ELFRIEDE Never Lets The Fun End with Latest Music Video!

“NEVER END” Jacket Cover

Tokyo’s up-and-coming girl band ELFRIEDE suddenly released new single “NEVER END” across all digital music streaming platforms along with the music video for the track as well. The band features bassist Rina Hoshino (who followers may have spotted performing with Miyako of LOVEBITES for ORANGE amps), Ryo Yamabuki on guitar (who is a popular cosplay and gravure idol, and winner of YAMAHA Music’s Revolution Guitarist Award), drummer Yu-yan (who has appeared at Japan Expo in France twice), and vocalist and cat-lover Mikuru (former MC of Nico Nico Douga’s official live music show).

Be sure to check out the music video for “NEVER END” below along with the streaming link here!

Niji no Conquistador Gets Ready for Snow with New Single!

“Namida, Awayuki” Digital Jacket Cover

Popular idol group Niji no Conquistador ditch the sunshine, bikinis and beach-based shenanigans that they’re popular for with melancholy winter single “ナミダ、あわ雪” (“Namida, Awayuki”).

The track is available to officially across all distal music streaming platforms, ahead of its physical release in Japan next year with group’s new tour Blu-ray Winter Love, Like Summer! ~ RAINBOW JAM2021 SUMMER SHOWER ~. The single will also be used in this year’s Fuyusupo!! WINTER SPORTS FESTA commercial, the fifth consecutive year that a Niji no Conquistador songs has been used for the event

“It's an important day for Nijicon,” comments member Moe Tsurumi on the release of their new single and upcoming tour Blu-ray. “The video of the national tour celebrating the seventh anniversary of Nijicon, the fifth consecutive year having our song tied to Fuyusupo!! WINTER SPORTS FESTA, and all the things we've built up over the years have come together in this work! We put everything we had into this tour and proved that we are the strongest not only in summer but also in winter. We hope you enjoy both the tour, which we put everything we had into, and this mature and sad winter song, which prove that we not only give our best in summer, but winter too! We hope you enjoy both of them.”

Be sure to check out the track here!

AKB48 Shows Off Unbelievably Amazing Dance Skills in the Music Video of This Song. The Song is Now Translated to 10 Languages and Has Been Spread Around the World Quickly!

“Ne mo Ha mo Rumor” Jacket Cover

Mega-idol group AKB48 has finally released their chart topping hit “Ne mo Ha mo Rumor” after one and a half years of silence. They showed off their new performance on a Japanese music TV program prior to the release of the song. People who watched the show were surprised to see their latest performance which is based on “LOCK DANCE” style of choreography. Their dance has so much energy and many people loved it and described it as an “unbelievably amazing dance”. The overall views on the music video and the dance clip on the AKB48 official Youtube is over 7.5 million. This new song was a hot topic inside and outside of Japan and reached groups of people who never knew AKB48 before, meaning that their support rate has moved rapidly up.

When Japanese female idol groups have many members like AKB48, there are always issues when members graduate from the group. AKB48 currently consists of members only from the main AKB48 group for the first time after 10 years and 9 months. This situation where many old members left the group recently changed AKB48 to a young fresh group.

Nana Okada who performs in the center on this new song and Hitomi Honda who has just come back from the girl group IZ*ONE, are the new heroines for the group and they are attracting new fans from the younger generation in Japan and abroad. 

They stopped recruiting the members from sister’s groups and reformed the group to only AKB48 original members. This shift actually made the group more strongly united and they can see the direction for the future more clearly. They rebuilt the new style of AKB48 which is getting out of the category of idol and they are trying to stand out with their great dance skills.

Although AKB48 has been very active in Asia, this latest song “Ne mo Ha mo Rumor”’s music video on YouTube has 10 language subtitles for the first time. The languages are Japanese with Roman alphabet, English, Indonesian, Thai, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French.

Viewers can see the spirit of the teenagers' life in the music video and also understand the Japanese lyrics clearly with the translation. It is very interesting to see how people will react to the video worldwide. There is a huge expectation to see how great a reaction might be in the world. This new song is their first new step to be reborn. AKB48 may gain new popularity overseas and it will be a huge progress for their great career. 

Be sure to check out all the styles of “Ne mo Ha mo Rumor” below!

Virtual Idol Group V.W.P Amazes Fans with Latest Release!

“Rinne” Jacket Cover

V.W.P, KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO’s virtual group consisting of members KAF, RIM, HARUSARUHI, ISEKAIJOUCHO and KOKO, is releasing “Rinne” (Reincarnation), their second digital single and opening theme song of anime “Mav-Luv Alternative”, available worldwide midnight November 3rd (Japan Time) on various streaming platforms. On the same day at 20:00, their storybook-esque music video, a combination of 3DCG and animation directed by Yusaku Kumagai (STEREOTYPE.Inc.), premiers on YouTube.  “Rinne” was written and composed by Iori Kanzaki, a popular Vocaloid Producer who writes the majority of KAF’s songs. It is an anthemic song with lyrical reflections of the narrative, struggles of despair and anger, and of seizing the future. 

The anime “Mav-Luv Alternative” exists in a world of shared universes and mixed media, adorned by fans from all over the world. Crunchyroll, an Animation Streaming Platform and part of the series’ production committee, distributes “Mav-Luv Alternative” to over 200 countries and regions.  V.W.P and their song “Rinne” will head out into the world along with this global endeavor.  They announcement is just the beginning for V.W.P. Be sure to check out the music video in questions below!

MONDO GROSSO Shows Everything with a Japanese Version of Everything Needs Love feat. BoA’!

Since forming as a band in 1991 and later becoming a solo project for Shinichi Osawa, MONDO GROSSO has been a fixture of the music scene in not only Japan but around the world, effortlessly fusing genres such as acid jazz, R&B, Latin, 2-step, house and pop. A new hits collection, MONDO GROSSO OFFICIAL BEST, was released on November 3 across all digital music streaming platforms, compiled by Osawa himself to showcase the trajectory of MONDO GROSSO’s unique sound.

Comment from Shinichi Osawa

“Rather than just a collection of old songs, please consider this a new kind of best-of album, with new remixes, updated mixes, edits and remasters that show these songs at their very best.”

BoA

The album also includes “Everything Needs Love feat. BoA”, which was originally released in 2002, when diva singer BoA was just 15 years old. Now, 19 years later, a new version featuring a brand-new Japanese-language vocal performance from BoA is included on the album, while a video has also been released. The gorgeous video, which pays homage to 1980s Japanese animation, was created by Los Angeles-based animation artist Ben Lam and produced by Jordan Freda, who has worked on music videos for Katy Perry as well as commercials for Nike, BMW and Mercedes Benz, and even visual effects for The Amazing Spider-Man.

In these times when even a simple hug is complicated, the new Japanese lyrics on “Everything Needs Love feat. BoA (RE-NEW JP)” look back on the dance floors of the past and express a new hope for the future. As the lyrics say, let’s look inside ourselves for the loudness we crave!

Be sure to check out the music video for “Everything Needs Love feat. BoA” below along with he streaming link for MONDO GROSSO OFFICIAL BEST here!