Part 2 of my catch-up collection. Enjoy~

Saki Nakajima will be releasing her 1st photobook in just a few days on December 9th. It will be called NACKY. I am incredibly happy about this, especially with NakaSaki being one of my favorite C-uties! Now all that’s left is Chisa!!

Tracklisting:
1. Bravo ☆ Bravo
2. -Winter Story-
3. Bravo ☆ Bravo
4. -Winter Story-

Buono! is going to release their 9th single, Bravo ☆ Bravo on December 16th. It will be used as the ending theme of Shugo Chara!. Below is the PV.

Tracklisting:
1. Otome no Inori
2. OSOZAKI Musume
3. Sekai wa Summer Party
4. Itsumo Itsudemo
5. LaLaLa-SoSoSo
6. Hajimete no Keiken
7. Lucky Aura
8. Santa n Saxophone
9. Kono Mune no Tokimeki wo
10. Matsuge no Saki ni Kimi ga Iru
11. Oyasumi nasai
12. Mano Piano (Album Version)

Along with Buono!’s single, Erina Mano will be releasing her 1st album on December 16th, 2009. The album will consist of all her singles from Mano Piano to Kono Mune no Tokimeki wo and 5 new tracks. It will release in both Regular and Limited editions. Oh, and is it just me or is she wearing the same outfit as she is on the Single V cover of Love & Peace? ._. Let’s just be glad Tsunku likes to recycle.

Tracklisting:
1. SHOCK!
2. Ikiyouze!
3. SHOCK! (Instrumental)

On January 6, 2010, C-ute will release their 11th major single. It will be entitled SHOCK!. The covers are above, with Airi placed strategically in the center. Now that they got rid of 2 members, they have no problem of pushing the other 4 members to the sides. Bitches.

Tracklisting:
1. Going On! [Guardians4]
2. Arigatou ~Ookiku Kansha~ (Shugo Chara Egg!)
3. Going On! (Instrumental)
4. Arigatou ~Ookiku Kansha~ (Instrumental)

Guardians4 will be releasing their 4th single, Going On! on January 27, 2010. The B-side will be handled be Shugo Chara Egg!. Going On! will become the new Shugo Chara! opening song.

It has been announced that Morning Musume’s 42nd single will be entitled Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai?–which translates to What’s Wrong with Women Standing Out?. It is set to release on February 10th, 2010. It will also be the first single without Koharu Kusumi. Her graduation date is also dangerously close.

On February 24th, 2010, it has been announced that Erina Mano will release her 6th major single, Haru no Arashi. No other news on it yet.

Reina Tanaka:

Sayumi Michishige

Ai Takahashi:

Risa Niigaki:

Aika Mitsui:

Linlin:

Koharu Kusumi:

Eri Kamei:

Junjun:

Happy Birthday Risa!!!!

Niigaki was the runner-up for the ‘Kiss Girl Audition’ in becoming Tomy image girl before joining Morning Musume. She also appeared with the winner Hasegawa Ai in Tomy Karaoke Machine commercial.

In 2001, Niigaki joined Morning Musume as the fifth generation along with Ai Takahashi, Asami Konno, and Makoto Ogawa. Morning Musume producer Tsunku said he chose Niigaki because she “shined during the final studio recording” for the audition song that all the finalists had to sing. She debuted on the group’s 13th single, “Mr. Moonlight: Ai no Big Band” and first appeared in their 4th album, 4th Ikimasshoi!. In the summer of that year, she also debuted in a shuffle unit, as part of Happy 7, coincidentally with two other members of her generation (Ai Takahashi and Makoto Ogawa).

Later in September, all fifth generation members were placed into subgroups. Niigaki was placed into Tanpopo as a member of the third generation, along with Asami Konno. The new grouping only managed to release one single before becoming inactive.

Niigaki, along with many other members of Morning Musume at that time, starred in a drama entitled Angel Hearts which was released in 2002.

In 2003, she was placed into Sakuragumi, which released two singles before also becoming inactive.

In early 2007, Niigaki was chosen to be a member of Morning Musume Tanjō 10nen Kinentai (モーニング娘。誕生10年記念隊?) along with Kaori Iida, Natsumi Abe, Maki Goto and Koharu Kusumi – a unit created to celebrate Morning Musume’s 10th anniversary. Their first single, Bokura ga Ikiru My Asia (僕らが生きるMy Asia?), was released on January 24, 2007.

On June 1, 2007, following then-leader Miki Fujimoto’s resignation from Morning Musume,Ai Takahashi replaced Fujimoto as leader, while Risa Niigaki took Takahashi’s place as sub-leader.

Following Nozomi Tsuji’s pregnancy announcement, Niigaki took over the role of Athena in the animation series Robby & Kerobby. In October 2007, Niigaki was placed in the unit Athena & Robikerottsu along with fellow Morning Musume member Aika Mitsui, as well as Saki Nakajima and Chisato Okai of °C-ute.

It was announced in July 2008, that Niigaki and fellow Morning Musume member Ai Takahashi would play the 70s J-pop duo Pink Lady in the TV Drama Hitmaker Aku Yū Monogatari.

From August 6, 2008 through August 25, Morning Musume along with members of the Takarazuka Revue performed a version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella with Niigaki as the Prince.

On August 26, 2008, Niigaki became one of four members to remain in Morning Musume for seven years or more (the others being Kaori Iida, Hitomi Yoshizawa and fellow fifth generation member Ai Takahashi).

On January 17, 2009, Niigaki and Takahashi became the longest serving members in Morning Musume history, breaking the four year old record set by Kaori Iida.

On August 26, 2009, Niigaki and Takahashi became the first members to remain in Morning Musume for eight years.

In 2009, Niigaki was assigned to be apart of the new shuffle group, ZYX a with Kusumi Koharu, Sudou Maasa , Tsugunaga Momoko, Umeda Erika, Tokunaga Chinami, Ogawa Saki, and Wada Ayaka.

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.

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

Morning Musume-Kimagure Princess PV

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.

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

Bayfm radio show ON8 will air a preview of Morning Musume’s 41st single Kimagure Princess at 8pm (JST). The single is being released in October but they are releasing a preview a month and a half before, which sounds like a good way to start promotion early.

So if anyone has access to Japanese radio (Japan local time HERE) then you might want to tune in, everyone else will have to wait until the preview appears on the internet (it shouldn’t take long).

Also, just a heads up, the Limited A and C versions are sold out on CDJapan, but you can still get them at HMV and YesAsia (YesAsia now counts toward the Oricon).

The release date is set for 10/28.

Official H!P Announcement About Preview On BayFM

EDIT: The headline of the preview is gone from the H!P site, but the link still works, so until it appears again there is a slight possibility that there might not be a preview. I’ll update later if anything happens.

Okay! Part 4 of the Top! Series. This week it will only be 5 instead of 10 because there are only 9 current Morning Musume members. All Time favorites may come at a later date. Anyway, here goes Top 5 Current Morning Musume Members.

05. Linlin
Linlin was one of the Chinese exchange students in generation eight of Morning Musume. I think the main reason she didn’t get as much attention as Jun Jun at first is because she has already been on stage and probably didn’t appear as cute as Jun Jun did. But she is one of the best MM singers and if you don’t believe, just look at this:

http://dj-maimai.vox.com/library/post/holy-crap-linlin.html

Yup.

04. Jun Jun
I like Jun Jun because she has a lot of talent and is adorable. She could make a paper bag look cute. I first saw her in Sexy 8 Beat concert and I was all like, “Awww~! She can’t even speak Japanese, cuuuuuute~!”. I put her in front of Linlin because I feel like she’s shown her true personality a little more, while I feel like Linlin holds back a smidge.

03. Risa Niigaki
I always thought Risa was really pretty and had a great voice. She can really sing and derserves her position. She came from the cute 12/13 year old with the bang-less pigtails to the beautiful sub-leader. It’s really just an amazing metamorphasis.

02. Eri Kamei
Loved Eri since the very beginning of knowing Morning Musume. I always thought her voice was just lovely. She’s a very pretty girl and derserves her photobooks. She should really have more camera and song time though, which is why I loved her solo on Platinum 9 DISC.

01. Reina Tanaka
I just absolutely LOVE Reina. There is just nothing to hate. I’m not sure when I really noticed her, but the thing that popped out in my eyes the most was her style. She had a really cool and gothic type style, which I loved because I sometimes dress edgy. I also admired her hairstyles, it just made me totally love her. Reina FTW!
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End. Okay so, last week was a pretty slow H!P news week; coincidentally I started school. My blogging won’t really decrease with school, but I just won’t be posting in the morning. I’ll still do these weekly things since I do them on the weekend. So all in all, it’ll pretty much be the same.
I also have a few new ideas, like fanfics of mine, a brand new weekly series, and probably posting graphics. I’ll probably be starting it all soon, so look out for it! =]
~Kio

[愛して 愛して 後一分]
“Love Me, Love Me! For just one more minute”
http://www.neowing.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=EPCE-5667

Source: AlwaysAi & Nayok-Kihara @ H!O

The title for the c/w has been revealed to be Aishite Aishite Ato Ippun (Translated in English: “Love Me, Love Me! For Just One More Minute”) on the Neowing site.

It looks like the c/w sounds more like a ballad, something which might mean that there is a possibility that the A-side is upbeat (just a guess). Hopefully we get a preview of “Kimagure Princess” to find out if it is upbeat or not.

The single is set for release on 10/28.

Neowing Site For Kimagure Princess

It ‘was announced a new single for Morning Musume.
The date for realese is 21 October and the name of the single will be “Kimagure Princess”.
There will be 4 different versions: one regular and three Limited A, B and C.

The DVD for the latest Hello! Project concert tour Hello! Project Summer 2009 Kakumei Gannen ~Hello! Chanpuru~ has been announced. It will feature the new units ZYX-Alpha, Pucchimoni V, Zoku Biyuuden, Tanpopo #, and Shin Minimoni for the first time, and it will also feature Umeda’s last performance with Hello! Project as a whole.

I’m really looking forward to this DVD, and hopefully they managed to use another date to record (or at least a performance), since Maimai was missing the last day since she didn’t feel well.

The concert had a really great setlist, including many Morning Musume, C-ute, Berryz Koubou, and Mano Erina songs. And it will also feature some new songs from the new units (specifically three new songs), so hopefully we can get a preview of them soon to see the choreography.

The release date is set for 11/4.

Aquí encontrarás los perfiles de todas las actuales intengrantes de este grupo:

Ai Takahashi: Lider

☆ Fecha de Nacimiento: 14/sep/1986

Tipo de Sangre: A

Ciudad Natal: Fukui

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Risa Niigaki: Sublider

☆ Fecha de Nacimiento: 20/oct/1988

Tipo de Sangre: B

Ciudad Natal: Prefactura de Kanagawa

☆ Fecha de Nacimiento: 23/dic/1988

Tipo de Sangre: AB

Ciudad Natal: Tokyo

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Sayumi Michishigue

☆ Fecha de Nacimiento: 13/Jul/1989

Tipo de Sangre: A

Ciudad Natal: Yamaguchi

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Reina Tanaka

☆ Fecha de Nacimiento: 15/jul/1992

Tipo de Sangre: a

Ciudad Natal: Prefactura de Niigata

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Aika Mitsui

☆ Fecha de Nacimiento: 3/ene/1993

Tipo de Sangre: 0

Ciudad Natal: Shiga

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Junjun

Nombre real: Li Chun

☆ Fecha de Nacimiento: 11/feb/1988

Tipo de Sangre: 0

Ciudad Natal: Hunnan, China

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Linlin

Nombre real: Qian Lin

☆ Fecha de Nacimiento:11/mar/1991

Tipo de Sangre: B

Ciudad Natal: Provincia de Zhejiang , China

1. Manatsu no Kousen
2. Manatsu no Yoru no Yume (Matsutoya Yumi)
3. Mikazuki – Niigaki Risa (Ayaka)
4. Koe – Niigaki Risa
5. Thank You – Niigaki Risa (Dreams Come True)
6. Ai to Taiyo ni Tsutsumarete
7. The Rose – Takahashi Ai (Bette Midler)
8. Stuck – Takahashi Ai (Stacie Orrico)
9. Tsumetai Umi – Takahashi Ai (Kuraki Mai)
10. Medley: Shouganai Yume-oibito, Shanimuni Paradise, Summer Night Town
11. Aruiteru

The setlist for the special presentations Takahashi and Niigaki are doing titled Morning Musume Presents Takahashi Ai and Niigaki Risa Premium Summer Dinner Show has been released. From what I can see the setlist seems pretty well rounded with a few Morning Musume songs, a few Japanese songs and even a few songs in English (sung by Takahashi).

Here are three pictures, one from the area where they performed, another from the menu and another from the special drink named after them called “Ai Land Risa” (Pic Source: Amped-Echoz@H!O):

There is still another presentation on 8/30, so if you are one of the few lucky people who got a ticket then at least you know what the setlist is.

Ya a salido *O*  Por fiiiiin!! *O*