J-Music!

Say Goodbye.

2010-06-14T19:23:00.000+01:00

Yep, time to say goodbye to this blog. Why, you ask? Simple. It's kinda moving. Kinda. It's moving to my new blog Big Bowl of Stuff. Except my new blog won't just be limited to Japanese music, but anything I'm interested in. Admittedly a lot of what I'm interested is Japanese music, but my new blog will also have posts on cosplay, anime/manga, movies, whatever. So yeah, so goodbye to this blog, but hello to my new one!!

http://www.bigbowlofstuff.blogspot.com/

Neglect

2010-05-19T19:04:00.001+01:00

Appropriate title don't you think? I'm so sorry that I haven't posted in weeks!! Things have gotten busy. Unfortunately due to exams and stuff, I can't continue with the Winter 2010 concert review. Unless someone desperately wants me to, which I doubt. Anyway, this post will just be updates.

Update number 1:
The GazettE have a new single coming out on the 21st of July. The only details they've given out is the name, which is 'NEXT SCENE' and that they'll start a tour to promote this single called 'TOUR10 NAMELESS LIBERTY SIX BULLETS'. Annoyingly, it will take place in Japan. I can't go. DAMMIT.

Update number 2:
Morning Musume have a new single coming out on the 9th of June, called 'Seishun Collection' a preview has been running around on YouTube for a while, but I haven't got round to listening to it yet, so I'm unable to comment on it.

Update number 3:
Morning Musume Alo Hello 4 will be coming out on the 16th of June. For those of you who don't know, it'll be footage of their 4th holiday in Hawaii. They're always fun to watch, and there tends to be a lot of swimsuits involved. Although it does break my heart to know that Koharu isn't in it. Fortunately LinLin can supply hyperness to the DVD, hopefully it shall be just as epic as the third one (Which I do recommend you watch.) Also, I do believe a PB will be coming out with the DVD.

Update number 4:
A new four member H!P group will perform in Shanghai. Can you guess who? Probably not. LinLin and JunJun were the first two (Which is awesome, because they NEVER get the attention they deserve in Morning Musume, especially LinLin). Those two then chose Miyabi from Berryz Koubou to put into the unit (Which makes the unit even more awesome) and then the three of them picked their fourth and final member to be in the unit....*insert drum roll here* Koharu Kusumi, ex-Morning Musume member. This unit sounded awesome before, but when I heard Koharu was the 4th member this was my reaction...

*ahem* ANYWAY!
Update number 5:
Gackt will be releasing a new single on the 16th of June (What is it with the 16th of June?) Unfortunately, we've yet to know ANYTHING about this single. we don't even know a title yet.

Update number 6:
SuG will be releasing a new single on the 30th of June (June really is a popular month...) it'll be called Koakuma Sparkling. Now, I actually have pictures for this! They've released pictures of them in the outfits I can only assume that they'll be wearing in the PV.

(I have no idea why Yuji's name came out different either, the font seemed to have gone weird. Stupid computers.)

Anyway, that's enough updates for now, there's already six, and these are the only ones that have been brought to my attention, or the ones that I can be bothered posting about. (Lol, I fail)
Until next time.

H!P Winter 2010 Concert, Part 3

2010-04-24T14:19:00.040+01:00

Finally updated!! I'm sorry, school gets in the way too much. Like I've mentioned previously, because YouTube is evil, I can't see the whole concert, but oh well. The next song was by Guardians 4, called Going On! Now I must admit that I hadn't actually listened to Guardians 4 before, so I didn't know what to expect. But my GOD they're AWESOME! Their voices work perfectly together! (At least I think so) They knew which girls would work best together for Guardians 4. Plus Risako sounds better than usual. So it's very awesome.

As the lights go on you can see that they're wearing the yellow version of their outfits. Yellow, red, green or blue is awesome, they all suit all the girls fine anyway. Well, apart from Aika, but that's because the idiots fecked with her hair.

I'm still not too fond of Risako's fringe, but it does suit the outfit very well.

See? They screwed up Aika's hair. Although, if you ask me, she should've kept her hairstyle from Egao YES Nude:

See what I mean? Her previous hairstyle was so much cuter...

Yurina's looking beautiful, like usual.

Same for Naki. (Naki = Well known nickname for Saki Nakajima)

Seriously, what the FUCK have they done with her hair!?

Ahh, Risako hair, much better. XD

Yurina hair!! SO MUCH BETTER. XD Anyway, I should continue with the actual song and video, not just concentrating on their hair.

Yurina's legs are looking pretty gorgeous.

Yurina's height, once again conquering all.

Naki puts her heart and soul into singing this song. But seriously though, because I don't really listen to C-ute, I've never really heard her voice properly before. And I really do love it.

I really do love this song. And the dance is petty awesome too. Just overall epicness.

Yurina's legs really are awesome. XD

Both the wotas and the H!P girls seem to love this song, and I can't blame them.

Risako's voice really is more epic than usual.

But yeah, anyway, the whole thing is awesome, but there's only so many pictures I want to put in each post so I'll move on to Aa!'s song FIRST KISS!

Ok, so when I go through a video on here, I always watch the whole thing straight through first. I gotta say, If you didn't know or didn't like Airi Suzuki before, MY GOD you will love her now. I'm at a loss. When did she get so sexy!? Not that I'm complaining...

The 3 girls, Akari Soho, Airi Suzuki and Miyabi Natsuyaki (They're in that order form left to right on the stage) start the song off by body rolling and the camera shows the girls' legs. OH HELL YES.

Hasn't been 25 seconds and this song and dance is already unbelievably sexy. Oh and also, AIRI LEGS!! *noesbleed*

Airi's hair is still very epic, and her voice is sounding a lot more mature, which is awesome.

I had no idea who Akari Saho was before this concert, and I already adore her. She's cute and her voice is amazing.

Still prefer's Miyabi's short, straighter hair, but her hat is looking awesome.

AIRI LEGS. Again. XD Actually, all of thier legs are looking delicious. =D

Airi's voice has never been so epic.

Anyone else LOVING how short the skirts are. Especially Airi.

From what I can see, they have pictures of themselves on their tops.

Akari's hat is pretty cute.

Airi's voice isn't the only one that's matured. Miyabi's singing is wonderful as well. Unfortunately I can't comment on Akari's voice improving as I've never heard it before. But I will say that all 3 girls' voices are amazing, they sound mature and superb.

Airi hits possibly the highest note I've ever heard. (Excluding opera)

Miyabi finishes the song beautifully.

Out of the two songs I've just written about I must say that I adore FIRST KISS! about 573057204 times more. I absolutely love Aa! I hope they release a new single soon. Anywya, I have the two songs just below. I recommend both of them, just FIRST KISS! more...XD

Poll Results Are In! 1st Poll!

2010-04-19T22:15:00.010+01:00

Some of you may have voted on the poll on the left hand side. I hope you did, I managed to receive a total of seven different voters XD Although, if you take into account you were allowed up to three, that's 19 in total. The poll was who's your favourite Berryz member! I'm going to go in reverse order, because that makes sense. Also, I give fanservice/epic videos or pictures of each member, but the amount of votes decides how much you get.

JOINT 3RD:
All with two votes each, the joint third/last place people are Yurina Kumai, Miyabi Natsuyaki, Maasa Sudo and Chinami Tokunaga!
Yurina:

I really like her voice, plus this video shows off her great height XD
Miyabi:

She's so cute X3
Maasa:

Just beautiful :)
Chinami:

Although this video appears to be reasonably old, it still captures Chinami very well. Also, anyone else noticed that Momoko managed to sneak on the video? XD Oh well...

2ND:
Receiving 3 votes, Risako Sugaya comes in second!!

Full of fanservice XD

I realise that they're both duets, but Sayumi seems to bring our Risako's talent more. Maybe because Sayumi's singing talents are somewhat lacking...

AND JOINT 1ST *EPIC DRUMROLL*:
Recieving four votes each, Momoko Tsugunaga and Saki Shimizu WIN!!

Momoko:

FECKING ADORABLE.

How could you not love her! XD This continues to the next video as well:

Anyone else love the fact that LinLin just randomly invaded the video at the end? XD

Saki Shimizu:

EPIC DANCE SOLO OF DOOM. XD

I love her voice, plus you get a nice look at her legs XD

WARNING: Video contains a bit of SakixMiyabi and SakixChinami XD

So anyway, there's your poll results and your fanservice XD The next poll is 'Who is your favourite GazettE member?' If you don't know who they are, feel free to look at the pictures below and pick you like the look of the best XD
The order (from left to right, for both pictures):
Aoi, Reita, Ruki, Kai, Uruha

The poll is on the right of the page, PLEASE VOTE!! :)

The Obligatory (Yet Late) Post

2010-04-13T12:43:00.015+01:00

Yesterday, was the 12th of April, and a couple things took place. Yesterday, twas indeed, my birthday, and Airi Suzuki's birthday AND Hitomi Yoshizawa. I warn you now, this post contains: picspam, Airi, Hitomi, Dir en Grey, Alice Nine and Gackt...in that order! :D (Well picspam will be consistent throughout...)

First of all, Airi! Yesterday was her 16th! This case is a bit like Risako...I wonder if this changes anyone's opinion of her? To be honest she's just too cute, the kind of person you'd love to hug, but feel terrible if you thought of her any other way, you know what I mean? Just look at her!

Airi's on the left.

Airi's in the middle. (And looking absolutely gorgeous in this picture)

Seriously, she's adorable. She says her charm point is her ears, and I totally agree.

So let's celebrate this amazing girl's 16 birthday!! You, yes YOU can even say happy birthday to her!!
http://www.c-ute.jp/cho/airi.html
I feel like I've become part of something now, it's strange. XD You have a time limit though. The site/fan messaging thing is only open till the 18th of April! So hurry up! XD

ONTO HITOMI YOSHIZAWA (A.K.A Yossie. I'll be referring to her like this)
What can I say, she's very VERY awesome. She was and always will be THE tomboy in Morning Musume, and her voice is addictive. She's gorgeous too. She's just full of win. I wish she never left Morning Musume...

Yossie in leather is always good. :D

She's beautiful and awesome, Yossie, does in fact epically win. I really do love Yossie. I feel so sorry for her. I previously said I wish she never left Morning Musume, and I really do, but I'm pretty sure she left because of her younger brother. Her younger brother died in a car crash when he was 16, January 11th 2007. She left Morning Musume May 6th 2007. Yeah, this is starting to get depressing, so I'll move on to the Dir en Grey, Alice Nine and Gackt part of this post!

Like I wrote before, not only was it Yossie's and Airi's birthday yesterday, but it was also mine! Although I got more than 3 CDs, the rest of the presents aren't to do with Japanese music. (A good amount of it was still Japanese though. For I am an otaku. :D) Anyway, I know that these CDs have been out for a little while, but there are still all awesome.

Dir en Grey - Vulgar

I LOVE this album. I recommend this to anyone who loves Visual Kei. Or just Japanese rock, this album is pure AWESOME. I can't pick a favourite track. I love the tracks 1, 2, 3, 4 and 13.

Alice Nine - Vandalize

This album is also awesome. I love the tracks 3, 5, and 8. Admittedly this is my least favourite out of the 3 that I got, but it's still worth buying.

Gackt - Re:Born

I ADORE this album. (Album complete with two covers XD) I can't stop listening to it. This album has had quite a few bad reviews, which I just cannot understand. I can't pick a favourite, because they are all outstanding and his voice is purely amazing. I love it. It's now my favourite album of all time. IT'S EPIC.

Now that I've stopped Gackt fangirling, I shall say goodbye! I'm sorry about my fail updating. I know I should be posting about stuff, but I have crap to do. Why doesn't school recognise a holiday, as an actual holiday? I hate homework. Oh well. I promise that the next post will be centred around D'espairsRay and their now newish single. After that I will continue with the Winter concert. Oh and the poll on the left will fit into a post somewhere...

Also, another plea from me, because I'm that pathetic (but don't care :P) Can you please comment? Not just because I like comments (Even though I do) But I would love to know what you like about my blog, what you don't, what you want me posting about, what you don't, and so on so forth. SO PLEASE COMMENT :)

Delays and Pictures

2010-04-10T12:13:00.011+01:00

Hello all! I know that I said that I would go through D'espairsRay's new single, and continue with the H!P Winter concert, and I will, however it will take longer than I expected. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I probably won't be able to update till the 13th. Meaning the next post will be the Airi/Hitomi/my birthday post. and even after the 12th, (busy day) I may not be able to post as much as I'd like due to schoolwork. But anyway, I have preview stuff for D'espairsRay new single. (I know it's already been released, but I've yet to go through it XD)

First things first, the preview of the actual song is on D'espairsRay's official MySpace page! http://www.myspace.com/despairsray <-----Here's the link

I'm going to be honest, I wasn't a huge fan of D'espairsRay, but this preview got me interested in them, and know I can't stop listening to them XD I highly recommend their song Damned, and Sixty Nine is very interesting ;) (I can't wait to go through the whole song and PV)

And now for pictures! They released these images before they released the single, and they all look pretty awesome.

I really like the outfits although I can't help but think that Hizumi should have a jacket with a darker red. Maybe blood red? I think it would suit him better...

Like I said, should have a different shade of red. Perhaps the same shade as the hat? It would make sense after all.

Karyu's hair is looking rather awesome.

Looks like Zero has also taken a trip to the hairdresser/stylist...

I rather like the look of Tsukasa. Very sexy. >D

Anyway, that's all from me for now, for I have stuff I must do. Bai Bai!

H!P Winter 2010 Concert, Part 2

2010-04-06T15:53:00.024+01:00

H!P Winter 2010 Concert, Part 2, Cuteness overload. Should be a movie. I would so watch a film containing Shin MiniMoni. They are absolutely fucking ADORABLE!!!! I DARE YOU TO FIND SOMETHING CUTER. I bet you can't. The next two songs were both done by Shin MiniMoni. Members being LinLin (the leader), Kanon Fukuda, Akari Takeuchi and last but absolutely NOT the least, Karin Miyamoto. At the first 3 members I thought this would be cute. Then Karin showed up. She is unbelievably cute.

SHE IS, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE CUTEST ELEVEN YEAR OLD YOU WILL EVER FIND!!! And don't you dare try to deny it.

Anyway, I'm supposed to be posting about the concert, not Karin Miyamoto. But wait, I can do both at the same time!! *insert evil laugh here*

The first song by Shin MiniMoni was called Pen Pen Kyoudai. It's an epically cute song. It's adorable and I could probably listen to it (and watch them performing it) all day.

5 seconds into the song and you can already tell it's going to be amazingly cute.

Kanon Fukuda's first solo. I actually really like her voice. Which is strange. It's not anything hugely special yet I love it...

There could not have been a better captain choice. LinLin is the best leader this group could ever have. She's cute and small like the rest of them, and she has the years of experience and maturity (supposedly) to be able to lead the group. I have high hopes for LinLin and Shin MiniMoni.

Not sure what I think about Akari Takeuchi's voice. It is slightly unusual though...

This couldn't get cuter if it tried.

LinLin is just too awesome in this song. Seriously.

Karin Miyamoto's solo decides it. She's too cute for words.

It would appear that Kanon Fukuda is a bit slow when it comes to the dance...Oh well.

The girls then continue with the song for another minute. Unfortunately because they're throwing their limbs around in a cute manner, it makes it hard to make screen shots. So I'm just going to go to their next song, Strawberry Pie. Now, I don't speak Japanese, but it's pretty damn obvious that the song is about strawberry pie, and giving it to someone. About 3/4 of this song consists of saying strawberry pie. And the dance is slightly repetitive, so there won't be many screen shots for this either.

Unsurprisingly, this is also adorable.

Now I've run out of comments, as you can only say how cute they are a couple times before it gets boring. So I'm going to just post pictures.

I love this group. They're amazing! I have high hopes for Shin MiniMoni. As do the rest of H!P. They were all cheering them on and doing the dancing while they were performing.

Part 3 coming up soon!

Happy Birthday Risako!! And Other Stoof...

2010-04-04T17:04:00.012+01:00

That's right. The youngest in Berryz has now turned 16. I wonder if that changes anyone's feelings towards her? XD I must admit I kinda had a slight hatred towards Risako. But the more I watch her the more I notice that she seems to be the most insecure one of Berryz, and the one most under pressure. (What really worries me is that she seems to be gaining weight recently. If you watch the most recent H!P concert, the 2010 winter one (posts will be coming up) you can see that she has gained weight and is putting less effort into dancing. I will never go as far as saying that she's fat, because she really isn't, but she's still gained weight. It worries that she's been put in too much pressure and now she's breaking. That would be really depressing. She's still technically a child, it would be terrible if she's going through breakdowns.) But I am starting to love her. I just wish she got slightly less attention. All of the Berryz are awesome, not just her XD

This girl is absolutely gorgeous. She's not my favourite Berry, but there is NO denying that she is amazingly beautiful and sexy.

There's no denying she's gorgeous. End of story.

She is truly an amazing girl. She's very talented and very pretty. HAPPY BIRTHDAY RISAKO!!! ^^

And now for the other stoof. Ok people, I know I probably sound pathetic but come one! I want more comments! Feedback? What you like? Complaints? I'll take anything here. And in other news. I've found a wonderful WONDERFUL GIF. I could watch it all day:

Ahh, Miya stripping. Even if she does have clothes underneath the dress, this is still fanservice. Therefore awesome. (I really should stop being so perverted XD)

If you haven't noticed, on the right side of this blog there is a new gadget! There are now polls! These polls will be updated every two weeks unless I get requests ot update them quicker. Obviously they will revolve around Japanese music, but they will range from what you think of new releases to favourite members! ^^

But anyway as previously mentioned I will be posting about H!P's recent 2010 Winter concert, which was pretty awesome ^^ There should be a post about D'espairsRay's new single coming soon too. Look forward to it people! ^^

H!P Winter 2010 Concert, Part 1

2010-03-30T20:57:00.030+01:00

Oh yes, it's huge. (The concert that is.) It would've been bigger if YouTube wasn't evil, so unfortunately I can't go through all of the songs. I don't know how many parts there'll be. (And because there's a huge amount to go through, I will try and tone down on the detail for each song.) All of the official Hello Project Kids were there and singing, along with the Hello Project Eggs. Admittedly I haven't watched it all yet, but from what I can see it's centred around the revival of the old groups (You'll see as I go along if you don't know what I mean.) The first part was reasonably awesome. To be honest I wasn't impressed with it first, but it's grown on me. Now I love it XD The first song was called Uwaka na Honey Pie:

The wotas are waving around their glow sticks in anticipation, like they always do.

The wotas are now chanting going hyper over the pretty light and in the anticipation of seeing their favourite idols.

Every single girl that are performing in this are on the stage in the opening. This, would have been a BITCH to choreograph. There's something like 30-50 girls here. Some as young as 11. I feel sorry for the staff had to make sure everyone was dancing correctly and so on XD

There's a lot of Maasa shown, who's definitely enjoying herself. I love it when she smiles (Yes I know the picture is fail, but I'd like to see you get a clear shot! XD)

The dance is simple but awesome. Although I can't say I like the outfits too much...

EPIC Airi hair :D

Yurina's height PWNS all. It's shots like these which make you understand why her nickname is the gentle giant. For fecks sake she's not even standing up straight where Risako (in blue) pretty much is. If my knowledge is correct, Yurina's height was last measured at 5"10 and 1/2. And still growing. Needless to say, she defeats the Japanese stereotype.

Ai is looking very epic. I don't particularly like the outfits, but she pulls it off pretty well.

In case you were wondering where you favourite idol is, I have managed to find out who is in which colour. They're in their revival groups, again, it'll be explained shortly if you don't get it:

Green:
Momoko Tsugunaga (Berryz)
Maasa Sudo (Berryz)
Chinami Tokunaga (Berryz)
Risa Niigaki (Momusu)
Ayaka Wada (S/mileage)
Saki Ogawa (S/mileage)

Red:
Ai Takahashi (Momusu)
Reina Tanaka (Momusu)
Maimi Yajima (C-ute)
Saki Shimizu (Berryz)
Yuuka Maeda (S/mileage)

Dark Blue:
Risako Sugaya (Berryz)
Sayumi Michishige (Momusu)
JunJun [Chun Li] (Momusu)

Light Blue:
Airi Suzuki (C-ute)
Miyabi Natsuyaki (Berryz)
Akari Soho (No idea, sorry. I think she's a Pro Egg...)

Yellow:
Eri Kamei (Momusu)
Yurina Kumai (Berryz)
Aika Mitsui (Momusu)
Chisato Okai

Orange:
LinLin [Qian Lin] (Momusu)
Karin Miyamoto (Pro Egg)
Kanon Fukuda (S/mileage)
Akari Takeuchi (Pro Egg)

Pink:
Mano Erina (Soloist)
Mai Hagiwara (C-ute)
Saki Nakajima (C-ute)

If you were wondering, the best place to watch most of the concert is Rosicky000777's channel on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gq8-N5fmjw <---- There's the link for the first part, Honey Pie. Anyway, MOVING ON!

Ah, member/group introductions. THIS is where I explain the group revivals. (Or at least what I understand of it.) Basically Tsunku (manager of H!P) created tons of shuffle groups with almost or all the girls in H!P were in groups. The point was to see whether he could get better music from a different mix of people. Basically he was experimenting. But all of these groups kinda just died, the last one failing 6 years ago or something. Tsunku decided that he should revive the groups, once again to experiment with sound and so he doesn't just let his groups die. Or whatever. The point is he revived these groups, but now with different members. For each group introduced, I'll show you the old and the new members. Making this post, ridiculously long.

Guardians 4
(Ok, they're a recent group, so they haven't been revived. The members in order from left to right are:)
Saki Nakajima, Risako Sugaya, Aika Mitsui, Yurina Kumai

Buono!
Yeah, another recent group. Members are:
Momoko Tsugunaga, Airi Suzuki, Miyabi Natsuyaki

Shin MiniMoni (Previously MiniMoni)
Old members: Mari Yaguchi, Mika Todd, Ai Kago, Nozomi Tsuji, Ai Takahashi
New members (still left to right, and always will be): Akari Takeuchi, Kanon Fukuda, LinLin, Karin Miyamoto

PetitmoniV (Previously Petitmoni)
Old members: Sayaka Ichii, Kei Yasuda, Maki Goto, Hitomi Yoshizawa, Makoto Ogawa, Ayaka Kimura
New members: Mano Erina, Saki Nakajima, Mai Hagiwara

zoku.v-u-den (Previously v-u-den)
Old members: Rika Ishikawa, Erika Miyoshi, Yui Okada
New members: Risako Sugaya, Sayumi Michishige, JunJun

Tanpopo# (Previously Tanpopo)
Old members: Aya Ishiguro, Kaori Iida, Mari Yaguchi, Ai Kago, Rika Ishikawa, Asami Konno, Risa Niigaki, Ayumi Shibata
New members: Chisato Okai, Eri Kamei, Aika Mitsui, Yurina Kumai

ZYX-a (Previously ZYX)
Old members: Mari Yaguchi, Saki Shimizu, Maimi Yajima, Megumi Murakami, Erika Umeda
New/Current members: Saki Ogawa, Chinami Tokunaga, Risa Niigaki, Momoko Tsugunaga, Maasa Sudo, Ayaka Wada
(I think that order's right, but I'm not sure. I'm not good at telling the difference between Saki Ogawa and Ayaka Wada)

Aa! (Name never changed)
Old member: Reina Tanaka
New/Current members: Miyabi Natsuyaki, Airi Suzuki, Akari Soho

High King (Recent group)
Members: Yuuka Maeda, Reina Tanaka, Ai Takahashi, Maimi Yajima, Saki Shimizu
(Is it me, or is Reina a midget?)

And on the Reina midget realisation, I'll leave it as that. Otherwise this post really will get ridiculously long. Part 2 coming soon! (There may be some spelling mistakes in this, the spellchecker isn't working XD)

H!P Updates/Rumours

2010-03-28T11:11:00.012+01:00

Recently there has been a lot of hype over H!P. The main two rumours going round at the moment that there will be auditions for a new C-ute member and Saki is getting her own photobook. Both are currently rumours, but I hope both are true.

Quite frankly, I've never particularly liked C-ute, or at least, their music has never caught my attention. However I have listened to their most recent single 'SHOCK' and Airi has basically become a soloist. I love Airi, I really do. She's very talented and very beautiful. However, she line-whored in this single more than anyone has line-whored before. So I think it would be great for the group if a new member did join, especially one who can rival Airi's talent. Maybe that would mean someone else will get solo lines. (Seriously, Airi was the ONLY 1 out of 5 members that got solo lines..)

And now to Saki. Anyone who knows me will probably know I love Saki Shimizu. She's amazingly talented (Her dance skills are ridiculously awesome) she beautiful, and she can either be adorable or sexy depending on her mood. Either is good for me. :D So I really really REALLY want her to get a photobook. She's the only member in Berryz Koubou who doesn't have one, and she's the captain! She deserves one. Plus, I've yet to see a photobook where the girl in question isn't wearing a bikini for at least 3 photos. Seeing Saki in a bikini would be awesome. Very awesome. And now I'm going to spam this post with tons of Saki pictures to somehow prove that she's awesome. :D

Saki in a maid outfit is NEVER irrelevant. :D

Saki pout x3

Saki in latex is also never irrelevant. (Sorry for the fail quality) But it's these kind of videos that make you wonder about Tsunku (Manager of H!P) He employs children to sing and dance (A lot of the dance moves being sexy, and admittedly most of them are now 16-18 when you think about Berryz but come on! He's 41) and he put them in very revealing or fettishy clothing. Surely he's a pervert...But anyway, I think this video shows just how awesome she is, :D

Here it is on Youtube! It deserves to be faved people! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE8QnA0rI7k

In other news...Maasa's hair is currently looking very very EPIC. She really does need more love. She's awesome!

I am in love with this photo. Maasa looks so beautiful.

There's also a small fear going around at the moment too. That Morning Musume may graduate another member. A lot of this has arisen from Koharu's graduation in December. I don't listen to Morning Musume as much as I listen to Berryz Koubou so I'm less bothered about them. However, if Linlin graduates, I WILL kill somebody, especially as her singing has been getting better and better recently. Also, she's been looking very sexy and mature recently too.

I hope to update alot during the Easter holidays I warn you XD I'm definitely going to do Birthday posts of Airi Suzuki and Hitomi Yoshizawa, espcially as I have the same birthday as them! (All three of us are on the 12th ^.^) (I feel awesome XD) I also hope to blog about D'espairsRay's new single Love is Dead. I've seen and heard the previews, it promises to be awesome. :D I'll also probably do a birthday post for Teru from Versailles-Philharmonic-Quintet. (Think that's how you spell it XD) Look forward to it people!

The Mysterious Mana

2010-03-16T20:16:00.043Z

*WARNING* This post is kinda picture heavy, although for you fangirls and fanboys out there, you won't be complaining. :D

Some people may know that it's supposedly Mana's birthday soon!I say supposedly because pretty much everyone knows absolutely nothing about him. Which is why the title of this post is 'The Mysterious Mana'. Well...that and it's my fail attempt at awesome alliteration. (That by the way, was another fail attempt.) But anyway, his birthday is suspected to be on March the 19th. I'm writing this post now mainly because his birthday is only suspected to be on the 19th and I plan to finish some of my work and then sleep for the rest of that day. So, the chances of me touching a computer on the 19th is quite small. Anyway, ON WITH THE CELEBRATION!!

Mana is mainly known for his role as the leader in Malice Mizer, a figurehead in Gothic Lolita fashion and his current project Moi dix Mois. Or, in other words, EPIC radiates from him.

Mana, playing in a playground...HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE HIM! Adorableness :3

I gotta say, I've never been a huge fan of Malice Mizer, but I really do love Illuminati. It's very awesome. However the actual PV is somewhat explicit and very fast moving so I'm not going to bother capping the video. So, I'm capping a live instead! (Although I do warn you, it'll be centered around Mana and Gackt, seeing as they are the only people I really know from Malice Mizer, I haven't learnt who's who yet ^^;)

Regardless of how crap it looks due to my fail skills, the live starts off with strange but somewhat awesome lighting effects. It make you anticipate the video more, so it does a good job as an intro.

The longer the lighting effects and intro goes on the more people the better we see the people. Including Mana in the stylish blonde wig (which admittedly looks orange under the light)

The main bit of the song starts off, and all of the light go red, which is pretty awesome. Then you notice that the Malice Mizer members are in fact wearing either tight latex or someother sort of sexual clothing.This means seeing Mana and Gackt wearing tight latex...

Yeah...ANYWAY, back to the video!

Yeah, picture says it all...

Gackt starts molesting Mana, and Mana clearly doesn't care. This is an interesting development...TIME FOR INTERESTING MATHS!
Ok, So, Molested and Unbothered Mana + Mana in tight latex + Mana with a whip = Mana is a sex slave? Just a thought.

OMG Gackt. DO WANT. I would've done the whole 'DO WANT' text on this picture too if it wasn't for the fact that I don't want to cover up any part of this picture. Especially the bottom half. As you can see, VERY tight latex hot pants with incredibly sexy legs. Epic Win, no?

As you can see, Mana's having fun playing dominatrix.

It would appear that Gackt and Kami (The drummer, I think ^^;) Are the only ones without sex slaves. I can't help but wonder whether they were bothered by this or not. XD

I love Gackt's eye makeup :3

*strutting across stage*

*watches Mana* "Ooh, he's strutting again. Those legs, Kami-sama, those legs!"
Sorry...I'm just a perverted fangirl XD Although if I was Gackt that WOULD be what I would be thinking. XD

Although I couldn't get a proper screenshot of the drummer (Who's name I think is Kami) his hair is truly epic. The way he drums means his hair kinda flips everywhere. Tis awesome :D

*ahem* TIGHT LATEX SHORTS. Oh how I love those shorts. :D

Mana: *sexy dancing*
Me: *Nosebleed*

GACKT LEGS! XD I'm sorry, this post is supposed to be devoted to Mana yet I can't stop looking at the tight shorts and sexy legs Gackt is in possesion of.

Mana: Biatch! Get up already!

Full on fanservice! Gackt seems to be very uke in this situation. Being 'serviced' shall we say by unknown guitarist #1 (It might be Kozi, But I really don't know ^^;) and Mana. I'm very jealous XD

Mana: Ah, such a great view >D
Me: D< I want that view!

It's an instrumental part of the song so they're all kind of jut calmly walking around, probably to their next stage position, only to the strnage beat of the song. Meanwhile, the lighting is being awesome. :D

Gackt is busy singing while stradling what appears to be a speaker...who wants to be that speaker? I know I do.

Mana's pwning on the guitar, and we get treated to sexy legs for about 2 seconds. Not satisfactory, but I still get sexy Mana legs. I'm happy.

HOLY CHRIST. Gackt AND Mana? *Fangirl overload* XD

Mana pwning again, and more sexy legs :D However the lighting is starting to annoy me as Mana's hair/wig seems to blend into the background...The quality of this video really annoys me too. But I can't do anything about either problems. Oh well! Here's the video:

And if that wasn't enough proof of that Mana is awesome (And Gackt XD) I have a random collection of epic photos! XD

I don't tend to use the term kawaii very often, but this photo deserves it!
かわいい!

かわいい!!!!

かわいい!!!! I really do have I strange idea of what's cute. But those 3 photos just make me wanna hug him x3

Of course, Mana can be sexy too :D I love this photo. I especially love the way he's looking at the camera.

Anyway, I think I've spammed for long enough. So I'll just finish with this:

HOORAY FOR MANA!

Berryz Koubou - Otakebi Boy WAO Preview

2010-02-18T22:40:00.015Z

As some people will know Berryz Koubou are releasing a new double sided single on the 3rd of March. The titles are 'Otakebi Boy WAO!' and 'Tomodachi wa Tomodachi Nanda!'. Unfortunately I could only find a qood quality preview (And a full radio rip, how awesome am I? XD) for Otakebi Boy WAO! Otakebi Boy WAO is more than likely going to be classed as the better single on this release. Anyway, ON WITH THE PREVIEW!

This 15 seconds preview itself made me excited for this new single. Because seriously Risako can sing like this live, but she can't sing other songs (For example Dakishimete Dakishimete) very well, so it means it'll be the first time in years she'll actually sound like the track. I'm not saying she's a terrible singer (Admittedly she is my least favourite), I'm just saying she has the most trouble when it comes to being able to sing and dance onstage. She still has an awesome stage presence though. I'll admit that. Anyway as the preview shows, they have strange but awesome costumes. I have managed to find a proper clear photo of the costume, only with Miyabi in it XD

Bright pink camouflage dresses with black boots and fingerless gloves. First thought = Are they trying to hide with flamingos!? (Seriously, bright pink camouflage? XD) But it does look awesome, makes a great stage outfit anyway. Apart from the costumes the Berryz, my god, they all look drop dead gorgeous!
Momoko:

Ok, so she looks more cute than gorgeous, but it's Momoko we're takling about, she doesn't stop being cute. It's hard to believe she's turning 18 March 6th.

Miyabi:

Tree on fire in the background and Miyabi's punching the air in front of the camera...should we be worried? I'm quite annoyed though, she appears to have gotten hair extensions and I think shorter hair suited her better...

Maasa:

*hugs* Maasa needs more love, she's the least popular berry, yet she's awesome...

Yurina:

It's blury because she got about 1.5 seconds screen time. A lot less than Risako, this annoys the hell out of me.

Chinami:

Admittedly I am a Chinami fangirl, but you have to agree she's seems to be getting more and more attractive with each video. This is awesome. :D

Saki:

Meh, I'm starting to run out of comments...Saki...Saki's awesome! I think she's the best dancer.

Risako:

Grrr. Risako gets way too much screentime. All of the Berryz are very talented, yet she's almost always put in the middle and sings the most. A lot of people say she's the most talented and the prettiest. I however, completely disagree.

Otakebi Boy WAO! is annoyingly catchy and I'm probably listened to it over 10 times already. It is a good song, and I understand that their voices in this song are supposed to be powerful. (Afterall it's the ending theme for an anime which centres around a very determined football/soccer player) But almost all of their voices sound too forced. To be honest, I think the only ones that have managed to pull it off are Momoko, Maasa and maybe Miyabi...All of a sudden the letter M is magical...Hmmm...Anyway, here's the radio rip of the whole song, and thanks to the wonderful 23idui83 (Youtube) you can tell who's singing. Seriously, otherwise you'd probably have trouble distinguishing their voices... Unfortunately blogspot won't let me upload this second video for no reason whatsoever so we a have a link instead! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPUIqTMlAc4

So I'm very excited about this new single, and I can't wait for the PV. What about you?

Kiyoharu - LAWS

2010-02-14T22:26:00.014Z

Ok, I'll be honest, I was intending to right this yesterday but many things got in the way, so then I decided to try and write it ealier today but I ended going to the Chinese New Year festival. I didn't know what to expect, but sexy, smily chinese men wearing see-throughish spandex juggling balls gurantees a great show don't you think? Needless to say I had fun. But moving away from my personal activites lets go onto the new Kiyoharu single, shall we? I gotta say, I love this song. It's catchy, the guitars are awesome, the video is awesome, Kiyoharu's voice is as epic as ever and he's still managing to pull of sexy at the age 41.

The video starts of with a lot of different shots of things, mainly dark rooms, fire, Kiyoharu and the band that are playing the music.

This was already 50 seconds into the video, I realised that it was actually pretty damn hard to get clear shots of Kiyoharu or any members of the band.The video has a lot of different shots so the video seems to move very fast, which is pretty awesome. I also like the fact that it shows a band, it seems to make you pay more attention to the music, which is good, because it's very awesome. (Yes, I know I use the word awesome a lot XD)

Kiyoharu's voice is still epic. I wish I could sing at the age of 41, better yet, I wish I could sing now, but that's not going to happen.

In the end this is the best screen shot I could get of the whole band with Kiyoharu. I admit that I'm not particularly skilled at getting good shots yet, due to the fact that this would now be my second time of print-screening video, and the whole fast moving shots and edits is awesome, but it does make screen-printing a pain in the arse. So I'm going to limit the amount I use in this post.

Kiyoharu proves how you can still be hot at 41 XD

I really can't wait to find a subbed version of this video, because I really want to know what the song is about. The video encorporates a dark somewhat sinister room cimplete with images of fire and cars crashing/falling. Which as you can see Kiyoharu is oblivious to.

Still oblivious...I know this imagery is more than likely to help with the message of the song or at least add to the effect, which only makes me want to find a subbed version more, but currently I can't help but think that he shoudl be turning around right now...

Have I mentioned that the video is awesome? I love it :D

*Still refuses to believe that Kiyoharu is now 41*

I seriously recommend watching the video, or at least listening to the song, I love them both. I think Kiyoharu has scored another epic win...I know there's always going to be someone who disagrees with me, but I still think it's awesome :D

Morning Musume - Onna ga Medatte naze Ikenai Review

2010-02-09T17:14:00.021Z

(Yeesh long title)
To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this new morning musume single. I've only ever liked a few of their songs, and Koharu who had mangaged to become my favourite member had left. So yeah, wasn't expecting a miracle. Although honestly I liked this single. The costumes are strange pimped out dresses, but they make it work and the song is quite awesome :D Although I think the dancing could be better...

As they're walking in you can see the pimped out but awesome dresses. I dread to think how long they took to make...

A somewhat boring background but effective, but like previously mentioned their dancing could be better.

All of the girls however are looking beautiful, although I do appear to have gotten Linlin at a strange moment XD

The song starts with Ai's AWESOME voice, and as you can see she's looking amazingly beautiful.

Yesh, she has a good voice and she's quite cute but I have to say there's something about Reina which I just really dislike. I don't know what it is, but it prevents me from liking her...

Most of this video consits of the girls strutting their stuff. I don't have a problem with this, but it's a bit unimaginative, no?

I don't particularly like Aika (Nothing really draws me towards her) But I must admit she's looking adorable.

I hope I'm not the only person who think that this dance seems to consist of throwing your limbs around in time to the music...

After the first chorus all of the girls start walking down a catwalk, honestly, I think Junjun and Linlin have indeed won the prize for best catwalking.

Anyway, the song and video goes on, both of which are pretty cool, and after a while they all have a second run on the catwalk, but this time in pairs.

To be honest, it's not what I would call their best song, but it's absolutely freaking awesome compared to Kigamure Princess. Seriously, who's dumbass idea was it to chipmunk the voices? It was a terrible last single for Koharu, they could've given her a better last song. But anyway, I like the song, the video's ok and the girls are gorgeous. Not bad considering it's their 42nd single. So yeah, what do you guys think? Awesome or terrible, or maybe somewhere inbetween?