Idol group Nogizaka46 are the official Japanese ambassadors of DC superheroine movie “Wonder Woman”, and have released a brand new collaborative music for new song “Onna wa Hitori ja Nemurenai“, which acts as the film’s image song.

The song is included on the group’s forthcoming 18th single “Nigemizu” set for release August 9.

Members participating in the single had the opportunity to preview the film on July 14, and met lead actress Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins. “I think Nogizaka46 symbolizes the same things as ‘Wonder Woman’,” commented Jenkins.

On a recent episode of the variety show “TOKIO Kakeru”, TOKIO frontman Tomoya Nagase had a chat about his close friendship with Koichi Domoto. This eventually led to a topic that had many fans of Johnny & Associates thinking about various “what if” scenarios. What If Tomoya never became an official member of TOKIO? What if KinKi Kids were never formed? That could have been a possibility!

The topic started when discussing the close friendship between Tomoya and Kinki Kids member Koichi Domoto, both of them were accepted into Johnny & Associates in 1991. Since both of them joined around the same time the two were often at the same events together, as well as Johnny’s training camp. Tomoya would often go to Koichi’s room to hang out or even sleep over. Some of the other TOKIO member jokingly questioned if Koichi was happy with Tomoya’s visits, to which Tomoya slyly responded “I know how to enjoy myself at night“, much to the delight of their fans.

Rock band Yoru no Honki Dance have released their latest MV for “TAKE MY HAND”. Their third major single overall, “TAKE MY HAND” serves as the theme song for the Fuji TV drama series “Cecile Boys”.

Yoru no Honki Dance wants to make “rock music that you can dance to”, definitely delivering their promise with this song. The video takes place in a brightly lit red room, where multicolored hands start to suddenly appear. Each hand color is represented by its own flashy backup dancer.

“TAKE MY HAND” will include two b-sides, a new version of their song “THIS IS POP” and a special medley called “HONKI DANCE TIME”. The band took six songs from their repertoire and recorded it as one track. “TAKE MY HAND” will be released on August 9th, 2017. “Are you ready to dance?” Watch the full MV below the jump!

At a ceremony held today in Tokyo, singer Mai Kuraki was award the Guinness World Record for “most theme songs performed by a single artist for an anime series“, providing 21 songs to the popular anime “Case Closed” over the past 17 years.

Kuraki began her relationship with the anime in 2000, providing the ending theme “Secret of my heart” while she was still a high school student. Now in her mid-30s, her most recent song for the series appeared in the 2017 theatrical film “Case Closed: Crimson Love Letter“, which hit theaters nationwide in Japan in April.

The official website for the live-action film adaptation of Kazune Kawahara’s “Sensei!” manga has begun streaming a brand new trailer featuring the theme song “Uta Usagi” from the band SPITZ.

In the film, Hibiki Shimada (Hirose) is a student with a crush on her world history teacher Kosaku Ito (Ikuta), who appears to be serious and has a love for teaching. Hibiki comes across his kindness, and being young and naive, she is honest to her teacher about her feelings as she falls in love for the first time.

The movie is directed by Takahiro Miki, known for romance films including “Bokura ga Ita” Part 1 (2012), “Hidamari no Kanojo” (2013), “Ao Haru Ride” (2014), and “Aozora Yell” (2016). The scriptwriter is Mari Okada, who has written for various animated works including “Anohana” and “Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda.”

Everyone got their life yesterday with the shoegaze idol group planning to debut with a song over 70 minutes long (seriously, we’ve never had a tweet get this much attention), but get ready for Japan’s latest idol gimmick: handsome miner mannequins.

Now that the act of “stanning” is officially Oxford approved and we all love a gimmick, prepare yourselves to stan Ginzan Boys, the first-ever mannequin idol group. Consisting of 60 plastic members from a mine in Hyogo Prefecture, Ginzan Boys have released the new music video for their debut smasher “Gingira Silver Mine Paradise – GGGZPDS“.

The group members came together to bring attention to Asago tourist destinations Ikuno Silver Mine and Ikuno Mineral Museum, re-enacting the work undertaken by locals in the former mining town which was active during the Muromachi period (1336 to 1573 AD) to the Showa era (1926 to 1989 AD).

To promote her new album released July 19, singer-songwriter Chara has revealed music videos for the title track “Sympathy” and “Tiny Dancer“.

Chara created the song “Sympathy” for Otsuka Pharmaceutical’s “Fibe-Mini” advertising campaign, and imagined herself as a member of society looking at advertisement featuring actress Suzu Hirose, who appears in the CM for the fiber supplements. Queen of regularity.

The baby pink music video was shot by frequent collaborator Daisuke Shimada with the theme of “girl’s adolescence” to compliment Chara’s sweet singing voice.

The song “Tiny Dancer” was composed and produced by Quruli’s Shigeru Kishida, who completed Chara’s vision that was 2 years in the making. The music video features actress Hikari Mitsushima (Formerly of Folder5, Death Note, Love Exposure) in a house studio in Tokyo.

The “Yudai Chiba” version of music video of the new song from Seiko Oomori entitled “draw (A) drow” has been uploaded to YouTube.

The music video features Oomori and actor Yudai Chiba, with two versions created to show both sides of the song’s narrative of “love-hate” and “crossing paths”—Oomori’s version available for streaming on Yahoo’s video site GYAO! (Japan Only). When the two videos are played side by side, the story is connected—allegedly—so if anyone can watch it feel free to sound off in the comments.

The song was composed and arranged by rock band Ling Tosite Sigure vocalist and guitarist TK, and the video features appearances from Ling Tosite Sigure drummer Pierre Nakano and Akai Ko-en bassist Hikari Fujimoto.