A deep dive look into Rise Kujikawa and the Japanese Idol Industry, all in Japanese context.
What is the local idol phenomena and how did AKB48 change everything? How do the management companies, aka the Jimusho, manufacture these idols'' personalities and exert complete dominance over their personal lives? All of this and so much more!
I'll also be discussing Kanami and her group from Persona 4 Dancing!
LINKS TO EVERYTHING / SOURCES (compilation), including YT videos:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16B3XJbXHz6axioePC6xqJY6xJ_fwSy-t7IeOLhdy2kY/edit?usp=sharing
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:50 AKB48 Changes Everything (Amateur Idols vs. Artists)
14:21 Difference Between Jpop v Kpop Idols
17:59 Local Idol Phenomena in Japan
21:51 The Jimusho Pt 1 & TV advertising (Rise's Shadow)
36:44 The Jimusho Pt 2 (Gravure, blacklisting, Kitagawa, etc.)
42:15 Rise's Social LInk
49:39 Navigator Rise & "The Fool's Journey"
56:33 Parasocial Relationships + my own story~
1:03:24 The "New Risette" (P4D Insights)
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MUSIC:
Corner of Memories
Your Affection
Pancake on the Way Home From School - Trails of Cold Steel III
Same Time, Same Feeling - P4 Dancing
A Sky Full of Stars
Factory City of Zeiss - Trails in the Sky
True Story - P4 Anime
A Boy (instrumental + pitched down) - G-Dragon
Bad Girl, Good Girl (instrumental + pitched down) - Miss A
Like a Dream Come True ~Reincarnation
Specialist
Heartbeat, Heartbreak
Signs of Love
Blade Game - Trails of Cold Steel
Back to the Dorm - Cold Steel
Revache Co. - Trails From Zero
Long Way
Alley of Silence - Cold Steel III
Reverie
Poem of Everyone's Soul
Lonely Rolling Star - Katamari Damacy
Smile
New Days
Welcome Back! Abend Time - Cold Steel III
Shadow World
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