When we last left our heroes, Sugaya Risako had just made a deal with the devil, sucking the Berryz through a wormhole. The mass of Tsugunaga Momoko and Natsuyaki Miyabi was duplicated and went zooming down a separate tunnel (presumably to Buono!).

Strange things happen in this wormhole. Yurina sees a vision, in which she’s suddenly Momoko-sized, and being chased by a 6-foot peach.

But the Berryz’ journey has finally ended… Read more »

Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under attack of the con-fettis, berryz koubou, h!p kids, hello! project, pv, single, 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.
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Or, I don’t understand the logic behind this single at all.

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Posted: March 12th, 2008 under attack of the con-fettis, berryz koubou, conspiracy theories, h!p kids, hello! project, momoko tsugunaga, pv, single, wtf.
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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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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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