 A-to-J Connections recently realized that we were a bit overdue for a new KOTO interview and as chance would have it, this would be our fifth interview with her and it would take place just prior to her special Fifth Anniversary Concert! If you don't know who KOTO is, let's give you all a very brief recap. We first officially caught up with KOTO early in 2016 with an interview and a live report that can be found HERE and HERE respectively. Just a few short weeks later we were lucky enough to catch up with her in Taiwan where she held her first overseas live! That interview was split into two parts and can be found HERE and HERE. A few months after that we arranged another interview that followed the release of her single "Butoh Yugi" which can be found HERE. LASTLY, we caught up with KOTO in October 2017, circa the release of her "Kotoraberingu" (Kotraveling) single and you can find that one HERE. Basically, you can learn all about KOTO in all those articles!
Since then, a lot of developments have occured! She had a successful crowdfunding campaign for a new album and MV in April 2018 and followed that success up by announcing her major debut, and the creation of a new label just for her called "KOTORA", through Universal Music Japan! November 2018 would see the first album from her in two years with the release of "Bye Bye Teens Lullaby" and she'd also release an MV for one of its songs, "Tiger Fighter Cyber Fighter"! As already mentioned, she recently celebrated her fifth anniversary and has even expanded into other things such as creating choreography for other idols! Basically, there's a lot to say, but let's move onto to the interview!  It was announced on March 12, 2019 at 7:30 PM JST via a livestream on Hello! Project’s YouTube channel, Hello! Project Station, that a new season of Hello! Sta and Upcoming is coming back starting on March 20, 2019.
 I’m a very critical person when it comes to documentaries about idol culture. Documentaries like Tokyo Idols or the average Vice exposé that market themselves on sensationalism. They often times use western viewpoints and outright racist agendas to paint Asia as nothing but a “creepy, perverted” part of the world. This is not okay nor acceptable.
That being said, there are only a select handful of documentaries that show idol culture in a neutral yet thought provoking manner without the racist, western undertones. Despite this, they still focus more on the fans. Out of that handful, only a few look into the humans behind what are known as “idols” |
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