THIS WAS UNEXPECTED!! | BAND-MAIKO / secret MAIKO lips | Fables reaction

[@dazedandconfused318]

Gion Cho is the only original song and has an MV, arguably the best song on the EP

[@lazareinvisible]

As long as you allow it to be counted (which I do), it is a top 10 song overall for me. Love Gion-Cho.

[@bandmaidfanATL]

1:22 it says "World Domination" of course, Po! 🕊

[@jjo154]

"I want more of this". Don't we all!

[@JimboLana]

I love when Kanami is dancing and can't stay still while playing. Just love her style

[@Davey-Boyd]

Here's the full story. A Maiko (you pronounced it correct) is a trainee Geisha from Kyoto. This was an April fools joke by the band. On April 1st 2018 the Band-Maid website and You Tube channel was taken down and replaced by Band-Maiko. All music was removed and replaced with this MV. They stated this was their new direction. They also don't sing in normal Japanese dialect, they sing in Kyoto dialect. They also changed their names: Saiki became Fujiki Miku became Hatoko Kanami became Kanoemi MISA became Umemisa Akane became Akatsuki They have only ever played Band-Maiko songs live in Kyoto during Band-Maid servings. In 2019 they did it again on April 1st releasing the MV to "Gion-Cho" - the only Band-Maiko original. They also released a seven track EP of Band-Maid covers with added traditional instruments plus "Gion-Cho" "Secret Maiko Lips" (Band-Maids "Secret My Lips") "Akasimahen" (Band-Maids "Awkward") "Ansan" (Band-Maids "Anemone") "Tora and Tora" (Band-Maids "One and Only") "Yolosiosu" (Band-Maids "YOLO") "Screaming" (Band-Maids "Screaming") "Gion Cho" The only band I know that formed a covers band of themselves!

[@daaaaaave]

Incidentally, regarding the name Hatoko, Hato means pigeon, and Ko means child (and is a common ending to Japanese female names). It's the same kanji for hato and the bato in Kobato (the ko is different. It means small in Kobato). She essentially just switched the order of the sounds.

[@Davey-Boyd]

@@daaaaaave Cool! Thanks!

[@tasminoben686]

Dankeschön für die interessanten Infos sehr sehr Funny! Habe ich noch nicht gewusst! It Makes my Day! Ben P. O!😂🎉

[@BlahBlah_13]

Ya gotta respect the commitment to the bit

[@BillHallisey]

Isn't it amazing that an April Fool's Day joke turns into a full-fledged albums show-casing and highlighting Japanese culture and it's beauty in a hard-rock format. WHO DOES THAT? Band-Maid is so damned innovative. they can do no wrong!!!!!

[@HaroMatsuRestarted]

Gion-cho is the only BAND-MAIKO original song. There are 7 songs on the album “BAND-MAIKO”, where 6 songs are covered/MAIKO-nized BAND-MAID song: - secret MAIKO lips (original: secret My lips) - Tora and Tora (original: One and Only) - YOLOSIOSU (original: YOLO) - ansan (original: anemone) - Akashimahen (original: Awkward) - Screaming (original: screaming) - Gion-Cho (BAND-MAIKO original)

[@bandmaidfanATL]

4:50 There is only one song unique to Band-Maiko, and it has the only other video, "Goin-Cho."

[@k3w1b3an5]

Band-Maiko makes Band-Maid look like amateurs. . Band-Maiko is truly the best rock band on the planet.

[@laughingbuddha2948]

As a toddler, my mother once lifted me out of the deep end of the swimming pool by my ears. Let me do you the same courtesy...They are the same!

[@k3w1b3an5]

@@laughingbuddha2948 no way !!! Seriously ?

[@JK-tz6kk]

We always "Hope" on every 4/1/20XX...like its Christmas morning, Ko! 🦍🍌

[@jonathanaraos9409]

Umemisa's "leg tap"... at 5:40. Finally somebody noticed it. That's the coolest shot of the whole video for me

[@waynebenedict5785]

I noticed!

[@bocatampere]

Kanami is genius. She can create just anything what comes to mind ❤️

[@armynurseboy]

If you like the traditional/metal fusion, check out Wakkagi Band. This is their full time schtick.

[@topographic1973ify]

GI-ONCHO is also very good if you want another Band Maiko video. I have the mini album, it's excellent. Best rock band on the planet.

[@schelin1447]

Miku's text in the beginning translates to something in the style of World Domination! There's an EP of BAND-MAIKO released in 2019 and it's fantastic.

[@rRobR]

The only band that can go toe to toe with the Maids

[@Kalis0420]

Gioncho!

[@BillHallisey]

"Gion cho", the official music video, is well worth a reaction.

[@waynebenedict5785]

Band-Maiko is the flip side of the same awesome coin that has Band-Maid on it! Here is a link to "Gion Cho", the only original song from Band-Maiko, and it's awesome! kzbin.info/www/bejne/q562pWqlgrqAmdU Enjoy!

[@zer0tzer0]

Don't forget their other video, 'Gion-Cho'. It's an original BAND-MAIKO song and not a remake of a BAND-MAID song. The BAND-MAIKO prank only lasted a couple of years before The COVID Clampdown When thigs opened up again they had moved on. That year instead of saying they were turning into BAND-MAIKO, they said that Miku was going solo as Cluppo. Don't forget to check out her videos. They're great too. There's also a Making Of 'Gion-Cho' video.

[@TomClark-Futoura]

The Maids are not only masters at genre melding, transitions, riff production, structure and execution... they are also masters of cultural melding. Maidiacs are MAIKOACS, too! 😆Thx, Fab!

[@Prober61]

Gion Cho is exclusive. It's a great song too. They're so pretty dressed like this. Different is another Band-Maid song written for Log Horizon season 3 anime. Check it out.

[@polskabob359]

They only have 1 other video from the maikos, gion cho

[@_JimS]

I don't know how on earth Akane kept a straight face while MISA was doing her yoooooooooWup! I think that's how you spell it. I think Akane was on the verge both times. Yeah, the original has some of the best kick work by Akane....what a Banger! The QUEEN of the Shamisen here- kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIOTqqisapaNfs0

[@sugaanessena3143]

Band-Maiko is the only band that matches the level of Band-Maid.

[@ziggyphoto]

Fables, since you’re venturing down the Band-Maid pigeon hole, why not react to Ohrenje’s documentaries on each of the five members of the band. I believe the order to view them is Kanami, Saiki, Akane, and Miku who has three parts to hers. I think you would enjoy them.

[@elliott8339]

Thanks for the reaction and comments. The only rock band better than Band-Maid is Band-Maiko. And since you asked, check out Gion-Cho. It's an absolute must. Cheers!

[@pohojisan1287]

Nice to meet you. I always enjoy looking at your works. I am Japanese and I would like to explain the lyrics used in this song. (I always try to comment on Band-Maiko's reactions with this explanation, so I know some of the viewers who read this comment section have already read it somewhere else, but I'll post it here as well.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In all the songs of BAND-MAIKO, Saiki uses the word called "京ことば Kyo-kotoba (Kyoto dialect)". The Kyo-kotoba has many special phrases that are different from the so-called "Kansai-ben (Kansai region dialect. Kyoto is included in the Kansai region)", and even if you are from Kyoto, it is not a word that ordinary people other than maiko and geisha use on a daily basis. Many maiko are not from Kyoto, but when working as a maiko in Kyoto, it is not desirable to use the dialect of the region in which they were born and raised. Therefore, the training content of Maiko includes the acquisition of this Kyo-kotoba. The Kyo-kotoba is, so to speak, a "common language" for maiko and geisha. ※ "Maiko (Pronunciation is my-ko)" means a person in the apprenticeship stage of Geiko (Geisha). The Japanese instrumental sounds used are 三味線　Shamisen A Shamisen is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian. It is played with a plectrum called a Bachi. 琴　Koto Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding board and usually 13 silk strings that are plucked with the fingers. 和太鼓　Wadaiko Japanese drums. 篠笛　Shinobue A traditional Japanese woodwind instrument, that is a simple bamboo cross flute made of thin bamboo called shinodake with a hole for blowing into and a finger hole in the mouth. 尺八　Shakuhachi A shakuhach is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo. However, in fact, the actual instruments are not used, but rather the composer/guitarist KANAMI typed the sounds of the Japanese traditional instruments.

[@polskabob359]

Oh hey band of maids thats an awesome song u got there, be ashamed if someone were to steal it and make it a thousand times better, signed the maikos, unamisa howl out

[@polskabob359]

Unamisa howl

[@lurkmerchant]

My favourite maiko songs are Akashimahen (it's not maiko original but sounds so vastly different from the original) and Gion-cho! Love the part the echoey effect on "further, further..." part which really takes me far away where Misa and Kanami, or Akane doing the little dance.

[@mikeholmes5308]

The prank was them telling the world that this was their new look that they were going with from now on. No longer maids, but apprentice geishas (maiko)... geishas being traditional female Japanese entertainers. What's interesting is that there's a western tendency to assume that geishas were much like their contemporaries in the 18th and 19th century West, courtesans, with whom there are perhaps some superficial similarities. However, where courtesans were definitely sex workers, there's not a lot of evidence of this with geishas. Still, we have to be sure that the girls knew the western reputation when they decided to take on the roles here. As always they play with gender assumptions about female roles. Which is awesome.

[@mikeholmes5308]

Releasing the EP sold the prank, and a lot of fans flipped out for a few days. :)

[@armynurseboy]

Oiran were the Japanese equivalent of the courtesans. They dressed similarly to geisha, hence the confusion between the two roles. Geisha COULD engage in sexual relations with a sponsor/client if she chose to, but it was not usually part of her services.

[@gordowg1wg145]

Hmmm, might be a good time for you to check out "The Wagakki Band"?