The Manterou Show Dance Shot

So finally we get to see at least the dance shot of the manterou show and I'm not even sure if this one will ever get a PV

Berryz Kobou's FLASHMOB! Who wants to JOIN?

 Ready to dance? Let's do some FLASHMOB with Berryz Kobou!

Morning Musume's Billboard Japan Interview

This is a repost from Hello-Online...

--The Tanaka Reina Band Project has started, right? This is a development that hasn't happened before even if you look at the entire Hello Project. How did this come about?

Tanaka Reina: It's not that I took the initiative and said that I want to do it, but I've always talked to Tsunku-san about liking singing, and when he said to me, "I'm thinking of putting together a band. What do you think?" I was like, "Huh? OK!" Then it was explained to me that we're gonna diligently start from square one and gather members through an audition, and now the audition is being held.

Morning Musume 50th Single debuts at No. 2

My prediction with Morning Musume's 50th Single proved me right! They debuted at No. 2 selling 56, 139 copies on it's first day release! It's amazing that this sold higher than Ai-chan and Gaki's graduation single beating there weekly sales w/c were approximately  56,000 and 50,000 respectively.

RE-POST! Ai-chan Reveals the Strength Behind Hello! Project's 15 Year Legacy!

This originally from Asianbeat and I think it's worth sharing.

I've written about Morning Musume and Hello! Project's connections to the outer world on a number of occasions in my previous publication, "J Pop Culture Observations." My interviews with Ai Takahashi in particular received a positive response from people in Japan and all over the world - this occasion marking my fourth interview with her.

Reina's TWIN sister???

I, too, wishes that I look like Reina..lol

Oh My Gosh!

Tamura Meimei to "Graduate"

Meimei's post:

To everyone who has supported me until now, and everybody who has done their best for me, I have something that is very selfish that I'd like to say...
I'm really so sorry to all of my fans.

Morning Musume still SPARKLING at 50~

 

 First Impression: IT's Oh-so-sparkly!

Just as I thought! I had a feeling that they would upload the MV of One Two Three TODAY!!! Honestly, I have been thinking about how the MV would looks the whole day at school and I couldn't wait til I get home and guess what greeted me when I arrived, Momusu's half MV of their Golden Single!!!

Chou HAPPY SONG is Berry C-ute!!!!

 

The moment that I have been waiting for is finally here-------the PV for Chou HAPPY SONG!!! I honestly could not contain my happiness when it was finally posted in mbcmschannel in youtube!!!! I was planning to make a post light night but it was kinda late and I was still left speechless about this whole single~

Manterou Show Radio Rip

Yay, we finally get to have a radio rip for Manterou Show. And hell yeah! I love this song too just as I love One Two Three!!! It's great that this song is kinda different to the other one, it's funky rather than electro-pop which is One Two Three. This song actually has the "HP feel and touch" for me, since well, it sounds really HP and something I could expect from Morning Musume compared to One Two Three who came as a shock because of how it sounds. But I'll stop with the comparison for now, I'll wait for the 2 PVs to come out before I make a conclusion between the 2.

Mikitty apologizes for the inconvinience

As we have previously posted here regarding the incident involving Mikitty's restaurant in the food poisoning case, she made a post through her blog expressing her concern and apologies to the students.

The post was made last June 9, 2012:

“I pray from my heart that those customers will get better even one day faster. Also, we apologize for the inconvenience and concern to our other customers. We sincerely apologize for this matter. I am the image character for this chain as assigned through my agency. “I feel bad that a restaurant with my name has caused this kind of incident. I feel bad for what had happened"

It turned out that Mikitty does not participate in managing the restaurant despite being labeled as the "producer" for this food chain in their homepage. 

Fujimoto Miki's Restaurant causes Food Poisoning!

Mikitty's restaurant is currently on the hot seat after 16 high school students suffered food poisoning after eating at "Sumibi Yakiniku Hormone Miki-tei"last May 31 after an athletic event and ordered a buffet course. 3 students were hospitalized but fortunately, their case were not life-threatening. This restaurant located in Yamato City was said to be the 3rd chain of Mikitty's restaurant. The restaurant is currently prohibited to continue their business operation indefinitely in accordance with food hygiene law. Medical examination revealed the presence of Enterohemorrhagic e.coli 0157.     

Atlanta say Hello to Kikkawa Yuu

Kikkawa Yuu will be coming to Atlanta for "Anime Weekend Atlanta" which will be held this September 28-30, 2012. I tried to check their website but I couldn't find Kikkawa Yuu in the guest list, but if you go in this site, you will see a photo of a man holding a flyer with Kikka on it and some details about the con written on it. Lucky to those who live in Atlanta, don't miss your chance of meeting Kikka their ^_^

Reina and her Future Band

Reina is THE BOSS

I may be kinda late with this news cause school has just started and I didn't have the time to write here, so yeah....... I've heard that Reina will be a band and band auditions for guitarist and a vocalist had been announced. I'm really happy that Reina would be part of another unit while continuing her activities in MM, this time a Girl Band, which is somehow different to how they run HP with Girl Groups. I'm really hoping for a Scandal-like band, with some Buono style in it but more rockish than Buono. And I actually think that being a rocker-chick would pretty well fit Reina's Yankee personality.

S/mileage as Donuts

I've heard S/mileage is doing a CM promoting Mister Donuts...so this must be it....I'm just glad it's not a single when I first saw it..........but I don't really mind if they make a single out of it, as long as they step out of that donuts...I'm not really fond of "mascot-like" outfits... *cough* Pyoko pyoko *cough*