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[raspberry]

New idol unit made out of 3 popular cosplayers (Kuroneko - blue, Enako - pink and Itsuki Akira - green) to make their debut with the Appsingle 'キラメキ未来図'/'Figure Sparkle to come out on 10/24, there'll be two versions. The A-side is produced by Clean Tears and the B-side is a remixed cover of Happy Synthesizer by Easy Pop.
The version A comes with a CD-rom containing 100 exclusive pictures, and version B comes with 100 other exclusive pictures.
They're with Sony Music so that's promising?
http://www.panache.jp/
Kuroneko - https://twitter.com/kuroneko_cos - http://ameblo.jp/kuroneko-cos
Enako - https://twitter.com/enako_rin - http://www.enasoku.com/
Itsuki Akira - https://twitter.com/itsuki_akira - http://ameblo.jp/t-gb08xx/

I'm interested to see whether they'll be making songs for anime openings and extending their cosplaying to music videos...
I'm also quite surprised they're allowed to keep their blogs/websites that they have.

[xeluneas]

the members look cute :]

[raspberry]

I thought so too~
They posted some more pictures to their site.

I really like the background graphics~

[raspberry]

Previews of their A-side and B-side are on their official site, under discography! ^u^!!!
Their B-side is a really sweet cover of Happy Synthesizer
I think I'm going to wait for the full A-side to make my judgements!

[LovelyPrincessP]

Saw this group in the Idols' thread, was really attracted to their bright and totally cute style. Peeped a listen at their single and was pleasantly surprised to hear eletro-pop tunes (cuz I was definitely expecting something more Idol-y). I would have liked a first single in a style that'd allow me to hear their voices more clearly though but some live performances would serve just as well (even better actually) so no biggie. Putting them on my constantly expanding list of Idol CD's to buy. The CD-ROM kinda turns me off a bit though tbh... if I still had my photoshop software then I'd be happy to have all those images to make sets from but I don't... so I'd rather have a PV or physical photos that I can enjoy more. It's a neat idea though.

I also found it quite interesting that the girls were allowed to keep their blogs... just hoping it won't bite them where the sun don't shine like it seems to always do with the AKB48 girls.

[anhh]

[raspberry]

^
Thanks for the video!!
It's very exciting to know that they seem to be intent on travelling abroad for events and such... eue...

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Yeah me too! ^u^ I love their little costumes and matching wigs, gives it a magical girl sorta vibe... And it's cool to learn that they designed the costumes themselves!! I expected electropop from the start, basically as soon as I found out the B-side was a popular Vocaloid song, really I'd like them to be related a lot to Vocaloids. Perhaps they could be the first idol group to all turn into Vocaloids! (As Gackt and Megumi Nakajima have already done~!) I think it'd be a cute side-project, anyways ^u^
I wonder if they'll be doing anime themes or games or something?? It seems like it'd tie in with their cosplaying roots, anyways!!

[anhh]

Long interview:

http://ascii.jp/elem...37/737361/?mail

[raspberry]

^ Ah thank you!! ^U^
With what I've gathered from Google Translate, it appears that they're promoting with hand shakes, and if you attend the event you get a signed poster and handshake. ;A;
I want a signed posterr~ >u<!!

https://pbs.twimg.co...E6E47.jpg:large
A picture of goods, too~! I'm guessing that each girls goods are in her colour, this picture was on Enako's Twitter, so I'm guessing there's also goods in blue and green too!! ^u^! They're super cute...

I was browsing some more, mostly on their official FaceBook page, and it seems that on November 18th, they'll be performing an event as such, and they'll have guests from NicoNicoDouga, Ririri-chan and Tadanon, and they say more guests could be added~~

[anhh]

At #23 on Oricon daily charts.

http://www.oricon.co...2-10-23/more/4/

[raspberry]

^ Thanks for that!! I wonder what the first day sales are~~ *u*

I'm sad that the video isn't released outside of Japan... ;A; I was looking forward to seeing it!!

[anhh]

Weekly #67 with 1.107 copies sold.

[raspberry]

^ Ah~ thankyou! ^U^ I didn't get notified that someone had replied~
I really want to hear the full versions of both songs but the video for the A-side is Japan only on Youtube and I can't find any downloads. ;A;

[Cherriiy_Aidoru]

I thought this group was really cute and cool becuase of their hair and clothes but I heard their songs and was not impressed, their happy synthesizer cover was not very good and there are countless of NICO singers that do a better job,, I was meannn my opinions are mean i guesss,

[raspberry]

I suppose opinions are opinions~ I quite liked what I heard really! The aim of the group seems to be to be an idol unit to focus mostly on cosplay and keeping up their image. I have several magazine cutouts of them and it's all mostly cosplay related, with a sidenote of 'Buy our single!!'. So I think that there is definitely less of a focus on talent, which doesn't really bother me... I like Vocaloid so why not~

I mentioned my magazine cutouts, I'll scan them in tomorrow if people are interested! They're very adorable!!

I mostly came here to announce their second single will be out on 13th of February!! It looks like it has a very different image from their debut!!



A-side is "スカイ ビリーヴ", which translates as "Sky Believe"
B-side is "ユニゾン", which translates as "Unison"
There's 2 versions, both limited. There doesn't seem to be any differences on the SonyMusic pages, other than the covers and containing different photos on the CD-Rom...
Both contain a CD, CD-Rom containing 100 photos (alternating in versions), a random photocard of one member and a lottery ticket for 'Dinner with members' (if my translation is right).

The A-side is again produced by Clean Tears.
Whilst the B-side is another Vocaloid cover. This is Megurine Luka and GUMI's "Unison", by ImamaP. Here's a link to the Vocaloid version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KGkMC9r4h0
I think it sounds cute! ^^ I prefer it over Happy Synthesizer anyways !!

[shura-kun]

release an album aaaand is disbanded

 

actually is very sad, usually when groups release an album is because the producers have some faith but disbanding so soon... sad news for me