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Top 25 anime opening and ending songs 2020

Dec 24, 2020

This year hasn't been too stable for the anime industry with the COVID-19 pandemic taking place, causing massive delays and uncertainties for many of the studios. If you like the music we featured on this list,...

The decade of Jrock girl bands

G Andrew White

Dec 29, 2019

Entertainment

In the decade of 2010, there has been a noticeable "girls band boom" where Japanese female musicians have stepped onto the international stage to rock as hard as the boys do. This fascinating phenomenon of musi...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2019

NBT

Dec 26, 2019

Entertainment

With our end-of-the-year artist ranking, we've always tried to stay somewhat objective in which bands we include. However, this year we decided to reach out to you, the people reading this right now! We asked y...

The rise of kawaii metal this decade

G Andrew White

Dec 25, 2019

Entertainment

This decade of Jrock cannot come to a close without covering its most unique creation. Which is to take the cuteness of a Japanese idol group and back them with a heavy metal band. An idea so crazy that it shou...

Top 25 anime opening and ending songs 2019

NBT

Dec 23, 2019

Anime, Entertainment, Music Video

Considering how hard it is to narrow down the greatest anime songs (anison) every year, we decided to expand this year's list from 20 to 25 instead! It's been an amazing year of anime so to our best of abilitie...

Top 20 anime opening and ending songs 2018

NBT

Dec 31, 2018

Entertainment

Just like last year, it was incredibly hard to narrow down the best anime opening and ending songs of the year. This time around, we wanted to include a broader spectrum in terms of genre, while of course selec...

Most influential Jrockers of 2018

Ziggy

Dec 29, 2018

Entertainment

Each artist has played their part in influencing something or someone, we collected those who we believe made a huge difference for Jrock this year. Amongst these artists, there are those who have changed world...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese acts of 2018

NBT

Dec 17, 2018

Entertainment

It is the time of the year where we once again take a look at all the great music contributions. This time around we have done it slightly differently. Instead of solely using sales numbers to determine the ord...

Top 3 best mobile rhythm games on Android/iOS

NBT

May 29, 2018

Doujin, Entertainment, Game

Without me telling you this, we all know there is a bunch of Japanese music that goes undiscovered regardless of how exceptional the music may be. So I came up with the idea of sharing my favorite rhythm games ...

Most influential Jrockers of 2017

edoh+

Dec 29, 2017

Entertainment

We've curated a shortlist of the most influential Jrockers and bands of 2017 to celebrate the work they have done in in this year. It was incredibly difficult to condense it into a small list, but we believe th...

Top 20 anime opening and ending songs 2017

NBT

Dec 24, 2017

Anime, Doujin, Music Video

There was a huge amount of superb anime music to choose from this year! Although it was really hard to narrow it down to a somewhat small list, we still think we did a good job getting the top 20 best Jrock ani...

We list the top 6 new bands 2017 saw emerge

Zansouki

Dec 19, 2017

Entertainment

The year 2017 is about to end, and it's time we look back and see what it has given us -- in terms of jrock, of course! We always welcome new music into our libraries, and because we you you guys do to, we woul...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese acts of 2017

NBT

Dec 4, 2017

Entertainment

The year of 2017 is no exception when it comes to our tradition of looking back on all the greatest visual kei and Japanese acts of the year! What we have for you today are two lists compiling the best acts we ...

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

edoh+

Nov 16, 2017

Entertainment

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 ...

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