Hi! I just discovered that Perfume will perform in Tokyo when I'm there for a solo trip i'm doing. I've wanted to visit Tokyo since I was a child, and I have casually listened to Perfume alongside many other J-Pop acts for almost two decades now. I would love to see them live when I'm there, but I can't for the life of me find where to get tickets or any information on resale tickets. Give me your best knowledge!

I’m truly dying to know. I’ll go first.

Mirror Ball is perfect. Like there isn’t a single thing I’d change about it. It’s the quintessential Perfume song. Techno, but with an acoustic guitar, upbeat yet mysterious with not one but two melodic interludes. It’s Dream Fighter levels or amazing.

SMALL EDIT: the song is actually called ‘Mawaru Kagame / マワルカガミ. And I should explain I’m referring to the Polygon Wave Live / Flow single version.

I am going to visit Japan for the holidays and I am planning to go to Hiroshima for a bit. I was wondering if there are any Perfume related memorabilia, merchandise stores, or music shops in Hiroshima that I should visit?

Promotion for the upcoming 「のっちはゲームがしたい！」/

"NOCCHi Wants to Play Games" book

https://x.com/Nocchi_Book/status/1859937531430866993

finally a place where I can have their albums lol

Perfume not on list of artists appearing in the 75th NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen.

I know that in today's world, music listening seems to be focused in on the single. But growing up in a time before the internet, when you bought an album and typically listened to it in its entirety - I've found that there are artists out there who do still seem to care about the selection of the tracks that make the final cut so they have a cohesive sound and theme. Then when you listen, you can fully appreciate what said artist was trying to accomplish with their recording.

I said all this to say that while mowing a 20+ acre field over the course of a couple of days for hay several weeks ago, I discovered that listening to Plasma and then Nebula Romance in their entirety one after the other was one of the most enjoyable listening experiences I've had in a while. I've got a little Kyocera flip phone and I have the albums on there in mp3s, and well, you can't really be messing with a phone while you're out there, so I hit play and let it roll. It might be because of the completely different sound and mood both albums evoke, but its like this natural progression to finish up Sayonara Plastic World and go right into The Light. I became a fan in between Future Pop and Plasma releasing, so even though I've went back and listened to previous albums, actively I've only experienced the ladies' career with these two albums.

It's kind of a random thought I had, and maybe it only works for me, but I've done it multiple times since then.

Front: Linear Motor Girl, Computer City, Electro World

Back: Linear Motor Girl, Computer City, Electro World

Inside + Obi: Linear Motor Girl, Computer City, Electro World

Kinda impulse buy. New old stock in perfect condition.

Does anyone have a link to their first ever debut performance??

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?)