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#1 LarcKen

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Posted 01 June 2016 - 12:13 PM

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Official Website: http://magipun.com/

Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/MAGiPUNofficial

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Birthday: 2000.12.25
Blood type: B type
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Height: 160cm
Hobby: Greek mythology, watching movies, listening to music, piano
Skill: basketball, rugby, tongue twisters
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Rina
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Birthday: 2003.3.4
Blood type: O type
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Hobby: dance, table tennis, singing, shopping
Skill: making toy candy, dance
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Rena
(Sato Rena / Satorena)

Birthday: 1998.11.9
Blood type: O type
Hometown: Saitama Prefecture
Height: 161cm
Hobby: shopping, dance
Skill: calligraphy, make-up, flexible body
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Himawari
(Shimizu Himawari / Hima)

Birthday: 2002.11.11
Blood type: O type
Hometown: Kanagawa Prefecture
Height: 163cm
Hobby: unicycle, dodge ball, listening to music
Skill: classical ballet, piano
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Yuna
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Birthday: 1998.2.10.
Blood type: A type
Hometown: Osaka
Height: 162cm
Hobby: listening to music, people-watching
Skill: dance, long-distance run

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Magical Punchline (Majipan) was born from the strong will of former Idoling!!! member Sato Rena (now Majipan's leader) to continue perform as an idol after the disbandment of Idoling!!!. She personally involved in the creation of the group, ranging from: searching and auditioning for new members, creating the concept, designing the costume, etc.

 

The concept of the group is 'girl's fantasy'. They are students of a magical school called 'Tiger's Gate' in a fictional world. It's like a blend of Harry Potter (which Satorena is a big fan of), Dragon Quest series's fantasy roleplaying game world, and legendary mythology, which then characterized their girly and pop 5 member witch apprentice fantasy group.

 

The art designer is Yuu Kikuchi (YUU菊池) who worked as an illustrator on Final Fantasy series, Kingdom Hearts series, and Granblue Fantasy.

 

Sato Rena is also involved in costume design. They chose to shy away from the typical black robe for magician, and instead bring on colorful girly theme, and also blend in the style of girl's fashion magazine 'LARME' which Satorena is a regular model of. The members each take on their individual pastel colors with Satorena continuing to use purple color from her Idoling!!! years.

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Major debut mini album will be released on 7-20-2016.

With the sound producer Tom Hack
popular for producing the songs from anime 'K-On'

 

There will be a total of 6 songs. At the moment they've only released the preview version of 'Magiかよ!? BiliBili☆パンチライン'.

They've just performed their first mini concert on May 28-29, 2016, and performed two songs.  https://tokyopopline.../archives/62848

 

 

 

 

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#2 Blu-Cherri

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Posted 01 June 2016 - 01:59 PM

Not seeing that much larme-kei here but I guess their hairstyles and colours match. The video game fantasy theme is amazing and I love it.

On their individual pictures it looks like they did have the typical larme-kei blush but the editor softened it off.


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#3 LarcKen

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Posted 01 June 2016 - 05:29 PM

IKR, i also dig the fantasy theme. To top it off here's the BGM of their live streaming show last month

Seems trivial, but strangely it excites me more ^_^

 

And it's probably good that they don't take themselves too seriously, as can be seen with the name of their rival school, 'Nogi Saga' :lol:

And many fictional entities within Asgirls (the world they live in) with obvious parody of their real life counterparts.

 

Their Magipedia section is a lot of fun to read ^-^  maybe i'll translate it if someone request it. why don't i do it anyway? :huh:  well, my Japanese is still far from excellent, especially with these kind of 'special' vocabulary thrown about.  :wacko:

 

 



#4 LarcKen

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Posted 16 June 2016 - 09:18 AM

At least we can see some of the dance here :good:

 

http://www.veoh.com/...7256326n956kMAs



#5 Blu-Cherri

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Posted 17 June 2016 - 02:48 AM

Since it's in their theme I felt that linking this English article about larme-kei might help people understand what it is(and why I don't think they're that larme-kei)

 

http://universal-dol...e-introduction/

 

The dance is cute looking. Need to see some proper videos of them soon.


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#6 LarcKen

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Posted 21 June 2016 - 06:35 AM

Mini album cover & new group photo released!

 

New group photo

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MAGiCAL PUNCHLiNE [Altair Edition]  (CD only)

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Contains all 6 songs including Magikayo


MAGiCAL PUNCHLiNE [CD+DVD / Vega Edition]

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DVD version with Magikayo MV and Majipan documentary

 

MAGiCAL PUNCHLiNE [Deneb Edition]  [Limited]

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CD+ merchandise limited sale already closed on 06/13

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Just in case anyone wanted to order:

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/PCCA-4399

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/PCCA-4398

 

 

Man, i want that Deneb cover :arrow:

 

Bonus pictures from their latest live events:

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MARQUEE x 2.5D「MARQing」 event on 06/19

 

Kurochan Idol Station radio live on 06/09



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Posted 21 June 2016 - 11:35 AM

Oh awesome, there's a thread!!! I found out about them a little bit ago, and I'm really charmed by Himawari <3 I can't wait to hear their songs properly and see them perform!


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#8 LarcKen

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Posted 21 June 2016 - 01:58 PM

^Welcome, great to see new fans here :good:

 

Might as well get it all up here:



#9 LarcKen

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Posted 27 June 2016 - 07:06 PM

Short PV for Magikayo !

http://www.veoh.com/...7495962zHBnM6e8

Love that opening scene :w00t:  And the song just gets better every time i listen to it

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Higher res pictures

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Deneb edition box and packaging

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#10 taskinist

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Posted 28 June 2016 - 12:41 AM

...This group is amazing


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#11 Blu-Cherri

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Posted 28 June 2016 - 01:08 AM

Ooh I love it!

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#12 LarcKen

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Posted 29 June 2016 - 12:45 PM

Official full version of the PV !

 

Oh damn, i'm blown away! We got to hear almost half of the song for the preview, but it's like we got only 30% of the song.

The last half added is making this the best progressive pop i've ever heard.  :w00t:

Majipan definitely exceded my expectation, bravo :good:



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Posted 04 July 2016 - 08:38 AM

I stopped being lazy and watched the video (although it's actually pony canyon's fault for region blocking :S). As a NEO fan, I'll follow any group with Rena. I like all the members equally though. Just some more equally than others :P.

 

My favorite part of Magical Punchline used to be their url: http://satorena.ponycanyon.jp, which now just redirects to their current homepage. When Rena found out she was probably like "Our website doesn't include my name anymore??"

 

Hopefully they get pushed properly since the the idol scene is so competitive. The quality of the lineup, video, and outfits is encouraging. Their logo is also perfect. Unfortunately for me, I don't like either of their songs... but at least their logo is perfect.



#14 LarcKen

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Posted 04 July 2016 - 03:51 PM

They performed 'Magikayo Bilibili Punchline' and 'Prologue wa Makafushigi' here

http://www.dailymoti...f0t6_mpyt_music

Prologue is the third and latest song they performed.  While Magikayo is amazing, i have to agree with qwiksXnd, Prologue is quite meh for me. Probably the studio version will change my mind :)



#15 FZed

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Posted 07 July 2016 - 01:54 AM

I feel like Prologue sounds better as a song to me. I thought Magikayo had a weird flow and sounded really clashy in the studio recording. I wasn't expecting to like hearing it live as much as I did, but it sounds REALLY good live because of how high energy it feels. It's a good song for getting you excited in seeing the group.



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Posted 12 July 2016 - 12:24 PM

Some magazine scans, profile pictures, etc

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Posted 14 July 2016 - 05:18 AM

Official full version of the PV !

 

Oh damn, i'm blown away! We got to hear almost half of the song for the preview, but it's like we got only 30% of the song.

The last half added is making this the best progressive pop i've ever heard.  :w00t:

Majipan definitely exceded my expectation, bravo :good:

Wahh, i honestly dont know what to say about this group... this song?? i love it but at the same time i'm like confused at what type of song it can be classed as haha 

I'm getting TONSSS of dempagumi vibes from this group so i'm gonna follow them a little and see if i like them as time passes! I really like Rena and Hima, they're so cute~ Does the group have a leader and center or is it rotational? i'm probably asking too much since they haven't really debuted yet lol 

Thanks for making a thread for them, i wouldn't have known about them if it wasn't for this thread  :good:


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Posted 14 July 2016 - 08:12 AM

They added to TIF 2016:

 

http://www.idolfes.c...016/lineup.html



#19 LarcKen

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Posted 14 July 2016 - 02:03 PM

 

Official full version of the PV !

 

 

Oh damn, i'm blown away! We got to hear almost half of the song for the preview, but it's like we got only 30% of the song.

The last half added is making this the best progressive pop i've ever heard.  :w00t:

Majipan definitely exceded my expectation, bravo :good:

Wahh, i honestly dont know what to say about this group... this song?? i love it but at the same time i'm like confused at what type of song it can be classed as haha 

I'm getting TONSSS of dempagumi vibes from this group so i'm gonna follow them a little and see if i like them as time passes! I really like Rena and Hima, they're so cute~ Does the group have a leader and center or is it rotational? i'm probably asking too much since they haven't really debuted yet lol 

Thanks for making a thread for them, i wouldn't have known about them if it wasn't for this thread  :good:

 

My pleasure ^-^

 

They added to TIF 2016:

 

http://www.idolfes.c...016/lineup.html

Thanks for the info :good:

 

 

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On July 19th, Majipan will do a special program to celebrate their first mini album on Nico2 Live:

http://live.nicovide...tch/lv269318120



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Posted 16 July 2016 - 06:18 AM

They did a Twitcasting live stream yesterday. Here's the recorded session:

http://twitcasting.t...movie/288144843

 

 

Mini Album released on iTunes!

https://itunes.apple...ls=1&app=itunes

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Random pictures time!

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