4 posts tagged “shimizu saki”

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I always look forward to the Hello!Blog polls. Paul always seems to have a spiffy (yes, I said spiffy) new design and this year is totally different (and much harder!) as we have to rank our top 10, not just rank group members. Agh!

10) Ohtani Masae

Melon Kinenbi gets no attention, it bothers me. They have (in my opinion) the best vocals of Hello!Project, and I think Masae is right at the top. Her punky attitude and style is very appealing to me as well (lol).

9) Shimizu Saki

One of the most unappretiated members of Berryz Kobo, but she's my favorite. Actually, I switch between Saki and Maasa, and I'm in a Saki mood. She's a dancing prodigy and is so pretty.

8) Okai Chisato

The best singer in C-ute.

Thats right, I said it.

7) Yoshizawa Hitomi

Yossie reminds me of my best friend. Her split personality is really great, she's so funny as well. And her edgy style once again is very appealing to me :P

6) LinLin

In the beginning of this year, she wouldn't even be on this chart. But her singing has gotten so much better and I think she's starting to lay off the idol-ness.

5) Niigaki Risa

She can so outsing a majority of the Morning Musume members, and she's always happy, she kind of person I would want to be.

4) Kamei Eri

Her voice is so sweet, and she reminds me of myself. Quiet and reserved, but when given the chance, very fun to be around (well, I think I'm fun to be around...) :D

3) ShenShen

It's rare that a newcomer becomes my favorite so quikly. But ShenShen's singing is so great and I've liked her since the auditions.

2) JunJun

I do beleive LinLin is taking away JunJun's singing ability, as she's been... not so impresive lately. Keep being cute, JunJun, keep being cute.

1) Yaguchi Mari

Mari is an awesome singer. She can change her voice so many ways, and has always had an amazing vibrato. She's got an amazing personality, and who can resist that adorable laugh? 

The first H!P blog I ever had.. was a news blog. I don't know, but I just really like reporting news. Haha so I'm going to do a weekly thing, summarizing everything that happened that week. But in the first edition I'm just going to summarize recent events. Starting from the oldest event that is news-worthy

Lady-Rise

Maki's back again, with another PV, but no single that can be bought :[ It's amazing, so listen to it.

 

 

 

Seishun Boku

SO. HAPPY. Mari's first ever solo single is a collaboration with Air Band, but she gets an entire solo song. She performed it on Quiz Hexagon and its awesome!

 

 

Kanna has bunions :[

Or hallax vulgis to be more specific. Poor girl. She won't be in C-ute's upcoming single Bye Bye Bye! (which has a B-side called Go Go Go! ....O.o) and, I think C-ute will stay 6nin for at least a year. Lets all hope and pray this doesn't end her career.

 

Buono! goes to... Sweden?

 

Yup. Sweden.

Buono! will be performing at the biggest anime convention in northern Europe, Stockholm Japan Expo. The expo will be May 22-24, and Buono! will be there on the last day.

 

Korean auditions take off!

 

The name of the Korean H!P auditions have been announced: Meet Tokyo Girl. Shimizu Saki and Yajima Maimi will be representing H!P and only one girl will be chosen (so I'll bet you they'll make her a Morning Musume member. I'll bet you.)

 

Speaking of Maimi...

 

Yajima Maimi has landed a role in a scary movie along with H!P Egg Fukuda Kanon. It's unknown what role both girls play, but the movie is called Fuju no Kaiden.

 

New unit? Frances & Aiko? WHAT?

 

When asked "So how young can idols really get?" UFA answers. Remember those little cuties from the Taiwan auditions? Well they appeared as back up dancers for Koharu and now they're getting their own unit. THEIR OWN UNIT. Frances is 8 and Aiko is 6. *is not interested*

 

A scandal that's actually scandalous

And guess who it is. No really. Guess.

Its Kago Ai. Again. And this time it's with a married man.

Gosh I don't even know what to think of her anymore.

Anyway, you can read the full article here: http://www.hello-online.org/index.php?act=helloonline&CODE=article&topic=761 

 

Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~

Sneak peek of the Wonderful Hearts 2009 Winter ~Kakumei Gannen~ DVD is on Dohhh UP! now. Yes, this is H!P now.

:[

Well, at least the Eggs got to sing.

 

 

Another year, another concert! I always look forward to these, but this year Mari isn't MCing so... that kinda sucks ;_;

I can't wait to see the tracklist for the Elder Club concert, which I know must have some songs featuring Mari.

As for the big end concert, while I'm excited to see Ice Creamusume's debut, but I know I'll need a box of tissues watching the graduation.

 

1) Resonant Blue (All) - Well this is exciting, I just hope its not Ai and Reina being the only ones singing, expecially since its the opening and all...

2) LALALA Shiawase no Uta (All minus Shugo Chara Egg!) - Ugh >.> I suppose its good for getting the crowd excited but... c'mon.

3) Minna no Tamago (Shugo Chara Egg) -  This song's been sticking to me, so I'm alright with it.

 

4) Hapi☆Hapi Sunday (Kusumi Koharu) - *skips*

5) Tan Tan Taan! (MilkyWay) - The one Kirarin*Revolution song I can listen to without hating it. I'll probably watch for first few seconds and then move on, though...

6) FOREVER LOVE  (C-ute) -  Awesomeness. I just hope that the chorus is alright, because its horribly high pitched and must be hard to sing live.

 

7) Meguru Koi no Kisetsu (C-ute, Tanaka Reina and Mitsui Aika) - Alright... thats... interesting. AikaxReina lead would be cool though.

8) MADAYADE (Berryz Kobo) -  RISAKO. LIPSYNC. PLEASE.

She does so horribly at concerts.

Other than that, woot.

9) Koi no Jubaku (Shimizu Saki, Sudou Maasa, Kumai Yurina, Tokunaga Chinami, Sugaya Risako, Kamei Eri, Michishige Sayumi) - Whats up with the Momusu H!P Kids shuffle? Not that I have a problem, I love this song. Risako just better not ruin it.

 

Lalala-Sososo

10) Lalala-Sososo  (Mano Erina) -

I've started to like Manoeri's solo work, but its too bad there can't be a dance or a nice costume for this. Not exactly good concert material, Lucky Aura would have been better.

11) Rottara Rottara (Buono!) - If its Buono!, I'll love it.

 

12) Naichau Kamo (Morning Musume) - Epic costumes, first of all. I wonder if they're just substitute concert costumes for until the PV is released, or the real thing? Oh well, I can't wait. KAMO KAMO KAMO.

13) Mikan (Niigaki Risa, Kamei Eri, Michishige Sayumi, Kusumi Koharu, Mitsui Aika, JunJun, LinLin, Yajima Maimi, Sugaya Risako) - So... looking at who's singing I'm getting pretty excited until I come to the end and see... Risako -.-

And I'm gonna say this right now cause I think I know what you're thinking - I do not hate Risako, but lately her lives have been horrible. She's got amazing looks and can hit high notes with ease, but why does she always have to scream and look like she's in pain?

14) Jingisukan (All) Awesome. I'm getting bored with just Berryz singing it, so I'm excited.

15) Shiroi TOKYO (Nigaki Risa, Yajima Maimi, Tokunaga Chinami, Nakajima Saki, Hagiwara Mai, Mano Erina) - Yay :D Mano gets to sing more.

16) Natsu Doki Lip Stick (Yajima Maimi, Kikkawa Yuu, Maeda Yuuka, Fukada Kanon, Sekine Azusa, Ogawa Saki) - This sounds like a Maimi solo with Eggs as back-up. Eh.

But this isn't really a good winter song...

17) Baka ni Shinaide (Shimizu Saki, Natsuyaki Miyabi, Kumai Yurina, Sugaya Risako) - Mmkay. Alot of Berryz in this concert, amirite?

18) Mr.Moonlight ~Ai no Big Band~ (Takahashi Ai, Umeda Erika, Tokunaga Chinami, Nakajima Saki, Okai Chisato, Arihara Kanna, Saho Akari, Sekine Azusa) - AWESOME. But lets hope its not 100% Aichan, I want to hear Chisato too!

19) Soku Dakishimede (C-ute) - This is the best early C-ute song, its always so intense and awesome. And best of all -- it replaced Massara Blue Jeans!! Yes!

 

20) Gyagu 100kai bun Aishite Kudasai (Berryz Kobo) - Yay no Special Generation :DDD And last I remember its mostly Momoko ^^

21) Darling I LOVE YOU (Berryz Kobo, C-ute) - I've heard this song too much. But hey, its newer than Massara Blue Jeans and Special Generation.

22) Take off is now! (Takahashi Ai, Nigaki Risa, Tanaka Reina) - Never heard this but I know its gonna be in the new album (or at least I'm pretty sure ^^;) so YAY!

23) Renai Revolution 21 (Morning Musume) - Better than LOVE Machine.

24) Guru Guru JUMP (All) - Another song from the new album, woot.

25) Ame no Furanai Hoshi de wa Aisenai Darou (All) - Finally more LinLin love. She isn't in a single shuffle this concert. And of course I'm happy JunJun is there too <3 And maybe this time more solos for the others?

26) Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~ (All) - This was the first Momusu song I ever heard, so I love it. I haven't seen it in concerts much so yay x3 I'm guessing groups of singers are distinguished by colors?

 

Annnddd thats enough of my two cents.

Just an update: still looking for more Engrish T-shirts T^T

I recently posted the C/C Tracklisting with a very blurry picture of the High King artist photo. I just noticed that there are now higher-quiality versions.

 

So... I have some predictions about High King's debut single. In the picture posted above, you can see that Maeda Yuuka, Yajima Maimi, and Shimizu Saki are wearing similar costumes while Takahashi Ai and Tanaka Reina have somewhat similar costumes. Of course, the costumes are amazingly wonderful and I would totally wear them on the street but they're also really disapointing. Its obvious that Takahashi and Tanaka will have the lead vocals. Yajima might have a few here and there, while Shimizu and Maeda have lines together. I guess this makes sense as Takahashi will be playing Cinderella (no surprise there) while Tanaka plays Joy (step sister). Maybe my worse fears will come true: its a AiReina duet with the other girls as simply background dancers?

Also looking at the outfits, I'm pretty sure that C/C will be either and hip-hop or R&B song. Especially since its being arranged by AKIRA, who arranged many other H!P songs such as INDIGO BLUE LOVE, Anata Nashi de wa Ikite Yukenai, SHALL WE LOVE?, Hajimete no Rock Concert, and many more.

Allllllllsssssooo... in Tsunku's comments he said that he chose the members of each group that excel in singing and dancing (especially hip-hop) and Maeda because she showed the most improvement as a trainee.

If he chose Maeda because she improved the most, will that mean that she gets a solo to show how much she did improve? I hope so...