Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! By the time this is posted I’ll have watched &TEAM perform at this year’s Kouhaku Uta Gassen (紅白歌合戦)!!! Earlier this week they posted a really cool video mix of a bunch of their previous performances of “Firework” (the song they’ll be performing) so I’m going to share that for now. Hopefully I’ll be able to share a video of the Kouhaku performance at some point too. I just know it’s going to be incredible, and I’m so happy for them!
UPDATE: THEY WERE PERFECT!!!!! 😭 I’m overwhelmed with emotion for them it’s too much. And Maki will be in the Guinness Book of World Records for this year’s kendama challenge! Success! Never seen him so nervous 😅
And, as always…
What have you been watching/reading/playing/eating/listening to lately?
Happy Wednesday! 🎍