IRyS makes a return to hologra:
Over the week, Subaru's album reached #1 on Recochoku (JP music service) and Billboard Japan's downloaded album list:
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She mentioned in a members stream a while ago that if we see something that could hint at a sololive, she really hopes that we buy it. I'm certain she was referring to this album, so it's a nice sign to see it doing this well. Not too bad for someone that doesn't consider herself an artist.
If I may recommend a song besides Hoshi Akari, she did a banger song for Oozora Police, featuring Bae doing a godlike rap and Marine, Fubuki and Noel yelling for no reason:
But give the whole album a listen! It's full of cheerful, heartfelt bangers and it'll move her one step closer to her sololive.
She also talked about Shion during her watchalong stream and her morning stream:
- Subaru's known about Shion's decision for about 3 months or so.
- Rather than sad, she was more so genuinely concerned about Shion's health and wanted her to get a ton of rest.
- Ultimately, she has to go on her own road so Subaru wants to support her as her friend and her comrade.
- They've been talking a lot behind the scenes, including making plans to going fishing together.
- They were both kinda sad about the 6th Fes split. Shion was on Stage 2 while Subaru and the other Gen 2 girls are on Stage 3.
- But she decided she wanted to cheer her on as much as she could. (And she did so yesterday)
- She hoped for Shion's final Fes to be a wonderful, happy memory and that Shion's fans could enjoy themselves to the fullest.
- While working on her 6th anniversary live, Subaru realized that while she was doing it for us, she was also doing it for Shion.
- Everything Subaru wanted to say to Shion was packed into her last performance: "A future full of blessing for me and you."
- Subaru came up with this mid-stream but on Shion's graduation day, she plans to give her the Exodia cards. Like what Yugi did to Jaden in the first episode of GX.
- She almost has the complete set so she's gonna put them into a bouquet and give it to Shion.
- She's hoping for Shion to smile until the end, so she wants to make her laugh and go "what the hell" with this
The only thing I can say is that I'm so proud of her and how much better she's handling this graduation![]()
I notice that at least for talents living in oversea, you don't have to travel to Japan to take part in HoloFes. I don't know how they do it (especially for group songs), but somehow they can. Last year Fauna didn't travel for 5th Fes and BD, and it seems like Shiori and Gura aren't currently in Japan either. The only act they won't be able to do is the MC section I believe.
Yeah, any ~4 day break within several months before Fes could have been a covert trip to Japan for recording.I think they have to go to JP to the studio some time before the show, at least to record their singing and dancing parts. I think only the MC portions are live during Fes though, so they don't have to be in JP for Fes directly unless they are a part of doing an MC live talk. At least that is always the way I understood it to be.
Animators are fast, fes just ended..