Happy Birthday

Wishing Ai, Maimi and Mai a big Happy Birthday.

Hope you have an enjoyable year.

My 2010 Rankings

First off i have to say that H!P has had an amazing couple of weeks, what with the gradustion of Eri, Junjun and Linlin on December 15th, S/Mileage's big win at the Japan Record Awards and the announcement of the new 9th generation members. 2011 seems like it's going to be the year H!P starts to fight back and i am so excited to see what UFA will do to keep this recent push going.

Now on to my rankings of H!P. I will include Eri and JunLin in this.

Top Members

I will try to be as unbias as i can with this.

Morning Musume

Takahashi Ai is still the top dog in H!P. It's kinda hard for me to find something from this year that was bad for her. She released another PB, solo DVD and remains the lead in MM. But it is getting tiring always hearing her vocals on every single. Hopefully this year, management will still keep her as the lead but distrbute the lines a bit more fairly.



For Berryz, it was hard for my to be completely unbias here. I just wanted to put Captain as top member. So instead i went for Momoworld. I feel that she's the most consistant member of BK right now. Dancing and vocal skills are as strong as ever, released a PB this year that fit her perfectly from the images that i've seen over on the Picture board at H!O.

Again, it was hard to find a top member for C-ute. I wanted to put Chisa here but i felt that it would be better to put Chisa in the most improved member than top member. So why did i Put Maimi here? Well because i can't stand Airi, Mai is annoying and Saki didn't really shine that much this year leaving Maimi. And if you know me, you'd know that i can not stand Maimi voice so me putting her here is completely unbias.

The overall winner for Top Member has to go to S/mileage as a whole. They have had an amazing year, gaining 16,000 smiles for them to debut, having all 3 of their singles enter the top ten, releasing an album, having their own concert, out shining Mano at their joint concert, declaring war on every female idol group including their senpais finally ending in them winning Best New Artist. Couldn't really give a single member this award but i feel that they really deserve everything that they are getting after all the hard work that they've been putting in all these years.

Most Improved Members

Kumai has improved a lot this year. She's taken to being center with easy and her dance and vocal skills are improving, all be it not that much in the vocal department.

Mano has improved this year, her singles weren't as depressing as her earlier singles were. Her vocals are improving, but not as fast as i would like considering that she is (for the moment) H!P's only soloist. Her new single sounds good, lets hope she learns to put out twice as much energy into her performances than she does now. Oh and i watched Death Game Park the other day, it was good, confusing but good. Her character was just annoying and i was laughing at the end when she finally died.

This award has to go to Okai Chisato. Going from back up dancer to front girl in 4 singles is quite an improvement. Her vocals rival that of Airi's if not better. She has her own Ustream channel, Okai Chan Sleep, she has over 2 million views on youtube with her dance covers, released a PB and solo DVD ans was the first current H!P member to release a digital single on iTunes with a cover of Matsuura Aya's LOVE Namida Iro. What does 2011 hold for Chisa? well this year is promising to be another great year for her. As i understand, she's not only in the center for C-ute's new single Kiss Me Aishiteru, but she has more lines than Maimi. Chisa is definately on a roll and it will be good to see how far UFA is willing to push her.

Bottom Members

Now this is my completely bias opinion.

And the award for worst member of H!P goes to.......

Tanaka Reina

For stealing Eri, Risa, Junjun, Linlin, Sayumi and Ai's concert and album solo's, lines and screen time.

As for mu personally rankings,

Knotice how Sayu has gone up above Ai, this is due to having to see her everytime i looked at this blog.

Guess What

So, like i said, i'd stop the polls when a new PB is announced.

Problem is, the person who is about to announce a PB wasn't even considered apart of these polls.

YES, Yuuka Maeda is going to get her first Solo DVD and like for evey solo DVD release, a PB is also going to be announced soon.

THIS IS SO UNFAIR

S/mileage haven't even released their 1st major single yet and Yuuka is already getting a PB while established idols like Captian and Chisa haven't even gotten a mention.

Don't get me wrong, i like Yuuka and i knew that out of the 4 girls, she'd be the one to get her's first but it's just not fair. Sorry.

So as for the polls

~Who is most likely to announce a new PB?~

Miya won with 7/16 votes. Airi and Reina came joint second with 3 votes, Chisa, Captian and Massa came joint 4th with 1 vote each and Aika came last with no votes.

Sorry Miya, maybe next time.

~Who do you want to see in a PB?~

well no thanks to Mina, Aika won with 6/18 votes. Captian came second with 3, Airi and Junjun came 3rd with 2 votes each, Chisa, Miya, Tanaka, Maasa and an unknow answer (not sure how to find out what the voter voted) came 5th with 1 vote and Linlin came last with no votes.

~H!P Top....Hardest Hardasses (2 votes)~

Yuko won with 6/16 votes, Yosshi second with 4, 3rd is Mikitty with 2, joint 4th is Maimi, Chisa and massa with a vote each while Makoto, Kai and Gocchin didn't get a vote.

I'm going to restart the PB polls cos there is bound to be another one announced and i had forgot to put Linlin and Junjun on this one, plus i'll restart my picspam poll series as well.

Vote for

Voting ends 31st may.

Polls

Just a quick update on my polls.

Who is most likely to announce a new PB?

Is in the lead with 5/9 votes so far while Aika, Airi and Maasa have yet to gain a single vote.

Who do you want to see in a PB?

Aika is in the lead with 4/11 votes so far (thanks to Mina over at Wota In Training), while Maasa, Linlin and Miyabi have yet to score.

The closing date for these Polls are when ever a new PB is announced.

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I have a new poll. I want to know who are the hardest hardasses in H!P both past and present (since i only know Morning Musume, C-ute and Berryz Koubou members, their the only members that i've considered in this poll, but i have left the option of "Other" for those think those from other H!P groups are harder).

Your Choices are:

The closing date for this poll is the 19th May as i am going away on thursday and won't be able to update anything till then.

Hey All....

Hey all. Sorry for not updating, been busy trying to figure out what exactly the meaning of life is and failing at it.

So, where to begin....

Well Berryz 23rd single has been announced. The titles not been comfirmed yet but it isn't a double (Thank the lord, i don't mind double a-sides but the wait between when each PV is released really got on my nerves. Especially with their last single, i mean, Why was Otakebi Boy PV released like the day before the single was released? Talk about bad promotion). From the information i got off of Hello! Sayunii, they've done a new version of Otakebi Boy titled Otakebi Boy WOW! (Spark Version)....Looking forward to hearing that. Only thing is that their still doing the ending theme to that god awful football anime/game/whatever the hell it is all i know is that it involves THE wrost sport ever invented buy the British and the THRID wrost sport in the world (Golf and Snooker come before). Anyway, I'm always looking forward to hearing what Berryz comes up with.

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A Preview of Manoeri's new PV has been released.....case of the good song with a shit PV again and just when her singles were becoming less boring.

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For some reason i knew this was coming. The anime which is bad(only to me just because i'm a grown 20 something young lady and i really shouldn't be watching things made for 10 yr olds), Lilpri, has a new H!P Unit called....Lilpri. And the Members of said unit.....are the S/mileage girls that play the main characters, Kanon, Yuuka and Ayaka (God help me). If you want to hear what their first single sounds like, Heres a link to the second episode.....It the opening track which is heavily synthesized (And happens to be an improvement for a certian member (Start Rant) who shall remain nameless due to the horrible rendition of my dear Captian's lines in Ike ZYX! Fly High at the H!P 2010 Shuffle tour which has made me take a good, long, hard look at the members of S/mileage and thinking that this certian person, although very cute, should not be there and that Saho Akari should be in the group and not stuck in the eggs when she can quite clearly keep up with the wonders that are Natsuyaki and Suzuki, which that song should have a PV for as it would look amazing (End Rant)).

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The Shuffle Groups are getting new singles released, But in 2 large compilation single groups and not separate single releases which is a bummer. The first single (titled Compilation Single A (very original)) has Tanpopo #, Pucchimoni V, and Shin Mini Moni, and the second single (Compilation Single B) Has High-King, ZYX-a, Aa!, and Zoku Biyuuden (Why oh WHY is this happening). Heres hoping fo separate PVs.

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Yajima Maimi has a new photobook which is made up of all her UTB Photo shots, interview and what nots.....Still waiting for Captian and Chisa to get what they deserve. Kinda a bit bored with hearing the same names popping up for PB's all the time. Don't get me wrong, I think that this PB is a great idea but i'm just fed up with PB's always going to the most exposed members of H!P. I bet that Aika's gonna get her's next just because A) She's in Morning Musume and B)everyone can't stop taking about (how rubbish she is, how she shouldn't be there, how much she reminds people of a dog...) Her.

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On the topic of PB's, some previews of Sayu's 'la' PB has been released and i really think that she should quite MM and go into modeling. Just as long as she doesn't do a Gaki(Bad Hair Cut) or a Koharu(Dye Job That Does Not Suit Her) she should be fine.

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I missed a lot of birthdays this month (mainly cos either i wasn't paying attention or i just didn't like the members that had a B-day) so my next couple of posts will be a Picspam of each member, Risako, Manoeri, Airi and Yossi(should have really celebrated Yosshi's since i'm going to she her live next month)

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Specking of Yosshi, Hangry and Angry Officals have said a number of things about their European concerts.

1) There will be signings in Paris and Berlin which happens to be extremely not fair to those unlucky enough to be only going to the London gig.

2) there will be a Question and Answer session at all the venues.....BUT all questions will be asked but only 2 members of the audience and all questions have to be submitted before hand to either of these sites

International Wota
Hello! Blog (Has said that you have to be going to the concerts)
JPHiP

Not that i can think of an original question to ask but we have been given insturctions not to ask any personal questions and that we should have at least 2 questions prepared.

On the plus side, there will be a photo session at every venue so look out readers, you might see me post a pic of me with the girls (not i'm wishing that my loan can earlier so that i could have enrolled onto a local Japanese language course i was looking into)

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With the new Background, If you don't like it, Please leave a message in Spamalot, i've finally managed to work out how to do it (with a little help from another blog that does templates and told me how to change the background) i'll also welcome suggestions on possible backgrounds, i'm trying to keep the Saki theme going here.

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Just giving a warning that i won't be posting anything between 12th and 17th of May due to a trip to Birmingham, Nottingham and Alton Towers (British Theme park with wicked rides that i'm currently shitting myself just thinking about them. Click here to see what the hell i'm talking about.)

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By the way, the next Picspam poll will not Be until mid June methinks due to the fact that i have Linlin, Risako, Manoeri, Airi, Yosshi, Charmy, Hangry and Angry (Doing separate one of them in their alias') and a cosplay Picspam posts, maybe any more birthdays that are coming up (Chii, Ume-chan, Asuna Okai aka the 'ugly' Okai sister, Irori Maeda aka the egg that took over Kanon's place in SCE and Kikkawa Yuu)and my trip to the midlands.

Bad Hair Dayz

Recently, there have been some new hair styles amoung the H!P members both Past and Present. But a minority have gotten it COMPLETELY wrong...

First Miyabi

Although her hair looks good in this picture

Then Gaki


Maimai


Kanon


And now Koharu


All i can ask is Why? Why? Oh Why? Oh Why? You all had such loverly hair, Why the horrible Change?

The only major changes that actually look good are....

Maimi


And Ogawa


Please UFA, Please stop chopping off/colouring their beautiful locks.