Cinema Trip First-Class Edition Bonus Disc

With both their airline and diner businesses failing, our heroes took up a new hobby of being rowdy at movies

So there isn't much to this at all - just the video for Playground. It's pretty great; Aqua catches a flight on PASSPO☆ Airlines, where she drifts off to sleep after watching a horror movie and being poisoned with a "Zombie Virus" drink. She has a nightmare where the other girls are all zombies and make her one of them and they dance up a storm. I'm not sure it is a good advertisement for the service you can expect on PASSPO☆ Airlines. Unless you are wanting to become a zombie? I mean, I guess it's an added bonus feature other airlines just aren't offering these days.

The dance shot version is even better because this choreography is FIRE.

With only one video on the disc, I decided to watch all the other videos from this era:

Mr. Wednesday just involves PASSPO☆ being cute - getting ready for their day and playing music and dancing.

ラブリフレイン is just Band PASSPO☆ jamming the song and dancing.

7's Up is fun video from live performance.

バチェロレッテは終わらない is another great video; it's announced on the PASSPO☆ World Evening News that White is going to get married. The other girls see this on TV so throw her a bachelorette party, which involves ridiculous gifts like baseballs bats and hula hoops. And a lot of drinking. And they shoot Aqua out of a canon. The making of this looked seriously fun.

ギミギミaction is actually the greatest music video ever. Me writing about it doesn't do any justice. But I will say Red puts on the performance of a lifetime as Purple's douchebag boyfriend causing trouble for the PASSPO☆ family at Christmas. Orange also make for a super cute dog.

So one video on that DVD really wasn't enough. They should have included all of them, because they are actually good. Well, Playground and バチェロレッテは終わらない are, and ギミギミaction is amazing.

Highlights:
Red and Yellow portraying convincing Japanese men, the choreography in Playground

Lowlights:
All this should have been on the DVD

5 / 7 Glowsticks

Cinema Trip

PASSPO☆ Airlines: Now travelling to over 6 Movie Cinemas Worldwide

And then there were 7.

It's the last day of PASSPO☆ week and we are doing a double feature of sorts. Starting with their final album, Cinema Trip. Our opening track for this is Popcorn Bought? White invites us to join them on a trip to enjoy different types of movies and then this track just rocks up a storm. I said it before and I'll say it again - these opening instrumentals just got better and better and right here was the peak.

Now we kick things off proper with Music Navigation and you know you're in store for a special time. I like that each girl gets a real solid moment. They all get even more in 7's Up - where each girl does an introduction for the next girl. Best I can tell; Orange sucks at dieting and is the oldest, Red is fire at guitar, White uses hashtags and likes games, Yellow drinks water and has muscles, Blue travels the world, Aqua looks like a child and Purple dances and is married to PASSPO☆ forever.

Playground is this gothic horror dance masterpiece, with lyrics about zombies and monsters and music that channels horror scores. It's like WING crossed with Sophie Ellis-Bextor or something. Also the dance shot video is fucking BAAAAADAAAAAASSS. Mr. Wednesday is almost the opposite vibe - it's just straight up pop fun. Like a Beef or Chicken? song without the punk-styles. It's one of those songs where you think 'meh' but then it gets going and before you know it, you're singing along and having a great time. 

ラブリフレイン is a quiet little love song, but things immediately get back to the rockin' with NASA! 〜なんであいつ好きなんだ、嗚呼〜. It's pretty darn heavy.  And so is 不屈のレジスタンス. It's almost a Yellow solo song - I don't hear much of anyone else in there at all. If they're there, Yellow is overpowering them. WEEKDAY QUEENS is a bit more back on the pop-punk fun times track. The sort of song that makes LOGMAN sign into a hairbrush around his room. マイノリティー・ヒーロー is back to the heavy shit, except this time it's Purple giving it some attitude. Then we hit ギミギミaction for one of the absolute funnest PASSPO☆ songs on the planet. Then we get フィルム which is one of the most beautiful songs they've done. I wanna say pop-punk anthem but it really is more of a pop-punk power ballad. .

And we end the album with バチェロレッテは終わらない. It's the number one song in my iTunes and in my heart.

So it goes without saying this is my favourite album. While I can admit now that Beef or Chicken? is actually a slightly stronger album (ラブリフレイン does not measure up to the rest of the album), I will also readily admit that I will always love this album more and the awesomest songs are just that bit more awesome than the awesomest songs on Beef or Chicken? JEJEJEJET!! and Beef or Chicken? both have that 1-2 punch at the end, but Cinema Trip has the triple-threat of ギミギミaction, フィルム AND バチェロレッテは終わらない. If that's not enough to make album the top of your list, then you're doomed and just let me dance on your grave again. Playground might be more suitable for that!

Highlights:
Music Navigation, 7's Up, Playground, ギミギミaction, フィルム , バチェロレッテは終わらない

Lowlights:
The last album PASSPO☆ will ever release

7 / 7 Glowsticks

PASSPO☆ - Let the Good Times End

So fun facts:

A year ago, I discovered PASSPO☆ - a super fun Japanese idol group. Now, normally idol music is really not my thing. But PASSPO☆ just so happen to make music that is pure super fun pop punk goodness and I can't help but listen to it all the time. And their gimmick is they are flight attendants, and I'm a bit of a sucker for gimmicks. Anyways, their album Cinema Trip is brilliant. Second best album of 2017, in my opinion.

So a year ago they released their last single, Stand Up Girls! (すてんだっぷガールズ！～第1話 ダメダメ怪獣にご用心～). It was my first exposure to PASSPO☆. It is awesome.

Today, their song Bachelorette wa Owaranai (バチェロレッテは終わらない) has become my most played song in iTunes, knocking 3eb's Shipboard Cook off the top spot after 3 years. I haven't even had the Cinema Trip album in my iTunes for a year - it's just that darn fun.

And today, PASSPO☆ will perform their final concert.

It's kind of my own little PASSPO☆ circle. I'm sad they are disbanding, but that just seems to be what happens to every Japanese band I become a fan of. I was disappointed to miss them in concert during my trips to Japan and now I won't get the chance. But at least I will always have their super fun pop punk music to make smile. And it's ever so fitting that they take the top spot in my iTunes library on the day they go their separate ways.

Safe travels, PASSPO☆. Logman is your passenger for life!