BiSH, the Japanese idol group nicknamed ‘the punk band without instruments,’ released two albums in July. This included their first greatest hits album FOR LiVE -BiSH BEST-, the proceeds of which were donated to music venues in Japan which the group has performed at to help support them during COVID-19, and their mini album LETTERS.

BiSH announced a collaboration with Call of Duty: Mobile last week, the popular mobile game by Activision Publishing that was released last year which saw one of the biggest launches for a mobile game in video game history. The band released a special live performance in-game yesterday (October 15) called Call of Duty: Mobile × BiSH Special Live -STORY OF DUTY-. It is unconfirmed if this is available for players outside of Japan to watch.

Their set featured a new song written for the game called STORIES OF DUTY with lyrics by band member AiNA THE END as well as MONSTERS, My landscape, and BiSH -Hoshi ga Matataku Yoru ni-. BiSH released a digest video of the performance on their Twitter page, and the band is also featuring in a new TV commercial in Japan from today (October 16).

BiSH released several new artist photos taken on Hashima Island, an abandoned mining facility and World Heritage Site in Nagasaki Prefecture.

BiSH, the Japanese idol group nicknamed ‘the punk band without instruments,’ released two albums in July. This included their first greatest hits album FOR LiVE -BiSH BEST-, the proceeds of which were donated to music venues in Japan which the group has performed at to help support them during COVID-19, and their mini album LETTERS.

BiSH has now announced a collaboration with Call of Duty: Mobile, the popular mobile game by Activision Publishing that was released last year which saw one of the biggest launches for a mobile game in video game history.

A special live performance of a new song written for the game will be shown in-game. Titled Call of Duty: Mobile × BiSH Special Live -STORY OF DUTY-, it will hit Call of Duty: Mobile on October 15, 2020 at 20:00 (JST). It has not been confirmed whether this content is Japan-only, so keep an eye out.

Below are comments from each member of BiSH talking about the collaboration.

Sentochihiro Chicchi

“I first heard about CoD from my dad when I was younger, and the fact that I get to work for it now I’ve become an adult makes me super happy. What’s so fun about this game is the thrill of its FPS aspect, so BiSH are gonna sing their heart out to get that excitement through to everyone.”

AiNA THE END

“I’m so happy to be involved with COD. I wanted to write something that is faithful to the game, so we pictured all the different people, men and women of all ages, playing it when writing the lyrics and choreography. I hope you enjoy it as much as being on the battlefield.”

Momoko Gumi Company

“Seeing soldiers risking their lives in a firefight is shows how it’s sometimes necessary to fight for ourselves or our comrades. And in that it also teaches us how there are things we nay lose, and how may feel pain. BiSH too wants to treasure our comrades and stand up to anything without being afraid.”

Hashiyasume Atsuko

“I still remember the time when I first played CoD. I got completely sucked into the world on the first day and played countless hours. I’m filled with honour that BiSH gets to be involved with the best of games.”

Lingling

“I’m not up to date with games, but even I’d heard of CoD before, so all I could think at first was, ‘Holy crap!’ Our new song is aggressive, which we haven’t done in a little while, and high tension, so it has that excitement and thrill like when you’re playing CoD.”

Ayuni D

“I’ve watched my older brother play CoD, so I blew him away when he found out about this. This new song is extremely cool and captures the world of Call of Duty, BiSH style, so I want people who’ve never heard of us before to listen to it too.”

*Comment translated by MOSHI MOSHI NIPPON

The Virtual Halloween Committee has announced that it will host an online Halloween event inside Virtual Shibuya as a result of the pandemic and to mitigate crowded streets in Shibuya, a place which becomes a sea of people during the spooky holiday season.

The event, titled Virtual Shibuya au 5G Halloween Fes, will begin on October 26 and run up to Halloween Day. It is being promoted with the hashtag #StayVirtual.

Shibuya 5G Entertainment Project launched its new digital platform “Virtual Shibuya” back in May of this year. Officially recognised by Shibuya City, Virtual Shibuya comes in response to the effects of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) which has brought tight restrictions to the economy and people’s way of life. It will enable people to continue enjoying entertainment from the comfort of their homes by participating in a whole host of virtual events and activities. The project aims to deliver content from Shibuya with live performances from artists, art exhibitions, talks, and more. The use of 5G and the latest cutting edge technology will connect the real Shibuya to a virtual space, combining the realms of the digital and real world.

The Halloween event is inviting a host of Japanese artists and comedians to perform inside the virtual space, which itself will be littered with all things Halloween like Jack-o’-lanterns, bats, and more. Users will also be able to dress their avatars in the appropriate clothing in line with the holiday season of scares. All of this aims to deliver the famous Shibuya Halloween experience that the people of Tokyo are so used to.

Virtual Shibuya au Halloween Fes

Virtual Shibuya is evolving and will be updated for the upcoming Halloween event. Users can look forward to a host of music events and talk events during this age of the ‘new normal.’

au 5G Presents Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: Virtual Mini Live

Virtual Shibuya will host its very first virtual live concert to open the Halloween festival. Japanese pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is included in the performance line-up, who will be serving a very special one-night-only Halloween themed show inspired by horror movies. Titled “Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Online Halloween Live 2020 THE FAMILY 10.31,” you can find out more about the concert here.

au 5G Presents BiSH: Virtual Live

Japanese idol group BiSH will also be playing a special Halloween show at the event.

au 5G Presents “Everyone’s 5G” – Comedy Duo Wagyu Perform

Japanese comedy duo Wagyu will perform live using 5G technology which will render them in high-speed, high quality holograms.

The rest of the line-up and more details about the event will be announced in the coming weeks.

Japanese idol group BiSH, also known as “the punk band without instruments,” have revealed the tracklist for their upcoming first ever greatest hits album FOR LiVE – BiSH BEST-. The 27 track album will drop on July 8, 2020.”

The two-disc album will include BiSH’s first ever song they released Spark as well as hits like BiSH -Hoshi ga Matataku Yoru ni-, Orchestra, and Promise the Star and their latest singles KiND PEOPLE and Rhythm.

The album will be released exclusively as First Press Limited Edition copies. It will be sold at CD shops and online music stores in Japan only—there will be no digital release on online music services. The reason for this is that BiSH want people to support their favourite music stores.

All proceeds that Avex and WACK receive from the album will be donated to over 70 music venues which BiSH have performed at in the past.

Back in 2019, BiSH had to cancel their performance in Matsuyama as part of their “NEW HATEFUL KiND TOUR.” They followed up this cancelled show by inviting all people who bought tickets to a free concert entitled “Thank you for KiND PEOPLE FREE LiVE in Matsuyama” which was held on November 9, 2020. BiSH have decided to release their performance of ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE from that show on YouTube.

BiSH / ALL YOU NEES IS LOVE [Thank you for KiND PEOPLE FREE LiVE in Matsuyama] at WstudioRED

The concert was held at WstudioRED in Matsuyama and is the first time the footage has been made available.

Japanese idol group BiSH, also known as “the punk band without instruments,” have announced the release of a mini album, which they are also calling their “3.5th album” to be released from their major label. Titled LETTERS, it will be released on July 22, 2020. The group were originally going to release a new single, but decided to release a mini album of 7 songs instead, which includes some newly-recorded tracks.

Confirmed tracks include TOMORROW which is the opening theme for the TV anime series Kingdom, Buchinuke which is the ending theme for the Japanese drama Super Radical Gag Family, and co which is the main theme for Yoru no Yuenchi Kara no Dasshutsu, an escape game.

BiSH members Sentochihiro Chicchi also posted a video on the group’s official Twitter and YouTube channels to promote the album alongside photos taken by her and a message written to fans by her. You can hear a snippet of one of their new songs LETTERS in the video.

BiSH also announced the release of their first greatest hits album yesterday. Set to drop on July 8, 2020, all proceeds going to over 70 music venues which BiSH have performed at in the past.

Japanese idol group BiSH, also known as “the punk band without instruments,” have announced the release of their first ever greatest hits album FOR LiVE – BiSH BEST-. The 27 track record will drop on July 8, 2020.

The album will be sold at CD shops and online music stores in Japan only—there will be no digital release on online music services. The reason for this is that BiSH want people to support their favourite music stores.

All proceeds that Avex and WACK receive from the album will be donated to over 70 music venues which BiSH have performed at in the past.

WACK music executive Junnosuke Watanabe spoke about this project and how he wanted to do something to support venues and CD shops who have had to close due to COVID-19. The album is being promoted with the hashtag #BiSHベストアルバム大作戦 (“Operation BiSH Greatest Hits Album”).

Details about the album will be announced in the near future.

BiSH have announced that all dates of their 7-date solo tour “BiSH’S GASP!!GOLD!!GHOST!!GALAXY!!GARBAGE!! TOUR,” which was set to begin on Thursday (May 21), as well as their first taiban tour “BiSH’S 5G are MAKiNG LOVE TOUR,” have been cancelled as a result of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

The staff and band considered postponing or altering the tours in some way, but it turned out to be difficult for everything to go to plan. All dates on the tours had told out. Information regarding ticket refunds is to be announced at a later date.

BiSH posted a video of their performance of beautiful sa yesterday on their official YouTube channel. The performance is taken from their show at NHK Hall back on January 23 which was part of their longest tour to date, the “NEW HATEFUL KiND TOUR,” which ran for four months.

BiSH / beautiful sa [NEW HATEFUL KiND TOUR] @ NHK Hall

Below is a comment from BiSH member Lingling

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How are all of our Cleaning Staff* doing? Today, we announce the cancellation of our spring solo tour and two-man tour, which we were looking forward to ourselves too.

We are dying to perform live, so much so that it’s almost become a favourite phrase of ours recently to say, “When can we do it live again?” It’s sad that our schedules and the promises we’ve made which we were excited about are rapidly rolling further into the future, but in all of our tours up to now, at all venues, we leave our footprint by saying, “We’ll see you again! We are BiSH!” We haven’t forgotten that promise. We keep it close. So I am confident the day will come when we will meet again!

It might not change anything for all of our Cleaning Staff, but we have released our live performance of “beautiful sa” from our NHK tour set list. We have received letters from people who have said that this song has helped them. I myself have felt encouraged reading those letters, so we decided in a time like this we would release this happy song in particular in hopes that we can give something back and bring smiles to BiSH, bands, and all of you.

When the day arrives that we can finally perform live for you again, let’s all smile together again like this. I want to toge toge jump through the roof with everyone. Until then, stay safe and healthy. I can’t wait to see you again!!!

ーTranslated from Japanese by MMN

*The BiSH fan base is known as the Seisouin (清掃員) which translates to “cleaning staff” or “garbage collectors”

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The band have also posted the key visual of what was to be their new look for the tour. The clothes, design, and shoot were all done by Kenta Sotobayashi.

Japanese idol group BiSH have just released the music video for their new song TOMORROW which serves as the opening theme for the ongoing TV anime series Kingdom.

Since their 2016 debut, BiSH have been known as “the punk band without instruments,” but in this music video directed by Kentaro Osawa we see the members wielding instruments in a heated performance.

BiSH – “TOMORROW” [OFFiCiAL ViDEO]

The band also unveiled a new artist photo on their official website and Twitter account. TOMORROW was released on digital music services on April 13, 2020 and comes as the first new song from the group since their 6th single KiND PEOPLE/Rhythm last November.

At midnight on April 12, 2020, Japanese “punk band without instruments” BiSH released their new song TOMORROW on a number of streaming services including Apple Music, Spotify, and iTunes. The new song serves as the anime opening theme for the episodes of Kingdom which started broadcasting in April. 

TOMORROW is their latest single since KiND PEOPLE/ Rhythm which was released last year in November. 

BiSH also unveiled a teaser video for TOMORROW on their official Twitter. The video shows all the band members engaging in a hilarious video call from their homes.

#少し意味のある動画 pic.twitter.com/nTLrm2iiST

— BiSHオフィシャル (@BiSHidol) April 12, 2020

Whether you’re a BiSH fan or a Kingdom fan, you just have to check out this song. 

BiSHーthe Japanese punk band with no instrumentsーwill perform the opening theme TOMORROW for the upcoming TV anime series Kingdom which will premiere on NHK General TV on April 5, 2020.

Kingdom is a manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhisa Hara. Serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump since January 2006, it has shipped over 47 million copies and even received a hit live-action film adaptation.

The upcoming third season of the anime series will cover the manga’s Alliance Arc which features what is known for having the biggest fight in Kingdom. A new promotional video was released which features the opening theme song TOMORROW by BiSH.

©Yasuhisa Hara/Shueisha・Kingdom Production Committee

BiSH member Sentochihiro Chicchi said: “We are truly honoured to be responsible for the opening theme for Kingdom, an anime series loved by the world and overflowing with charm. We as a group were energised by the growth of the characters. They are strong and noble, with no friends or allies but with rich personalities. Although the times we and they live in are different, we are warriors who rush forward recklessly in order to survive. The characters are all super cool! BiSH will sing with all we have too. Without fail.”

Details on BiSH’s forthcoming album CARROTS and STiCKS as well its multiple CD covers were released over on the group’s official website. The album is set to drop on July 3.

BiSH have been going all out with the promotion of their new album. The album was given a surprise announcement at the Bakuon Film Festival, a huge advertisement was displayed at Shibuya Station, 2,000 flyers featuring the album artwork as well as copies of their mini albums STiCKS and CARROTS were given out, a tour was announced―the list goes on.

The record’s first disc will feature a total of 14 songs. This includes all the songs from their mini albums STiCKS and CARROTS which are already available to grab via Apple Music.

The second disc will be a compilation of 7 hit songs including PAiNT it BLACK which was the first single from the group to reach No. 1 on Oricon’s Weekly charts, NON TiE-UP which enjoyed a huge release and response, stereo future which has gone down as selling more copies than any other track in BiSH’s discography, Futari Nara which was used as the main theme for season two of the popular anime series 3D Kanojo: Real Girl, and Small Fish, a song written to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Fist of the North Star.

DVD and Blu-ray copies will also include the group’s free live performance at Yokohama Red Break Warehouse last December for 7,000 fans, 7 music videos, and all 16 episodes of their online programme BiSH no Kirekkire JAPAN.

It will also include a 100-page photo book, and limited-edition copies are packaged in a shiny metal box.

There are four different album covers to enjoy which can be viewed over on BiSH’s official website.

The lead song for CARROTS and STiCKS will be released as an independent track in June. For the time being, you can enjoy their mini albums STiCKS and CARROTS.

BiSH will perform their first ever local arena show on September 23 and are to headline Osaka-Jo Hall later this year.

2018 has been a successful year for BiSH, the idol group and “punk band with no instruments,” who topped Oricon’s Weekly Single Charts at No. 1 for the first time with PAiNT it BLACK back in April, performed at huge festivals across Japan, featured in a SoftBank promotional video and much more.

To kick off their 2019, the six-piece group are set to perform the opening theme for the upcoming second season of TV anime series 3D Kanojo: Real Girl which will premiere on January 8, 2019.

BiSH originally performed the ending theme song HiDE the BLUE for season one. They are now set to return to open the new series.

Aina The End, member of BiSH and the lyricist for the new song commented the following: “BiSH doesn’t really sing a lot of love songs, so it feels fresh to sing something like this. 3D Kanojo: Real Girl always has moments that wring your heart. I hope that Futari Nara satisfies that perspective. ‘Sadness and melancholy will at some point become assets of life.’ That’s something I thought about when writing [the lyrics]. I will be happy if you can see only the world of these two [characters].”

The release date for Futari Nara has yet to be announced but you can hear it first when the anime starts.