Dean Fujioka goes Searching for Shelly in new mini-album!

Popular Japanese actor, model, and vocalist Dean Fujioka goes searching in his new mini-album Shelly which drops December 11! Shelly will be Dean’s third mini-album overall and second big release this year, as his History in the Making studio album was released in January.

Shelly will feature five tracks including “Searching for the Ghost” which was used as the intro theme for popular Japanese drama Sherlock and “Chasing a Butterfly feat. Nao Matsushita” which served as the theme for the popular movie Angel Sin, both of which he also starred in as a main actor. Shelly will be released in three fabulous editions: a CD + DVD Limited Shelly ver Type A, a CD + DVD Limited Ghost ver Type B, and a CD-only regular edition. The Type A version will include the music videos for the tracks “Searching for the Ghost”, “Shelly”, and “Maybe Tomorrow” along with behind-the-scenes footage and a lyric video for “History in the Making”. The Type B version will include seven live tracks taken from Dean’s concert at NHK Hall on March 30. The first pressing of all three editions comes with a B3 exclusive poster so get your orders in soon!

Pre-order links and track listing are below along with the promotional videos for “Shelly” and “Searching for the Ghost”, so check those out as well!

CD + DVD Limited “Shelly” ver Type A

CD + DVD Limited “Searching for the Ghost” ver Type B

CD-only regular edition

Track listing:

Dean Fujioka「Shelly」

CD

01. Shelly
02. Searching For The Ghost
03. Made In JPN
04. Chasing A Butterfly (feat. Nao Matsushita)
05. Send It Away (feat. GONG)

Limited Edition Type A DVD

Music & Lyric Videos
01. Shelly Music Video
02. Searching For The Ghost Music Video
03. Maybe Tomorrow Music Video
04. History In The Making Lyric Video
Behind The Scenes
01. Shelly Music Video
02. Searching For The Ghost Music Video
03. Maybe Tomorrow Music Video

Limited Edition Ghost Version DVD

DEAN FUJIOKA 1st Asia Tour 2019 "Born To Make History" 2019.3.30 @NHK Hall
01. Maybe Tomorrow
02. Accidental Poet
03. Hope
04. Sakura
05. History In The Making
06. Echo
07. Legacy
08. Fukushima

Minami Minegishi announces her graduation from AKB48!

In a surprising announcement during the AKB48 fourteen year anniversary which took place earlier in the week, Minami Minegishi announced she will be graduating from the 48 system. Minegishi, who had originally joined the 48 system back in 2005, was one of the group’s founding members. Along with fellow members Minami Takahashi and Haruna Kojima, she was in the sub-unit No Sleeves back in 2008. She was also the member who was involved with a scandal back in 2013 which resulted in her demotion and had the idol sub-culture under the microscope ever since.

Minegishi announced she will be holding her graduation concert on April 2, 2020 in the famed Yokohama Arena in Kanagawa. With her graduation from the 48 system, all initial twenty members from the first generation of AKB48 will have departed the group, with Yuki Kashiwagi from the third generation being the last of the originals. We at OTY thank Minegishi for all the hard work she’s done for the industry up until now and wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors.

MYTH & ROID announces greatest hits

Rock duo MYTH & ROID announced they will be dropping their very first greatest hits album. MYTH & ROID got started in 2015 and has provided several openings for various anime such as Overlord, Re: Zero -Starting Life in Another World-, and The Saga of Tanya the Evil, just to name a few. The new album will feature all ten singles the duo has released so far. The greatest hits album will simply be titled MYTH & ROID Best Album and will drop March 4, 2020. It is being released in two editions, a standard CD-only edition and a limited edition which will come with a bonus Blu-ray and feature music clips. Pre-orders are currently up and posted below along with the duo’s latest single “TIT FOT TAT”.

Standard edition

Limited Edition

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas shows how tough they are with latest album!

Popular Japanese electrocore band Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas brought their latest album to fans titled HYPERTOUGHNESS on December 4! HYPERTOUGHNESS is the band’s sixth full-length album following up after New Sunrise which was released in October 2017, over two years ago! Earlier this year the group lost their bassist Kei to acute heart failure and put all activities on hold due to this.

After restarting their activities they re-emerged with HYPERTOUGHNESS and it comes to fans in a CD-only format including eleven tracks, featuring “The Gong of Knockout” which was used for the second opening of popular Netflix/TMS anime adaption of Baki the Grappler! The first press edition of HYPERTOUGHNESS comes with sticker cover artwork and a sticker sheet! Get your copies at the link below while checking out the track listing! Also be sure to check out their latest video “MASSIVE CORE” which is featured on the album.

HYPERTOUGHNESS CD-only

Track Listing:

1. The Stronger, The Further You'll Be

2. The Gong of Knockout

3. CURE

4. Great Strange

5. Interlude

6. Keep the Heat and Fire Yourself Up

7. Treasure in Your Hands

8. Karma

9. Thoughtless Words Have No Value But Just a Noise

10. Where You Belong

11. Massive Core

The Rampage and Fantastics team up for big Gundam anniversary

Long-running franchise Gundam is celebrating forty years in the entertainment industry and The Rampage and The Fantastics are stepping up to help celebrate this milestone. Both groups will be performing the theme song for the G40 project which will be a giant collaboration with Mobile Suit Gundam “Gundam”, Ken Okuyama Design, and LDH Japan. Each group will be in charge of a particular song; The Rampage’s song “SHOW YOU THE WAY” will represent Char Aznable, the main rival, and “TO THE SKY” will be performed by The Fantastics and represent Amuro Rei, the series’ protagonist.