Okay, so I have a lot of drafts I need to finish, because at this rate, Nakazawa Yuko will be dead before I’m ready to publish them.

However, looking at the recent spate of calendar cover snark, I’m gonna come out and say it:

I like C-ute’s calendar cover.

I know. I know you’re sitting there going, What the fuck are you smoking NOW, Chiakii? Well, my answer is nothing. Nothing at all. I mean, I did get this really excellent discount from Koharu the other day, but –

Huh? What? I mean — FOCUS HERE PEOPLE. THERE IS A FAN OF THE C-UTE CALENDAR COVER.

Now, I will not lie. It is cheap. It is politically incorrect. But that does not change the fact that Nakki and Kanna are pretty damn hot in those crazy clog-wearing-milkmaid-esque outfits (and they don’t look that bad, they’re very colorful, and I am a fan of color) and Erika looks lovely and elegant, despite the complete wrongness of her costume. Airi looks like those chicks in this TV saga of A Tale of Two Cities I was watching the other day, but she’s still pretty cute, in my opinion. And I have a thing for her hat. The idea to put them in outfits from all different cultures, while probably not having the desired effect, was still pretty good and the plain outside background draws your eye to the bright, colorful clothes of the girls.

Mai and Chisato…well, I can work up some anger at the cover in this case. Their clothes are cheap costume ripoffs of Chinese clothes, and there is no justification for those mini-baby bonnets on Chisato’s head, but Mai at least has an attractive facial expression. And Chisato…oh, Chisato. Better luck next time, sweetie.

Maimi would probably look better without the scarf, but she’s hot anyway. Maimi is always hot. And her dress is kind of cute, if I say so myself. So are her shoes. Is there a Maimi worship blog yet? Maybe I’ll start one.

…and reading back, I think I sort of accidentally ended up insulting the cover anyway. Whoops.

Posted: September 13th, 2008 under c-ute, eyecandy, wtf.
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A few days (weeks?) ago, I downloaded scans of Maimi’s Winter Concert solo PB. If you haven’t already done so, you should. Lots of Maimithigh.

That said…

If this was a unit, I’d buy everything they put out, and then some. They’d be High-King, but with less squeaky fail.

Also? DAMN MAIMI.

(Real post coming soon. No, really.)

Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under eyecandy, h!p kids, high-king, maimi yajima, photobook, wtf.
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…she’d totally sound like this.

I’m going to say something right now: I hate Cinderella. I really do. It’s my least favorite fairy tale ever, mostly because all Cinderella really does is bitch about having to pull her own weight around the house until a magical fairy godmother comes down to help her out and everything is fixed. And all Cinderella has to do is wash a few floors. (And she’s one of the 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived. Above Luke Skywalker and Batman. This is an injustice.)

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Posted: July 17th, 2008 under berryz koubou, c-ute, h!p eggs, h!p kids, hello! project, high-king, morning musume, pv, reina tanaka, shuffles, single.
Comments: 3

Merry Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrate, all! I don’t have a super awesome gift to give you, other than the promise that I’m returning to regular posting now.

However, I did get many a J-pop purchase for Christmas, so I’ll be posting those later.

Anyway, here’s a post from about October or November:

*****

I thought that they called this group C-ute because they were cute. This is not true. “Tokaikko Junjou” is not cute at all.

It is awesome. Read more »

Posted: December 25th, 2007 under airi suzuki, c-ute, h!p kids, hello! project, pv, single.
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(I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever be able to catch up on the J-pop world. Even if I don’t, that’s okay…I guess.)

So the general consensus about “Hana wo Pu~n!” is that even if we hate it, some eight-year-old out there probably adores it - hell, we saw that video clip of a whole crowd of uncoordinated children doing the “pu~n” moves along with Koharu and Mai. Read more »

Posted: September 7th, 2007 under c-ute, h!p kids, hello! project, kira*pika, kirarin revolution, koharu kusumi, pv, single, wtf.
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Wow. What an original title. Maybe she’ll get something more creative around her third, fourth book.

The photobook is fairly typical H!P. There aren’t a whole lot of beach sets, but the ones that are there have her jumping around in the water, having fun, wearing a bikini, etc. She’s laughing in pretty much every shot, except for a couple indoor sets where apparently she’s trying to be serious. Except even in the serious ones, she’s still smiling. Slightly, but still smiling. Read more »

Posted: May 20th, 2007 under airi suzuki, c-ute, h!p kids, hello! project, photobook.
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