{"id":80,"date":"2011-07-04T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-07-04T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T01:15:00","slug":"tokyo-idol-festival-2011-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2011\/07\/04\/tokyo-idol-festival-2011-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Idol Festival 2011 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The post in which I investigate and find more about the groups performing at this year&#8217;s Tokyo Idol Festival, which by the way will be held 8\/27 and 8\/28. I&#8217;d be VERY happy if it was streamed live somewhere, but the DVD will come out later, definitely.<\/p>\n<p><b>Circadian Rhythm: <\/b>Again a weird named group; first the group that has &#8220;colon&#8221; in their name and now there&#8217;s a group named after a body&#8217;s 24 hour sleep\/wake cycle.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TIhIdAiTlEs\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I was able to find a couple of links with them on YouTube, with this being their debut single &#8220;Yume Hito Yo&#8221; with the coupling song. I like Yume Hito yo a lot, though it does sound kind of familiar in a way I can&#8217;t put my finger on. Still, I like these two women (as they do seem older than most indie idol groups). They have a more mature sound than most young\/indie idol groups have right now, and it&#8217;s kind of interesting.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">However, other than finding these links, I am having serious trouble finding any information about them at all, since searching &#8220;circadian rhythm&#8221; only gets the scientific term, and searching for circadian rhythm in katakana is just the Japanese wiki site about the scientific term. So if they have any specific concept, I don&#8217;t know it, and I don&#8217;t know the names or ages of these girls at all.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Sakura Gakuin:<\/b>&nbsp;This is a newish group that I really like so far, that has released one single (Yume ni Mukatte\/Hello IVY) and one album (Sakura Gakuin 2010 ~Message~). They have a school theme (hence being named Sakura Academy), and one of the most notable things about them is the big difference in heights between all of the girls.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/inJpAfotub4\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m wondering what they&#8217;ll perform this year; last year at the Tokyo Idol Festival they performed Yume ni Mukatte (though at that time it wasn&#8217;t a single yet, it was just their one song). This year I&#8217;ll imagine it will be more than one song (since they do have multiple original songs). I&#8217;m hoping that some of the subgroups from their album (which are all based off of different school clubs) will perform. I&#8217;m particularly fond of the subunit &#8220;Twinklestars&#8221;, which is the baton club. They actually have released one single so far by themselves and will release a second.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"257\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jtw2ZCnYm2c\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I am interested in their second single as twinklestars, but I&#8217;d LOVE for them to perform the above single, &#8220;Dear Mr. Socrates&#8221; live. I love the song, and the PV makes me giggle. <\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re planning on watching anything from the Tokyo Idol Festival, I&#8217;d look out for Sakura Gakuin. They&#8217;re still really new, so I don&#8217;t know TOO much about them, but I really like them so far!<\/p>\n<p><b>ShizuKaze: <\/b>When I first saw the name (written in Japanese as \u3057\u305a\u98a8) I thought it was just a punny name; Shizuka means quiet in Japanese, and Kaze is wind, so I thought it was supposed to be a quiet wind. And it could still potentially mean that, but then I found out it was a duet unit between a gravure idol named Mano Shizuka (I don&#8217;t follow gravure, but she has a LOT of DVDs\/photobooks to her name) and another girl named Tachibana Fuuka (the first kanji in her given name is the same as kaze).<\/p>\n<p>They hail from a production company that I haven&#8217;t heard of before, Versus pro. They look like they&#8217;re the top-billed stars of Versus Pro, so I&#8217;d imagine it&#8217;s a pretty small company. According to their site they&#8217;ve been doing some things since 2009, but I can&#8217;t find much in the way of singles; they&#8217;ve done live events and I THINK a DVD, but not much else. They actually also performed at Tokyo Idol Festival 2010,<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QCz81tBD4bc\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">They&#8217;re trying to sing live it sounds like, but aren&#8217;t super amazing yet. Again, can&#8217;t find too much on Shizukaze.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku: <\/b>Also known as Ebichu, these girls hail from Stardust Promotions, the agency behind Momoiro Clover. So this is MomoClo&#8217;s little sister group! I haven&#8217;t seen much from them as of yet, but Stardust is a pretty great agency, and I have a lot of faith in them. They formed in 2009 and their numbers have grown so now there are 12 members in EbiChu!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I don&#8217;t know much about them, like I said, but they seem pretty well loved. They&#8217;ve released 5 singles so far, but they&#8217;ve all been on indie labels, so that means they&#8217;ve yet to make their major debut. One single is called &#8220;The Tissue ~ Neverending Youth~&#8221; which I think is pretty fantastic.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"257\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dvbUpuCTk6s\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">They seem like they&#8217;re on that cusp of being relatively well known and not. They&#8217;re no where near the most indie group at Tokyo Idol Festival, but certainly not the most popular. There&#8217;s not too much about them in the English-speaking fandom, but consiering the success that Stardust has had with MomoClo, I feel like trusting them and following EbiChu is a decent idea.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit tired, so I will continue more of this tomorrow! So many indie idol groups, so little time!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post in which I investigate and find more about the groups performing at this year&#8217;s Tokyo Idol Festival, which by the way will be held 8\/27 and 8\/28. 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