Former Morning Musume member Goto Maki has recently made front page news about her rumored marriage, so the singer recently took to her blog to clear up the gossip.

She is indeed married. She registered for marriage with her husband on the morning of July 22nd. There was no special ceremony for this event.

“Being together with him makes me feel at ease, he’s a compassionate partner. Meeting him jump-started my motivation,” she wrote. She proceeded to thank everyone else who have helped her leading up to this point, “not counting my parents when I was very young, it seems like my staff and all of the fans have raised me. I’m truly thankful.”

Check out the post below.

Yamashita Tomohisa is set to release his 1st dance mini album on August 20, titled “Asobi’.

After his extravagant ‘A Nude’ album released last year, which featured a string of artists in his album production, such as STY, ☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo), Nakajin (SEKAI NO OWARI), MIYAVI, MONKEY MAJIK, and many other others, this release will be his 1st attempt in having only dance music in a mini album.

Content of the mini album includes “HELLO” written by Motohiro Hata and composed by BACHLOGIC, “Mysterious” mixed by DAVE WAY, “Moon Disco” originally composed by Keiichiro Shibuya and written by Yamapi, “Back to the dance floor” produced by Yasutaka Nakata (CAPSULE), and “Dress Code:” by Shinichi Ohsawa.

Different genres of dance music are gathered in the album and Yamapi hopes fans will thoroughly enjoy the music.

Singer Rina Katahira is set to release her debut album entitled ‘amazing sky‘ on August 6th, and has published an “album trailer” on her YouTube channel to further anticipation. The trailer documents the album’s recording process and gives fans a behind the scenes glimpse into the collaboration between Rina and OVERGROUND ACOUSTIC UNDERGROUND, who participated in the album’s arrangement.

Crystal Kay has uploaded a behind the scenes look and interviews from the video shoot for her upcoming single. ‘Dum Ditty Dumb‘ is about a song about a girl going crazy over a guy and she’s so in love with him that she starts rapping in Japanese too. According to Kay, it’s not only a new song, it’s introducing a new genre to fans: “Yokohama Ratchet Pop”.

Directed by Tani Ikeda, the video will mix 2D animation with live action footage. It’s a new look a lot of Crystal’s fans haven’t seen before so she can’t wait to share it with the world.

At a press conference preceding the release of their new TV Tokyo drama, the cast of Arasa-Chan Mushusei took the stage to give an idea of what’s to come. Leading lady Mitsu Dan reveals some pretty intimate scenes…

Arasa-Chan Mushusei depicts love between men and women starring Mitsu Dan as the titular character. Arasa-chan (Arasa literally meaning a woman around 30-years old) is at a crossroad in life between popularity and ego when she is invited by her ex-boyfriend to join an orgy group. Their party includes Mihiro (a cute, lovely girl), Taishu (an average boy), Yaririn (head hostess with loose morals), and Himote (a shy, glasses-wearing nerd). However for Arasa, a meaningless act of pleasure ends up in love…

I feel like it goes without saying, but the video is probably NSFW. However, everything is masterfully covered up with convenient blankets and statues.

Girl group Giselle4 took to their official Twitter account to announce they will debut with Universal Music this Fall.

To coincide this announcement, they uploaded the promotional videos to all their previous single onto their official YouTube channel WITHOUT autotune! This was a huge complaint from fans so it’s great to see that their management is listening to outside input.

They have a ton going on so bare with me. Their new song (still indie) ‘WONDER GIRL’ will also be used as the ending theme for upcoming TV TOKYO drama’ Arasa-Chan Mushusei’ starring Mitsu Dan. Preorders start July 27th and the song will go on sale August 27th on iTunes.

Check out the new autotune-less videos below.

The upcoming ‘Musical Black Butler-Licorice Burning on the Ground’, a new musical show based on Toboso Yana ‘s popular manga series has introduced its  main cast through a 25-second teaser posted in its official Youtube channel. The musical, which is based on the manga’s popular “Jack the Ripper” arc will be performed at Roppongi Blue Theater in Tokyo from September 5 to 23, and at Umeda Arts Theater’s Theater Drama City in Osaka from October 2 to 5.

Matsushita Yuya will once again reprise his role as Sebastian Michaelis. He has been playing the character since the first stage play in 2009. 12-year-old child actor Fukuzaki Nayuta is newly cast as Ciel Phantomhive.

You can check out the teaser introducing the main cast and more information below the cut.

As previously reported, YUKI will be releasing her new single “Daredemo Lonely” on August 20. The single will serve as the lead in for her new album “FLY”, out September 17.  Today, she released the covers and tracklist for the single.  The single will come in 3 editions: limited, regular, and analog.