C­O­N­T­R­I­B­U­T­O­R­S

Writes music reviews, book reviews, theater reviews, and film reviews. He has contributed to Music Magazine, Mikiki, Shukan Yomitohito, Intoxicate, Eureka, Record Collectors, and other publications. His hobbies are drinking, visiting museums, and radio. He likes Yasuko Omori. A newly written monograph will be published by DU BOOKS in the fall.

Born in Tokyo. After working as an editor for the culture magazines "SWITCH" and "EYESCREAM", he became independent. Currently, he works as a writer, artist manager, and music label manager.

Born in Saitama, Japan in 1983. Music director and critic, involved in promotion and production in the record industry since 2006, and A&R for many artists. He is the author of "Music Goes On: The Latest Music Life Thoughts" (Music Magazine, 2021) and editor of "What is City Pop" (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2022).

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shibasakiyuji

Born in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, he has been a film critic since 2015, contributing numerous articles to web media, magazines, and other media. He is working to convey in an easy-to-understand way the "deep" content contained in visual culture, including film reviews and critiques, animations, drama series, and other visual works, as well as games and manga.

Writing. I like cats, houseplants, food (charcuterie, spiced food, peaches, hard pudding, big-box Chinese, assorted) and summer. I am interested in things that cannot be reconciled. Sometimes I work as Team Unfinished.
Twitter：https://twitter.com/yr00mt
Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/yr00mt/

HP
Instagram

Art writer and editor, born 1980 in Kanagawa. Based in Kyoto and Beppu, he also travels to Tokyo, writing, editing, and planning for CINRA.NET, Tokyo Art Beat, Bijutsu Techo, etc. From the fall of 2022, he will hold the performance event "Small Onsen Art Festival Yunoue FOREVER! The second event is scheduled to be held in the fall of 2023.

Born in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1968. Started writing with the music magazine "Rhythm & Pencil," which he started with his friends. His books include "Boku no Heisei Pants Socks Shoes Songbook," "20th Century Greatest Hits," "Koizumi Single" (a book accompanying Kyoko Koizumi's best album "Koizumi Chronicle"), "Music Manga Guidebook" as an editor, and books he edited include Goro Nakagawa and Hiroshi Nagai's "Friends Like Music," Ichiro Asazuma's "Hit is Everything," Masao Onose's "Guitarist Daikokuurai," and "Rock Gaho/Kakubarizumu Special Issue. He has also translated Terry Southern's "Red Dirt Marijuana" and Brian Wilson's "The Autobiography of Brian Wilson.

Graduated from the Faculty of Humanities at Yamaguchi University, and began her writing career in 2012. He has planned, interviewed, and written mainly about music, movies, and storytelling, and has worked for OKMusic, M-On Entertainment, CINRA.NET, and Billboard JAPAN before going freelance. In parallel, he organizes the crossover culture event “FREAK SMILE” and other entertainment projects. His favorite band is Yurayura Teikoku. His favorite actor is Sanyutei Mantachibana, his favorite adult is Tamagawa Taifuku, and his most envied performer is Sakamoto Yorimitsu.

Born in 1987. Writer and editor. In addition to writing interviews and columns mainly on gender and feminism, she also conducts interviews on movies, idols, books, and other culture-related topics. Her main publications include "BRUTUS," "anan," "QuickJapan," "CINRA," and "me and you." She writes a manga column for QJweb and a movie column on Sisterhood for PINTSCOPE. She is also involved in writing and editing movie pamphlets, and her major works include "21st Century Girl" and "Eien ga Tsukijikko Suru Ikuru" (Eternity is Passing By).
HP: http://yokohasada.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yoko_hasada

Born in 1997, Aquarius. From Nishiogikubo on the Chuo Line to Seijogakuenmae on the Odakyu Line.Writing for Musicman, ANTENNA, and other publications.　X｜Instagram　

Yugawa began her career as a singer-songwriter in 2011, releasing her first full-length album “Tabiji” in 2015; in 2022, she produced the album “On a Night Without Words” with her ally, the members of the Magical Band, and performed at tour live shows and festivals throughout Japan. As Yuuga with Magical Band, he sang the theme song and accompaniment for the NHK drama “Tsukihoku no Yoru wa” and released the soundtrack “Tsukihoku no Yoru wa” for distribution in March 2023. 4 September 2024, he released his 4th album “Love Deluxe”. Her wide-ranging activities include narrating and singing for TV commercials, sound logos, and musicals. She is also active as Jane Jade with Sakura Fujiwara and Yuga.