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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And by that, I mean, nothing matches AT ALL, therefore making it one of the greatest costumes ever worn by any H!P member at any time in H!P history.

Don’t ever change, Linlin.

ETA: After further inspection, I’ve come to the conclusion that the top and the skirt aren’t so bad…it’s just that they top it off with that HAT. It’s not even the fact that it’s bold and blue, it’s that it’s a big-ass rain hat turned up so it looks like a pseudo-pirate hat.

I’m not sure whether they should fire the costumer or give them a raise just for making me laugh so hard.

Posted: June 20th, 2008 under eyecandy, hello! project, linlin, morning musume.
Comments: 6

…but for me, that idol is not Gocchin.

Which isn’t to say that I don’t love her to pieces. I do.

Maybe a little too much.

Though she’s been gone, her catchy music and mic stand molestation will remain with us H!P fans forever. So here’s to you, Gocchin. You indulged a lot of dirty fantasies and brought out a lot of inner lesbians. I’ll never forget you.

Or your boobs, for that matter.

(P.S. Update your fucking blog. Don’t let your badass header image go to waste.)

Posted: May 10th, 2008 under 510, boobs, elder club, eyecandy, hello! project, maki goto, photobook, sotsugyou.
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Oh, come on, I can’t have been the only one to have read that manga? You know, the one where Momo sleeps with that dude, and everyone’s yelling at him, “YOU GIGOLO!” My friend borrowed it from a library and read it to me…until a teacher found us reading it and made my friend not bring it to school again. Oh, well, anyway. Onto the other Peach Girl, known as the Great Peachy One, etc, etc, etc. (I can’t believe I didn’t get how she got that nickname until now. *dumbass*)

I’m gonna totally get shot for this, but I don’t like this PB as much as I like Airi’s. Neither Miyabi or Momoko have managed to impress me with their PBs the way Airi did. There was something very compelling about Airi’s stares in those shots. Miyabi’s and Momoko’s are just what we’ve come to expect from H!P - good amounts of bouncy, cheerful fun with a touch of bikini added in. (By the way, seeing the H!P kids in bikinis disturbed me more than seeing Nacchi in one. Because even if Nacchi has no sex appeal, at least she’s old enough to not make me feel perverted for looking…even if it’s in a totally businesslike manner.) Read more »

Posted: July 5th, 2007 under berryz koubou, h!p kids, hello! project, momoko tsugunaga, photobook.
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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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