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Massive News Post Update for Idol Underworld AND my Patreons!
🕑 Added 2020-03-03 17:31:47 +0000 UTCHello all of you! I've been kind of quiet lately, but take a look at Idol Underworld now, and you'll see why...
I JUST ADDED SIX BRAND NEW GROUPS! And if that wasn't enough, I also have merchandise added from other groups as well, and lots of restock items, plus some announcements about what is coming up! So buckle in... this is going to be long, but it will be worth your time, I promise... I will break down what's been going on at Idol Underworld. After this post, I'll be posting a more personal reflection of the past few weeks and all of this insanity with Idol Underworld, and much, much more!
Idol underworld product updates:
RESTOCKS:
MERRY BAD END-
New Diamond ain't break down singles for Merry Bad End with brand new bonus cheki taken of the members. The chekis are super recent, so if you order, you have a good chance of getting them. They were taken with my brand new camera! Thank you my fellow idol fans for making that camera happen!
Chihiro rare seitansai birthday shirt... Med/XL added
Honami and Yuina birthday shirt... XL added
XTEEN-
Jinja from Xteen restocked... chekis are ridiculously amazing. She's wearing their new costume and um... yeah....
SAKA-SAMA-
Saka-Sama early days cd restocked
KAI-
Kai vinyl restocked!
2&-
2& cheki restocked
NEW ITEMS -
SAKA-SAMA-
Saka-sama 2nd album Daydream. This is an IU exclusive! Enjoy! Trash Up! was kind enough to send me a whole batch of them!
OKINAWA ELECTRIC GIRL SAYA-
Okinawa Electric Girl Saya CD- 沖縄階段~彩の夢は夜ひらく Added. It's definitely Saya chan doing Saya chan crazy stuff!
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NEW GROUPS-
So, over the past two weeks, I've been in heavy talks with lots of groups. I added Six of them today to Idol Underworld. I have one more that will be added as soon as I get their merchandise (waiting to hear from them). I also have two groups I'm talking to later today, one whose manager is from Okinawa (which means I have to call him today while he hangs in Okinawa... that will be fun!). That Okinawa manager's group... OH MY GOD, if I get them, my heart will SOAR. They are not well known outside of Japan, and not really even here in Japan either, but I FUCKING LOVE THEM! They are really, really incredible live, and musically, their stuff is super interesting. So I hope I get them.
The other group... well, I think it's a done deal, to be honest, but I just need to talk to them about everything. They are self-produced, so you never know. I do hope they'll say yes... they are another group I've wanted to work with, and for a while now. So possibly three more on the horizon on top of the six below.
And speaking of the six...
Please welcome-
NiANiHiL
Diable Voix
Lyric Holic Noir
re:Alice
Baka Shinu
Hissastsu Emomomo7
All of these groups are veterans of the super underground Idol scene... they really live and exist here and play all the time, so if you come to Japan and attend an idol show, there is a good chance you just might see one of the six groups above. Particularly Emomomo... they play A LOT, and their producer and me are working on doing a lot to bring their merchandise to foreign fans. The girls in the group (there are SEVEN of them!) all really want to have foreign fans, since they all told me that up to this point, they don't really have that many, and they are not happy about that. NiANiHiL told me they are getting some foreign interest, but no way to communicate with them, and re:Alice told me they have like no foreign fans at all but want some. Same with Diable Voix... the girl who is the solo idol in the group, Haruka, she's a total sweetheart and super friendly (but goes SO hard during her lives!), but she, too, is pretty distraught about not having too man foreign fans. Lets change that for these groups!
Also, Diable Voix, Lyric Holic Noir, and re:Alice, and NiANiHiL are all part of aLIVE Enter Prise! This is a company that puts out the music and does all the bookings for these groups I just mentioned. I'm now partnering with them to distribute all of their merchandise and promote their idols that fall under their banner! This is kind of what I've been going after since opening IU... working with whole companies and absorbing their entire rosters of Idols... it is more quicker and effective than meeting with one group at a time, like I've been doing. So... I'm very happy to be working with them. Their staff is SUPER nice and kind to me and they really embraced me fast... and all it took was a hello from me when re:Alice played a show with Merry Bad End recently. I talked to re:Alice's manager and we kicked it off right away, and their producer (and manager too) are Visual-Kei guys... they also like idols, so they brought a lot of their influences from V-Kei to these groups. I'm so happy to finally be getting groups that are really dark and moody and ambient and just... heavy and rocking all at the same time. Plus the girls are all very nice and very compelling onstage to watch and listen to... so I couldn't be happier to work with aLIVE Enter Prise!
What's coming up:
I will be getting a REALLY nice item soon from a popular idol here at IU that you all buy quite a bit from... and YOURS TRULY actually helped MAKE THIS ITEM... so I can't wait to get that up for sale here at IU!
Also, Satanic Punish's 6th single, PRAY FOR SATAN, will have a normal version for sale after March 6th. All the pre-orders for the single will go out in the mail along with all orders from this week and the end of last week, probably this coming Monday or Tuesday. It's a lot of pre-orders (thank you everybody!), and I have to take the cheki of the members for the pre-orders, but I'll have it all done by Sunday night. ALSO, regarding the five cheki set that comes along with one of the pre-order versions for PRAY FOR SATAN, as some of you may or may not know, Eirene withdrew from Satanic Punish. I can't tell you how much both me, Morisaki san, and all the members of SP are devastated by this announcement. And it actually WAS something health-related and unfortunately, necessary. Eirene DID try to fight this situation as best she could, but in the end, her health needed to be a priority more than the group, which it should always be the case with these girls. So we all wish her nothing but love and good health, but yeah... I will be replacing her cheki in the set with a group cheki.
Also, the group has already been through so much and it hasn't even started yet (and trust me, you guys don't know the half of it lool). BUT, the four girls are ready to debut. They are truly working their butts off for what's to come, and I think they are going to crush everything and everyone in their path when they hit that stage finally.
SO, please support them! Pick up that new single if you haven't yet! It would mean a lot to the members and to me and Morisaki. It's been a long trip already for them and myself!
Also, I did an all day photoshoot with an idol on Friday... it was TRULY one of the best experiences I've had so far in the Idol World. And I think the book is going to be one of the best things I've ever done in my life. I can't wait to announce this officially, but certain timing needs to happen for that come about. There will be lots for the photobook too.
And if that wasn't enough, I am working on ANOTHER photobook that will have me going possibly overseas to do some shooting. That should be really fun! I've always wanted to do something like that, ever since the days when I would actually buy the AKB48 photobooks and they would always be shot at some foreign country location and I thought always to myself... "gee, how glammy and cool!" And now... I am making that happen. Check another off the dreams really do happen list!
SHIPMENT INFO:
As I said, all pre-orders for Pray for Satan will be mailed next week, after the debut. I am getting the cds from Morisaki san tonight or tomorrow, I think. I'll take the cheki of the members this weekend. Then I'll pack the orders. I just did another shipment of orders today, and orders that are super recent I'll lump into the pre-order batch going out next week.
Having said that...
CHEKI WIPE OUT!
Well, this one is going to come as no surprise, but can we please welcome the new groups with some wipeouts! Find some of the girls you like in the groups and really give them a look! I'll be talking more personally about a lot of the girls in my next Patreon post, which I'll be posting right after this, but yeah... please wipe a member or two or three out (Can somebody wipe out Inari's cheki from re:Alice? I want to take more pictures of her! I love that girl so much! Or ALL Of the Emomomo7 members? They are truly batshit nuts, every single one of them! Wait until you hear my story about Yui, the yellow member! That's in my next patreon post!).
And of course, ANY wipeouts from ANY of the new groups, and I'll throw in a bonus item with your order. It might be something old school from the major world, like AKB, or it could be something like Cy8er, or who knows....
Somebody DID give me a RAY CD recently, one of their oshis, and you know, RAY is just amaaazing (but sadly, a group that I cannot seem to get to commit to Idol Underworld no matter how much I see them or try... please message them and tell them to TALK TO ME!). Anyway, hope you guys will give a very warm welcome to all of the groups at Idol Underworld now!
And last,
PATREON UPDATE:
So, of course, all of you will be getting your random chekis this month in about a few weeks. BUT, as per my new tier post at the 10/11 dollar range, you guys can send me some questions! So please send them to me by this weekend. I'll make an audio recording and send you the link to listen to it! I can't wait for your questions! You can ask me ANYTHING about idols (as long as it isn't asking for personal information about the idols, of course), my life here in Japan, questions about idols in general, my upcoming documentary, and whatever you feel like asking! Hope you guys actually ask me stuff!
And that's it for now. Thanks guys for supporting Idol Underworld! Be sure to shout out to these groups on Twitter and thank them for joining Idol Underworld, and better yet... buy their stuff at IU too!
love y'all!
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Comments
I already said it on Twitter, but congrats on the new groups! I wish I had the money now to spend it on everything, but I'm saving for a trip so I can't really splurge at the moment. But I'm so tempted to get that Lyric Holic Noir CD I don't own. Anyway, have a good one!
