fields of maiZe and berryZ

Nearly a month ago, the tracklist for Berryz Koubou’s upcoming ‘best of’ album titled “Berryz Koubou Special Best Vol.1″ was posted on Hello! °C-ute, and I was quite interested to see what exactly ended up on this best of compilation (which is releasing a week from today). I have to admit that I haven’t been [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! I hope you all rang in the new year with friends and/or family and had a grand old time (alcohol or no alcohol. ^_^)!
To celebrate the new year, I thought I’d post the 2004 Hello! Morning New Years skit. I actually hadn’t watched this one in quite some time, and I’m [...]

This evening, I was writing up the latest Memorable Snippets post (see post prior to this one) while chatting in #wotachat. My brother suddenly came into my room and asked if I was paying attention to chat…
I thought, why? What’s going on? So I scroll up, and:
uhhhh what is this about all of elder [...]

I have started ANOTHER worship blog, and from the title of this post, it’s quite obvious that it’s dedicated to the awesomeness that is Matsuura Aya!!

It’s called Shine More and can be found at http://www.intlwota.com/shinemore. Once again, Ray has very kindly offered to host this new blog of mine, so a big thank you to [...]

Aya’s concert Spring Concert was released this week on DVD in Japan, and holy geez, is it ever smoking!! Watching this concert has revived my love for Aya! Not that I stopped loving her, but my fascination for the H!P Kids kept me so occupied that I didn’t take the time to go check out [...]

Here’s just a quick update for the moment. It’s been almost a month since my last post, but most of my time has been taken up with personal/family matters (all good, just busy busy) and Miya’s birthday countdown which happened at my Miya worship blog.
But, now that Miya’s birthday has past, I should be getting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A little while ago, I was chatting with SecondBlossoming on wotachat and he asked me if there was any other Hello! Project artist/group I would recommend outside of Morning Musume, Berryz Koubou and C-ute. When I enthusiastically said “Matsuura Aya!!!” he was genuinely surprised. Because of that, I felt that a good old Ayaya post [...]