I listen to music all the time, and one of my favorite things to do is watch music videos while I’m working. During all these years of watching Jpop videos on youtube I’ve found an amazing amount of dance covers for a lot of songs, specially Hatsune Miku songs and I’m subscribed to a bunch of channels of these girls that I like. This genre of videos are known as Odottemita (踊ってみた) literally “tried to dance” and the girls and boys doing those dances are known as Odorite (踊り手).
After 13 months since her last single, BRIGHTER DAY, Amuro Namie will release “Red Carpet” on December 2. The B-side of this single, titled Black Make Up will be used as theme song for the winter special anime episode “One Piece ~Adventure of Nevlandia~” that will be broadcasted on December 19 in Japan. Red Carpet is Amuro’s 43rd single, and her official youtube account has uploaded a short version Music Video for the main song.
Famous Japanese pop Idol group, Perfume, are adapted to an anime version for Mercedes-Benz most recent promotional campaign. Mercedes-Benz Japanese youtube channel released this 30 seconds video commercial for the Japanese Television featuring the three girls performing a song written for this joint work by the group’s producer.
Juice=Juice’s Uemura Akari will release her first Idol Video on December 16 this year, it will be titled Akari and the official youtube account of the group published a digest video for this release. In the video she’s on the beach wearing a yellow bikini and a flowered dress. On October 29, Akari released her first photobook titled AKARI, the difference between these names is that the Blu-ray is written in hiragana (あかり) like her name, and the photobook’s title in uppercased romaji.
the official website for the Rock/Pop Band formed by Kuromiya Rei (vocals) and her sister Kuromiya Aya (bass) was updated with their first music video for one of their new songs 14sai Byou (十四歳病). BRATS released their first single on April 10, this year but the band has been active (more or less) since 2011. Originally formed by four junior idols, BRATS has seen changes in it’s align, original members Gotou Seira (guitar) and Maria (drums), leaved the group in August and November of 2013 respectively. A new member named Hiyori joined this year with the release of their first single to play the guitar.
Last Friday, Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku’s official youtube Vevo channel was updated after several months with the music videos for their two newest singles that they released this year, Natsudaze Johnny (夏だぜジョニー) and Superhero (スーパーヒーロー). Natsudaze Johnny was released on June 17 as one limited edition, one regular edition and an online edition. Superhero was released on October 21 with two Limited Editions and one Regular Edition.
It’s been announced the first stage musical based on Fushigi Yugi, the manga created by Watase Yuu. This will be the first of a two part proyect and it will be titled Fushigi Yuugi ~Ake no Shou~. The stage play will run from April 8 to 15 next year in the Owlspot Theatre of Tokyo. there will a total of 15 performances. The company that’s running this adaptation have worked before in other stage play adaptations of this manga but this is the first musical.
The official twitter account for the television anime series, Unhappy!, based on the manga series by Cotoji of the same name, announced the production staff and noted that the premier will be on the spring of 2016. In addition, an official website has been opened with the main visual teaser, the image above.
This year, the pop idol group Up Up Girls (Kari) visited Hawaii for the first time as a group. While there they filmed different videos, shot a calendar for 2016 and performed for their fans at Honolulu Ekiden & Music Festival 2015!, the calendar will be available on the e-LineUp! store. Today Up Up Girls (Kari)’s official youtube account published a five minutes digest video of their trip. They have previously uploaded a couple dance shot videos for their songs Summer beam! (サマービーム！) and Mechakyun♡Summer (メチャキュン♡サマ).
