Entertainment

29 May 2021

Entertainment, Featured

ANIPLUS café is hosting an online meet-and-greet on June 16 titled "BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! X ANIPLUS Online Café". Joining the cheerful event are two voice actresses from the "BanG Dream!" franchise: Rim...

Legends meet as Yoshiki and Gene Simmons of KISS sit down to talk

Ziggy

20 May 2021

Two music legends meet with YOSHIKI inviting Gene Simmons of KISS for a good ol' chin-way in a special live-streamed talk session. Live streaming on May 29, 15:00 JST, exclusive to YOSHIKI CHANNEL and members o...

“Demon Slayer: Mugen Train” tops U.S. box office in second round

G Andrew White

2 May 2021

Anime, Entertainment

In it's second-week since debuting in American cinemas, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train beats Mortal Kombat for the number one spot at the box office. The popular anime barely finished off the competition with 6.4 mi...

GACKT tortures Kiryu in performance contest!

NBT, Rin and Peertje

9 April 2021

Kiryu is not only a popular band but these days, the members are also active as YouTubers! In the recent collaboration video, the guys invited the one and only, the trolliest troll known to mankind, GACKT! U...

Tinuki – The new dating app for JROCKERS

Mazohyst_Kyo

1 April 2021

Lockdowns are settling down and it looks like we are finally pulling through this pandemic. Naturally, we all want to get back out there and meet new like-minded people. But where can you do that as a Jrocker? ...

Kizu joined by MUCC in dream collaboration project “Ichigeki”

26 March 2021

Entertainment, Music Video

Kizu's fourth-anniversary celebration continues with the recent unraveling of project "Ichigeki" (一撃), revealed to be a dream collaboration project that brings vocalist Lime together with six other respectable ...

Get to know nano on a personal level through new YouTube channel!

6 March 2021

The bilingual artist born and raised in New York City, nano, has launched a new YouTube channel "nano Official Channel (tentative name)" that gives fans a chance to know them better! So not only is nano a music...

nano appears on popular anime podcast “Trash Taste”

5 March 2021

nano makes an appearance on the popular anime podcast "Trash Taste" hosted by big YouTube names such as Joey “The Anime Man”, Garnt “Gigguk”, and Connor “CDawgVA”. You might remember Joey from our earlier cover...

Herman Li (DragonForce) invites BAND-MAID to Twitch stream

G Andrew White

23 February 2021

Entertainment, News

BAND-MAID guitarists Miku Kobato and Kanami will be special guests on Twitch with DragonForce's Herman Li this Friday. A few weeks ago, the guitarist and songwriter for British metal band DragonForce made an...

Ryo (girugamesh) adds English subtitles to all studio videos!

8 February 2021

Ryo has added English subtitles to all of his educational studio videos on YouTube. Besides sharing cover songs on YouTube, Ryo, the former girugamesh drummer, has also started to become more active in creat...

I took a vocal lesson with Japan’s first scream coach MAHONE!

Dorian

4 February 2021

Metalheads know it better than anyone: screams and growls require skills. But when self-learning isn’t enough, “Who you gonna call?”, scream specialist MAHONE! His motto? “Anyone can scream”! Today, I will ...

Interview: Day in the life of a Japanese translator

edoh+, afaenia and Dorian

2 February 2021

Entertainment, Interview

Can all the readers who can't speak or read in Japanese fluently put their hands up? If you're here, chances are you're interested in Japanese music and enjoy listening to bands who do not speak your native ton...

Ryo (girugamesh) invites to home studio room tour

NBT and afaenia

1 February 2021