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Make Believe Bonus: Shibuya / Shinjuku Halloween Weekend 2024
Kabukicho Is Always Kind Of A Zombie Wasteland


Make Believe Bonus: Technique At Fourth Floor II
Underground Nostalgia


Make Believe Bonus: Hiromi Go At Belluna Dome
Somehow, my second time seeing Hiromi Go perform after a baseball game


Make Believe Bonus: TWICE Treats At Family Mart
SELL THE SOCKS IN BIGGER SIZES!


Make Believe Bonus: Tokyo Swindlers
The Show And The Soundtrack


Make Believe Bonus: The Church
I Broke A Glass Here Accidentally So I'll Probably Never Go Back...But You Should!


Make Believe Bonus: "Valentine's Radio"
A Few Variations On A Valentine's Favorite


Make Believe Bonus: Utada Hikaru At Yoyogi National Gymnasium
What Makes Utada Utada


Make Believe Bonus: PAS TASTA At Spotify O-EAST
A Thrill To End The Year


Make Believe Bonus: Shibuya's Last Saturday
Chaos In Front Of The Family Mart


Make Believe Bonus: Tower Records Shinjuku
From Experiences To Tourism


Make Believe Bonus: K-Arena Yokohama
A New Landmark For Live Music


Make Believe Bonus: Camp Foster Festival
CeeLo Green...Is The War Machine


Make Believe Bonus: Ramen Jazzy Beats
Reckoning With Nakameguro


Make Believe Bonus: Love And Berry
Perfect Young Ladies


Make Believe Bonus: Tokyo Garden Theater
Come For Malls, Stay For Emotionally Raw Encores


Make Believe Bonus: NHK Broadcast Center
Watching The Kohaku Announcement Spectacle In Person


Make Believe Bonus: Osaka Record Store Guide
A Stroll Down My Old Life (And Many Places You Should Visit Now)


Make Believe Bonus: Hololive Super Expo 2025
Screaming Screaming Screaming


Make Believe Bonus: 2015 Live Report Jamboree
Pulling Some Dispatches From A Decade Ago Out Of The Digital Ether


Make Believe Bonus: "Ghibli Style" AI (Newspicks)
You Wanted Less Control, Right?




Make Believe Bonus: SCANDAL Interview (MTV Iggy 2015)
Journalism Can Be A Challenge!


Make Believe Bonus: AprilBlue, UTERO, Lipstick And Blurred City Lights At Koenji High
Shoegazin' In The New Year


Make Believe Bonus: Five Extra Japanese Releases Of 2024
Not Quite Ready To Let Go Of Last Year


Make Believe Bonus: A Night Out, In One Hour
Extended Flo Rida Remix...Please, I Have A Family
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Make Believe Bonus: [Alexandros] From Fuji Rock Festival 2015
I...Don't Do Many Interviews At The Event Anymore


Make Believe Bonus: Racing Into The Bite Part 2
Eating The YOASOBI Curry I Found At A Bookstore


Make Believe Bonus "Kimi No Iro" ("The Colors Within")
Or, How I Was Coaxed To Finally Check Out "K-On!"
Auto-tagged The Colors Within


Make Believe Bonus: Japanese Pop Culture Report From An American Mall
Surely T-Shirt Stalls Next To A Wetzel's Pretzels Offers Deep Insight


Make Believe Mailer #130: A Look Back At mitsume
A Stroll Through The Band's Albums
Auto-tagged LOOK BACK


Make Believe Bonus: Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
Featuring A Review Of The Hatsune Miku Churro
Auto-tagged Colorful


Make Believe Bonus: A Ranking Of All Zepp Venues In The Tokyo Area
You Aren't Getting Out Of This One Unscathed, Zepp Haneda


Make Believe Bonus: Sauna Sounds Volume 2: Matsumoto-yu, Rooftop, Asagaya Onsen Tentokusen
The Perfect Season To Start Zoning Out In


Make Believe Bonus: 10 Things To Watch From Japanese Pop Culture In 2025 (NewsPicks)
In: Physical Media, Indie, Escapism


Make Believe Mailer #133: Make Believe Melodies' 100 Favorite Japanese Albums Of 2024
(More Than 100, But Ehhhhh All Good)


Make Believe Mailer #134: Fun Japan
A Year Where Government Involvement Really Impacts Music


Make Believe Mailer #129: "Turning Up"
Five years since the musical end of Heisei...and beginning of Reiwa


Make Believe Mailer #127: Perfume (2014)
Allow A Little Indulgence For A Pivotal Moment In My Career


Make Believe Mailer #137: Virtual Possibilities
Hoshimachi Suisei, VOLTCATION, Tsukino Mito And More From VTuber Music World


Make Believe Mailer #132: White Girl
Winter Has Arrived


Make Believe Mailer #123: Jock Rock
The Action Isn't Just On The Diamond!


Make Believe Melodies For February 18, 2025
Lots Of Favorites, A J-pop Highlight And Two Viral Cuts (For Very Different Reasons)


Make Believe Melodies For February 24, 2025
Goofy With A Heart Of Gold


Make Believe Melodies For January 27, 2025
Blame The British For The One Song Title


Make Believe Melodies For November 4, 2024
Movement For The Moment


Make Believe Melodies For July 29, 2024
Right After Fuji Rock, So Apologize For Exhaustion / Briefness


Make Believe Mailer #138: Butter Sugar Cream
A Decade Of Kawaii Future Bass...And The Final Days Of Japan's 21st Century Cute Phase