Your Homicidols Weekender #483 Banner Image: Astrain. This was a great week for new releases but we did get some disappointing news on the oshiloss front. Let's start with the good stuff:

Your Homicidols Weekender #482 Banner image: PIGGS. Happy Valentine's Day!! Go buy a box of chocolates for your oshi and then eat them yourself since they don't accept edible gifts from wota. While enjoying your bons bons, we got a lot to go over this week, so let's dive in:

Let’s Catch Up With REBEL REBEL (again) Today we, once again, turn our site over to BobIsRandom, denizen of the Homicidols Discord Server and REBEL REBEL’s number one overseas fan. For any other readers out there who have the urge to put into writing their thoughts and feelings about an idol unit,…

Your Homicidols Weekender #481 Banner image: KAQRIYOTERROR. It was an odd week in alternative idol. Very few MVs were released and groups even seemed to take a break from graduations and disbandment announcements. While we won't be complaining about the latter, it was certainly a bit strange to…

Your Homicidols Weekender #480 Banner image: zerobansen to yoakemae. My most recent expedition to Japan ended early this week. I am back in The States and deep into the post-trip blues. Transitioning back to work while powering through jet lag is never fun either. Still, I had a fabulous time in…

Your Homicidols Weekender #479 Banner image: YOLOZ. My trip to Japan is, sadly, drawing to a close. This is my last weekend in Tokyo for the foreseeable future and I am scrambling to get my last few shows in. Last night was YURAPICO's birthday party which was a blast. Shion dropped by for a…

Your Homicidols Weekender #478 Banner Image: RAY. I am still reporting from about a half-a-day into the future in Japan and having a fabulous time. In some standout moments, I got to see our Debut of the Year winners, Made in Maiden alongside of ZIGA, and ArmaElla, all for the first time (as well…

Your Homicidols Weekender #477 Greetings from Japan! I arrived safely earlier this week and am experiencing that bizarre time warp where it's Saturday evening and I am finishing up this Weekender so it can publish at 8:00 am this morning, 15 hours ago. So far, I've had a great time in Tokyo. I've…

Team Homicidols Best of 2025

Your Homicidols Weekender #476 Banner Image: The Idols of Be Rise Lab. We did it!! We collectively survived 2025 and came out the other side. Happy New Year! Compared to last year at this time when I couldn't walk and was in constant and excruciating pain, 2026 is already a huge improvement. To…

Your Homicidols Best of 2025 Happy 2026!! The ballots have been counted, the results certified, and your winners are announced below BUT before we get to that: I want to thank everyone who participated in this year's Best of the Year activities. We had a 30% increase in voter participation over…

Your Homicidols Weekender #474 Banner Image: Kaishin no Ichigeki. Four more shopping days until Idol X-Mas, and as we get distracted by the season, don't forget that we are also in the midst of the Homicidols Best of 2025 voting period. Head over and cast your ballot if you haven't already. As a…

VOTE NOW!! Here's Your Homicidols Best of 2025 Ballot

Your Homicidols Weekender #473 Banner Image: RETRORAIN. I am spending all weekend putting the finishing touches on the Homicidols Best of 2025 nominations. Look for the nomination post including your ballot to drop early in the coming week. The fun part is finding images for all of the nominations…

Your Homicidols Weekender #472 Banner Image: Gekkan PAM. Yesterday was the last day to get nominations in for Homicidols Best of 2025 consideration, but since we're friends, I will leave the nomination form open until midnight just in case you haven't gotten around to submitting your favorites yet.

WACK Gets Whacked Yesterday, Junnoske Watanabe announced that the WACK management company's current system will end in 2026. We have seen Junnoske Watanabe dismantle entire idol units on a whim before, so perhaps it should come as no surprise that he would seemingly do the same with his entire…

Your Homicidols Weekender #471 It is the last weekend of eligibility for Homicidols Best of 2025 awards consideration and a ton of our favorite idols turned in their final assignments just under the wire. Check out the last minute releases below and then, if you haven't already, be sure to submit…

It is Time to Nominate Your Homicidols Best of the Year, 2025 We are hurtling towards the end of 2025 and the completion of one more trip around the sun. Here at Homcidols, we mark this annual occasion by scouring our playlists, memories, and therapists' notes for the best new songs, impressive…

Your Homicidols Weekender #470 Banner image: THE ORGANICS. We are closing in on the end of the Homicidols Best of 2025 awards eligibility period. For those who have been around the sun with us before, our "year" runs from December through November, so units only have one more week left to drop an…

Your Homicidols Weekender #469 It was an odd week in chika idol but I guess that's normal? I've given up trying to recognize patterns in how the scene operates, but the seemingly weird thing this week was a noticeable lack of new singles, EPs and albums, but a flurry of new MVs. I know that…

Your Homicidols Weekender #468 Banner image: FiDZ. Transitioning back into the daily grind is always tough. I had a great time last weekend at US Idol Fes seeing YURAPICO, other idols, and a bunch of fellow idol fans like you all. Then I came home to my day job and the work that had piled up from…

Your Homicidols Weekender #467 Banner Image: Not Secured, Loose Ends. This weekend, we are coming to you live from day two of U.S. Idol Fes in Los Angeles. Yesterday, YURAPICO kicked off the day one main stage with the first of her weekend performances. She will closing out tonight's main stage,…

Homicidols is officially 10 years old. Happy Birthday to us!! 🎂 🎉 #10KilllerYearsofHomicidols

Your Homicidols Weekender #466

10 years. 4,946 posts. Countless questionable editorial decisions. We’ve tallied the most-written-about and most-clicked idols of the past decade.

Your Homicidols Weekender #465

Homicidols will be at US Idol Fes. Come join our panel on Sunday morning at 10:30 am. Let's chat about loud idols and music and stuff.

With 20 more days until Halloween we're already steeped in darkness in The Weekender

10 Years of Homicidols: By the Numbers Well, look at us. Almost ten years old. Only a handful of idol groups make it that long and, honestly, we’re just as surprised as you are. What started as a questionable idea (“let’s write about underground idols from half-way around the world who perform in…

Happy October! There's only 27 days left until Idol Halloween. Get prepared in The Weekender.

Your Homicidols Weekender #462 Banner image: THE ORCHESTRA TOKYO. Just a quick reminder that one month from today is US Idol Fest. YURAPICO will appearing alongside kaigai idols from all over the world. Homicidols will be there too. We're presenting a panel and have some other surprises to be…

Best of Homicidols: The Boys of Alternative Idol Revisited Next up in our Best of Homicidols countdown to our 10th anniversary, we would like to revisit one of the most popular articles we've ever published. Back in 2022, Cal and I teamed up for a feature exploring the dearth of male idols in the…

Idols in the UK, one of the best albums of the year just dropped, plus more in The Weekender.

For our 10th anniversary we present the Best of Homicidols: The Idol Suicides

Reminder: the world is full of good things. Proof: all this stuff in The Weekender.

Lots of A-List releases and other pleasant surprises. It’s almost all good news in this edition of The Weekender.

There's no idols in town and the Oshiloss Corner is a bloodbath, but there's still a lot of good stuff in The Weekender.

Ever want to be an idol? Even if the answer is, "No," please visit The Weekender.

Good news in the Oshiloss Corner? It’s apparently possible. See how in The Weekender.

It was great week to be a fan of loud idols! Here's your Homicidols Weekender #455

Here's the "Fxxk TiF" edition of the Weekender for 2025.

There’s good news and bad news, but it’s all idol news, which is good. Here’s the Weekender.

Some huge announcements of overseas idol lives and more, all captured in The Weekender.

It is recovery week, so let us reflect on the circle of life and idols in The Weekender.

Your Homicidols Weekender #450 Banner image: Jiemei. I am living vicariously this weekend though all of those around the world attending the many overseas idol lives taking place on almost every continent (everyone always overlooks Antarctica and poor penguin wota). Unfortunately, I am at home…

Isiliel had the Best Week Ever and more in The Weekender.

It is the season of scorching A-List releases. Details in the Weekender.

New idol live announcements for the US and Europe and more in The Weekender.

It's been a week of idol firsts all dutifully documented in The Weekender.

Idols are everywhere this week! See if one is coming to a town near you in The Weekender.