It has been announced through avex’s official YouTube channel that THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE will finally debut January 25, 2017. Save the date!
Formed in 2014, THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE is the new Hip Hop dance and vocal unit from LDH, and are considered GENERATIONS rivals. There 16 candidates toured across the country in a Musha Shugyou (a quest of a warrior) to determine who will debut as part of the group.
It’s the 28th in Japan, which means Fantôme has been out for a bit thanks to flying get. But now it’s officially officially out across Japan.
Using the 360° YouTube player, you can scroll around and get a view of the entire room that Utada Hikaru inhabits in her “Hanataba wo Kimi ni” video, including a look behind the scenes with the video’s small production staff.
Shibushi, a city on the south-western island of Kyushu, was forced to pull an online CM intended to boost the local eel industry following criticism that it demeaned women.
The two-minute video, set to gentle piano music, shows a teenage girl dressed in a black swimsuit, swimming in an outdoor pool and asking to be fed.
In other scenes, she is seen poolside playing with a hula hoop before the advertisement takes a bizarre twist. After apparently spending a year being fattened up, she dives into the pool and transforms into an eel, offering a cheery “Goodbye” as she swims away.
It has been 12 years since Queen of Cultural Appropriation Gwen Stefani first enlisted her posse of silent Japanese girls (collectively known as the Harajuku girls), and it seems like she still doesn’t see what’s wrong with it.
In the United States, her brand new animated series Kuu Kuu Harajuku will air on Nickelodeon on October 3, 2016.
Kuu Kuu Harajuku is a production by Gwen Stefani and inspired by her Harajuku Lovers brand. It features G (Stefani) and the Harajuku Girls (Love, Angel, Music and Baby) and follows their adventures in Harajuku World. Together, the girls form the band HJ5.
With a name that references Harajuku, a geographic area in Tokyo known internationally as a center of Japanese youth culture and fashion, looking at the image above you might be wondering where the Japanese girls are. From her days with the Harajuku Girls, you can see that the school uniforms are there and one girl has hair sticks, but these “Harajuku” Girls look more like Bratz dolls than anything related to Harajuku culture.
In November of last year, in an interview to promote Kuu Kuu Harajuku with Australia’s Sunshine Coast Daily, Stefani said: “The Harajuku Girls can do anything, they can wear anything, and they can be anything.”
If that’s the case, then why is she still using the Harajuku name as part of her brand in 2016 if there is no relation, even after she has been called out for it many times?
This week’s guests were Iwasaki Hiromi, Naoto Inti Raymi, Nakada Yuji, Momoiro Clover Z, and Kokubu Hiroko.
Iwasaki Hiromi x Naoto Inti Raymi x Nakada Yuji – Shishuuki
Momoiro Clover Z – The Golden History
Naoto Inti Raymi – Overflows ~Kotoba ni Dekinakute~
Iwasaki Hiromi x Kokubu Hiroko – Taisetsu na Hito
Nakada Yuji x Ariyasu Momoka x Takagi Reni – Monroe Walk
This week’s guests were Moriyama Naotaro, Kiritani Kenta, EXILE THE SECOND, and MUCC.
Moriyama Naotaro – Natsu no Owari
Kiritani Kenta – Kanon
EXILE THE SECOND – WILD WILD WILD
MUCC – CLASSIC
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