King & Prince’s New Song To Be Used As Theme Song For Hirano’s New Movie!

Sho Hirano of boy group King & Prince has been casted as the lead for upcoming love movie, ういらぶ。(We Love) —based of the popular manga of the same name— set to released on November 9. It’s now been revealed that King & Prince will be singing the movie’s theme song with their new upcoming song “High On Love”. Hirano pitch the song as “A bright a cheerful song, with chorus having a catchy melody which will make you think of that feeling when you first fell in love.”

No news of when the single will be released, however it should around the same time as the movie release. This will be King & Prince’s first movie theme song.

THE THIRD Adds A New Member And Changes Name!

Bushiroad’s multimedia project BanG Dream! announced during THE THIRD 2nd live that the band THE THIRD will change their name to RAISE A SUILEN, and had added a new member named Risa Tsumugi who will participate as a DJ for the group. For those who don’t know RAISE A SUILEN are an instrumental back up band for the bands whose voice actress can’t play their assigned instruments. However they also have several original songs of their own.

They also announced that they will be apart of BanG Dream! sixth official live taking place on December 8.

Check out their song R I O T below! 

LONGMAN Returns With A New Mini-Album!

After a year of hiatus, three-person band LONGMAN returned to announce a brand new mini-album, WALKING, which will release September 26. It will be the latest album release since SO YOUNG (November 2016). WALKING is set to feature seven songs. Vocalist Sawa commented, “After the long break we’re excited for everyone to listen to the album.”

Check out their song "Back Home" below!

COLOR CREATION Dawning An All Blue Theme For Their New Single!

Five-member boy group COLOR CREATION announced double A-side second single “I’m Here/ Blue Star”, set for release October 24. This album’s title continues the color motif the band had with their first single, “CANVAS”, which represents the color white. “I’m Here/ Blue Star” will have a color theme of blue, which is evident through the all-blue wardrobe on the single cover.

The single will have three different editions including a limited edition featuring a DVD of the music videos and footage from their last indie show back in April.

Check out the music video for “CANVAS” below!

Magic Boyz Former Members Continues As A New Group!

Former members of boy group Magic Boyz Toma, Ryuto, and Joe announced today that they came together to form a new group called HONG￥O.JP.

This announcement was made during Magic Boyz's final live event “MAGiC BOYZ iTTAN FiNAL”. HONG￥O.JP will drop their first single “Just Do It" July 17 via Spotify., they also released a preview of “Just Do It” on their YouTube channel which you can see below!