LADYBABY recently released their first single with their new lineup titled "Hoshi no Nai Sora" and one of the tracks on this single saw Rie Kaneko and crew collaborate with former member Ladybeard. That song is "Biri Biri Money feat. Ladybeard" and they even more recently dropped an MV for it!
Kamiyado is a group that we haven't covered much here on A-to-J Connections, but they've been putting out a lot of good music since their debut in 2014 and they recently released an MV for their upcoming single, "HAPPY PARTY NIGHT"!
Wa-suta recently released a very colorful MV for "WELCOME TO DREAM", the title track from their upcoming fifth single!
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.
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! Five member dance/pop unit, Da-iCE, recently dropped a preview for the MV to their upcoming single, "TOKYO MERRY GO ROUND" and it's just the kind of upbeat song that everyone needs now around the holidays!
A-to-J Connections recently completed one of our many trips to Japan where we conducted several interviews and attended many concerts and events. While there we were lucky enough to catch up with WHY@DOLL both at their oneman live at Shibuya GLAD and we were able to sit down with them for an interview! An interview that was both fun and informative and that we're ecstatic to bring you now! For those that don't know A-to-J Connections have been fans of WHY@DOLL for a while now and we even named their album "Gemini" a very close second as our idol "album of the year". (In an article that can be found HERE.) We all loved the singles that followed the album (Being "Sumire Iolite" and "Kimi wa Steady") and we gave their follow-up self-titled album, which released this past August, a great review as well. (That review can be found HERE.) We were really excited that we were granted this opportunity and we hope that everyone checks out WHY@DOLL from here on and keeps an eye on their future activities! Also, if you've never heard of WHY@DOLL before this, we encourage you to look into them more as we really can't recommend enough!
WHY@DOLL is an idol unit from Sapporo, Hokkaido that formed in May 2011 with five members, two of which would leave the following February. That February also saw the release of their first single "Fight!!". WHY@DOLL held their first oneman live in July 2013 and Zepp Tokyo and that November a third member graduated leaving WHY@DOLL as the duo they are today made up of Haruna Uratani and Chiharu Aoki. This change in lineup also marked the group's move to Tokyo. WHY@DOLL began 2014 with a challenge to make their major debut, an endeavor in which they were eventually successful and saw the release of their first major single, "Magic Motion No.5" released that September. They would release their first mini-album, "NAMARA!!", in 2015 and this would be followed by their first full-length album, "Gemini", the next year. Late 2016 and early 2017 saw the release of the singles "Sumire Iolite" and "Kimi wa Steady" respectively, both of which would lead up to their second full-length self-titled album. WHY@DOLL currently holds regular lives at Shibuya GLAD and is active on various platforms online including SHOWROOM. Links to more info can be found following the interview! KOTO es definitivamente la favorita en A-To-J Connections y hemos hablado de ella en varias ocasiones. La entrevistamos antes en Japón (HERE para la entrevista. HERE para el reporte del concierto.), durante su primer evento fuera de Japón, en Taiwan. Taiwan (HERE and HERE) y recientemente, pudimos entrevistarla de nuevo. ¡Durante nuestro viaje a Japón! Fue una video entrevista y, por varias razones, sólo pudo ser realizada en japonés. (Video abajo) ¡Pero pronto estará la versión con subtítulos!
La siguiente entrevista fue realizada literalmente horas antes de una presentación especial de KOTO y la banda de Sasaki Kissa, Recoride. Fue también unas semanas antes de su cumpleaños y su presentación en solitario. Después de esto, fue lanzado su sencillo “Butoh Yugi” y su aparición en el Tokyo Idol Festival, siendo estos los temas de los que hablamos en la entrevista. Mantente al pendiente de A-To-J Connections para más información acerca de KOTO y visita los links al final del artículo (Y lo que están al inicio) para más detalles. |
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