Summer is back, and with it, a new beach music video from Niji no Conquistador. Boom! Boom! Summer ♡ (Boom！Boom！サマーっ♡) is 2zicon’s newest summer single. The music video was released a week ago, and although I didn’t get around to posting about it right away, I didn’t want to miss the chance. The digital single was released on July 14th, just two days after the MV dropped.
虹のコンキスタドール「Boom！Boom！サマーっ♡」（虹コン）/Niji No Conquistador
In past years, the single often came out long after the music video, but this time it seems to be digital-only—at least I haven’t found any info about a physical version. You can get the song at the usual sites, including Amazon, iTunes, and Spotify:
- Boom！Boom！サマーっ♡: https://linkco.re/sZT5YeD8
2zicon never misses with their summer singles. Since 2015’s THE Uchouten Summer!!, they’ve released 11 of them, year after year. Interestingly, even the thumbnails have been consistent—Nemoto Nagi appeared in each one until her graduation, and now Ishihama Mei is the face of their summer thumbnails every year.
The song is just as upbeat and catchy as always, and the music video benefits from both the members’ charm and the gorgeous beaches of Okinawa. This time around, the girls travel in a pair of funny-looking compact cars—two Mini Cooper S convertibles, one blue and one yellow. Honestly, it would’ve been hilarious (and possibly illegal) to see all 12 members squeezed into one of those tiny cars, lol. We see them driving along a scenic road and then crossing a super long bridge.
When they arrive at the beach, they seem to encounter a group of local girls dressed in more colorful, tropical outfits—but it turns out it’s just them again. Each member wears three different outfits throughout the video, plus the uniform they wear in the second half when they perform on a stage next to taiko drummers. By the end, they’re all playing different sizes of drums themselves.
The video is in glorious 4K. I hadn’t realized when they started uploading in that resolution, but the first summer video in 4K seems to be Kimi wa Natsu no Rainbow (キミは夏のレインボー！) from 2022—also the first to feature Ishihama Mei.
Oddly enough, Kimi wa Natsu no Rainbow was also the first summer single not to hit one million views on YouTube. I wonder if that’s part of the reason there doesn’t seem to be a physical release this year. With so many graduations over these 12 years, the group looks very different from their early days, even though most of the first four generations (except the third) still have at least one active member.
Personally, I think the two most important graduations were first: when Nemoto Nagi and Matoba Karin graduated together (though Karin later returned and is still in the group); and more recently: the simultaneous graduation of Tsurumi Moe, Nakamura Akari, and Shimizu Riko. That really changed how the group looks today.
I discovered Nijicon about one year before Yamamoto Rio joined. After that, the lineup stayed stable for almost three years. That was when they introduced color assignments and officially named a group leader (the second one—nobody seems to talk about the first, and I have no idea why). But in the last two years, while I’ve been too busy to follow lineup changes, several new members have come and gone—some I never even got to know.
One of the newer members looked familiar to me until I realized she used to be in YUION. Apparently, YUION is no more, and Aoyama Uta (青山詩) joined Nijicon just this March. I’m glad—Uta was my favorite in YUION WEST.
Sometimes it feels like idol groups can’t avoid turning into revolving doors. Even so, I’m hoping the future brings Nijicon a more stable and long-lasting era, with fewer graduations.
Niji No Conquistador – Boom! Boom! Summer ♡ (Music Video)