Today is the leader of Morning Musume, Takahashi Ai’s, 23rd birthday! I actually have to hurry downtown to see a movie at the Toronto Film Festival, but I wanted to get a post up for her birthday.

To celebrate, I thought I’d put up an interview done soon after she joined with Morning Musume. I checked my H!P DVDs and found that I had all the members interviews EXCEPT Ai-chan’s… Go figure. So, I’m linking to this youtube video instead.

I had wanted to post an accompanying video with this 100% interview… A clip from an appearance Ai-chan made earlier this year on a Fukui TV show, where she goes to a katsudon place and talks about her love for katsudon (to go along with one of her answers at the start of the BS 100% interview). Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find a program that will chop out the bit I want to post and I’m short on time. If I can get that cut out at some point, I’ll definitely post it here.

I think my gushing over Ai-chan was fulfilled in my previous post (her and Risa’s 8 year Momusu anniversary), so I’ll just sign off with this:

HAPPY 23rd BIRTHDAY AI-CHAN!~ Here’s to many more birthdays to come! ^_^