A while back fans of AKB48 were shocked and surprised when the announcement dropped that the idol group would be putting on of its members into a starring role in a Mexican telenovela titled "LIKE". Well, today we finally have a few more details about this collaboration!
 A while back we at A-to-J Connections were lucky enough to catch one of the last lives of alternative idol group, Petit Pas, before their breakup. We haven't really mentioned them much here, but some of the members carried on in the group Alloy, which was announced prior to Petit Pas' final live. Well, in a somewhat odd move they recently released two "lyric videos" for "Pinball" and "astronaut", the songs from their second and third single respectively, both released in November of last year.
 More details have been released following the announcement that AV actress (adult video), and Ebisu Muscats member, Yua Mikami would be debuting in a Korean idol group this March.
BABYMETAL has announced their upcoming US/European World Tour 2018 dates! And they're quite interesting!   Japanese idol group Candy holic will take over maidreamin's Akihabara Live Restaurant Heaven's Gate on February 18th. The idols will wear maidreamin's signature maid cafe outfits and perform special mini-concerts on the Heaven's Gate music stage.
Candy holic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/candy_holic_11 Candy holic's performance at maidreamin is the latest collaboration at the maid cafe's 16 locations in Japan and Thailand. Recent events include tie-ins with video games Dx2 Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation, Kurokishi to Shiro no Maou and Fuji TV's Kuragehime ("Princess Jellyfish").  Do you idols?
Do you like pro wrestling? Do you like idols wrestling? Then this AKB48 Group wrestling event is just what you’re looking for!  Source: AKB48 - Pontail to Shushu MV For some, it’s hard to think of AKB48 without thinking of their iconic music video for “Heavy Rotation”, which at the time of this writing has 140 million views on YouTube alone. The video shows the members of the time wearing lingerie in a slumber party setting. There’s also the yearly music videos taken on beaches with the members in bikinis such as “Everyday Kachuusha” and “Ponytail to Shushu”. But now the rumor is that AKB48 will be limiting these types of outfits for their younger members, at least as far as gravure goes.
 Themed idol groups are nothing new, as a matter of fact they make up much of the idol scene as we know it today. Let us not forget that arguably the biggest idol group right now, BABYMETAL, is the product of a theme on paper put into real life. With this in mind we now have "Kaso Tsuka Shojo" or "Virtual Currency Girls", a cryptocurrency-themed idol group.
 A-to-J Connections has several artists/groups that we like to interview every chance we get and one of our favorites among those is KOTO! KOTO is an idol who we've covered several times before. To save ourselves some time with a recap we'll direct you to our earlier work with her! 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. You can learn all about KOTO in all those articles!
Now, a little over a year since our last meeting, we arranged another interview with KOTO that took place prior to her special oneman Halloween live and shortly after the release of her single "Kotoraberingu" (Kotraveling), which was released in seven different versions each representing a region in Japan. Besides this release, KOTO was very busy in the year since we last met up with her. Weeks after our last interview with her she formed XIAOCHAIPON with Hirano Yuri, successfully crowd-funded a fashion line titled "vanilla bunnies", took part in the "Aidoru Matsuri" contest, had several music releases, and more! We discussed all this and more in the following interview and you can rest assured that we at A-to-J Connections will be bringing you more content on KOTO in the future! Also, be sure to check out the full video of the interview following the translated text! |
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