September 2009

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Hangry & Angry Top Secret Preview

Wednesday, 30th September 2009 12:01 | 34 Comments

Hangry & Angry always like to tease us it seems, like their mini album where previews of songs were uploaded onto their MySpace page the same seems to be happening again. At the moment there's currently the one preview of Top Secret that's been put up and I've no idea if we'll see any more, but either way it's something to get us interested in their next release.


With the preview only being a very short 28 seconds it's hard to tell exactly what the song will be like, but it's very much in the style of their previous releases and although I can't imagine winning over anyone who wasn't particularly into their music those that like I sure to love it.
Personally I'm so excited about this, I'm a big fan of the unit and having booked my tickets for Chibi Japan Expo a few nights back I'm eagerly awaiting to hear any of the new tracks to feature on the album so I can have a hint of what to hopefully expect. Although I've yet to see information about the day of time that Hangry & Angry will be performing at the Expo there has been some information as to what they will be doing when they are there and for anyone that likes Cosplay and was unsure whether to go or not then this might just win you over. A Cosplay event judged by both Yossie and Charmy, unlike the AX Idol judged by Tsunku I'm probably more inclined to enter something like this as I can't make anyone's ears bleed by doing this, but with me struggling to do anything for either Fuyucon or the Grand Cosplay Ball the likelihood of me doing anything for this are slim... but if you're interested head over to COSPLAY COMPETITION HANGRY & ANGRY and have a look at the details, but don't forget if you're going to take part you have to register by emailing cosplay-hangryangry@bullejapon.fr .

Whilst checking out the MySpace page I also noticed a link which I hadn't seen before, for the Hangry & Angry F site. It has some basic information about the group and some media, but what got me was the Sadistic Dance Photos... I loved their look with Kill Me Kiss Me, but these shots are just so great, both Yossie and Charmy are looking more sexy than I've ever seen them before!! Especially Yossie....wow!



TAGS [ Hangry and Angry Rika Yossie ]
Posted Wednesday, 30th September 2009 12:01 | 8943 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment

Hello!Blog New Look

Tuesday, 29th September 2009 02:59 | 75 Comments

Well, I've been fairly quiet over the past week, not because of any lack of wanting to but because my mind has been set to get the redesign I spoke about a few posts done and up. And as you can see it's finished...well kind of XD

The layout differs slightly from the screen shot I put up and I'm hoping it's to everyone's taste. It's not 100% finished yet, I've still got to make some final tweaks and adjustments, but for the most part it's finished and in a usable state.

All the features of the previous blog are here, but a little bit more tarted up, the music player is now more graphical. The birthdays now appear within the layout and will scroll to show all of the current birthdays.
The polls and poll results can be found more easily (presuming you want to look at them lol) are now more easy to find and appear under the 'Polls' menu at the top of the page. With the other elements of the site (Facebook Birthday App, Downloadable Links, RSS Feeds and the follow me section) found under the 'Other' menu.
I've also tweaked the Captcha as well on the comments page, which I really love :D

I didn't want to redesign the site and not include a new element to it, so after a little thought I've added a Video section, this can be accessed via the 'Video' link at the top of the site and is a searchable area of the videos included in the blog posts, with links to possibly relevant blog posts.

As I mentioned earlier the site isn't 100% finished, I still need to add a few things and iron out a couple of bugs, but for the minute it shouldn't hinder the use of the site.
I need to add more images to the top bar, as currently they only feature Aichan, Gaki and Kamei but with 213 images for just those 3 members chances are you won't be seeing the images too often. I also need to sit down and add some more Captcha images just to add a bit of variety.
There will also be a customise option to the site as well, which will let you hide the player and hopefully change the colour of the site.

If at any point anyone experiences any problems please let me know and I'll make sure to fix it, fingers crossed there wont be too many.

TAGS [ Stuff ]
Posted Tuesday, 29th September 2009 02:59 | 4728 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment

HelloStoreUSA to Open Soon

Tuesday, 22nd September 2009 12:54 | 299 Comments

The title of this post will seem fairly obvious to anyone whose popped over to HelloStoreUSA recently as the home page has been updated with a new graphic saying the exact same thing, this graphic also gives an indication as to what will be going on sale when it opens.


Also, over the weekend JapanFiles gave me the opportunity to have a sneak peak at the site, unfortunately I wasn't able to make any sneaky early orders ;p
I've had a stupidly busy weekend, so I wasn't able to spend as much time jotting down notes about the site as I would have liked, but I'm sure that if there's anything anybody wants to know they can just ask and if I can remember I'll answer and if not I'm sure JapanFiles will be able to answer without any problems.

The store covers not just the current units within Hello! Project of Morning Musume, Berryz Koubou, C-ute and Mano Erina but has the likes of Melon Kinenbi, Ongaku Gatas, Hangry & Angry, Ayaya, Mikitty, Nacchi and Yuko.
Currently the products in stock consists of tour merchandise, covering all the usual; photos, towels, key rings, visual books and tshirts. With regards to the actual tours that they have merchandise for, they are pretty much up to date with the tours. For examples, Morning Musume has merchandise for Platinum 9 Disco and Resonant Live, with I'm presuming the new ~ Nine Smile ~ merchandise arriving shortly.
Personally, as most people who read my blog will probably be aware of, I'm a huge fan of the member and tour tshirts. When I looked they only had a small variety of these (all in L size); a Platinum 9 Disco tour shirts, Yossie and Charmy Come Together Tour member shirts and a Mikitty Party '09 shirt. But, JapanFiles assure me that things like the member shirts will be available, but in a limited supply with the possibility of this changing depending on customer response.

As I said previously I didn't really have enough time to compare all the prices to the likes of the regular people I purchase my merchandise from (Ohta and HelloProLand) I was however able to grab a few prices which I'm hoping I'll be able to find relevant prices online to compate against.
For most people, Ohta's prices have gradually become to expensive, although the plus side is that he offers such an amazing service and will gladly hunt around for anything you're after, H!P related or not. HelloProLand, aside from a few minor problems I've had offers a good service at a reasonable price, with quite a lot of the older merchandise available. As I said above I didn't get a chance to note down the prices of products that I would be able to compare with both of these (you're all more than welcome to give me a slap around the face for being so slack) which is a bit unfortunate, but I will however post the prices of the products that I did manage to make a note of.


$6.00 - £3.19 Platinum 9 DISCO Summer '09 Tour - 2L Photo Set 1 - Ai Takahashi

$17.00 - £9.04 Platinum 9 DISCO Summer '09 Tour - Microfiber Mini-Towel - Ai Takahashi

$17.00 - £9.04 Platinum 9 DISCO Summer '09 Tour - Mirror Ball Phone Strap - Ai Takahashi

$23.00 - £12.23 Platinum 9 DISCO Summer '09 Tour - Muffler Towel - Aika Mitsui

$10.00 - £5.32 Resonant Live Autumn '08 Tour - L Photo Set A - Group

$39.00 - £20.74 Resonant Live Autumn '08 Tour - Microfiber Sports Towel - Ai Takahashi

$7.00 - £3.72 C-ute Spring Tour 2009 / ABC - Solo Fan - Chisato Okai

$17.00 - ££9.04 C-ute Spring Tour 2009 / ABC - Visual Book

$7.00 - £3.72 C-ute Summer Tour 2009 / Cutie JUMP! - L Limited Mail Order Photo Set (Group)


As, you can probably see from the prices above (being in dollars and pounds), the really good news is that unlike the CDs and MP3 downloads these items aren't limited to just the US, they will be shipping outside of America with there shipping rates showing prices to the Australia, Canada, Europe, Mexico and the US. With the standard flat rate to the US being $5 and outside of that $14 (with larger packages increasing the price).

Obviously it's in their best interests to cater for the merchandise that we as fans want and although at the moment the merchandise offered is just tour based there's the hope that given time their product range will increase offering more of the items that we want but are just unable to get without excessive hunting around. JapanFiles certainly seem open to the idea of recommendations from us as to what we look like them to stock, after all it's in everyone best interests, they get it, we buy it, everyone's happy :D Certainly it would be good if they were to extend their range into things like Fan Club merchandise and the other things we see over on HelloShop.
Although they can also start to sell DVDs and PBs, these are already readily available from the likes of CDJapan, HMV and YesAsia and unless they can offer them at a cheaper price, from my perspective I can't see myself ordering through them as I generally purchase the DVDs along with CDs in one go especially when shopping with YesAsia to try and take advantage of their free shipping offer. I guess the growth of the store and the direction that the merchandise goes in depends greatly on if and what we buy, hopefully we won't be waiting too much longer for the store to open and fingers crossed when it does they'll be even more merchandise, hopefully including the ~ Nine Smile ~ Tour Merchandise...I need to get Koha's shirt for this tour....Koha :'(

TAGS [ Hello!Project HelloStoreUSA JapanFiles ]
Posted Tuesday, 22nd September 2009 12:54 | 11465 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment

Bye Bye Koha, Koha Bye Bye

Saturday, 19th September 2009 23:36 | 71 Comments

WHAT THE FUCK?!

Although I've known about the whole Koharu to graduate thing for most of the day, I've been deliberately putting off reading anything about it all day. After a text this morning from telling me if I've been reading any of the Koha this morning I knew something was up, as to what was up I wasn't entirely sure but I had a guess with my reply of "Has she been sleeping with the UFA staff again?"...I wasn't totally wrong, well OK I was off by a long shot, no scandal, no sex with staff members lol, and no I'm not suggesting that she's done something like that previously. But the end outcome is still the same, albeit with no scandal and a nice ending (well if you can call anything about this nice...) with a graduation concert.

Well I've headed over to the Hello!Online Following in the steps of Erika from C-ute she's not only graduating her unit, but the whole of Hello!Project. But, what... she's the damn miracle member. Well that and the fact that she's my damn favourite member :'( I'm obviously a little upset, which is I think indicated by spending the whole day ignoring it in the hope that it'll just some really unfunny joke, all we need now is for Chinami to graduate from Berryz and it'll be my complete set..

Well, it's not losing my favourite member from the whole of H!P is a first, there was of course Aibon, so this feeling isn't exactly new, but with the scandal aspect to it, it made it easier to except, well it didn't really but I had an understanding of why. For Koharu to not only leave Morning Musume but H!P as well, frankly I'm shocked.
Well, looking back at her career, she's had a pretty damn good run of things. Building up a decent fan base, a solo career, Milky Way and her voice acting within Kirarin Revolution. So I guess looking at it that way what is there left for her to do within Hello! Project?

As with all graduations, the pain is knowing no matter what she plans do after this I won't be able to keep track of what she's doing and if she does stick within the modelling profession, then much like Erika, how am I suppose to follow her, aside from accidental purchases of magazine that could feature her or the odd video/photo posted up on the forums?

I can't help but think that's it a little too sudden. I can't be the only person thinking this? With the release of her PB, her DVD and with featuring in the calendar for next year, if they knew that she was going to be graduating then why would they push all of these things? OK, maybe it'll get them some extra cash, no doubt I'll be trying to grab some last minute Koha merchandise when I can. But to me it doesn't make sense, she's at the top of career at the moment, and within Morning Musume she's one of the three voices, so why move her out? Perhaps if she was going onto form another unit or to carry on with her solo career then it wouldn't be such an issue, but this, I don't know, something doesn't feel right.
Could this possibly be an indication of the future of H!P? With two members now graduating from their units and straight out of H!P into modelling, is this an indication that UFA aren't willing to take on more acts outside of what they have already like they have done with the older generations?

Love her or hate her, I'd imagine it's fairly safe to say that it's come as a total surprise to everyone. It's going to be fun to see what the repercussion of this will be, as ever a unit is more than one member so my love of Morning Musume won't diminish, I'm curious as to see how losing one of their most stand out members is going to affect them.

TAGS [ Koharu ]
Posted Saturday, 19th September 2009 23:36 | 5909 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment

Stop, Banner Time

Wednesday, 16th September 2009 10:30 | 51 Comments

Over at the JapanFiles website along the side of the screen where there's always usually a Hello! Project related banner, there's a new one promoting the HelloStoreUSA.

Although the site is still just a holding/welcome page when you click through it's a good indication that the site it moving along and is ready to go live soon.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what the store's going to being providing, with so much Hello!Project merchandise out there it's hard to guess, well aside from the Shirts, Towels, Books and Photo Sets it says on the site. I'm really hoping it'll make the tour merchandise that little bit easier (and cheaper) to get ahold of.
On a random, I'm going to be YouTube'ing "U Can't Touch This" as soon as I've posoted this XD



TAGS [ Hello!Project JapanFiles ]
Posted Wednesday, 16th September 2009 10:30 | 6932 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment

Nanchatte Renai CDs

Monday, 14th September 2009 17:53 | 41 Comments

I can't remember the last time that I posted about a CD purchase, it's been quite some time. A mix of laziness of my part (yes I'm still using this 'new' laptop as an excuse...even though it's and months and months old) and a lack of any real excitement for the CDs. Now, don't get me wrong it's not through a lack of excitement with the music, as most people who read the site know, I'm a fan of value for money and well to be blunt H!P's has sucked at this lately, well outside of Mano's releases at least.

Nanchatte Renai isn't an exception to this, it's all fairly unexciting, but I'd thought I'd post for a couple of reasons; it's their 40th Commemoration single (not entirely sure why, to me it still seems like a fairly random thing to celebrate but, oh well) and the whole Nanchatte Renai World Collage Project! thing.
If you haven't heard of the Nanchatte Renai World Collage Project! head over to MMintlFanPro's Blog and check the whole idea out. The basic idea is "something simple the international fans of Morning Musume could do to celebrate the group's 40th single, and show UFA that we want more overseas events and releases". Taking a photo of yourself with your CD purchases and mailing them off so that they can be included into the collage.
Interestingly since the original post was made and the requirements to purchase the single from Amazon, CDJapan or HMV because of them contributing to the Oricon sales ranking, YesAsia which the site says not to use, now contributes to the Oricon sales ranking to, so you can even buy from there now (plus it's just generally good to know that all your purchases from their now count).

I've yet to take my photo, mainly because I've just got in from work and I'm all suited and booted...if you can actually belive me looking smart, I know it's hard. So for the minute I'm going to refrain from snapping my pic with my purchases, but in the mean time just in case you wondered what they looked like without me in the photo..


Two of these are actually mine, one will be heading towards Kelly as soon as I write this up and take a walk to the postbox, if you read this before you get it, fingers crossed you should have it couple of days.
Recently with Morning Musume singles I've only been purchasing just the one copy, with the lack of a mini photobook to accompany it the incentive to buy more has gone for me. With this release the alternative b-side track on the 40th Commemoration Edition was my incentive to buy a couple of copies.
I don't personally think either of the coupling tracks come close to Nanchatte Renai, which has really grown on me since my first few listens. Aki Urara starts with some great potential sounding to be in a similar vein to 3, 2, 1 Breakin' Out, but then slowly turns into something which reminds of a something out of the 90s that a UK boy band would sing, it's the piano in the background that does it. Subete wa Ai no Chikara featured on the 40th Anniversary Edition is my favourite out of the coupling tracks, it sounds pretty much just like you're average Morning Musume song, which isn't a bad thing.

The inlays to the singles aren't the most exciting of things. I was going to say that at least the covers of the two copies I purchased varied from each other but on double checking it's amazing what a change of colour in the background can do XD


The B Version of the single comes with the Close Up Black Version of the PV, which is a really enjoyable watch. Personally I can't get over how amazing Gaki looks in this PV, the haircut, the makeup that little hat ARGH! she's just so gorgeous!



TAGS [ CD Morning Musume PV ]
Posted Monday, 14th September 2009 17:53 | 7016 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment

C-ute and Manoeri Tour Merchandise

Saturday, 12th September 2009 20:44 | 32 Comments

Ohta's eBay store has been looking pretty sparse lately, so it's good to see it getting some stuff in.
I've been waiting for these for awhile now, after seeing them put up on the merchandise page over at the Hello! Project site, there's no way I can pass on these...although I really know I should.

First up, and the things I'm really after, are the C-ute Concert Tour 2009 "Cutie JUMP!" merchandise. My love of C-ute just keeps growing I really can't get enough of them and the unfortunate thing is I really don't have that many tshirts of theirs. I think I have one tour shirt, two member shirts and one birthday shirt. The only problem is....my Nakki birthday shirt shrunk in the wash after one wash :'( and I dropped some hot wax on my Chisato shirt and although I love the shirt to bits, the mark the was has left really bugs me.
And, so being in need of a C-ute tshirt has come at no better time (well perhaps if I had money it would be a better time, but...) the question is what shirt to get? Out of the members there's no choice, Chisato! I wonder...as much as I love Nakki (Nakki....) am I liking Chisato more? Something to think about I guess. But, the tour shirt is also great. Well it has to be really, it's pretty much the exact same design. But I'm really liking the colour it comes in and I haven't had a dark green shirt in some time, so it'll make a nice change especially when you consider the brightness of the majority of H!P shirts. I think the deciding factor may be the photos, it's always hard to resist a complete set of photos over an individual members ones.

Along with the shirts is the regular of other merchandise and I'm even finding it hard to resist these. Usually I'm good at overlooking the DVDs and Visual books, but having seen the safari style outfits the girls are wearing and how damn good they look in them, I'm thinking that I really need to get my hands on that book as well...can I hold out...simple answer? I'm useless at holding out, generally if I want something even if I try to resist it doesn't work.

Also there's some Manoeri merchandise from her first concert tour. Mano is slowly slipping off of my H!P radar, which I think has to be a first for me, I don't think I've ever liked a member and slowly grew disinterested in her, which I think is fairly obvious if you look how long it's taking me to write anything about her latest single, really should get around to that.
The tour shirt isn't the sexiest thing I've ever seen...a piano in a white box...how long did that take to come up with? Which I find to be a bit of a shame. Again the photobook is something I'm half tempted to purchase, looking through the most recent issue of UTB there's some really great shots of her and it's been awhile since I've seen some photos of her that have really caught my eye, so I'm curious to see if there are decent ones in here.



TAGS [ C-ute Mano Erina Ohta ]
Posted Saturday, 12th September 2009 20:44 | 9426 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment

Hello!Blog Redesign

Thursday, 10th September 2009 01:55 | 25 Comments

I've decided that it's about time to sit down and rework the look of Hello!Blog, three years without a facelift...I think it's about time.
So, I thought I'd throw it out there and ask if anyone has suggestions on ways of improving it, things they'd like to see etc etc. I'm going to keep everything there is at the moment, so the music player, the birthdays and the rotating top bar will remain, although visually they may look a little different. But as I say I'm open to suggestions.

I've worked on the music player and that's pretty much done now and I'm really happy with it and I'm currently working on the birthday side of things, I've included in an image below of what my first attempt looks like, the birthday side of things is the top right box which will automatically scroll, but that's already got the thumbs down from a few people so I might try and rework it.

Any suggestions on features people would like to see or alterations on how things currently work to make it easier to use would be greatly appreciated.



TAGS [ Stuff ]
Posted Thursday, 10th September 2009 01:55 | 5031 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment

Hangry and Angry in Paris..

Tuesday, 8th September 2009 00:29 | 56 Comments

jph!p : [11/2009] hANGRY & ANGRY in Paris
Gotta thank Almond for posting this on the jph!p forum and giving us a heads up. It doesn't matter when or where I'm going to be there for sure. How could I possibly miss it? With how cheaply and quickly I can get to France it would be stupid of me not to, plus all them "Why don't H!P come to Europe" are worth nothing if I pass on it. Plus I think the bottom line is, how could I possibly pass on an opportunity to see Yossie and Charmy so close to home? As to how to get there, I've yet to decide mainly because I'm still liking the idea of last years planned attempt of getting to the French Expo and driving. Cram some people in and have ourselves a road trip. At the minute there's no real details, just November lol, but sod it if they're there so am I!

So whilst we wait and see what this Hangry and Angry thing is, see how many people you can spot in the AX Documentary ;p



TAGS [ Hangry and Angry ]
Posted Tuesday, 8th September 2009 00:29 | 6448 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment

Super Kawaii Reina Saturday! A Success

Monday, 7th September 2009 00:08 | 69 Comments

Yesterday was of course Super Kawaii Reina Saturday!, a fun filled day of H!P fans getting ever so slightly drunk, amongst other things. The turn out didn't really grow beyond those who had originally agreed to come before I posted it up on the site, but that was more than a good enough turn out to have a total blast! Starting a 1pm and going all the way on till 12am it was a day packed with shopping, eating, drinking, singing, more eating and even more drinking, with the odd look through merchandise brought along. The turn out consisted of (working from bottom left of the photo below round to bottom right); Choco Cat, Tasuki Daisuki, Tom (Tasuki Daisuki's boyfriend), CDevil, Matt_D, Yoriko and InsaneLampshade...and behind the camera would be XD


The day started off pretty well, waking up and finding a link to download the Morning Musume L.A. Live show from TV Tokyo, I now had something to occupy my time on the train and luckily CDevil turned up a few minutes late giving me just enough time to sit down and watch it in full.

We ended up getting to Tottenham Court Road station bang on 1 o'clock and headed down towards Forbidden Planet where we met up with Matt_D, Lampshade and Yoriko after quick shop around we attempted a pub lunch, but as it turns out the reason why London was so quiet was becuase every single person was sitting in the pubs eating and drinking and after a few attempts of trying to find a table we decided to abandon the idea and head for Pizza Express where we had the ultimate failed attempt at taking a group shot, my SD Card was locked and Yoriko forgot her SD Card altogether :S The drinks started with lunch and was really an indication as to how the day would play out.

With 30 minutes to spare we headed towards the Japan Centre with Lampshade leading the way showing off his power walking skills and giving Harold Bishop a run for his money. Quickly heading downstairs I grabbed my copy of UTB and was told that it was the end of my subscription, I'll have to go back at some point and resubscribe although it is getting costly £101 for 6 issues :(

Next on the schedule was the one thing that we'd planned, KARAOKE!! So off we went to Karaoke Box (which annoyingly happened to be right next to Pizza Express, oops) and to our hired room where we'd spend the next 3 hours. I've warned people about my singing voice, but I think people don't really take me seriously...now they do! Putting our order for some beers I kicked off the singing with Walk The Dinosaur, unfortunately although we were told (and requested) a Japanese songs the two rooms with those in weren't available so we were stuck with English songs, which for me was a plus as if people think I sing bad English they should my attempts at singing in Japanese XD
Tasuki daisuki and Choco Cat appeared shortly after us and everyone was introduced to each other and the singing and the drinking commenced. I don't think I've laughed so much in a long while, some of our song choices and performances (if you can call them that) were hilarious, me, Lampshade, Matt_D and CDevil gave it our all by virtually spending the whole time sitting down and being put to total shame by the wonderful voices of Choco Cat and Tasuki Daisuki.

Some of the highlights for me were Lampshades amazing rendition of Time Warp accompanied with dance, going to the loo down the hall and still being able to hear Choco Cat sing something along the lines of "I GOT A MOTHER FUCKING CHAINSAW!", Tasuki Daisuki's Living On A Prayer with amusing hand movements and CDevils awesome rendition of Who Let The Dogs Out with an attempted Jamaican accent XD






And then finally our time was up and we headed out, Yoriko and Choco Cat headed off and the rest of us made our way to the Trocadero do get in some DDR, Guitar Hero and bowling. Splitting into three teams we had; Team Aichan (CDevil), Team Koha (Lampsahde and me) and Team Reina (Matt_D and Tasuki Daisuki) and the battle commenced. CDevil rigged the game and with evry throw managed to break the bowling alley, even managing to get a strike when there was no pins down, even more hilarious was the fact that about 2 seconds after he bowled some guys legs magically appeared at the end of our lane :S Finally team Aichan came away winning, team Koha came 2nd, team Linlin 3rd (I formed my own team after my Guitar Hero skills were not up to acceptable levels for a team Koha member lol) and last was team Reina, better luck next time guys ;p

Again we moved on and got some food and more drinks, with the night coming to an end we found ourselves standing in the street drinking beer with CDevil standing in the most awkward positions trying to hold in all the drink and food he'd consumed that day, Lampshade spilling his beer every two seconds and Matt_D chatting to two Mexicans in cowboy hats whilst showing them the P9D Concert. And to top the night off I kind of pulled...well does Matt_D trying to anally rape you with his finger count?

All is all it was a great day, and I'm really looking forward to out next meet in November which, fingers crossed we'll have a few extra people coming along to. See you at Loopy Koha's Craze ADDICTION in November!! Gotta love the Facebook Event Pics Steph's done for this and the next meet (see you and Sam at the next one?).



TAGS [ H!P Fan Meet Stuff ]
Posted Monday, 7th September 2009 00:08 | 7554 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment

Awesome Release Line Up

Tuesday, 1st September 2009 10:53 | 42 Comments

Sometimes UFA really piss me off, it seems that at times they're unable to break away from what becomes the norm, or from what they know will bring them money. Whether it's single releases with the same few members getting the majority of the lines and getting all the screen time or just a total blanking of a unit of member releases, it can be really frustrating at times.

Certainly when I last went through and compared release dates for Photobooks it was easy to see who would be getting one next, as they went in a particular order, you knew if one particular member got one then the next in the list wouldn't be far off. I know I shouldn't really complain with the line up of these releases, a lot of my favourite members get their releases on a regular basis; Sayumi, Koharu, Gaki, Risako and Momo are all on the top of my list when it comes to releases and if I have the cash I'll order them at the first oppurtunity I get, but I find myself getting more and more disappointed with these releases the more they have, well aside from Gaki as she needs a ton more, it's not that I'm not liking them or even that I'm losing interest in the girls obviously not as I'm still buying them, but it's the lack of variation.
Koha's 3rd PB release, I'm stupidly excited about this and can't wait to head to the Japan Centre on Saturday to pick up my copy of UTB to see the preview shots but it's another PB for Koha, where's Mittsi's? And considering Koha's my favourite within Morning Musume you can see how I feel about this, because as much as I love her I'd much rather get my hands on Mittsi's first PB rather than another one of Koha's...lol, but don't get me wrong I'll still be ordering it.

For what ever reason it looks like UFA are stepping outside of the norm with their releases with two debut PB releases and presumably DVD releases as well. Haggity and Chinami are both due releases in the coming months. Chinami's feels me with obvious excitement and seeing the cover just sends me over the edge, if there's one thing I've been dying to see for I don't know how long is her in a bikini, now's our chance to get a proper look at those amazing legs of hers.

Mai's, I have to admit to being a little surprised with mainly because out of all the members within C-ute that haven't got a PB release yet, Nakki was the member I thought would be getting one first. But I'm ecstatic to hear that she is, it's her first step in taking over C-ute! It'll be interesting to see what angle will be taking with this book, mainly becuase of her age, but saying that I'm guessing it won't stray from the path when it comes to these things, especially if you look at the debut releases of other girls that have had books around that age, Koharu and Airi being good examples both had bikini shots in, so I'm guessing they'll be some in there.

And whilst I'm in a mood about new releases, Hangry & Angry album and C-ute Alo-Hello! DVD... I get a feeling I might have to hold back from buying any more paint for awhile, somethings are more important than decorating XD

TAGS [ C-ute Chinami Hangry and Angry Maimai ]
Posted Tuesday, 1st September 2009 10:53 | 6164 Reads | 0 Tweet Count | Leave a Comment