/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>832154

There's a 15GB torrent on Nyaa titled /jp/ denpa thread collection. Although it's showing 0 seeds at the moment, I'm sure someone will show up if you leave your torrent client on for a while.

>>832152

> I posted a link to it in the first music thread we had when I found it,

I still have it on an SD card in my music player; Thanks anon!

I approve. Music threads ought to be more frequent.

For day 2, I'll post what some anon considered to be the best Denpa album ever made. This is my favorite song from that album.

I don't speak enough moon to understand everything that goes on, but it seems to me the album tells a story about a sheltered loli who goes into the outside world and gets full of herself because people start calling her cute.

Anon, if you're here, I hope you can post the link to this again. Also, if you could tell us more about this album, it'd be appreciated. This is one of those things I practice my moon to try to understand.

Shaking Pink anime when?

I feel like the classics today, so here's Momoi Haruko AKA "Halko".

Halko is an idol who began with studying computers at an early age, bizarrely enough. As such, she naturally fell in with the Otaku scene. She sang and danced to anisongs around Akihabara at a time when it was still only known as the "electronics district", making her the first ever Akiba Idol. Eventually, she produced this video with her original song, GURA GURA, in 1997, making her one of the first actual Denpa artists. You could say that this video was the birth of Akihabara as we know it today, and Halko was the mother.

Because her subsequent songs were used in eroge, her producers wouldn't let her use her real name for the credits, spurning her to make an idol unit with another girl called "Under17", which she would make Denpa songs under. She began voice acting soon after and continues to sing anisongs to this day.

If anyone has a better version of this video, you are the hero of the internet. Also, if anyone can translate this song, you are also a hero, because apparently it's full of Otaku references.

>>832726

>Faris was based on Halko and not the other way around

Okay, now that I've slept off my hangover from last night, It's time for something a little more soothing than usual because I'm not sure posting something like Shaking Pink would be beneficial to anons' heads right now.

This is Yellow Magic Orchestra's Kimi ni Mune Kyun, which you all probably know already. It's probably going to be the most popular song I'll post here.

YMO was a pioneering electronic group in the same vein as Kraftwerk, and became the grandfather of the technopop sound in Citypop, chiptunes, Denpa, and beyond. They have inspired pretty much every piece of music to come out of Japan for decades.

In 1983, they decided to make something completely different. As a joke, they decided to try and get a #1 single because they were bored of being the progenitor of musical experimentation for an entire nation. To make it even more of a joke, they decided to sing it themselves, make a lazy music video where they dance lazily themselves, and make the lyrics super cutesy so everyone would watch these three middle age men act cute.

Because they knew so much about the music scene, people's tastes, the industry, and about making good sounding tunes themselves, they were able to pull off a #2 slot in the rankings.

It's also a good song.

Later, Maria Holic used a remake of the song for their ED, which I don't like as much as the original because it plays the joke straight.

>>832989

Hey, I just spent an entire day at work listening to their discography!

Can never get enough YMO. They blew my mind the first time I listened to them, and continue to do so today - after listening to all their albums tens of times. Not only are their songs brilliant but even the S.E.T.s and The Snakeman Shows are awesome to listen to. Not to mention all the live albums which feature incredibly varied and creative versions of songs compared to their album-version counterparts.

If there are anons who have not taken an in-depth listen of YMO yet, I urge you to do so.

Okay, I stayed up all night to put together a surprise for you all I'll show you at a later date.

For now, since it's technically Monday, here's the first song in a multi-day series about one of the first ever big Denpa artists, before Halko and after YMO.

This is Rumi Shishido AKA RunRun. At this time, Rumi is 16 years old and signed with Sony to become an idol. She was an only child and was in the baton twirling club in school. Her hero growing up was a famous actress, Etsuko Ichihara.

This is 1990, an era of the idol industry where they at least tried to produce songs that matched with the character of the idol, unlike nowadays where to be an idol you are pushed to become a product of your producer's design. This was an era of true idols, where each was different and unique, and to be on stage is to present at least an aspect of your true self. Idols were produced to let their selves shine.

As such, Rumi's songs were a bit, well, strange. Her catchphrase at the time was 「ルンルンはミニが好き」 "RunRun likes Mini". No, I don't know what this is supposed to mean. Strange-sounding idols were not such an uncommon thing, as there was Jun Togawa, the "Bug Woman" in the 80's (I'll probably post some of her stuff at a later date), but Sony would continue to force certain behaviors on young Rumi, wouldn't let her "speak out of turn" or make friends with idols from rival companies. In any case, her sound was highly praised. Using heavy electronic technopop, she has been called the "Original Techno Idol".

There's so much in this album that I want to post, and I might do so at a later date, but I think this makes the best introduction. This is 「好き」 off of Rumi Shishido's first album, 「ド・レ・ミ・ファ・ソ・ラ・シ・ド・シ・シ・ド・ル・ミ」.

You might recognize her voice as the voice of Puririn in Welcome to the NHK.

つづく

>>833071

I used to dismiss idols as well. Now I spend days on end studying them.

Most people think of idols as just stale 3DPD waifu bait for the unfortunate Otaku, someone who is produced as a product to smile, look nice, and sell records. The current state of the industry with the AKB48 soulless units everywhere doesn't help things. I started getting into idols when I saw how different things used to be back in the 80's and 90's with all these unique idols and how much more alive they seemed than the modern soulless doll idol. You can see how much fun Halko is having in GURA GURA above and how much her personality is shining through.

With any luck, you can learn to appreciate true idols more through this thread and what you're going to see with RunRun in the coming days.

>>832152

>I posted a link to it in the first music thread we had when I found it, but it's been a long time and I don't remember where I found it. I looked for it for quite a while.

Believe it or not, but I actually still have that thread open in a distant tab since it was such a great thread. Here is the link for shaking pink:

http://www.mediafire.com/?7y83jf8tpvs6nmm

Also, Could this also just be a general music thread since Denpa seems to be a rather broad term for "Anime music".

>>833240

Cool, I'm glad there's people like you who keep things open forever. I still don't know how the hell I found it.

>Also, Could this also just be a general music thread since Denpa seems to be a rather broad term for "Anime music".

Go ahead. Nothing's stopping you from posting music. I'm still just going to keep doing my thing.

Repostan goodies.

>Masashi Sada

>Mayumi Kojima

>Japanese 70s/80s folk

Taste of what is inside: https://track6.mixtape.moe/tapjpz.mp3

Link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/q4kl45qk75jbc3g/For%20Anon.7z

Okay, today I made three webms for you. Well, I made them last night before passing out. Today, I'm posting twice to give you all three of these webms of the same song.

The first two here are two different studio versions. This is because the original version you hear in this anime opening does not exist in it's full version anywhere on the internet as far as I know. If you happen to have it, post it and become a hero of the internet.

Now when we left off with Rumi-chan, it was 1990 and she was 16 years old in the Baton Twirling Club. It is now 1992 and she is 18. She was just scouted by an anime studio after hearing her voice work on her first album, 「ド・レ・ミ・ファ・ソ・ラ・シ・ド・シ・シ・ド・ル・ミ」. I haven't posted any of this, but I will in the future, and you can definitely hear the seiyuu potential in some of these tracks.

She got to voice a cute loli named Yuuni in the anime OVA series, K.O. Seiki Beast Sanjuushi (AKA K.O. Century Beast Warriors). She particularly liked doing the voice work, and she even got to sing the OP, which she will be singing on variety shows shortly.

Webm 1 is 「恋はマケラレネーション(New Remix)」 off of her second album with Sony, Punsuka.

Webm 2 is the OP for K.O. Seiki Beast Sanjuushi, 「恋はマケラレネーション」, which was probably only released as a single for the anime that nobody bought. I downloaded the only torrent of the anime on public trackers, but the idiots who put it together somehow made the second OP the OP for the entire series. So, this is a shitty Youtube rip of the proper OP. This is probably the only studio version of the original song you'll ever hear.

The single ranked #93.

>The one website that had an English translated interview with RunRun just went under.

Fucking hell, archive everything.

Now, this is one of the few performances during this time period you can find of RunRun.

At this time in her career, despite everything I said before about idols being produced to let their inner selves shine in this time period, Sony continues to try and mold her into an idol they they want her to be. This is 1992, afterall, and the bubble era is closing. As said before, she is not allowed to make friends with idols from rival companies and her new love of voice acting, putting her into contact with other girls who also love to voice act only exacerbates the issue. She was told to "not act out" and always smile.

At the end of this video you can see her "act out". In later versions of the same performance here, she does not do this again. The speakers comment in later shows, "Oh, no pantsu today?". Faxes were sent in talking about the idols on that day, "So-and-so is acting very idol-like, oh, and Rumi-chan is controlling herself today."

I don't know if she did that to rebel against Sony, or if it's something Sony wanted her to do, but the fact that she doesn't do it in later shows shows that there is a disconnect between her and what Sony wants her to be.

Here, you can see the beginning death throws of the Golden Age of the Idol Industry.

1992 would become an important year for 18 year old Rumi Shishido.

This was when she did something no other idol would do: She ended her contract with Sony and was kicked out of the industry. She wouldn't appear on television for another 20 years.

つづく

Sharing this denpa classic: Akiba-Pop

No deep lore about this one.

https://mega.nz/#!Wo8T2I6B!BH4lDUDd1IK8sMtLHT-KLb4n85v_NpQvnC3nIZRZjR8

Sorry it's already tomorrow for some of you, but it's still Wednesday in my time zone. I had to finish putting together that surprise for today's post. It's nothing big, but I hope you appreciate the effort.

"I didn't want to become the ballad the office was trying to make." was what Rumi-chan said about leaving Sony at age 18. Afterwards, she entered a rough period of her life. Sony actively sought to block all attempts at her re-entering into the industry at any level, forcing her to try and make a living off of pachinko and selling paintings she painted. This hopeless state of affairs lasted for three whole years until she persevered long enough to release an album on her own in 1995, entitled 「Set Me Free」. This is a landmark occasion because it's the first time an idol self-published anything, making Rumi Shishido the first ever independent idol. She did everything, public relations, management, accounting, etc.

This would be followed by an entire sub-industry known to fans as Chika Idols, or Underground Idols. Live Idols, Net Idols, and most Akiba Idols like Halko would all follow in Rumi-chan's footsteps. This sub-industry continues to this day and is only now finally breaking through the crushing stranglehold the mainstream industry has over idols.

In that album, RunRun released a track that was a love letter to her fans who supported her through her dark years. It's called 「1990 ~ALL THE YOUNG NERDS~」. Yes, the title is in English and she's talking to her Otaku. I painstakingly translated it by ear the best I could. If any of you are better at moon, please send help. This is the surprise I was working on for the past couple of days.

<今日もあの子は窓辺で泣いている

>Today, too, that girl is crying under the window.

<僕は窓の下で

>I am under the window.

<君を見上げているよ

>Watching you above

<自転車にまがたり

>Riding your bicycle.

<涙がこぼてからあそれあ拾い集めて

>When the tears were spilling, you picked them up and collected them,

<悲しみが広がらないようにポケットにつめこいんだ

>and put them in your pocket so my sorrow wouldn't spread.

<それが僕にできる

>Because of that, I can do it.

<にまき見にしてあげられることかを

>So you can watch.

<ラララ　今日はこんなに星が輝いているのに

>Lalala Today the stars are shining like this.

<君が暗いと僕は辛いよ

>Your darkness was my pain.

<君はいつもニコニコしているんだね

>You are always smiling ne

<僕はわかるんだよ

>I know.

<君は寂しい言ってね

>You said "you were lonely" ne

<かわいそうなくらいさ

>"We feel sorry for you."

<たくさんの人が楽しみに君のことを待っている

>"Lots of people are waiting for you."

<たとえそれが一人になっても、何もパワーのないこと

>Becoming alone, nothing has power.

<だから歌うんだよ

>Because of that, I can sing.

<声がかれ空を付き無垢まで

>My voice is empty with innocence.

<ラララ　今日はこんなに海が輝いているのに

>Lalala Today the sea is shining like this.

<君な嫌いな雲はないよ

>There are no clouds you hate

<いつか君はボロボロになって雪、

>Somedays you will become scared and the snow,

<消えてしまうんだね

>Will dissapear, ne.

<称して僕は勇のさ

>So, I am courageous.

<君にありがとうて

>Thank you,

<誰も知らないよな切なさとなんだが綺麗なこと

>Nobody knows how sad and somehow beautiful it felt.

<君を好きだあたことこれからも誇りに持ってく

>I love you all, I'll hold this pride into the future,

<一生懸命なれた僕がそこにいたことを

>and I'll go forward with all of my being.

<ラララ 今日もこんなに君が輝いているなら

>Lalala Today you are shining like this.

<君は未来は僕な未来さ

>Your future is my future.

<ラララ　今日はこんなに星が輝いているのに

>Lalala Today the stars are shining like this.

<君が暗いと僕は辛いよ

>Your darkness was my pain.

The album received high acclaim by everyone and she finally got more work out of it in the industries she loved: anime and more independent music. This concludes Rumi Shishido's story of becoming the first independent Denpa artist. Did you all have fun? I might post some bonus material tomorrow if you want, to give an epilogue.

>>833573

Thanks, I remember finding a few songs from this lying around the internet back then, but never heard the full album. This is going to be a treat.

Hope this fits into the Denpa category.

>>833366

Holy shit.

>>833240

>>833315

>Believe it or not, but I actually still have that thread open in a distant tab since it was such a great thread.

That's nuts anon; That thread has left our shores many, many months ago.

Careful though, some of those links may not work anymore since I had to delete a few albums to make room for others.

>>833366

>>833584

I've listened to RunRun before, but had no idea about any of this stuff; What an amazing young lady.

Your dedication and knowledge is inspiring, anon. ありがとうね

でんぱのことよく知らないけどこの曲が好き

In the same year that Rumi-chan released her self-published 「Set Me Free」, she re-entered the anime and music industries as a freelance talent by voicing the lead role in Gokinjo Monogatari (Neighborhood Stories) and singing the accompanying OP, which was her first single since 「恋はマケテラレネーション」 from 1992 when she was still under Sony.

This is 「ヒ・ロ・イ・ン」, the OP to Gokinjo Monogatari, a shoujo anime about love and following your dreams. The MC is a cute classical tsundere.

I couldn't find the single anywhere online again, so we'll have to make due with this youtube rip. Also, as bonus material, here's the self-produced CM she made to sell the single. That's her voice announcing over her singing. Don't You Know is the ED to Gokinjo Monogatari and was released in the same single. It's super cute if you want to look it up. I might post it later. Next post will be the OP itself.

I'm going to post one more Rumi song tomorrow to finish up the week then we'll move on. I'm glad you all liked my autism. It's rare that I get to express it. Being an idolfag is both a blessing and a curse. It fills you with inspiration and depression at the same time.

>>833647

>>833684

いいえ。もう恥ずかし。

>>833827

Here's the OP. I quite like it.

>>833811

いい曲ですね。このを見てくれてありがとうね

>>833828

Just watched the first episode, and damn. I didn't mention this before but Rumi's parents were also divorced. She was an only child of an old Samurai family, the grand daughter of a monk, but she went to live with her mom in Hiroshima after the divorce happened. I wonder what her family life was like.

Oh shoot, I almost missed my deadline.

This is 「井の頭にて 」off of Rumi-chan's 7th album, 「Cherbourg→Brighton」, released in 2011. This is the first album she produced since 2003 and was in essence her come back to music since then. It was the first in a three-part series of albums she released in the following years, 「Cherbourg→Brighton」, 「女」, 「Ruminescence」. This was made after her fans put together the "Rumi Shishido support project" to celebrate her 20th anniversary of her debut with Sony. There was an event with her on UStream during this time that gave the site it's most views in it's history. Her return to music probably wouldn't have happened if not for her fans during this time.

After the three-part project was finished, she was invited onto 「1番ソングSHOW・あなたが今一番見たい幻のアイドル大捜索SP.」, a television program that translates out to "Number 1 SHOW, the Phantom Idol you all want to see the most Special" in 2013, after the final album in the three-part series. This would be the first time in 20 years that she appeared on television.

Hope you enjoy. I really like the song and the video.

These songs are by ねこみりん.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAJcUVzkZAw is arrange of the Touhou 6 stage 3 with vocals by みゆ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpIMt8pZStw is also with みゆ

I also like this song but I can't find a full version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLT8Jgw267Q

>>834289

Well, that depends.

There was Jun Togawa back in the 80's who stubbornly went against idol conventions made her image and music to one of her liking back when the mainstream industry still allowed it, despite the unpopularity it gave her.

Then there's Kamen Joshi who is still working to crash the mainstream industry with no survivors by becoming the first Chika Idol unit to make a #1 hit, which they've done twice in a row now, as revenge against what the mainstream industry has become and the illicit practices it holds such as forcing sexual favors and extorting money out of idols, many of who are now Kamen Joshi members.

But has anyone ever flipped the script so hard and went from shunned talent on the streets to the phantom idol seiyuu we know now all because they wouldn't let her be who she wanted to be? No, never. Hers is a tale that directly reflects the time she appeared. The bubble era was closing and the economy was crashing hard, making the idol production houses panic and try to sell a refined product rather than an individual girl's charm.

Similarly, her return is reflects the reactionary sentiment many girls would have in the coming years, and shows what true idols were to become. Namely, Chika Idols. In this case, the disease was followed immediately by the cure, reflected in the life of a single girl.

As you can tell, I am an idolfag who has zero respect for the current mainstream industry

>>834433

>As you can tell, I am an idolfag who has zero respect for the current mainstream industry

So where does this place a group like Perfume for instance?

>>834442

I knew someone was going to bring up Perfume.

They are an unique unit themselves who funnily enough share a lot of similarities with RunRun, from being from Hiroshima to being the continuation of Rumi-chan's "Techno Idol" image. Okite Porsche, a famous Idol Otaku and lead of Japan's New Wave band, Roman Porsche, who famously supported Perfume in their Independent/Chika years used to religiously follow Rumi-chan.

Technically, they started out as Chika Idols themselves, being Local Idols to Hiroshima and later becoming Akiba Idols like Halko. They even performed Halko's Akihabara Love during this time, with Halko appearing on stage as "DJ Momo-i" who produced the song for Perfume.

Then they were consumed by the mainstream industry and I lost a lot of respect for what they became. Now, they just go on stage to play a part and no longer act like idols from what I've seen. They are just dolls used to sell Yasutaka's music at this point and have no personality themselves.

So, I liked them when they were Chika Idols back when they wore the retro techno future outfits, but no longer hold them in such a high regard. I haven't been wow'd by any of their performances since they started all their autotune shit. If you can change my mind, please do. I really do like their previous selves. Whenever I see them perform one of their older songs, they seem to always have so much more fun than when they do any of the newer robot performances.

That's not to say that idols built around a robot-doll like image is bad, as that was what WINK was and they were great as the idols who don't smile, but it doesn't fit Perfume's actual personality. Rumi's songs were Denpa and technopop because she was kind of Denpa and that was her soul become sound. Halko's songs were Denpa and anisong covers because she is the goddess of Akihabara and loved the Otaku scene, an Otaku who grew up with computers herself. When you watch Perfume on stage just talking and having a good time, they have nothing in common with Yasutaka's music and their play-acting as dancing robots of his design.

Because I'm talking about it, today's song will be Akihabara Love, produced by Momoi Haruko for Perfume. Look at how much fun they have here and compare it to what you know of Perfume today to see what I mean and why I'm so harsh on current Perfume.

Again, any studio version of Halko's version is impossible to find and the single of Perfume's version was only sold at events and some online shops to promote Uchimizu events in Akihabara where everyone would throw water on the ground to cool off the air, making it pretty rare.

Yes, Halko loves her hometown of Akihabara so much she put together promotion events to take care of the heat in the city in the traditional Japanese way, producing a love song for Akiba in the process. That is a true idol.

First up is Momoi Haruko's performance.

Sorry for the late reply. I needed to encode these videos.

>>834514

And here's Perfume's studio version, complete with dance. Look at them and tell me this doesn't fit their image better than their newer shit does.

Next up is a live performance with Perfume and Halko together on stage, which is probably the best version of the song you'll see anywhere. I'm editing down a longer video so it make take a little while. Sorry for the delay.

I don't feel particularly well today, so let's drop all the deep lore today and go for something more familiar, but still a bit novel.

During the huge Haruhi boom most of you probably remember, these three seiyuu were becoming somewhat of an idol unit all their own with their own original songs and everything. During the whole Haruhi era, they would often do live performances together and make singles as their characters before the Haruhi franchise crashed with no survivors except the bassist.

This is one of them, made for the Haruhi no Gekido Wii rhythm game in 2009. The album has an original song made for each of the three girls, and this, the fourth track, is the song released with all of them together as a unit.

This is 「BE BE BEAT!!」 off of the Haruhi no Gekido album.

>>835178

Oh wow, my webm came through. I had forgotten about it.

>>835623

Oh, I didn't know she collaborated with Nanahira. That's pretty cool.

Thanks for chiming in. I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows these things. AKB represents everything I hate about the industry. They are even trying to steal MIX as their own thing because the mainstream industry just can't not consume everything around it. This is why we need Kamen Joshi.

The thing is the mainstream industry claims to represent the idol industry but they don't even have talent with that idol factor anymore. It's been stripped from them like the antagonists from Wake Up Girls.

If you can see Perfume as your standard performers, they're not bad, but they are not idols, not anymore. When I watch them, I can't help but be sour about what they could have been as dance choreography-focused idols like they once were and how the mainstream industry is squeezing all talent into being like them and not about being like actual idols, not to mention their scummy practices which inadvertently created Kamen Joshi as a reactionary idol unit, and probably many more.

Like I said, Perfume is just there to sell Yasutaka's music at this point. That's not to say Yasutaka doesn't make good music. I quite like the songs, but Perfume is just pretty faces to sell the music, like all mainstream idols are. Perfume just has the benefit of having a good music producer, that's the only reason they stand out.

Today's song is Sweet Donuts by Perfume. It's the first song they released with Yasutaka, who went on to become their #1 music producer. Sweet Donuts has the proper synergy of his music as well as fitting in with Perfume's actual character.

>>835645

And it's a little late, but I started encoding this a while ago. This is Sweet Donuts live, and I left in all the talking and such to give you an idea of Perfume's actual character.

They look like they are having so much fun performing this song.

>>835696

I love you.

ＳＵ-ＴＯ-ＲＯ-ＢＥ-ＲＩＩＩＩ　ＩＧＮＩＩＳＨＩＩＩＯＯＯＮＮＮN

>>835742

Thanks a lot, I'm gonna memorize this, so I can look for future Denpa in these resources, Denpa is love!

>>832387

Finally got to listen to the album, and then I realize that I have hear the vocals from a Denpa album i had, gotta agree with the rest of you, MMBK has really excellent songs that have strong vibes to them and complement the vocals amazingly, really liked this one a lot.

>>835817

Haruhi may have left us for now, but Haruhiism is forever.

S3 soon, comrade.

The song I've been encoding all day still isn't finished, so I'll save it for tomorrow.

As for today, remember when I said I wanted to share all the other songs on RunRun's first album? Well, this is the third single she released with Sony in 1991 off of her 1990 album, 「ド・レ・ミ・ファ・ソ・ラ・シ・ド・シ・シ・ド・ル・ミ」, this is 「 パニック・イン・マイ・ルーム」 "Panic in my Room.

Since we're going head-first into the depths of what "denpa" is, you should find this track interesting.

Reminder that she was 16 Years Old at this time.

>>836148

You're getting in head of me.

Hello I am the Denpa fairy who never leaves a link behind: Have your dose of MMBK.

https://mega.nz/#!e5QHWJ7J!VlBXLPomDvICSRpnqRSteowWAhE2Qdyrw6L3jTLhSM0

>>836003

>You've gotten to a lot of depth that I didn't get to, especially when it comes to the history so I wouldn't see myself as the senpai here.

I'm just your lowly Idol Otaku aspiring to be a Wota. Don't sell yourself short. You've been on the front lines longer than I.

(C85) [MMBK-002] ぴぃちぼっくす (v0)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/3763m6o8f1666uv/%28C85%29%20%5BMMBK-002%5D%20%u3074%u3043%u3061%u307C%u3063%u304F%u3059%20%28v0%29.rar

>>836155

www.mediafire.com/file/3763m6o8f1666uv/(C85)+[MMBK-002]+ぴぃちぼっくす+(v0).rar

I apologize.

>>836151

>>836153

[MMBK-002] ぴぃちぼっくす

This is some good shit!

>>836150

Wait, what kind of encoding is that if it has to take severals hours to finish?

>>836480

Yes.

>>836415

Excellent choice, really digging Camellia's style, gotta say that the visuals of the video really helped convey the message of the song, gonna check more of him, found myself quite interested in his art.

Oops, almost missed the deadline. I had planned for something else, but because I'm running it so damn close, (5 minutes until midnight), here's Saikyou Pare Parade for my fellow Haruhiists, sung by the pseudo idol unit made up of these three seiyuu. It was used as the OP for the radio program.

I'll even post some bonus content in the following posts but right now, I'm 3 minutes until my deadline so I'm hitting New Reply.

>>836794

No, Arale is a comfy comedy set in a single village with occasional trips elsewhere.

>>836814

Here's the live performance from Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou, which was a pretty cool event in 2007 with all the voice actors from the anime making an appearance, performing live skits along with performances of all the songs.

Watching this reminds me of just how great Aya in particular was back then. She was the first idol I ever got into and she really was the biggest up and coming star in this era before she neglected the bassist.

Haruhi and Aya were inseparable and the popularity of each fed the popularity the other. It's hard to convey just how monstrously big Haruhi got during this time if you weren't there.

>>836774

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind if I ever need anything. I used jpopsuki for the Rumi albums I got because they are impossible to find and stuff about her seems to keep falling off the internet.

>>836886

A few years ago, there was a live event with all three of them back together and she had the JUST hair.

Look at this fucking change.

Honestly, though, they deserved to be an idol unit and Haruhi deserved S3.

There's some timeline out there where it was allowed to run it's course.

Because it's r/a/dio tonight, I'm getting drunk, and this was what I /r/'d for the stream, here's 「ロックの神様」 by Rumi Shishido off of that first album again.

>Oh, it's getting late

>Shit, did I post yesterday?

>I did.

>よかった

Well, what I wanted to post today isn't done encoding because I had some things to do today and I sat on my hands when I should have encoded it, so here's one more Haruhi to play out the weekend. This is Sekai ga Yumemiru Yume no Naka, the version with all three of the pseudo idol unit singing.

What do you all think of these Haruhi songs? Did you listen to them a lot back then? Did you forget about them? Do you still listen to them like me?

>I've tried to express this to friends who only got interested in anime culture recently and this is completely true. You see this online in anime communities too.

Indeed. There are newfags on /a/ right now who don't know or understand how much Haruhi did for the industry, otaku, and the general animu/LN fandom, for better or worse. It was to be as much of a phenomenon as Eva, but now the world has forgotten.

>>837352

>00:00:00

Did I make it? Does it count?

Today I'll share the beginnings of Nanahira.

Nanahira got her start as an Utaite, which is someone who covers songs and uploads them to NicoNico. She got known for her bratty loli-like voice and later on went to become big in the Denpa scene. This is 「物凄い狂っとるフランちゃんが物凄いうた」, "Sugoi Crazy Flan-chan's Sugoi Song". This was back in 2010, when she was just starting to get noticed and she got to sing this Sugoi Denpa touhou uta.

This is the MMD version someone made, and the song is popular on Osu. I like just how much she can pull of a bratty, crazy loli. Notice she says "Denpa" in it.

>>837561

She's an interesting character too.

>>837563

Where the heck did you find this?

Today's song will be off of Nanahira's first album in 2010, sold during C78 after getting popular enough on Nico Nico. Here, she collaborates with various music produces and is full of original songs.

This collaboration is between her and Lamazu P, a famous music and video creator who is known for Po Pi Po, Triple Baka, Fukkireta, and the Geddan animation.

As far as I can tell, this is the first time they collaborate, and they would later go on to work often together. This is 「Ａ杯」 off of 「ゴキゲン77ﾟ↑」

Nana Mix was released in 2012. She is still collaborating with various music producers, released under the name of her circle, "Confetto", but this song is Nanahira's first time collaborating with Camellia. The pair would become known to work Extremely close and often together. Camellia would be the first to produce an entire Nanahira album a few years after this.

This is 「あめふり天気をGET AWAY!」 off of 「Nana Mix!」 where she sings a duet with a Vocaloid.

I've included a picture of Nanahira and Camellia so you know who we're dealing with.

>>837894

>>837906

>nips using niggerspeak

What's the world coming to?

>>837888

>where she sings a duet with a Vocaloid

That Vocaloid is in fact an UTAU called Haruka Nana, which Nanahira herself voices.

>>838019

Speaking of Momobako, today we will be looking at her beginnings.

An Utaite herself, she joined forced with another Utaite, Aihara Kaori, to create 「ちぃむｄｍｐ☆」, the same Denpa duo who would go on to make the album referenced here >>832387

Before this holy union, however, the first song she ever released was on a collaboration album. It was a cover of Cagayake!Girls, the OP to K-On!, alongside Nanahira, setting the precedent of them working together. Most of what she does is under 「ちぃむｄｍｐ☆」, but she often goes back to work alongside her Senpai, Nanahira. Unfortunately, this album and this cover is lost to the bowels of the internet and I cannot find it.

Instead, here's 「専属メイド☆宣言」 "Exclusive Maid☆ Declaration", in which they sing about being your meido and moe moe kyun. This is from ちぃむｄｍｐ☆'s first album 「電波っぽいのっ!」. This album was released only a few months after her appearance on the aforementioned Utaite collaboration album.

Unlike Nanahira, right off the bat we see her usual image: peach/pink twintails tied with blue bows. Also unlike Nanahira, while also seen as loli, her voice is more light and fuwa fuwa, with often airheaded baka boke lines.

The blue-haired twintail loli is Aihara Kaori, and I really was never able to find out much about her other than she works with Momobako in ちいむdmp☆.

Time for some metal denpa. Unfortunately I don't have the files from the new albums to make webms. This circle is called くらんべりぃ☆きっす. They only produce two songs per album with a different utaite every time. The lesson here is that denpa does not refer to a genre but the feeling you get from the work as >>835623 explains. I only have the download for their first album Metal Passion, but if other anons like the other two albums I don't mind buying and sharing those here. Use their bandcamp to listen to the rest: https://cranberrykiss.bandcamp.com/

>Metal Passion featuring 桃箱

You can expect this to be a great album because of 桃箱 so I won't say much about it. Despite the second track being called 100 Eggs, I'm pretty sure she says たまご more than 100 times.

>Strawberry Hunter featuring 未々子

I don't know that much about 未々子 since I could only find a single song by her in my whole library. If anyone knows more about her, do tell. She reminds me of a rougher version of 山本椛 mixed together with ちょこ which is definitely a good thing.

>Sakura Congratulation featuring きゃらめる

I was pretty surprised to see きゃらめる as the utaite for this one. She has a pretty generic voice that's not that great but it's still recognizable to me anyways. The songs I've heard her in are generally hit or miss. This album is the weakest of the three in my opinion, but it's still a pretty decent listen. I've seen her mainly in two circles, the first being Maple Sugar where she sings with 野々宮めぷ and the second being うさみみりぼん where she sings with 雨音。Both circles have a few songs that I like but, like this album, it's nothing super amazing.

>>838032

>never able to find much about 愛原圭織

She seems to have disappeared when 2018 started. Her website doesn't exist anymore and she hasn't posted anything on Twitter since Dec 28, 2017. The latest song I have from her is from ピコロニーノーツ5 which came out Oct 11, 2017. She has a fair amount of songs in プヤッチオ albums so check those out if you want more of her. If she does anything in the future, it'll likely be with that circle. Surprisingly she's also done a song or two with Mamyukka too, which is what's in the webm. The higher pitch voice at the beginning is まめこ and the lower pitch later will be 愛原。

Off of 「Nanamix!」, here we have a collaboration between Nanahira, Momobako, and two others. This is 「ロリングボール！」. This song is fun and has a lot of energy. >>837953 takes center stage here.

And I almost slept through the deadline.

Does anyone have the album, Odenpa Gakuen, by the way?

>>838420

Both of those are good songs. I didn't post them because I was going more for songs between all three of the seiyuu. A personal favorite of mine is Punkish Regular.

<We are past the mid-point of the thread.

I didn't really know if it would last this long when I made it. Thank you for being interested in all my pent-up knowledge on idols and denpa.

That being said, I'm driving down to LA now to see Aqours and be wota. I'll probably still be able to update every day, but if something comes up and I can't post the day's song, I'll let you know and sumimasen my way into forgiveness, I hope. Maybe someone can post something in my place if that happens.

When I come back home, I'll drop all this contemporary denpa and go back to the archives to tell you the history of a certain idol.

While I'm down there, I'm also seeing Aimer, Yuki Kajiura, THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS, i☆Ris, Shoko Nakagawa, and, unfortunately, AKB48 Team 8.

Posted is approximations of my face at the lives.

>>838453

I can fill in posting songs but I don't really know the history/background on all the utaite I listen to. At best I can describe them, related circles/utaite, and small tidbits I know.

For now have some ちょこ. I don't know anything about her except that she's really cute. She does some alright moe-pop songs but also great denpa songs. Her voice is surprisingly flexible and she can do a variety of tones when she needs to. I didn't know the max file-size was 16MB, so have two songs. The first one is from 「ちょこっと配信ちゅう!」 while the second one is from CandyPopParty. Both albums are great; the latter album is entirely composed by 立秋 if you're a fan. By herself the circle she goes by is called ちょこっとだけ while her other main circle is twinkle where she sings with みるく (which means they're ちょこ　みるく). You can also find her doing other work once in a while with other circles like プヤッチオ.

「ちょこっと配信ちゅう!」: https://mega.nz/#!G8JDxaia!szUwx2KcKFG5D2ihVMvmQ9SJ19TV87KMrBeIem3ODtE

CandyPopParty: https://mega.nz/#!zgZRyayT!OPvJNQXsGnc1HMaPPt9FMngNhUGlohYR5Y99IX6FrJ4

>>838434

>Wow, this is a great song

The circle is called Mamyukka and the album is King Piglot. Each album has a unique sound to go with the theme/setting, but they generally have a orchestral/symphonic/gothic fantasy/musical feeling. I personally consider it more fantasy than denpa, but some people might classify it as denpa. They use a few different talented utaite like 愛原圭織 and 後藤ハルキ, but the main one they use is まめこ。まめこ and 愛原 both have done denpa, but not 後藤ハルキ from what I can tell. まめこ uses both her moe voice and her normal voice for a lot of songs, but I like her moe voice a lot more. Her normal voice leaves a bit to be desired, but it's still alright to listen to. I love all their albums because of the fantasy/musical feeling it has which does remind me of denpa a little. Anyways, you can get King Piglot here: https://mega.nz/#!61QnkY7D!I39G8lozIsLXG3rpLydqbClIvaCwH5o6kTdD-Ad78es

>>838432

Here you are. If anyone has requests of things they can't find or just more albums from certain utaite/circles in this thread, feel free to ask although there's no guarantee I'll find/have it. 「おでんぱ☆学園」: https://mega.nz/#!K4AVWQDb!TWqypZbg1DtR3mJOS_sBcIhyr3h09uW0YNiO9tQGRaQ

>>838466

>>838638

My bad anon, I'll check the files before I post them next time. I made new unpassworded zips that should be good to go. King Piglot and おでんぱ☆学園 didn't have passwords and are fine to download. I'll add Metal Passion here too.

「ちょこっと配信ちゅう!」: https://mega.nz/#!K1AGWaYR!0M93AOAFliII9hdVg26Oq4o18LwaAlwUXjhFXrKKV3A

CandyPopParty: https://mega.nz/#!ftJU1CxJ!DI3Gojvb9hiRrxBHKtwh-8AyvtTxC_M_W5-JTo8gyGk

Metal Passion: https://mega.nz/#!KtZUFSRA!XC3qpNdZbxhrxslyGTFlTigJpp90HTKck1EYh2j5Hd4

Coincidentally my internet died while OP is dead. Have some とろ美. I don't know anything about her so I'll keep it short. She can sing, voice act, and draw (some of her album art is drawn by her). I don't really know what circles/utaite/artists she mostly associates with so some other anon can fill in for me. The first track 「壱.寺ズッキュン！愛の了法寺！」is とろ美ｘARM and comes from the album 「寺ズッキュン!愛の了法寺」 while 「しずる」 comes from 「PROTOROTYPE VER.0.3」 which I'll probably upload tomorrow when my internet is better. Since OP is dead for another day, I might do some non-denpa stuff tomorrow.

>>838742

The 高等遊民 character is one of the things I dislike. In this one and the other tracks with this character, miko definitely tries too hard to fit in this role/use this voice that doesn't fit her. 桃箱 definitely saves the drama tracks because she can play the imouto role so well. Miko's singing isn't too bad either, I listen to and like a lot of things she's in, but she's a bit boring compared to other utaite. Miko is alright, but something about her voice isn't fun or cute to me.

>>839091

Two more songs while I'm at it, this time from 「トロヅクシ」. しずる is also in this album. You can get the albums here:

トロヅクシ：https://mega.nz/#!Dg4CxQZL!uUKhLJwiKjppcChh9ByeLH1CPLnGksOjAg0P25ELCHk

PROTOROTYPE VER.0.3：https://mega.nz/#!Ss5mhITK!C5Pp1XQNxbB4Wt5eY_c3k3metDj45B86MHYpQ8Iuk6k

寺ズッキュン!愛の了法寺：https://mega.nz/#!XxxSSaaK!_UA_8UswBQDWm_-y-SIJstiwbU27WE7Y20vR5l1WHGk

I'll also include my favorite 桃箱 album 箱入りむちゅめ since someone requested it earlier in the thread.

箱入りむちゅめ：https://mega.nz/#!e5QHWJ7J!VlBXLPomDvICSRpnqRSteowWAhE2Qdyrw6L3jTLhSM0

>>837666

You are not alone.

It's nice to see this much appreciation for denpa, it's the perfect genre if you enjoy cute things.

Thanks OP, you're a pretty cool guy.

Sumimasen Sumimasen Sumimasen

This is 「つるつるぺったん娘体操～世界つるぺた協会公式体操～」 off of 「おでんぱ☆学園」, courtesy of >>838466

This album was made in 2012 and is the first time Nanahira and Momobako would work together since that aforementioned Utaite collaboration album when they sung Cagayake! Girls together, before Nanamix where they would sing only one song together here >>838432

The entire album is credited to both of them and if they created a joint circle from here, I don't think anyone would complain. This album has to be one of my favorites from either of them, and it would lead to many more collaboration projects between them in the future.

>>839498

ななひら and 桃箱 are only guest vocalists for the 4th track 「ぺろぺろちゅっちゅぺろりっちゅ！」 which is the first webm。The main vocals of the album are still おでんぱ　スタジオ regulars ねこめ、ほたる、なつき。I might post some solo songs for each of them later. For now, here's another song with them called 「貧乳シンデレラ～おっぱいがそんなにエライのか!_～」 from the album 「白い○人」 which you can get here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/fhzt1va6cn7pttx/%28C85%29+%E3%81%8A%E3%81%A6%E3%82%99%E3%82%93%E3%81%AF%E3%82%9A%E2%98%86%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B7%E3%82%99%E3%82%AA+-+%E7%99%BD%E3%81%84%E2%97%8B%E4%BA%BA.rar

>>839498

>>839506

I almost forgot, have some more ななひらｘ桃箱。I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but they have two albums named 「ちっちゃいのっ！This is LOLI！」 and the sequel 「もーっと！ちっちゃいのっ」。Before I do more おでんぱ　スタジオ stuff, would anyone be interested in ななひらｘ小紺ココ（ココ） albums? They have many more albums together than ななひらｘ桃箱 for some reason.

ちっちゃいのっ！：https://mega.nz/#!f1oynCjJ!7iMzZ6zazieVUTWo_qLwksZCWDcFmP1Na-Y0MPqPhOU

もーっと☆ちっちゃいのっ！：https://mega.nz/#!jkgQACQK!UsoFGvgRwY5174ttceO4QcDQh1zh2atndH1HvGUuI9U

>>839536

Since you went ahead and posted these, I'll post her collaboration with Hina Usa.

Before Nanahira came out with her 「ちっちゃいのっ！This is LOLI！」 collaboration albums with Momobako, and after their Odenpa Gakuen album together, she made this album with Hina Usa, someone else who has seemed to have fallen off the internet as far as I can tell, and I honestly don't know anything about her. This is 「相思相愛☆テレパシー」 off of 「女の子あらもっど」 with Nanahira and Hina Usa.

By the way, does anyone have KEMOLOVE?

>>839222

Do you by any chance have たちつてとろ美ちゃん ver1.7+, also from とろ美? とろ美 — +ONE from that album is amazing.

>>839713

>their odenpa gakuen album together

Anon please, it's not their album. They only did guest vocals on one track, and not even the one you posted. Take a look at the credits on the album's web page. You only see nana and momo under guest vocals and in the 4th track. Everywhere else you have the odenpa girls who don't even sound similar to nana/momo. I only keep bringing it up because you say it's one of your favorites but you give credit to the entirely wrong people. So to introduce each of the odenpa girls, here's their character bios on their website. My Japanese isn't actually the best so it might be inaccurate, but I'll try my best.

>ゆな voiced by なつき

She's a girl that wants to be a seiyuu. ゆな is one of those nice but air-headed girls, and she's always passionate or excited about something.

>みさき voiced by 津軽りんご

The childhood friend of ゆな、she's a tsundere. I'm not really sure what the last sentence means so I won't translate it.

>かなで voiced by ねこめ

The one I like the most. Her main job is being the managing director of the World Tsurupetta Society. She got transferred to Odenpa Studio, but she doesn't work. In the waiting room she watches anime and plays games. Basically she's an otaku.

>どみそ voiced by ほたる

She showed up from somewhere, どみそ is a clumsy magical girl.

Normally they sing together, but it's hard to figure out who's who. To help with that, have some solo songs by each of them. The first song is by ゆな（ＣＶ：なつき） called 「メインヒロイン(仮)」 from an album of the same name. The second song is by みさき(ＣＶ：津軽りんご) called　「きみにツンツン」 from the album　「キャッチン☆こたつ」。

>>839966

Next up we have 「白い○人」 sung by かなで(CVねこめ)。You can find the album here >>839506. Finally we have ドミソ（CVほたる) singing 「ロリッ子羊ちゃんクライシス!おにーちゃんそこはらめぇ～らめぇ～めぇ～2015(未年)Ver.」 from the album 「ロリッ子羊ちゃんクライシス！」。

>>839713

Kemolove: https://mega.nz/#!ysxnWIrZ!jjDNqPHxrxN8UWuknBr8TuS0G5q4_pKzzDBD_PrALBM

>>839845

You can just make an account on mediafire or mega or whatever site you like, upload it there, and post the link here.

>>839966

>>839967

「メインヒロイン(仮)」：https://mega.nz/#!jxxxmAqY!qrMXnrVb3GYRuqPA_QEEGVcor8UDEd9rNXnKkQRWsFk

「キャッチン☆こたつ」：https://mega.nz/#!Ls4XkA6L!EDd0SykXqgJgqn1WUSdWIhoJ1Tyf0ODb-73MY-k0aZA

「白い○人」 ：https://mega.nz/#!TthxFarT!KOlbAUeRP7Atrgfs3OdogmwbH7t4-uANFUxrTF6uSik

「ロリッ子羊ちゃんクライシス！」：https://mega.nz/#!Og4zlKKY!rPS3OiRaSa8IA05iYqORBMqfSiROSmN90mKTnBKzuI8

>>839816

I do.

「たちつてとろ美ちゃん ver1.7+」：https://mega.nz/#!jxphyaYb!WC8eC09Cr3VDSAPtoYjPFWukTL-KgiQP1xAxicBrPWM

>>839970

You sure are resourceful, thanks a bunch anon. I even tried downloading the cuckchan denpa thread torrent, it's great but that particular album was missing.

>>840052

They actually had a single before and after this album. The first single was actually the first thing they ever did as ラブリコット and it was called 「スタートライン」。 The single after Primary*Step is called 「ベリーメリーデイズ」 and it is the last thing they've done as ラブリコット。Even further back than when ラブリコットexisted, there were two ななひらｘ小紺ココ albums called 「らぶちゅ！」 and 「らぶちゅ！２」、but they were just themselves, not リコリス and 琴乃。

「スタートライン」：https://mega.nz/#!f5wAQAzZ!AfKvotknJV2gLpwVIM22waTXXWYwdmm9Pdla2TslDII

「ベリーメリーデイズ」：https://mega.nz/#!jx4gFY5T!N8h2axIq0vQXBoEervXlcBVfeaJmL1d1SmmeE19rXdY

>>840054

Thanks anon.

I was planning to never repeat a circle/album twice (on different days), but that doesn't seem very sustainable. I'm still not close to running out of things to post, but I might just start picking a random song/utaite or two from my library to post instead, not worrying about double-dipping, but avoiding posting the same utaite within a small time-span unless someone requests something. This will also let me post other good songs from these circles/albums that I would not have originally. What do other anons think, any better suggestions /changes/comments on how to make better posts? OP originally wanted to post one webm a day but I'm just making small dumps at this point, am I posting too many songs at once now?

>>840103

I forgot to mention that despite being called singles, there are 4 songs in each release from ラブリコット。I feel like I shouldn't post so many songs in a day, but here's the older ななひらｘ小紺ココ albums.

「ラブチュ」：https://mega.nz/#!j1wSSCgD!aKdftmemsKTfERHA1EUCacOsI7sVJU2-CfYkECbOCEo

「ラブチュ２」：https://mega.nz/#!2loSRSSA!K16TUDXd2PE86kA7vhY9U83iKzDmFmt_XluEj4G4v4Y

So far, most of the things in this thread have been standalone releases by individual circles, but you might find these circles/utaite/artists making songs for other media too. Today I will focus on rhythm games, specifically in iidx. There's probably a lot more in sdvx, but I haven't been able to play it as much so I don't know the library as well. If you have a good arcade nearby (or if know how to get a cracked version), give it a try since it's a lot of fun and it's nice seeing songs by artists you know. The songs I chose are all sung by 山本椛 who I associate with IOSYS/ARM. As these are songs designed for rhythm games, they are shorter than normal, but occasionally the artist releases a long version (usually labeled as such) in their album like 「突撃！ガラスのニーソ姫！ - long ver. -」。No download today, but if I do more posts like this I'll put all the songs in a zip later.

>>843153

Oh no.

>>843153

What kind of cryptic bullshit is this?

Godspeed, OP.

>>843153

>just relaying information

So OP got caught by the loli rape gang. You won't get away with this.

OP here. I'm not going to be able to post every day anymore, but I'll still post here every once in a while.

I got into a car accident after going down to LA to be a wota. Yeah, I'm okay, but the cost is going to make me have to abandon my NEET life sooner than I had anticipated.

I asked a friend to tell you guys OP wasn't coming back soon and I didn't know if I ever was going to be at the time, so sorry if I scared anyone. I just don't have the stamina to post here like I used to after that because my body still needs time to heal. I'll be back in action in a few weeks, maybe.

I never once said my rabbits so maybe being alive at all is my luck after that crash. Everyone says I'm lucky. If I had said it, I might be dead right now.

This is the Gokinjo Monogatari ED by Rumi Shishido I said I'd post at some point, 「Don't You Know」. The lyrics are really cute and relatable to a lot of us, I'm sure.

Kibun wa saitei nano ni.

>>846076

And the full version.

I'm still planning on posting about a certain idol, but it has to be at a later time.

>>833364

>>833366

I just found this on Youtube. It's the full song and dance, non-Remix version. Since my maxim for idols is SAVE EVERYTHING, here you go.

Ｃ　Ｙ　Ｂ　Ｅ　Ｒ　Ｍ　Ｅ　Ｍ　Ｅ

>>846076

>>846076

Holy shit OP, I'm glad you made it.

I'm cracking up, in the midst of the usual stuff there's this song extolling Gunma prefecture, for which I'll never be Japanese enough.

>>833584

>I'm messing around trying to figure out aegisub.

>I do my best and the timing looks great.

>Whenever I make it into webm with the picture attached or in any way add the picture even when making it a mkv, the sub timing is all messed up.

>If I make a mka without the picture, the sub timing is still perfect.

>Somehow adding the picture to the file fucks up my work and nothing online explains why.

Fucking hell. Can anyone offer any help? This is the best I've been able to make it work, and the timing was perfect before this in aegisub and as a mka.

A young girl was fat, ugly and bullied growing up. This fat, ugly school girl dreamed of being an actress. To train for her dream, she would often do speech practice and sit-up exercises on her school’s rooftop during middle and high school. She would eat for pleasure around this time as well, due to boredom and being bullied. She gained weight during school as a result. The fact that she is always compared to her sister doesn’t help. During primary school, she joined the Himawari Theatre Group with her younger sister.

Her sister, had a bright and cheery personality, and would often play roles that fit this. The two were always seen as contrasting and the drastic differences between them worried many around them.

A strict home, she was never allowed to go out on Sundays, until 1979 when she entered University. She had the sudden realization that it was possible to go out on Sundays at this time. She was off to see a movie and at Hibiya Park, happened to see the live of a punk band,「8 1/2」and immediately became a fan. When she went to see them a second time, she became an acquaintance with the group and from then on began to go out to Shibuya’s legendary rock cafe「NYLON100%」with them. Although she didn’t plan on becoming a musician as an actress, she liked「蘇州夜曲」, which she often sang at「NYLON100%」with those punk band members. This is how her band, Guernica, was formed.

This is the origin of one of the most foremost Denpa artists in history.

Here’s「銀輪は唄う/マロニエ読本」 by Jun Togawa. This is the first single she ever released alongside an album,「改造への躍動」with the band in 1982. A few months later her name became nationally known when during her acting career, she was cast in a commercial for the Washlette, a new product by TOTO. Here’s the CM. I think it speaks for itself. Let it be known that Jun Togawa started her career as the toilet lady.

>>836869

Rewatching this. Didn't Yamakan direct all their choreography? Him and Aya were a match made in heaven.

>>850956

As usual, here's a live performance. As you can see, this was broadcasted right before Super Hero Time, so not many people likely saw it.

>>832726

Someone fucking did it!

Someone just uploaded a better version of this video. I'm salivating. You can even see the games she picks up in this.

After releasing her first album with Guernica, Togawa Jun was pressured into focusing more on her music by the industry, who felt that to be an entertainer, your music career had to come first. She, on the other hand, had always only wanted to be an actress and to her, her music project with Guernica was only something on the side to help her relieve stress.

She always loved acting, seeing it as a way to become someone else than herself. Similarily, she found that lives were a way to experience this desire to change herself with the outfits and performance. In this way, she found more enjoyment out of her music career.

The next thing she released is this album, under her own name and styling herself as the "Insect woman". Here, she was able to use being an idol as a platform for her acting and she began to have fun with it, bringing in her Punk influences as well.

In this video, she sings a cute normal-sounding cute song before the commercial, and then when she comes back, you see this. This is her acting on stage and it's beautiful.

This is 「玉姫様」 from the album of the same name.

>>852131

And here's the full song.

Is anyone still here reading this? Sorry about my absence.

Just before the release of 玉姫様 Togawa Jun formed a band with Saeki Kenzou, the vocalist of Pearl Kyoudai, which you all may know from their excellent work on the Welcome to the NHK soundtrack, including Youkoso! Hitori Bocchi and Dark Side Ni Tsuitekite, which are often played during the depression block in Saturday r/a/dio streams. It's quite fitting that so many people responsible for Denpa at all turned out to have such roles in Welcome to the NHK, don't you think? From Shishido Rumi to Pearl Brothers.

This band is to be called Togawa Jun and the Yapoos. Or just Yapoos. They added Togawa Jun's name in the front because she was starting to become an idol.

Separate from her solo work, Yapoos are known to be more collaborative projects with her other band members. Since she found this strange life where she's singing instead of acting, Togawa uses the music stage to act. The first thing they released was a live album featuring Tamahime-sama of Togawa's solo work along with a bunch of other songs all of Yapoos made together. One of these is 「電車でGO! 」 which you might have heard in the lead in to trainroll during Saturday r/a/dio some nights.

As far as I know, this was never released as a studio version so you get to see the excellent live performance of the song and get to appreciate Togawa Jun's denpa charm on stage. She came out wearing this. This is 「電車でGO! 」 off of 「裏玉姫」 and later 「蛹化（むし）の女～蜷川実花セレクション」 . This entire show is amazing and if you like what you're seeing of Togawa Jun these past few weeks, I hope you look for the whole thing.

>>854295

And here's the song from 「裏玉姫」

Still 1984, and she finally started to be known as an actress. There's not much else I can say.

This is 「ラーダーマン」, a standalone single. First is the live performance. I believe this is the song's debut performance as well.

Sorry about "Daily Denpa" becoming "Weekly Denpa".

>>856236

And the full song. This is her own song, released under her own name without any Yapoos influence. It's her first single since Guernica's debut >>850956

Yes! Thank you very much anon, my collection expanded immensely after this thread.

電波の国の国歌斉唱〜春の日差しがやる気を奪う〜

https://picosong.com/wL2wA/

"The charm of being a actress is that you can become someone else, likewise, the outfits I can wear during lives comes from this desire to be someone else."

"I find that there are multiple personalities within myself. Every character I play is inside of me, and who comes out depends on the situation and what costume is worn. Sometimes, it's even surprising to hear about what I do at other shooting sites."

These are extremely butchered quotes from Togawa Jun, but it gives you the idea of how she became an actress during her time as an idol.

A boke in more ways than one, she once slept with a cigarette in her mouth only to wake at it burning her, causing a widespread news story. She also has astigmatism, causing her to often seem like she's looking at the wall to the side when talking to someone. Because she is seen as a "mysterious girl" character, girls of that nature try to approach her, but she really dislikes that type of person, often claiming that she is only acting the part of a sick person. However, as we know from her style of acting, that type of person is indeed a part of her.

Speaking of a sick person, here's the famous 「好き好き大好き」 off of the album of the same name. Here, she plays the part of the Yandere and is joined by Susumu Hirasawa of Satoshi Kon film fame. He would often work with her after this.

>>861202

Here's the song from the album, and the PV she made for the music video in which she plays up her role. You can see at the end where she apologizes to the cat. I think it's cute and shows what kind of an idol she is.

There's not really much else to say about the woman other than the fact that her sister, Togawa Keiko, died in 2002 at 37. Her sister was a proper idol and actress who, like I said in the beginning, was the opposite of Togawa Jun in many respects.

As if losing her foil made her into someone else, Togawa Jun has never been the same since.

This will be my last effort post in this thread. I'm going to migrate to the Idol Studies Club for any further posts so we can have a nice home for any discussion on music in general and because this thread is almost used up.

Thank you, everyone who has read any of these autistic posts throughout this thread and I hope you come by the other thread to continue these great discussions. I'll see you there. >>857184