Summer has arrived! So here is the "Summer Spinoff Special" post that I mentioned I'd be doing last March. As the title suggests, this post involves the GIZOKU franchise, the official spinoff of Sotsugyou M. Specifically this post is for their music album and their last live show. The downloads also come with scans of the VHS cover and the CD booklet.
You can download the CD HERE and their last live show HERE.
Note: There's some slight video tracking issues at the very start of the VHS video. Headphone listeners beware XD.
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The group consists of characters Natsuki Hamashima (Kisho Taniyama), Kikunosuke Shiratori (Hideki Tasaka), Goro Tadanov (Hisayoshi Suganuma), Subaru Akaboshi (Yusuke Itoh (1st VA), Anri Katsu (2nd VA)) and Ryota Nango (Masaki Horiuchi).
While a spinoff of Sotsugyou M, it takes place within the same universe, with them going to the same school as the M boys, M being 3rd year seniors and GIZOKU being 1st years. Both sets of characters had quite a few crossover drama CDs. The characters themselves are a group of thieves with special abilities, with their debut drama CD having them be hired by student council president Kusanagi to steal important items from the M boys. To learn more details of the stories in the CD dramas, you can read about it on this old Sotsugyou M fanpage HERE.
Just like with Sotsugyou M having different names for the character group (M) and the voice actor group (E.M.U), the same applies to this spinoff. The character group is referred to as GIZOKU (Ghee-zoh-kuu), while the voice acting group is G.I.zoku (pronounced as letters "G", "I" and then "zoh-kuu").
From what I've been able to find, there were single releases of other songs and a VHS release of their 2nd live show, but those are extremely hard to find these days. So it might take a while before I'll be able to get those XD.