Sakura Gakuin will release a Special 5th Anniversary Photobook

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 - 365 Nichi no Kamihikouki (more PV previews)

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.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Gameplay Trailer for PS4

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.

Kaneko Rie - NEXT Gravure Queen Battle 4th season

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.

BABYMETAL on the cover of Classic Rock, end-of-year special edition

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.

Fukuda Kanon graduation, new songs for C-ute and Country Girls, and more in this week’s Hello! Project Station

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.

Devil ANTHEM. reveals their new music video Kakusei WOW WOW

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.

Amuro Namie’s first single of the year will be released on December “Red Carpet”

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.

Anime version of Perfume featured in Mercedes-Benz commercial

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.

Kuromiya Rei releases first PV with BRATS - 14sai Byou

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.

Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku publishes MV’s for “Natsudaze Johnny” and “Superhero” on youtube

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.

Tanaka Reina will star in Fushigi Yugi stage musical

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.

Unhappy! – new anime announced

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.