A couple weeks ago a promotional teaser video for Koda Kumi’s song ‘SO FEVER‘ was released and it was unsure if the song and video were Pachinko exclusives.

Last week she released a limited EP with only 400 copies made compiles all the songs and videos featured in her Pachinko game of the same title, including the songs ‘Never Give It Up‘, ‘SO FEVER‘ and ‘Kimi Omoi‘.

The steamy PVs are below.

Avex has released a video to promote BoA’s 8th album ‘Who’s Back?‘ compiling her promotion events from all the singles on this album.

This new video includes footage of all BoA’s promotional events this era, like the “catch the Tail of Hope” campaign with ‘Tail of Hope’, the “MESSAGE FROM BoA” campaign with ‘Message/Call my name’ played with live instrumentation on a bus, “Only One Cocktail” with ‘Only One’ being released through QR codes on drinks and “BoA ‘Shout it Out’ Windows Showcase in Berkshka” with her song ‘Shout It Out’.

Back in April, top idol group AKB48 added 37-year-old (at the time) mother of two Mariko Tsukamoto as part of their crossover campaign with Japanese snack brand Glico. She beat out over 5,000 applicants including former Morning Musume member Sayaka Ichii, an Atsuko Maeda impersonator and an 82-year old woman.

Today Mariko, or Mariri as her fellow members called her, has graduated from the group at the AKB48 theater in Akihabara, Tokyo during Team 4’s performance. She performed Mariko Shinoda’s ‘Ue Kara Mariko’ and declared after her four month stay in the group, “Mariri is going to return to being a normal mom for now.”

On stage all the Team 4 girls, of whom she has performed with since her theater debut, told her she could come back whenever she wanted and thanked her for the good times they spent together .

During her time in the group, she was referred to as “AKB’s mother” but was expected to carry out all the same activities, such as theater shows, concerts, TV appearances, handshake events, etc. She even took part as the center for a coupling song for Papico entitled ‘Oshiete Mommy’ on the group’s latest single.

(via Oricon Style)

During Sony’s pre Tokyo Game Show conference they showed off a trailer of the highly anticipated  5th mainline game in the Persona series. Along with the trailer, featuring what can be assumed to be your new anime husbando the game’s main character, which you can check out below, it was announced that the game, previously believe to be last gen only, would be seeing a release on both the Playstation 3 and Playstation 4 platforms.

Passepied have been appointed to be featured in DoCoMo’s commercial for their smartphone flat-rate music distribution service ‘d Hits‘ powered by Rekochoku. Just 500 yen a month.

All the members are displayed on five smartphones as they casually play their song ‘MATATABISTEP‘. Two short versions are available and published through Warner Music’s official YouTube channel. This CM will be aired in DoCoMo smartphone lounges and DoCoMo shops nationwide.

Check out the short PV of ‘Mr. S – SAITEI DE SAIKOU NO OTOKO’, the lead single of SMAP’S upcoming album ‘Mr. S‘.

The details of the album have also been released. The album comes in 2 Discs, separated into Mr. S (colorful) and Mr. S (monochrome), containing a total of 17 songs. Their team of musicians for the album include Kawatani Enon (indigo la End, Gesu no Kiwami Otome), Moriyama Naotaro, ☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo, block.fm), LEO Imai, Koji Nakamura, and SALU.

Takarazuka Revue’s Ota Takeshi composed and arranged the first and last songs on the album, titled “Theme of Mr.S”. In addition, musicians who have previously provided music to SMAP such as Sakai Yu, Wada Makoto (TRICERATOPS), and TK (Ling Tosite Sigure), participated again and  provided a new song each.

Check out a calendar of this week’s CD releases from acts like Fairies, BoA, T.M.Revolution, SMAP, Hey! Say! JUMP, Miliyah Kato and more!

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Hello, AramaJapan readers and welcome to this week’s installment of #1 Song Review! Last week was a battle between Kis-My-Ft2 and Nishino Kana, with Kana coming out on top. She’s back again this week but will she be able to hold off competition from EXILE TRIBE and Eir Aoi? Check out what the staff thought of these songs and give us your thoughts as well!