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GORI★OKINAWA’s Silver Creator Award (YouTube)
Having reached 100,000 (167K as of this posting) subscribers on his GORI★OKINAWA YouTube channel, Gori does an unboxing of his Silver Creator Award. It’ll be awesome to see the channel reach the next award for 1 million subs. During his unboxing, Gori mentioned his other channel (not a subchannel but a personal one) which currently…
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Harami Piano in Okinawa (YouTube)
Popular street pianist and YouTuber (1.65M subs) Harami Piano performed at Okinawa’s AEON Mall Okinawa Rycom at the beginning of April and played a medley of songs from Okinawan artists (Amuro Namie, ORANGE RANGE, Natsukawa Rimi, SPEED, Cocco, Kiroro, and MONGOL800).
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Rinken Band & Tink Tink on YouTube
Listening to Rinken Band’s music is both nostalgic and emotional for me so the orchestra version of their song Funayare in the YouTube clip above pulls at my heartstrings. Uehara Tomoko’s voice is one-of-a-kind and the music Teruya Rinken composes is truly original. Like many musicians during the pandemic, concert tours have been canceled and…
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5th Elements 10th Anniversary
Vocal duo 5 Elements (A-RA and YU) is celebrating their 10th anniversary with the release of a new album THE BEST which features 15 tracks — including the song below (Minami no Shima e Dekakeyou) with sanshin by Maeda Hideyuki. The new album also features the song Party which was written by Daizou from the…
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Ganeko Yoriko’s Utahime Livestream on YouTube
It’s crazy times that we’re able to watch a livestream of the amazing Ganeko Yoriko‘s performances at her minyou stage Utahime. I visited there a long time ago with a group and we were invited to do an impromptu live performance on her stage. She’s very gracious and kind so if you’re in Okinawa, be…
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GACKT GAMEz New YouTube Channel
Speaking of sub-channels and multiple YouTube channels, GACKT recently created a new one showing him playing games called GACKT GAMEz. The new channel joins his already established channel with 800K+ subscribers, GACKT Channel Gaku-chan. Judging by the number of likes and comments on his tweet announcing the new channel, it looks to be off to…
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MAX THE BOMB’s New Sub YouTube Channel
As if one YouTube channel wasn’t enough, we now see sub channels (or is it subchannel?) and additional ones being created for fans. (Even my favorite YouTuber, MKBHD, recently created a new channel for his podcast.) Called【MAX】MTB まっく素のて〜げ〜ちゃんねる ([MAX] MTB [for Max The Bomb] Makku Moto no Teegee Channeru), they will release videos on a…
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Chuning Candy’s Moving On
Idol group Chuning Candy recently shared a YouTube clip of their new single MOVING ON!! (April 7th digital release) showcasing their amazing dance performance (just a reminder that their dance performance of Dynamic Ryukyu has over 3-million views on YouTube). The title of the new single is interesting (coincidental?) given the April 24th sad news…
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i-Dushi’s YouTube Channel Almost at 40K Subscribers!
As announced on the group’s Twitter, i-Dushi is closing in on 40,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel! At the time of their tweet, they were 500 away and today they’re less than 200 away! As mentioned in one of our earlier posts, they have been uploading amazing new content frequently so now is a great…
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Okinawa VTuber Nema Ui
If you’re into cute culture you’ll definitely want to check out the Okinawa VTuber Nema Ui. If you’re not familiar with what a VTuber (Virtual YouTuber) is, here’s an English example from Wikipedia: … an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics. A growing trend that originated in Japan in the mid-2010s, a majority…
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