There are Ushiroyubi fans, and then there are Banana no Namida enjoyers

advance warning to my fellow EU oomfs that there's some brutal new import charges coming in at the start of july so best to get your JP orders in, especially big orders of mixed items as the new fees work out to €3 *per line item* on your customs form 🫠

Big things are happening in 1986. And Be-Bop High School 2

To all my friends

*checks incoming packages* hope you guys are ready for some good food tomorrow!

it has never been more wednesday 🥳

HIP’S ROAD, The Roll Neck Vest! HIP’S ROAD, The Mug! HIP’S ROAD, The Cup & Saucer! HIP’S ROAD, The Drinking Glass! HIP’S ROAD, The Flameth… The Keychain!

Got any Body Rap artists I should listen to?

Your Homicidols Weekender #498

👥 秩父山バンド 🎵 DEAD OR ALIVE (FINE, FINE)

We’re the Three Ghosts of HIP’S ROAD. Let us guide you through the shop

Everyone, let's...

If you had a hard time wrapping your mind around the fact that her compilation album was called Gradation the whole time, not Graduation, this one might come as a shock

i was not even close to ready for the pure aesthetic attack of the VINBO datablast 📼✨

really getting the full vhs archiving experience now my vcr has almost immediately started failing (it's regularly refusing to eject or even unthread the tape, a hard reset seems to free it and it will play fine when it does play but yeaaaa)

where possible i am thinking of adding locally-generated MTL subs where i can, don't expect miracles but you do uncover the odd gem (note: if you actually have an interest in subbing hours and hours of obscure idol ephemera i'd genuinely love to work with you but that seems pretty unlikely)

sony stack o'doom all ready to go 🫡 the family resemblance to the PS5 is pretty striking!

part 1 of 3 and already almost 90 minutes, who's doing it like @badmoviebible.bsky.social

idol video magazine progress so far, sourced vs known available episodes (subject to change) IDOL Chapter 1 (5/5) Vox Pop (5/7) (2 known specials to find) Nippon Idol Detective Club (1/7) (🆕! more coming) Super Momoco (1/??) (🆕! more around but v expensive 😭) VINBO (6/24, likely 4 more soon)

still obsessed with the VINBO song 😭

ok i finally got this setup working so i am gonna need you to all rise for the national anthem 🫡

i'll be putting these up on the archive along with my next batch of stuff but just in case you were curious how these things work. other models i've seen don't use the audio at all so this is a bit of a different twist to it

Also the new fight pass had a "sailor uniform" top which basically means you can kinda do sukeban cosplay :o

Miki Sugimoto (杉本美樹) Scanned from Shukan Myojo (週刊明星) September 10, 1972. 📽️ #filmsky 🎥 #japanesefilm

i had always assumed the text on the spine of vinbo tapes was some kind of table of contents but i had clearly assumed wrong!

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Your Homicidols Weekender #497 Banner image: ki.o.ku. It's the last Weekender of May and it seems like Idol Summer is off to a slow start this year. Usually, by now, the summer MV season has been officially kicked off (typically by a bikini-clad Niji no Conquistador) and we have begun the annual…

if i had a nickel for every bunny-themed v-cinema toku heroine i'd have at least 2 nickels, which isn't gonna make a huge dent in the 70-ish bucks these tapes go for on the used market, not gonna lie genuinely adorable costume design on this one!

📖 If you want to know exactly what happened on a specific day during the production of The Land Beyond the Starry Sky, or learn about optical printing, you can read all about it in this theatrical pamphlet on the Internet Archive

🎞️ A rip of the Konaka Kazuya double feature DVD, featuring The Land Beyond the Starry Sky (1986) and After a Dream (1993), is now available on the Internet Archive

you either die a Weekly Playboy or live long enough to see yourself become the Vintage Bohemian

And a project for the rest of the week

Weekend project

good MORNING! youtu.be/83C3TZ4Zm_o

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) in Warring States Rock (戦国ロック はぐれ牙), 1973. Scanned from Shukan Heibon (週刊平凡), August 2, 1973. 📽️ #filmsky 🎥 #japanesefilm

some random super cheap wins! 🪙

not exactly cheap but what on earth is this? 😶‍🌫️

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) in ep 3 of Yaji And Kita: Hidden Path (弥次喜多隠密道中). 📽️ #filmsky 🎥 #japanesefilm I've uploaded the episode to Archive and once again put highlights on YouTube. 1/

had an opportunistic find (a fan must have been selling off a collection) but we just landed volumes 1-5 *each* of "IDOL Chapter 1" and "Vox Pop" video magazines! very heavily focused on Rumi Shishido/Risa Honda/Lip's etc, not forgetting our beloved regular Mamiko Tayama! look forward to it 🫡

They will introduce a new type of slime, the Variety Show Host Slime

not gonna lie i kinda need the kyon kyon air conditioner CM compilation tape, maybe not 4500 yen need it but i will be keeping a look out

very random question to the tl (but probably mostly to @ca.rter.io who is definitely the most likely to know) was Macrovision common on JP tapes/LDs from the late '80s? just got randomly curious on that one (i did source a cheap "stabilizer" just in case)

Happy Birthday to Yukiko Iwai!! 🎉🎂🍆 Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu Yūyu #岩井由紀子 #ゆうゆ

chainsaw chicks ⛓️

This is how people solicited a meeting with Golgo 13 before the internet

where we're going we won't need definition but there's just time for one last bluray as a treat and wow, they really went all out on this one, you love to see it

Betamaxxing

yuma nakamura starred in a joshi wrestler vehicle with Mayumi Ozaki and Devil Masami?