NiZiU Official Thread

Members

• Yamaguchi Mako
  
• Oe Riku
• Yokoi Rima
• Hanabishi Rio
• Katsumura Maya
• Suzuno Mihii
• Oguo Mayuka
• Arai Ayaka
• Hillman Nina

 

First of all: Congrats to the girls!

I'm a bit sad about Akari. Maybe it's because we are used to bigger groups.. but I don't see how one or more members would have changed anything...
Anyway, Mako was destined to be in since episode one, she didn't get one single mistake and it's absolutely captain material. I think there isn't even one Nizi vewer who can say something bad about her.
Nina was my second fave and I was so frustrated watching the episode... I feared JYP was gonna make the same mistake he made with Somi.
Mihii has slowly but surely lost position in my personal ranking, even though she has unquestionable talent.
On the other hand, Rima completely made me revalue her. Another one with impressive qualities

Best of luck to all of them though, their predebut mini album has already been announced from what I saw, so, soon we will see them take the first step towards the future

 

Congrats to the winners!

Also, I thought this was supposed to be "TWICE but J-Pop" so I understand 9-members; or am I mistaken?

 

Well, thats the starting Idea all along.
Twice was the concept to follow, at leats for starter. JYP was very clear on that in all the process.

Looks like an interesting line up. Hope it goes well. I didnt put so much attention in a japanese Girl Group since I lost track on Morning Musume in the late 2000's. Cuz yes the original MM was a GG not an Idol Group. They oficially became IG in the early 2010's.

 

Thank you!

 

That’s not even remotely true.

They literally were calling them idols back on Asayan in like 1998.

 

Actually is completely true. The members (I think some ex-members were present too) talk about this on an interview back in the late 2000's. They said that even though most of the people call them an Idol group they were actually a GG (till then). Wasn't a big deal for them so they never argued about the difference (and is completely understandable).
So yes. MM started as a GG. Maybe scratching idol concepts from time to time untill finally in the early 2010's they became the "classic" Japanese Idol Group that is today.

I had said this before; one of the reasons I like Twice is that they reminds me a little the old (and good) MM from the 2000's. Now, If NiziU really is a japanese ver. of Twice I will follow them for sure because of that.

 

I guess fun fact?

Washington-born Nina Hillman (right) of NiziU, will join Sally Amaki (left) of 22/7, at Sony Music's building in Nogizaka, Tokyo. Four years ago, who would have thought that two girls from the United States would have been members of groups there?

 

Is it ok to share the performance of some of the candidates for the debut song here? If not, I give permission for an admin to delete this.

if the video does not show watch the video here

 

Announced pre debut digital mini album
https://twitter.com/nizi_official/status/1276696752679120896

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/nizi_official
Website:
https://niziu.com/s/n123/?ima=5836
IG:
https://www.instagram.com/niziu_artist_official/
YT:
https://www.youtube.com/NiziProjectOfficial

 

[Nizi Project] Whisper Challenge

if the video does not show watch the video here

 

MV dropped:

if the video does not show watch the video here

 

Not bad for a Pre-debut single.
5000 000 views in less than 24 hrs.
(At the moment of this post they almost hit 10M)

 

Loved the MV, I keep watching it on loop lol
The song is perfect for them and I finally saw the Miihi I wanted see in last NP episodes.

They are still sorta rough and yet way more polished since Nizi Project start... it seems in Japan the release has been also welcomed, and INTL fans are doing their best with YT viewers.

Many love the way the rap part incorporates JYP ggroups and even if I don't know enough about them except for TWICE, I truly appreciate the idea behind it. I don't know if the fact it's a japanese group can make it flop in korea, but like this it feels JYP is saying that they may be different but still one of them. From what I saw so far is strong in Kpop fandoms being part of this or that agency as much as being part of a group.

Anyway, I hope to see more of them before their official debut, something like TwiceTV or so...

 

The start of the song sounded really familiar that I thought it's not an original song. First thing I thought was that it sounded of the songs covered in one of Kobasolo videos. Then I scrolled through the video content, one mentioned Taylor Swift's Shake It Off. The similarity of Make You Happy intro to Shake It Off (if not the original, then at least to Kobasolo's cover of it) is really stark, that's what I think.

 

Here's the commemorative poster for 10M views! Congrats, girls! (And, as of this post, they now have 12M views)


They're also #1 in Top 100 LINE Music as well as iTunes, Apple Music Japan (Basically, they're taking #1 in a lot of charts)

They also already have an official fan club name:


Ok, but this is adorable: it's the girls photo'ed with JYP and he's holding a congratulations cake.

@Dill you don't know ITZY's "ICY"?

 

I know Itzy because they pass on my TL from time to time, but I never followed them enough to know the songs.

 

Funny fact of the day: NiziU predebut already surpass TWICE Fanfare MV on Youtube.
Looks like all is according to plan so far. JYP you are an evil mind

 

17M views so far on the MV.

 

And this is just the beginning.