July releases

Since there’s not very much going on in H!P area, I’ll post the centralized information on the upcoming releases for your convenience. Special thanks to JPH!P forum and Hello!Online site.

So the closest release is Berryz Koubou & C-ute Nakayoshi Battle Concert Tour 2008 Haru ~Berryz Kamen vs. Cutie Ranger~ dvd – this time it’s “Berryz Tracks” edition. I already explained the difference in one of my previous posts on this concert. This dvd will be released on 16th of July. And the pre-order is already available on yesasia.com – you can click here if you want to pre-order it(if you didn’t do it already).

If you somehow have no opportunity to order it(though I strongly recommend you to – because that way you support your favorite group) – go to Hello!Online tracker and search there(see the link above).

Next upcoming release is Kusumi Koharu’s 5th single under Tsukishima Kirari – It is called “Papan Cake”. Two editions(limited and regular) will be released on 16th of June. Pre-orders both for limited and regular editions are available at yesasia.com

Regular edition(click here for yesasia.com)

Limited edition(click here for yesasia.com)

Also, promotion video is available at Dohhhup! Click here to view it.

Single V dvd for Berryz Koubou single “Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance” will be released on 23rd of July, and it’s also already available for pre-ordering. Click here to go to yesasia.com

Kusumi Koharu’s “Photo Diary” photobook will be released on 25th of July. No cover art is avalable yet, but pre-order is already open at yesasia.com – click here to go there.

C-ute new single “Edo no Temari Uta II” will be released on 30th of July. Covers and some more information are posted here a few posts ago(look for it). Here I will give you links to pre-orders, that are open at yesasia.com

For regular edition – click here.

For limited edition – click here.

By the way. For all of you, who look for Edo no Temari Uta I – there is no such thing. Don’t know why though… We’ll see if some comments will come up.

Also on 30th of July – Single V of Kusumi Koharu’s “Papan Cake” will be released.

Click here to go to yesasia.com for pre-order

Also on 30th of July – a new concert DVD from Morning Musume will be released. This time it’s Concert Tour 2008 Spring – Single Daizenshu. No cover available yet. Pre-order, as always, is open at yesasia.com – click here.

Please note, that these news include only July releases and only the groups I’m interested in… Feel free to add more information on these releases or on any other H!P releases in the comments. Take care!

Berryz Koubou & C-ute Nakayoshi Battle Concert Tour 2008 Spring – Berryz Kamen vs Cutty Ranger

I’ve just watched this concert. I must say that it was great! I’m still under impression of it. I decided to watch on my big screen TV and I wasn’t disapointed at all! It was too great to tell you how great it was. Oh my God… what am I saying… Oh well, as I said I’m still under the impression of it and can’t tell you how was it. Also can’t tell you what was there. Go watch it yourself!! Ikenasai! Too bad that I couldn’t go to the Yokohama Arena to the concert… Too bad I’m not in Japan. These “too bads” came to my mind while I was watching the concert. Though they couldn’t spoil it, it is very sad that these too bads occured to me… Ah well… I hope that we’ll probably see Berryz Koubou and C-ute on some other stage, some other time and some other concert. Because I definetly want to see them together again! And this time, I hope I will be lucky enough to actually go to the concert, and not watch it at home, because no big screen can substitute real live event atmosphere and impression.

For now, I’m waiting for another edition of the concert to be released – the Berryz Tracks edition, it will be released on 16th of June. These two dvd’s(I mean the one I watched – C-ute tracks and Berryz tracks editions) differ in the after concert video. On the C-ute tracks one – there is focus ups to C-ute in songs, where two groups are on stage and also it has footage of the backstage video. Same is for Berryz tracks edition – only that the on stage and backstage videos are focused on Berryz Koubou.

Oh and another too bad came up. Too bad – that I can’t order the dvds – I want them really badly but my postal system is too crapy to order somthing like this. It will take ages to come to me and there’s a possibility that it will be somehow damaged, or worse…

So I am really grateful for those people at the Hello-Online tracker, who made it possible for people, who for some reason can’t order the dvds, to still be able to enjoy the concert! Domo arigato gozaimasu!!!!

Um for those of you who are still thinking whether to buy the dvds or not – buy them immedeately! That is if you are either fan of Berryz Koubou or C-ute. But I think that all fans of Hello!Project should see this, because it’s a one-time experience, because you won’t see anything like this in any other concerts.

Once again, I hope to see Berryz and C-ute together again.

Oh and by the way – they are together off-stage they’re taking part in Berikyuu! Tv-series. That’s for those of you who still know nothing about it. Watch it – you will probably like it.

That’s it for now, check my blog for news and updates on the already present news.

Also I will put some screencaptures from the concert, to tease you up a bit. ^_^

This is an interesting duet – Airi and Risako – if you didn’t watch the concert then what are you waiting for! Watch it! ^_^

Special guest – Buono!

Fujimoto Miki, Berikyuu! or what I’ve been doing today…

Hi everyone! Since there’s no releases of interest to me, today I’ve been watching the videos I’ve downloaded. Because a big bunch of them have downloaded and it took me aprox. 8 hours to watch. But it was great, I had a nice time. Mostly I watched Fujimoto Miki’s tv appearances, because she’s trying to make the top-sales of her album, so she appears on many different events, tv-shows etc. and I try to catch up with these, because recently I liked Mikichi ^_^

After I’ve watched Mikichi’s videos, I watched two weeks of Berikyuu(I download them in a week-batch, that’s more convenient for me than just downloading each episode each day).

Now, I am waiting for 14th week batch, and I watched weeks 12 and 13. Week 12′s first episodes featured “Cooking de Berikyuu!” and once again, C-ute team won, because they had Yajima Maimi and Umeda Erika for their contest and Berryz Koubou had Tokunaga Chinami and Natsuyaki Miyabi for theirs. China-chan and Miya-chan can’t cook at all! Well… they do cook something, but it doesn’t help them to score points! >_< this is not good! Dame!

And in the next episode we see that C-ute team won the series. Berryz Koubou team have to play the “Batsu gemu”(i.e – loser’s game). That’s where the fun begins. At night time, a team from Berryz Koubou, formed from two or three members, has to get into one building, then answer some questions there, then get into another building, answer some questions there and then go up to the second floor of the same building and pass yet another challenge.

First team to take the challenges was Saki and Momoko.

Momo-chan was very scared. It was very cute ^_^ she was holding Saki-chan’s hand tight and Saki-chan was almost draging Momo-chan to the first building. I won’t tell you what the challenges were to encourage you to watch it yourselves. ^_~

The second team was a three person team – it consisted of Risako, Maasa and Chinami. It was in the last episode of the 13th week, so I didn’t get to watch what happened to them after the first challenge. I’m waiting now for the next batch, as I already said.

Also I watched a part of new episode of Haromoni@ but I didn’t have time to watch it till the end, so I don’t have any opinion as for this progam yet, but I can say that I liked it, and probably I’ll start watching it, or even I’ll start watching it from the very first episode, if I find it…

Later on, I watched last episode of Midtown TV Maru Maru Aikora Nama Yaguchi. It is really sad that the programm was closed. Even though I watched only four or five episodes, I kinda got attached to this programm. Because of this, I have started to download it from the first episode. I want to watch it all. ^_^

Still waiting for the concert Berryz Kamen vs Cutie Ranger. By the way Berikyuu! featured some backstage footage in the last three episodes of the 12th week. It was very interesting to watch, and I started to want to watch the concert even more after I’ve watched these footages…

By the way – the blue dresses that we can see on Berryz Koubou at the beginning and pink dresses that are on C-ute are great! Just to let you have a look at them, I’ll post one of photos I have here.

This is my personal favorite photo because it has Risako and Airi on it ^_^

Also, after watching Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance PV again, I somehow started to like it… Ah well… I just like Berryz that much, I like everything they’re involved in, though I must have some time to get adjusted to new things like this.  ^_^

That’s all for now, matta ne! ^^

Berryz Koubou & C-ute – ~Berryz Kamen vs Cutie Ranger~

There was a link on JPH!P on Dohhh UP! video. It was “Darling I Love You” performance from the concert Berryz Kamen vs Cutie Ranger. As I can see, there is two stages, Berryz Kobo on one of them and C-ute on the another one. These stages are connected with a bridge, on which girls from both groups gather at about middle of this video.

I think that this concert will be the best one ever. Can’t wait till the release of the dvd version.

By the way. Two photobooks will be released tomorrow. C-ute and Berryz Koubou – Berryz Kamen vs Cutie Ranger – stage version and live version.

Dvd’s will be released later. The “C-ute tracks” version will be released 8th of July and “Berryz Koubou tracks” version will be released yet later – on 15th of July.

yesasia.com

For now I am listening to mic-rips of Berryz Kamen and Sakura Chirari songs. As I hear, during Sakura Chirari, Chinami is crying. Well at least it sounds like it. Once again, can’t wait any longer! I want to see the concert!

And here’s the video I was talking about at the beginning. Click to watch from Dohhh UP! It has stereo sound and better picture, but for your convenience I will embed youtube video here. Enjoy!