GameFreak, creators of Pokémon, have released a reggae song about the ‘idiot Pokémon’ Slowpoke, known to the Japanese public as Yadon.
With important lyrics like “Your big mouth is always open like a combini,” “The name given to you was ‘idiot’ Pokemon” and “If a Shelder bites your tail, you become a Slowbrow; even your evolution is stupid,” they effectively drag the entire evolutionary family in this diss track.
Either this video is some weird human-centipede type deal, or Slowpoke tails are so good that Slowpokes resort to cannibalism. Check it out below.
Announced at their live at Tokyo Hibiya Open Air Concert Hall today, male idol group DISH// revealed that they will perform an overseas live to “wage a contest” and perform alongside American boy band After Romeo.
After Romeo is a 5-member American pop/R&B band that ended their Japanese tour just earlier this month, allowing them to form a relationship with fellow Sony Music artists like DISH//. The band is led by Drew Ryan Scott, who has preciously produced and written hits for top Disney and K-Pop stars as well some other artists you might be more familiar with such as Arashi, Kis-My-Ft2 and Sexy Zone.
The proposed venue is The Orchard Town Center, a charming outdoor shopping district just outside of Denver, Colorado. The event will take place on September 14th at 2PM.
At the High School Uniform Festival 2014 held earlier this week at the Tokyo Laforet Museum in Harajuku, a contest was held to find the coolest guy and cutest black-haired female high school students in the Kanto region (Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa).
With over 1,000 male entries and 1,500 female entries, each were carefully screened and interviewed beforehand and the semi-finalists of each gender appeared on stage that day.
International celebrity Hello Kitty is turning 40 this year! To celebrate this cultural icon’s longevity, Sanrio is holding two ‘Hello Kitty Run‘ events: one at Tokyo Summerland on December 7th, 2014 and one on Osaka’s Maishima Sports Island on January 25, 2015.
The same event was conducted for the first time ever in Taiwan (pictured above) in January of this year. With nearly 20,000 participating, it was decided that one would be held in Japan as well.
Fans will be able to participate in a 10K (Osaka) or 5K (Tokyo) marathon as well as take part in additional events like the Character Cosplay run, family marathon or relay marathon. Original event-exclusive awards will be presented to Cosplay winners and top participants.
Oricon Style reports that unit of Popular Idol group AKB48 Team Surprise has started up the ‘AKB48 Kyoku Zukuri Project‘ (‘AKB48 song making project’).
Ranging from melody, content, dance, costume, and jacket photo selection, the winner of each phase of polling is selected by fan vote. This whole process for the creation of their new songs will take place entirely on the Team Surprise official site.
Starting on the 23rd, the first phase involves fans picking a favorite melody out of a total of 8 options. Participation is through AKB48’s official LINE account (LINE ID: @ akb48). For clarification, all songs will be released and fans are just decide the order they are released.
Which is your favorite demo melody?
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Music Station took a summer break for most of the month of August after its last show on August 8. It is set to return on August 29. The lineup for next week’s episode has been revealed:
AKB48 – Kokoro no Placard
Mai Kuraki – STAND BY YOU
Gesu no Kiwami Otome. – Ryoukiteki na Kiss wo Watashi ni Shite
Golden Bomber – Laura no Kizudarake
Funky Kato – Taiyou
V6 – Namida no Ato ga Kieru Koro
Moriyama Naotaro – Special Medley
This episode will mark Gesu no Kiwami Otome.’s Music Station debut. The band has been gaining noticeable popularity as of late, with “Ryoukiteki na Kiss wo Watashi ni Shite” frequently appearing in the iTunes top 10.
Since TOKIO’s Taichi Kokubun graduation from hosting Shounen Club Premium last April, the hosting duties have been passed on to KAT-TUN. ‘Shounen Club Premium’ is a music variety/talk show that features special guests and collaborations, shown every third Wednesday of the month. Since the revamp too, every episode features a special KAT-TUN stage. In their latest episode, they welcomed V6 and violinist Taro Hakase.
Taro Hakase told the very surprised KAT-TUN that his violin is priced around 100 million yen during the TALK part before moving on to teach the members how to play the violin. After some failed attempts (Kame, actually) much to his amusement, they joined to perform a part of his beautiful song, Etupirka. For the violin collaboration stage, KAT-TUN performed a re-arranged Fumetsu no Scrum (with Junno’s tap dance and Nakamaru’s beatbox), as selected by Hakase and Yasashii Ame.
Popular band ONE OK ROCK has uploaded a music video for ‘Decision’ off their July 30th double A-side single ‘Mighty Long Fall / Decision’ to their official YouTube channel.
The PV is made up of scenes taken from their documentary film Fool Cool Rock! released in May, showing clips from their concerts overseas and moments with the band members backstage.
Watch below:
