On my latest podcast, I spoke about how Ishikawa Rika is my favourite Morning Musume member of all time. This is considering only her time within MoMusu – nothing after she graduated. And that is considering all other current and former MoMusu members from within their time with MoMusu.

I’ve mentioned before that I got into H!P just around when 5th gen joined, but the first things I watched were a lot of 4th gen things, since 5th gen videos weren’t available in high quantities. When I first got into H!P, Rika and Kago Ai were my favourites – I’ve already mentioned how I loved 2nd gen Tanpopo in a previous snippet. But what caught my attention in regards to Rika, other than her being so pretty, was watching a Country Musume ni Ishikawa Rika appearance on Utaban promoting the single Hajimete no Happy Birthday, and I found out there that Rika had an insane fear of chickens. XD And the Utaban hosts torture Rika with a … baby chick. XD

I wanted to share that clip here, because that was what bolstered my Rika love… Unfortunately, I can’t find it anywhere!! I know I had it at one point. Either my brother and I lost the CD we saved it on, we didn’t actually ever back it up… Or we threw out the CD we saved it on (yes, this was so far back that I backed up my H!P media on CDs… -_-;).

Anyway, I found another clip of Rika, chickens and Utaban. In my mind, it’s not quite as epic as the first Rika vs. Chickens clip that I saw, but it’s awesome in it’s own right. Basically, the Country girls are making ice cream… And eggs are required. Guess who gets to go hunting… XD

Rika is so adorable!! And hilarious! XD … And I just have to say, that as cruel as that entire thing was, I can’t get enough of it… It’s kinda like the balloon game, I guess. Classic H!P on Utaban is classic! <3 There’s not much more to say after that. XD

PS. Sorry for the lack of photo… XD I was actually surprised to find there was no Country Musume ni Ishikawa Rika photos on the H!O picboard, and google image search results were pretty useless… T__T