My JPop year 2019

2019 was overall a great year for me and music definitly played a big part in it, I have to admit though that I listend to a lot of other music besides jpop. Most of my playlist is still japanese music but a lot of english, some korean, some chinese and some thai music found it's way on my playlist and there were some I badly love and played on repeat for weeks. Let's go in detail with what I liked best this year when it comes to japanese music. The start is a list of the songs I absolutly loved that have been released this year.

Battel Boys Osaka - Kimi no Tame ni

Battle Boys Fukuoka - 1000 km (this is by far my favorite Battle Boys song ever)

Shimizu Shota - Sorry

Shimizu Shota - Breath Again

Amezari Red Stars - with my step

Amezari Red Start - Maboroshi no Daichi

Amezari Red Stars - Be Alright (couldn't find it online)

Edamame Beans - Stop That Girl

SIRUP - Eien (towa) ni (sadly I couldn't find this online but if you have the chance please listen to it, it's so freakin' good, much better then the originial!!)

Color Creation - Mimoza

EBiDAN - New Day! New Wave!

DJ Hasebe feat. SALU & SIRUP - Midnight Dreamin'

ONE N' ONLY - Category

ONE N' ONLY - Pop! Pop!

3WAG - Make Up

Super Dragon - Don't Let Me Down

Super Dragon - Jacket

Super Dragon - My Playlist

Super Dragon - La Vida Loca

I don't like mondays. - DIAMOND

UNIONE - Amante

Rude-a - It's Only Love

KO from SF9 (10JinActor) - Nagasaki wa Kyou mo Ame datta

iri - Wonderland

Chotokkyu - Before Dawn

SIRUP - Evergreen

WILYWNKA feat. SIRUP - Stay

Of course these are not the only songs I loved the most this year, there have been a few albums I enjoyed pretty much all songs of, so I listed them extra. I did write a little about the album but I didn't link every single song but I did add a spotify link to the albums.

HARUMI - MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Listen to on Spotify

I wrote about this album before. I really love all the song on this so freakin' much. Her voice is super powerful and strong and she delivers the emotions in some of the songs so well. My absolute favorites are "Don't Break My Heart" and "DARE ME" but all the songs are so good. For only 5 songs this 'mini' album also has a good mix of songs. Absolutly recommended!!

_PRIZMAX_ - FRNKSTN

Listen to on Spotify

DANCE was the first song of this album that got uploaded to youtube. I loved it right away, thought now it's my least favorite song on the album. I honestly didn't knew what to expect of this album with the new members. I was so supprised that this is such a good album. All the songs are freakin' amazing up beat songs fully sung in english. By the way my absolute favorite of them is "WHO".

Mukai Taichi - 27; Mukai Taichi - Savage

Listen to 27 on Spotify

Listen to Savage on Spotify

I am a huge fan of Mukai Taichi. Not only is his voice really beautiful but I tend to really enjoy the style of his music. As you can see he released two albums this year. I would consider '27' to be a mini album since it has only 7 songs, thought Savage has only 11 songs as well. However what is most important is the music and guys you have to listen to this if you liked any of his music before. 

I recommend all of the songs but it seems like I listend to ICBU and I very much recommend I Like it, thought honestly if you have some time do listen to all of his music, maybe you will love it as much as I do.

Sakudara Dori - Sakura da Festa BEST

Listen to it on Spotify

Whenever I think about listening to this album I am like, naaahh this wasn't that good but then I listen to it and I love it so much each time. I don't know why I always think this way, maybe because Sakurada Dori will always be more of an actor then a singer to me or maybe a little bit because this cover looks so not like an album cover. However that doesn't matter because the songs on this album are amazing and I love that the style of music is very versatile. You will get everything from a slow songs, to a rock songs, to a song that gives happy summer vibes, to a badass song and more. I can't even name a favorite this time, I love the songs equally. 

Super Dragon - 2nd Emotion

Listen to it on Spotify

This is probably the album I listened to the most this year. After I went to two of their concerts of the Emotions tour back in March, I couldn't stop replaying this album for a long time. The songs on this album are seriously so good. My number one being 'Paya Paya' also because I love the dance but all the others are so damn good too. I even love the remixes and I uselly don't like remixes a lot. If you haven't listend to it, you should do it soon.

AKLO - REGULAR

Listen to it on Spotify

I was so excited when AKLO announced to finally release a new album this year. I dig his three albums he released before as well as the collaboration album with Jay'ed so much. To be honest it took me a little to fully appreciate this album but I do now and if you like Rap you will love this as well, thought I would always recommend his older work more over this one. It's a great album anyway. My favorites are definitly 'Addicted' and 'WFN'.

INTERSECTION - INTERSECTION

Listen to it on Spotify

I love these guys music since they released their debut song 'Heart of Gold'. They have the typical boy group sound, with some nice voices and addicting beats. I love singing along to their songs. When this got released I didn't expect to like all the songs on the album but I was so wrong. Each and every song on this got me so bad. All songs have this super addicting part that makes you want to sing along so bad and you will get them stuck in your head many times. Absolutly recommended!

Chanmina - Never Grow Up

Listen to it on Spotify

If you like her music and style you will most likely love this album too. I especially love 'Call', 'Never Grow Up' and 'Like This'. To be fair I don't love all the songs on this album but most of them are really good so I decided to post it under the albums too. 

DEVIL NO ID - Devillmatic

Listen to it on Spotify

This album is so different to what I usually listen to. This whole album feels so messy but it works so well as a whole and even though all the songs have their specific sound it doesn't feel like one is sticking out more then the others. I don't know how to explain the music these three girls created. I just now I very much enjoy it! Give it a try if you haven't listend to any of their songs and if you might not like a song try out another one because they are quite different from each other. By the way I do love all the songs on this album.

Besides the new songs my new discovery of this year is "Official Hige Dandizumu". They are an indie rock group and their music is amazing. I bought three of their albums on itunes and so far I do enjoy them a lot. Another group I discoverd is "Novelbright", gosh they are awesome too, they are also an indie rock group. Besides these two I got very much into the group "NORD". I don't like all of their music, some is just too messy for me but I love some of their songs badly, especially the song 'Mirai'. Then I got more into the music of "CUBERS", I don't think the songs are super outstanding but they are really nice listening to and whenever a song of them get's played when I use the shuffle mode, I am very plesantly supprised to see it's on of their songs.

What are your favorites of 2019? Did you discover any groups you didn't knew before?

Fan Report: SUPER★DRAGON 7th ONEMAN LIVE TOUR『Emotions』in Fukuoka

On March 21st was the first live of  SUPER★DRAGONs "Emotions" tour. It was held at Zepp Fukuoka, which is in a shopping center near the Yahuoku Dome, a giant baseball stadium. Because I wanted to buy some merch I decided to go there early. The merch sale was to start around 1pm but I went there at around 11am because I know that japanese people like to line up for things like this and if you come late, some stuff might be sold out already. 

You might think I am crazy for going there 2 hours earlier but guys I am so glad I did. When I arrived at the venue there were a lot of people already waiting in line. It was crazy. So I basicly was waiting these two hours until it started but that didn't mean that I didn't have to wait anymore. They always had only a few people go to buy merch and when these were finished new people were allowed to go. So after around 2 1/2 hours I finally went in to buy merch. You had to show your ticket for the day to buy the merch, so you couldn't buy it if you didn't had a ticket. Here is the list of their merch. 

I bought the t-shirt, parker, the photo album and the key holder which is not on this picture. And then they had two kinds of photo sets. One with always two members together and another set with solo and group pictures. These sets always cost 1000yen and have 5 random photos per pack. I love those pictures so I bought a whole lot of them. I spend way too much money on them. Here is a picture of what I got, thought I didn't took a pitcure of all the photos I bought... that would be too much but I can make an extra post if you would like to see them.

Sometimes when you were lucky you get a signed picture in these sets. There is not a lot of signed pictures but I was lucky to actually get two. I got a signed one of Koki and a signed one of Jean and Tsuyoshi. 

I saw fan buying so many set's but they still didn't got a signed photo. I felt sad for them. However it was also cute that some of them screamed out of joy when they got a signed picture. I called my mom after buying the merch and while we were talking she could here the screams. She thought it was so funny. However I feel like showing you my favorite picture too.

Isn't this such a freakin' cute picture!!! I mean look at that smile of Tsuyoshi and the others looking so cute too. 

By the way I lost the key holder pretty much right after buying it and I was so sad. I even tried to buy it again but it was sold out by then. However when I went there again after the concert, to buy the new EBiDAN magazine, the staff told me that I forgot to take it with me when I bought it. So she gave it to me and I was soooooooo happy. That's the great thing about being pretty much the only foreigner at a concert. You will definitly be recognized. XD

SO, the concert started around 5:30 pm but you were supposed to line up ahead, according to the number of your ticket. I had number 1003 and the line only went to 1400. So it wasn't that great of a number. I was really worried that I woudn't be able to see much but when I entered the venue I saw that many people that had a better ticket, actually went to the back of the place so there was some free space in the middle. I was still pretty much in the back but I had a great view and could see all the members faces very clearly. 

By the way, just in case anyone of you will ever go to a concert at any Zepp, please have in mind that you have to pay an additional 500 yen at the entrance. You get a drink for free with the coin they give you for the 500 yen, however a 500 yen coca cola isn't really cheap. >-<

So the concert started a little after 5:30 pm. They first had some kind of laser light show, which showed all the members names, one after the other and the first song the performed had a laser show in it too. I didn't like it too much because you couldn't really see the members. There was just too much light. Oh by the way the first song the peformed was LRL - left right left -. At the second performance they used flashlights while dancing and again I wasn't the biggest fan because once again I couldn't see them well because of all the light. However the third song was PayaPaya, my favorite song and starting from there, the heavy use of light stopped. I enjoyed this whole concert so much. Their vocals were SO good and their dancing incredible. They did a little introduction talk, introducing the members and talking a very little bit, then there was a talking part of just Fire Dragon (Tsuyoshi, Reo, Hayate and Jean) and only one more talking part at the end. In generell this concert was very short. It went on for only an hour if you count in the encore maybe 1 hour and 20 min. When Tsuyoshi told us the next song will be the last one I was super confussed because their concerts have always been longer then just an hour. 

That's the only thing I was a little disappointed about. However all in one I enjoyed this concert a lot. Like I wrote earlier, their dancing and singing was really good and the small talking parts were really cute too. To be honest while watching them perform I realized once again how much I love their music. They released so many extremly good songs already. 

I did went to their live in Namba on the next day too but I am think about writing an extra blog about this. Let's finish this blog with the picture they took on that day (I got it from the twitter account).

The thought that I am somewhere on the picture is pretty awesome. 

Did you ever went to an concert of them?

EBiDAN The Live 2019 has been announced

It's the time of the year again and I am super excited! Today they announced the EBiDAN The Live 2019 ~Summer Party~ event. It will be hold on the 28th and 29th August. As you can see on the picture above DISH//, Chotokkyu, PRIZMAX, M!LK, Super Dragon, Sakura Shimeji, One N' Only and Battle Street will be performing in this event. 

Before this main event there will an event called "Challange Stage ~Kabe no Mukou he~". On the first day there will be the Battle Boys member featured in the event and the winner of this event will be the opening act for EBiDAN The Live 2019, pretty much like last year. However on the second day there will be the other smaller groups of EBiDAN performing. That includes AMEZARI -Red Stars-, Starmen KiDS and EDAMAME BEANS, as well as the the co-ed group "DAN⇄JYO". 

I am super excited for both events and I am trying to get tickets to both events for both days. Wish me luck. It's my dream to go to an EBiDAN The Live since more than 5 years now and it would be awesome if it would come true this year. However if it does not work out, I hope that they will stream, the live again and I will make sure to definitly watch it this time. 

Do you like the EBiDAN The Live events?

EBiDAN Ranking 2019

I first posted this on JPopAmino but decided to post it here as well.

Today I will do my personal ranking of all the active EBiDAN groups right now. I did that like two or three years ago and thought it’s time for a new one. I will not include Battle Boys because they are not an actual group and I won’t include Hongyo.jp because they will be disbanded soon. So let’s start!

12. ZeBRA☆STAR

Favorite Member: /

Favorite Song: Dancing! Dancing!

To be honest after Aruki left the group I stopped caring about them much. Since then there have been so much changes again. Three new members have been added, Knight is now a member of both ZeBRA☆STAR Black and Red, Kousei is now a Z☆S Black member and Kaito changed his name to only Kai. So much is going on.

I should really get on track with them again because I want to support all the EBiDAN groups and while I will always be sad over Aruki who left them I still want to give my best to support the remaining members.

11. Edamame Beans

Favorite Member: Keyon & Haruto

Favorite Song: Puzzle

They are so freakin cute and Keyon is such a brat being all loud and noisy but I love him for that. I like that they try to speak some English once in a while, like doing English introduction videos. That’s awesome.

As for their music I do like their songs but they still have to improve their singing skills a lot. However their dancing is pretty good already. I will enjoy watching them get better and grow up.

10. Sakura Shimeji

Favorite Member: Hyouga

Favorite Song: Ikujinashi

As for Sakura Shimeji I love both Gaku and Hyouga, they are so cute and I bet really nice and lovely too. However when it comes to their music, sometimes I feel like their voices are just to high for my taste. I do love some of their songs and I usually enjoy their concerts but out of EBiDAN they are probably the group I like the least songs of. Nevertheless I will keep supporting them because I love the members and there are songs I love.

9. Starmen KiDS

Favorite Member: Taisei

Favorite Song: STAR★MEN SUMMER DAYS!, Starmen Pirates

These little boys always surprise me with their music because I always expect childish songs that I am not much into but many of their songs turn out to be really addicting.

Also some of the members have been with EBiDAN for so long already, it’s crazy. Taisei, Rui and Taishi are in EBiDAN for around 6 years already, that’s nearly half their lives, since all three of them turn 13 years old this year. So crazy.

They still need more training but in these years they improved a lot and I am very much looking forward to watch them grow up into talented, handsome man.

8. EBiSSH

Favorite Member: Tetta

Favorite Song: Koi no Timing

It took really long until I started to like EBiSSH. I first checked them out when the “EBiDAN The Street” Groups have been featured in the EBiDAN magazine for the first time. They all looked so handsome but when I checked some fan recordings of some of their in-store lives, I felt like they lack too much vocal skills. I really didn’t enjoy their music at all. It took as long as their cd debut to get me interested in them again. I love “Koi no Timing” which is their debut song and when checking out their live again, I felt that they already improved. Until today they still have to improve their vocal skills but nowadays I do enjoy listening to Tettas voice a lot and Rei sounds so much better now too. I can really say that EBiSSH is a group that grew on me.

7. Satori Shonen Dan

Favorite Member: Eiku

Favorite Song: I wanna say...

They were the first “EBiDAN The Street” group I loved. Right from the start you got the feeling that these three boys are really talented. Eiku has a very beautiful voice and Hayato and Kenshin have always been amazing dancer. I still enjoy watching their old street lives on YouTube. Also because my favorite song of them still hasn’t been released on cd. I am seeing a bright future for Satori Shonen Dan.

6. M!LK

Favorite Member: Sano Hayato

Favorite Song: milky snow, Coffee ga Nomimasen

M!LK went through some major member changes last year and I think you can’t really compare the old M!LK with the new one. I do like both a lot though. I feel like even though the new members are younger, their music is much more mature now. However I do like the cute music they did before too. Listening to my favorite songs of them you will know for sure that I a really like their cute songs!

Despite their music I really like the members too. I know all of them since they were still trainees. Mizuki, Jinto and Daichi have already been a part of the trainees when I got really hard into EBiDAN. That makes them very special to me. However Sano is still my bias. He is so freakin adorable. And the new members are great too, Ryubi e.g. has always been a trainee I really liked, so I was happy he joined M!LK.

5. AMEZARI -RED STARS-

Favorite Member: Hibiki 

Favorite Song: With My Step

I liked them a lot even before I met them this year but after meeting them I started to love them SO much more. Before I mostly liked Hibiki but now I like all the members so much. They are so cute, nice and awesome and I hope they will get more and more popular and can reach their goals. What stands out most when it comes to them is their incredible dancing skills. I mean they are still pretty young but so freakin good dancer. As for their singing they still have to improve but there definitely is potential. I mean they don’t sound bad, especially Yori has such a nice voice, I was so supprised when I saw them live. The others have nice voices too but I think Yori has the most talent and the others just need more vocal training. However I do enjoy their music, not everything but a lot of their songs.

4. Super★Dragon

Favorite Member: Tsuyoshi

Favorite Song: Paya Paya

I saw them live three times already. Once in 2016 and twice this year. They are great dancer and I love the voices of Tsuyoshi and Hyoma a lot. Especially Tsuyoshi has such an extremely beautiful voice. But I also love the rap of Jean a lot and Koki and Tomoya doing pretty good with rapping too. Besides their performance I like the members a lot too. They are cute when interacting with each other. I absolutely recommend watching “Super Dragon TV” on YouTube, if you want to get more into them. Another thing I love about them is of course their music. I love their mix of rock, pop, EDM and rap music. They have so many freakin awesome songs!!

3. PRIZMAX

Favorite Member: Tsubasa

Favorite Song: Never, Three Things, Without You, Lonely Summer Days, Up > Up Beat, Fantasista, Mysterious Eyes, Orange Moon, Truth, HUG & KISS

I still remember when they were only three members and you could find so many fan recordings of them on YouTube. When they announced to debut in 2013, I got so excited and happy and I was also happy about Yuuki and Tsubasa joining the group. Since then they have released so many good songs. I love listening to their whole discography. There is not a single song of them I don’t like.

Something I like about their songs a lot is that they have a lot of English in their songs, this way it’s much easier for me to sing along with the songs and I absolutely love this.

2. Chotokkyu

Favorite Member: Takuya

Favorite Song: Gr8test Journey

Chotokkyu is probably the most well known group of EBiDAN and it’s no wonder. They are great dancer, their songs are freakin good and the members are lovely. Also their concerts are really fun to watch all the time. Besides all these reasons I like them for their great humor. One scene I can’t get over is Yusuke dressed as a girl saying „muri desu“ in the music video for „Tsundere Chibi Ouji“.

Thought this whole video is just so freakin hilarious!! I really love these guys a lot.

1. DISH//

Favorite Member: Daichi

Favorite Song: Honestly I cant choose one... but here is a few songs I would recommend listening to. Hareru YA!, Yume Tabi, Starting Over, Yay Natsuyasumi, Flame and The Phantom.

Still and probably always my favorite group is DISH//. Why you might think? The answer is easy, when it comes to DISH// I like everything. I am hugely addicted to their music, the members can be super weird but are freakin lovely and adorable too, their live performances are perfect (I actually saw them live twice, so I can tell for sure) and I love them deeply from the bottom of my heart!!

That was my ranking of the EBiDAN groups. I would love to get to know your ranking too!!

My favorite JPop songs of 2018 Part 2

Here is my second part of my favorite JPop songs of 2018. Since this part once again turned out really long, I will do another 3rd part.

Let's start of with a song I came across just a few days ago. However I like this song so much and listend to it a lot already, that I am putting it onto this list. The song is called "BURN!!" by the group "Gingadan". Sadly their songs are not availible on itunes or spotify, at least not international. I would like to listen to some of their other songs too.

SALU did a lot of collaborations this year one of them being his "Good Vibes Only" song which feat. EXILE Shokichi and JP THE WAVY. I love this song a lot but I also love the second track of this single which is called "My Love". Both belong to my favorites of this year.

Another collaboration I liked a lot this year is MACO who features SALU on her song "LUV U MORE". I love this song a lot. MACO has a beautiful voice and the smooth rapping of SALU fits this song so freakin' well. Check it out yourself.

At least there is one more collaboration with SALU that I LOVE a lot and that is "I don't like mondays" song "ONE THING". I am addicted to this song since I first listend to it. Being a huge fan of both the music style of IDLM and the rap of SALU, the outcome couldn't have been different. However that's not the only song of IDLM that I am putting on this list. There is also their extremly nice "Lemon" and "So Bad" that I am in love with.

The following group is still quite young. I am talking about YsR, an indie group with a huge amount of members. XD They released a few nice songs already but the one song that was sticking in my head is "ZION". I think these guys have potential and I am looking forward to their future releases. I hope you are going to listen to this song if you haven't already.

The next group is one I like a lot but I am always supprised how much I love their songs. The group I am talking about is "Starmen KiDS" which is an EBiDAN group. The members are all still super young and they still have very high "childish" voices. That's why I never expect to like their song this much but I always end up loving their songs. I am currious how their sound will change when their voices start to change. As for their songs of this year, which sadly haven't been much, I am mostly in love with their "Starmen Pirates" but I also like their "Jyokyusei Funk" and "Dancing on the Ring" a lot. Check the songs out yourself.



Jyokyusei Funk on Spotify

"Mrs. Green Apple" is one of my favorite rock bands. The song that I liked the most of them this year is definitlye "Ao to Natsu". This song is freakin' beautiful and good! I am so much in love with Motokis voice.

Super Dragon had a good year once again. They released two singles and announced their 2nd album which will be released in February 2019. Also there was the awesome song they did for an advertising. Since I love this group a lot I always buy all their versions and therefor am able to listen to all the b-side tracks. Here are all the songs of them I loved this year and listen to a lot, which are actually all the songs they released this year. XD



City Noise on Spoitfy

Gettorejani on Spotify





Summer Breeze on Spotify

Ringing Love on Spotify

I fell in love with "BuZZ" when they debuted last year but sadly they haven't released anything new since their debut. So I was very happy when they started to upload some songs to the avex youtube channel and while these songs haven't been released on cd or online yet, I still count them in for 2018 because that's when they have been uploaded to youtube. Check out these songs.

Another group that released very less this year is 10JinActor. They are pretty busy with their show I guess but I wish they would release more.  Here is the song they released this year. As always it's an awesome song, thought it took me a little to really get into this song because it's so totally different to their usual songs. Nevertheless I do love this song by now.

Next is PrizmaX. I love this group a lot (like all EBiDAN groups) and I am really happy with their releases this year. In the beginning of 2018 they released the single "Yours" which is very beautiful and after Tim left the group mid 2018 they started a project in which each member produced one song on their own. I love all for songs that were produced, thought "Rewind" of Tsubasa is my favorite one. This song has everything, a good  rhythm, a memoriable refrain and an awesome rap part. However like I said I love all songs, so here they are.

This year was the release of SAWY's first full lenght album. It is an overall really good album. Here are the songs I couldn't stop replaying but if you have the chance listen to the whole album.





Naked on Spotify

When I first listend to "Office Love" by SOLIDEMO I didn't like it much. I was supprised when I realized that I was humming the song later that day. I listened to the song a few times more and started to like it and whenever I listen to it now I will have it stuck in my head for a while.




That's it for now. The 3rd and probably last part will be posted soon.

My EBiDAN Collection

I felt like showing you my EBiDAN collection so here it is.

[AMEZARI RED STARS]

1st Album

lot's of pictures of Hibiki...

and more...

[Battle Boys]

1st & 2nd Single of Battle Boys


[Chotokkyu]