They just put out another song and video for it: Bite you

This one’s a bit heavier and more aggressive, but also still kind of fun. Really a band to keep an eye on!

That’s really a fun and catchy song!

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the music video features SHELTER, the Shimokitazawa live house which gained fame as the IRL inspiration for Bocchi the Rock’s STARRY.

I didn’t know that one yet. It’s also great, thank you!

That band really seemed to have come out of nowhere with this song, at least according to their YouTube channel… It is a really catchy song though! Their subsequent releases didn’t become quite as successful, but they’re worth keeping an eye on!

Just listened to it, that’s a really nice track! 👌

Btw if you could also add/edit the artist and song title in romaji in the post, that would be perfect. Sorry to bother you again, I should have written this in my first comment.

Hey, I think your post somehow only has the picture but no link. Could you add/edit that?

Yes, I watched it (the first season at least) and quite liked it. It’s what brought on this post basically. I had decided to watch it when I was looking for my next idol anime after my “gateway drug” Zombieland Saga, and the connection to that via Minami Tanaka, and also that I vaguely remembered Yoshino Aoyama was part of it, were what gave the impulse.

There are also a few Wake Up, Girls! anime movies that I couldn’t watch yet, and a continuation series “Shin Sou”. The drastically altered character designs in the latter unfortunately felt off-putting to me, after the more realistic style of the first season.

Sorry for replying so late, I first wanted to get a better impression of their evolution for myself. I think as a general rule, I like their more recent stuff more? Image, Take Me Out, A.M.D.K.J. - the more rock styled songs. I also really like Mirror, as a recent slower song. But among their earlier stuff, Shunkan Sentimental is also great. I also kind of like Scandal Baby, while Shoujo S does nothing for me… it’s pretty random. Though I have to say that the blatant pushing of their schoolgirl image in their earlier videos and concerts is a bit off-putting to me. I mean they were basically schoolgirls back then, but still… I prefer the later stuff where they show their individuality.

Absolutely timeless and a banger! I think this was the first song I actively sought out and listened to as an “anime” song, and I couldn’t get enough of it for a long time.

About this performance I’ll say, the background dancers’ choreography is certainly… interesting lol

Grave of the Fireflies is too sad to cry to. It’s just pure despair, slowly killing you emotionally.

This weekend is still going to be very busy, then it’s getting better. :)

I haven’t even fully watched the last concert BluRay I ordered (Band-Maid), so I’ve been putting off my next purchase. :D

I’m still slowly catching up with Scandal so to speak, though to be honest mostly their “greatest hits”. It’s crazy how productive they’ve been through all those years. And although not all songs are really my thing, they are definitely insanely versatile. And most importantly, they still seem to enjoy very much what they’re doing!
And that is actually one of the greatest appeals a band can have to me. Nothing worse than a veteran band where the members seem to be only in it out of habit or for the money but can’t seem to stand each other anymore.

Thanks for posting this! Actually I didn’t have a chance to properly listen to this until just now! The last weeks were just crazy busy for me, which is also why I wasn’t really active here recently…

But yeah, typically great song by Kaneyorimasaru I say! I wanted to write that it’s a repeating pattern with them to show young women going through heartbreak in their MVs, but after a quick scan through YouTube, the only other one I found is 26. That one just seems to have left a big impression on me. 😅

I just kind of want to post a MV with a happy couple to balance it out now 😁

Hah, I knew that Band-Maiko started as an April fools joke by them, but I didn’t know that about cluppo!

@[email protected] you haven’t posted a 96neko song in a while, so I took the liberty. 😀

Cool, thanks! So it was this one? https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/VIZL-2143 Maybe I’ll treat my self too.

Did you order it directly from Japan or via an importer in Germany?

That’s really an impressive song born from this collaboration! You’re right, it does feel like from a musical, especially with the dialogue between the two parts. Also an great variety of musical styles incorporated there… At times it kind of seemed reminiscent of The Smashing Pumpkins, other sections were kind of 80s synth-pop, Queen (Bohemian Rhapsody?) or David Bowie… Pretty wild!

Man, you might just get me into idol stuff in my old days… Until recently, “idol” was basically synonymous with highly polished, overproduced and a squeaky clean image in my mind. So “underground idol” was basically an oxymoron to me. But this performance is really raw, in the good sense, i.e. gives an authentic impression. I really liked it!

When you say you’ve been talking with them (also in the 100-YOKAI post), do you mean on Twitter? Or are you in Japan and could actually meet them at events?

Cheers!

That’s really interesting! Feel free to post more about them if you like. Do they talk about which youkai each member represents for example? Or is that obvious to an average Japanese person just by looking at them?