LiSA sings about high school life as she teams up with Kirin Lemon!

In a surprised twist, popular beverage company Kirin dropped its new CM featuring popular vocalist LiSA in itsKirin Lemon Tribute” campaign with her rendition of the song "透明なままでゆけ" ("Tomeina mamade yuke”) on its official YouTube channel.

The CM features a scene of a male high school student hanging out with members of the basketball club interspersed with scenes of LiSA singing in a classroom. Dubbing this CM Natsu, Aitsura Story 2, Kirin took a different approach this year in designing its CM by having it being congruent to Miyakawa-kun’s Kaze wo Kiretara CM that aired last month. In comparison to LiSA’s version it had the love interest of the student as the center focus of the CM.

Check out both versions of Kirin Lemon’s CMs in the videos below! 

Kiki Asakura announces hiatus from activities with Tsubaki Factory!

Kiki Asakura

After taking number four in the Oricon Charts with their latest single “Oh No Ono”, five-member idol group Tsubaki Factory’s Kiki Asakura announced that she will be taking a break from activities—starting immediately. Asakura stated that she was diagnosed with lumbar disk herniation—which, in layman’s terms, means a spinal injury—and was told to take a hiatus from her work as an idol as soon as possible. 

This news broke just in the middle of Tsubaki Factory’s live tour which Asakura will unfortunately not continue with. She said that she feels bad disappointing her fellow group members but will do her best in her rehabilitation and “will be back better then ever”!

We at Ongaku To You wish Asakura a speedy recovery and hope to see her back onstage soon.

FUNKIST brings out Best Of to celebrate monumental anniversary!

Five-member rock band FUNKIST announced that they will be releasing their first Best Of album tilted FUNKIST 20'sBEST ~LION~ on August 27. To celebrate twenty years of FUNKIST, the luxurious history album will include tracks from several albums from their extensive library starting from first album THANKIST, originally released in 2004, to their latest THE WIND AND THE SUN, which was dropped this past March. The Best Of will also bring out over forty tracks on a single disc making it a definite must-buy for fans.

FUNKIST announced that they will be having a release party tour for the album with its first stop at Tokyo’s TSUTAYA O-West location. More locations are being planned.

No pre-order has been set for the album as of the time of this writing but we’ll update you when it does. In the meantime check out the music video for “THE WIND AND THE SUN” below!

ARASHI announces amazing four-disc set for Best Of album!

As previously announced, five-member male idol group ARASHI will be releasing a brand new Best Of album simply called 5×20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019 June 26. 

Labeled as the group’s “all time best”, 5×20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019 will include songs from ARASHI’s debut single “A・RA・SHI” to latest single “Kimi no Uta”. It will flaunt a whopping sixty-three songs, totaling it out to a four-disc set. Showing shades of their previous Best Of collection, ARASHI will also include a bonus sixty-fourth track to be used as their anniversary song, “5x20”.

 5×20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019 will be released in three different editions: a 4-CD-only standard edition and two 4-CD+DVD limited editions (Type One and Type Two). Type One will be encased in special packaging, include a special photo booklet and a 72-page lyric booklet, and its DVD will include the music video for “5x20” along with its making-of. Type Two will include a code for a digital booklet, a 100-lyric/photo booklet, and DVD clips from lives across ARASHI’s luxurious career starting from their debut concert to last year’s untitled tour.

Pre-order all of the editions for 5×20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019 including the three-set bundle edition at the links below!

Standard Edition 

Limited Edition: Type One

Limited Edition: Type Two

Three-set Bundled Edition

Track listing:

ARASHI「5×20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019」

DISC 1

01. A・RA・SHI

02. SUNRISE日本(SUNRISE NIPPON)

03. HORIZON

04. 台風ジェネレーション -Typhoon Generation- (Typhoon Generation)

05. 感謝カンゲキ雨嵐 (Kansha Kangeki Amearashi)

06. 君のために僕がいる(Kimi no Tame ni Boku ga Iru)

07. 時代(Jidai)

08. a Day in Our Life

09. ナイスな心意気 (Nicena Kokomo Iki

10. PIKA☆NCHI

11. とまどいながら (Tomodoinagara)

12. ハダシの未来(Hadashi no Mirai)

13. 言葉より大切なもの(Kotoba yori Daitsuna mono)

14. PIKA☆☆NCHI DOUBLE

15. 瞳の中のGalaxy(Hitomi no Nako no Galaxy)

16. Hero

DISC 2

01. サクラ咲ケ (Sakura Sake)

02. WISH

03. きっと大丈夫 (Kitto Daijyobu)

04. アオゾラペダル (Aozora Pedal)

05. Love so sweet

06. We can make it!

07. Happiness

08. Step and Go

09. One Love

10. truth

11. 風の向こうへ (Kaze no Mukou he)

12. Beautiful days

13. Believe

14. 明日の記憶 (Ashita no Kioku)

15. Crazy Moon~キミ・ハ・ムテキ~ (Crazy Moon ~Kimi Ha Muteki~)

16. Everything

DISC 3

01. マイガール (My Girl)

02. Troublemaker

03. Monster

04. To be free

05. Love Rainbow

06. Dear Snow

07. 果てない空 (Hatenai Sora)

08. Lotus

09. 迷宮ラブソング (Meikyu Love Song)

10. ワイルド アット ハート (Wild And Heart)

11. Face Down

12. Your Eyes

13. Calling

14. Breathless

15. Endless Game

16. Bittersweet

DISC 4

01. GUTS!

02. 誰も知らない (Dare mo Shiranai)

03. Sakura

04. 青空の下、キミのとなり (Aozora no Shita, Kimi no Tonari)

05. 愛を叫べ (Ai wo Sakebe)

06. 復活LOVE (Fukkatsu LOVE)

07. I seek

08. Daylight

09. Power of the Paradise

10. I'll be there

11. つなぐ (Tsunagu)

12. Doors ~勇気の軌跡~ (Doors ~Yuki no Kiseki~)

13. Find The Answer

14. 夏疾風 (Natsu Hayate)

15. 君のうた (Kimi no Uta)

16. 5×20

Limited Edition Type 2 DVD

「ARASHI LIVE CLIPS」

01. A・RA・SHI(2000年「嵐 FIRST CONCERT 2000」より)

02. 恋はブレッキー~野性を知りたい~DANGAN-LINER~サワレナイ(疲れちゃダメドレー / 2002年「ARASHI All Arena Tour join the STORM」より)

03. Lucky Man(2003年「How's it going? SUMMER CONCERT 2003」より)

04. RIGHT BACK TO YOU(2004年「2004 嵐!いざッ、Now Tour!!」より)

05. Yes? No?(2005年「ARASHI Live 2005 One SUMMER TOUR」より)

06. COOL & SOUL(2006年「ARASHI FIRST CONCERT 2006 in Taipei ~久等了!嵐來了!~」より)

07. Love so sweet(2007年「ARASHI AROUND ASIA+ in DOME」より)

08. Oh Yeah!(2007年「ARASHI SUMMER TOUR 2007 FINAL Time -コトバノチカラ-」より)

09. Love Situation(2007年「ARASHI SUMMER TOUR 2007 FINAL Time -コトバノチカラ-」より)

10. Re(mark)able(2008年「arashi marks ARASHI AROUND ASIA 2008 in TOKYO」より)

11. truth(2008年「arashi marks ARASHI AROUND ASIA 2008 in TOKYO」より)

12. 感謝カンゲキ雨嵐(2009年「ARASHI Anniversary Tour 5×10」より)

13. 5×10(2009年「ARASHI Anniversary Tour 5×10」より)

14. Summer Splash!(2010年「ARASHI 10-11 TOUR “Scene”~君と僕の見ている風景~」より)

15. Monster(2010年「ARASHI 10-11 TOUR “Scene”~君と僕の見ている風景~」より)

16. movin' on(2010年「ARASHI 10-11 TOUR “Scene”~君と僕の見ている風景~」より)

17. 果てない空(2011年「ARASHI LIVE TOUR Beautiful World」より)

18. Welcome to our party(2012年「ARASHI LIVE TOUR Popcorn」より)

19. P・A・R・A・D・O・X(2013年「ARASHI Live Tour 2013 "LOVE"」より)

20. マイガール(ハワイアンver.)(2014年「ARASHI BLAST in Hawaii」より)

21. Asterisk(2014年「ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2014 THE DIGITALIAN」より)

22. CARNIVAL NIGHT part 2(お祭りver.)(2015年「ARASHI BLAST in Miyagi」より)

23. 心の空(2015年「ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2015 Japonism」より)

24. Don't You Get It(2016年「ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2016-2017 Are You Happy?」より)

25. Green Light(2017年「ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2017-2018『untitled』」より)

26. 『「未完」』(2017年「ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2017-2018『untitled』」より)

SHE IS SUMMER shows off artsy side with latest music video!

Vocalist SHE IS SUMMER dropped the music video for her upcoming song, “Darling Daring” on her official YouTube Channel. “Darling Daring”, which will be released on her upcoming album MIRACLE FOOD on May 14, was chosen to be the ending theme song for popular variety show Ou-sama no Brunch for the month of May.

“Darling Daring” is composed by the duo of Seiichi Nagai and Akito Katayose who have written for SHE IS SUMMER before, which was for her song “CALL ME IN YOUR SUMMER” back in 2017. The music video was produced in collaboration with tattoo company opnner, with Kaho Iwaya as producer and Naoya Maeda as videographer. This expressive collaboration was exhibited in the music video itself by boasting several hand-drawn animations throughout.

 SHE IS SUMMER 3rd ANNIVERSARY One-Woman Live「FOOD COURT」

2019年5月19日(日)Osaka’s Shangri-La

2019年6月1日(土)Tokyo’s LIQUIDROOM

As previously reported, SHE IS SUMMER will be having a small one-woman live in celebration of the release of the album. You can check out more information here.



Check out the music video in question and pre-order MIRACLE Food at the link below!

Standard Edition

 

SHE IS SUMMER MIRACLE FOOD cover

SHE IS SUMMER MIRACLE FOOD cover

Track listing:

SHE IS SUMMER「MIRACLE FOOD」

01. Darlin Darlin

[作詞:MICO / 作曲:永井聖一、片寄明人/ 編曲:鈴木正人、永井聖一、片寄明人]

02. Highway Records feat.向井太一, Simon

[作詞:MICO、向井太一/ 作曲:CELSIOR COUPE、向井太一/ 編曲:CELSIOR COUPE、PUZZLE MAN]

03. タイトル未定

[作詞:MICO / 作曲・編曲:荒田洸(WONK)]

04. 海岸2号線

[作詞:MICO / 作曲:原田夏樹/ 編曲:及川創介、伊藤翔磨]

05. 君をピカソの目でみたら

[作詞:MICO、ヤマモトショウ/ 作曲:ひろせひろせ(フレンズ、nicoten)]

06. とびきりのおしゃれして別れ話をSIRUP& MORI ZENTARO remix

[作詞:MICO、ヤマモトショウ/ 作曲:釣俊輔/ 編曲:釣俊輔、江口亮/ リミックス:SIRUP、MORI ZENTARO]