'Trick or Pop' Halloween themed idols

Halloween is soon! Well, not really, but October is close enough for me to start listening to halloween themed music for the next few months! Today I'd like to talk about the halloween themed idol group Panic Monster !n Wonderland, or PaniMon for short. 

Panic Monster !n Wonderland is, as I mentioned, a halloween themed group. They describe their sound as Trick or Pop, with a variety of sounds from cute to cool! They are under the company KABUKIMONO'DOGs, which has some other cool looking idol groups that I may get into in the future. They debuted on October 31st 2022 and are currently an eight member group. They debuted with 7 members, Melmo (red), Koyori (green), Naru (orange), Yuyuka (yellow), Tane (purple), Nana (blue), and Rika (pink). On January 25th, 2023, Ui (light blue) and Kagura (white) joined. Rika then withdrew on March 22nd due to health issues. A little later on May 17th, Aori (black) joined. On December 12th, Kagura left to spend more time with her family, and that has been the end of the line-up changes! Except that Yuyuka announced that she would be graduating on May 30th of this year, and there is a possibility of a new member(s) joining. 

The video that led me to discovering this fun group was the music video for their song Mash Mallow. Its probably my favorite song by them. It is defiantly a more simple MV, but a cute one nonetheless. I will admit I smiled every time Naru came on screen. She's absolutely adorable and just seems like such a bundle of joy. Aori was pretty cute too, as a matter of fact, all of the members are cute! PaniMon won the visual lottery I suppose. 

Another song I liked was Western Candy. It shows the more cool side to PaniMon. The MV for it was super fun and unserious, the battle scene between a man with a mask that covers his face and the PaniMon members made me laugh. Its genuinely the most fun MV I've watched in a good while. I really liked the cowgirl outfits that were featured in the song. Nana was especially energetic and cute in this MV. So was Naru, but maybe I'm biased because she's my oshi. 

PaniMon is a very underrated group that anyone who liked energetic halloween-y music should check out. Thank you for reading my blog!

The adorable models of Cuugal

I've been a fan of the company Spiral Music for a while. They are a very underrated company that has produced groups such as Harajuku Gakuen, Konyanko Oukoku, and ww. They also have a good amount of solo idols, one being a 9 year old girl named Maikawa Yuno, aka Yunopino. She is also a model for the kids magazine Cuugal, which leads into what I want to write about today. I've recently become obsessed with them. There is a large selection of models to love, and tons of videos to get to know them all. I focus on a few models in general, so lets talk about them!

First, I would like to talk about the solo idol I mentioned earlier, Maikawa Yuno. Yunopino is a former member of Konyanko Oukoku, along with their subunit Neko Punch. She graduated from both on January 14th 2023 and has been active as a solo idol since. Her lives are really cute, and I love how she introduces herself during MC's. She became a Cuugal model last year, although i'm not sure exactly when. I tried to go digging in her twitter to find when she became a model, but ultimately gave up due to the amount of posts that were on there. That doesn't matter much to me anyway, i'm much more interested in her current activities. Yunopino recently celebrated her 9th birthday, and it was extremely adorable! Her birthday dress was so so cute, Spiral Music is always good at giving her adorable dresses! I really like her cute high-pitched voice as well. Seriously, I've watched so many videos and performances of her that I can recognize her and her voice in an instant. I also enjoy her style. She has very good control of her body and models and dances very well. Everything about Yunopino is cute!

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Official Profile

Next, I would like to talk about the twins Miona and Aina, together known as AiMio. They are both 12 years old. They have their own youtube channel, and post many fun vlogs and other things on there! They are also good dancers, and have made many dance covers to various songs, mainly k-pop. I think my favorite was LEAP HIGH, which Kanchan (another model I will talk about later,) was featured as well. Something I've noticed about AiMio is that they often are together with others models rather than just the two by themselves. Although, they do have a good amount of videos with just the twins. I think their personalities are both very cute and fun, their vlogs being easy to watch even if you don't understand the language. The twins are both very pretty as well, what's not to love about AiMio?

Aina profile

Miona profile

AiMio

Next, I would like to talk about the adorable Kanchan, who was featured on the cover of the most recent Cuugal issue! Her full name is Kajihara Kanna and she is 14 years old! I don't know as much about her, she doesn't have a youtube channel or twitter, only TikTok and Instagram, and I unfortunately do not have instagram. As I mentioned when talking about AiMio, she was one of the three dancing in the LEAP HIGH dance cover. She did the best in my opinion! I had to watch it twice to fully see her, but I made sure to zoom in the second. Other than that, I don't really know much about her. So lets move onto the next model!

Kanchan profile

The last model I would like to talk about is Mantani Airi. Airi is 9 years old, turning 10 this year. Airi is such a funny girl, any video she's featured in is a guaranteed to be a fun ride. She was featured in a recent AiMio video, and it was such a great experience watching. I couldn't stop laughing at some of the things she gets up too. Her personality shines the most in her youtube channel. Overall, she's just a blast to watch, such an adorable and funny girl.

Airi Profile

Those were all the models I've decided to write about! When I become more of an educated fan of Cuugal I'll probably write about them more, but for right now I really only focus on these 5 girls. Heres two random fun facts for you; the background for this blog is a Cuugal magazine, and my favorite out of all of them is defiantly Yunopino, which I bet you could've guessed. She is the person who lead me to discovering Cuugal after all. Anyways, thank you for reading my idol (or, I guess idol and model) blog!

Japan culture group Oiran Dochu

 Happy Mother’s Day! As a Mother’s Day post, I’d like to write about something that has zero correlation to Mother’s Day. Why not? Today, I will be talking about the Japan Culture group Oiran Dochu.

Oiran Dochu is a six member group formed on December 26th of last year. The members are Sakuma Yoi (mcolor: yellow), Moai Rizu (mcolor: green), Hiiragi Chikage (mcolor: purple), Chunli Minyong (mcolor: white), Hanami Anna (mcolor: blue), and Akatsuki Miyako (mcolor: red). On April 29th 2024, Anna went on a hiatus to treat a mental illness and is still on a hiatus. They are under the same company as the group Metarium, which I don’t know much about, but they seem cute. Oiran Dochu is relatively new and incredibly underrated. They have a really unique sound, plus their MVs are pretty high quality. Their most recent song, Tawamure ni Hana Sakasenshou, is super fun and energetic. Here’s the MV!

As you can see, it’s a very fun and unique group. As much as I love this song, I actually prefer their darker ones. Their second most recent song, Kagome Uta, is much darker. When I first heard it, the screams caught me off guard. But I love what it added to the song! I believe it was Yoi who was the screamer, but I could be wrong. The song has been on repeat since it came out, but it hasn’t gotten old one bit! 

Another song I like is Hyakka Ryouran. Hyakka Ryouran was the first actual MV Oiran Dochu released, and all the members look absolutely stunning in it! I really like Chikage’s calm voice. Rizu’s range and singing ability is oddly very satisfying to listen to. All of the members have very unique voices, and I hope they become more popular one day! 

All of the members are incredibly talented, so talented that I find it hard to pick an oshi. Seriously, my oshi changes daily, haha. Oiran Dochu deserves so much more fame then what they have right now, so go support them! This is my first post on this blog, thank you for reading!