Last month American/Japanese boy band INTERSECTION burst onto the scene with their debut track “Heart of Gold”.
The boys have quickly returned to the scene with a brand new single called “Falling”.
Every year Oricon conducts a popular survey asking their readers which female celebrity face they want!
500 women take part in the annual survey, ranging in age from their teens to fifties. Results were reported and for the second year in a row actress Yui Aragaki took the crown.
Actor Mackenyu Arata is gearing up for the release of his highly anticipated photobook called “Up The Road“.
The location for the photobook was Seoul South Korea, which was a treat for Arata as in a past interview he stated that Seoul was one of the cities he was really interested in traveling to.
Singer CHARA has announced the release of her brand new album titled “Baby Bump”.
This will be the veteran singers very first album release since transferring over to Universal Japan. For the album jacket design and concept, CHARA worked with artist Yuna Yoshida. The two have collaborated in the past, and Yoshida has done the art direction for Kaela Kimura, Perfume, and Gen Hoshino among others.
Princess Mononoke has earned it’s rightful spot as one of the most acclaimed animated films of all time. A commercial success too, it’s still the 4th highest grossing Japanese film of all time.
What differentiates this film from other Studio Ghbili productions is that Princess Monokoe is the very first one where director Hayao Miyazaki decided to use CG animation. What caught the attention of Japanese Twitter however is where the film did not use CG.
Rocker MIYAVI will be releasing his 5th collaboration album, and 3rd in the samurai session series titled “SAMURAI SESSIONS vol.3“.
As usual he will be collaborating with a wide variety of artists including Miliyah Kato, Daichi Miura, AK-69, and American actor Samuel L. Jackson! 14 songs will be included in total.
Singer Utada Hikaru has finally kicked off her very first Japanese tour in 12 years! Her last being “Utada United 2006”.
The first date of the “Laughter In The Dark” tour took place at the Yokohama Arena. During the first MC Utada thanked all the fans coming, despite the bad weather! She couldn’t believe that it had been 8 years since her last live concert (“WILD LIFE”, in December 2010).
The full setlist for the opening show is as follows:
Back in September it was announced that Namie Amuro would be closing all of her social media channels and her official website. It was later revealed that her YouTube wouldn’t be deleted anymore!
Her team stated that her YouTube chanel would be reformulated in November, with a planned name change but no further details were given. The name ended up staying the same, but now 1 minute versions of every single one of her MVs have been uploaded to the channel. They are in 1080p quality too!