(Group) Cruel Angels [Beckii Cruel]

[pikapikapika]

Okay, so the cat is out of the bag now, Cruel Angels are here!

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-18/british-anime-net-dancer-beckii-cruel-forms-girl-band

I'm sure lots of people already know who Beckii is, so I don't have to explain!
Beckii's DVD: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TKBA-1132

And here is the upcoming Cruel Angels single V: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TKCA-73509

The article doesn't mention it, but all three are actually Youtube dancers, here are their links:

Beckii: http://www.youtube.com/user/xBextahx

Sara: http://www.youtube.com/user/HelloPeachS

Gemma: http://www.youtube.com/user/KittySweetVideos

[daigong]

 Beckii Cruel - Young Jump (2010 No.11)

     
internet phenom in Japan

[kawaii beam]

i'm at mixed emotions with this girl, i mean, i am happy for them, like extreamly,cus they've done what millions of girls want to do. but at the same time they're not that great. i mean of course i'm not expecting them to sing on key and have like a awesoem japanese accent and dance like ai-chan or something but c'mon. if anything they should've been practicing and such alot more before this.
there are other "crule angels" that could probably dance and sing better than them,(look at lunacherry for example. that girl ROCKS!)but we all cant get waht we want^^;

hopefuly noone thinks of this as ubber negative cus i'm still happy for them^^

[Amplifier]

what is this i dont even

im jealous

[kuro808]

honestly what makes her any different than other dancers to anime music, she has the very little talent so i am wondering how this will last

[shurastriker]

whoch one is your friend pika?

[pikapikapika]

Sarah is my friend, also I can update with some more info now, haha.

Don't worry about being negative Kawaii Beam, most people are! Beckii apparently finds it all hilarious so it doesn't bother her, I'm told she's actually a really nice person.
It's funny you mention Lunacherry, she's also my friend and part of 'cruel girls' which is a larger group of youtube girls, even Laura Vanamo the Finnish Koharu girl is part of it!

http://twitter.com/BeckiiCruel has lots of links and stuff on it

http://twitter.com/SarahCruel and Sarah has a twitter too, she's awesome

The cruel angels/girls all have livedoor blogs now too:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/johannacruel
http://blog.livedoor.jp/beckiicruel
http://blog.livedoor.jp/sarahcruel
http://blog.livedoor.jp/gemmacruel
http://blog.livedoor.jp/pamelacruel
http://blog.livedoor.jp/amandacruel
http://blog.livedoor.jp/kimicruel
http://blog.livedoor.jp/maxinecruel
http://blog.livedoor.jp/rebekahcruel
http://blog.livedoor.jp/karencruel

and that's not all of them either, haha.

[shurastriker]

well i wish them luck

[shadowstar]

It's not even my dream to be a Japanese idol, and yet I still don't like them. I can't wait until Beckii's 15mins of fame are over. "Top the charts" my ass. They barely just sold over 900 copies.

[shirenuファクトリー]

Beckii actually has such a cool attitude that she's won me over. Of course at first my reaction was the same as everyone else's, "DO NOT WANT"

Watched a bunch of videos that were linked at her twitter and she actually does seem cute and nice and down to earth, lol

So no hate from me :3

Also I'm extremely interested in whether her career will work out or not, and how things are gonna go from here - snowball bigger or result in fading to obscurity? IDK it's fascinating to see how far this can go.

[shadowstar]

Hate aside, I am also quite interested to see how her career will go. It's 50/50 definitely.

Some people are saying it'll just be a one-time thing and eventually people will get over her. OR the complete opposite, she'll surprise everyone by getting more and more popular and it'll go from there.

[shirenuファクトリー]

^ Yup absolutely, and the reason why I'm becoming more and more interested is because she has (as far as I know) already been featured much more in media than Magibon and that other girl (who was on Haromoni, the video section). I mean fuckin BEAT TAKESHI knows who she is and she got to meet Sayumi, who is her FAN? It really looks like she's on the verge of getting adopted into the J-idol world. I'm so curious to find out what happens next

[shadowstar]

[kawaii beam]

yeah lunachery's my frind on yt as well,but i dont know her that well^^;

it's just epic that she's getting popular now, but i guess it's just the fact that someone like her is in the same agency as perfume...idk
i mean, it's cool that she actualy doesnt care what ppl think cus it's only their oppinion, maybe i'm just the poorman's ver of a jp fan(since there's no way i have as many clothes as she does ) or i'm jealous or just happy for her,but i think i'm just kinda bitter,cus everyone alway's loves a skiny blonde white girl(and i'm black XDD)and yes i know not all of the cruel girls  have blonde hair
did this make sense?

[pikapikapika]

Oh no, kawaii beam, I don't mean youtube friends, we've been good friends for more than a year, I met Sarah through Johanna since they're both good friends, then all this Cruel Angels stuff happened later on, I'm really happy for them

Well, I think one main problem about them selling so badly was little promotion, Beckii wasn't even in Japan to promote the single until 4 days after it came out, and that's where all these recent videos are coming from, meeting Sayumi, etc. The other reason may just be that it was too expensive since it was singleV only and not a single, haha. Maybe it will sell better this week.

I think the "they will top the charts" was just something the western media cooked up, because they were all saying it seems, I wonder who said that first, haha.

here's some videos!

B-side PV:


here's one whith most of the cruel angels in it!

who could of possibly made such a thing... >.>

[shurastriker]

the "they will top the charts" is just for the lulz right? i mean, c'mon there is no way they can beat the jhonnys... not even trying.

btw who is this magicbon?

[pikapikapika]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magibon

and even though this site is just to make fun of people, it probably has more information, haha.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/MRirian

[shirenuファクトリー]

Even Finnish media was talking about Beckii like she's some sort of a super star already. I hate so-called journalism today, it's just fricking lies and exaggerations.

Beckii herself has never called herself any of those things, or said stuff like that, so it would be kinda silly to blame her for it.

i mean, it's cool that she actualy doesnt care what ppl think cus it's only their oppinion, maybe i'm just the poorman's ver of a jp fan(since there's no way i have as many clothes as she does ) or i'm jealous or just happy for her,but i think i'm just kinda bitter,cus everyone alway's loves a skiny blonde white girl(and i'm black XDD)and yes i know not all of the cruel girls  have blonde hair
did this make sense?

It makes sense to me if you feel bitter about that. If you're black it's going to be many times more difficult (almost impossible probably) to get a chance at an idol career in Japan. There was that black guy who sings enka songs, but he has a gimmick... :/ I wonder if anyone's ever written about black people in Japanese popular culture (probably yes). The academic side of me thinks it would make an interesting research subject. lol

I realized yesterday that Beckii is 10 years younger than I am. I looked at 1995 and suddenly felt so old. Haha Somehow it doesn't feel that bad if they say 14-year-old. But when you see the birth year, you start thinking stuff like "I remember 1995!!!! I read gaming magazines and had an annoying teacher" etc.

Basically I'm using this thread to babble about all this off-topic stuff. Sorry

[LaJon]

what is this i dont even

My reaction exactly.

[writerserenyty]

As someone who does H!P karaoke, I have to admit I'm jealous.
 
That is, until I make it into H!P, haha

However, she seems nice and down to Earth and I don't hate her for it unlike many other people I see. She seems cute and sweet.