Well ☺, Happy New Year guys,
We have no doubt that numerous activities including the launch of the shocking “let’s talk about Menkata Cottelee” MV which made the “makihara” subscribers (maximum the hormone harassment = makihara) cry “won’t say I want to fall in love again, absolutely no more” highlighted the powerful year 2018 in MTH history,

MTH took Japan by storm with live shows where head banging whirlpooled, performed at Fuji Rock Festival for the first time, also appeared in Air Jam for the first time in six years before announcing the tour break due to Daisukehan’s cervical disc herniation operation. MTH who changes tough times worth a laugh into opportunities have announced the launch of “VAP” MV, their decision on label transfer and their latest plan for “publishing” their next work. The second MV “maximum the hormone II- Let’s Talk about Menkata Cottelee” from the latest “published” work triggered harapeko’s appetite and craving-- and pushed the latest work to the top, No.1 of Oricon BOOK Ranking (comic and essay chart) for 3 consecutive weeks . Thanks a maximum !
Happy MTH wish to express their appreciation to all harapekos by sharing the full version MV of “maximum the hormone” on YouTube. Hope you enjoy ☺

It may take a bit more for MTH to start touring but they are “kome kome club(ing)” their heart and soul, preparing thoughtfully for the day MTH be sharing “Menkata Cottelee from now on”
Harapekos, be harapeko tight until the time MTH develop and announce their “Roman(tic) Hiko”

Thanks a maximum for all your patience, love, and a great year 2018 Wishing you a rich “Menkata Cottelee” 2019,

Awaited 2nd brand new music video, “Maximum the Hormone II -Let’s Talk about Menkata Cottelee-” was released on MTH official YouTube channel.

Maximum the Ryokun was diagnosed as complication of lifestyle-related diseases and warned that he was going to die if he wouldn’t change his lifestyle by a medical doctor. So Maximum the Ryokun started diet and exercise, lost weight and got well.
Fans were totally shocked by his lean body and have been complaining “We liked him FAAAAAT!!” Yes, this is the answer song to such fans.

What does the subtitle which is the same as the title of the next release item mean?
This song was composed as “Part II” of the song, “Maximum the Hormone” released 7 and a half years ago. How will the next stage of MTH who have had the belief of “Menkata Cottelee” be?!
Will head banging and growling be unsealed?!

Maximum the Hormone 2nd brand new music video dedicated to all the gouty people! Eat it with your eyes and ears!!

*Maximum the Ryokun would like to ask a favor.
Please do not spread screenshots of the video through SNS such as twitter and instagram for a while. He doesn’t want you to be spoilers.
*If the access to the video gets too concentrated, you might not be able to watch it properly. In that case, please wait for a while and try it again later.

Important Notice from Maximum The Hormone

Daisuke-han has developed serious slipped disc (herniated disc) due to accumulated fatigue from heavy performance and touring over the years,
He has been diagnosed for immediate surgery and MTH has decided to postpone appearance on series of concerts which was planned.

<cancelled performance>

October 8th (Mon) 2018 “THE GREAT SATSUMANIAN HESTIVAL 2018”
October 29th (Mon) 2018 “MAN WITH A MISSION presents Chasing the Horizon Tour 2018” @　MATSUE AZTiC canova
October 31st (Wed) 2018 “MAN WITH A MISSION presents Chasing the Horizon Tour 2018” @　YONAGO convention center
November 3rd+4th (Sat+Sun) “MONGOL800 ga FESTIVAL What a Wonderful World!!18”

*for further information and enquiries, please contact event organizers of each show

Upon reaching this decision, we took the situation deep seriously and talked over how we can make up for the cancellation (loss)
MTH team have decided to launch a music video today @ 21:00 (Japan time) for a brand new song since “Yoshu Fukushu” 5 years ago,

No frills, no head-banging no scream for this one -
Song is sang in a mysterious language from “Planet - Ryo” , which no one understands except Ryo Kawakita @ Mimikajiru
(i.e. Maximum the Ryo-kun) With help from Ryo, we have created Japanese sub title for the video,

To all Harapekos around the world,
Hope you enjoy the profound message full of love that the new song “VAP” conveys

Heeeeeey, Maximum The Hormone @ 2017 was........
After two years seal of touring while Nao's maternity leave and giving birth to her second child, last year was a big comeback year that opened up with “MIMIKAJIRU SHIN-UCHI TOUR” in May.

Do you remember the grand dignified appearance of Maximum The Hormone entering from behind the rice cooker that sat in the middle of the stage? Maximum The Hormone coming out from heavy smoke that came from the rice cooker following the goose-bump narration “May I ask if you felt something was missing in life?” addressed to the dead hungry harapekos?
Thank you for making the MTH comeback tour an amazing experience. Even-more-powerful-than-ever tour ☺

After the comeback tour then came the tide of summer festivals where MTH counted 15 appearances !!! in total. We've seen lots of #ホルモン復活したからって調子こいてフェス出過ぎ (←which is a MTH self-made long hashtag meaning “we know MTH is happy with the comeback but doing so much summer festivals at once is too much?” ) flying around on SNS all summer long, Heavy thunder, steaming heat.. no matter how terrible and harsh the weather, the harapekos kept head banging and have proven their harapeko spirit at every show they did ,

How amazing it was to tour 3 Tohoku cities with the “Ueharagumi Chokkei Futoshikai” tour in Autumn
How exciting it was that original manga series by Ryo-kun called “Maximum the Hormone's Ryo-kun No Hissatsu!! Outsider Ad Agency” made it on popular manga magazine “Korokoro Aniki” and continues to be published since September ,

How brilliant it was, the South American tour in October,
Maximum the Hormone loved and remember the storm like “MAXIMUM” yell that reached the back stage even before the show stated in Brazil, huge venue tightly packed with couple thousand maximum hyped local fans in Chile, and a sold-out KNOTFEST MEXICO's main stage appearance where MTH rocked the harapekos in Mexico!
Traveling halfway around the globe, MTH has received such big welcome and felt so much at home.

In December,, MTH went happy emotional as they were invited to perform at Hi-STANDARD's tour final (last day@Saitama Super Arena).Hi-STANDARD was an icon who the young MTH admired and looked up to, waited outside after shows as a fans 20 years ago !

So maximum much happened in 2017

So what's to happen to MTH and Harapekos in 2018 ?
Looking forward to an amazing “Men Kata Cottelee” 2018 !

--- Maximum The Hormone, Mimikajiru

ANNOUNCEMENT ! Solo Show in Chile and Brazil (South America) & gig confirmed @ “KNOTFEST MEXICO 2017”

We’re back ! performing abroad in Brazil and Chile with the “MAXIMUM THE HORMONE SOUTH AMERICA TOUR 2017 “
It’s been a while since our last solo international show in back in 2014 (New York )

Not only the solo gigs but Maximum The Hormone is ALSO rockin’ at “KNOTFEST MEXICO 2017” . So it’s MAXIMUM big deal ! 　
We’re deadly thrilled to do shows in South America ! It‘s our first time ever !

<MAXIMUM THE HORMONE SOUTH AMERICA TOUR 2017>
Brazil
Date: 24th Oct 2017 (Tuesday)
Place: VIA MARARAZZO (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
☆Request a Song→Here

Chile
Date: 26th Oct. 2017 (Thursday)
Place : TEATRO LA CUPLA (Santiago, Chile)
☆Request a Song→Here

* ticket sales and detail TBA

<KNOTFEST MEXICO 2017>
Date:28th Oct. 2017 (Saturday)
Place: FORO PEGASO (Toluca de Lerado, Mexico)

Further info on KNOTFEST MEXICO
KNOTFEST MEXICO Official HP：http://knotfestmexico.com/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/knotfestmexico　
Facebook：https://www.facebook.com/KNOTFESTMEXICO/
☆Request a Song→Here

Happy New Year everyone !

After doing the 2015 Dragon Ball Z “Fukkatsu No F”, we did the battle song for the movie “Chinyuuki” in 2016 , so, perhaps we’re entitled and absolutely ready to receive the title “Emperor of Battle song”  ：) 
MTH band score book (series, vol 4 ) to be published in Feb    
Thank you for making DVD 「Deka vs Deka 」a huge hit hitting 100,000 units sold and above !

(2016 was special for MTH ：)　 )
Thanks once again to many Harapeko’s that attended the special autograph session held in Miyagi , Fukuoka, Kagawa last March to celebrate the huge hit of DVD「Deka vs Deka 」Maximum the hormone members had fun, was inspired by meeting many Harapekos in a so to say, unusual , non- concert environment . Certainly enjoyed the event as much as the Harapekos did

Big-belly Nao ( drum, female voice, sister ) during her last months of pregnancy was casted as a daughter of a fisherman and made wicked cool appearance on a「Sea-Chicken Shokudo」 canned tuna commercial  !

And finally , Nao under the “Ninkatsu” break since June 2015 successfully gave birth to her second daughter in September  Thank you for all the warm comments and support you’ve given us over the months  Now a 3 months old Nao’s daughter and Nao herself both continue to grow (?!) and are in maximum good health

(in a Kinya Aikawa esque manner.. )Omatto san !
thanks for waiting -  Time for MTH comeback !

The reserve ticket give away event「593 (read “go-ku-mi”)Candy Mama Drawing 」which was released on a web manga that revealed what MTH were secretly doing while the live tour seal off days had huge impact to the hungry Harapecos who were dying to get tickets for the “Mimikajiru Shinuchi Tour” . Applications poured in and Mimikajiru is in Chaos,

This tour after 2 years pause from touring, the live craving MTH members and the almost “starved to death” Harapecos are sure soon to be enjoying the mind blowing reunion . looking forward to meeting you all !

Wishing everyone a great maximum 2017, And we wish you another Menkata Kotteri Year!

Maximum The Hormone members and Mimikajiru Staff

Nao, baby announcement

As Maximum The Ryo-kun tweeted, the cover art of “Deka vs. Deka”
won “Illustrators 58” silver medal in institutional category. This award
is presented by Society of Illustrators and this award is known as The
Academy Awards for illustrators.

Ryo-kun who produced the artwork flew to New York to attend the
ceremony. He received the award with the illustrator, Ms. Yuko Shimizu.

Ryo-kun explained the meaning of the artwork on twitter after the release
of the DVD. And it said the big baby is wayward and spoiled. This baby,
finally recognized outside of Japan!

Last year, we had a biiiiiig news that MTH song, “F” had been selected as the “battle song” for the movie, Dragon Ball Z Fukkatsu No “F” right after the new year began.
The surprising fact was that the author, Mr. Akira Toriyama got inspired by the Harapeko Kids diving and moshing at a MTH show and wrote the story for this movie! So, “F” was not only recognized by the author but also officially admitted and used as the title of the movie.

And MTH started the "Magrostick Front Tour" from January 9th. Then all the tickets for all the venues and dates got sold out on the release date. That was a great kickstart.

After that, MTH went on the “Fuuin Tour” which they announced that they would take a hiatus for their shows because of Nao’s TTC. The tickets got all sold out on the release date for this tour as well. At the end of the shows, MTH informed about the DVD release around summer. We cannot forget the shout of glee from the audience.

Then, on June 2nd, we had “Shiroi Boudou (White Riot)” at Hachioji, then MTH’s hiatus for their shows had started.

The DVD, “Deka vs. Deka” which was informed to be released around summer wasn’t released in summer. In fact, we ran out of the budget at the end of summer and so Maximum The Ryo-kun personally invested 10 million yen! That was just a drop in the bucket, though.

November 18th, which was a long time after the deadline, “Deka us Deka” was released. The content and the way of enjoying it were too surprising to any people from any industries. “Deka vs. Deka” was ranked No.1 for both music DVD and total DVD rankings in the Oricon Weekly Chart. We really appreciate that!!

In 2016, MTH cannot do shows until Nao gives birth, but any sort of stress is no good for TTC! So the members use this time for making songs and brushing up their skills.

We are looking forward to your continued support in 2016! And we wish you another Menkata Kotteri Year!

Maximum The Hormone members and Mimikajiru Staff

In April 2014, we’ve finished Yoshu Fukushu Japan Tour successfully. We’ve visited all the prefectures in Japan and did 56 shows in total. All the tickets for all the shows were sold out on the release dates. And all the crowds were crazy!

A week after finishing the tour, MTH held a charity event “Tohoku Kodomo Ouen Daisakusen” which was for raising money for East Japan Earthquake victims, especially children. With a great backing of their hometown, Hachiouji municipal government, more than 5,000 people came to the event and we could raise and donate about JPY1,200,000. MTH also went on a East Japan tour, “Futoshi, Futoshi, Futoshi 2014 Tohoku Live House Daisakusen Tour”.

*Daisakusen ≒ Big Mission

The last album, ”Yoshu Fukushu” was released in July 2013, and a year after, we had the “National Harapeko Unified Exam”. A lot of MTH fans took this tough exam to test their knowledge. The band presented fantastic prizes such as “Free Platinum MTH concert Ticket Valid Forever” and “MTH Camping School”. Basic idea of doing this exam was Maximum The Ryo-kun’s “strong will of making himself understood by explaining forcibly and finically”. So I hope all the fans got his rock and roll messages right...

In Summer, the band performed at many festivals. Our new “ritual”, Chitsu Jump shook venues with tens of thousands of audiences. In October, MTH visited South Korea for the first time in 3 years and toured with Perfume. And they went to the US for the first time in 6 years to perform at KNOTFEST and to do shows in NY. MTH members and supporting staff were all very much impressed because the international Harapeko fans highly and warmly welcomed the band.

After that, Maximum The Ryo-kun hospitalized with meningitis and so had to cancel some shows. We are sorry to disappoint fans who’d expected their performance and thank for concerns. But now, Ryo-kun got well!

This year started with a tour, “MAGROSTIC FRONT-kin to gin no tsutsumi ni haitta shikakui tuna no yatsu saikin tabeteru?-” visiting 5 cities in Japan.

In 2015, all the MTH members will get fortyish! 2 of the members got gouty! Old age is a hospital that takes in all diseases... Well, MTH can be fueled even by diseasegerms!!

So, we are looking forward to your continued support in 2015! And we wish you another Menkata Kotteri Year!

Maximum The Hormone members and Mimikajiru Staff

MTH latest album "Yoshu Fukushu"
won the grand prize for The 6th CD Shop Award (2014)！

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The Europe tour named 〈EURO TOUR 2011〉ENON the movie has been done with the final show at Koln, Germany!All the shows were fantastic.

MTH performed at a great metal festival, HELLFEST with world-class big names.
Then they toured Europe as the headliner and performed at 5 cities.
As the band visited France, the UK and Germany 3 years ago, we could see some Harapeko faces we have seen before which impressed the members and the staff.

We are not sure when, but MTH spent great time abroad and loved to feel different cultures over there so really cannot wait to come back!
So please try to memorize all the lyrics by then!! ; )

　
MTH performed at HELLFEST (Clisson, France). The people were just
watching what was going on on the stage at the beginning but finally,
they were all forced to participate in the conventional "love charm"ritual with the band!
MTH exploded their hormone power to the amazingly big crowd in frontof the main stage!!

Yesterday, MTH Europe headlining tour "ENON THE MOVIE" started.
They are going on the rampage in Europe!!

　
MTH accomplished The tour with 5 shows in Japan, "Greatest The Hits" with success!
The kick off was Nagoya and the final was in Osaka, which is a bit unusual schedule this time.
The tickets sold out for all the venues and we had crazy 5 nights with locals' fists up in the air.

Those who missed the shows this time, please check MTH's future schedule
because they have already decided to perform at some Summer events.
And also keep checking the schedule for their shows which will be added.

We would like to thank to all the fans came to shows, staff worked for the shows and bands shared the stages!!
　

　
We have informed that MTH is attending a big event in France, "HELLFEST".
And now we would like to announce the band is going on a headlining tour in Europe.
This is going to be the first time in 3 years!!

A French hardcore band, Tagada Jones is joining to the tour as support for all the shows.
This Europe tour is called "ENON THE MOVIE"!! lol
ENON series will go abroad!But of course there will be no movie related tothis tour. Just a joke title...

Anyway, MTH is ready to shake venues in Europe!!

* This "ENON THE MOVIE" image above was made by Maximum The Ryo-kun.
It seems to be a nice, fancy movie!

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Since November 2009, MTH had been taking a break from doing shows because of Nao's pregnancy.
And in May 2010, a healthy baby girl was born.
We got a lot of congratulatory mails from Harapeko fans.Thank you very much!

And 3 days after Nao's childbirth,
Maximum The Ryo-kun experienced excruciating pain of childbirth and delivered his urinary stone.

Nao started playing drums again only 2 weeks after the labor,
and the band went on "Enon -Enon- Tour" from August.
Nao recovered very quick as a primiparous mother and so MTH could restart doing shows quite early.

After that, they played Jigokuezu shows which they had to put off twice.
Also, they played at RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL which the band could not attend 2 years ago because of Maximum The Ryo-kun's flu.

As they had a good recharging period,all the members are in very good condition
but as their first priority was doing shows -which is the most important thing they do-,
we could not spend enough time to record for the new title by the end of 2010.

So, we are preparing to record and release MTH new title this year.
And of course, the band is doing a lot of shows after the release!
Thank you for your support and I hope you and us can stick together in the future.

We wish you another Menkata Kotteri (hard noodle and thick soup) year!!

All members from MTH and staff at Mimikajiru

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"PLAY! OR SING!MAXIMUM THE HORMONE" Announcement of The Best Performance Video!
Many many videos have been entered to this MTH song performing competition,
"PLAY! OR SING! MAXIMUM THE HORMONE".
Than you very much!!MTH members checked all the videos entered and
great videos were put up at MTH Japan official website.

Then we took a popularity poll. And after the vote...
This was chosen as the best video!!

This is the best video chosen by MTH members and MTH fans!!

Last year started with Daisuke-han's full return to life from vocal cord surgery!

In Spring, we visited many places in Japan as "Tsume Tsume Tsume post final" tour
which is totally unparalleled in history and all tickets sold out on the day of release!!

In Summer, Ryo-kun caught a super-flu which no one expected but one thing is for
sure that he really got caught up! In Fall, Nao announced her pregnancy with joy!!

So last year, MTH didn't release any album, but had a lot of events
.Even though these events caused a lot of problems to fans and people involved,
we got tons of messages saying "Bring it on! But not until you are ready!!".
So all the members and staff are very much encouraged to rise up again!!
Thank you very much!

As most of you already know, MTH is in it's hiatus because of Nao's pregnancy
but the band is working on to bear new children for our next title!
Thank you for your pastry. Correction.

patience.Our very best wishes for a Menkata Kotteri
(al dente ramen noodles in greasy soup)
2010...

All members from MTH and staff at Mimikajiru