Kpop: CocoSori (코코소리)

New duo CocoSori starts off with Dark Circles which is a great video if you like stuff like Orange Caramel and som jpop groups does - ie colorful and slightly weird in a cute way. They started of doing cosplay, which also gave them the chance to be the first kpop group to use Atsuko Kudo latex clothes.
The song's theme seems to be about how broccoli can cure dark circles but this theme is taken into a crazy direction by the broccoli being played by a green man giving it a kind of slight romantic undertone which is just great fun, especially as the girls play their roles with great gusto. They seem to have been into some cosplay too, but I'm not a 100% sure. Great start anyway!

• CocoSori - Dark Circle (다크서클)
• CocoSori - Exquisite! (절묘해)
• CocoSori - from the school idol project

Jpop: Vanilla Beans (バニラビーンズ)

To be honest, in general, in general I don't like the kind of bland retroesque style that Risa and Rena in Vanilla Beans are a part of, but their latest video (after the switch from their indie label to Avex) is so good that I have to admit to watching it now and then.

• Vanilla Beans - Onna wa Sore wo Gaman Shinai (女はそれを我慢しない)
• Vanilla Beans - Love & Hate
• Vanilla Beans - Cup no Fuchico kōshiki Song (コップのフチ子公式ソング)
• Vanilla Beans - Ecstatic Girls (有頂天ガール)
• Vanilla Beans - Vi er røde, vi er hvide (バニラビーンズ, Yes, the Danish national anthem!)

Kpop: Dal Shabet - Someone like U (너 같은)

The talented girls of Dal Shabet is back and this time they've got a song from the successful Brave Brothers. Doing 80s retro is quite popular at the moment in kpop, but what makes me like SOmeone like U is that it actually try to hold back slightly and make the sound a little more complicated and, by doin that, creating a more interesting sound. Still, it's a song to be enjoyed here and now, while the retro wave haven't peaked this time around.

• Dal Shabet - Someone like U (너 같은)

Jpop: FEMM - PoW!

Stylized due FEMM from Japan was my favorite Japanese act in their debut year 2014, with an extremely high output of high quality videos and all of them in english. Now they are back with the new "PoW!" and it continues in the same great fashion. This time the theme is comics, and I would say in an American setting from the lyrics and visual cues. The whole project of FEMM is obviously geared towards the international/American nerd scene and as such may feel a bit too obvious this time (pretentious) but in the end I love it for its quality of delivery.

• FEMM -  PoW!