Christmas sets from Morning Musume Sakuragumi/ Otomegumi.

MorningBerryz recently got some holiday sets from Yahoo Japan Auctions, and I think these new sets are quite fitting seeing as he recently did a post on the amazing Morning Musume subgroup Sakura Gumi. Here, he has the 2003 holiday sets of both Sakura and Otome Gumi.

Like MB, I’m loving these photos to death because of the Hello! snowperson. I loved the H!P Kids snowperson photos and there are almost as awesome (really, how can you beat the cuteness of the H!P kids when they first joined H!P? XD). However, I must say that I am highly amused with a few of these shots because the angle at which the some of the girls hold the snowperson hides the “o” in Hello! making it look like they’re holding stuffed toys with the word “Hell!” sprawled across the front (ie. Gaki [slightly], Eri, Ayaka, Tsuji [slightly], Sayumi [slightly] and Reina).

Ayaka Marries! (Totally Hello! Project)
Hello! Online Forums
JPH!P Forums

It was brought to my attention by our own Charmy Renai that former Hello! Project and Coconuts Musume member, Ayaka has gotten married to professional golfer Tanihara Hideto. Totally Hello! Project is on the ball and already has the news up, congratulations, as well as a little bit of pondering on why Ayaka really left H!P.

Links are also provided to the H!O and JPH!P forums where a picture of the article is available. I’m sure those threads will soon be filling up with lots of thoughts, congratulations and reactions to the news.

I Want to Run Around Naked on a Deserted Island

Recommended reading. broomhead shares some thoughts on the graduated Coconut, Ayaka, while sharing his favourite Surprise English Lesson. I never really thought about it in context with her phrase, as broomhead so kindly points out, “Mari’s phrase is even better with the big giant card covering her shirt.”

His thoughts on Ayaka are definitely interesting and raise a good question: “who was the real star of Ayaka’s English Lesson”? Was it Ayaka, or was it Morning Musume…?

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.