Entertainment

Nov 23, 2017

"Twintail Day" hashtag (#いいツインテールの日) has been trending on Twitter today. Usually, this happens annually every February 2 (notice the date 2/2) but people seemed to also celebrate this today on November 22 due ...

Are you multilingual? BABYMETAL, ONE OK ROCK and Takeru Satoh’s agency is hunting for new talent internationally

Nov 20, 2017

Amuse, Inc. established in 1978, is one of Japan’s largest entertainment production companies and provides management services for Japan’s top artists and actors. The agency's current roster includes Perfume, O...

Top 100 most addictive Jrock songs as voted by JROCK NEWS readers

Nov 16, 2017

Recently we asked our readers to submit the track they have been most addicted to this year. We've tried to limit the results to only songs which have been released this year, but it didn't stop almost a dozen ...

ONE OK ROCK’s drummer Tomoya is now also a proud father!

Nov 5, 2017

Not even half a day ago, the drummer from ONE OK ROCK Tomoya Kanki announced the birth of his son. Posting an image of his newborn on Instagram, he writes; "☺︎ We are happy to announce the birth of our healthy ...

Satsuki creates stunning jewelry brand “Sacred Traditional Kingdom Melody -S.T.K.M”

Nov 1, 2017

You may recognise the name Satsuki (砂月), former vocalist for RENTRER EN SOI, who moved onto a solo artist career in 2009. His most recent release was an album titled EPOCALIPSE which came out in March 2016, but...

Weather is always great when Yoshiki is presenting the weather on French TV program, Quotidien

Oct 31, 2017

Standing in front of a green-screen, Yoshiki sweetly presented the weather in English on popular French TV program Quotidien. With a few hiccups on pronouncing the city names, he completed the forecast with a l...

ONE OK ROCK’s Ryota is now a proud father to a baby girl!

Oct 22, 2017

A little less than a year ago, bassist Ryota of ONE OK ROCK announced his sudden marriage with Michelle who surprisingly revealed to be Avril Lavigne's sister! The news came as a shock, but the couple seems to ...

Revisiting the impressive clip “GACKT speaks Chinese with Vivian Hsu”

Oct 8, 2017

Entertainment, Videos

Sometimes the internet is a nice place, sometimes it's not. Kind of like a tsundere (cold and hot) character you'll find in anime but on a whole other level. With YouTube recently they've been a bit too much ts...

We tour around L.A.’s Little Tokyo to fool our inner weeb that we’re in the real Tokyo

Zansouki

Oct 3, 2017

A couple of months ago, I visited Los Angeles for some work stuff, and having never visited the city, I asked fellow JROCK NEWS team member Mazohyst_Kyo (Mazo from here on out), who lived near the area, if ther...

Watch as Youtuber visits places BUCK-TICK filmed in 30 years ago

Zansouki

Sep 29, 2017

It's not everyday that a person outside of Japan can say that they are going to go look around and film for spots that a Japanese band filmed in, but when you live in London, a place every rocker goes to at l...

Sawano Hiroyuki joined by SUGIZO at life-size Gundam special ceremony

Sep 28, 2017

Anime, Entertainment

The special ceremony for the life-size Gundam statue earlier this week was met with a few key individuals to celebrate its assembly completion! Sawano Hiroyuki, Tielle, SUGIZO amongst other notable entities too...

MIYAVI wows fans in photoshoot with majestic eagle

Sep 23, 2017

Titled simply on his social media with the description "With you. by @kristianschmidt_", MIYAVI has wowed fans with the sudden appearance of himself posed alongside a giant eagle. With wings spread, the eagle p...

Reita faces existential crisis over new iPhone X

Sep 15, 2017