On November 25th, 2017, popular maid cafe chain maidreamin rounded up their most popular maids for the annual Moe Kawaii Queen competition. The event took place at their Heaven’s Gate Live restaurant located in the heart of Akihabara.
In order to win the prestigious title, one must be the absolute best representation of maiddreamin’s million. Top-level service, hospitality, and entertainment. The top 16 maids performed service demonstrations, asnwered live interview questions, and gave special stage performances in front of both fans maiddreamin executives, including the company’s CEO and vice president.
This week’s guests were Urashima Rinko, Kato Izumi, Imai Masaki, Tsuchiya Tao, Takahashi Shigeo. Rinko, Izumi, and Masaki also performed with Kanjani8.
Urashima Rinko x Kato Izumi x Imai Masaki x Kanjani8 – Christmas Eve (Yamashita Tatsuro cover)
Today marks the release of Jin Akanishi’s brand new studio album Blessed. This is the singers first album in just over a year, last being 2016’s Audio Fashion.
It’s been 6 years since Akanishi began his solo career in 2011, he’s currently signed to Go Good Records a subsidiary of Universal Music. Go Good Records was launched by Akanishi in 2014 and has been the catalyst of launching his career outside of Japan. Akanishi has established a very strong fanbase for himself in China, winning multiple international music awards and starring in drama series’.
Singers Ayaka and Daichi Miura will be teaming up for a collaborative single titled HEART UP. The song will be produced by both Takeshi Kobayashi and Ayaka, she was also responsible for writing the lyrics and helping out with the composition. Additionally, HEART UP will be the main image song for an unannounced major CM campaign that is set to begin airing nationwide in April.
Both artists have interesting parallels, they were born in 1987 and had also debuted around the same time. Miura got his start in the group folder. After parting ways in 1999 he took a break from the music industry and returned in 2005 with the single Keep It Goin’ On. One year later in 2006 Ayaka took the J-pop world by storm with her hit single I believe. The pair began meeting with Kobayashi over the summer, and started to record shortly after headlining “908 FESTIVAL 2017”, a concert organized by rapper KREVA.
Tabloid FRIDAY magazine is reporting that actors Masataka Kubota and Asami Mizukawa are currently in a relationship together.
It’s said that the relationship is getting quite serious, the two moved in together sometime in the fall. Paparazzi caught the two leaving a condominium complex together back in November, both of them were wearing large masks covering their faces. The two got into Kubota’s car, a black convertible. Despite the weather being quite cold the couple left the roof up for some reason, which also gave the paparazzi a clear view that it was indeed Mizukawa with him.
Their relationship apparently got more serious during filming for the hit Fuji TV drama series Fugitive Boys (Boku-tachi ga Yarimashita), where the two co-starred together. Kubota played the role of a high school student while Mizukawa was his teacher, in real life she is 5 years older than him. Shortly after filming completed the two began planning on living together.
This week, Kis-My-Ft2 topped the Oricon single chart with their new single “Akai Kajitsu”, selling 184,661 copies in its first week.
B’z topped the Oricon album chart with their new album “DINOSAUR”, selling 201,358 copies in its first week.
WACK & SCRAMBLES topped the Oricon digital album chart with the compilation album “WACK & SCRAMBLES WORKS”, selling 14,285 copies in its first week.
A plethora of former Morning Musume members all reunited for the wedding of 4th generation member Rika Ishikawa. She got married to Ryoma Nogami, a pitcher for the professional baseball team Yomiuri Giants. Hello!Project alumni attended also, including former Country Musume member Mai Satoda, Coconuts Musume’s Ayaka, v-u-den members Yui Okada & Erika Miyoshi, Taiyou to Ciscomoon’s Atsuko Inaba, Melon Kinenbi’s Hitomi Saito & Ayumi Shibata, and Yuki Maeda.
Fellow 4th generation member Nozomi Tsuji attended the ceremony with her husband Taiyo Sugiura and three children. She posted a picture on Instagram of herself with the newlyweds, along with Hitomi Yoshizawa, another 4th generation Morning Musume member. She left a simple message congratulating the couple, hoping that they would be forever happy.
Unfortunately there was one 4th generation member missing, Ai Kago. Despite her not being able to make the wedding, Nono still added Kago’s name in the hashtags of her Instagram message.
This week’s guests were back number, NGT48, and E-girls.
back number – Mabataki
NGT48 – Sekai wa Doko Made Aozora na no ka?
E-girls – Kitakaze to Taiyou
