Wednesday, July 8, 2009

»» Nanchatte Renai

Today, a full preview of Nanchatte Renai, the 40th Morning Musume single came out. Here it is:



As you can see... IT IS AWESOME!!!!! I must admit I didn't totally love it at first, but I was totally hooked by the second listen. For me it's like a Iroppoi Jirettai meets Do it! now meets Naichau Kamo meets Furusato meets Shouganai Yume Oibito kind of song. Hello!Project is getting better and better with each release. A new Golden Age is starting, people!

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Monday, July 6, 2009

»» Something's changed

As it turns out, the line-ups of the revived units announced before aren't quite right! Here are the official line-ups:

Aa! - Natsuyaki Miyabi, Saho Akari and Suzuki Airi
Shin Minimoni - LinLin, Fukuda Kanon, Takeuchi Akari and Miyamoto Karin
Pucchimoni V - Nakajima Saki, Hagiwara Mai and Mano Erina (man, the vocals on this one...)
ZYX-α - Niigaki Risa, Kusumi Koharu, Tsugunaga Momoko, Tokunaga Chinami, Sudou Maasa, Umeda Erika , Wada Ayaka and Ogawa Saki (Chinami is in a unit!! Hell has frozen over!!)
Zoku v-u-den - Michishige Sayumi, Sugaya Risako and Junjun
Tanpopo# - Kumai Yurina, Kamei Eri, Mitsui Aika and Okai Chisato

I must say I like Pucchimoni V better like this, but even though I really like Saho Akari and don't really like Reina, I was kinda hoping the new Aa! would feature the original line-up. I'm happy to see that they're finally giving the Eggs some work and can't wait to know them better. Another thing I noticed is: where the fuck is Yuu Kikkawa? She's got an amazing voice, can dance, is really beautiful and now that MilkyWay is over, she's nowhere to be seen! This was a great opportunity to finally put her to real use. Being part of a Koharu-fronted unit isn't really decent work in my book. Anyway... let's wait and see what future holds for her and Sayaka Kitahara, who's also quite good. Rumour has it the first singles of new Minimoni, Pucchimoni and Tanpopo come out on September 9th.

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Friday, July 3, 2009

»» Look What I Just Bought!!









Happy Summer Wedding, Go Girl! ~Koi no Victory~, Koko ni Iruzee! and Morning Musume no Hyokkori Hyoutanjima. Koko ni Iruzee! and Hyokkori Hyoutanjima have limited edition stickers, I totally love them! They bring the MM singles count to 11. I have a Koi no Dance Site coming in the mail and just bid on Kanashimi Twilight :) Hopefully I'll have at least 20 by the end of the year (I was thinking 25, but I don't think I'll make it).

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

»» The new H!P units!

As we all know by now, there is a H!P album coming out in a few days. It consists of a bunch of old wedding songs sung by all 49 members of H!P. I thought the idea was weird at first, and a bit lame, but I like the way things happened. Right after that announcement, we found out Tsunku was going to recreate a bunch of old H!P units to sing in it. Minimoni, Pucchimoni, ZYX, Biyuuden and Tanpopo, they'd all be back. People started wondering who would be in the groups, and we slowly started to learn some of the members. First of all, it was announced that Fukuda Kanon and LinLin would be in Minimoni. Awesome, right? A few days later, Mano Erina kind of let us know she was going to be in the new Pucchimoni. Okay. So today, the line-ups were announced. Here they are:

Shin Minimoni: LinLin, Fukuda Kanon, Miyamoto Karin and Takeuchi Akari


Well, LinLin and Fukuda Kanon are sure awesome, but I know nothing about the other eggs, so I don't know what to think, really. I guess I'll know when I listen to their song.

Pucchimoni V: Nakajima Saki, Mano Erina, Saho Akari, Takeuchi Akari and Miyamoto Karin


Ok, this kinda sucks. I love NakaSaki, and Mano is certainly growing on me, but what's with putting the same eggs on two groups?! This group is probably going to be very weak, vocally.

ZYX-α: Niigaki Risa and three eggs who have yet to be specified


It's got Risa, so it's got to be awesome. Someone's legs are going to get broken if Takeuchi Akari and Miyamoto Karin are in it.

Zoku・Biyuuden: Michishige Sayumi, JunJun and Sugaya Risako


To hell with vocals, this is going to be awesome!!! Out of all the new line-ups, this one shows the most improvement over the original ones. I was never too fond of the original Biyuuden, but this is quite awesome! Sayu and JunJun are two of my favourite members of H!P, and I've got nothing against Risako. I'm afraid JunJun is going to have to carry this unit all by herself (vocally), and I'm also afraid they're not going to let her. Sayu and Risako are far more popular than her, so... But fuck that, it's just one song! I just it's a slutty song and that they perform it with minuscule outfits in the next H!P concert.

# Tanpopo: Kamei Eri, Mitsui Aika, Kumai Yurina, Okai Chisato


Now this one is totally full of win. I really love everyone in this unit. Eri and Yurina are totally awesome, and Aika and Chisato are my favourite members from their respective groups. I really think they were well chosen and will represent the Tanpopo concept really well. The vocals are also going to be quite good.

Other than those groups, Aa! and High-King are also going to be back, but the line-ups have not changed. I'm pretty excited, 'cause Aa!'s only single was really great, and so was High-King's. The album comes out on July 15th.

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