Risako Bukake armpit ipod perverts

Shirow takes a look at search terms that people have been using to find his blog, and finds a few interesting hits. With each term, he’s got some pic/eyecandy to accompany it. It has absolutely nothing to do with Hello! Project… or about much of anything, really, but my favourite term and pic in this list would have to be: “mobile obama japan phone monkey anime”. Just take a look at the pic. It made me laugh with it’s randomenss.

However, in the midst of the funnies and the randomness, there are some Airi-haters that seem to be finding their way onto Shirow’s blog. Poor little kappa-loving Airi. *hugs*

Little Photoshop of Horrors

This isn’t a costume hall of shame post. Instead, what Celestia is showing us how the girls of H!P often look less than spectacular regardless of a bad costume. Celestia’s got Eri, Kanna and Risako twice in here… Though, I had to say that Risako totally got the short end of the stick in the photos.

No, REALLY.

I feel that the general consensus of the C-ute 2009 calendar cover was that it was absolutely ridiculous. Chiakii doesn’t really refute this, but still enjoys the cover. She likes the idea behind the cover even if it didn’t play out too well. And I agree with her that Arihara Kanna and, yes, even Nakajima Saki look good in those, as Chikaii puts it, “crazy clog-wearing-milkmaid-esque outfits.”

C-ute Calendar ‘09

Midori has many complaints regarding the supposed cover for C-ute’s 2009 calendar. It looks like Midori is holding out hope that this is a joke, and that a much better photo will be released at some point. She tears down each girl on the cover (even Maimi, simply due to her inability to fit in with the randomness that this photo embodies - I actually find it quite amusing that with the completely un-related outfits all the girls are wearing, Maimi is able to stand out with an especially random outfit).

Personally, I feel that if this actually is their calendar cover, this may be the karma coming around, because they’ve had some pretty awesome outfits in previous singles (please ignore ‘LALALA Shiawase no Uta’). Maybe the wardrobe department realized that they’ve been too kind to C-ute recently and felt the need to even things out a bit. XD

A Game of Fiery Handball, Anyone? - Edo no Temari Uta II

Hotaru takes a look at °C-ute’s lastest single. Hotaru is left slightly confused at what style is being attempted, but this does not interfere with enjoying the single. Hotaru also looks at the PV and each individual member’s involvement. I mean it, Hotaru really covers each member, even down to Arihara Kanna’s shoes.

Gamer Ai + C-utie Drawings

Mars has the translation to an article with Morning Musume’s leader where she explains her love for video games. I remember there was an article a little while ago like this, where she talked about the kinds of games she likes to play. But I don’t remember if she said exactly which Final Fantasy games she liked best. I’d have to say that FFVIII was my favourite of the series due to the storyline, but FFX is up there for me too.

Up next, Mars has the girls of C-ute drawing their leader as well as a translation to their thoughts about their leader. I don’t know why, but I always get a kick reading about Maimi being an airhead. It’s just so cute!

Berryz Koubou & C-ute Battle Concert!
Niigaki Risa as Prince Charming

Tricia received the Berryz Koubou & °C-ute Battle Concert and quickly goes over it. Tricia notes that Sudou Maasa and Arihara Kanna get a lot of attention. Tricia also says that she likes Sugaya Risako but not as a lead, which a stance that could be expaneed upon I guess.

In another post, Tricia shares some photos of Niigaki Risa; there is one photo as regular ole Risa and a bunch of her as Prince Charming from the Cinderella musical.

Kanna & Maasa are Sizzleful, Summer Girls!

Mars has scans of Berryz Koubou’s Sudou Maasa and C-ute’s Arihara Kanna, both of whom have been featured in the B.L.T.U-17 magazine. Both girls are looking quite lovely. Mars expected it in regards to Kanna, but was pleasantly surprised with how Maasa’s photos turned out.

Kanna Scandal

On the heels of the Arihara Kanna scandal, Solitudity expresses her opinion on the dating rules for the girls of Hello!Project. Her stance on the rules will undoubtedly rile up some readers, but it is an interesting perspective. What interests me the most is that she considers how different cultures and subcultures will have different views and standards for various types of celebrities and idols. She doesn’t get as in-depth as possible with this topic, but enough so to consider her viewpoint.

Angry Fans Make a 15 year-old Singer Cry (Road to the Deep East)

What to do with a girl like Kanna? (Wotaku Now!)

So once again we have another example of the wota and their complete and utter ridiculousness.  At a recent C-ute handshake event a bunch of “fans” chose to ignore Arihara Kanna and instead only shake hands with the other six members.  Apparently one fan in attendance said that he felt betrayed by Kanna’s recent “date” photos with a Johnny’s Jr. member. 

Santos goes into great detail on why he feels this is such a childish act.  Especially in light of the fact that many of these fans were much older than the girls in C-ute.  Shirow has embedded a video of one of the wota “in action”, also noting the sadness of this turn of events.

Have the wota completely lost their minds?  (That’s a rhetorical question)

Kanna Arihara Picblog

Recommended ogling. As mentioned in the my previous post, broomhead has a new site. Anyone looking for a good dose of Kanna photos, you need not look any further! broomhead has posts from the end of June, but just completed his finishing touches it seems.

Ai Takahashi and Risa Niigaki Cannot Be Pink Lady
Not Much To Say About Kanna and A New TLS blog

It seems broomhead is not a fan of Takahashi and Niigaki as they portray Pink Lady. He has a clip of Ai and Risa, puts it up again a clip of the original Pink Lady (not the same song, though) and it seems that Ai and Risa just don’t compare. Though I don’t quite understand what the talk about “quality” is all about…

In a slightly older post, broomhead has some thoughts on Kanna’s non-scandal and has news of a new site…

J-Pop Storm

Recommended reading. J-Pop Storm is a new H!P blog that’s been around for a few days, and it’s already covered Kanna’s scandal, an Utaban episode review and birthday greets to Yurina. I particularly enjoyed the Utaban review, and I’m looking forward to more entries like that.

BTW, Happy birthday Yurina!

The scandal of Arihara (Slasha’s Tatami Mat)
Obligatory Kanna Post (°Absol-ute °C-ute)
On unexpected developments II. (Otingocni’s blog)
Arihara Kanna Scandal (Let’s Laugh! Hello Project)
Arihara Kanna Scandal possibly? (Nekocafe’s World!)
More and More DRAMA!! (What Kio Says: Hello Project Much?)
..::HA! HA! HA!::.. (Eternal ~♥~)

Recommended reading. A new scandal is upon us, though from what I can gather, not much has happened since news of this scandal hit a few days ago. However, that hasn’t stopped bloggers from sharing their thoughts on the fate of the Little Egg That Could*.

Slasha gives us rundown of the story and hypothesizes on the actions that UFA may take in regards to this news. In the midst of this scandal, he also found… a birthday cake for Kanna? I’m not sure, but it’s a cake of some sort (maybe a “GANBARE!!” cake) surrounded by Kanna photo’s galore. It’s quite impressive to look at.

Amimi of Absol-ute C-ute gets on the ‘must comment on scandal’ band wagon, particularly because this scandal has to do with a C-ute member. Amimi doesn’t feel optimistic in regards to Kanna’s future in H!P, and while Kanna isn’t her favourite member, she feels an projected sense of loyalty for Kanna due to her friendship with Airi.

Otingocni isn’t highly concerned about Kanna’s fate, whichever way it goes. However, I don’t think that if Kanna did get booted that it would mean any more lines for Chisato, seeing as Kanna hardly gets any lines as it is…

Beth of Let’s Laugh! Hello Project is quite surprised to see Kanna in a scandal. She’s hoping since nothing happened with Miyabi, Kanna will be safe as well.

Nekocafe is calling 2008 the year of romance for the H!P girls and Johnny’s Jr boys. Nekocafe also reasons that UFA has to understand that at this age, these girls will be interested in boys, and Kanna’s interaction here was pretty innocent… And of course a not so subtle jab at my favourite H!P Kid’s scandal which a little bit less innocent.

Kio feels that Miyabi’s incident was much worse and isn’t worried about Kanna’s future. However, she got highly upset over something that a tabloid writer wrote… I don’t quite get what was upsetting about the statement. Maybe I need to get the context which that statement was said in for me to get what was so offensive about it.

Amyrulez of Eternal is not worried in the bit… But not in the way you’d think. His is the only blog that I’ve read that seems to be looking forward to the possibility of Kanna being expelled.

A Super Quick Update

Celestia takes a look at various Hello!Project news. The fact that yet another scandal or problem has occured with Celestia not around on the Interwebs is worrisome. She also found a neat picture in a bookshop while in Japan.

Edo no Temari Uta II PV (H!P Fangirling like Nobody’s Business)
Edo no Temari Uta II is Better Than the Title (°Absol-ute °C-ute)
Let’s play handball (Shiny Days)
Edo no Temari Uta II (Kira Kira Bomb)
..::Too Bad It’s Too Short::.. (Eternal ~♥~)

Recommended reading. More bloggers have something to say regarding C-ute’s latest PV!

DJ_MaiMai of H!P Fangirling feels that C-ute is showing off some of their best stuff in this PV. Personally, I don’t get the problem with Chisato’s shoulder things. I think they add character to her outfit. XD But, Berryz as C-ute’s backup dancers? At a concert, maybe… And they’d switch off for each other. But in a single’s PV? Berryz did that back in the day for W, but they have seniority over C-ute. If anyone’s going to be doing back-up dancing in a PV, C-ute would be doing it for Berryz.

Despite her worry over the title of the song, Amimi of Absol-ute C-ute was happy to have her fears unfounded with the release of this single. In addition to the customary thoughts on the outfits, dance, etc., Amimi has and interesting interpretation of what the line distribution could mean… COuld it possibly foreshadow future leads for C-ute?

Charmy of Shiny Days is liking both the song and PV, but is a little disappointed that a certain H!P member is not featured on the background vocals.

Valentine of Kira Kira Bomb has one of the few reviews that I’ve read that isn’t impressed with the single. That’s not to say that she hates it, but it definitely hasn’t left much of an impression with her. She gives her reasoning as well as a final verdict. My favourite line is the last line in her review… I love the uncertainty in her question/comment.

-NEEDS MOAR TSUNKU?!

amyrulez of Eternal ~♥~ has a lengthy and indepth review of the single. He enjoyed the PV so much it brought him to tears. All of the girls were able to impress him in this release, which he seemed throughly surprised by. And it looks like he’s one of the few who likes Chisato’s pointy shoulder bits on her kimono.

They Shoot Saki’s, Don’t They? ~ The Nakayoshi Battle Concert

Recommended reading. CK’s copy of the battle concert has arrived and he quickly gets down to business, determining who won the battle. He breaks the concert down into rounds, tallying winners for each round. Leading into his review, he points out that though his favourite H!P Kid is from the C-ute camp, as a whole, he prefers Berryz Koubou over C-ute… How will this affect his judging throughout the concert?

One thing that CK mentions is the bashing that the youngest Berryz member, Risako, often gets.

“She gets bashed a lot on the posts. A lot more criticism than she deserves. Jeez, she’s just fourteen years old for cripes sake! Give her a break.”

I’m guilty of Risako bashing at times, but using her age as a factor to defend her shaky performances is a little bit weak, seeing as she performed “Very Beauty” with her good buddy Airi who just so happens to be the same age as little Risako, and as CK puts it, “Airi was just amazing on this song!!!”

Overall, this is a fun, enthusiastic and amusing review. Want to know who won the battle? You’ll just have to read on to find out!

Edo no Temari Uta II PV (Strawberrie)
Edo no Temari Uta II (The J-Pex)
°C-ute : Edo No Temari Uta II Clip (Hello!Musume)
C-utes latest single - Edo no Temari Uta II (Wotaku Now!)
Edo no Temari Uta II First Thoughts (Shanimuni Paradise)
This. Is. AWESOME. (Aoi♥Usagi)
C-ute plays handball (hajimete no ROCK CONCERT)

Recommended reading. C-ute’s latest PV is up, and bloggers have lots to say about it already!

Strawberrie doesn’t have much in terms of commentary, but has a lot of screencaps and a link to the video on DohhhUP!

Pex is liking the new PV, what with the bright colours and interesting costumes. I agree with Pex in loving Chisato’s outfit the best. What’s fun with this post is that we get to see the beginnings of a new fan coming in the C-ute fandom!

Hello!Musume finds that there is only one downfall to this single/PV… And that’s it length. Also, a few subliminal advertising messages are pointed out… I didn’t notice those before.. But then again, I’ve only watched this PV once so far.. I need to rectify that.

Shirow of Wotaku Now! got a nice surprise when he woke up. Shirow’s got a different standpoint from most others that I’ve heard. While he wouldn’t mind if the track were a bit longer, he still thinks “that every second of this is pure quality, like most things in life I prefare them to be short and sweet as opposed to drawn out and medicore affair.” However, Shirow does not agree with mine and Pex’s opinion regarding Chisato’s outfit. XD

Our Tsukiki is unsure of how she feels about the PV. She lists off the pros and cons that she’s noticed, but in the end, she can’t quite figure out if she likes it or not.

Usa-chan of Aoi♥Usagi I absolutely loving this PV. She’s got screen caps of the girls, and gives a run down of each girl within the PV. Heck, she’s even liking NakaSaki! My favourite part of this post had to do with Chisato (surprise surprise)…

Ah, Chiisan. With your voice that sounds like a 80-year old woman who has smoked a pack a day her whole life… and still just happens to be a kick-ass singer.

Our pengie has screencaps and snark mixed in with her review, which is always great fun! She’s liking the unique sound this single has, and the girls are all looking pretty good… The only negative comment on that front is directed at little Maimai, who pengie feels looks like a six-year-old. I’m sure there’s someone out there who would enjoy that… HEY SEC… Nah, I won’t go there… XD

Saki, you sexy beast!

Recommended reading. Usa-chan has a track by track review of the H!P Kids battle concert, and if you couldn’t tell by the title of her post, she was loving the performance of “Natsu Doki Lipstick”. I’ve noticed that there seems to be a concensus on Chinami owning Dschinghis Khan, whether it be in the PV or in live performances.

What amused me in this review was her monitoring of Miyabi’s hairdo. As much as I love Miya, I have to agree with Usa-chan… Her hair was something else in this concert… The first time I saw her hair, I cringed. That couldn’t have been fun to comb out afterwards. XD

~Berryz Kamen vs Cutie Ranger~ Concert Review

Recommended reading. Our Celestia has watched the H!P Kids concert extravaganza and was not disappointed. She likes that the battle concert places the two groups on a level playing field, even though Berryz will always have seniority over C-ute simply because they debuted as a group a few years earlier.

Celestia makes a passing comment about whether the Berryz girls are truly happy for their H!P Kids group counterpart, and it’s a legitimate question… I’ve often wondered about that myself.

Celestia then goes over the concert track by track, giving the highs and lows of each number. And, as in her usual concert review fashion, she names a “winner” for each performance. Who comes out on top in this concert? You’ll have to read on to find out!

O 46, 46, wherefore art thou, 46…
Lesbian Lumberjack Love Song II

Our own pengie has some thoughts on the beginnings and endings of life in Hello! Project.

In the first post, she is trying to rekindle her interest in the H!P Taiwan auditions. It seems as though pengie can’t find her initial pick, but still gives us her top four from the finalists thus far.

In the second post, pengie gives us her thoughts on C-ute’s upcoming single. Looking at a screencap of the girls in their outfits for this single (I am assuming that this is for a TV spot promoting the single), she takes a deeper look at what’s going on and speculates on Kanna’s future in the group. Much lulzing within.

ChanceChanceBoogie
Renai Revolution 21
Go go! Cutie Party

A few blogs formerly housed on vox have made the move over to wordpress. Max of ChanceChanceBoogie, Wendy of Renai Revolution 21 and Misa of Cutie Party have started anew and the blogs are looking quite snazzy.

Misa has one post in particular that I want to highlight with pics of the outfits for C-ute’s upcoming single ‘Edo no Temari Uta II’. Airi and Maimi have funny pink and red blob things on their heads, but I just really need to point out that Chisato’s looking really nice in these pics. Chisa, they better have given you some lines in this release!!! Recommended ogling.

C-ute Plugging Manoeri

Looks like C-ute are helping their fellow H!P member, Mano Erina, as she starts off her solo career. broomhead shares photos of the girls’ endorsing messages (at least I think that what they are… Well, they’re at least wearing ‘Erina’ shirts), and finds it unfair that Kanna’s new hairstyle is quite similar to that of Nocchi’s from Perfume. How can one resist such underhanded, but effective, tactics? XD

Some Berry ♥ C-ute visual screens!…and a gift from Ohta. ^-^
It’s Aloha Friday! Hello! Project Style!…(hmm just how well does your favorite H!P girl flirt?!)

Recommended reading/ogling. First up, MorningBerryz has received a shipment from Ohta and man, oh man, MB got some C-ute and Berryz Koubou visual screens. I’m partial to the Maimi one, but 4 visual screens is impressive. He can have a mini H!P Kids party. In addition to the screens, Ohta also sent along a few UFA photos as a gift.

In the second post, MorningBerryz takes us back to the summer of 2002 and the Morning Musume Hawaiian releases. The Hawaiian versions of Morning Musume songs are so summery and so relaxing that reading this article makes me want to pull them out and really get into the mood of summer with some Hawaiian-flavoured sounds. MB closes out the post with screencaps from the Morning Musume Single Medley~Hawaiian~ pv. Which H!P girl has the best flirting ability? Who can sweep the ukelele playing Boo Takagi off his feet?

My Poor Kanna’s Hand

broomhead has some Kanna eyecandy to share, though he’s a little disturbed with how her hand ended up. And of course, there’s the customary broomhead snark to go with it. My day is now complete… XD

C-ute, Berryz, and MoMusu rankings

Slasha discovered Hello!Blog’s H!P poll and gets to ranking the girls of H!P’s 3 most successful groups. The reasoning behind the rankings aren’t very detailed, but there are some highly amusing quips which made this a fun read. I particularly enjoyed the write ups for Morning Musume’s Sayumi, and C-ute’s Hagiwara Mai.

And ha! No Miyabi chin jokes here!

I, unlike others, think that her long chin makes her prettier.

Airi’s Hole in One
I ♥ C-ute

Recommended viewing. Tom at Hello! Blog has some video embeds to share today. First up is a clip from Airi’s recently released (as in released today, the 25th) golfing DVD. His interest in Airi has been increasing lately, and with all her activity recently, it’s not all that surprising. Airi is quite adorable in the clip, no surprise there.

In his second post, Tom has a live performance of one of the few songs I actually really enjoyed from C-ute’s 3rd album. The girls are in their album cover outfits (which are adorable/hot), and ahhhh! There’s so much Chisato… She really needs to get a line on an official single one of these days.

Recommending reading. ºAbsol-ute ºC-ute is a new H!P blog by Amimi. She started it less than a week ago and already there’s a nice mix of news stories with commentary, a review on C-ute’s ‘Namida no Iro’ and an eyecandy post featuring Buono!.

Her latest entry is on Buono!’s  fourth single and I agree with Amimi in wishing for something along the lines of ‘Janakya Mottainai’.

The hair styles of Hello! Project
Up! Front Agency creates phsycopath
Two years of waiting for . . Ogawa Makoto

Actually Sakura Ichigo says she likes music from classical to heavy metal but in her blog there seem to be focus mostly on H!P artists. She has posted already three entries in June and they all are worth of checking.

I’ve never kept my eye on Hello! Project girls coiffure so it’s quite interesting to read SI’s remarks on those ever changing hair styles of various girls. Well, I must admit that there are TWO girls whose hair style changes I know very well and also those are mentioned in SI’s post.

In her second blog entry Sakura Ichigo talks about some evident things related to this so-called-Miya-scandal. SI is disappointed that those kissing scenes are even called as scandal. She makes a good point when saying:

“It is ethically wrong to fire a person because of their love interest. That kind of paragraph should be erased from their contract. It’s discrimination towards women. Girls should have basic human rights.”

Can’t agree more.

Lastly SI feels happy because Makoto is back to business and she wonders what kind of role H!P is offering for Mako now. Is Ongaku Gatas a good option? I think it could be. And I also hope that Makoto is going to be regular member in haromoni@ again.

Two Album Reviews In One Post! (I’m not dead…)

Hotaru reviews Buono!’s Café Buono! as well as C-ute’s 3rd Love Escalation.

For Café Buono! Hotaru isn’t too impressed with the song order of the album, but finds it to be okay overall. However, to say there were some “down right icky songs” was a shocker to me, but I’m biased and love this album to death. What I like in this review are the categories that Hotaru has. She breaks it down into Most fun song, most amusing song, prettiest song, most boring song (though this one almost killed me…) and worst song.

For 3rd Love Escalation, Hotaru is loving the Chisato moments, and I totally agree with her there. For categories here, she’s got best song, most fun son, most boring song and the strangest song.

3rd ~My love’s escalating~

Slasha gets around to reviewing C-ute’s 3rd album. It’s a short review and sweet review, though it looks like Slasha and I have very different tastes. XD One thing I fully agree on is the awesome outfits the girls don for the cover. So adorable!