Volume Six: Canons and Pantheons | Serial: SweetS TBT

• Profile

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• 10.Apr || Profile
• Black, White, and Gray || Kimitsu

• Probably knowing that the mixing of genders in one idol group would lead to speculations of relationships within the group, they took the only singing female (Uno Misako, perhaps better known as the girl raped to death under the covers by the Grudge ghost) and the popular frontman (Nishijima Takahiro, known in 52 states and various outlying countries as “Nissy”) and had them sing a duet on the group’s debut album.

  Kimitsu considers the Takauno pairing in AAA and why some fans are so attached to the concept.

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  About Kimitsu: Kimitsu is a college student and blogger living in the state of denial. You may know it as New York. When not writing for minnaSTAR, she can be found avoiding other obligations through gaming or singing.

• Idol Theory

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• 10.Apr || Idol Theory
• No Boys Allowed || pengie

• Think about it: when is the last time you watched a Morning Musume, Berryz Koubou, C-ute, AKB48, or Perfume video with a male in it? (Don’t answer that yet.) Stretching it even further, out to the less mainstream idol groups, most of which have ceased to exist - when did a male ever enter a PV for, say, Whiteberry? The answer isn’t “never,” but “almost never,” which is close enough.

  pengie considers where the boys aren’t in the no man’s land of idol promotional videos.

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  About pengie: pengie is a writer, student, and passionate lover of jpop. She enjoys driving slightly over the speed limit with indie rock blaring out her car windows, and is always up for a good Tanaka Reina joke.

• Essay

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• 10.Apr || Essay
• Muse-ume || Vee

• Art and creation existed before the muses, but they were instrumental in aiding its creation by mankind. Such is the way of Morning Musume. If we treat Tsunku as Zeus and Heike Michiyo as Mnemosyne, the offspring of their shared time would be Morning Musume.

  Vee indulges in some striking comparative mythology.

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  About Vee: Vee is a novelist and J-Pop blogger living in Florida. She dedicates most of her free time to cosplay and singing, between lazy jags.

• Idol Theory

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• 10.Apr || Idol Theory
• Notes on a Wota Canon || Ray Mescallado

• I’d long mused: Can a canon be made for Japanese idols and their music? And, more relevant to my own experiences, can a canon be made by the overseas wota community? I haven’t come to any final conclusions, but some thoughts I’ve had point not only to how our community is developing, but also highlights just how different we have to be from our domestic counterparts.

  Ray rambles on and on about something or other.

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  About Ray Mescallado: Ray started blogging with Cult of Pop, then moved on to American Wota before creating this site. He is also the founder and owner of Intl Wota and Wotatalk.

• Meta

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• 10.Apr || Meta
• Volume Six Poll

• You’ve read the articles.

  Now tell us what you think!

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  What article did you most enjoy in Volume Six?

  • Muse-ume by Vee
  • No Boys Allowed by pengie
  • Black, White, and Gray by Kimitsu
  • Notes on a Wota Canon by Ray

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• Meta

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• 11.Apr || Meta
• Write For Pleasure Principled! || Ray Mescallado

• As we prepare to launch long-form writing projects for Pleasure Principled, the schedule for P2’s themed volumes is going monthly instead of biweekly. There will be more articles per volume - six to eight, most likely - and we’ll also now allow open submissions to each volume. That means you can make a little money (very little, admittedly) writing about what you love.

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  About Ray Mescallado: Ray started blogging with Cult of Pop, then moved on to American Wota before creating this site. He is also the founder and owner of Intl Wota and Wotatalk.