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

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There were not many Ai Kago reactions after all.

Buono’s Kiss!Kiss!Kiss! PV was released and can be viewed at some boys blog. I haven’t watched it yet so I don’t have any opinion. I just like that, after 2 previous singles, it’s possible to label this PV as “Typical Buono.”

There are more reviews for Perfume’s GAME. Shanimuni Paradise and boylikesmusicPerfume. It pains me to see that neither of them enjoy “take me take me” as much as I do. I will freely admit that I’m liking this song because it was made for the exact reasons Shanimuni points out:

If there was ever fan service in a song…….

They had an album called Fan Service, they are not above this!

I do enjoy that GAME is getting reactions to Perfume across the blogs. It’ll take some time to win over more fans and there are some who simply won’t pay attention to this group at all. This is slowly changing.

Posted on the Hello!Online tracker was Morning Musume’s appearance on Utaban. I am going to review this for TLS later on today as I have some fun comments for it. But real quick, this is a combination of mainstream Japan’s opinion of Morning Musume (Utaban doesn’t care about Momusu anymore) and an episode of Haromoni (boring rubbish as we watch Momusu watch other people do nothing). I would recommend watching this but it really is no different from the last few years of Morning Musume on these shows.

As for Airi Suzuki’s third photobook (from strawberrie)…

Aika. Kanna. Junjun.

2006: Def Diva
2007: GAM
2008: C-ute

When it happens, you can all call it the Rakuten Eagles Curse.

* Morning Musume doesn’t count since The Manpower was A) not intended for the baseball team, B) did not have Rakuten Eagles in the title and C) would ruin my theory.

My guesses as to how:

1 - Chisato Okai pulls out a knife in the middle of a concert and finally cuts a solo line. In who is debatable.

2 - Erika Umeda gets caught in a scandal and rocks the foundation of the unit - haha, yah right.

3 - Japan gets sick of teenage girls - haha, yah right.

4 - Airi becomes a full-time member of Buono. What something that could seriously happen?

5 - Either Maimi or Mai is getting pregnant, or both - and potentially with the same baby daddy.

I just watched an Oha Star clip uploaded to Hello!Online. Why did I watch this clip? I have no clue. I didn’t even read the description of it. I just downloaded it, watched and got some terrible comments that I am utterly ashamed of.

For what it’s worth - I’ve watched an episode of Kirarin Revolution. It is truly an awful show. I guess Koha and these two fools with her are acting out their characters on the show.

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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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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

In this round:
1. Maimi Yajima vs. 9. Eri Kamei
4. Kanna Arihara vs. 5. Junjun

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There are some days where I question how much of a fan I truly am of idols. Today is one of those days. It has been roughly one year since the Hello!Project, and thus, idol career of Ai Kago came to an end. It was a bitter end - at the time there was hope and promise for a revitalization of her career that had been previously suspended for a year. However, Ai did not want to play the by the frivolous and petty rules rules of being an idol.

And this makes me not want to play by the rules of idol worship.

So there are some days that I look at Kanna Arihara, and others, and think:

“We can’t go on together, with suspicious minds.”

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In this round:
4. Kanna Arihara vs. 13. Saki Shimizu
5. JunJun vs. 12. Mai Hagiwara

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My first official H!P photos:

I decided to buy something off of American Wota’s marketplace. I’m not sure why I decided to go with Konno. I wanted to make sure whatever photos I got were flattering to the girl, as these are to Asami. The Hawaii text are a definite reminder of where they came from.

I had no idea what to expect from official H!P photos. The “Kodak PerfectTouch Paper” logo on the pack of the bigger images definitely give off that ghetto vibe to it. The smaller ones were apparently printed through Amada Printing. The ink is of good quality and should last a long time. However, unless Ray or someone else starts selling some Kanna Arihara photos for A) cheap and B) easy, I think I might be better off printing my own.