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[Stan BiSH]

BiSH's announced their final release (this time for real)

on June 28 the group is going to release a compilation album "BEST ALBUM「BiSH THE BEST」"





back in July of 2020 BiSH released a compilation album "FOR LiVE -BiSH BEST" although that one was sold in CD stores exclusively and only got a limited print (50,000 copies or so), all the money from that one was donated to music shops and venues that were struggling due to Covid

today was the release of the "FOR LiVE -BiSH BEST" album

the album is only going to be sold in physical stores but seems some of them are accepting online reservations

all the money they get from the sales of the album is going to be donated to live venues were BiSH has performed before

but a lot of people wasn't able to get a copy themselves because of the limited print so is nice they are releasing another one

back to the new one, is going to be release in four versions

Box Set version that contains 9 CDs, 3 Blu Ray + 150p Photobook
Blu Ray version that contains 2 CDs, 1 Blu Ray + 32p Photobook
DVD version that contains 2 CDs + 1 DVD
CD version that contains 2 CDs

of course the Box set is the most complete (also the most expensive, around $400!) unfortunately seems that the CD version has less songs than the Blu Ray and DVD versions despite that all the three come with two CDs

in any case they re recorded new versions of these songs

"Orchestra", "Promise the star", "Spark", "Hoshi ga matataku yoru ni", "Saraba Kana" and "beautifulさ"

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they also released a new (and final) group visual

 

[Rez]

Chittiii should really do more modeling, she really has a knack for it

 

[Rez]

"I don't feel like making BiSH costumes anymore".
- Kenta Sotobayashi
He was also kinda underpaid too from what I saw
https://realsound.jp/2023/04/post-1315322.html

 

[Stan BiSH]

"I don't feel like making BiSH costumes anymore".
- Kenta Sotobayashi

He was also kinda underpaid too from what I saw
https://realsound.jp/2023/04/post-1315322.html

he says that because they use expensive materials and have to rent a studio they can't turn a profit from just the costumes so he also has to do the design and photography work, he has gotten requests from other companies / groups to make uniforms for them but he keeps refusing because he only wants to work with WACK, he says his dream is to keep making uniforms until the day he dies even if he ends in the red because of it

being honest you shouldn't be super loyal to a company because at the end of the day companies are all about money but i can respect the loyalty he has for WACK, there is literally nothing stopping him from using the popularity of his work to expand his business, work with other groups, etc

hopefully if things were to go badly for him in the future Watanabe remembers that and takes care of him

the issue with costume production is that you need to keep pumping uniforms every other week otherwise you are never going to turn a profit from just working every few months, going a little off topic but actually most of the uniforms in the idol industry (at least for the newer or less known groups) is done by a single company

"Fille lilas" the small company behind almost all costumes / uniforms in Jpop

while big companies, going from DH (AKB48) to WACK or even Dearstage, have in-house designers to produce costumes for the members of their groups the reality is that smaller companies and independent artists don't have the funds to hire talent full time to produce outfits just for them the...

hallyuplus.net

 

[Stan BiSH]

May is going be a busy month for WACK, just from concerts alone there are some big things coming up

next week is going to be ExWHYZ's Budokan concert



the next day BiS are going to hold their first concert with the updated line up



and later that week is going to be GANG PARADE's "CROSSROADS OF FATE" which is being hyped to be a turning point for the group



plus a lot of other stuff

 

[Stan BiSH]

WACK is lifting the restrictions of having to use a mask during the group's concerts

 

[Stan BiSH]

visual for ExWHYZ's Budokan concert "ExWHYZ LIVE at BUDOKAN the FIRST STEP"

no idea if the new uniforms are going to be just for the Budokan concert or if they are replacing the latest ones from "ANSWER" and while they haven't posted the individual member pictures just from the group photo it looks good

Mikina's uniform is half pants / half shorts, Now's is a skirt, Yuki is a skirt or shorts but with garters, Mayu is pants, Maho is shorts but with pants legs added? and not sure about Midoriko but seems she has the other leg of Mikina's uniform

 

[Stan BiSH]

Tomorrow is going to be the release of GANG PARADE's 2nd album "OUR PARADE"!

GG WACK posted translations for "PARADE GOES ON", "Signal" and "SUPER PARTY PEOPLE"








a few days ago it was "ENJOY HIRAKATA PARADE"

there are some videos of this performance in youtube


also i forgot but around this time last year the WACK sub unit "SPY" released their debut "あなたを狙い撃ち♡"




this was basically half of GANG PARADE plus some BiSH members and Yuki Kashiwagi, unfortunately is very unlikely they are going to release another single again

 

[Stan BiSH]

rare pictures of Usagi Tsukino in twin tails

there is even fan art

also the release of the first issue of "Gekkan WACK" was recently so the members of GANG PARADE held an interview and Q&A with fans






they are pretty long, around 30minuters or so each

 

[Rez]

Miku's plan of dating everyone is slowly but surely succeeding

 

[Stan BiSH]

Even so, isn't the way I sweat too special? ? ? ?

...well at least is not pee

putting aside the need of the GANG PARADE members to overshare

their new album "OUR PARADE" debuted at #1 in the Oricon daily album chart



"Priority" sold 80k during it's first week but that was a single and since this one is an album and thus more expensive the numbers are going to be lower, i forgot to take a screen capture but "OUR PARADE" sold around 20k+ first day so it should do around 30k first week or so

also they confirmed more concerts for July, whatever happens next week during their "CROSSROAD OF FATE" at the very least the group is still going to be around by then



oh and they also already unveiled the GP plastic models that come with the issue of Gekkan WACK

i legitimately don't understand which is supposed to the theme of these ones

in any case since BiSH and GP already got theirs i hope that means that ExWHYZ are next

 

[Stan BiSH]

small update on the "BiSH THE NEXT" audition

these are the trainees, among them are the people who are going to become BiSH's successor group

i find it interesting that there is a possibility for the group to become a coed group although that is very unlikely, Watanabe already said that he doesn't want male and female members of WACK being in contact with each other

also i feel that since the members are going to be picked by BiSH they are likely to "project" themselves into the female trainees and so they are probably going to want to pick them over the guys but who knows

i don't pay for Hulu but i would consider doing so for the show although i'm not sure if is available outside Hulu Japan, i haven't seen anyone outside Japanese fans commenting about it so dunno, in any case the announcement of the group is probably going to be during BiSH's final concert next month

there are less than 8 weeks left until their disbandment


Ayuni D was featured in a photoshoot for the first issue of Gekkan WACK

 

[Stan BiSH]

WACK's first boy group "BOYSGROUP" announced their disbandment, their final performance is going to be on May 14, they posted an statement but it doesn't says much just that the members decided that it would be for the best to disband the group



they debuted in January of this year so roughly 5 months? by far the shortest lived WACK group ever, i haven't been following them so i'm not sure what happened but they just released a new single earlier this week



was this expected? maybe, there were just too many things against them that i honestly couldn't imagine how they would ever succeed, for starters unlike the main branch of WACK that is based in Tokyo the boy group was active only active in Osaka which has a much smaller musical and entertainment scene

also their music, not exactly because it was bad and being honest i know it probably wasn't aimed me but i still don't feel their concept was something that anyone would see and think that it was something that only WACK could do, if i wasn't told they were also under WACK i would had never realized on my own, i guess the same could be said about TONAi BOUSHO although in their case they are being promoted as MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN's rival group so they get a pass

and speaking of the last point since Watanabe stated that boy groups and girl groups were not going to be allowed to interact with each other that alone mean that they were never going to take part in any of the company events or activities because literally all the other groups at WACK are girl groups

i posted bits of an interview with Watanabe back in October talking about them but i'm to lazy to find it, long story short even before their debut Watanabe was shit talking them saying stuff like "i have no expectations about them" "if they die they die fail they fail" stuff like that

 

[Stan BiSH]

"BiS the REPRODUCTiON LiVE" is going to be live stream at nico, is going to be on the 14 and they are going to unveil BiS's new line up

link

BiS 新体制お披露目ワンマンライブ「BiS the REPRODUCTiON LiVE」独占生中継

アイドル専門チャンネル「ニコドル」では、BiS 新6人体制として初のワンマンライブ「BiS the REP...

live.nicovideo.jp

also unrelated but a person was caught live streaming a BiSH concert using their phone, Watanabe threatened that if it happens again they are going to ban cameras and phones from their following concerts



there is little more than a month until they disband, imagine if cameras got banned?

 

[Stan BiSH]

tomorrow is ExWHYZ's "ExWHYZ LIVE at BUDOKAN the FIRST STEP"

they haven't posted individual pictures of the uniforms, is likely that either they are going to be post after the concert or if not then they are exclusive to the Budokan performance, the new uniforms look good i like them better than the current ones from "ANSWER"

and we are likely to get some big announcements from them tomorrow (plus tons of pictures)

also a "limited edition" of Now's first photobook is going to be on sale tomorrow at the Budokan, the regular edition is going to be release the week after

more info on her photobook here

on May 19th Now is going to release her first photobook "Yamitsuki Girl"

so the reason why only her is getting a photobook is because this is a project in collaboration with the magazine "B.L.T.", last year Now started a monthly serialization there, the photobook is going to be a compilation of the 12 issues released by Now along new content

according to the release statement they say that the structure of the photobook imitates that of a music album, with each chapter being named like a song title, the material was recorded last year in Kanazawa, Kakeromajima, Kyoto, and Yamagata and other than pictures is also going to include poems and unreleased content that didn't make it to the magazine along interviews with her

the limited edition is going to be available for purchase during their Budokan concert and the normal edition goes on sale on May 19, two days later on the 21th Now is going to hold a release event in a bookstore

 

[Stan BiSH]

today was ExWHYZ's Budokan concert!

according to Ototoy the attendance was over 7,000+ people, for comparison EMPiRE's largest concert [EMPiRE’S SUPER ULTRA SPECTACULAR SHOW] attendance was around 6,000 to 7,000 people, so not only it matched the later but did even better, 7k is a lot of people but not too far from 10k so hopefully in the future they get the chance to play in front of 10,000 fans

fans are still uploading pictures from the concert, there are already tons of good ones on the tags for the members but i'm waiting for even more to be posted, seems it was really good maybe their best concert yet

they posted a playlist with the set list of the concert, nice mix between their two albums and they also played a cover of EMPiRE's MAD LOVE

unsurprisingly they were quick to also announce their next tour "‘eLATION’", it has the tag "part.1：Live House Series" so maybe there is going to be a part two

 

[Stan BiSH]

GANG PRADE's 2nd album "OUR PARADE" debuted at #1 in the oricon weekly album chart



i rather wait for the billboard number since that's is more accurate but hey not bad

in a few days is going to be their "CROSSROADS OF FATE" concert, hopefully nothing terrible (or dumb) happens with the group

 

[Stan BiSH]

BiS first performance with the new line up




this one is a fan upload so isn't going to last long, i believe the venue is the same as the one they used to unveil the previous generations of BiS (but maybe i'm wrong)

 

[Stan BiSH]

pictures from ExWHYZ's Budokan concert

Spoiler: Source

https://twitter.com/xx_KAOCHiii_xx/status/1657335382273581056

 

[Stan BiSH]

Spoiler: Source