About this episode
The episode celebrates the arrival of Spring by discussing cherry blossom trees and related idol songs.
Celebrating the arrival of Spring, we discuss the ephemeral and beguiling majesty of cherry blossom trees along with three sakura themed idol songs: Morning Musume's SAKURA MANKAI, Sakurazaka46’s SAKURAZUKI and AKB48’s JYUUNEN ZAKURA. For the full episode, join us for just five dollars a month at patreon.com/imsopopular where you’ll receive hundreds of hours of paywalled episodes, access to the SIRENS aftershow and membership to the Discord.
People in this episode
Host: Zach Langley Chi Chi
Topics covered
- cherry blossoms
- Spring
- idol songs
- Japanese culture
- ephemeral beauty
Keywords
- cherry blossoms
- Spring
- idol songs
- Morning Musume
- Sakurazaka46
- AKB48
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: SAKURA MANKAI, SAKURAZUKI, JYUUNEN ZAKURA
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