This week’s guests were E-girls, LEGO BIG MORL, Ueno Yuka, and uchuu,.

E-girls – Aishiteru to Itte Yokatta

LEGO BIG MORL – Ichibyo no Aida

Ueno Yuka – Ohayou

uchuu, – FLY

We’re back with this week’s edition of Oricon Flashback. This is where we look back on what topped Oricon this week 5, 10, 15, and 20 years ago. Think of it as a way to reminisce and learn about the past of Japanese music.

This week’s performers were Gesu no Kiwami Otome., Uchikubigokumon-Doukoukai , and WANIMA. There were also talk segments with Trendy Angel and Bodan Shonen Dan.

Gesu no Kiwami Otome. – Tatakate Shimau yo

Uchikubigokumon-Doukoukai – Futon no Naka kara de Takunai

WANIMA – Human

This week’s guests were Gesu no Kiwami Otome., Shinya Kiyozuka, Takahashi Shigeo, and Natsuna. Gesu no Kiwami Otome. also performed with Kanjani8.

Gesu no Kiwami Otome. x Kanjani8 – Otonatic

This week, NEWS topped the Oricon single chart with their new single “LPS”, selling 130,992 copies in its first week.

WANIMA topped the Oricon album chart with their new album “Everybody!!”, selling 126,395 copies in its first week.

Mr.Children topped the Oricon digital single chart with their new single “here comes my love”, selling 72,437 copies in its first week.

WANIMA also topped the Oricon digital album chart with “Everybody!!”, selling 15,225 copies in its first week.

Idol group Nogizaka46 has been announced to play the main Sailor Senshi in an upcoming Sailor Moon musical.

This is one of the many special events lined up for Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon’s 25th anniversary. It has still yet to be confirmed which members out of the 32 will be selected to play the roles, it also isn’t known yet if the “Outer Senshi” will be making appearances too (Sailor Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto).

Besides Nogizaka’s musical, two other stage productions have been announced for the Sailor Moon franchise. The second show titled Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Super Live will be both directed and choreographed by TAKAHIRO. He is perhaps most known for creating the choreography for all of the songs by Nogizaka46’s sister group Keyakizaka46. It will be performed at the festival Japonismes 2018. Japonismes is a series of cultural events that will be held in France from July 2018 – February 2019. It was created to celebrate the 160th anniversary, and very strong bond of Japan-France Diplomatic relations.

One more musical will also happen, but it won’t be revealed until Summer 2019. It’s been teased as being a “powered up” version of all the past Sailor Moon musicals.

Which Nogizaka46 member do you think would fit the role of each Sailor Senshi best?
(via Crunchyroll)

It was announced today that Hello! Project group, ANGERME will be coming to France on June 3rd, 2018 through The Girls Live show! The concert will be held at the La Cigale theater, tickets are expected to start being sold on January 31st.

Member Ayano Kawamura commented on the groups official blog that this will be very special, considering that it’s their very first oversea concert and ANGERME’s name itself is French inspired (the name derives from the French word for angel, “ange”, and the French word for tears, “larme”.

Furthermore, in the latest episode of Hello! Project Station it was announced that you will be able to submit questions for the shows MCs. Questions can be sent to [email protected]. The possible MCs for future Hello!Project Station episodes are Morning Musume 18’s Ayumi Ishida, ANGERME’s Ayaka Wada and Moe Kamikokuryo, Kobushi Factory’s Ayaka Hirose, and Tsubaki Factory’s Riko Yamagishi.

They ask that you leave your name, and which MC the question is directed to in your email. Hello!Project Station is a YouTube webshow showcasing all of the various H!P members. The first episode was uploaded in February 2013.

Check out the latest ANGERME’s single Manner Mode below the jump!

This week’s guests were WANIMA, Kiroro, and STU48.

WANIMA – Human

Kiroro – Anniversary

STU48 – Kurayami