Last Idol - Season 4 Begins: Full Scale Variety, "Last Idol, Yoroshiku!"

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Chou Cream Rockets - Souzoujou no Fruits (MV Short Ver.)

[Nayoko-Kihara]

BIG (SOFT) REVEAL: Another new unit, Love Cocchi, first post updated!

Members:
Yamamoto Airi
Nakamura Shuri
Oomori Rio
Nishimura Honoka
Ishikawa Natsumi



Episode 19 (Dailymotion skips a lot, bilibili works well)
http://www.bilibili.com/video/av17350584/
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6bs3qy
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6bs4oa
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6bsf4q
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6bsd2u

Summary

Spoiler: show

- Episode starts with a re-introduction of the final challenger.
- The final challenger is Yamamoto Airi (山本愛梨). She was previously a member of the idol group Gintama SEVEN (銀玉SEVEN) (disbanded), and trained at Actors School Hiroshima (ASH).
https://twitter.com/Airi_11081223

- Yamamoto nominated Oishi Natsumi, position #3, as her battle partner at the end of episode 18. This episode picks up with their comments pre-battle. Yamamoto wants to show off her dance.
- Yamamoto performs "Iiwake Maybe" (言い訳Maybe) by AKB48.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB48

- Oishi performs "Omatsuri Mambo" (お祭りマンボ) by Misora Hibari (美空ひばり). It's from the 1950s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibari_Misora

- Controversial, hated by fans; Yoshida Gou is called on to announce the winner of the battle.
- Yoshida announces that Oishi Natsumi is the winner. She will keep her position. She will be part of the final debut lineup of Last Idol.
- The girls give their comments on the results, and Yoshida explains his reasoning.
- The major debut lineup of Last Idol is:
1. Abe Nanami
2. Yoshizaki Aya
3. Oishi Natsumi
4. Yasuda Airi
5. Nagatsuki Midori
6. Suzuki Haruka
7. Koga Yako
- Each member comments on the results and impending debut. Last Idol will release it's major debut single on December 20, 2017.
- Last Idol performs the full version of their debut song "Bandwagon" with the final lineup. The 2nd Unit groups (Good Tears, Chou Cream Rockets, Someday Somewhere) are in the audience.
- SOFT REVEAL: Last Idol Famil reveals a fourth 2nd Unit (fifth overall group) in the end credits of the show. The group is called Love Cocchi, their debut song is titled "Shitsuren Kanpai" (失恋乾杯; Broken Heart Toast). The group consists of the following members:
Yamamoto Airi
Nakamura Shuri
Oomori Rio
Nishimura Honoka
Ishikawa Natsumi

Personal thoughts

Spoiler: show

- Yamamoto isn't bad. Her dancing is energetic, her singing is stable.
- However.. Oishi's song choice was more interesting, her singing is also stable. I think
I liked her more this time.
- I think there's another episode next week? Seems to be that way based on a blog I found/some Twitter posts.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Someday Somewhere - Again & Again (MV Short Ver.)


Covers for debut Last Idol single "Bandwagon".

LE A

LE B

LE C

LE D

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Love Cocchi - Shitsuren Kanpai (MV Short Ver.)


Last Idol - Bangwagon MV


I expected more out of the Last Idol video since they had a famous director on board.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Pictures from the single release event. More at the link. They used a cardboard cutout of Midori for Chou Cream Rockets when the groups were posing together, while she dressed and posed with Last Idol.


https://natalie.mu/music/gallery/news/261819/835107

Samples for the photocards that come in the singles. There are 78 in total, 3 for each member between the five groups.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

A Last Idol Family promo event was livestreamed.

[Denki]

Last Idol Season 2 will start on January 13th.
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2102947/full/

From Stage48:

The theme will be a contest between the units, the winner will get the main song/mv for the second single. The plot twist, each unit will be managed by a different producer.

Producers for the upcoming season: Akimoto Yasushu, Oda Tetsurou, Komuro Tetsuya, Sashihara Rino, Tsunku

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Episode 20 (end of season 1)

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6c5llv
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6c56dx
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6c5fln

Summary

Spoiler: show

- Episode opens with footage from episode 19 after the group was finalized, and a preview for this episode.
- Footage from December 19, 2017, the Last Idol debut event at Ikebukuro Sunshine.
- The MC from the show and a selection of judges from across the panel were present, including the controversial Yoshida Gou.
- Footage of the Last Idol Family appearing on stage from newest to most senior established group:
-- Love Cocchi
-- Someday Somewhere
-- Chou Cream Rockets
-- Good Tears
-- Last Idol
- Discussion, comments.
- Short clips of each group performing their respective debut song.
- Short footage from the photoshoot for Last Idol's "Bandwagon" CD jackets with Ninagawa Mika, the photographer that worked on AKB48's "Heavy Rotation".
- Short footage from Last Idol's "Bandwagon" music video filming with Yukihiko Tsutsumi, the director that worked on the music video for AKB48's "Flying Get" & popular films and dramas.
- Part of the final music video is shown.
- Quick snippets of footage from the filming of three of the 2nd Unit music videos (all except Love Cocchi).
- First introductions of the Love Cocchi members using footage from their battles, followed by a preview of their music video.
- Footage of Last Idol's performance of "Bandwagon" at the Ikebukuro Sunshine event.
- Comments from the members post-performance.
- A surprise announcement at the event; a Zepp Tokyo hall live on February 14, 2018.
- REVEAL: Last Idol Season 2, to begin airing on January 13, 2018. Five different producers will be involved in the 2nd season.
- Comments from the different producers that will work on season 2:
-- Komuro Tetsuya (TM Network, TRF, globe, Amuro Namie, others)
-- Tsunku (Sharan Q, Morning Musume, Hello! Project, Nice Girl Project!, others)
-- Sashihara Rino (AKB48 and HKT48 member, producer of idol group =LOVE)
-- Oda Tetsuro (Zard, Aikawa Nanase, others)
-- Akimoto Yasushi (Onyanko Club, AKB48)

-- The video cuts off abruptly after that, and I'm not looking up another one just to have to look at Aki again for his comments.

Personal thoughts

Spoiler: show

- Expected episode.
- I'm disappointed in Tsunku, but at least I have some kind of reason to care beyond keeping the thread informative and pretty.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

I guess I'm going to try and follow this again since Tsunku is involved and I want to keep the thread up to date so information will be accesible if it's ever needed in the future.

I've spoilered the larger description and audition information for S1 in the first post. The Battles and Fallen Idols sections from S1 will probably be moved into the spoiler after the first episode of S2 airs this weekend. That way I get a chance to see which producer is stuck with which group and how they're going to handle weekly battles, then I can figure out the most simple and informative way to keep track of them.

[Denki]

Assigned Teams:

Spoiler: show

Last Idol - Komuro Tetsuya
Good Tears - Oda Tetsuro
Chou Cream Rockets - Akimoto Yasushi
Someday Somewhere - Sashihara Rino
Love Cocchi - Tsunku