FLOW performing at Crunchyroll Expo 2019

Five-member rock band FLOW will be at this year's Crunchyroll Expo, an annual event put on by anime streaming platform Crunchyroll. The announcement came via Crunchyroll’s official website. FLOW will be performing August 30 at the San Jose Convention Center. Not only is the band playing but they will also be participating in panels and signing autographs.

FLOW is a popular rock band here in the West due to the fact that they have several songs that have been used in many different anime over the years. This has allowed the band to develop quite a following here. If you are going to Crunchyroll Expo hopefully you’ll have the pleasure of checking these guys out in person.

FANTASTICS drop "Dear Destiny" music video

Male idol group FANTASTICS from Exile Tribe revealed the music video for their third and upcoming single “Dear Destiny”. In the music video we see the boys gathered in an apartment building and at first we follow each member but see two versions of them where one is just standing or walking around while the other one is dancing. As the music video moves along we eventually see the boys come together and, in my opinion, the coolest scene of the video: in the background there are the two primary vocalists of the group and then in the foreground there is the rest of the members dancing, but a member keeps disappearing and reappearing in various orders.

“Dear Destiny” is being released August 21 and will be available in two editions, a standard edition and a limited edition. The standard edition will be CD-only while the limited edition will include a bonus DVD.  The pre-order links are posted here.

Standard Edition

Limited Edition

And be sure to check out the super cool new music video for “Dear Destiny” below.

Madkid debuts at Crunchyroll Expo

The Rising of the Shield Hero has turned out to be one of the biggest hit anime of 2019 so far and as a result, Crunchyroll is celebrating it this year at Crunchyroll Expo. They have several people involved with the show attending this event including five-member pop group Madkid who provided the opening to both halves of the show. The expo will kick off Thursday night August 28 and is set to run all weekend to September 1.

The Rising of the Shield Hero is about a boy who is whisked away to another world wherein he is one of four legendary heroes. Each hero has a special weapon and protagonist Naofumi is cursed with the shield, which has a bad reputation so he is forced to overcome a lot on his own.

If you are planning on attending the Crunchyroll Expo and have never heard of Madkid you can check out their music video for “Rise” which was the first opening for The Rising of the Shield Hero.

BiS involves fans with interesting way of debuting music video!

Popular alt-idol group BiS’s third generation dropped the music video for their upcoming track “BiS-どうやらゾンビのおでまし-“ (“BiS-Douyara Zombie no Odemashi-”), on their official YouTube channel. “BiS-Douyara Zombie no Odemashi-” will be the lead track for the group’s upcoming album Brand-new idol Society which drops August 14.

In an interesting campaign the entire music video is blurred with a mosaic filter, locking visibility of the members and layout of the video. Through Twitter, each group member must attain a total of 15,000 followers for the “true”, uncensored version of the music video to appear. The group also set up tiers for the video, stating that if members reach a total of only 13,000 followers, only half of the members will be “unlocked”, with the other half unlocked after 14,000 followers is reached. The members commented on the marketing saying that they think it a great idea and keeps the music video very dramatic. They also commented that they will have fun checking to see if the true version will finally be revealed.

As previously reported, Brand-new idol Society will drop with only a CD-only standard edition with thirteen tracks total. In the meantime check out the music video in question along with the pre-order links for Brand-new idol Society below!

Standard edition 

01 STUPiD

02 BiS-どうやらゾンビのおでまし-

03 SURRENDER

04 リフレイン

05 BiS3

06 this is not a love song

07 1,2,3!!

08 absolutely meeeeee!!

09 ナンデスカ?

10 thousand crickets

11 teacher teacher teacher

12 strawberry girl

13 LET’S GO どうも

CUBERS shows fan their delusions of love with new single!

After an impressive showing of their major debut single “Major Boy”, five-member male idol group CUBERS announced that they will dropping a brand new single “妄想ロマンス” (“Moso Romance”) October 9. The news came as a surprise during their「SUMMER OF MAJOR BOY」tour in Tokyo’s WWW X live house this past week. To prove that CUBERS are no one-hit wonder, “Moso Romance” will be written by SILENT SIREN member Hinanchu and composed by Hirose Hirose of band Friends.

The single will drop with three tracks and be available in two editions, a CD-only standard edition and a CD + DVD limited edition. The DVD will include the both the music video and Making Of for “Moso Romance” and will also include clips from the group’s 「SUMMER OF MAJOR BOY」tour. 

As we wait for this highly anticipated single check out the music video for “Major Boy” along with the pre-order links for “Moso Romance” below!

Standard edition

Limited edition

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Track listing:

CUBERS「Moso Romance」

CD

01. 妄想ロマンス

02. PEOPLE GAME

03. Wonderland

DVD（Limited Edition Only）

・「妄想ロマンス」Music Video

・「妄想ロマンス」Music Video Making of

・「CUBERS 初の東名阪TOUR～SPECIAL SUMMER OF MAJOR BOY～」Tokyo Portion  （2019.07.28)