Hi, I'm trying to register in this forum but nothing seems to work, does anybody here have an active account and can't help me with something?

It's always infuriating to think about this, but I just stumbled across MIKIKO'S actual plans, including Perfume, in this very sub, 3 years ago.

Somehow I missed this, maybe some others did too and would also like to see them.

Perfume has been my hyperfixation for awhile so my autistic ass has been listening to the instrumentals over and over again. My favorite ones are definitely handy man and hurly burly ^-^

I'm sitting here watching the Plasma concert DVD (while waiting for my copy of Nebula Romance to ship!) and I see that everyone is wearing masks. 😷

Were you required to mask up at this year's concerts? I'm just curious.

Just listened to part of this interesting interview recently posted by u/vrtlspc. Around 12:30 they make the mind blowing announcement that the setlist for each show will be different - something like "108 different variations" (not yet fully decided) and no one will know which show they'll see.

Big challenges for Perfume and all the creators and crew for the first installment of their anniversary shows! 🤩

So ... it seems obvious the show will not just be Nebula Romance, unless there are lots of unreleased tracks. But still, how could they mix up the tracks for the "story" into different orders? (Though the story might be nonlinear.)

A few weeks ago I was hoping that they would insert songs from throughout their career into the story, like Electro World, Spring of Life, Cosmic Explorer, etc., as appropriate. Maybe? But again how would they do the variations?

Or maybe the first half (of Episode 1) will be a career retrospective with all the variations, and then the second half will then be Nebula Romance? That would certainly work for me!

About a year and a half ago, someone posted an image of Perfume standing in front of a burning car. The image is obviously photoshopped and was created as an "April Fools" joke.

While browsing through various images of Perfume, I finally came across the original source image for Perfume.

Using reverse image search, I was able to determine that the image was from a magazine. April 2009 issue of Ongaku to Hito.

Mystery finally solved.

Just thought I’d share this - Perfume was interviewed about the new album on the radio program “Osakan Hot 100” on October 20th. Around 10:40 in the video, the host asks about the second half of “Nebula Romance”. A-chan says that the recording style was different this time and that another director oversaw when they were recording vocals while Nakata-san was fully immersed in production. This meant that they had more freedom to interpret the songs themselves when singing. She said that they recorded many tracks for both parts and she likes a lot of them, but they still don’t know anything about what will be chosen for Episode 2 by Nakata. She also says that 10 songs isn’t enough to fit all of the songs that she likes (she mentions several times that they’ve recorded a lot of good songs for the project).

Side note - earlier in the interview, she mentions that she is drawn to more melodic songs and says “IMA IMA IMA” is the track that stands out to her from Episode 1.

https://youtu.be/NKTomGkGhfY?si=_HCnjlcVgkFXIz3_

I wanted to post this on the Facebook group but I think people there don't wanna see a bloody Nic Cage 😆

https://preview.redd.it/5gaw9thewdvd1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0797693b121d34bdb12af103e93dc16b7ac3eb19

Fansub preview here
Full fansub hereLyrics page

Where to begin? When the teaser was released a few weeks ago, I didn't expect Cosmic Treat to be the song chosen to represent Nebula Romance: Part 1, Perfume's celebratory 20 & 25th anniversary album. I was so sure it was going to be IMA IMA IMA. Hopefully we get something for that song too, because the choreo is so good!

Like the rest of the space-opera-soundtrack-themed album, Perfume's vocals aren't synthesized in their usual style which seems to be a deliberate choice to highlight them as human. Although I adore the sound Nakata creates for them by simplifying their singing during the recording process, it’s been such a treat that he actually let them sing in their natural voices for this album. Because we all know these girls can actually SING.

This video is so vibrant and creative, and probably the highest Concept they've ever gone with an album and a video together. I loved seeing the little robot companion slice of life scenes in between the action. Yuka and A-chan both got cute robot dates, I'm so jelly.

The story is shown in a non-linear way, so there's a lot to speculate. It feels like maybe they're the only three humans (The Three Miracles, as Mr. Mic calls them) in this world (or so they thought), trained to fight against an evil robot army. The show performance and date scenes may be showing the peace that was achieved as a result of their battle. But clearly, this isn't the end.

Happy Anniversary, Perfume! Such a long career and friendship between them. Can't wait to see what else they dream up.

Translation notes:

In the lyrics “our spaceship floats”, the kanji shown is 宇宙船 (uchuusen) meaning "spaceship". But what's sung is 船 (fune) meaning boat/ship. I’m assuming this is either a stylistic choice to use a different kanji to represent a word (happens commonly in lyrics), or somehow the official lyrics contained a past version of that verse.

At 2:16, the “Mother Robot” (as I’m calling her lol) character’s screen reads, translated:

𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚜 𝙸 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕.

𝙸'𝚖 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢’𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚎.

𝙰𝚜 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜,
𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐.
𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚋𝚊𝚍 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚎.
𝙼𝚢 𝚍𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜* 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗'𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚢𝚎𝚝.

*musume can mean "girls" or "daughters." I'm leaning into the motherly feeling I get from the robot who apparently trained them to fight. (Will there be a betrayal in part 2?)

I know that there is a tier maker somewhere that goes as far as Polygon Wave, but I would much rather get my hands on a proper sorter. What I mean is one of those 1v1 sorters where you chose your favourite out of two songs and eventually get them all ranked based on your choices.

I've wanted to do this for all Perfume songs for a while now but I can't find anything to help me.

For me, I feel like a song people don’t give enough attention to is Clockwork(my first perfume song) and Sweet donuts. Old but gold fr

Hi, so a few months ago I had discovered the world of J-pop idol groups and came across perfume. I listened to Mirai no museum and loved it as well as their new Cosmic Treat (Which was also good :D). I love the group's sound, it feels very refreshing. I would love to stan them, any advice?

English is not my native language, am i missing something or is it just wrong? Lol

Anything know if Perfume wear pantyhose at their concerts or they always dance with a bare legs? 🧐

Sorry for the weird question. 🙏

But I actually like to know it. I suppose that they had used bare legs in it's concerts since 2018 except in the Pcubed Tour (2020). But I don't know if they use bare legs before 2018.

What is your assumption Perfume Fans from Reddit? (Let me know it, please). 🤔

Im a new fan and I AM NOW FIXATED TO THEM ! I've been listening to their songs ON REPEAT (Computer City is the GOAT) especially their live performances on youtube. The one thing that I'm sad about is THERE IS NOT MUCH CONTENT ON THESE DIVAS?!?!?! Like Im really trying to dig myself a perfume rabbit hole here but i cant find ANYY AT ALL?!?!! PLS I WANNA KNOW MORE AB THEEMM !!! (Even on tiktok there isn't anyyy lol)

Hey guys, I need your help. I've been looking for a specific performance by Perfume for many weeks now. It was on December 26th, 2008 at Music Station Super Live. The songs polyrhythm and love the world were played. What was special about the performance were huge white balloons that flew through the audience. Does anyone know where else I can see/find this performance?

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No idea about the origin of this clip, but wonderful stuff!

(Spoiler tag in case this somehow violates rules? Not sure TBH)

Mods, I hope this post is okay. 😅

I loved it when KASHIYUKA cut her hair and donated it to a charity, I thought that it was very classy and kind of her.

But not being Japanese, I thought her new hairstyle was a maiko style, since I've often seen it worn by priestesses in TV shows and anime. I didn't realize the significance of it until I stumbled upon this article just now. It makes her even more elegant in my eyes! 💚💙💜

I'm going to put the link in the first comment, since I don't want to seem like I'm advertising for the link's website.