Riko Yamagishi and Yumeno Kishimoto announce their intent to graduate from Tsubaki Factory Well, I sure picked a hell of a day to skip my normal routine of checking several online H!P content sources (mm-bbs, Twitter and H!P Fans discord) before heading to work. And while the double graduation of Riko and Kishimon was a hell of a thing to...
Tsubaki Factory – “Idol Tenshoku Ondo” As with Tsubaki Factory’s previous song, it’s taken over a week for me to review the final track from their latest single — which might as well be a year with the speed at which pop culture moves in 2022 — but the reason for this delay is different from the last. Whereas “Yowasa...
Tsubaki Factory – “Yowasa ja nai yo, Koi wa” There’s a reason I’m only now getting around to reviewing this song, a full two weeks from the day the video went live, and it’s not because life got in the way or I was taking a break from H!P. It’s because I didn’t have strong feelings one way or the...
Tsubaki Factory – “Adrenaline Dame” Sometimes changes creep up on you, almost imperceptibly, masked by the greater familiarity of presence until one day you look up and say “hey, when did that happen?” Other times, changes are immediate and jolting. The changes of Tsubaki Factory’s image from awkward teens to somewhat insecure young ladies to, by last year, confident young...
In the Hello! Project’s typical feast-or-famine fashion, four H!P related clips have dropped on YouTube in the past five days: two official solo covers and two very unofficial radio rips. The dam is about to break on H!P content, and the first dribbles through the cracks are solo covers from Juice=Juice n00b Kisaki Ebata and Tsubaki Factory n00b Yuumi Kasai,...
I’ve avoided writing about the new members selected for Juice=Juice and Tsubaki Factory because I didn’t really have too much to say in the immediate wake of the announcement, but now that we have some audition footage, I have something I can sink my teeth into. First off, I’m stunned at how many girls were added to both groups (not...
TSUBAKI FACTORY – 2nd Step For their first three years as a major act, Tsubaki Factory had been the model of stability and consistency within the Hello! Project, in terms of both song quality and lack of group drama. But a week prior to the release of their seventh single, someone discovered and made public the secret Instagram account of...
It’s New Release Season at the Hello! Project, and we have radio rips of all new songs from the forthcoming Angerme single, and official teaser videos featuring all new songs from Tsubaki Factory’s new album, which is only two days from dropping. Without getting too far into the weeds on either release, let’s see what we’ve got. TSUBAKI FACTORYTsubaki Factory’s...
State of the Hello! Project Address With 2020 finally in our rearview mirror, we can look forward to a fresh start for all of the Hello! Project groups and idols going forward. 2020 was a strange and turbulent year that saw H!P wave goodbye to a slew of talented idols, many of whom seemed to leave well before their time....
The sixth major single from Tsubaki Factory is so Tsubaki Factory, and I mean that in a positive way. Sure, they’re channeling “Teion Yakedo” on “Dakishimerarete Mitai”, which shouldn’t be too surprising considering both were written by the same team (Kodama Ameko and Ohashi Riko), but “Dakishimerarete Mitai” is more subtle and restrained in terms of both composition and arrangement....
Hmmm… And now Momona is leading ME:I I suspect HP scraping the bottom of the barrel is why ambitious talents…
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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