#weekender

Banner image: Shihatsu-Machi Underground.  Whew! Just four posts away from hitting 500 consecutive Saturdays of Weekenders, the streak was almost broken this morning. I am traveling for my niece’s Junior High School graduation (this whole preamble was supposed to be about the stark difference between these graduations of joy versus the devastating ennui of idol graduations we are typically…

Banner image: NARUKAMI.  I am on the road this week and compiling the Weekender on a cranky laptop with sticky keys and an ailing monitor. Please take any random typos or errors as reassurance that the compilation of The Weekender is one of the few remaining recurrent, web-based features yet to be turned over to AI. We here at Homicidols dot com still deliver 100% fully organic written content…

Banner image: Jiemei.  Welcome back to another week in the idol trenches. As we know, there’s not a lot of money in chika idol these days, so I doubt any of you arrived here expecting a slew of high-budget, narrative-driven cinematic MVs this week. This is good! Because almost every single music video that dropped in the last seven days is a performance, dance, or live MV. So, this week’s theme…

Banner image: Quubi x YOLOZ.  The first Weekender of April is always a difficult task due to the struggle of sorting the April Fools Day pranks from the more serious releases. Since around half of the idol units that we cover display glimmers of insanity on a regular basis, it’s hard to know just when they’re joking. Now that April 1st is firmly in the rear view mirror, let’s get down to the…

Banner image: SICXXX.  Everyone must be distracted by cherry blossoms and forgot to upload any MVs this week. Its weird. With a few notable exceptions, there’s a dearth of new music videos to share. We still have plenty of intriguing new music and heartbreaking oshiloss news,  so we are not lacking for content. Oh yeah! The WACK auditioned camp happened this week as well. We saved that bit of meh…