As previously reported, up and coming indie band Kinoko Teikoku is set to release their second full album “Fake World Wonderland” on October 29. Today, the band released the music video for the album’s second track, “Chronostasis.” The music video was shot in one take and focuses on the band’s frontwoman Sato walking down the street at night. The other members of the band make appearances in the video as well. Check out the music video for “Chronostasis” as well as the album’s cover which was released a few days ago!
On October 7, unemployed 52 year old Fujimura Hideaki of Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture was arrested on charges of violating Japanese copyright law. He had been uploading Japanese television shows onto the video streaming site Dailymotion. His uploaded content included music shows, dramas, and variety programs. The uploaded videos included content from various channels including Fuji TV, TBS, TV Asahi, and WOWOW. He had uploaded over 2600 videos using various usernames. His various Dailymotion channels had around 3 million views in total. Fukushima Prefecture’s cyber crimes unit discovered the illegally uploaded content during a cyber crimes investigation. This could have a ripple effect on international consumers of Japanese media and overseas Japanese.
V6 will be releasing their 44th single on October 22. The title track “Sky’s the Limit” serves as theme song for member Miyake Ken’s “Hottokenai Majotachi” noontime drama. The song is described as a catchy dance tune, a staple for the group.
avex trax has released the music video, labeled as short version with 3:48 minutes. See them dance over water and conquer the skies with their newest PV below.
As previously reported, Shiina Ringo will be releasing her new album “Hi Izuru Tokoro” on November 5. Earlier this week she released the covers for the album. Today she released the short music video for the album’s promo track “Arikitarina Onna.” The song was released digitally on October 1.
Hello everyone! I have here a translation of an article that has been on Messy recently talking about Hey!Say!JUMP’s Takaki Yuya, Yabu Kota and Kanjani8’s Shibutani Subaru and their rumoured girlfriends.
Hey!Say!JUMP member Takaki Yuya appeared in the latest issue of Friday magazine under the title “Passing a copy of his key to a lover”. His partner is bikini model Hara Aimi, a member of super sexy unit called “Beautiful Legs Squadron Slender DX” (美脚戦隊スレンダーDX).
J-pop diva Ayumi Hamasaki recently released a new single titled “Terminal”. Unfortunately for the former Oricon queen the single debuted at #16, and by the end of the week she was nearly out of the top 50 on the daily charts.
“Terminal” finished with a weekly rank of #24 and sold 2.8k copies.
This is the first time a standard Ayumi release has failed to rank within the top 20 on the weekly Oricon chart. Expectations for this single weren’t high since it’s a re-cut single from her last studio album “Colours”, but Ayumi has always been known for her large and dedicated fanbase. “Colours” itself had disappointing results on Oricon, the album has only managed to shift 53k copies. In comparison her previous album “LOVE again” sold 53k copies in just one week.
The full trailer for the live-action film of Akiko Higashimura’s Princess Jellyfish (Kuragehime) manga was released. The film stars Rena Nounen, who plays an otaku girl whose main geek obsession is jellyfish. The trailer also sees the different costume changes of actor Masaki Suda, who plays a cross-dressing young man named Kuranosuke.
The movie’s theme song, “Mermaid Rhapsody” by SEKAI NO OWARI is also featured in the trailer.
New dance and vocal group “lol” from avex trax made their first appearance last September 23.
“lol” is a group of five who all passed the audition which more than 10,000 people participated. Members consists of honoka, moca, hibiki, Yusuke Sato and Naoto Komiyama. hibiki won second prize in the artist division of “TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION x avex.” Sato also won the championship in the actors division of “avex audition MAX2013.”
The group makes their debut via singing the theme song of “Tribe Cool Crew”, Nagoya TV’s new animation about dance. Their new song “HEARTBEAT” will be released from October 8th.