H!P Winter 2010 Concert, Part 1

Oh yes, it's huge. (The concert that is.) It would've been bigger if YouTube wasn't evil, so unfortunately I can't go through all of the songs. I don't know how many parts there'll be. (And because there's a huge amount to go through, I will try and tone down on the detail for each song.) All of the official Hello Project Kids were there and singing, along with the Hello Project Eggs. Admittedly I haven't watched it all yet, but from what I can see it's centred around the revival of the old groups (You'll see as I go along if you don't know what I mean.) The first part was reasonably awesome. To be honest I wasn't impressed with it first, but it's grown on me. Now I love it XD The first song was called Uwaka na Honey Pie:


The wotas are waving around their glow sticks in anticipation, like they always do.


The wotas are now chanting going hyper over the pretty light and in the anticipation of seeing their favourite idols.


Every single girl that are performing in this are on the stage in the opening. This, would have been a BITCH to choreograph. There's something like 30-50 girls here. Some as young as 11. I feel sorry for the staff had to make sure everyone was dancing correctly and so on XD


There's a lot of Maasa shown, who's definitely enjoying herself. I love it when she smiles (Yes I know the picture is fail, but I'd like to see you get a clear shot! XD)


The dance is simple but awesome. Although I can't say I like the outfits too much...


EPIC Airi hair :D


Yurina's height PWNS all. It's shots like these which make you understand why her nickname is the gentle giant. For fecks sake she's not even standing up straight where Risako (in blue) pretty much is. If my knowledge is correct, Yurina's height was last measured at 5"10 and 1/2. And still growing. Needless to say, she defeats the Japanese stereotype.


Ai is looking very epic. I don't particularly like the outfits, but she pulls it off pretty well.

In case you were wondering where you favourite idol is, I have managed to find out who is in which colour. They're in their revival groups, again, it'll be explained shortly if you don't get it:

Green:
Momoko Tsugunaga (Berryz)
Maasa Sudo (Berryz)
Chinami Tokunaga (Berryz)
Risa Niigaki (Momusu)
Ayaka Wada (S/mileage)
Saki Ogawa (S/mileage)

Red:
Ai Takahashi (Momusu)
Reina Tanaka (Momusu)
Maimi Yajima (C-ute)
Saki Shimizu (Berryz)
Yuuka Maeda (S/mileage)

Dark Blue:
Risako Sugaya (Berryz)
Sayumi Michishige (Momusu)
JunJun [Chun Li] (Momusu)

Light Blue:
Airi Suzuki (C-ute)
Miyabi Natsuyaki (Berryz)
Akari Soho (No idea, sorry. I think she's a Pro Egg...)


Yellow:
Eri Kamei (Momusu)
Yurina Kumai (Berryz)
Aika Mitsui (Momusu)
Chisato Okai

Orange:
LinLin [Qian Lin] (Momusu)
Karin Miyamoto (Pro Egg)
Kanon Fukuda (S/mileage)
Akari Takeuchi (Pro Egg)

Pink:
Mano Erina (Soloist)
Mai Hagiwara (C-ute)
Saki Nakajima (C-ute)

If you were wondering, the best place to watch most of the concert is Rosicky000777's channel on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gq8-N5fmjw <---- There's the link for the first part, Honey Pie. Anyway, MOVING ON!


Ah, member/group introductions. THIS is where I explain the group revivals. (Or at least what I understand of it.) Basically Tsunku (manager of H!P) created tons of shuffle groups with almost or all the girls in H!P were in groups. The point was to see whether he could get better music from a different mix of people. Basically he was experimenting. But all of these groups kinda just died, the last one failing 6 years ago or something. Tsunku decided that he should revive the groups, once again to experiment with sound and so he doesn't just let his groups die. Or whatever. The point is he revived these groups, but now with different members. For each group introduced, I'll show you the old and the new members. Making this post, ridiculously long.


Guardians 4
(Ok, they're a recent group, so they haven't been revived. The members in order from left to right are:)
Saki Nakajima, Risako Sugaya, Aika Mitsui, Yurina Kumai


Buono!
Yeah, another recent group. Members are:
Momoko Tsugunaga, Airi Suzuki, Miyabi Natsuyaki


Shin MiniMoni (Previously MiniMoni)
Old members: Mari Yaguchi, Mika Todd, Ai Kago, Nozomi Tsuji, Ai Takahashi
New members (still left to right, and always will be): Akari Takeuchi, Kanon Fukuda, LinLin, Karin Miyamoto


PetitmoniV (Previously Petitmoni)
Old members: Sayaka Ichii, Kei Yasuda, Maki Goto, Hitomi Yoshizawa, Makoto Ogawa, Ayaka Kimura
New members: Mano Erina, Saki Nakajima, Mai Hagiwara


zoku.v-u-den (Previously v-u-den)
Old members: Rika Ishikawa, Erika Miyoshi, Yui Okada
New members: Risako Sugaya, Sayumi Michishige, JunJun


Tanpopo# (Previously Tanpopo)
Old members: Aya Ishiguro, Kaori Iida, Mari Yaguchi, Ai Kago, Rika Ishikawa, Asami Konno, Risa Niigaki, Ayumi Shibata
New members: Chisato Okai, Eri Kamei, Aika Mitsui, Yurina Kumai


ZYX-a (Previously ZYX)
Old members: Mari Yaguchi, Saki Shimizu, Maimi Yajima, Megumi Murakami, Erika Umeda
New/Current members: Saki Ogawa, Chinami Tokunaga, Risa Niigaki, Momoko Tsugunaga, Maasa Sudo, Ayaka Wada
(I think that order's right, but I'm not sure. I'm not good at telling the difference between Saki Ogawa and Ayaka Wada)


Aa! (Name never changed)
Old member: Reina Tanaka
New/Current members: Miyabi Natsuyaki, Airi Suzuki, Akari Soho


High King (Recent group)
Members: Yuuka Maeda, Reina Tanaka, Ai Takahashi, Maimi Yajima, Saki Shimizu
(Is it me, or is Reina a midget?)

And on the Reina midget realisation, I'll leave it as that. Otherwise this post really will get ridiculously long. Part 2 coming soon! (There may be some spelling mistakes in this, the spellchecker isn't working XD)

H!P Updates/Rumours

Recently there has been a lot of hype over H!P. The main two rumours going round at the moment that there will be auditions for a new C-ute member and Saki is getting her own photobook. Both are currently rumours, but I hope both are true.

Quite frankly, I've never particularly liked C-ute, or at least, their music has never caught my attention. However I have listened to their most recent single 'SHOCK' and Airi has basically become a soloist. I love Airi, I really do. She's very talented and very beautiful. However, she line-whored in this single more than anyone has line-whored before. So I think it would be great for the group if a new member did join, especially one who can rival Airi's talent. Maybe that would mean someone else will get solo lines. (Seriously, Airi was the ONLY 1 out of 5 members that got solo lines..)

And now to Saki. Anyone who knows me will probably know I love Saki Shimizu. She's amazingly talented (Her dance skills are ridiculously awesome) she beautiful, and she can either be adorable or sexy depending on her mood. Either is good for me. :D So I really really REALLY want her to get a photobook. She's the only member in Berryz Koubou who doesn't have one, and she's the captain! She deserves one. Plus, I've yet to see a photobook where the girl in question isn't wearing a bikini for at least 3 photos. Seeing Saki in a bikini would be awesome. Very awesome. And now I'm going to spam this post with tons of Saki pictures to somehow prove that she's awesome. :D




Saki in a maid outfit is NEVER irrelevant. :D



Saki pout x3


Saki in latex is also never irrelevant. (Sorry for the fail quality) But it's these kind of videos that make you wonder about Tsunku (Manager of H!P) He employs children to sing and dance (A lot of the dance moves being sexy, and admittedly most of them are now 16-18 when you think about Berryz but come on! He's 41) and he put them in very revealing or fettishy clothing. Surely he's a pervert...But anyway, I think this video shows just how awesome she is, :D

Here it is on Youtube! It deserves to be faved people! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE8QnA0rI7k


In other news...Maasa's hair is currently looking very very EPIC. She really does need more love. She's awesome!

I am in love with this photo. Maasa looks so beautiful.

There's also a small fear going around at the moment too. That Morning Musume may graduate another member. A lot of this has arisen from Koharu's graduation in December. I don't listen to Morning Musume as much as I listen to Berryz Koubou so I'm less bothered about them. However, if Linlin graduates, I WILL kill somebody, especially as her singing has been getting better and better recently. Also, she's been looking very sexy and mature recently too.


I hope to update alot during the Easter holidays I warn you XD I'm definitely going to do Birthday posts of Airi Suzuki and Hitomi Yoshizawa, espcially as I have the same birthday as them! (All three of us are on the 12th ^.^) (I feel awesome XD) I also hope to blog about D'espairsRay's new single Love is Dead. I've seen and heard the previews, it promises to be awesome. :D I'll also probably do a birthday post for Teru from Versailles-Philharmonic-Quintet. (Think that's how you spell it XD) Look forward to it people!

The Mysterious Mana

*WARNING* This post is kinda picture heavy, although for you fangirls and fanboys out there, you won't be complaining. :D

Some people may know that it's supposedly Mana's birthday soon!I say supposedly because pretty much everyone knows absolutely nothing about him. Which is why the title of this post is 'The Mysterious Mana'. Well...that and it's my fail attempt at awesome alliteration. (That by the way, was another fail attempt.) But anyway, his birthday is suspected to be on March the 19th. I'm writing this post now mainly because his birthday is only suspected to be on the 19th and I plan to finish some of my work and then sleep for the rest of that day. So, the chances of me touching a computer on the 19th is quite small. Anyway, ON WITH THE CELEBRATION!!

Mana is mainly known for his role as the leader in Malice Mizer, a figurehead in Gothic Lolita fashion and his current project Moi dix Mois. Or, in other words, EPIC radiates from him.



Mana, playing in a playground...HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE HIM! Adorableness :3

I gotta say, I've never been a huge fan of Malice Mizer, but I really do love Illuminati. It's very awesome. However the actual PV is somewhat explicit and very fast moving so I'm not going to bother capping the video. So, I'm capping a live instead! (Although I do warn you, it'll be centered around Mana and Gackt, seeing as they are the only people I really know from Malice Mizer, I haven't learnt who's who yet ^^;)


Regardless of how crap it looks due to my fail skills, the live starts off with strange but somewhat awesome lighting effects. It make you anticipate the video more, so it does a good job as an intro.


The longer the lighting effects and intro goes on the more people the better we see the people. Including Mana in the stylish blonde wig (which admittedly looks orange under the light)


The main bit of the song starts off, and all of the light go red, which is pretty awesome. Then you notice that the Malice Mizer members are in fact wearing either tight latex or someother sort of sexual clothing.This means seeing Mana and Gackt wearing tight latex...


Yeah...ANYWAY, back to the video!


Yeah, picture says it all...



Gackt starts molesting Mana, and Mana clearly doesn't care. This is an interesting development...TIME FOR INTERESTING MATHS!
Ok, So, Molested and Unbothered Mana + Mana in tight latex + Mana with a whip = Mana is a sex slave? Just a thought.


OMG Gackt. DO WANT. I would've done the whole 'DO WANT' text on this picture too if it wasn't for the fact that I don't want to cover up any part of this picture. Especially the bottom half. As you can see, VERY tight latex hot pants with incredibly sexy legs. Epic Win, no?



As you can see, Mana's having fun playing dominatrix.


It would appear that Gackt and Kami (The drummer, I think ^^;) Are the only ones without sex slaves. I can't help but wonder whether they were bothered by this or not. XD


I love Gackt's eye makeup :3


*strutting across stage*


*watches Mana* "Ooh, he's strutting again. Those legs, Kami-sama, those legs!"
Sorry...I'm just a perverted fangirl XD Although if I was Gackt that WOULD be what I would be thinking. XD

Although I couldn't get a proper screenshot of the drummer (Who's name I think is Kami) his hair is truly epic. The way he drums means his hair kinda flips everywhere. Tis awesome :D


*ahem* TIGHT LATEX SHORTS. Oh how I love those shorts. :D


Mana: *sexy dancing*
Me: *Nosebleed*


GACKT LEGS! XD I'm sorry, this post is supposed to be devoted to Mana yet I can't stop looking at the tight shorts and sexy legs Gackt is in possesion of.


Mana: Biatch! Get up already!


Full on fanservice! Gackt seems to be very uke in this situation. Being 'serviced' shall we say by unknown guitarist #1 (It might be Kozi, But I really don't know ^^;) and Mana. I'm very jealous XD


Mana: Ah, such a great view >D
Me: D< I want that view!


It's an instrumental part of the song so they're all kind of jut calmly walking around, probably to their next stage position, only to the strnage beat of the song. Meanwhile, the lighting is being awesome. :D


Gackt is busy singing while stradling what appears to be a speaker...who wants to be that speaker? I know I do.


Mana's pwning on the guitar, and we get treated to sexy legs for about 2 seconds. Not satisfactory, but I still get sexy Mana legs. I'm happy.


HOLY CHRIST. Gackt AND Mana? *Fangirl overload* XD


Mana pwning again, and more sexy legs :D However the lighting is starting to annoy me as Mana's hair/wig seems to blend into the background...The quality of this video really annoys me too. But I can't do anything about either problems. Oh well! Here's the video:



And if that wasn't enough proof of that Mana is awesome (And Gackt XD) I have a random collection of epic photos! XD


I don't tend to use the term kawaii very often, but this photo deserves it!
かわいい!


かわいい!!!!


かわいい!!!! I really do have I strange idea of what's cute. But those 3 photos just make me wanna hug him x3


Of course, Mana can be sexy too :D I love this photo. I especially love the way he's looking at the camera.

Anyway, I think I've spammed for long enough. So I'll just finish with this:

HOORAY FOR MANA!