fields of maiZe and berryZ

So, Mari doesn’t actually say this, seeing as she’s in mid performance, but I could imagine that was what was running through her head as Morning Musume did this joint performance with Pink Lady.

I actually don’t have any idea where I downloaded this performance from. I just saw it sitting on my desktop, and since Aichan and Risa’s TV drama on Pink Lady aired (it’s first episode? Is this going to be multiple episodes..? I’m not sure..) recently, I though this collaboration would be appropriate to post. I don’t know which television program this is, but I’m loving the live band.

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This post is complimentary to broomhead’s post on TrueLifeSeek. Like C-ute, The Berryz girls are showing their support for Manoeri as she embarks on her solo career. I found this set of photos on the JPH!P forums, but Maasa’s photo wasn’t with the bunch. I’ll add Maasa’s photo once I find it.

EDIT: Maasa pic’s been added - thanks zush!

And just a random sidenote: I like Chinami’s message to Manoeri best. Why, you ask? Because I can read it!!

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I got home from work today and signed on to MSN. There, Charmy Renai of Shiny Days sent me a youtube link, and I loaded it up just thinking it would be some random funny clip featuring either Atsuko, Maasa or Miyabi.

Imagine my suprise when I see Berryz Koubou AND Atsuko lined up, and hear the intro to ‘Hare Ame Nochi Suki’ start to play. I nearly died!!! XD This H!P song is one of the nearest and dearest to my heart. So, for any other fans of this song, and I know there are quite a few, I thought I’d link to the clip here for easy finding.

It seems this clip is from one of the spring events that H!P did, and it’s supposedly on an FC DVD… I must find this FC DVD and watch it in its entirety!

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So, before I get into this installment of memorable snippets, I just want to mention that this feature will no longer be a weekly thing. I’d rather not have this turn into a chore for me, as I try and find something to post every week, and instead just post things when they come to me.

On that note, I was browsing through the H!O torrents today and I noticed an Utaban clip from 2000 with Tanpopo. That got me curious so I checked it out, and all of a sudden, a wondeful memory came to me as I recalled this amazing interview and performance.

Here, 2nd generation Tanpopo makes their first appearance on Utaban and it’s quite a memorable one.

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For the Berryz Kamen vs. Cutie Ranger Battle Concert, there are two photobooks that have been released. One is your run-of-the-mill concert PB with shots of the girls during the performances.

The second photobook is a memory book with photos of the girls behind the scenes during the preparation for the concert.

While browsing through the memory book, I came upon this page, and had to do a double take. Please focus on the photo in the bottom right hand corner…

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The Berryz Koubou & °C-ute Nakayoshi Battle Concert Tour 2008 Haru ~Berryz Kamen vs. Cutie Ranger~ concert was released this week, and in the midst of doing this review, I have watched some of these performances between 6-10 times… Mainly because I keep getting distracted by the insane antics of people in wotachat, that I’d have to go back and watch the performance again.

But anyway, I have been long awaiting this concert, and now that it’s here, I get to review it! This one’s a long one (aren’t all of my reviews - concert, PV/single or album - long anyways XD) so sit back, relax and enjoy!

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This week’s snippet features the two stars of the movie “Sukeban Deka: Codename Asamiya Saki”, Matsuura Aya and Ishikawa Rika.

This is a clip from the making of Sukeban Deka. It’s subbed, so it’s quite fun to follow along with. The bit I’m showing here is covers the girls and their yo-yo-ing abilities. Aya’s part is quite amusing. She’s quite the enthusiastic yo-yo-ist (what DO you call a yo-yo person? ‘-ist’ sounded better that yo-yo-er).

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I was originally, just going to insert this little commentary with the next installment of the snippets, but I figured I’d keep the snippet free of house-keeping nonsense. XD

So, I’d like to draw your attention to the new layout for the fields (as though you could possibly miss it, unless you’re reading this through a feed). There’s now a drop down menu at the top, and I’m loving this theme because it has cleared out a lot of clutter in my sidebars. Now, the content in the sidebars is minimal, for any posts that don’t have too much content (like that ever happens), there won’t be too far to scroll to get to the bottom of the page. Excess white space caused by sidebar content has always bothered me.

Another major change I have here is that I’ve started using tags, to clear out my categories list some. The categories are much more generalized now, but you can get to more specific tags on the tag cloud page, which is under the ‘menu’ drop down list.

Anyway, I hope you guys like the new theme! And now, onto the next snippet!

SO, this marks the 50th post for fields of maiZe and berryZ, and to commemmorate it, I’ve done up a podcast! It’s basically me just talking about my H!P fandom, my journey since I began blogging and my love for International Wota.

So, if you’re interested, feel free to give it a listen!
Runtime: 50:00 (Dude.. just realized it’s exactly 50 minutes XD).

http://www.mediafire.com/?z9xbtbkxrmm

The theme for songs on here are Hello! Project b-sides. The songs played are:
1. High-King - Kioku no Meiro
2. Matsuura Aya - Watakushi no Yotei
3. Morning Musume - KoiING
4. C-ute - Bishoujo Shinri

And, as promised in the podcast, Ayaya eye-candy for her 22nd birthday!
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY AYA!

I just have to say HOT! … See, Aya can still pull it off… UFA’s just stupid and put her in that weird old lady outfit.

Well, I’m a little bit delayed, but here is my response to misa’s J-music survey. I’ve got a few songs embedded in here, just in case anyone wants to give a listen to some of the artists I talk about. It’s a little bit funny (this feeling inside… err… ahem… sorry wrong language of songs XD) talking about non-H!P, but still Japanese music on here. I don’t think I’ve done that before. I’ve had my random Hanson bits, or Toronto Raptors… But other J-music hasn’t really been covered here before. Oh well, a first time for everything!

So to start this thing off right, I’ll share some nice eye candy of a hot J-music man - Yamamoto Ryohei! XD (And, as I went looking for a pic of him online, it seems he now goes by just Ryohei… My bad…)

Now that that’s been taken care of, on with the survey!

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