Bikkuri Project

Inspired by another blog I read, I thought I’d post my thoughts and feelings about each member in detail, and going from least favorite to most favorite seemed like a good way to go about it. Starting with #9 Koharu “Kirari” Kusumi.

I’ll come right out and say it. At first, I kind of hated Koharu. Her voice did (and still does) hurt my ears. I’m not sure exactly why this is. She’s either constantly flat or has some weird throaty thing she does sometimes… I don’t even know what it is, but it sounds awful, to the point where I am yelling at my computer screen “Come on Koharu, you’re ruining the song!!”. At least Sayu knows she’s not the strongest singer. I think Koharu might actually think she’s a good singer. She seems to kind of get on the other member’s nerves a lot of the time, as there have been multiple refferences to her tendancy to goof off and get yelled at by them. She couldn’t dance well at all when she joined. Finially, she gets a completaly unfair line distribution and a freaking solo career. And don’t even get my started on her rabid fans who seem to think she walks on water….

But that said, Koharu won me over just a bit with her Onna ni Sachi Are role. I’ve got to admit that she looks very pretty in that PV, dances well, and her lines are actually not bad at all to listen to. In fact her “Asahi yo no bore” line is downright good! So… how do I feel about Koharu? She’s still not my favorite, that’s for sure, and hearing her sing live usually makes me grit my teeth, but she’s one of the prettier members of MM, her dancing is just fine now, and it’s probably not really her fault for annoying the other members as she joined all alone at the age of 12. If she had a friend her own age to hang out with, she probably wouldn’t have been annoying them so much (and people have been saying that since Aika joined she’s been stepping up her game). It’s also not her “fault” that she gets so many lines. It’s not like she assigns the parts for the songs after all, and for all that she isn’t, she is a fresh new face with a goofy outgoing personality, and for those reasons, she is a contributing member of the group, so while I’m not exactly her fan, I have come to appreciate her much more lately.

Here’s hoping I’m not about to be mauled by said rabid Koharu fans for the first half of this entry…

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