Mocho

http://basudayo.tumblr.com/post/107089827905/seiyuu-map-of-the-future-asakura-momo

This is like important information for everyone. :|

夢色トレイン

(I can only find a preview version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBxjzK-DkWs )

I have to admit Serika is great but her first song was only ok, didn't quite have its appeal as I would like it to have.


...BUT THIS ONE.

Man after I heard this one it was like an instant favorite. It seems to capture the essense of cuteness, and Serika herself is pretty much an embodiment of that so it represents her so well. There's just two things I wanted to note about this song:

1. What is the deal with trains?? First there was Kotori's single, and now Serika. What does this mean?? Should I become a train otaku?? What is the link with cuteness/purity and trains...???

2. I really wish there was MV or live out for this song out right now. I will probably melt at the performance of this kind of song. The dancing... the cuteness... kyun kyun...

Idol Units

Random thoughts.

If I could produce any three-idol unit like they have in idolm@ster but instead have no restrictions of what series they'd come from...

I'd probably do Serika (c), Arisa, Kotori.

However, although Kotori is my favorite idol in μ's, I don't think she would really match the unit. Her appeal is different than the other two -- although they'd all classify as Pure, the type of Pure that Kotori possesses is distinctly different from the other two. 

...maybe I can substitute Totori as an idol?!?!?!?!?


Putting favorites aside, if I chose someone for talent (in particular for singing), I think I'd do something like:

Reika (c), Emily, Eli

Reika is a really amazing singer -- just hearing her voice in ML made me really like her. It's too bad she herself isn't that popular, I kind of think she deserves better than just a character role in ML. Then again if the seiyuu wasn't voicing a ML character (like a normal idol role or in a group such as AKB) I probably wouldn't know of her in the first place.

Hmm I realize I didn't pick anyone from Aikatsu. I guess I would put Ichigo somewhere but she's already the main character... :V

...Totori as an idol is a brilliant idea. ATELIER SERIES IDOL SPINOFF PLEASE!



EDIT: Also something very distantly related. The next big idol game! http://www.siliconera.com/2014/07/08/mages-5pb-publishing-super-cute-idol-rhythm-game-3ds/

Sakura Gakuin

A while ago when I watched Zettai Karen Children I thought that the girls that did the intro (Karen Girls) were an interesting group, and I thought it would be interesting to check up on them later. So for 3 years I went off to do other things and just yesterday I decided to look them up again to see what they were up to. 

...First off I would like to say, I never truly believed that there were actual idol competitions like they talk about in Idolmaster and Love Live until yesterday. I guess it was always in the back of my head saying something like "yeah sure yeah right, it's all probably not real" but apparently, there is something called Tokyo Idol Festival... and there really are idol competitions!! I haven't watched through them all yet and there's probably too many idols to list (much more than Love Live/Aikatsu/Idolmaster/etc I'm guessing) so this post won't be on that. It was more of a "omg something like this exists" kind of thing.

Next... I guess it never struck me how prominent the "groups of large idols" was in japan and whether an environment similar to 765 pro exists, but after seeing Sakura Gakuin I'm guessing some places come pretty close. Sure there were large groups like AKB and whatnot but... wow everyone in Sakura Gakuin is so young :V I guess I should have guessed since the Karen Girls video but idols really do train at young age (some of them anyway)... >.>

Anyway I decided to check out a few of their videos and its actually pretty fun to watch. I think its almost like watching irl Aikatsu except... not... but I still think they're worth knowing about. Their voices aren't always the best, but I think given their age and that they're doing performances they're at quite a high caliber, at least some of them anyway. Well it doesn't matter because the videos I want to link aren't the ones with them singing anyway V:

random episode drama about switching... or... something... First one I watched. It was kind of cute and funny. Ok well most of these videos are kind of cute and funny.

As it turns out young idols have hilarious answers to questions! I thought this one was really amusing to watch, I think it paints a nice view of the environment they try to make with the show.

They do graduation parties too! Nothing like the ones we have. :| Speaking of this person, this girl was one of the girls in the Karen Girls group. Also amusingly enough she's the lead singer in the Babymetal pop/death metal group... She's really cute but that she's doing Death Metal kind of makes me sad since her image can be so much cuter than the type of goth death metal is associated with imo ;_;

Another girl of the Karen Girls group also graduated from the Sakura Gakuin group and is actually going solo really soon. Her webpage and debut information is here:

http://www.mutoayami.jp/cam/debut/index.php

It looks quite a lot more mature than when we first saw her Karen Girls and Sakura Gakuin. Well that's what happens after a couple years I guess. V:

There was one more girl but I wasn't able to get much info from the last one. I guess some become more famous and others don't? Sad but probably how these things work. If only idol life was always happy and smiling like these videos...