Coming from the English term Mental Health, this subgenre is often seen as rather controversial overseas due to artists using mental health issues as a shock aspect. The genre is characterized by the use of bright pastel colors combined with taboo mental health topics like self harm, depression and suicidal ideation in the song lyrics which are often presented in a more cute way and in a more positive light.
This is often received as grotesque or morally questionable in the west, but in Japan it’s instead received as a coping mechanism for certain people who experience these issues in their daily life. (This is however not the case for everyone, so the genre is still considered to be a niche within a niche.)
孔雀座 (QJACKTHE) have released their single “MAYDAY//電脳サイコマン” (MAYDAY/Dennou Psychoman) on September 29 already, but since this single is only available at live shows they wanted to highlight it a little better with a short preview video on YouTube, which also contained some (rather
ゼラ (Zera) are about to release their new single, titled “マジュラス” (Majurasa), on November 16, 2022!
Before ゼラ (Zera) the group originally formed as a session band 麺はコシが命 (Menwa Koshi ga Inochi) in 2018, before turning into a time-limited project named “モア” (More) in April
You said it would be awesome if I could do an interview with L from MEME. And yes, I agree. That would be pretty awesome. So I set out to do just that. I asked L if he would be interested in doing an interview, and as you can probably conclude from this article being here now, the answer was a resounding “yes!”.
Tour organizer Kinetic Vibe already announced that the next artist they’d be touring through Europe with was going to be MORRIGAN, but at the time of the announcement they couldn’t publish any dates just yet.
Today they have, and the band is going to visit Italy, Germany, Czech Rebublic,
Starwave Records will release a new omnibus DVD, titled “Starwave Records Vol.4”, to commemorate the 5th anniversary of Starwave Records on September 9, 2015!
This will be the 4th omnibus release of the label since it was founded, and it will feature music videos from 11 different artists