Dempagumi.inc member Mogami Moga announced her first solo photobook on November this year and it was released on December 10 in Japan. Some manga magazines had previews for this photobook that looks cute and sexy, with some cosplay, bikini and interesting outfits. Here are a few scans.
On february 15, 2016 Nippon Ichi Software will release the remake of Yuusha Shisu. (勇者死す。), the video game titled Hero Must Die in English. On the company’s official channel on youtube they published a System Introduction trailer this Sunday. The game was released originally for cellphones in 2007.
On February, 2016, Inaba Manaka will release her first Blu-ray image video titled Greeting ~Inaba Manaka~ (Greeting ～稲場愛香～) and the order period for this release started on December 25 and will be available until January 13. Inaba Manaka is a member of the uber cute idol unit Country Girls, she started in Hello Pro Kenshuusei, but on November last year she was choosen to form the new unit in Hello! Project.
Singing and dancing queens of Jpop, ℃-ute, released a live performance video for their one of the songs from their new album, ℃maj9. This song is titled Iron Heart (アイアンハート) and the video was previously released in this week’s episode Hello! Project Station.
AKB48 and NGT48 member, Kashiwagi Yuki, is featured in the cover and inner pages of the recent combined No.02-03 issue of the seinen manga magazine, Young Magazine.
This week's Hello! Project Station started with the bad news of Tamura Meimi announcing her graduation from ANGERME and Hello! Project. She stated that she wants to continue singing, but she wants to be a musical actress too. Her graduation is expected to be on spring 2016.
Japanese actress, singer and gravure model, Shinozaki Ai graces the cover of the first volume of Young Animal Magazine of 2016.
Morning Musume have released the full music video for one of the songs in their new single titled Tsumetai Kaze to Kataomoi / ENDLESS SKY / One and Only (冷たい風と片思い／ENDLESS SKY／One and Only), a triple A-side that will be released on December 29, 2015 in 6 editions: 3 regular and 3 limited editions. This will be the last single to feature Sayashi Riho who will be gratuating on December 31th.
A new episode of Hello! Project Station has been released and this time we have a preview ofr one of the song for Morning Musume's new single. The song is titled ENDLESS SKY. Then the girsl announce their concert at Anime Matsuri in Houston next year, Nonaka Miki does a great job translating the message in this video.
℃-ute's member, Suzuki Airi is featured in a TV commercial promoting the Suzunoya Kimono Shop, in these video she is, of course, wearing kimono and shelooks great, as always. In the store's youtube channel there are two versions of this CM, the 15 seconds version and the 30 seconds version.
Sakura Gakuin is celebrating it's 5th anniversary and to conmemorate it they will release a special photobook with a singular feature. The book will be titled ever after and it's pages will contain QR codes that will grant the reader with voice comment from the girls. Sakura Gakuin employs a line-up changing system with members joining and leaving. Since the group is conceived as consisting of girls up to junior high school, when a member graduates from junior high, she graduates from Sakura Gakuin too.
AKB48 has released the rest of the music video previews for their new single Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby (唇に Be My Baby), for the songs "Kimi wo Kimi wo Kimi wo...", "Yasashii place", "Madonna no Sentaku" " Nanka, Chotto, Kyuu ni..." and "Oneesan no Hitorigoto", that in addition to the two videos previously released for "Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby" and "365 Nichi no Kamihikouki". Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby (唇に Be My Baby). "Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby" is the 42nd major single (44th single overall) released by AKB48 and it well on stores on December 9.
Hashimoto Kanna is starring a new movie titled Sailor fuku to Kikan juu (Sailor Suit and Machine Gun), in this story Kanna is the daugter of a Yakuza boss that dies and she inherits the clan. This movie is based on a Japanese novel writen by Akagawa Jirō and this has been adapted previously into a live action movie on 1981 and a television series on 1982. The new movie wellbe premiered on March 5, 2016.
Today, during PlayStation Experience 2015 Square Enix showed the first footage of the Final Fantasy VII Remake that will be released on PlayStation 4. In addition the company re-released PC version of the game on PS4 today.
℃-ute’s ninth original studio album will be released on December 23, and it will be titled ℃maj9. This will come in 3 different versions, a Regular CD-Only Edition, a First Press Limited A CD+DVD Edition and a First Press Limited B CD+Blu-ray Edition. The tracklist for this album is huge, 20 songs, but it’s been two years since their last album, and normally Hello! Project groups release albums every year, so this one contains a lot of previously released songs from singles, and about 7 new songs, one of them in two different versions.
Ex Oha Girl, Taira Yuuna is co-starring a new commercial for Y!mobile service along with a serious looking cat dressing a police uniform. This is the video of the 15 seconds CM, and after that there behind scenes footage and a final comment by Yuuna and the cat.
Two days ago, the official web site for PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita video game franchise, Photo Kano, has been updated due recently reaching the 200,000 units sold, and in addition to a thanks message, there was a announcement of a new project for the PlayStation Vita “coming soon” on 2016.
Nogizaka46’s Hashimoto Nanami graces the cover of the first volume of Big Comic Spirits magazine. Nanami is a first generation member of Nogizaka46 and works as a model for fashion magazine CanCam. On August this year, Nanami released her second photobook titled Yasashii Ibara.
Today was released the 32nd episode of GREEN ROOM, the web show that features all the things related to Up Front Agency, including current and former groups of Hello! Project and many more. In this episode we can watch C-ute’s and Hello Pro Kenshusei’s rehersal, Morning Musume’s concert director preparing the stage and Up Up Girls (Kakko Kari) backstage make up.
Yokoyama Rurika is a Japanese pop Idol that started her career in a group Doll's Vox and then she joined the recently disbanded Idol group Idoling!!!. She’s now a solo singer and she’s releasing her sixth single titled SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!!!! and Victor Entertainment’s youtube channel have published a short preview for the music video.
Kaneko Rie won the MissID2015 and became pretty well known because of her new rock band, LADYBABY, but right now he’s in a new contest promoted by Young Animal magazine, to find the new gravure idol star. This is the NEXT Gravure Queen Battle in it’s 4th season. Previous years we have seen Idols like Up Up Girls (Kakko kari)’s Sengoku Minami, Amaki Jun, and Yamanaka Tomoe.
It has been released a short preview for the music video of 365 Nichi no Kamihikouki, one of the coupling tracks for AKB48’s new single Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby (唇に Be My Baby). "Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby" is the 42nd major single (44th single overall) released by AKB48 and it well on stores on December 9.
The end-of-year special edition of the CLASSIC ROCK magazine is on sale and in the cover it features several of the most important faces in the world of rock this year, including BABYMETAL… and the pop Francis. Check below the full cover.
Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax is a 2D fighting game that celebrates the 20th anniversary of Dengeki Bunko imprint, and it features various characters from the novels published under it. The original game was released on March 18, 2014 for Japanese arcade machines, but an updated version titled Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax Ignition was released on July, 28 his years for arcades and will arrive to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita on December 17.
Beautiful Japanese actress, TV talent and gravure model, Kojima Ruriko, graces the cover of Weekly Playboy Magazine. Check out all the scans here.
This week’s Hello! Project Station (Haro!Sute,ハロ！ステ) is hosted by ANGERME’s Tamura Meimi and Kobushi Factory’s Hamaura Ayano. It starts with a performs by C-ute, they show a new song titled Jounetsu Ecstasy (情熱エクスタシー) from their new album °Cmaj9 that will be released on December 23. Then, some footage from Fukuda Kanon’s graduation performance at Nippon Budokan, she leaves a message in the behind the scenes footage. After that, ANGERME performs one of their Indie singles (as S/mileage) Suki-chan. Then there’s a live performance from Country Girls in the Kashiwa PALOOZA event. And finally, it’s the turn for Morning Musume’s Haga Akane to show her hair arrangement.
Kakusei WOW WOW (覚醒WOW WOW) is the second single of the Idol group Devil ANTHEM. and it will be released on December 15. This relatively new group is formed by 5 girls, AI, SATSUKI, KURUMI, NANOHA and RIRIKA. Their sound is a bit rockish and speedy, their costumes are cute, but devilish, much like cute Halloween costumes. Their first song was titled Devil Anthem ~Kimi No Heart Wo Seifuku-Chuu~ and was released on September 27 this year. The music videos for both singles have been posted on records youthsource channel on youtube.
