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Placing Names with faces

I'm really bad with remembering names and faces, so it does take me a while to learn new people.

So it took me about 10 months to learnwithin H!P, all, past and present, of C-ute and Berryz, Present MM and a few OG's, Plus some eggs and soloists and with regards to AKB48, 1 name and face and 1 face.

This post is just to show you how far I've come in 12 months. This is mainly concerning Eggs and The 48's.

Here is a key to the circles in the pics

• Red - Know both name and face
• Light Blue - Know either the name or the face only
• Magenta - My favourites

So AKB being the flagship group out of the 48's is bound to have the most members that i reconise and i do admit that i haven't really started to even try to learn other members of SKE and SDN. NMB has one member and thats due to my fandoms overlaping. As for the eggs, those are the eggs that, from my research, are the ones still active as Eggs. And yes, i know that i'm never going to remember all of the members from The 48's, but at least being able to reconise either a name or face is better than nothing.

New Favourite

I've found a new favourite in AKB. And no, Aminyan hasn't been replaced, I just found someone else that interest me.

Oku Manami, Maachan, The youngest member of AKB.

From what i understand, she's been in AKB since Team K formed at 10 years old?!?!?! sorry but why is it that Matsui J is being hyped up for being 11 when this girl was doing it when she was 10?

Anyway, She's the 3rd member to to have a solo release

it's a very beautiful song and she has a cute but beautiful voice with potential to improve greatly, i think.

Well lets just say that now i have 2 AKB members that i will support from now on.

Just a Quicky

1. UFA are reaching out to us international fans. Please support Phil over at Up Front Link. It's an English AND French blog all about UFA. So far there are only 2 post, one on the recent Additions/Graduation announces to Morning Musume and the other is a welcoming post. On a sad note, there already is some hate towards the English blog. I won't name names ararat010, but it's sad that some people feel the need to put good things down, especially when we have been asking for it.
2. S/mileage's PV for Short Cut was released. The most upsetting thing about this PV, is that is shows Yuuka (and Ayaka) cutting off her lovely locks. other wise, first impressions are mixed.
3. We finally have an idea of who the H!P Hair Stylist is.

This person MUST NOT be allowed to go anywhere near the girls with a pair of scissor. Just Look at what she did to Gaki's precious locks

(all opinions on the woman in the S/mileage Short Cut video is pure speculation. No hate must ever go toward that woman)

We asked, They Listened

Chisa has done another dance cover people........

We had all asked her to dance other H!P songs and guess what....

We get S/mileage's Yume Miru 15sai



I'm so glad that she's continuing with these dance covers, at the moment it has only about 300 views (it was just posted about 2 hours before this post), but i sure it will get well over 100,000 views judging by how well her other 4 vids have done (C-utes channel has only 5 videos that go well over 100,000, Aitai Lonley Xmas is the only PV to reach 100,000 views, all the rest belong to Chisa)

Keep it up Chisa, We Love You!!!

Help!!!!

I need help trying to reconise who's who.

I've been trying to get through AKB48 Himawari-gumi 2nd stage Yume wo shinaseru wake ni ikanai. I've kinda gotten stuck on one song, Confession, so being me, i decided to look at all the various performances of this song. I kinda reconised the original 4, Yuko O, Mariko S, Tomomi I and Sayaka A (yeah, didn't realise that there was more than one Mariko, Yuko and Sayaka in AKB till yeaserday), a version with Amina S instead of Yuko O, the 4th vid i watched, i could only reconise Yuko O and Tomomi I, i don't know who the other 2 are and in the comments below the vid, someone said that it was Amina, Sayaka, Tomomi and Mariko whic is bull cos like i said, Yuko was in it and i reconise Mariko and Sayaka and it wasn't them.

Here's the vid of that performance



The next vid i saw, i got completely lost. I have no idea who the hell these girls are


I would be greatful for some help with this. I'm really trying to learn about AKB.

Another Blow

I turn on my computer.

Wait for that little funny internet icon to say that it’s connected.

Check my emails.

Go on to H!O and

Takahashi Ai

Leader of Morning Musume, Leader of Hello! Project, is graduating in the auturn Morning Musume concert.

"WHAT????????"

Was all i could think.

Yes, i was expecting her to announce that she was to graduate, but not this soon. Not so soon after Eri and JunLin's graduation and definately not 7 days after 9th Gen was announced.

Personally, i think that she (and the higher ups in H!P/UFA) should have waited till around MM's spring tour just so that it doesn't overshadow the attention that 9th gen is bringing to H!P at the moment.

And as for who is o be Sub-Leader, On offence to Reina fans but she can wait her turn. Leader and Sub-leader of MM has always been in this order

• Oldest Generation
• Oldest Member of said Generation

So by going in that order

1. 1st Gen - Leader Nakazawa Yuko, Sub-leader Ishiguro Aya
2. 1st Gen - Leader Nakazawa Yuko, Sub-leader Iida Kaori
3. 1st Gen - Leader Iida Kaori, Sub-leader Abe Natsumi
4. 1st Gen - Leader Iida Kaori, Sub-leader 2nd Gen Yasuda Kei
5. 1st Gen - Leader Iida Kaori, Sub-leader 2nd Gen Yaguchi Mari
6. 2nd Gen - Leader Yaguchi Mari, Sub-leader 4th Gen Yoshizawa Hitomi
7. 4th Gen - Leader Yoshizawa Hitomi, Sub leader 6th Gen Fujimoto Miki
8. 6th Gen - Leader Fujimoto Miki, Sub-leader 5th Gen Takahashi Ai
9. 5th Gen - Leader Takahashi Ai, Sub-leader Niigaki Risa

With the exception of Fujimoto, who joined H!P with the 4th generation, it has always gone in order od generation than age. So whether or not Reina is more qualified to be sub-leader, Sayu is older by 4 months and is more intitled to position as sub-leader than Reina is.

This month/year hasn't even reached it's third week yet and already H!P is keeping the buzz going. How this plays out is anyones guess.

Dream5 - Who are they?

A while ago, Avex channel had uploaded some new videos that appeared in my subscriptions box and this video caught my eye

I've heard this song before but i was quite surprised but the group singing it.

Dream5 were created in 2009 when NHK program 'Tensai TV Kun MAX' held auditions to find boys and girls that could sing and dance. Out of thousands, Only 4 girls, Shigemoto Kotori, Hibi Mikoto, Ohara Yuuno and Tamakawa Momona, and 1 boy, Takano Akira, was chosen to form this group

They Debut on November 4th 2009 with their first single I Don't Obey ~bokura No Pride~

Dr5 - The most amazing bloopers are here

 

They released a mini album, Run on the Future, On the 10th March 2010

This is a PV from the album, Tabidachi No Uta

 

Their second single, Bokura no Natsu

Their recent single, a cover version of the 1970's finger5 hit, Koi no Dial 6700, was reeased on new years day and features AAA’s Hidaka Mitsuhiro and Sueyoshi Shuuta in the PV (back at the begining of this post)

These are the members:

* Shigemoto Kotori (重本ことり)(Vocals)

Birthday: 5 October 1996

Hometown: Tokushima Prefecture

Height: 146cm

Blood Type: Unknown

* Hibi Mikoto (日比美思) (Vocals)

Birthday: 20 September 1998

Hometown: Kanagawa Prefecture

Height: 145cm

Bloodtype: B

* Ohara Yuuno (大原優乃) (Dancer)

Birthday: 8 October 1999

Hometown: Kagoshima Prefecture

Height: 133cm

Blood Type: A

* Takano Akira (高野洸)(Dancer)

Birthday: 22 July 1997

Hometown: Fukuoka

Height: 144cm 151cm

Blood Type: B

* Tamakawa Momona (玉川桃奈)(Dancer)

Birthday: 24 March 1997

Hometown: Miyagi

Height: 151cm

Blood Type: O

I'm looking forward to hearing more from this group and i hope that they do well considering how hard it is to find info on them. If your wanting to look for more info on them, type 'Dream5 japanese band' as google finds random companies that have the same name. And don't look to youtube for vids, Avex has been busy disableing audios.

http://www.avexnet.or.jp/dream5/

Sorry if some of the videos don't load, had a rough time trying to find ones that could play outside China.