Fox Day arrived, bringing with it... a cryptic tweet and nothing further. Certainly no metal detectors or beach umbrellas. We decide to pin our hopes on Budokan X instead, and spend most of the time talking about interviews with Mikiko, Su-metal, and Moametal, recently translated from PMC volume 18. Join us!

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Episode 055 - The Real Fox Day Blues

Various newsworthy things have happened as BABYMETAL's 10th anniversary year winds to its close. Another exhibition featuring a recreation of the Budokan stage, branded camping gear and guitar accessories, and more! Join us as we walk through the recent happenings!

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Episode 063 - Wagons and Tents

The 10 BABYMETAL Budokan sets have arrived, and the seal has been applied. We talk through lots of stuff. Vinyl editions arriving, our experience at Dragon Con, the 10 BABYMETAL Budokan sets now that we have video of all five pairs of shows. The countdown to the seal, the video that saw them ascend the stairway to living legend. Quite a lot to discuss this time, join us!

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Episode 064 - Stairway to Living Legend

Now that the Metal Resistance has ended, we look back at highlights for us as fans and for BABYMETAL as a group, with the help of several fans who joined us while recording. What were your favorite moments from the Metal Resistance era, which moments stood out for the group? Join us as we talk about some of them!

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Episode 066 - Memories from Metal Resistance

We start off '22 with an exploration of the subtleties of the costumes of BABYMETAL. What stories do they tell? How did they evolve? What does costume construction entail in general? It's complex and interesting, perhaps more than you might have guessed. Maggie, experienced cosplayer, takes the reins and guides us through this fascinating terrain. Join us!
  
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Episode 067 - Art of the Tutu

The Black Box has arrived, and The Other One - Digital Gallery has opened its exterior doors. The restoration process is underway. Join us as we talk about the contents of the black box, and what we can see of the digital gallery so far and what we guess might be in its future.

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Episode 069 - Photocardvalanche

At long last, The Other One - Digital Gallery has reached 73%. The podcast team has found their microphones and gathered together again for an update on what passes for news of the past four months. Join us as we talk about the gallery, some interviews, Kulture and "the metalverse," song placement in television shows, and more!

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Episode 070 - 73%

We got to 99% and the remaining 1% was us all along. BABYMETAL announced upcoming shows, an upcoming album, a schedule for upcoming releases, and opened preorders for many, many editions. Many. Join us as we talk through all of this!

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Episode 071 - Many Other Ones

BABYMETAL announced a support tour with Sabaton, and released two new songs. One (for Cavalry) is Divine Attack - Shingeki. The other (for Monochrome) is Monochrome. We have thoughts, we have inner conflicts, we have anticipation. Join us as we talk about all of that!

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Episode 072 - Lacking Color Commentary

We wrap up 2022 looking back on what we saw this year and looking ahead to what we're eager to see next year. 2022 got off to a slow start but picked up energy there at the end! Join us as we reflect back on the new material, discuss ugly sweaters, and ponder the coming shows, single, and album!

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Episode 073 - Mandatoory Wrapup

BABYMETAL has released the third single from The Other One, called METAL KINGDOM, and also revealed cover art for the various editions, and the merchandise for the imminent BABYMETAL Returns shows in Japan. We discuss all of that, and more! Join us!

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Episode 074 - TOO: Much information

BABYMETAL's first month of 2023 ended with two nights of the BABYMETAL RETURNS — THE OTHER ONE concert in Japan, their first shows in almost two years. Kevin was there. Join us as he talks us through his experience!

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Episode 075 - BABYMETAL RETURNS

At the end of the BABYMETAL RETURNS — THE OTHER ONE concert set, many announcements were made, and then a MV for METAL KINGDOM was released. Join us, as we survey the exceedingly complex network of paths that can lead us to BABYMETAL BEGINS in April, talk about shirts and boxes and costumes and Fox Day!

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Episode 076 - The One With All The Boxes

BABYMETAL released the fourth song from The Other One, Light & Darkness. And the album release is clearly coming, with announcements of magazine covers and interviews starting to rain down upon us. Join us as we talk about at what's coming up between now and Fox Day!

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Episode 077 - Light & Darkness

THE OTHER ONE IS OUT. We talk through the Mirror Mirror lyric video, the songs on the album and the album as a whole, the editions, the future, images from the showing of BABYMETAL RETURNS on WOWOW. Lots to process as we rush toward Fox Day 2023. Join us!

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Episode 078 - THE OTHER ONE

MOMOMETAL joins SU-METAL and MOAMETAL halfway through the two-night BABYMETAL BEGINS show in Yokohama, and Kevin was there. Live premieres of the rest of the songs off THE OTHER ONE, reappearances of the METALVERSE trio, the amazing reappearance of Iine! and BABYMETAL DEATH. Join us as we unpack the beginning of the new era!

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Episode 079 - MOMOMETAL (Thumbs Flying Everywhere)

BABYMETAL toured Europe supporting Sabaton, and then kicked off a headlining tour in Asia. They announced a co-headlining tour of the US and Canada with DETHKLOK (the BABYKLOK tour) in the Fall. They're touring Australia, and Europe. Join us as we discuss all of this, and how fun it is that they're really back!

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Episode 080 - Touring, Lots of Touring

BABYMETAL showed up for The End of Pink Tape, and METALVERSE#1 UNBOXING is scheduled for August. Plus, BABYMETAL BEGINS preorders have begun, and we've finally gotten golf merch. Join us as we ponder aloud about what all of this means!

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Episode 081 - Around the 'Verse

The BABYKLOK shows are on the horizon, so we take an episode to talk a bit about what to expect and how to plan for going to the show(s) we're going to. Join us!

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Episode 082 - So You've Got Tickets

BABYMETAL surprised us by releasing a new single and MV: METALI (feat. Tom Morello). This represents the first official song of the newly reborn BABYMETAL. We hastily assembled the podcast team to talk through the song, the video, the debut performance. Join us! Wasshoi!

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Episode 083 - Wasshoi!

The BABYKLOK tour has begun, and two of us have been to one or more of the shows. We talk about our experiences at the BABYKLOK shows and at the METALVERSE unboxing shows. Things are happening! Join us!

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Episode 084 - BABYKLOK Tour Impressions

If you want to buy BABYMETAL merchandise, how do you start? Where do you look? What should you watch out for? In this episode we run down some of the options for buying things from Japan to ship elsewhere. From where to find things (Asmart, Yahoo Japan Auctions, Buyee, Zenmarket, Mandarake, US/UK stores), to how to ship things (Tenso), as well as what to be careful of and some of the weird things that they've put out over the years. Join us!

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Episode 085 - Merch Madness

Without much advance warning, "Leave It All Behind" was released, a three-way collaboration between Thai rapper F.Hero, Thai rock band Bodyslam, and BABYMETAL. And the result is great. None of the three is "featured" behind any of the other two, the styles blend flawlessly, and the MV is spectacular. Join us, and try to guess whether we liked it!

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Episode 086 - Leave It All Behind

In keeping with the tradition of holding major Legend shows for BABYMETAL members' 20th birthdays (Legend S, Legend M), BABYMETAL performed a 2-night Legend MM show leading up (20Night) to and on (21Night) Momometal's 21st birthday. Kevin was there, and tells us all about it. Join us!

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Episode 087 - Legend MM

If you want to travel to Japan to see one of the big BABYMETAL shows, what is involved? We talk through experiences and tips in the first part of a two-part discussion. This time: airfare and hotels (next time: trains, the concert itself). Join us!

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Episode 088 - Traveling to Japan (part one)

If you want to travel to Japan to see one of the big BABYMETAL shows, what is involved? We talk through experiences and tips in the second part of a two-part discussion. This time: trains, and the concert day itself. Join us!

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Episode 089 - Traveling to Japan (part two)

The BABYMETAL World Tour 2018 shows in Japan have concluded, “Starlight” and the graphic novel have been released, Yui Mizuno has announced her departure from the band, and the BABYMETAL Podcast has (re-)launched to discuss these and other topics of interest. In this first of the new episodes, we discuss:

1. The announcement of Yuimetal’s departure.

- Announcement from BABYMETAL: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019112114/http://www.babymetal.com/en/news/?id=28

- Yui Mizuno’s letter to fans from Amuse’s site:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019110503/http://artist.amuse.co.jp/artist/20181019/index.html

- Du-metal’s translations:
http://du-metal.blogspot.com/2018/10/announcement-18-oct-19.html

2. BABYMETAL World Tour in Japan. Shows played in Makuhari Messe, SSA (Dark Night Carnival), and Kobe, between October 23 and 31.

- AwesomeCake’s video essay on the current state of all things BABYMETAL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQN3cgftAHk

3. Fancam videos are disappearing

4. Holiday merchandise is appearing. BMD Fox Apparel had a popup store,

- BMD Fox Apparel. http://bmdfoxapparel.com

- Pop-up Shop announcement. https://twitter.com/BABYMETAL_JAPAN/status/1057829642017505281

- BABYMETAL store (US). https://babymetalstore.com

- BABYMETAL store (UK). https://babymetalstoreuk.com

5. Other notes.

- Official graphic novel Twitter: https://twitter.com/BABYMETAL_GN

- Official Z2 Comics Twitter: https://twitter.com/Z2comics

- GMB Chomichuk (GN artist) Twitter: https://twitter.com/gmbchomichuk

- Callie Matthews does an unboxing of the very first deluxe edition of Apocrypha: The Legend of BABYMETAL graphic novel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAzL_47Wkbc

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Episode 001 - The Next Stage

BABYMETAL opened for Judas Priest in Singapore, then played three festival dates at the Good Things Festival in Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane). These shows marked a return to a three-person formation, with Saya Hirai taking up the third position, and introduced a new Kami band guitarist, Yusuke Hiraga. We get a firsthand report from the Melbourne festival show, and discuss the release of the Distortion 12” vinyl singles.

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Episode 002 - 7の次は3 [Hey! Hey!]

In the gap between our prior episode and the beginning of the US tour, we spent some time looking into the backgrounds of the three Brave Avengers. We talk a bit about Riho Sayashi and her history with Morning Musume, and then dove moderately deep into what Sakura Gakuin is with the help of Gabe, our guest expert. We cover how SG relates to BABYMETAL’s origins, and Kano Fujihira’s and Momoko Okazaki’s history in SG, and lots about the structure of SG in general. Join us, for this feature-length episode.

Some additional notes. Many of the links below are to wikis that are updated. Many videos that were previously available have been removed, and finding them may be difficult. The wikis will likely get updated as new homes are found for these videos. As always, please support Amuse, BABYMETAL, Sakura Gakuin, by buying original media when they still have it for sale. Much of this content is, however, is no longer, or never was, available through primary sales channels, and furthermore did not have English subtitles even when it was for sale or broadcast. Rather than link to videos here, we will name them so your own searches can find them. Google often works, the wiki entries also often have links to them.

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Riho Sayashi: https://helloproject.fandom.com/wiki/Sayashi_Riho 

Morning Musume: https://helloproject.fandom.com/wiki/Morning_Musume 

Hello Morning: https://helloproject.fandom.com/wiki/Hello!_Morning 

Dramatic Chipmunk: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dramatic-chipmunk

Sakura Gakuin: http://www.sakuragakuin.jp/ 

Sakura Gakuin subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SakuraGakuin/ 

https://www.generasia.com/wiki/Sakura_Gakuin_2011_Nendo_~Friends~

Fukei guide (contains links to SUN episodes, SUN field trip, FRESH archives, the SMILE documentary, transfer ceremonies, and more) : https://www.reddit.com/r/SakuraGakuin/wiki/fukeiguide

SG Essential links (contains links to LoGiRL episodes, and more): https://www.reddit.com/r/SakuraGakuin/wiki/essentiallinks
FRESH official page: https://freshlive.tv/sakuragakuin

FRESH archive: https://www.reddit.com/r/SakuraGakuin/wiki/fresharchive 

Minipati: https://www.generasia.com/wiki/Minipati

Twinklestars: https://www.generasia.com/wiki/Twinklestars

Logica?: https://www.generasia.com/wiki/Kagaku_Kyumei_Kiko_Logica 

Kano Fujihira: https://www.generasia.com/wiki/Fujihira_Kano  

Momoko Okazaki: https://www.generasia.com/wiki/Okazaki_Momoko  

2016 Festival performances, from Sakura edition of Yakusoku: https://www.generasia.com/wiki/Sakura_Gakuin_2016_Nendo_~Yakusoku~

The Road to Graduation 2014: https://www.generasia.com/wiki/The_Road_to_Graduation_2014_~Kimi_ni_Todoke~
SG CyTube: https://cytu.be/r/sakuragakuin

Episode 018 - Avengers, Assemble

BABYMETAL surprised us with a two-night worldwide YouTube stream of their Tokyo Dome shows, immediately before WOWOW aired LEGEND METAL GALAXY day 1. Facu joins us for a discussion of all three shows, and shares some of his memories from attending the Tokyo Dome shows. Join us!

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BABYMETAL announces YouTube stream of Tokyo Dome:
https://twitter.com/BABYMETAL_JAPAN/status/1247849195714666496

Su-metal and Moametal with STAY HOME STAY METAL masks:
https://twitter.com/BABYMETAL_JAPAN/status/1248913798376771584

Episode 033 - Stay Home Stay Metal

The official, unofficial podcast for all things BABYMETAL. Join us for our bi-weekly discussions in front of a live audience where we discuss and break down everything from band news, to Japan, to the community. Be sure follow us on twitter, twitter.com/babymetalpdcast, and join the discussion on discord, discord.gg/F6x2kcZ.

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