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You stupid monkeys!

Being an idol is so easy a monkey can do it.

Being a monkey is so easy an idol can do it.

So does this means that a million idols typing at a million typewriters for an infinite amount of time can type out the complete works of William Shakespeare?

Finding some silver lining beneath this mess they call “Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance” will be hard, but I’ll try…

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Posted on June 28th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under PVs.
Tags: Berryz Koubou, Chinami Tokunaga, Maasa Sudou, Miyabi Natsuyaki, Momoko Tsugunaga, Risako Sugaya, Saki Shimizu, Yurina Kumai

I know what you are thinking. It is pretty obvious what is wrong with this picture…

That’s Chinami Tokunaga!

Posted on June 16th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Quickies.
Tags: Chinami Tokunaga, Mari Yaguchi, wota

In this round:
1. Maimi Yajima vs. 4. Kanna Arihara
2. Chinami Tokunaga vs. 3. Sayumi Michishige
Yajima Finals

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Posted on April 30th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under March Madness.
Tags: Chinami Tokunaga, Kanna Arihara, Maimi Yajima, March Madness, Sayumi Michishige

Will I keep up with Berikyuu? Probably not. I didn’t keep up with Musume Dokyu or Uta Doki. Too many files to download, too much to keep up with. It’s going to need to be some kind of show for me to follow it regularly.

But before I get to watching it - I have high hopes for Berikyuu.

Haromoni is not the same show it was when I started watching it on a weekly basis. Two months ago, the majority of the show consisted of the Musume girls watching videos. Now an episode of Haromoni is more about the girls themselves. In an ideal world, the show would be better due to the changes. It isn’t. It is true that the girls are acting out the majority of the videos. However, the videos are still boring, predictable and repetitive. It makes me wonder if they filmed a month’s worth of episodes at a time. It’s possible to get a hit using the same format and the same gags over and over, but more often it’ll be a miss.

Berikyuu will save me from this! It just HAS to. We are all starved for variety entertainment from the H!P Kids. DVDs of material only come by so often. Appearances on the music shows only come with releases. There has never really been a steady stream of variety material from the H!P Kids. I am of the belief that the majority of them can be great entertainers in these situations. But am I giving them the benefit of the doubt? The fact is that the Kids - unlike Morning Musume - haven’t have the chance to disappoint yet.

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Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Reviews, TV.
Tags: Airi Suzuki, Berikyuu, Berryz Koubou, C-ute, Chinami Tokunaga, Chisato Okai, Erina Mano, Haromoni, Hello!Project, Kanna Arihara, Maasa Sudou, Mai Hagiwara, Miyabi Natsuyaki, Morning Musume, Risako Sugaya, Saki Nakajima, Yurina Kumai

Yoshizawa Region

1. Hitomi Yoshizawa vs. 5. Rika Ishikawa
2. Koharu Kusumi vs. 3. Aika Mitsui

Yajima Region
1. Maimi Yajima vs. 4. Kanna Arihara
2. Chinami Tokunaga vs. 3. Sayumi Michishige

Suzuki Region
1. Airi Suzuki vs. 4. Risa Niigaki
2. Arisa Noto vs. 11. Ayumi Shibata

Tsugunaga Region
2. Chisato Okai vs. 11. Yuu Kikkawa
4. Mai Satoda vs. 8. Atsuko Maeda

Representatives
C-ute: 4
Morning Musume: 4
Ongaku Gatas: 4
AKB48: 1
Berryz Koubou: 1
Melon Kinenbi: 1
Milky Way: 1

Posted on March 29th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under March Madness.
Tags: Aika Mitsui, Airi Suzuki, Arisa Noto, Atsuko Maeda, Ayumi Shibata, Chinami Tokunaga, Chisato Okai, Hello!Project, Hitomi Yoshizawa, Kanna Arihara, Koharu Kusumi, Mai Satoda, Maimi Yajima, March Madness, Rika Ishikawa, Risa Niigaki, Sayumi Michishige, Yuu Kikkawa

In this round:
3. Sayumi Michishige vs. 6. Aya Matsuura
2. Chinami Tokunaga vs. 7. Erina Mano

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Posted on March 29th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under March Madness.
Tags: Aya Matsuura, Chinami Tokunaga, Erina Mano, Hello!Project, March Madness, Sayumi Michishige

That’s David Banner.

Yesterday, there was a gamma ray burst that may have been visible to the naked eye. Gamma ray bursts can be very scary things. The amount of energy that they realize is something that just cannot simply be imagined. However, they are weird phenomena. I would expect a star blowing up to release energy in all directions, but this doesn’t happen.

For those more interested in this gamma ray burst, here is an article (with a photo of the light). Even though the light is just reaching us now, the star that exploded was 7.5 billion light years away. That means 3 billion years before our solar system was in its current form, this star blew up. And it is just now reaching us. That is crazy!! I would also imagine that there were no objects in space that was in the line of path of the light for us to see it. No asteroids, comets, planets, space junk, American flags or babies for this light to deflect off of. I can only imagine the odds of us seeing this light were pretty low.

I would have been satisfied just seeing this event without capturing it. Because only by witnessing some sort of a gamma explosion could I have transformed into The Hulk.

Which begs the question, what H!P member would make the most convincing Hulk? Well it’s not going to be Edward Norton.

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Posted on March 20th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Articles.
Tags: Ai Kago, Ai Takahashi, Airi Suzuki, Berryz Koubou, C-ute, Chinami Tokunaga, Chisato Okai, Hello!Project, Linlin, Megumi Murakami, Mika Mutou, Morning Musume, Natsumi Abe, Reina Tanaka, Rika Ishikawa, Risa Niigaki, Yurina Kumai