Just got my cosplay pics back (i might upload some full scans of these later if anyone’s interested)

hponflute as Koharu (concert attire):

Kirarin Revolution

Updated Opening/Ending

+Koi☆Kana

+SUGAO-flavor

+Balalaika

+Ookina ai de Motenashite

Well I keep delaying this post as I keep getting more busy (now all I have left a is a test and a paper due). I was thinking about leaving a lovely graduation for Erika but I suddenly got busy again and forgot to post this. I’m curious what kind of graduation message would you give her if you as a fan was able to personally deliever this to her. I will try my best to type mine in Japanese but I think I will include the English translations just in case my Japanese is wrong.

A friend of mine is living in Japan for the year right now in order to study, something I should actually be doing right now but as it turns out, I’m not. They got to go to their first ever Morning Musume concert a couple of days ago and this was a pretty big deal for them. We went watching AKB48 together in France and we both agreed that it was epic beyond belief and it sent them above Momusu in terms of favourites. Although I haven’t asked my friend since I get the impression that she’s very much back on the Momusu bandwagon again now, which gives me some hope that there are still some crazy fans out there.

I was actually surprised when speaking to a Japanese native earlier this week when he said that AKB48 isn’t considered a band strictly for wota anymore. I mean I know they’ve had some success recently but an idol band breaking into the mainstream is still pretty impressive. What surprised me more was the fact that even the Japanese seem to think the decline of Momusu is out of control and that their days could be numbered; something that only western fans seemed to be doing until now.

Back on topic though; my friend lives in Fukuoka at the moment and the concert she went to was in Reina’s hometown which meant she got quite a reception. Both she and Koharu came back at the end of the encore and spoke to fans which I thought was pretty awesome, maybe a bit too awesome. Reina has been my favourite Musume for a number of years now and as happy as I was to hear that my friend had a great time I couldn’t help but be slightly devastated about not being there. Without going in to details I have no one to blame but myself about being stuck at home in the UK but I would give an arm and a leg and whatever else it takes to see Momusu in Japan.

Apparently the loot included:
Niigaki Risa T-shirt, uchiwa, wrist band, towel, 3 sets of Gaki-only photos,
Kamei Eri T-shirt, uchiwa, wrist band, one set of Kamei only photos,
9 Smile concert tour t-shirt, wristband and set of photos of girls in tour tees,
DVD Magazine volumes 26 and 27,
photobook,
tour bag,
Photo sets A, B, C and D
Metallic photo sets A and B
Morning Musume Gummies + Jun Jun picture that came with it.

I always knew she’d been a Gaki fan, but I didn’t know it was quite to this extent. Well just as long as she brings me a Reina goodie back next time then I’ll be happy. Hey it was me who persuaded her to part with a month’s rent in order to go again so she wouldn’t be there without me, that’s what friends are for, right?

Setlist:
3,2,1 BREAKIN’OUT
How Do You Like Japan? ~Nippon wa Donna Kanji Dekka?~
Kimagure Princess
Nanchatte Renai
Genki+
Ame no Furanai Hoshi de wa Aisenai Darou?
Sukiyaki
Haru Beautiful Everyday
Kioku no Miero
Aruiteru
Aki Urara
Shouganai Yume Oibito
Sakura Mankai
Yuujou ~Kokoro no Busu ni Naranee!~
Dekkai Uchuu ni Ai ga Aru
Bonkyu Bonkyu BOMB Girl
Please! Jiyuu no Tobira
Handmade CITY
Odore! Morning Curry
Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari
Naichau Kamo
Roman ~MY DEAR BOY~
Resonant Blue
(Encore)
SONGS
Love Machine

Reina Tanaka:

Sayumi Michishige

Ai Takahashi:

Risa Niigaki:

Aika Mitsui:

Linlin:

Koharu Kusumi:

Eri Kamei:

Junjun:

Weeks of 8/23 – 11/1 (124 votes)

Well, due to my “little” absence, the Koharu poll seemed to get an insane amount of votes(well, being there for 10 weeks straight, I wouldn’t expect any less). Anyway, I was a bit surprised by the results. Mostly in that I thought that the majority of my visitors were H!P stans. Well, I was wrong. Maybe I’m just full of K-Pop addicts…

How does Koharu’s graduation make you feel?

1. I really don’t care about this Koharu chick or Morning Musume. – 35% (44 votes)
2. Even though she wasn’t my favorite, I’m still very affected by it. – 29% (36 votes)
3. Absolutely heartbroken. She was my favorite and I’ll never feel the same towards Momosu ever again. – 18% (22 votes)
4. Reina should leave instead. – 9% (11 votes)
5. I’m glad she left. She was just a waste of space. – 6% (8 votes)
6. I’m still new to H!P, so I’m not quite sure what to feel. – 2% (3 votes)

Well, 44% of my readers aren’t Momosu fans. @-@ Bizarre. Since I mostly write on H!P stuff, I thought that poll choice would have been much lower. Personally, I’m part of the 29% that stated that even though she wasn’t a favorite, she was still a Momosu and her leaving still means something to us.

I can’t help but feel bad for those 18% that lost their favorite member. I mean, I can’t imagine myself liking Momosu as much as I do now if someone like Eri were to leave. How bad would that be?

And yay at those 11 people who agreed that Reina should have left instead!!!

I know, I know, it’s been a very long time since my last update.  I wont go into boring reasons why this is – I’m sure anyone who ventures here would much rather hear about J-Pop / Anime etc.  So, on the eve on the release of Kimagure Princess, Koharu’s very last single with Morning Musume, and with all boring real life business out-of-the-way, I will resume.  Watch this space – I’ll be posting the Oricon some time tomorrow morning (with good news for AKB48 fans) along with some H!P and misc. J-Pop stuff… and let’s not forget anime!

Here's the story ... of 9 lovely ladies ... who had grown up from 9 very lovely girls ...

Mitsui joined. Yoshizawa graduated. The pandas showed up. Fujimoto slunk out the back door.

And just like that, we were left with the longest-running, most stable lineup in Morning Musume history (years after most normal people had given up on the group because it was too confusing trying to keep up with all the changes). But now, with Koharu Kusumi packing her bags and getting ready to go, we look back and ponder the mysteries of the era from “Onna ni Sachi Are” to “Kimagure Princess.” Why didn’t they audition for any new generations? (Part of the INBOU theorist in me believes that after all H!P programming on TV got canned, there was no longer an outlet through which auditions could be held and publicized.) Why didn’t anyone graduate?* (Probably because all the current members realized that there was no hope for them elsewhere in the entertainment industry.) Was this truly the best chemistry that MM ever had, or had fans just come to believe that because they’d gotten used to the same lineup for so long?

*Supplementary research tells me that this is because management was trying to keep the lineup stable so that Japan could re-learn who the girls are. Yeah, how’s that working for you guys?

And what if you tried to recreate the Nine Smile Morning Musume with members of AKB48?

There are two things to keep in mind about this. Firstly, I love thought experiments. I like imagining things like “Who would you put on the starting 5 of the ultimate all-time basketball team” … “What if Mozart had lived past the age of 35″ … “What if Evangelion was a manly hot-blooded robot anime and Gurren Lagann was all whiny and emo” … “What if there was no age gap or language barrier between me and Minami Minegishi and we both attended the same school.” So this is where I am coming from.

Secondly, idols are disposable and interchangable. I mean, unless you reach the legendary level of someone like Seiko Matsuda, you’re pretty much hoping and praying that the right combination of looks, talent, and being in the right place at the right time will support you through your teens and early twenties. Any girl with the right qualifications could do Atsuko Maeda’s job; it’s just that Maeda got there first. A decent pianist and half-assed singer could do Erina Man0’s job; it’s just that Man0 got there first. And any three cuties could do Perfume’s job, because after the vocoder filtering and dance training, everything else is essentially Nakata’s work anyway. Hell, you could probably dress up three boys as Perfume and get away with it.

So this is why I am doing what I am about to do.

There is a certain methodology to this: I am not looking for the closest facial lookalike, or someone similar in age, or anything superficial like that. I’m not even looking for a particular level of vocal or performing talent. In order to create AKB Musume, the key principle is to understand the defining quality of each member in the current Morning Musume lineup—and then replace her with the appropriate AKB48 analogue. There are no perfect matches. There may not even be any close matches. But the final results should be funny as hell.

Ai Takahashi: The Girly-Girl

Lovely

It would be so easy to blindly replace Aichan with Acchan just because they’re both the “#1 girl” of their respective groups. But the only place where Takahashi matches closely with Atsuko Maeda is in the number of glossy full-color pages that have been devoted to them: Takahashi with her OVER 9000 photobooks, and Maeda appearing in seemingly every men’s cheesecake magazine of the last 18 months. But otherwise, Takahashi’s refined politeness and Maeda’s prima-donna brashness are practically polar opposites of each other.

The true match for Takahashi would have to be someone with a pure “girly-girl” personality. Someone who gravitates to pink and pastel colors, who adorns her handwriting with little hearts ‘n’ shit, who could stroll into a high-society party wearing a ballroom gown and look like she’d meant to be there her whole life. Oh, and looks totally droolicious in a bikini. That’s why, for AKB Musume, I pick … Haruna Kojima.

Y HALO THAR HARUNYAN.

A famous Stupid Ass Wota once said that Haruna looked like a “standard Japanese girl.” Frankly, if that’s what Japanese girls look like in standard, I’d like to see one in hi-def. But more importantly, that also describes Aichan exactly: attractive, easy on the eyes, but with no particularly striking features. Just like the girl next door—if the girl next door were really hawt.

Risa Niigaki: The Late Bloomer

EYEBROW BEEEEEEEEAM

If I traveled back in time to 2002, showed everyone a picture of Risa Niigaki ca. 2009, and told them that she would eventually grow up into THAT, I would be laughed right back into my time machine. Hell, it doesn’t even look like the same person. This is the kind of stuff that no one ever sees coming … except that it happens all the time, when puberty bestows its blessings upon the young, and the bratty funny-faced kid you remember from middle school suddenly shows up as a stunning beauty.

In the case of Gaki, the effect is even more pronounced because it all happened in the public eye, through various forms of media—photocards and photobooks, TV appearances, concert DVDs, and at some point those people from 2002 woke up and asked themselves, “Wow, when did Niigaki get pretty? We should’ve listened to the guy in the time machine.”

Similarly, would anyone have looked at Tomomi Itano ca. 2006 and expected her to grow up into THIS?

Tomochin Triangle!

Exactly.

Eri Kamei: The Original Queen of Comedy

Delicious Turtle Pie is delicious.

It may seem strange to mention Kamei in the same breath as Yaguchi and TsujiKago, but in her own eccentric way, the Turtle has gradually slid into the role of “the funny one.” It started happening as early as the “Eric Kamezou” segments of Hello! Morning, where she would dress up as a traveling salesman and perform random acts of weirdness to promote the latest H!P releases. Over the years, new levels of quirk would emerge, culminating in the highest level of “AAAAAART” during the middle period of Haromoni@: entire skits filmed in reverse.

AKB48’s resident weirdo hasn’t reached that kind of formalism yet, but that’s probably just because she’s younger than Kamei. Otherwise, she clearly operates on her own wavelength, and I’m not just saying that because she’s MY WAIFU. She plays restaurant with nothing but sticks and stones and leaves. Her J-drama roles involve dressing up as a Lolita or wearing 9 different styles of eyeglasses. Her defining role on AKBingo! is when she co-hosts the “Top 10 Special Skills” segment gussied up like a Showa-era TV personality. That’s why AKB Musume’s comedienne is none other than … Minami Minegishi.

Miichan, marry me!

(And of course, I wouldn’t have picked her if she didn’t have the thighs to match.)

Sayumi Michishige: The Ichiban Cleavage

I’m sorry, but when I think of Sayu, all I can think of is this wonderful photo:

The Sayu Hills.

And you know what that reminds me of?

The Ono Hills.

Therefore, Sayumi Michishige = Erena Ono. That is all.

Reina Tanaka: The Five-Foot Firecracker

O Wonky my Wonky!

The conventional wisdom about Tanaka is that she started out as this badass “yanki” personality, and then along the way, got de-fanged and ended up just as girly as everyone else. But I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I think what happened is that Reina simply figured out how to integrate the yanki-ness into the rest of her, so that she could keep the attitude while still maintaining a prim and proper idol persona.

After all, would a girly-girl be able to command the stage the way Reina does when she takes a solo line? Would a girly-girl wear the kind of stuff that she still wears after seven photobooks? And that’s the other thing: I don’t necessarily think Reina is a good dresser, but she is a distinctive dresser, whose fashion sense can be detected even from a distance.

I can think of one AKB48 member who matches these criteria, who lives by her own sense of style (regardless of whether it’s fashionable or not), who has the force of personality that makes people sit up and take notice, and who manages to fit it all into a surprisingly compact package. What she lacks in height, she makes up for with attitude. That’s Minami Takahashi.

O Captain my Captain! (of Team A)

(Plus, from certain angles, Takahashi is just slightly cross-eyed.)

Koharu Kusumi: The Crackhead

TEH MIRACLE

Wow. What else is there to say about Koharu that hasn’t been said in the last few weeks? I don’t think there is a person on the planet, much less AKB48, who can fill Koharu’s shoes. But we can try, anyway—you’d have to find someone who switch between mature and childlike at the drop of a hat, who can make you break out in laughter and then melt you with a come-hither stare, and who can fill out a photobook with page after page of amazing.

AKB Musume’s Koharu-equivalent is half a decade older than her, but crackiness knows no age boundaries. This is the girl who goes around upsetting the balance of power on AKBingo!’s Phrasemuseum and lists her special skill as playing “air ocarina.” Sounds pretty cracky to me. But what really seals the deal is her photobook material—the ability to pull off an absolutely convincing high-end glamour shot right after a mouth-watering serving of bikini cheesecake. Ladies and gentlemen, Mariko Shinoda.

Her legs are just as deadly as Koharu's, too...

Aika Mitsui: The Moeblob

Light Well Love Excellence

The Jay Leno chin. The oddly-sized teeth. The squinty eyes. If Ai Takahashi is your “standard Japanese girl,” Mitsui is the opposite, an unconventional idol who had to go so far as to explain herself on Platinum 9 Disc with “Dumb People Don’t Understand My Charm.”

Well, I don’t consider myself a dumb person, so here’s my understanding of Aika: she is the moeblob of Morning Musume. She may not have a fashion magazine face, but her personal qualities are in so many ways endearing—the million dollar smile, the deliberate manner of speech, the sharp intellect that made her the ace of the Haromoni@ memory games, the snappy comebacks at people who piss her off. She makes you go “moe~” because she is so unlike your standard Japanese girl.

Meanwhile, AKB48 has someone that makes you go moe~ just by existing. I speak, of course, of Miho Miyazaki.

I want to Myao Myao

The other moelicious quality, meanwhile, is that you don’t expect either of these girls to look hot in a bikini but HOLY SHUCKING FIT.

Junjun: The Deer In Headlights

Greater Panda

I have always had this impression of Junjun that she’s a little bit confused to be here. No matter where “here” happens to be. Of course, some of that may be due to the language barrier—Lin picked up on Japanese (and if you went to AX09, English) more quickly than Jun—but even after having had enough time for language immersion, Junjun still clearly operates at her own pace. Yet I hesitate to call her a “My Pace” idol because I’m not even sure she knows what her pace is. Srsly, remember the time there were some bananas as a prop on the set of H!M and she just grabbed one and started eating it?

AKB Musume’s Junjun isn’t quite as confused, but her thought processes also run on a different thread from the rest of the world. She struts around imitating a chicken. Her special skill is making weird faces. And I’ll never forget her zoning out during the middle of my 17 Minutes in Heaven With AKB48 at NYAF. Such is the mystique of Yuko Oshima.

OH SHI- (ma)

Linlin: The Otaku

Lesser Panda

I didn’t even have to think for this one. Linlin looooooves those fancy-ass Japanese cartoons. Her dream in life is to be a character in One Piece, or something.

Therefore, there is only one girl who can keep up with Linlin, and that’s Mayu Watanabe.

Don't Say Lazy

The Final Roster

Well, it’s been fun rationalizing each of these selections, but no thought experiment is complete without checking the final result. Which looks something like this:

Nippon no mirai wa WOW WOW WOW WOW

Man, that looks freaking weird. AKB Musume is like that scene in Fullmetal Alchemist where Edward Elric, having broken the laws of alchemy by trying to re-create his dead mother by transmutation, looks with horror upon the thing he has created.

Yeah, Nine Smile Morning Musume may have symbolized the beginning of the end. Or the end of the end. Or the point where they finally got a stable lineup but nobody cared anymore because the lineup changed too much. But you know what? They are who they are, and I wouldn’t change them for the world.

Após o lançamento do 40º single “Nanchatte Renai”, que vendeu cerca de 50.000 cópias  na primeira semana, alcançando a 2ª posição no ranking do Oricon, o popular grupo feminino  Morning Musume, da Hello! Project já anunciou o lançamento de mais um single, intitulado “Kimagure Princess”, agendado para o dia 28 de outubro. Elas que também lançaram uma super coletânea de b-sides no dia 07 de outubro, chamado “Morning Musume. Zen Single Coupling Collection”.

Para desespero dos fãs do Morning Musume, esse será o último single que contará com a participação de Koharu Kusumi, pois foi anunciado que  Koharu fará sua graduação no dia 6 de dezembro, durante a última apresentação na turnê do Morning Musume Concert Tour 2009 Outono Smile ~ ~ Nine. Ela que faz parte da sétima geração do grupo, e é a única integrante que possui carreira solo.

Aparentemente a cantora não só deixará o grupo Morning Musume, mas também se despedirá do Hello! Project, no entanto, Koharu Kusumi não vai parar de trabalhar pois ela mesmo afirmou que seu objetivo é se tornar uma grande modelo.

Além da faixa principal e sua versão instrumental, o single também incluirá a b-side “Aishite Aishite Ato Ippun”, totalizando 3 faixas. “Kimagure Princess” estará disponível em quatro versões: sendo três limitadas, cada uma virá com um DVD diferente. Segundo informações a versão limitada do tipo C estará à venda com dez capas diferentes, uma para cada integrante do grupo e uma outra, contendo todas as meninas juntas numa só foto. A versão regular incluirá somente o CD.

Edição Regular CD

Edição Limitada A CD+DVD

Edição Limitada B CD+DVD

Edição Limitada C CD+DVD

CD Tracklist

1. Kimagure Princess (気まぐれプリンセス; Fickle Princess)
2. Aishite Aishite Ato Ippun (愛して 愛して 後一分; Love Me, Love Me for Just One More Minute)
3. Kimagure Princess (Instrumental) (気まぐれプリンセス (Instrumental))

Bom, posso dizer que infelizmente não gostei de “Kimagure Princess”, confesso que esperava mais da música depois de ter ouvido o single anterior “Nanchatte Renai”, sei lá achei a musiquinha meio chatinha. O PV na minha opinião é razoável, tem aquelas dancinhas legais lá e tal, mas não me surpreendeu, por alguma razão não gostei muito do cenário do clipe, nota 3/5.

Bom, como foi mencionado acima, esse será o último single que contará com a participação de Koharu Kusumi, portanto vou deixar aqui uma breve homenagem meio que OFF-TOPIC xD, de um “making off” de seu último photobook, chamado “Sugar Doll”. Ai vocês podem ver se ela leva jeito ou não para modelo .

Koharu Kusumi -  Photobook – “Sugar Doll” – (Parte-1)

Koharu Kusumi -  Photobook – “Sugar Doll” – (Parte-2)

Para quem ainda não ficou satisfeito e quer ver mais um pouquinho, ai vai o “making off” do terceiro photobook dela – “Koharu Nikki”.

Então é isso ai, espero que a Koharu Kusumi tenha uma carreira brilhante como modelo, desejo tudo de bom pra ela, sem dúvida alguma a Koharu vai fazer muita falta tanto no Morning Musume quanto na Hello! Project, não vai ter mais aquela voz esquisitinha dela que os fãs adoravam xD. Espero que tenham gostado, para encerrar o post, uma última fotinha dela como despedida

Fonte: JpopStop, JaME World

Créditos: Jstation

I’m sure the title is some junk like that. Anyway, this album came out back on July 15th.
And without further ado, let’s start this review: Hello! Project – Champloo 1 ~Happy Marriage Song Collection~

01. DIAMONDS – High-King [Takahashi Ai, Reina Tanaka, Maimi Yajima, Saki Shimizu, Yuuka Maeda]
All right! So the album starts off with like the best sub-group ever, cool! Overall, it’s a really pretty song. It’s poppy but still maintains the 70’s discoesque and ballad style. It’s kind of a TakaReina show–Yuuka only says two words. I wish the song was distributed a little more, but either way it’s a catchy one.

02. Ai wa Katsu – C-ute & Erina Mano
Wasn’t too excited about this one but oh well, here goes. Okay so, they sound pretty okay in the beginning. I love how Erina is the only one to get a solo with her great voice. No I don’t. Wow, that Oh~ part with Maimi and Airi was herendous. Just. Ouch. NakaSaki and Chisa don’t sound too bad together–they actually blend pretty well. The song was really short and there was nothing to enjoy. It was really annoying & boring and the last line sounded just like everyone was shouting. Not very good.

03. YES-YES-YES – Aa! [Airi Suzuki, Miyabi Natsuyaki, Akari Saho]
I listened to this song on repeat like 50 thousand times when it was on my iPod. I definitely wanted to hear what they sounded like without Reina–and it really wasn’t that bad. They all blend really well and sound great. Akari fits in with them nicely. The song is very soothing and peaceful, which is why I had it on repeat so many times. xD

04. Tentoumushi no Samba – Shin Minimoni [LinLin, Kanon Fukuda, Akari Takeuchi, Miyamoto Karin]
At first I was a little sketchy about this group. You have these two little eggs that I’ve never heard before, Kanon who has a pretty okay voice, and LinLin who is one of the best singers in MM now & is rather deep. The group has a lot to live up to with their name having Minimoni in it. Well onto the song, ROFL. I’m not too sure how this qualifies as a marriage song–it sounds more like an opening to Yo Gabba Gabba Japan Version. Yes, yes it does. I can’t really tell if they blend well together because they have Tsunku covering them up but, the group kinda sounds a little like the original.

05. Kimi ga Iru Dake de – Pucchimoni V [Erina Mano, Saki Nakajima, Mai Hagiwara]
Ugh, this group really just irritates me. They have three of the worst singers of H!P(Erina making number 11). I really had no hopes for them and I still don’t. They’re named after Pucchimoni, they have to be SOME good. I like the song by itself, it’s a catchy lil tune–especially the chorus. But Nakajima and Mano are just >.< The only one who sounds kind of…GOOD is Mai. Which is also something I thought I would never say. She doesn't sound really annoying in this one, Mano does…alot. I like the song though, it's nice. The group? NO.

06. Heya to Y-Shirt to Watashi – Reina Tanaka
Woooot. Reinaaaa~! First off, the song is beauuutiful. I love the old-time Italian sound/circus sound of it. It’s so beautiful. Reina sounds really amazing as well. I think she hits each note perfectly, it sounds so…beautiful! The quiet parts really show off her real skill, and that she is a great singer. I love the second chorus with the extra beat, it’s really awesome. The whole song is beautiful.

07. Mamotte Agetai – Risa Niigaki & Eri Kamei
Yesss. Two of my favorite Morning Musumes! Yay!! This song is…questionable, lol. Something about the quieter parts remind me of Law & Order theme song… Both of them sound amazing though, if they just had a better song to sing. Well, that doesn’t matter, they both just sound amazing.

08. Aki Sakura – Ai Takahashi
It’s Takahashi so I wasn’t too enthusiastic but, gotta listen to it anyway. At first, the piano made it seem a little to dramatic. I dunno, something about the notes it was playing. I don’t really like how Takahashi is singing either. She sounds like there’s shit stuck in her throat. It sounds like she’s trying to sound deeper but it just isn’t working.

09. Mirai Yosouzu II – ZYX-a [Risa Niigaki, Koharu Kusumi, Momoko Tsugunaga, Maasa Sudou, Erika Umeda, Ayaka Wada, Saki Ogawa]
I was looking forward to this group but was let down when they all sang together the whole song. I really kind of wanted to hear seperate voices and listen peacefully without 8 voices yelling at me at once. The song itself is really beautiful. I definitely could see it being sung at a wedding(der). Totally love it.

10. ONLY YOU – Zoku v-u-den [Sayumi Michishige, Jun Jun, Risako Sugaya]
I was as pissed off with this line-up as Pucchimoni V. Sayumi and Jun Jun in the same group is ultimate fail. And Risako…makes it worse. She’s not totally bad, but…most songs she is. In this one, she doesn’t sound so bad. Barely off pitch, which is good. Sayumi just sounds bad like always. And Jun Jun doesn’t sound so bad either, just a little raspy. Together, I don’t know; Risako kinda overpowers all of them lol. I also don’t really know about v-u-den being in the group name…I mean, who’s gonna be Yui and her boobs??

11. akai sweet pea – Tanpopo# [Eri Kamei, Aika Mitsui, Yurina Kumai, Chisato Okai]
I was really excited about this group. It has three awesome singers and…Aika. Well anyway, I totaly love the song. It’s really, really pretty. They all blend perfectly too. I really love Eri and Chisato in this one. Yurina and Aika sound good. Really just a great song altogether.

12. for you… – Linlin
Whoa. Like. Whoa. Like…..Whoawhoawhoa. That gave me goosebumps. Linlin. Can sing. There’s is no person on this world that can say she cannot sing. Those long notes and perfect pitches. I just loved it. That was just beautiful Lin.

13. Kanpaku Sengen – Berryz Koubou & Erina Mano
Argh. Another Mano mix-up. Well, here goes. The song is…actually really weird. The lyrics are like wtf? Although, it’s a good way to hear how the girls sound now. Chinami sounds a lot deeper now. And honestly, the only ones that sounded decent were Maasa and Miyabi. Iuno what was up with those really high notes. They picked the worst people to sing those. Saki and Yurina? Come on. And the end was probably the best part of the song. Lala…lala…lalala…

14. Sekai wa Futari no Tame ni – Sayumi Michishige, Jun Jun, Koharu Kusumi, & Aika Mitsui
Not the best match-up, but I’ll manage. The song is really really pretty. Aika sounds pretty nice. And suprisingly, so does Koharu! I’m going crazy…Well anyway. Jun Jun sounds like she has something stuck in her throat. @_@ Probably the worst out of them all… Sayumi still sounds tone-deaf and actually worse than Koharu. Altogether, they sound a little strange. I dunno what it is about it, but they just sound a little weird altogether.
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Whoo! Done! That was like the longest review ever. Hope you liked it! I’ll keep doing reviews of course, and I don’t really think they’ll be of singles anymore. I remember in my last blog I did single reviews, but I don’t really have enough patience to do every single that comes out. So really just albums and stuff. Also, today I will be introducing my new weekly series(hopefully), so look out for that! Bye bye! ~Kio

Kimagure Princess PV

This PV was reallyyyyyyyyy good!!

I think the best PV for me xD

all of them really great, I love their expression there xD

My most fav part is this

I’m dying when I see this xD

Reina is very sexy there >,<

Hope this single will sell good

Yeah. Sorry about that. I haven’t posted since September 19th becauuuuuuuuse….my internet was gone. @_@ Yup that’s about the only excuse you’ll ever hear from me. My parents don’t like to pay bills on time.
Well anyway, while I was gone, a few things have popped up in the H!P universe. So, here goes~!

Morning Musume – Morning Musume Zen Single Coupling Collection

Morning Musume will be releasing a new collection album in just a few days, October 7th to be exact. It will consist of all their b-sides from Ai no Tane to Subete wa Ai no Chikara. Normal edition on top, limited edition on bottom.

Mai Hagiwara – Hagiwara Mai PB


As I said before, Mai Hagiwara will be releasing her 1st PB on October 10th. Normal cover is on top, the limited edition cover is on bottom. A few pictures from the PB are below.

Morning Musume – Kimagure Princess

Above is the cover to Morning Musume’s new single, Kimagure Princess–which is set to release on October 28th. There are also three other editions: Limited A with a DVD, Limited B with a DVD, and Limited C with 10 different covers. Below are group and individual shots.

Outfits are seriously ugly.

Berryz Koubou – Ryuusei Boy / Watashi no Mirai no Danna-sama

I posted about this before but here is just a picture I came across. I’m not sure if it’s the outfits for the single or what–we’ll just have to wait and see. This will be another double a-side and will be released on November 11th. It will also be the theme song to the soccer Nintendo DS game ‘Inazuma Eleven 2′ and will be the ending to the anime.

HANGRY & ANGRY – Sadistic Dance Album

Above is the cover to HANGRY & ANGRY’s new album(sorry I couldn’t find a bigger picture). Also, the full tracklisting has been leaked:

1. Sadistic Dance
2. Shake Me
3. Lady Madonna
4. No Future
5. Kill Me Kiss Me (2009 Version)
6. Angelia (2009 Version)
7. GIZA GIZA (2009 Version)
8. Mr. Monkey
9. Top Secret
10. Doubt
11. The Peace! (h&A Death Tracks)

Mr. Monkey intrigues me mostly because, I have a stuffed monkey of the same name =)

Guardians4 – PARTY TIME

Guardians4 will be releasing their 3rd single entitled PARTY TIME. It will release on November 18th. In addition, the new Shugo Chara Egg! lineup will be singing the b-side entitled Watashi no Tamago–which means My Egg.

Erina Mano – LOVE&PEACE=Paradise

Last and surely least, Erina Mano will release yet another single on November 25th entitled LOVE&PEACE=Paradise. Whoopedy doo?
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That seems to be it! Phew, that took me a good hour U_U Well again, I’m very sorry I missed out on a lot of things. Like my Top! Series and such. I will continue that next week. And on top of that, I will start another weekly series that I will keep a secret! See you then, ~Kioku.

New Morning Musume Profile Pic with Kimagure Princess Outfit!

I really like this outfit, all of them looks great especially reina <3 xD

Takahashi Ai

Niigaki Risa

Kamei Eri

Michishige Sayumi

Tanaka Reina <3

Kusumi Koharu

Mitsui Aika

Jun Jun

Lin Lin

Really sorry I’m late posting about this ><

Morning Musume 41st Single, title 気まぐれプリンセス (Kimagure Princess) will be released on 28th October

C/W 愛して 愛して 後一分 ( Aishite Aishite Ato Ippun )

There’ll be 5 version of this single

Limited A w/DVD, Limited B w/DVD, Limited C (Alternate Jacket), Regular Edition, and Single V

more information

Cover:

This single would be the last single with Koharu  (will be graduate on 6/12/2009)  T_T

For my second post I will write about another one of my favourite members~

Koharu Kusumi!!

I was really, really upset upon hearing her graduation ;__;
Though I’ve accepted it and wish her the best for her career~
In the meantime – A mini  picspam from Sugar Doll~

Can’t believe this gorgeous girl is leaving Momusu ~
Glad to see she’s going out with a bang with this gorgeous PB ♥
It’s a must have.

Kusumi Koharu has decided to take take part in the fanclub exclusive bus tour in Izu along with Tanaka Reina, Mitsui Aika, and Junjun, this will also be her last FC event as a member of Momusu and Hello! Project.

The bus tour will be a two day event (which costs 64,800 yen, roughly 650 dollars) where fanclub members will have an opportunity to go on a tour in Izu along with 4 members of Morning Musume.

Most likely this will involve sightseeing and shopping with Kusumi, Tanaka, Mitsui and Junjun with a chance to meet and take a commemorative picture with them.

I’m glad to see that Koha will participate in this event since this will give her the opportunity to say goodbye to her fans, and those fans will be extremely lucky since they will have the opportunity to say their final goodbyes and give her their support.

The FC bus tour will occur from 11/21 to 11/22.

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proudly present, sugar doll – koharu kusumi..

Han sido publicados previews del último photobook de Koharu Kusumi, llamado “Sugar Doll”.

Fecha Lanzamiento: 27 de Septiembre

KrO.Chan~

The DVD preview for Kusumi Koharu’s upcoming solo DVD for her PB “Sugar Doll” titled Jump!! has been released on Dohhh UP. This will be the last solo DVD for Koha before she graduates from Hello! Project.

I will post a review of the preview later (when I get out of school for the day).

If you’re still reading about the breaking news for the first time, for full details, hit up Hello! Online’s translation on the official UFA and Tsunku announcements.

Koharu’s been part of Morning Musume for 4 years now and ever since I watched the H!M episode where MM went to Koharu’s school to announce that she won the audition, I was captivated. Now whether it was the 12 year old wota kid dancing to all of the MM songs or Koharu being outrageously cute/energetic, I don’t know and won’t bother speculating on :X.

The real issue at hand isn’t how awesome Koharu was in the past, because we all know just how genki/awesome/kawaii she is, but what happens after December 2009. Tsunku’s suggestion that Koharu wants to proceed with other activities such as modeling, brings up Umeda Erika’s upcoming graduation to become a fashion model, however Koharu’s future seems to be much more unclear with no plans of additional study in modeling like Erika or to even become a soloist like the previous MM generations have tended to do. This mystery surrounding her post-graduation activities leads to a great deal of anxiety amongst Koharu’s fans as they fear a Goto Maki like path, or simply becoming a talent on daytime television shows as Satoda Mai and Yoshizawa Hitomi have. Or is this a full on graduation and departure from UFA and related companies, like Ishiguro Aya and subsequently Ichii Sayaka? At the time of this posting, as far as I can tell, the most successful graduate of MM is Yaguchi Mari who was extremely popular throughout her career in MM, having the most ongoing exposure in multiple mediums such as TV’s Midtown TV, multiple radio shows, jdramas as well as musicals post-graduation. Love her or hate her, Yaguchi has had measurably the most going on since graduation, relative to all the other graduates. With the inconsistency of her now graduated Elders post-graduation success, it’s no surprise that Koha-fans are up in arms as well as tears that their favourite member is graduating. With some luck, as well as faith in Tsunku’s vision, the 7th generation ace will come through and truly be a Miracle Musume.

Question: Is there any cosplay you’d like to try?
A maid! It’s my dream.
I’d like to wear the uniform the girls around
Disneyland attractions are wearing ☆
A stone!! I saw it at Anime Expo,
and I just can’t stop being excited about it.

Note: She’s probably referring to this guy.

Sleeping Beauty.
Sailor Moon (●＞∀＜●)
Gundam.
A construction site worker!!!
I’d put on a helmet, jumpsuit,
and have a towel around my neck ☆
Both heroines of “NANA”!!
I’d like to do both cool Nana
and cute Nana (->∨<-)
I love One Piece!
So, I’d like to try a pirate cosplay!

Source:Hello!Online

Autumn leaves,
fall on earth,
scented breeze,
life in dearth,

nature prepares,
for long rest,
we shall despair,
pray for best,

come December,
the end it is,
we shall remember,
all that is,

your smile,
your grin,
your poses,
your demeanour,
your crazyness,
your statelyness,
your beauty,

they will endure,
as nature has,
your time with us,
well, has come to end,

Autumn’s flight,
into the night,
will always be,
engraved in me.