Apr 02 2008
Further Egg Updates
Egg-watch here! I’m not going to write about the entire All H!P Winter concert (I’m too tired from doing the last review!) but I thought that this performance was worth our attention. It is the first time, to my knowledge, that h!p eggs have gotten solo lines in a song in a real h!p concert acting as h!p eggs (not as members of, say, Ongaku Gatas). With all the ‘Love Machine’ going around lately, the opening of this concert is quite unique in that respect. Also, the line thing they do at the beginning is so cool! The Eggs have definitely been sorted into a hierarchy of sorts in the last year or so. It’s pretty easy to tell who the favored eggs are by observing who gets which lines in this performance. Little Ogawa Saki leads the charge, Mori Saki does ‘the face’, ManoEri has the “disco” line, and then these three, along with Kitahara Sayaka sing the majority of the rest of the song. Sayaka is awesome, by the way, and if she doesn’t graduate from the eggs and into a permanent debuted position soon (I still say they should put her in Morning Musume) then I may have to personally hunt down Tsunku when I’m in Japan and hit him over the head with something. Just watch her sing ‘Akarui’. Awesome, no?
Other eggs who get lines (but not as many as those four) include Maeda Yuuka (2), Aoki Erina (1), and Saho Akari (1). I should note that Kikkawa Yuu wasn’t in this concert.
Personally, I’m really enjoying watching the eggs develop, especially now that I can recognize all of them. I enjoy cheering for these girls, because I know they’re all so close to being able to debut, but there’s always a good chance that they’ll never quite make it. They must want it so badly, don’t you think? Every time one of them manages to break out (Kanna or Erina for example) the rest of them must all start hoping and praying all the harder that they’ll be next. I’d say the smart money is on Yuu and Sayaka (since they’re already getting something with Milky Way and they both look and sound great in the PV) and perhaps Mori Saki too. There are a lot of notable very young eggs who have been getting a lot of attention (Maeda Yuuka, Fukada Kanon, and especially Ogawa Saki), and while I can almost guarantee you that h!p has plans for these girls, I wonder if those plans are to debut them together soon or to wait until they’re just a bit older first. I think it would be great to see them as unit aimed very specifically at little girls (no scary old men please) some time soon, but I worry that they would attract scary old men anyway, so maybe it’s better to let them stay relatively safe in their egg shells until they’re at least teenagers. On the other hand, both Ogawa and Maeda got solos in the last Egg concert, and if that’s not a sign that the management thinks they’re ready to hatch, I don’t know what is.
I’d like to note that Mittsi still got to keep the “Love Machine” ending line. I think the tradition of giving it the the youngest Musume is really cute, and that reminds me, this is sort of the one year anniversary of Mittsi’s debut concert! By that I mean, the all h!p winter concert last year was her first appearance. She’s become so much more confident since then, hasn’t she?
Go Eggs!
~Celestia~
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I love how Yuuka is thirteen but she looks like she’s six years old (and she’s really talented, too). I think all three of them together in a unit aimed towards little children would be nice, since “young kids” are a market I don’t think H!P has truly tried to invest in yet (from my understanding, it’s usually teenagers they aim for and elder men they end up with).
Keeping the “scary old men” at bay is futile, I think. You can’t specifically dictate what kind of people are attracted to which groups. °C-ute has fans on both sides of the field, the only problem is that I’m not sure which side they’re trying to appeal to more.
It was somewhat a stunner that the young Eggs would perform “Love Machine,” of all songs, in a major concert setting. As for “scary old men,” I stand proudly in those ranks, more old than scary, but point out that from the looks of the Yokohama Arena crowd, there are plenty of “scary young girls” and “scary 30-ish men” as well — along with a few “scary old women.”
I would like to point out that Maeda Yuuka’s going to be debuting outside of the Eggs with a special single and PV for Momusu’s Cinderella. :3 Also, that the eggs lipsynced.
That whole concert, or at least the majority of it, was lip-synced, you know, and i found out about the Cinderella unit after I wrote this, but yeah, I’m really happy for her!