|5/26| Tsubaki Factory's 2nd album "2nd STEP"

[Amped]

Announced on their Youtube live stream today, Tsubaki Factory is releasing their 2nd album titled "2nd STEP"

~ The Album will contain a total of 15 songs, including 6 single songs from the 5th single to the latest single, 3 additional tracks, and 6 brand new songs.

~ The First Press Limited Edition A comes with a collection of MV clips of all versions of the single songs from the 5th single onwards, a Blu-ray containing the making of the album jacket shooting, and a beautiful full A4 sized 48-page Photobook!

~ The Limited First Edition B comes with a DVD titled "Single Release Commemorative Serial Event Drama Collection," which is a collection of skits (a.k.a. Serial event dramas) based on the themes of the songs in the single that were performed at past Serial card release events.

3 Editions :
Limited First Edition A CD+BD+48P Photobook 8,000 yen
Limited First Edition B CD+DVD 5,000
Normal Edition CD 3,000 yen

The forTUNE music events is scheduled to be held over two days in Kanto (June 20th) and Kansai (June 27th).

Their events to celebrate the release of the 2nd album will be held under the circumstances that the "state of emergency" has been lifted nationwide and the standards for holding events in each city have been gradually relaxed.

http://www.helloproject.com/news/13004/

They will also have HMV WithLIVE online release events for the new album
http://www.helloproject.com/event/detail/d2f74ebdec0b5bda0cb45daf2ac2b4c39448e042

As well as early Limited Stand internet signing events scheduled on April 3rd, and April 4th

schedule :
4/3
6pm~ Niinuma, Tanimoto
7:30pm~ Yamagishi, Ono

4/4
6pm~ Kishimoto, Onoda
7:30pm~ Asakura, Akiyama

http://www.helloproject.com/event/detail/66cefd6ccc677abfddca41397f9c8c66324d8a1d
https://limista.jp/projects/1710
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7QGT_v6Si-2-i0f9mbMBQ

Release page
http://www.helloproject.com/release/detail/EPCE-7622/

titles of the 6 new album songs they revealed in the live stream (starting @ 6minutes 30sec.) :

- 愛は今、愛を求めてる (Ai wa Ima, Ai wo Motometeru ; Love is looking for love now)
- 最上級story (Saijoukyuu story ; story of the highest degree)
- だからなんなんだ！(Dakara Nan'nan da! ; So what!) *They said that this sounds like a Morning Musume or BEYOOOOONDS type song to them.
- 足りないもの　埋めてゆく旅 (Tarinaimono Umete Yuku Tabi ; A Journey to Fill What's Missing)
- 光のカーテン (Hikari no Curtain ; Curtain of Light)　
- マサユメ (Masayume ; Dream that comes true)

Tsubaki Factory twitter : At the end of watching this video clip, they have a happy announcement to make #watchitallthewaythrough :
https://twitter.com/tsubakifac_uf/status/1373960145873432584

To clarify, they posted a 2nd tweet. In the video, the happy announcement is that on March 25th at 8:15pm JST, Tsubaki Factory is having a live stream on their official Youtube channel. All members will appear.

tweet

Tsubaki Factory Live stream 3.25.21



- 2nd album announced
- The photoshoot in the twitter video, and the new outfits were big hints.

Riko, Niinuma, Tanimoto, Kishimoto :
- The title of the album is "2nd Step"
- Release date is May 26th.
- Riko says this is the "next step" forward with this title.
- Answering questions in the chat. Fans saying they look forward to the new album. They love the purple in their new outfits.
- Kishimoto says the 1st step was original members, the 2nd step will be new members with the new album as the start
- They reveal all of the new album song titles. They try to describe to everyone what their new songs are like without giving away too many hints (genre, tempo, songs that feel like they are similar other H!P groups, gestures)
- Limited Edition comes with a bonus Blu-ray and includes a new Tsubaki Factory Photobook featuring their jacket photoshoot with these beautiful outfits. The making includes the jacket photoshoot (the one from the twitter video). They reveal the Photobook cover accidently and then it was not accident. They haven't seen the finished photos themselves yet, so they were scrolling through it without trying to show everyone.
- Next, they reveal the release events schedule for their new album.

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Tsubaki Factory
We've decided to release our 2nd album!

The title is
The title is "2nd STEP".
It will be released on May 26th!

It will contain 15 songs, including new songs as well as songs from the 5th to 7th singles.

Limited Edition A includes a Blu-ray disc of music video clips and
a gorgeous 48-page photobook.

Limited Edition B includes a DVD with a re-enactment of the Serial release event drama skits based on the theme of their singles, that was performed at the Serial Events to celebrate the release of the single.

This is a must-have album to get all kinds!

In preparation for the release of the album,
Jacket photo shooting,
Recording of the serial event drama,
Recording of the songs on the album...
We've been working on a lot of things!

All the new songs on the album are great!
We're trying out songs that are more challenging than anything Tsubaki Factory has done before, so please look forward to it!

And as we told you in the live stream.

The songs that will be included in the album,
We'll be performing the songs for the first time at Hina Fes., which will be held at Makuhari Messe on March 27th and 28th~!

https://ameblo.jp/tsubaki-factory/entry-12664520246.html

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[Stereo]

That's a fabulous news ! I'm so happy we allready have another album after Morning Musume one! Can't wait to buy it !

[Amped]

News reports

Yamagishi said about this album, "It's been about two and a half years since our last album, so I think you can feel that many of the members have turned 20 and we have grown up a little. Among the new songs, we are trying our hand at a ballad called "Hikari no Curtain". We haven't had a ballad song before, so I can't wait for everyone to hear it, and it's one of my favorites. The first limited edition A comes with a large visual book as a bonus. We're looking forward to seeing the finished product. We're looking forward to it and hope you'll get it too.

songlist (order unknown) by media news :
- Sankaime no Date Shinwa
- Fuwari, Koi Dokei
- Ishiki Takai Otome no Dilemma
- Dakishimerarete Mitai
- Nineteen no Shinkirou (additional track from 6th single)
- Dansha-ISM
- Ima Nanji?
- My Darling ~Do you love me?~ (additional track from 7th single)
- Koi no UFO Catcher (additional track from 7th single)

new songs

- 愛は今、愛を求めてる (Ai wa Ima, Ai wo Motometeru ; Love is looking for love now)
- 最上級story (Saijoukyuu story ; story of the highest degree)
- だからなんなんだ！(Dakara Nan'nan da! ; So what!) *They said that this sounds like a Morning Musume or BEYOOOOONDS type song to them.
- 足りないもの　埋めてゆく旅 (Tarinaimono Umete Yuku Tabi ; A Journey to Fill What's Missing)
- 光のカーテン (Hikari no Curtain ; Curtain of Light)　
- マサユメ (Masayume ; Dream that comes true)

http://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/98411
https://natalie.mu/music/news/421723
https://www.crank-in.net/news/87814/1
https://www.wws-channel.com/girls2/263981.html
https://popnroll.tv/articles/15849
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2188374/

[koregaboku]

Woah.

The new songs have to have been recorded post-Risa, right?

I wonder if the initial intent was to release this earlier.

I'm actually a little shocked there's a second album!

[Tobo_Junny135]

^there are the main singles shes in but apparently on the album she’s uncredited, so it’s likely the new songs are post-Risa.
I’m excited for this!!! It’s been a while since their first album.
And I LOVE the outfits the girls are wearing, though it’s probably not likely we’ll see them perform in them they are still really pretty. Ami’s outfit especially!!

[Nayoko-Kihara]

I'm hoping they perform in them at Hina Fes. I agree it doesn't seem super likely, but I would love it.

[yumepin]

I'm just so excited for this album! I stayed up for the announcement and wasn't disappointed. It's lovely that we're getting someone as 8-nin Tsubaki. Before new member(s) join or anything

[Amped]

As well as early Limited Stand internet signing events scheduled on April 3rd, and April 4th

schedule :
4/3
6pm~ Niinuma, Tanimoto
7:30pm~ Yamagishi, Ono

4/4
6pm~ Kishimoto, Onoda
7:30pm~ Asakura, Akiyama

http://www.helloproject.com/event/detail/66cefd6ccc677abfddca41397f9c8c66324d8a1d
https://limista.jp/projects/1710
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7QGT_v6Si-2-i0f9mbMBQ

Tsubaki Factory will have more Limited Stand internet signing events scheduled on April 11th, and May 3rd

schedule :
4/11
6pm~ Yamagishi, Niinuma
7:30pm~ Tanimoto, Ono

5/3
6pm~ Kishimoto, Akiyama
7:30pm~ Asakura, Onoda

http://www.helloproject.com/event/detai ... d7961ad9cc

[Amped]

Album Promotion events

Tsubaki Factory new album "2nd STEP" internet signing events with Limited Stand 4.3.21

6pm~ Niinuma, Tanimoto


7:30pm~ Yamagishi, Ono

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new Tsubaki Factory artist profile shots











http://www.helloproject.com/tsubakifactory/profile/


https://twitter.com/tsubakifac_uf

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[Moh]

I'd have been fine with non-white clothes anyway, but the vibrancy of these outfits makes me so happy. I really like Kisora's blazer.
Most of the profile pics make me think of DMV or student ID photos, and then there's Kishimon and Mao.