{"id":1323,"date":"2016-06-28T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2016-06-28T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T01:00:38","slug":"tokyo-idol-festival-2016-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2016\/06\/28\/tokyo-idol-festival-2016-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Idol Festival 2016 \u2013 Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part 5! By the end of this post I will have profiled 25 groups attending TIF. Which sounds good, but this year there&#8217;s about 200 attending so I do have my work cut out for me!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AIS &#8211; All Idol Songs &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idolfes.com\/2016\/idol\/images\/ais_photo.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">AIS is a new group that was formed this month from auditions for Idol Renaissance. So this is the first sister group for Idol Renaissance. Basically, this group&#8217;s aim is to do 21st century idol songs as covers. I&#8217;m not entirely sure what that will entail (since Idol Renaissance does cover songs, but they&#8217;re not idol songs), but if you like Idol Renaissance you should check them out. Personally I do like Idol Renaissance, and the promise of a group that covers quality idol songs is appealing, so I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing more of them! Since they&#8217;re brand new there&#8217;s not much out there, but hopefully there&#8217;ll be more soon!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\uff20\uff11\uff17<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idolfes.com\/2016\/idol\/images\/at17_photo.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/>@17 is a group that came from @Home Cafe, a popular maid cafe in Akihabara. As you have probably guessed, maid is the theme of the group. They also seem to be fairly new -doing searching on YouTube, the only video I can find is their TIF announcement\/ introduction. Plus, they haven&#8217;t put out any singles yet. However, if you like cutesy idols you could probably do much worse than this, or if you&#8217;re a fan of @Home Cafe then you might want to check them out. Otherwise it&#8217;s mostly time to wait and see what happens with @17!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/owxVeyXVFzA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ichisaki Miki<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idolfes.com\/2016\/idol\/images\/ichisakimiki_photo.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ichisaki Miki is the first soloist I&#8217;ve covered for TIF this year! I know that I&#8217;m personally looking for more soloists to follow, so Miki might be someone to follow. So far she&#8217;s not doing too much, at least much we can see outside of Japan. Right now she&#8217;s appearing on a program on Abema TV, a Japanese net TV site. She&#8217;s also a regular on a Nico Nico show called Idol Party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aside from that, while she doesn&#8217;t have an official website, she does have an Ameba blog, and has put out 6 singles. She&#8217;s also a member of KiraLyraHeart, an idol group. That said, she is very indie so being a foreigner means it&#8217;ll be harder to follow her. However, she does perform at live shows over 300 times a year, so if you&#8217;re in Japan being a fan of Miki might be doable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She seems like a pretty solid performer and with her work ethic I hope she goes far. I don&#8217;t know how much I&#8217;ll follow her, since I can&#8217;t go to her concerts, but if you&#8217;re in Japan I&#8217;d urge you to check Miki out!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SUsC6duvIBw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NAH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idolfes.com\/2016\/idol\/images\/nah_photo.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NAH stands for Nao Akari Haruka, the three members of this group. A name like that is usually difficult to search for, but lucky for me NAH is pretty straightforward. NAH is a limited time \u00a0unit made up of a member from Babyraids Japan, Tokyo Performance Doll and Party Rockets GT. They were formed to be the &#8220;navigator&#8221; for this year&#8217;s @Jam Expo 2016, where they will disband in September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;re going to @Jam Expo or like one of the members they may be a group to pay attention to, but otherwise probably not! Still, I love these temporary idol super groups, so I&#8217;d love to see more!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Erabareshi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idolfes.com\/2016\/idol\/images\/erabareshi_photo.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Erabareshi is the latest group from Akihabara Backstage Pass, the idol themed cafe in Akihabara produced by Tsunku and Shikura Chiyomaru. Previously the cafe had created <span id=\"Bakusute_Sotokanda_Icchoume\" class=\"mw-headline\">Bakusute Sotokanda Icchoume, which is most of the performers at Akihabara Backstage Pass with a rotating lineup of front members. This time, Erabareshi is a group with a set lineup from the performers at Akihabara Backstage pass and they just made their debut &#8211; their first single is Ai no Fushigi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I can see this group appealing to a lot of people, especially those who live abroad and actually don&#8217;t go to Akihabara Backstage Pass. Bakusute is slightly overwhelming in size, especially if you can&#8217;t visit the cafe. Since Erabareshi has already been performing Bakusute songs, if you like those songs and you want a manageable group, Erabareshi might be for you. They are unfortunately, like Bakusute, behind the YouTube Red localization wall, but if you aren&#8217;t affected by that you might want to give them a shot. Personally, Bakusute hasn&#8217;t really appealed to me musically since their indie singles, &#8220;Produce&#8221; and &#8220;Yoropiku Pikuyoro&#8221; so I&#8217;m not sure how much I&#8217;ll follow Erabareshi, but I can see big things for them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lrI_xsWh0xI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 5! By the end of this post I will have profiled 25 groups attending TIF. Which sounds good, but this year there&#8217;s about 200 attending so I do have my work cut out for me! 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