Hello! It somehow turned into a tradition of a kind, that I congratulate girls from Momusume, Berryz Koubou and C-ute with their birthdays and of course I won’t break this tradition – though a bit late(Internet issues) I still want to congratulate Niigaki Risa with her 21st birthday! Somehow time speeds away at a high pace and I thought that only yesterday Risa turned 20 but look – now she’s 21 already! Such age can’t be really considered to be in some way a step forward to something(like ages 15, 20, 25 etc. are) but still, Risa gradually continues to mature into a beautiful girl(not that she wasn’t beautiful before, but beauty is said to refine with age) and a great performer. As we all know – she’s the sub-leader, so this requires some efforts and builds up some obstacles(either easy or difficult to overcome). So I want to wish her to continue doing her job as the sub-leader of Momusume as well as she is doing it and I want to wish her good luck with it. Also I want to wish her good health, especially considering the striking news about 5 out of 7 Berryz Koubou members being ill with influenza(thankfully not that new and hardly treatable H1N1 type) and with other celebrities getting sick here and there(like AKB48 members and some others). And of course I want to wish her just to be happy with what she does, to be happy everyday and so that nothing hurts her feelings and makes her feel down.

Happy 21st Birthday, Risa-chan！

お誕生日おめでとう、りさちゃん！

As usual a beautiful picture to brighten the post up.

Hello! It’s been a while since I posted here, but once again it’s time to congratulate yet another H!P girl with her birthday. And this time it’s Takahashi Ai’s birthday!!

Today, on 13th of September, she turns 23. That makes her a year older than me, but that’s not important. I want to congratulate her with her birthday. I wish her a happy birthday, full of presents, smiles and fun. I wish her to stay as pretty as she is now and I wish her success in her life and career.

Happy birthday, Ai-chan!

お誕生日おめでとう、愛ちゃん！

Thanks for your time.

Hello! I think most of you already know about this, but hey – I just can’t miss an opportunity to picspam a bit – because Kumai is really gorgeous in this CM! And for those of you who missed this, Kumai Yurina was featured in Base Ball Bear’s new album CM, that is aired starting from Friday on Japanese TV channels. And if you missed the CM, you can watch it on youtube. I’ll stick it here to this post, but if it stops working – then just try to look for it.

(Thanks to the original uploader)

And like I said – I want to picspam a bit(these are my favorite moments of the 30sec CM), so here goes…

Well, yeah – only four pictures can’t be really considered to be a picspam, but hey – the CMs only 30 seconds long.

Thanks for your time.

Hello! Long time no see – I’ve been cramming for JLPT with some of my issues to solve and some of my laziness coming out(it’s summer holidays after all). But anyways – I just can’t miss yet another birthday! I was a bit busy – so I post the congratulations by my local time(it’s 12 am here now).

So today, on 25th of August Miyabi turns 17 – she grows up and becomes more and more beautiful, so I wish her to keep that up and be as beautiful as always. Also I wish her birthday to be the happiest day ever, because she deserves it. And I wish her lots of presents, smiles, a big cake – and lots of fun with her friends!

Happy 17th Birthday Miyabi-chan!

お誕生日おめでとう、みやびちゃん！

And as usual – a very pretty photo to accompany the post. That’s Miyabi in Kiss!x3 outfit.
Thanks for your time.

And despite the sad news – there’s yet another birthday to celebrate! Kumai Yurina turns 16 on 3rd of August. As usual – this post is earlier, but that’s because it’s posted by Japanese time and not by my local time.

Anyways I wish Yurina-chan a happy birthday, lots of presents, lots of friends’ smiles and happiness on her birthday. I wish her good health and good luck with whatever she does.

Happy Birthday, Yurina-chan!

お誕生日おめでとう、ゆりなちゃん！

Thanks for your time.

Hello. Once again – yesterday Hello!Project Official Site has announced yet another “greeeeat” news. Umeda Erika is to permanently leave ℃-ute and Hello!Project on 25th of October. Okay… I’m really frustrated right now, so I can’t really think logically right now.

Anyways – she said she wants to become a model. And I thought that Kanna will be the only one to leave ℃-ute, well I guess I was wrong. Who’s next? Chisato? Nakki? I hope they won’t consider disbanding the group, however 5nin ℃-ute is nothing, compared to what they were.

So there won’t be no more Tenshon Ageko and Tenshon Sageko(whoever watches ℃-ute concerts – and I’m sure you do if you’re reading this – would know what I’m talking about) – like I said – I wasn’t really a huge fan of Kanna back there, but her sudden(well… it wasn’t that of a sudden – but still…) graduation-less disappearance from Hello!Project did make me really sad and frustrated. But it was different with Erika! I liked her!! And now ℃-ute consists only of who? That’s not mentioning the fact, that usually it was only Maimi and Airi singing. Okay – I’m a fan of both of them, but still…

Well come to think of it – there’s probably nothing to be really frustrated about. If no scandals or something like that involved in this – Erika would probably be doing what she wants and at least this makes me happy for her. If that’s the case – then I really wish her luck in model business – especially since it’s in a no way easier than idol life. Anyhow – I’ll always remember Erika in ℃-ute and I hope we will still be able to see and hear her when she will become a model. I will miss her.

Oh and by the way – she will be graduating on the last day of ℃-ute tour, so at least she will get a graduation ceremony.

And last but not least – as of today, by Japanese time – Tsunku♂-san has posted a message in his blog and I’ll translate it for your convenience(though probably there will be nothing new said).

As was announced the other day, ℃-ute’s Umeda Erika will be graduating from ℃-ute and Hello!Project at the ℃-ute’s Autumn Tour.
Umeda started to be interested in the model’s work some time ago.
It wasn’t something that she told all of a sudden, the conversation about turning herself to becoming a model was already held some time ago.
She decided to make this tour to be the last one, before she faces another dream of hers, and from now on I think she should be in somehow or other ways to be warmly supported by all of us.

In any case, let’s all make this last tour, which will be on the first page* of her youth, the greatest tour of all for Umeda!!

Tour will start on 15th of August at Tokyo Kousei Nenkin Kaikan and will be held at 10 other places, 26 public perfomances total, country-wide.

(*Under first page he meant idol life – the second page would be model life I guess).

And just like Tsunku♂-san said, let’s continue to support her!

Good bye, Erika. And good luck!

えりかちゃん、さようなら。これからも、頑張って下さい！！

P.s. Even though I said good bye, we will still be  able to enjoy seeing her up until October – that’s two months from now. I hope there will be lot of opportunities to see her until then.

Thanks for your time.

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Hello! Now that was fast – Koharu’s birthday is pretty close to Sayumi’s, ain’t it? Anyways it’s 12 am in Japan, which means – birthday time! I’m not really a big fan of Koharu, but this doesn’t mean I won’t be congratulating her.

So I wish her a happy birthday, lots of presents and to have fun with friends(and probably group members). And I also wish her good health, success and happiness.

Happy birthday Koharu-chan!

お誕生日おめでとう、こはるちゃん！

Thanks for your time.

Update: Actually it’s Koharu’s 17th birthday not 16th – somehow I made a typo there. Thanks Takos for noticing! I’m really sorry for this.

Hello! Once again – the time has come to celebrate yet another birthday. Today(that is tomorrow by my local time, but today by Japanese time) Michishige Sayumi turns 20! As you may know – 20 is the age of majority in Japan, thus when one reaches his 20-ies he\she is considered to be a full member of society, with all the rights and responsibilities applied.

So I wish Sayumi to overcome the new difficulties which may arise, I wish her good health, happiness and success.

Happy Birthday Sayumi-chan!

お誕生日おめでとう、さゆみちゃん!

Thanks for your time.

Hello! This post will be really sad, as today(well technically yesterday if you count Japanese Time Zone) Hello-Project official site has announced, that Arihara Kanna decided to come back to normal girl’s life and thus she leaves ℃-ute and Hello!Project as well – without any Graduation Concert or anything like this.

As you may know – since February she was absent from all the ℃-ute activities, due to bunion deformity. I think many fans went out to Wikipedia or any other encyclopedia to look this up(or someone already knew what was this – I know I didn’t) and they could see that the operation required to fix this is not very difficult and doesn’t give any further consequences as well as the rehab time is pretty short. But since February up until now – Kanna didn’t appear. We all waited, some of us lost hope of her ever returning. But as of today, all our hopes fell down, shot by the official statement – Kanna will be no more.

I really have mixed feelings about this. Yes, I will miss Kanna in ℃-ute, I will really miss her voice, her  character. And I think that ℃-ute lost a great member. But if that’s really what Kanna wants, they who am I to make her change her mind(let’s pretend that we could) – I completely understand her wish to be just normal. Because however you think it’s cool – idol life is really cruel, full of sad moments and unpleasant surprises. After all – it’s a full-scale and really hard work. So I understand why one could wish to just stop it all at once and be normal human being, with human being’s problems and happy moments.

So how ever I would miss Kanna – I want – from the very depth of my heart – wish her luck with her normal life, I wish her to be happy as she probably would be in her normal life and I hope that this is what she really wanted.

I don’t want to mention any rumours that circled around back there, when one of the magazines published Kanna’s photos with a boy(which being as a H!P member is not permitted) – which sparkled up again(if they ever stopped). I just don’t want to add fuel to this rumour fire. Whatever the rumours are – Kanna now has a right to do what she wants and to be with whomever she wants.

Thanks for what you have been for us Kanna. Good bye  and Good Luck!

Hello! Somehow I missed that out… I hope Maasa’s fans will forgive me, as well as Maasa. Anyways – I congratulate her with her 17th birthday, I wish her good health, happiness and success!

Happy 17th birthday Maasa-chan!!!

お誕生日おめでとうまあさちゃん!!!

Thanks for your time.