Founding fathers:

Capital City: Tarakarta

Population: 62,626,262

Government: A'hokage-an

Current A'hokage:

Quercus Alba

A-Konohagakure's A'hokage-an Rock:

1st A'hokage: Liang Bao

2nd A'hokage: Mirai Sarutobi

3rd A'hokage: Quercus Alba

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, including their personalities and natures; or actual events is purely coincidental.

Edited Saturday at 18:502 days by CowTzy

Main contest:

BJSC 174: Uru - Ambivalent (DNQ)

BJSC 175: Nora En Pure - Memories (3rd)

Edited June 10Jun 10 by CowTzy

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BJSC 174: Uru - Ambivalent

Lyrics: Uru

Composer: YAS

Arranger: Hayato Tanaka

About:

"Ambivalent is a J-Pop song by the Japanese singer Uru, which also became the second opening theme for the anime Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The Apothecary Diaries) season 1.

Arguably, “Ambivalent” is considered one of the most “pure pop” sounding J-Pop songs ever in both the anime scene and the 2020s."

Video:

Anime version:

Edited April 16Apr 16 by CowTzy

Intrigued by this new change in direction! Will we continue to see some Eastovkan legacy live on?

2 hours ago, awardinary said:

Intrigued by this new change in direction! Will we continue to see some Eastovkan legacy live on?

It will probably be identical to Eastovka, but we're just giving a little bit of restriction so other artists might get better spotlight (and other countries won't consider ourselves 'too cheap').

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BJSC 174: Nora En Pure - Memories

Producer: Nora En Pure, H1RT

About:

"Following the country’s disappointing debut, A-Konohagakure has decided to pay homage to South Danaelanda and Land of DW by sending their former artist, also a BJSC winner, Nora En Pure, a South African-born DJ and producer based in Switzerland.

A-Konohagakure will continue the late Eastovkan legacy by being a country focusing on Asian music and big energy dance/electronic stuff, yet being more successful in their non-comfort subgenres."

Video:

Progressive Pick by ASOT:

Edited May 23May 23 by CowTzy

Another beautiful piece from her, I definitely should get round to checking out more from her back catalogue sometime.

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BJSC 176: Kanine - Feel The Vibration

Producer: Kanine

Lyrics & Composer: Andreas Krüger, Charlotte Haining, Sam Harper

About:

A-Konohagakure's writer is extremely busy with his 41 seasonal anime, I hope everyone understand.

Video:

Edited August 2Aug 2 by CowTzy

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BJSC 177: Phuture Noize - Hyperspace

Producer & Lyrics: Marco Spronk (Phuture Noize)

Vocalist: Teal Fisher

About:

A-Konohagakure's writer is extremely busy with his 41 40 seasonal anime (he dropped the new Necronomico anime), I hope everyone understand.

Video:

Edited August 30Aug 30 by CowTzy

Congrats on getting such an out and out hardstyle entry into the final, I'm rooting for it from the sidelines!

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BJSC 180: Sukatani - Tumbal Proyek

Producer & Lyrics: Alectroguy and Twister Angel

(This is written before the revelation)

Ending this year's BJSC, A-Konohagakure decided to continue the tradition of Eastovka, which is to send at least one Indonesian artist/band every year. After holding our National Finals, namely "Konoha Mencari Bakat (Konoha's Looking For Talent)", Sukatani won both the fan and jury votes with their song Tumbal Proyek, their first ever post-2023 album single, which also served as the original soundtrack of the Indonesian film "Angkara Murka (Mad of Madness)."

Sukatani received sudden positive attention earlier this year in February via Fantano on X (formerly Twitter), but not in a way the Indonesians were proud of. One of the album tracks from their debut LP, Bayar Bayar Bayar, a song about police corruption in Indonesia, was pulled from the streaming platforms because of the 'little threats' they received from the aforementioned institute. The duo, consisting of vocalist Twister Angel (initially working as a teacher at a private Islamic school in Central Java before being forced to resign) and guitarist-producer Alectroguy, even released an unmasked apology video believed to have been recorded under threat.

Tumbal Proyek is a new wave pop punk (dunno if it's the correct alt/indie subgenre x) track that criticises human sacrifice as portrayed in the film. While the theme may seem obscure and outdated, many developed countries in Southeast Asia are secretly still practicing this ritual. CowTzy, a die-hard festival dance/electronic fan since 2017, noted that Tumbal Proyek gives frenchcore vibes reminiscent of Re-Style, Sefa, and Dr. Peacock. The song is performed in the Javanese language, similar to Eastovka's Bunga Bangsa entry (Prahara Rusaking Jagad), but specifically in the Banyumasan dialect (Ngapak). The English translation of the lyrics can be found in the music video.

A-Konohagakure is extremely aware that with FSR Rontvia hosting, this edition will inevitably be another bloodbath, so we would be grateful if you considered voting for us and Sukatani so that the positive exposure from here could help them perform overseas, like Voice of Baceprot!

What the 'losing heroines' were about:

White Chorus - Mungkin -> Song about self-regrets and self-motivation which mentions the optimism of us Southeast Asians with our mother's prayers. White Chorus is also one of the Indonesian music groups that is against the wave of Indonesian ballad singers, with them leaning more toward electropop.

Bernadya, JKT48 - Percik Kecil -> Made it to the National Finals dedicated to the late songwriter Gusti Irwan Wibowo, who died this year aged 25. Bernadya is mostly known for her ballad indie pop/folk music from last year. In this song, she challenged herself to perform typical Japanese idol-like music alongside the Indonesian branch of AKB48.

You baited me successfully

Willing this to do well x