Bikkuri Project

Oha! I don’t know what it is about me and Hello Project costume choices, but I’m kind of fascinated by them. So much so that the first thing that crosses my mind when a new concert is announced isn’t “I wonder what they’ll sing!” but “I wonder what they’ll wear!” I pray equally for really awesome costumes and truly horrible costumes.

My favorite sorts of costumes are sets where every member has a similar, but somewhat different design. I like to see what they come up with for each member, how it fits her personality/bodytype/coloring/whatever, and, most importantly, decide who got the best costume and who got gypped. For example, it is my personal opinion that the h!p wardrobe department has some kind of grudge against Chisato, because she gets whichever costume is the least cute every time. But that is another story and will be told another time (brownie points for you if you got the reference there).

What I do want to write about today are the costume sets from Morning Musume’s most recent fall concert tour. I have a vested interest in this particular concert because it marks the first MM concert DVD that I have decided to purchase for myself. Was that a pun? “vested?” costumes? No? Okay then, moving on…

The ‘too many pictures’ part comes in because I’ve posted the “winner” and “loser” of each costume category as well as an example of the costumes that are the same for everybody.

You know what? I’m not even going to comment on this dress, because I think it may just find its way into the costume hall of shame. Suffice it to say, the more I look at it the more I hate it, but LinLin is doing a great job of trying to look happy about wearing this monstrosity.

How cute is this picture!?! <3 As for the outfits, It's a ‘safe' costume choice I guess. Nothing to love, but nothing to really hate either (except maybe that they've been wearing too much gold lately).

Oh my! I’m loving the final layer of this costume set (modeled by Sayumi, because in a perfect world, everything would be modeled by Sayumi.)

And now, the first costume face-off!! The theme is Hawaiian looking outfits, and the winner is….

Reina! Why? Because if you’re going to have a giant flowery heart on your chest, you’d damn well better go all out and make it pink!

The loser is Ai-chan, not because her outfit is particularly horrible (none of these are) but because I don’t really care for the color combination. Red+Green=Christmas. Also, declaring her the loser gives me an excuse to post this picture.

Next is the mesh trench coat things, which are technically somewhat different for each member, but not different enough to pick a winner, and I’m just not very excited about them. Scary Nails Niigaki agrees.

The blue and white set is my favorite group of the concert. I may have to show more than my two allotted pictures, but for now, let’s go right to the winner!

JunJun! The top is almost a corset, and she’s looking hot! I love the lace-up look, and I also really like her hair for this one. The runners up are Reina with her Greek warrior princess costume, and Sayumi for her sash that can’t help but remind you of beauty pageants. The loser is Koharu, because I find this costume to be kind of plain and boring. Koharu is in a shorts rut, I think. Every time there’s a set of costumes, you can bet that Koharu will be the one in the short-shorts, and they’re probably going to be sparkly.

The last costumes I have for you are the encore set previously featured in the costume hall of shame. I thought it would be near impossible to distinguish between all of the terrible costumes and determine which one was the least terrible, but fortunately, little Aika made it an easy decision.

Tada! Dare I say that she almost looks cute? I think it’s because her hair fluff kind of resembles a halo. Choosing the worst costume was much harder, but in the end, I decided to go with the girl wearing the highest concentration of yellow fluff in one place.

Oh Sayumi. You’re damn cute, but even you cannot pull of an entire skirt made of that stuff. I imagine that someone tried to warn her about how bad she looked, but she couldn’t hear them because of those earmuffs. Tragic really.

Since I’m already committed to posting too many pictures, I may as well post a couple more. Here’s a super cute Sayumi picture to counterbalance the one above.

Aika :3

And one particularly lovely flock of fairies.

All pictures credited to the Hello Online pic board.