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.
