On January 25, Toki Asako will release her new album, “PINK.” The album is described as “modern day city pop.” Tomi Yo oversaw production of the album, composing eight of the album’s ten tracks. The other two songs on the album, “Shibou” and “Fried Noodles”, were composed by G.RINA, who Asako recently worked with on her own album. The lyrics of “PINK” were written by Asako.

The DVD that comes with the CD+DVD edition of the album includes behind the scenes footage of the album’s production and its accompanying photoshoot. It also includes footage from the final show of Asako’s tour in support of her 2015 album “Bittersweet.”

Check out more information on “PINK” below, including video trailers!

Passepied is currently celebrating their fifth anniversary. As part of this celebration, on January 25, the band will release their fourth album, “&DNA.” The album will include 12 songs, including the singles “Yoake Mae”, “Nagasugita Haru”, “Hyper Realist”, and “Mayday.” The limited edition of the album comes with a DVD which contains all 20 of Passepied’s music videos, from debut til now. Check out more information on the album below!

This week’s guests were Golden Bomber and Choutokkyuu.

Golden Bomber – Earphone

Choutokkyuu – Koete Adventure

This week’s guests were Ishimaru Kanji, Okamura Chiyo, Tomomi Kahara, Fuji Ayako, Nagayama Yoko, Niimuma Kenji, Hayashibe Satoshi, Fuse Akira, Mizumori Kaori, Yashiro Aki, and MUSIC CONCERTO.

The announcement for the 89th Academy Award nominations occurred earlier today, Tuesday January 24.  A noticeable absent title from the list of nominations for ‘Best animated feature film of the year’ was Japan’s smash-hit Kimi no Na Wa. (Your Name).  Considering the film’s great domestic success by becoming the highest grossing anime film in the world and the highest grossing film in Japan of all time, as well as major popularity abroad, Makoto Shinkai‘s animated spectacular was expected to be a shoo in for an Oscar nomination.  Furthermore, with the plans of bringing Kimi no Na Wa. to theaters in the USA and Canada on April 8th, attention should have been brought to the film within North America.  So was Kimi no Na Wa. snubbed for a nomination?

This week’s guests were Charan Po Rantan, and THE RAMPAGE, Bandjanaimon!

Charan Po Rantan – Susume, Tama ni Nigetemo

THE RAMPAGE – Lightning

Bandjanaimon! – Yukimochi

The world of Tentenko is a strangely bipolar one; on one hand you have ‘idol’ Tentenko, the outgoing, catchy, cute and instantly approachable side. On the other you have the almost impenetrable, do-whatever-the-fuck, experimental music nerd Tentenko, which is getting as far gone from ‘idol’ as imaginable. However, neither side seems to have reached that ‘wow’ moment, there are no releases that feel truly timeless, yet the promise of something great sits waiting right in-front of our faces…

Looks like HKT48 member Anna Murashige seems to enjoy the perks of being 18 years old. On the final day at the annual AKB48 Request Hour Setlist Best 100 Anna shared an entertaining story during one of the MC spots. 

Anna revealed that since she’s finally 18 years old she’s become of age to legally look at some porn sites, after finding an unnamed porn website she registered and clicked on a video from the “hitozuma” (married woman) genre. The video didn’t play, suddenly a pop-up appeared with the text “50,000 yen for 30 minutes”. She quickly cleared the screen but another message appeared asking to call the displayed number. Anna called the number giving the operator her name, also telling him she wants to cancel her account. The operator told her canceling the account would cost an additional 420,000 yen.  After explaining her situation to the operator he felt bad about trying to charge an 18 year old that much money, so he lowered the ” cancellation fee” to 60,000 yen. After telling him 60k was still too much he replied with “I believe in you, Anna. You can do it”

Naturally that response made her a bit uneasy, but she still thought a payment for 60,000 yen was required so she called her good friend, and fellow HKT48 member Sakura Miyawaki for help.  After hearing the predicament Anna was in Sakura yelled at her for almost falling for the websites fraud attempt, and that being forced to pay those fees was completely fictitious. With AV DVD sales still going strong in Japan perhaps Anna’s wota will keep this story in mind when looking for fan-gifts to purchase.

Meanwhile, HKT48 are currently preparing for the release of their 9th single Bagutte Iijan which will be released on February 15th, 2017.

(via yahoo)