While there are many examples that one could come up with, in my opinion, idols/pop groups are the epitome of the word “talent”. For the past few years, I’ve slowly started to realize and be amazed at how much work and effort these idols go through. Their ability to memorize the lyrics and choreography to…
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π₯ Hello and welcome back to another J-Music Exchange/Rate review (back on schedule this time!). In case you’re not familiar with what this is all about: basically, me and my good friend/Japanese music fan Leap250 pick out an album from our libraries, exchange them, listen to ’em and later write a review about them on…
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Hello! No, your eyes are not deceiving you; this is yet another installment of my infrequent rare Japanese song roundup segment. In case you’re not familiar with all this, it is essentially a thing I do where I compile some songs that I’ve been listening to lately and give my thoughts about them in a…
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WARNING: I ramble on and on about idols in this review Hello and welcome back to another installment of the J-Music Exchange/Rate segment here on the blog! In case you’re not familiar with what this is about, this is a fun thing I’ve been doing with my good friend/fellow Japanese music fan Leap250 where we…
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Hello and welcome back to our conversation about Selection Project! Really sorry about the delay; school’s been keeping me busy but I found some time to finally post! And in case you don’t know what this is about, me and my good friend/fellow idol fan Leap250 have been talking about this rather interesting anime called…
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Hello and welcome back to this interesting conversation I’m having with my good friend Leap250, where we’ve been talking about an idol anime called Selection Project! As you can tell by the title, this is part 2 of this post series so if you haven’t read part 1, which I highly recommend you do or…
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“Isn’t this just like that other idol show?”
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Bet you didn’t expect to see this again π Well, I found myself with some free time and given that there won’t be an album review this month, I figured I would write something in order to fill my monthly music post quota for September. That said, we’re once again referring to an old segment…
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Back in October of 2020, I wrote a post where I gave my thoughts on the first episode of the NijiGaku anime: a show that followed the then-latest Love Live generation, the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. Fast forward nine months later, and I genuinely didn’t expect myself to be writing another first impressions post…
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When it comes to the Japanese idol phenomenon, I feel like I’m most familiar with the ‘multimedia franchise’ side of this particular culture. You know, the idol projects that are shown in many different forms such as within anime, manga, radio programs, live events, video games, and so on. I actually love this whole concept…
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