Aya Eightprince

On 4 March 2018 the Japanese idol group BiS closed their 2ND BEGiNNiNG TOUR with a sold-out show at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, staged under the banner WHO KiLLED IDOL?? Five thousand fans filled the sumo arena for a night that doubled as the farewell of Pour Lui, the singer who founded BiS in 2010 and drove its 2016 relaunch. Seven members open the concert hidden beneath white shrouds with scythes in hand, then tear through twenty-one songs spanning the group's whole history, from early provocations such as nerve and My Ixxx to primal. and the newly unveiled WHOLE LOTTA LOVE. Late in the set Pour Lui delivers a long, unguarded goodbye, calling BiS both the greatest blot on her life and her greatest pride. The remaining six return for the encore in new costumes, declare "we are BiS", and begin again without her.

On 29 December 2018 BiS brought their longest tour to a close at Zepp Tokyo on Odaiba, the final night of the I don't know what will happen TOUR — a 47-prefecture run that had opened in Okinawa the previous April and the first BiS tour staged without founder Pour Lui. Partway through it the group's BiS.LEAGUE system had split the line-up into two rival teams, BiS 1st and BiS 2nd, who until then had played separate afternoon and evening houses. At the finale they shared a single stage instead, each team tearing through the same twelve songs back to back: BiS 2nd opened, BiS 1st closed, and a packed floor carried both through nerve, primal., WHOLE LOTTA LOVE and Against the Pain. Between the sets the second BiS.LEAGUE vote was read out, BiS.LEAGUE was abolished and the two halves were folded back into one group. It was also Nel Nehru's last night with BiS.