with Angerme’s 31st single. Released...
ANGERME – “Aisubeki Beki Human Life” The third and final track from ANGERME’s soon to be released 30th single is live on YouTube, and it’s genki as fuck. “Aisubeki Beki Human Life” is pure upbeat fun in a way Anju hasn’t been since 2018’s “46okunen LOVE.” Unlike “Koi wa Accha Accha” or “Hakkiri Shiyou ze” there’s no overarching theme here...
ANGERME – “Hade ni Yacchai na!” The second track from ANGERME’s forthcoming single hit YouTube a couple of days ago, and we’re seeing a few trends developing. First, this is Anju’s third single in a row with a decidedly funk-pop track, which in and of itself is neither good nor bad. Of the three, I rank “Hade ni Yacchai na!”...
ANGERME – “Ai ・ Masho” Angerme’s 11 month release drought officially ends on May 11th with the arrival of the group’s 30th single, Ai・Mashou / Hade ni Yacchai na! / Aisubeki Beki Human Life, but the video for the lead track dropped on April 1. Up-Front didn’t fool around with this one, getting the “Fiesta! Fiesta!” team back together for...
Whew! That was a crazy March, huh? A new single, an unexpected tear-jerking remake and multiple graduation and new release announcements is a lot to pack into a single month — and we still have 11 days to go. It’s a lot to cover in one post, so I’ll try to be brief, but holy shit this is a lot...
It’s been a few weeks, but I’m back on the beat. I feel like I should be more surprised by this than I am, but it almost feels like Morning Musume has remained unchanged for even longer to me. Maybe it has something to do with all of the changes that have happened elsewhere in H!P over the same time...
Up-Front and the Hello! Project have filled the gap in their release schedule with solo videos from two of their more popular idols and two full-length videos for ad campaigns. Let’s start with the most recent and work our way backwards. Morning Musume and H!P leader Mizuki Fukumura gets her first proper (digital) solo release, a cover of KAN’s “Extra.”...
Here we go again. I feel like I might have jinxed this group when I used the headline “Angerme v2.0 (stable)” for the review of their triple-PV drop last month. It really did feel like Angerme had finally stabilized after losing six members in two years, with mid-tier members seizing new opportunities to shine, an exciting new generation bubbling with...
I’m gonna try out a new format where I comment on tweets I see from H!P Twitter that interest me beyond a single tweet response. Long Twitter threads tend to be a drag, as pithiness is the coin of Twitter’s realm, so I’ll do my long-form babbling here. I’m of two minds on this: there are times when I’m shocked...
Well! Fukumura is graduating, but only at the END of this year - LOL!
Fukumura and her cahoots are doing everything they possibly can to prolong their idoling careers. There's a certain amount of…
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