Nogizaka46 Announces Big Music Video Collection

Mega-idol group Nogizaka46 revealed that they will be releasing a collection of music videos on September 9th. The new collection is titled ALL MV COLLECTION 2 - Ano Toki no Kanojotachi - and will contain the music videos for their singles from fourteen to twenty-five. The fourteenth single was their song “Harujion ga Saku Koro” while their twenty-fifth single, “Shiawase no Hogoshoku”, served as long time member Mai Shiraishi’s graduation song. 

ALL MV COLLECTION 2 - Ano Toki no Kanojotachi - is being released in six editions total, a type A edition, type B edition, and a limited edition, all of which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray. The type A edition and type B edition will feature a special making-of along with one of a twenty-four card set. The limited edition will feature everything coming with the other editions but will also come with a deluxe booklet. Pre-orders are up and posted below for each edition along with the music video for “Shiawase no Hogoshoku” for everyone to check out.

Type A Edition DVD

Type A Edition Blu-ray

Type B Edition DVD

Type B Edition Blu-ray

Limited Edition DVD

Limited Edition Blu-ray

Takashi Matsuo Show Fans His Sorrow with Latest Music Video!

Member of the popular boy group Chotokkyu Takashi Matsuo released the music video for his track “Sorrow” on his YouTube channel. Set to be the lead track for his solo debut album うたうたい (“Uta Utai”)  dropping on September 2nd, Matsuo looks to lead on a different railway with his unique vocal style. Vocalist Vaundy will be leading their talent to the track and is an uplifting pop tune. 

The mini-album will drop with six tracks and will release in a CD-only standard edition. Be sure to check out the music video along with the pre-order link for Uta Utai below!

Standard Edition 


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Takashi Matsuo「Uta Utai」

01. mellow.P

02. The Brand New Way

03. 掌

04. Sorrow

05. libra

06. Hello

BRATS Looses Guitarist With Major Debut

Three-member rock band BRATS announced the release of their major debut album with Avex’s FAR EAST MONSTER RECORDS label. The upcoming album is titled Karma and is set to be released on September 30th. The guitarist for the band, Hinako, announced that she will be leaving the band and that her last day will be on September 30th. Hinako stated. “As I learned a lot through BRATS activities, I felt that I wanted to try something new, and that feeling was more and more than living with music”. She also noted that she was “very happy to play with BRATS”. 

Karma is being released in four editions total, a type A edition that will come with a CD plus DVD, a type B edition that will come with a CD + DVD, a limited edition that comes with sheet music, and another limited edition that comes with a digital version of the sheet music. Both limited editions will only come with the CD. The type A edition comes with the music video for a new song that released in July and the type B edition comes with the music video for the new song coming out late August. Pre-orders are up and posted right below and lastly, be sure to check out their song “Kaihou seyo” which came out this past March.

Type A Edition

Type B Edition

Limited Edition With Physical Sheet Music

Limited Edition With Digital Sheet Music

saji Brings the Fireworks with Upcoming Mini-Album!

Three-member rock band saji announced that they will be releasing a brand new mini-album 花火の詩 (Hanabi no Uta) on September 23rd. This will be the latest mini-album release done by the band since Hello April back in April, and like previous releases, kept the theme of having tracks like a collection of short stories. The release will drop with only six tracks and will be available in a CD-only release.

Pre-order the mini-album in the links below and check out their latest music video for their track “Sugar Orange” below!

Standard edition

Perfume Warp Time With First Single In Two Years

Three-member pop idol group Perfume announced a brand-new single titled “Time Warp” and is set to be released on September 16th. This is the first single that the group has released in over two years. This is also the second work of their Perfume 15th & 20th anniversary with you all which is celebrating fifteen years since their major debut and twenty years since they came together as a group. 

“Time Warp” is being released in two editions total; a limited edition that will come with a CD plus DVD, and another limited edition that will come with a cassette tape. The DVD will feature the music video for “Time Warp” and the cassette tape will be a bonus for those who purchase this edition. Pre-orders are up and posted below along with the full track listing for each edition. Be sure to also check out their latest music video “Challenger” below.

Limited Edition

Limited Edition with Cassette


Perfume「Time Warp」

CD

01. Time Warp

02. 再生

03. Time Warp -Original Instrumental-

04. 再生 -Original Instrumental-

DVD

・Time Warp -Video Clip-

・再生 -Video Clip-

・Perfume View

・再生 -メイキング映像-