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[teth]

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/e29fe ... 770?page=2

Eri is married to vocal of BUMP OF CHICKEN!

[Amped]

That is awesome. The mystery has been solved!

I love Bump of Chicken and Kamei.

A year ago, Fujiwara Motoo said that he married a "non celebrity woman", and "very important person". He is 10 years old than her. The tabloid says they took a picture of Fujiwara and a girl exiting a taxi together. The girl was wearing a wedding ring on her finger and they revealed it was Kamei. She met Fujiwara after her graduation and became friends. Fujiwara's hospitalization 7 years ago was a turning in their relationship.

Though, I'm not happy a tabloid had to reveal this for them.

[Moh]

Not the kind of headline I was expecting.

[Zunu]

[boinsie]

It's always nice to hear anything about Kamei, and I'm very happy for them.. even though it feels crappy that they were forced to come out when they otherwise obviously wanted to keep it private.
Congrats!!

[Amped]

Murota Mizuki's solo debut single "G.T.B" didn't do so well on the Oricon charts. It was of out of the top 30 / 50 / 100 for daily and weekly. Maybe less than 300 sold. Her label, Universal Music Japan, has to do better.

[Zunu]

It's a shame when talented performers like Murotan can't even get 500 acquaintances and family members to support them out of the gate.I wonder if a bunch of artists like her could set up some kind of mutual support "susu" to buy each other's releases so they at least chart decently in their first week? Although I guess that would get pretty expensive, probably not realistic economically. Oh well.

[koregaboku]

Re: Kamei news
Congrats to her! I'm no particularly surprised given her age and looks. I'm rather more surprised by how well this was kept under wraps. I don't think anyone in UF*/HP would intentionally leak it but slips of the tongue do happen... (mostly thinking around Sayu when she gets into a good narrative though Sayu appears to toe the line well on topics).

Re: Murota
This is surprising to me because it's not like she was a background girl. She was pretty front and center of Angerme for a while. Though I will say, it's unlikely she personally knows 500 people. Her circle is likely very small and a large percentage of it is probably HP.

[Tobo_Junny135]

I feel like maybe there wasn’t much advertisement for her new single, or maybe there was but it wasn’t eye gathering
Its evident when someone earlier on this thread said they forgot that Murotan was releasing a single.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

I barely saw any promo aside from social media stuff. A proper MV on a more accessible platform (YouTube) probably would've helped a tiny bit.

Personally I don't like the main song at all (haven't heard the other), so besides wishing her well I kind of checked out right after listening to the preview.