In this round:
1. Hitomi Yoshizawa vs. 5. Rika Ishikawa
2. Koharu Kusumi vs. 3. Aika Mitsui
Yoshizawa Finals

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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.

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. Hitomi Yoshizawa vs. 8. Danny Noriega
4. Miyabi Natsuyaki vs. 5. Rika Ishikawa

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In this round:
4. Miyabi Natsuyaki vs. 13. Megumi Murata
5. Rika Ishikawa vs. 10. Atsuko Inaba

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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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Tonight, I decided it was time to play the Oregon Trail again. So I loaded up my original CD (oh yeah), got a DOS emulator and had some fun.

Except my idea of fun with the Oregon Trail isn’t winning the game with my friends.

It’s more along the lines of:

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If you like Ai Takahashi smiling into the camera and using her deep singing voice for no reason, this is the concert for you.

If you like Reina Tanaka’s blinking, then this is the concert for you.

But this was not the concert for me.

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It’s been a week since v-u-den has announced their split. I think that it is time for me to relive some of their career. For this, I am breaking deep into the TLS Vault and watching their first concert tour from 2005. They only had 3 singles and no albums to their credit at this point, so there was no not enough material to fill up a ful concert. Joining them to solve this were Atsuko Inaba and Country Musume.

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It seems like times are bad for Hello!Project. Berryz Koubou is going to release another uninspiring single. C-ute is going to follow up the fantastic Tokaiko Junjou with Lalala Shiawase no Uta, a song that’s already frowned upon by many after the 58th Kouhaku. Morning Musume’s next single is delayed. Natsumi Abe and Maimi Yajima’s single, 16sai no Koi Nante, did not sell well and I have a sneaking suspicion the blame for it will be laid upon Maimi. Risako Sugaya is dangerously risking overexposure by releasing a third photobook, which is unjustly coming before the first photobooks of Aika Mitsui, Li Chun, Chinami Tokunaga, Kanna Arihara and others.

Despite all of that, good news has arrived today! V-u-den is breaking up! It may not seem like it, but it is good news.

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