Your Favorite Japanese Pop Videos of 2015

10. Durian Shounen – NMB48

At number ten we have Durian Shounen by NMB48. This looks like earlier AKb48 this is pretty much a video featuring girls in Bikinis and squeezing bikini tops to try to show cleavage yes I was looking forgive me please. This is not one of my favorite style of music for Japan oh well there is a lot of cuteness here and I am wondering where we are at in this video? The video was filmed in Taiwan and that is why we get the whole Chinese vibe going on here. I like the roller coaster shots and what looks like some sort of celebration going on, yes like older Akb48 videos this is just a bunch of girls having fun singing into dead lizards on a stick and doing cute stuff like that. Hey Otakus pick your favorite you know you have one. This music reminds me of so many Akb48 songs like give me five and girls sing lyrics that sometimes does not match the song itself. I think maybe this group of course the sister group of AKb48 did this song and video so that AKB48 could mature, we will see later.

9.Choice&Chance – Juice=Juice

 I absolutely love this song and video. I totally get it.It is a good vibe. It is a good pick me up. I would love to wake up to this song every morning. It is a great song to get your Cardio going in the morning. The video is good as well. I love the quick cuts as well. The part where the girl just pushes the Pieces on the game board is my favorite part and it sticks in your head as a great visual. This was really good they have a promising future as a Hello Project. I feel the intensity of the song. Of course they will have to compete with Morning Musume and Ciao Bell Cinquetti as well though. Keep at it girls. If you crank out tunes like this I will  listen!!

8.Nogizaka46 - Inochi wa Utsukushii

The rivals of AKb48 became your favorite in 2015. The music is very similar to their counterparts' but it is the stunning dark and romantic and gloomy sometimes visuals from their video Inochi wa Utsukushii. I love the Gothic Lolita Fashion here. I could definitely throw them torn stuffed bunnies, they are so dark and cute. The Bleeding eyes in this video of certain members is what you want from your Idol group, the lyrics are clear but you have a deep dark sensitive subject here. The name of the song is Life is Beautiful which is telling people to keep going on no matter how dark things get in your life. You can Look at these lyrics if you do not believe me and remember the Night will end.
                                             
With the moon drops at its back
The single leaf shivers in the wind
It’ll be easier if I can let go of your hand
So why am I clinging on?
What am I living for?
No matter how many times I ask
The darkness reaching to the end of the sky remains silent
If I can dream, I’ll close my eyes
Even with troubles, the night will finally end
Life is beautiful
Since the day I realized that
All this sorrow
Just disappeared
Things don’t last forever
Like the transcience of flowers
Every single moment like this
Is the meaning of life

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7. Itooshikutte Gomenne – Country Girls

 Okay for all the time I have been watching Japanese Idol groups this video by the Country Girls is totally embracing the good parts of what I liked about Idol groups of the past. Schoolgirls Jumping around being cute but this video cracks me up but I will always love when Japanese Idols tribute old rock Roll and Roll idol songs of the past and this what I like about this. Hey pop is suppose to be fun and this is fun. I am sorry for being adorable the whole statement cracks me up I will be saying this all year now but what the heck. Okay what the video does is that it makes me laugh. Especially when the girls start writing on the screen and the white schoolgirl outfits. It is fun and I do not feel like a dirty old man watching it!

 

6. Parallel World – Ayami Muto

 

   

I can not say too many good things about this song and the wonderful filming of this video, it looks like it is done in one take, if it is awesome! I love this song too it is very catchy and I could dance to it what about you? The Lyrics tell us a Story and the title fits the lyrics for change yes I can see many other Japanese Idol influences here but Hey Ayami Muto for now!!

5. Taiki Bansei – ANGERME

 

 I love the energy these girl put in this song. It does have a disco feel so you can dance to it but I love the different collage of outfits instead of the same "everyone must wear the same thing to be an Idol group" they seem to give me that they can Identify with the regular girl but these girls make me feel like they can dance. Angerme is another Hello Project thing that is catchy and upbeat and they can really get your attention short and simple like the haircut in this video I am just saying! Maybe you liked them better as S/mileage

 

 



4. Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai – AKB48



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 You can't have a list without Akb48, all I can say is wow both them and Morning Musume put in some great efforts as far as videos with special effects but are the tunes that good? The tune here is softer to show off the singing talents I will give them that but we have a great video that surpasses the  tune which is why they are ranked fourth this year as one of your favorites. There is not much cuteness here folks a lot of Akb48 members getting their little butts kicked then coming back to kick major butt. Did the action take away from a musical group? You bet your plushies it did. The video is good. I would not play this song over and over again though.

3.Seisyun Kozou ga Naiteiru
Morning Musume.'15  

 

What can I say this video should of been number two yes vey creative a little bit of different tune as well. The creative juice were flowing when this was made. I like everything of this video the tune is not the best this year obviously because it is a hard tune to groove with but I give them much respect to do what they did and that is something different. Morning Musume in my opinion has always been the group to watch for when you do anything new in the Japanese Pop world because they have been the cutting edge in the past five years. Akb48 has been geared towards men while Morning Musume can bring in the female fans.

 

2. Sakura Gakuin 2014 ~ Aogeba Toutoshi

 



   This videos of course was voted by you the fans , I give you the one I really do not think belongs where it's ranking is and that is Aogeba Toutoshi. This video is very adolescent and yes they did spawn Baby metal the group Sakura Gakuin that is but this video would be great if I was say ten. I do not care much for it. It has an Ewok coming down to Earth to visit Japan. I guess Ewoks like Japanese Schoolgirls oh well you have to see the video to believe what I am saying is true. There are few dance steps but it gets lost in all the production of this video with this Child like song oh well not everyone likes onions either.

                    1.    Nippon Manju -Lady Baby

 

Whether the video is an out and out commercial for Japan or is it a Mockery of Japanese Idols it is addicting with great edit cuts and unforgettable visuals and it has a dude in a dress a hairy dude in a dress. In my opinion this video should win video of the year worldwide. It brings in something that J-pop Idols really need  a sense of humor, I laughed when I saw this and I am still laughing that is your pick and that is my pick as well. I am not going in deep details with this one there it is in all its glory your pick for number one!       

 

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