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PASSPO☆ to disband in September 2018

Girl group PASSPO☆ have decided to call it quits later on in the year. They will hold their final concert, a one man live, at the Nakano Sunplaza on September 22nd, 2018. A long detailed message was posted on their official website, talks for the group going their separate ways began near the end of 2017. […]

☆(yooooo!!! it’s the first ask in 2018 and it’s this exciting!!! would you believe!!)

anyway, coming straight to the point...

as you can see i absolutely LOVE Hello! Project groups, they are really easy to listen to and have excessive international fanbase (compared to other acts), so you will find news about them without trouble. As for now Hello! Project consists of:

Morning Musume (’18) - literally group that is 20 years old. They started in 1997 as five members, then kept adding new ones, while previous members were quitting (or graduating, if we keep the jpop vocabulary). As for now we had 41 members over 14 generations (a generation is made when members are added - the number of members added at once varies from 1 to even 4, but 15 person lineup is maximum).The biggest hits they had include: love machine, koi no dance site, ren’ai revolution 21, happy summer wedding, aruiteru, one two three, wagamama ki no mama ai no joke. there are so many good songs for them, so if you want to know more, send me another message, i don’t want to flood it there...

Angerme (formely known as S/Mileage) - they are also generational, but they started in 2009 as 4 members. Since then, only one original member left is their leader Wada Ayaka. They had so many good songs lately, but i personally love Umaku Ienai, Dondengaeshi, Mahoutsukai Sally and Taiki Bansei. The member Sasaki Rikako is part-filipina! 

Juice=Juice were touring south america lately and they have many foreign-inspired songs such as ca va? ca va? and fiesta! fiesta! and also their dream road is a gem! 

Country Girls - are the group i personally love, but they become something like holiday-unit, since 2 members decided to focus on their studies, and 3 others were transferred to other groups (the ones i already described). But they are still active since like 1999 (with yearly-long hiatuses but still!). From the newest generation i personally adore ALL their songs, so here you got the playlist. 

Kobushi Factory and Tsubaki Factory - they are the newest groups, so they are just starting, esp Tsubaki. But i recommend Dotsukoi! Kenkyo ni daitan, Sakura Night Fever, Kobushi no Hana, for Kobushi and for Tsubaki - Hatsukoi Sunrise, Uruwashi no Camellia, Shuukatsu Sensation.

So it’s Hello! Project. For keeping up with them the best site you can find is hello-online.org and for translations projecthello.com also there’s helloprojectwikia, so if you want to learn about their history and find some trivia, it’s a go-to.

AS FOR NON-HAROPURO.

I personally love Keyakizaka46, they are part of Sakamichi Group, which are produced by the same guy who created AKB48, which you might heard about, since they are doing the Produce48 with Mnet, lmao. Anyways, Keyaki are quite young, since they debuted last year and CREATED A FREAKING BLAST in Japan, so i think every song they released was a hit? There are currently 43 of them, and 23 are in kanji keyaki (the main group), others are in hiragana keyaki. Songs that i’d recommend, include: Silent Majority, Sekai ni wa Ai shika nai, Shibuya Kara PARCO ga Kieta Hi, Futari Saison, Otona wa shinjitekurenai,Bokutachi no sensou, Fukyouwaon, Eccentric, Kaze ni Fukarete mo.The thing about Keyaki is that you can’t view the original videos from their official yt channel if you don’t have japanese proxy. So the views on links i provided are way lower than what you’ll see on their original, japanese-targeted channel.

AKB48 - are legends, and you can find anything ALL48 related on stage48 and their wikia. Biggest hits include: Heavy Rotation, Koisuru Fortune Cookie (they performed it on MAMA this year lmao), and my personal fav, Kimi Wa Melody, Kuchibiru ni Be my Baby, Ue Kara Mariko.

PASSPO☆ - they are... flight attendant themed group, like i’m not joking. Their leader is named Captain, sub-leader is Chief Purser... really. But they are also a band!! Like full-time band, not the sub-unit kind (ex. AOA Black). The best songs in my opinion are Mr. Wednesday, GPP, Bachelorette wa Owaranai, 7′s Up, Perfect Sky.

And last, but not least, my little kiddies from Team Syachihoko, who started as local idols, but then expanded and are doing budokans now?? How??? I love E-Kurashi, J.A.N.A.I.C.A., Shampoo Hat, Ultra Cho Miracle Super Very Power Ball and Cherie! I posted performance videos where i could, simply because 3BJunior (their agency) has anti-lipsync policy and they are always doing shows live HOW???

Lastly, if you want to get to know other groups, there’s jpop-idols.com, they provide you with music-related news and have quite the database about idols. As for downloading, it’s a pain in the ass, but if you can use torrents, then go to aidoru-online, there’s everything you wish for.

-FEMM

-Hey Say Jump

-Bii

-Passpo

-Sexy Zone

-I*RIS

-NMB48

-SNH48

-HKT48

-SDN48

-JKT48

-SKE48

-NGT48

-BNK48

-STU48

-Nogizaka46

-Keyakizaka46

-Morning Musume