A few hours ago, the sole 7th gen member of Morning Musume, Kusumi Koharu, graduated from the longest stable line up that Morning Musume has ever had. I realize that many blogs are commemorating this date with various pic spam posts and goodbye messages.

While she was never a favourite member of mine, she was definitely [...]

A new snippet in just a little over a month! Go me! I actually still have another snippet I want to post that’s ready to go, but I haven’t gotten around to writing it up yet. However, this evening as I was wandering around my harddrives, I stumbled upon this episode of Hello! Morning from [...]

A month and 6 days after Leader’s birthday, it’s Sub-Leader’s turn! That’s right. Today (it’s already Oct 20th in Japan), Morning Musume’s Sub-Leader, Niigaki Risa turns 21! It’s not a milestone over in Japan, but the next time Morning Musume heads to the US, she’ll be able to go out drinking with Ai-chan (and by [...]

It’s been quite some time since my last snippet, but I was wandering around some old blog posts, and I noticed that way back in Memorable Snippets: Part 4 I had promised some people more clips of Morning Musume doing these Musix! Fights. I didn’t realize that so many people had never seen these clips [...]

Wow, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’m nearing the 2 year mark on this blog and this is the first time I get to blog about a change within the Morning Musume line up… I think that may be why I’m in such shock over this.

I hadn’t really been thinking about who would graduate [...]

On this day back in the year 2001, Morning Musume`s 5th generation was selected from the Love Audition 21. The group of Takahashi Ai, Konno Asami, Ogawa Makoto and Niigaki Risa joined the power house of Morning Musume, who had just released their hit, The Peace! Let’s take a look back at the momentous occasion [...]

Well, who would have thunk it? fields of maiZe and berryZ has hit 100 posts. I noticed after posting my last Anime Expo post that I was at 99, and I wanted my 100th to have my framed Morning Musume autographs in the post. However, I had a few things I wanted to write up [...]

Well, we’re coming to the end of my trip to LA. There were no Morning Musume related events at Anime Expo of the final day of the convention (seeing as Morning Musume flew out of LA at around 1 pm if I’m recalling correctly). Day 4 consisted of shopping and just hanging out with friends. [...]

Anime Expo Day 3 had 3 things on the agenda:

1: Tsunku panel.
2: Morning Musume autographs.
3: Hang out with friends/bloggers as much as possible.

Overall summary of the day:

1. Task completed.
2. TASK FREAKIN’ COMPLETED
3. Task Completed.

Having task 2 completed pretty much made my life… Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but it was insanely awesome… Read [...]

I woke up the morning of AX Day 2 aboslutely stoked! In just a few hours, I would be watching Morning Musume live for the first time, for their first concert (non-Fan Club) in the US, which would later be followed by Hello! Party. johpan and I arrived at the convention centre at around 10:30am. [...]