Konnichiwa! I decided to start an English blog here. I already have a Russian one, so if you know Russian language you could visit it at http://anijournal.livejournal.com the theme of this blog is mostly anime, but for now I post just anything related to Japan plus my own diary-kind posts which could be either related or unrelated to Japan.

Well, for now I will tell you, how I got interested with Hello!Project. First of all I started to watch anime. It wasn’t enough for me and I started to look up information about Japan. Later on I started to listen to Japanese music. Of course then I didn’t know anything about such things as Hello!Online or JPH!P forums and trackers. I just listened everything I came across. One day, I was looking through one of my folders with anime pictures in it and I found an album cover. It was signed Berryz Koubou. I decided to look up this group on the net. I found some videos on youtube and some mp3s on various sites. I listened to it and watched. And it happened so that I’ve become a huge fan of this group. Only couple months ago I started to be more interested not only in my favorite group, but also in other Hello!Project groups. So I still consider myself a newbie who has yet a lot to learn, a lot to watch and a lot to listen to.

I think this concludes my story about how I got interested in H!P. I think it is time to tell you about the theme of this blog. Here I will post English versions of my Russian blog posts which are related to Hello!Project. Also I will post unique things here, but this strongly depends on my inspiration to do this.

You also can find me on Hello!Online under nickname Starz and you can find me on JPH!P under nickname Sazaki Ren.

Awaiting for new readers, and I am grateful for any comments.