Via the official website for the anime that will star members from AKB48 the title of the anime was announced, “AKB0048.” Further it was announced that there will be manga adaptions as well as details for how the members will be selected for roles in the anime. Details follow,The...

Two Johnny’s Entertainment groups topped the charts with week - the debut of Sexy Zone on the singles charts and Kanjani8 on the album charts. Overall a strong week for single releases as only last weeks topper SKE48 managed to stay in the top 10 at #8. In a...

SKE48 easily took top honors last week on the singles charts with the release of their newest single, “OkiDoki” selling over 380,000 copies. On the album charts, KinKi Kids album “K Album” sold 151,000 copies to land in the top position. In the...

The popular idol group AKB48 held a concert at the Seibu Dome in Saitama this past summer and will release the concert footage on DVD December 28.  The concert, “Yossha ~Ikuzo~! in Seibu Dome” (“All Right ~ Lets Go~!”) was held over 3 days back on July 22nd-24th 2011....

Idol group SKE48 has just revealed information regarding their upcoming single, “Banzai Venus”! “Banzai Venus” will be available starting March 9th, and it’ll come in three different flavors: ‘Regular Edition A’ (CD+DVD), ‘Regular Edition B’ (CD+DVD), and an exclusive ‘CD-only theater version’ that can only be purchased at one of SKE48’s theater performances. The title...

SKE48, dropped their 4th single “1!2!3!4! Yoroshiku!” on November 17th, and held the release event in Yokohama on the 20th. 32 members attended the release + handshake event, and performed 4 songs for their jubilant fans. Reportedly, 3,000 fans rushed to the event in order to cheer for their favorite girls. SKE48 is also scheduled...

AKB48 and SKE48 recently came together to form a mixed team for the “KYORAKU presents AKB48 SKE48 LIVE! in ASIA” event at the Sands Theater in Macau on November 16th. The mixed team consisted of 12 members of AKB48 and 12 members of SKE48, and this was the first performance overseas as a mixed team....

SKE48 will be releasing their 4th single, titled, “1!2!3!4! Yoroshiku!“, on November 17th, and the full PV has just been revealed on their official Youtube channel. The shoot for the PV was held at Tokiwagi Gakuen High School in Sendai, Miyagi, and 500 high school girls joined in the PV as extras. Therefore, including the...

Idol group SKE48 has announced the release of their 4th single “1, 2, 3, 4, Yoroshiku!” on November 17. The title track will feature 16 selected members of the group, including one of the new members that were added in the recent 4th generation audition. SKE48 revealed the details of the single during the encore...

Nagoya-based idol unit SKE48 has completed its 4th generation audition, it has been announced. A record number of hopefuls applied for the audition, but only 16 passed to become part of the group. The new members are being added to the kenkyuusei (research student) group, for a total of 26. Along with the 16 girls...

With Girls’ Generation, 4minute, KARA, and Brown Eyed Girls, Korean girl groups seem to be storming Japan. While Japanese K-pop fans are delighted, there are others who criticize this phenomenon, saying that this influx of translated K-pop tunes in Japan is lowering the quality of the Japanese music market*. *Editor’s Note: Before anybody flips out...

Arashi had toppled the chart with their new hit single called “To Be Free”. July 9th 2010, they had appeared in Music Station together with Nishino Kana performing her new single “Dear..”, Gossip Candy singing “Lollipop”, TUBE with “Natsu Yasumi” and new song “Shakunetsu Rabu” also VAMPS with “Memories”. They talked about the most memorable...

SKE48 will be releasing their 3rd single “Gomenne, SUMMER” today , whereas the first press orders exceeded 150,000 copies already. Also, from July to the middle of August, the girls will be doing hand shake event in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka with a plan to mobilize roughly 150,000 people. On July 18th it will...