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CK’s Awesome Island diary begins here… hide/expand
By MorningBerryz in AKB48, Blogs, Hello Project, JPop, Pop Idols on 2010/03/21

CK in Japan, Spring 2010 Preview…Again????? (Idolgasm)

Just when I was about to nag CK about the absence of any Cake recently I find there’s very good reason for the lack of sponge & frosting (sorry cake you’re just not my favorite) in his home as CK is back to where his heart♥ truly belongs~*. After a hectic sounding arrival~to~check~in we’re given a brief itinerary of events of which he hopes to attend as well as others which unfortunately conflict schedule wise with one another…still with concerts by Melon Kinenbi, H!P Eggs and even Manoeri there’s so much happening with AKB related events and shows and it’s not by chance by any means as CK has planned this trip so perfectly to coincide~*!

While I’m not too familiar with the lottery type events that AKB48 holds regularly it’s the one~on~one picture taking which intrigues me most!!!! I mean it’s one thing to not want to wash your hands after a hand~shake~event but quite another for such a close encounter with an idol♥ of your choosing….CK may not shower for days!!!! Kidding!!..well sort of XD.

There’s also mention of an up and coming group whom will be performing whilst CK is enjoying Awesome Island for a second week and with a new found love here I hope~* he can get tickets to attend~. All in all look forward to a continuing series of diary style posts where CK will document his continuing venture into idol♥land at it’s very source and of course he has the promise of many pics to follow!

It’s Delicious Pudding Day at MELOS no Michi! hide/expand
By johpan in AKB48, Blogs, Cake Day 2010 on 2010/03/21

Cake Day Season 3: Cake not included (MELOS no Michi)

There is absolutely nothing wrong with having no cake for Cake Day – especially when your cake is substituted with pudding and picspam of the moment when Sato Amina dove her way deep into my heart, eventually obtaining oshimen status. Colour me biased.

Anyway, Melos spreads the Cake Pudding Day love via 3 pudding cups, similar to the ones used in Amina’s penalty game in a recent episode of AKBingo, and by sharing a personal story of why he appreciates the IW community. I don’t want to spoil anything else from the post so just click on through to be entertained if you don’t know what I’m talking about ;D.

Also, AMINA <3

Cake Day Picspam from Aitakatta! hide/expand
By johpan in AKB48, Cake Day 2010, Eyecandy on 2010/03/19

Happy Cake Day IW!!! (Aitakatta!)

Recommended Oogling. Cat celebrates IW’s 3rd birthday with some quality picspam! There’s someone for everyone in this collection: from front girls Acchan and Jurina, to the Watarirouka Hashiritai lolis in bikinis, to tomotomo in bikinis, and Yuko cosplaying as Avril Lavigne. There’s more within but I don’t want to spoil it for you! Check out the spam and Cat’s commentary for yourself! Did I mention bikinis because those AKB girls know how to fill them… :D

Droppin’ Loads of Fresh Eyecandy hide/expand
By CK♂ in AKB48, Blogs, Eyecandy, Hello Project, JPop on 2010/03/12

High Castle Sub Timber-Trees (Hello! Island)
The Eyes of Amina (Idol Eyes)
:3 (Hello!Blog)
~AKB48 shines~* as UTB cover♥girls, the truth about sediments & Mayuyu’s awesome shirt~! (モーニングBerryz…the morning after…..)

I think it is safe to say I am running out of clever titles for these eyecandy posts.  No matter…lets get down to business, shall we?

We begin in the land of the Loli, AKA Hello! Island.  Here Pata has a picspam of AKB48’s Aki Takajo, who amazingly is over the age of 18!  I say that because I know the Hello! Island Team prefers girls a bit younger.  But I guess they made an exception for the super-cute and youthful Akicha.  Or maybe it was the excessive use of bikinis.

Miitan continues the theme of his blog focusing on the eyes of Sato Amina.  He wonders if she is wearing contacts, and I see what he means.  I have always thought Amina had the craziest eyes!  In addition Miitan has posted some of the awesome photographs he took at the NY Anime Festival.  I’m not sure how he got so close.  My guess is that they saw his big camera and assumed he was a pro, LOL.  Actually, he is!

Like me, PTom is getting a bit tired with the Mitsui Aika bashing.  So he brings the ultimate form of retribution in the form of a cute picspam set!  Tom was recently taken with how good Mittsi looks in a bikini.  So much that it has him clamoring for a photobook.  I see what he means.  I always think of her as the “baby” Musume, but she is filling out that bikini quite well!

MB brings it all together with a showcase of the new issue of UTB.  I love this magazine so much!  The cover features a few members of AKB wearing some crazy shirts.  It isn’t so much that they have Engrish phrases, it is more the color schemes and pics that are awesome.  Especially Mayuyu…you gotta love that shirt!  The rest of the mag features Kashiwagi Yuki getting a bit kinky, S/mileage looking pure, Kitahara Rie playing sad and Maimi as the cutest snowbunny you have ever seen!  Oh, and if you are reading this MB…I got Set A!

Enjoy the “kawaii”!

Wanna Play ‘Jan-Ken-Pon’ With AKB? hide/expand
By CK♂ in AKB48, Blogs on 2010/03/12

GAME (The Ultimate Idols)

I never thought I would want to make idols cry until I tried this.  :(   J has a link to the Universal Studios Japan website, which is currently featuring the classic Jan-Ken-Pon game.  But the coolest part?  You are playing against a bunch of AKB48 idols.  If you want to check out what it looks like, J has also embedded a YouTube clip of the game in action.

Although it obviously gets repetitive, the game is quite addicting.  I couldn’t stop until I beat Kasai and Takamina.  And I don’t think I ever beat Chiichan!  It takes a couple minutes to load up, but after that the game runs smoothly.  At least it does on my PC.  So thank you J for turning us on to this fun site!

Queen & Elizabeth PV Has AKB Fans Buzzing hide/expand
By CK♂ in AKB48, Blogs on 2010/03/11

[LOOOVEEE WAAAAARRSSSS] (AKB48 Journal)
Love Wars PV! (no akb no life)
Queen & Elizabeth – Love Wars PV (IXA Ready – Fist On!)

Fabulous…Fantastic…Awesome!  These are the adjectives these bloggers used to describe the upcoming single and PV from new AKB48 sub-unit Queen & Elizabeth.  If you don’t know them, Q&E are actually AKB48’s Itano Tomomi and Kasai Tomomi.  And the song is in support of the popular TV series Kamen Rider Double, which TomoxTomo have been appearing on as recurring characters.  This team teamed up last year with Miyazaki Miho for a unit called Nattou Angels, which also had a cute and catchy song.  But this one, woah!  It just blows me away!

The only bummer is that Q&E is apparently a “one shot” unit.  Awwww, too bad.  Perhaps we can all convince AkiP to rethink that one.

Pure Idol Heart Is a New Idol News Blog hide/expand
By maiZe in AKB48, Blogs, Hello Project, New Blogs on 2010/03/11

Pure Idol Heart

Pure Idol Heart is a new idol news group blog, but with familiar names behind the scenes. For those of you who used to read Hello Non-Pro Hour, Gaki is back, and HNPH owner, Jinryuichi, should be making his presence known on the blog as well. They, along with a 3rd contributor, Xacur, will be striving to bring their readers the latest news on the Japanese and Asian female idol industry. It looks like we’ve got another good source for idol information available to us! It’s definitely a blog to check out.

At the End of the Day, it’s All Eyecandy To Me hide/expand
By CK♂ in AKB48, Blogs, Eyecandy, Hello Project, New Blogs on 2010/03/02

MA・YU・YU (いただきまゆゆ!)
Matsui & Matsui (The Ultimate Idols)
Future rock ‘n’ roll stars (Berryz Kobo International)

Let’s get some eyecandy going in this house, eh?

Today we lead off with a brand new site from Wendychi, Yayyy!  And what a surprise, her new worship site is dedicated to none other than AKB48’s Team B cyborg Watanabe Mayu (AKA Mayuyu).  In honor of her new blog, Wendychi has posted Mayuyu’s bio, as well as a huge selection of Mayu pics and YT videos.  Mayu keeps quite busy with her AKB duties, as well as her lead position with Watarirouka Hashirtai.  So I’m sure Wendy will have plenty of material to fill the site with.  Anyway, we need more worship blogs!

J has posted a selection of Matsui Jurina and Matsui Rena pics from a recent issue of Memew magazine.  I’m sure you know Jurina as she is the face of SKE48.  But Rena is surely “second in command”.  And after her turn as the evil and demented Gekikara on Majisuka Gakuen, she is a force to be reckoned with.  That and the fact that she is as cute as hell!

Last but definitely not least are the girls from Buono! with their electric guitars and drum kit.  Miya’s Fender bass looks exactly like mo own.  I can never get enough of Momo with that Union Jack shirt!  And Airi?  That hairstyle just speaks rock n’ roll!  As Zush states, the next step is to learn and play your instruments.  Have the girls been practicing?  Well then, I am looking forward to Airi’s Van Halen-esque guitar solo during the next tour!

How cool would that be?!?!

In Tribute to the Original Team K hide/expand
By CK♂ in AKB48, Blogs, Noteworthy on 2010/03/02

K thx bai (no akb no life)
Goodbye Team K. (MELOS no Michi)

You may or may not be aware that AKB48’s Team K did their final performance of their 5th stage ‘Saka Agari’  on February 21st.  The show marked the end of the original K lineup and the beginning of the AKB48 Team shuffles that were announced last summer.  The end of the original Team A and Team B are soon to follow, although no official dates have been announced as of yet.  Here we have two tributes…the first one by Xyish of “team no akb no life”  Xyish has a great deal of the senshuuraku LOD in the form of snippet videos.  There’s tears, laughter and plenty of memorable moments to catch.  No question, it’s a must-watch performance.

Melos also has a review of the senshuuraku.  In addition he has a translation of Ohori Megumi’s post-show messages that she blogged the day after the performance.  I’m sure this was especially emotional for Meetan (and Nonti for that matter) since this also marked their “graduation” to full time members of SDN.  I’ll leave you with an especially touching quote from Melos that I think says it all…

“Team K will always be remembered by me and I’m sure many others as the greatest, strongest, most united and most loving Team ever. Nothing can ever replace the old Team K. Rest in peace.”

MB Discovers AKB While Anni Finds Idoling!!! hide/expand
By CK♂ in AKB48, Blogs, Pop Idols on 2010/03/02

～ＡＫＢ48 「桜の栞」Idol Heaven~* in a Jewel Case (モーニングBerryz…the morning after…..)
Idoling!!! (アイドリング!!!, Aidoringu!!!) (Kira Kira Anni)

They said it wasn’t possible.  As wide-ranged as MB’s J-music interests are, she had never made the leap over to the “dark side”known as AKB.  That all changed as a result of a cute pictorial of Watarirouka Hashirtai in a recent issue of UTB.  This prompted her to take the next step and order copies of Sakura no Shiori.  Hmmm, I guess we are now getting a clue where the 300,000+ copies went.  MB is loving the new single package, and gives an adoring review full of screencaps and PV samples.  Careful MB, next thing you know you’ll be collecting BLTs (not the sandwich!) and flittering around Ameba Pigg looking for Tomochin!

Meanwhile Anni has a discovery of her own, in the form of Idoling!!!  Oh yes, I can feel the Idoling!!! momentum gaining strength.  Pretty soon they will be the one’s with the #1 single!!!  Anni picks some of her favorite PVs for you to check out.  And what a coincidence, the first one on her list is the same PV that got me hooked too!  In addition she picks 9 members that have caught her eye.  Asahi Nao is awesome, I love her too.  But no Yazawa???  That proves that Anni must be a female.  Erika is definitely a guys’ kind of idol!

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