H!P winter concert previews

With the H!P winter tour DVDs being released shortly dohhh up has released clips of each concert. As a short preview of Wonderful Hearts Kouen ~Kakumei Gannen~ and Elder Club Koen - Thank you for your LOVE!


The first clip is from Wonderful Hearts and it's Go Girl Koi no Victory.



I was really happy that this song was used for the preview. Go Girl Koi no Victory is one of my favorite Morning Musume songs of all time. I think this performance is really fun and full of energy. This performance really showed that Wonderful Hearts will continue to go on strong after Elder Club.
Their outfits are really sparkly and fluffy. I don't really understand what all the overuse of boa is about. But it's cute none the less. People that really stood out to me were Koharu, ManoEri, Risa, Momoko, and Aika. The green really makes Koha pop, she looks great. I'm not really a fan of Erina. but she is undeniably cute, and she had a lot of energy during this performance. That hat looks really odd on Aika. It makes her look kind of like a mushroom. But a cute one. And Risa, my god does she look gorgeous with that hair or what? Momoko, how can you not notice her? She looks adorable as usual.


The next clip is from Elder Club's final concert and it's Never Forget.



This is a very fitting song to show. I'm sure all of us will never forget Elder Club. Just as expected this is a very emotional performance, pretty much everyone is crying. But this seems to be hitting the older gens extremely hard. Mari, Yuko, Nacchi, and Rika seem to be taking it the worst. This is actually very upsetting to me. I think just now it hit me that they are finally gone. The performance is really great, the singing is spot on. Just what you'd expect from the best of H!P. And my girl KonKon even got a solo line in this song.

Maimi and Kanon's winter ghost story

C-ute member Yajima Maimi and Hello Project Egg Fukuda Kanon are to appear in a movie together called Winter Ghost Story.

Now I don't know much about the movie yet, since I can't read Japanese. For now all I know is Maimi and Kanon are in it. Which is exciting news. This will be Kanon's debut as an actress and will be Maimi's second movie role. From the title we can assume it's a horror/suspense movie. I have a feeling it will be a mix between Ghost Train and A Tale of Two Sisters. But that's based on title alone.

I'll be updating this story later when I have more info on it. You can also read about it on Shinichi Konjina's blog.

LinLin's Happy Birthday comes

 
I'm not really much for writing about idol's birthdays, but I should really start. Especially when it's a member I've been starting to like even more recently. :] I also wonder if anyone got my W reference. But anyway, onto LinLin praising.

Happy Birthday LinLin!

It's really hard to believe LinLin is 18 already. It seriously feels like she just entered Morning Musume yesterday. Mostly because new members weren't added yet. And even though LinLin has been in the background of singles and concerts, I've been noticing her a lot more. She really seems to be shining lately. She was fantastic in Resonant Live. And I think she brings something great to Momusu. Her fun loving personality was what drew her to me. Her Yorosen was surprisingly one of my favorites. Even though LinLin doesn't have the best shining voice, she really has been improving lately. I think we can expect great things from LinLin in the future.

And here's a LinLin pic spam!

One Room Disco PV preview

Perfume released a short preview for their new song One Room Disco. The preview is roughly only 40 seconds. But you can still get a feel for the PV. I really like how they keep changing rooms. And they seem to be wearing the same outfits from the CD covers. Which I'm not too happy about. I would have love to have seen different outfits, because they ones they're wearing are gross.

Maasa PB preview

Maasa's first photobook is being released on March 11th, so we have a nice preview of the cover.

The cover is pretty standard as photobooks go. But I think the cover is really cute. Maasa's looks really happy and cute on the cover. And it's nice the see that she's slimmed down a little. Since we're used to seeing Maasa with a little more meat on her bones. I also think her bikini is absolutely adorable. And it looks really great on her.

Aside from the cover, there's also a video of Maasa's photobook into. Where she quickly flips through the photobook. The video also shows Momoko and Chinami looking through it with her. Though I can't understand what's being said, I think Maasa looks great. Her shirt is really cute. And I love her curly ponytail.







There's also another video of Massa, that's is a portion of her making her photobook. Which is from her photobook DVD. It shows Maasa picking fruit and several other scenes from her photobook.

H!P lands at South Korea

Tsunku, Maimi, and Saki arrived in Korea to kick off the Korean auditions. They held a press conference to officially announce the auditions. And it seems like Maimi and Saki are wearing their recent concert outfits for most of the photos.

Koreans seem to be really excited for the audition. They even welcomed their arrival at the airport.  

I'm really excited to see how these auditions turn out. I'll probably follow these a lot closer than the Taiwn auditions. Mainly because I'm more interested in Kpop than Cpop.
Anyway here's a little pic spam of the event.

Ai Kago FRIDAY'd again

Once again Kago-chan is hit with another scandal. This time it's an alleged affair with Hidejiro Mizumoto. Mizumoto had recently gotten a divorce from his wife Asato. But Asato is claming the reason for the divorce is her husband having an affair with Ai Kago. She is also seeking a large ammonu of money from both Mizumoto and Kago, 50 million yen from Mizumoto and 10 million yen from Kago. She is also asking for child support, which is standard for divorces. Asato also seems to have proof of the infidelity. She claims to have pictures Kago's underwear, clothes, cosmetics, and other items at the apartment and also love letters on Mizumoto's movie scrips. Tokyograph posted the news a couple days ago. You can read the full article there.

Kago, Kago, Kago. It really seems that she's learned nothing. She's finally getting her life back and is in the spotlight again. And yet she risks to lose it all again, for essentially the same reasons. I really thought she was past all of this and finally moving on. But this really makes it seems like she doesn't care. And is again acting like a selfish teenager who never thinks of the repercussions of her actions. This really is disappointing. I was finally getting used to the new Ai and then she does something like this. I mean she's probably allowed to date now. Can't she find anyone single?

Another thing that catches me off guard, is the fact that Asato is asking for 10 million yen form Kago. Does Kago even have that kind of money anymore? She spent her H!P money when she was under house arrest. She even stated in her photobook, she had to take an office job with H!P because she didn't have any money. I wonder how she'll get that kind of money.

It also seems that Kago-chan isn't over the older men yet. Mizumoto is 13 years her senior. And above all that, he's not even good looking. Kago could do way better! Even the last scandal she was caught in, the guy was hideous. I don't really understand. If you're going to risk your career for a guy at least make sure he's attractive.