A Stroll Through The Band's Albums
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Make Believe Mailer #129: "Turning Up"
Five years since the musical end of Heisei...and beginning of Reiwa
Make Believe Mailer #137: Virtual Possibilities
Hoshimachi Suisei, VOLTCATION, Tsukino Mito And More From VTuber Music World
Make Believe Mailer #127: Perfume (2014)
Allow A Little Indulgence For A Pivotal Moment In My Career
Make Believe Mailer #140: Band Wagon
The First Solo Album From A Prolific Guitarist...Or The Secret Last Album From A Vital Band???
Make Believe Mailer #134: Fun Japan
A Year Where Government Involvement Really Impacts Music
Make Believe Mailer #123: Jock Rock
The Action Isn't Just On The Diamond!
Make Believe Mailer #141: AI Scream!
"YAJU&U," AI Music And Mass Meme-ry
Make Believe Mailer #161: Guilty Parties
Gesu no Kiwami Otome, "Ryoseibai" And Lost Paths
Make Believe Mailer #132: White Girl
Winter Has Arrived
Make Believe Mailer #121: Reol 2015 Interview
Hints Of Where J-pop Would Go
Make Believe Mailer #122: Promotion And Catharsis
"Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night" And "Girls Band Cry"
Make Believe Mailer #126: What Was FAKY?
The Group's Role In Modern J-pop History
Make Believe Mailer #138: Butter Sugar Cream
A Decade Of Kawaii Future Bass...And The Final Days Of Japan's 21st Century Cute Phase
Make Believe Mailer #162: chelmico Transcript 2017
My first interview with the duo from almost a decade ago
Make Believe Mailer #133: Make Believe Melodies' 100 Favorite Japanese Albums Of 2024
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The Actor, Who Died Last Week, Found Himself Connected To Many Pop Institutions
Make Believe Mailer #135: BABYMETAL Interviews (MTV 81)
Early Chats With A J-pop Pioneer On The Global Stage
Make Believe Mailer #163: Virtual World Is Mine
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, Internet Culture And Vocaloid
Make Believe Mailer #125: Bandcamp Friday Special September 2024
The "heavy Vocaloid" edition
Looking Back at Look Back
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A Personal Look Back at Matsumoto Leiji
The news of Matsumoto Leiji’s death shocked me. While the passing of an 85-year-old shouldn’t be too surprising, it still makes me contemplate so many things. The number…
Make Believe Bonus: Billyrrom At Zepp DiverCity
A Time When A Record Scratch Really Does Indicate A Surprise
Make Believe Mailer #131: An Assortment Of Thoughts On NewJeans In Japan
Featuring Summer Sonic, The Powerpuff Girls, And "Plastic Love"
Make Believe Bonus: TWICE Treats At Family Mart
SELL THE SOCKS IN BIGGER SIZES!
Make Believe Bonus: Retroriron At EX Theater Roppongi
"Hot Dog Classic"
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Somehow, my second time seeing Hiromi Go perform after a baseball game
Make Believe Bonus: Technique At Fourth Floor II
Underground Nostalgia
A Look Back At Disney’s “Atlantis: The Lost Empire”
Disney’s 41st animated feature, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, was born at a Mexican restaurant. During lunch in 1996, it was there that producer Don Hahn and directors Kirk…
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A Thrill To End The Year
Make Believe Bonus: Utada Hikaru At Yoyogi National Gymnasium
What Makes Utada Utada
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Make Believe Mailer #136: A Definitive Ranking Of The Yuming Songs Featured In "Watashi Wo Ski Ni Tsuretette!"
The Sound, Sights And Skis Of The Bubble Era
Employees at Seven Seas Look to Make Waves
Krystallina takes a look at something potentially historic in the manga/light novel industry space as Seven Seas workers aim to unionize.
A Thankless Passion: Look Back
Why is it that we create art? Certainly not for the adulation of the crowd; for beyond the theoretically accommodating audience of your close family and friends, there…
A LOOK BACK ON 2024
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Look Back
Well, we made it through another year. And, in a bit less than two months, Animétudes will celebrate its second anniversary. So, as I did last year, I…
Make Believe Mailer #124: Tuned In (Music Magazine's Best 100 J-pop Songs Of The 2010s)
A Weird Decade, For The Better
medorē #28 – A Look Back at My First J-Music Playlist
featuring Ohashi Trio, Suchmos, WANIMA (and more!)
Year in Review: A Look Back at 2024 on Blerdy Otome
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I Broke A Glass Here Accidentally So I'll Probably Never Go Back...But You Should!
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