KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO's Akito and Hami Pair Love-Themed Albums for October 28
The paired release splits one theme across two singers, so the two albums are built to be heard as a single work rather than as separate catalog entries.
PANORA
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Sandaime J SOUL BROTHERS' OMI Names NAOTO the Member He Finds Cutest Lately
The stage greeting turns a concert film opening into a members-only cross-talk, and the bandaged finger OMI described was visible on NAOTO's hand at the event, giving the promotional stop a concrete detail to carry.
Cinema Today
Ani-PASS #35 Puts Nao Toyama On The Cover And Miku Ito On The Back
The issue pairs two voice actresses marking ten years as recording artists, and Toyama uses her feature to explain why she is closing her singing career just as the album arrives.
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HANA Sets "Slidin" Digital Release for October 29
The single lands days before HANA's three added Tokyo Nippon Budokan shows on the Born to Bloom tour, so the group is putting new music in front of audiences at the largest dates on its seven-month run.
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PANDORA Label Sets Kachou Fuugetsu Debut Song for October 26 Release
The label is turning a story-bound idol unit into a music act, with a song written by two outside songwriter-producers rather than a tie-in track credited to the project.
PANORA
Square Enix Sets Final Fantasy 40th Anniversary Vinyl And CD For January 6, 2027
The tracklist is the product: one pick per mainline entry, which turns the anniversary release into Square Enix's own summary of which single piece of music represents each game.
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Number_i Opens Dome Tour in Sapporo, With Asia and North America Shows Planned for 2027
The Sapporo opener is framed as "Chapter 1: Japan" in a world tour, with overseas dates already on the calendar for 2027 even before the five-city domestic run finishes.
KAI-YOU
360Channel's WEBmetaverse Hosts WHITE SCORPION Fan Quiz with 1,300 Attendees
The event shows an idol fanbase entering a metaverse space through a browser link and an NFT purchase rather than an app, which caps the technical barrier to entry even as it ties attendance to a paid digital asset.
PANORA
Filix-Oh Turns RAPSTAR Elimination Into Single RAPSTAR DISらない
The show's own history gave the cut an expected shape (Tee Shyne's RAPSTAR DIS tracks), and Filix-Oh made the opposite record with the same speed, so the exit reads as a launch.
KAI-YOU
The Deity Releases Prayer Beyond Borders With Venezuelan Beatmaker Jota Rodriguez
A finished collaboration has been released to the public while the collaborator who started it cannot be reached, which turns an ordinary cross-border production story into a case where the release itself is the only remaining channel between the two artists.
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P NATION Opens Japan Arm, Baby DONT Cry Debut Set for January
The Japan debut is tied to a Warner Music Japan partnership and a new local subsidiary, which puts the Japan push on both a distribution deal and a corporate base rather than on a single release.
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Koko PLAYER Screenings Set for Three Weeks at Shinjuku Wald 9
The three-week run turns the PLAYER series into a lead-in for PATHFINDER, giving KAMITSUBAKI a theatrical build-up to the December 13 show rather than a single event.
PANORA
Midnight Grand Orchestra Launches RE:IGNITION Series With Rebuilt Midnight Mission Live
The series treats a past live as source material rather than a memory, rebuilding Midnight Mission's stage while keeping Hoshimachi's recorded performance and putting the band on stage live.
PANORA
ALLT STUDIO Adds Gyuruko and Nachipi, Sets First Hosted Live for January 2027
Two self-producing artists who handle their own videos and artwork moving under the same THINKR umbrella as DUSTCELL gives the label a deeper bench for the irregular UNSEN event series it now plans to run.
KAI-YOU
Mellow to Premiere "All Talk" With ALLES on October 25
The premiere puts a track built on frustration with oneself and the will to keep going in front of a channel audience of roughly 1.82 million, with ALLES handling words and Mellow handling sound.
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SENA Launches Solo Project, Sets November 11 Single
The founder of a three-member group is now releasing under her own name, and the first single is a writer-driven pop song rather than an idol-group track.
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K/DA's FIRESTARTER Illustrator Fujiwara Speaks on Completing the Art
The illustrator's public credit places a commercial illustrator known for female-oriented games and CD jackets inside Riot's K/DA rollout, tying the group's first new song in about six years to a named outside artist rather than an in-house visual team.
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KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO Sets ASU And BEMA Two-Man Live For February 14
Pairing the two albums on one digital date and then pairing the two artists on one stage puts their shared love theme into a single bill, which is a different proposition from either act carrying a solo show.
PANORA
Ensemble Stars!! MaM Releases Last Page Worldwide on October 24
A single extra track with an MV and a full distribution rollout shows the Ensemble Stars!! music catalog still moving as a standalone release channel, not only as in-game content.
Nijimen
=LOVE Get an NHK Variety Feature as Rino Sashihara Explains Her Lyrics
A slot on NHK's teen-facing variety show treats =LOVE's songwriting, costume culture, and live photography as a fandom worth explaining to a general audience, which is a step onto public broadcasting turf for a group built on Sashihara's lyrics.
KAI-YOU
Age Factory Named Nara Tourism Ambassadors Ahead of Sold-Out Budokan Show
A hometown band carrying the city's tourism brief in the same month it sells out Budokan puts Nara's local music scene on two stages at once, civic promotion and a national venue.
KAI-YOU
&TEAM Cafe THE WOLF BUTLERS Sets Four Venues Across Tokyo, Osaka, and Aichi
The four-location, staggered run shows LTR is stretching the collaboration cafe model across a full winter season, with an advance reservation fee and venue-differentiated menus carrying the cost of a long multi-city schedule.
ASCII.jp
Mellow 2nd LIVE Full Version Heads To YouTube On October 23
The release puts a free-admission, multi-genre bill from a small Saitama producer on YouTube in full, including a BOØWY cover set played in the same Shibuya room where BOØWY held a 1982 one-man live.
ASCII.jp
Joe Hisaishi Joins LA Philharmonic as Composer-in-Residence
Hisaishi's concert work has mostly been the touring kind that fills halls for a night; a five-year residency attaches his name to an American orchestra's own programs, recordings and community projects, and the orchestra is the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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