Maki Goto joins Avex (Shiny Days)
Hands Up, Who Saw This Coming? (Stuck in a Pagoda)
Attention: Life After H!P Does Exist (Wings of my Heart)
It’s Gocchin TIME! (J-Riff)
Gotou Maki signs with avex (unchained)
Charmy☆Renai looks forward to the material that Maki will be releasing under Avex.
CJ goes over the Koda Kumi connection and anticipates material similar to Kuu-chan.
Julia goes over the end of Goto Maki’s H!P career before looking towards the next phase. Personally, I love the releases at the end of her H!P days as well. Julia has an interesting emotion over Gocchin’s decision: pride. It makes sense to me. As a fan of someone, you quite often will support whatever they do – but that doesn’t mean you can’t hope for certain career decisions. If they take those career decisions, why not have joy over what that person decides?
Riff goes over the possible paths that Maki can take. Again, the comparison to Koda Kumi is almost unavoidable. However, as Riff argues, even if she does become the next Koda, there is something about Gomaki that keeps her from being entirely alike.
Pengie is excited about the move to Avex and pledges to follow Gomaki’s next move.

Comment by Julia — 2008/06/20 @ 12:45 pm
And you guys should all remember the first IW post on Gocchin leaving H!P, which I scooped because I still paid enough attention back then. Here: http://www.intlwota.com/2007/1.....r-company/ and to quote myself:
“Whatever reactions we all may have…we should all pray that Avex snatches her up.”
Ahh, dreams come true sometimes.