Michishige Sayumi’s 20th Birthday

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.

Michishige Sayumi 5th PB – Love Letter and Love Story Sayu Guam DVD update

Hello! Only one day till release of the photobook and our fellow Japanese fans have already managed somehow to get their hands on the photobook itself and dvd making of… I’ll post some pictures here, because I can’t but share the greatness of Sayumi. She really grew up even more pretty than she was. Of course I already saw the pictures I’m going to share and I must say that my being skeptical that was there when I first saw small preview of the cover. I was like “Okay, another photobook that starts off with a bikini shot…” But now I see that I was completely wrong. I already looking forward to the release of the photobook. And Sayu has just climbed three or four positions in my personal rating(even though I equally like all of C-ute, Berryz Koubou and Morning Musume – there exists some kind of a rating in my head XD).

Anyways – as I promised – here’s the pictures. And thanks to people who shared them.

There’s also some screencaps from dvd making of – but I think I won’t put all of them here, because there’s too many. I will only put some good ones.

As you can see now – these look really promising. Personally, I can’t wait for it! Sayumi is perfect as usual plus she got even better(like I’ve already said).

Thanks for your time.

News and updates

Hello! There’s some news that I’d like to share. First things first – Sayumi’s photobook now has official cover.

Sayumi is great here – but I don’t like the concept of bikini-shot on cover – I’d rather see something more interesting and intriguing. But I never judge anything by its cover – so I’ll see what the book itself turns out to be. And it’s going to be released on 26th of September – so it’s not that long wait.

Next – if you remember – I already posted here news regarding formation of new unit for Shugo Chara. We already know who are the members, what the unit is called and even what their first single is called, as well as when it’s going to be released.

So the unit is called Shugo Chara Egg. It consists of Hello!Pro Eggs – Fukuda Kanon, Wada Ayaka, Saho Akari, Maeda Yuuka.

This is a comparison picture – so left to right – Saho Akari, Wada Ayaka, Maeda Yuuka, Fukuda Kanon.

There’s also a lot of other pictures but you can go either to JPH!P forum to get them or to Shugo Chara Egg.com and get them yourselves.

Their debut single is called Minna no Tamago and it will be released on 10th of December.

Now what I think about this unit – before I start to listen them – the unit is pretty good – even though I’m not H!P Egg fan – I like it from the very beginning. I also like the outfits – though they are very different from Buono!’s one. But this unit is more closely related to the anime, as far as I know, than Buono!

And also – regarding Buono! – it will not be disbanded any soon, that’s as far as I see.

I will put some photos after all – these are from Sanspo.com article about Shugo Chara Egg debut live. I will probably translate it later.

But that’s not all the news. One more thing left. You probably know that audition in Taiwan “Hello!Project New Star” was held by Hello!Project. It was held – because now it is over and the winners are announced. Both on Hello!Project Chinese Official Site and in Tsunku’s blog – an information regarding this has been posted. For now I’ll post up photo from the event and member photos, you can also see them here(hello-project.com.tw) and here(Tsunku blog) – but I’ll post them up here for your convenience.

Zao Guo Rong(16) – Zeng De Ping (17) – Wu Si Auan(20)

Gu Yun(12) – Wu Zhao Xian – Lan Ai Zi

I didn’t follow these auditions – just because I wasn’t that interested in them, but since it’s H!P related – I’ve posted them here. As far as I’ve read – they will probably take training in Japan and then return to Taiwan to make a debut single or something – so they are basically an addition to main H!P as H!P China.

I think that for now these are all news.

Thanks for your time.

September Updates

Hello! It’s time for some updates. Because for the last five days there has been some new releases as well as updates to upcoming ones.

Buono! – Gachinko de Ikou! Single V was released and is being sold here(this link leads to CDJapan – buy and you can support your favorite group).

And if you somehow don’t want or can’t order from CDJapan – click here to go to Yesasia.com order page.

It is also available at Hello!Online tracker – so if you didn’t go there yet – you can do it now – it’s worth the try I think(though remember – that this way you don’t support your favorite group).

Title for both Sayumi’s new photobook and dvd have been announced in one of her radio shows(Konya mo Usa Chan Peace). The photobook is titled “Love Letter” and it will be released on 26th of September. And Guam DVD is titled “Love Story” and it will be released on 1st of October. No more previews came out yet though.

On 29th of October 2nd single of one-shot unit Milky Way will be released. For now there’s no more information except this release date.

Morning Musume’s 37th single will be released on 24th of September and still there is no information about it.

That’s all the news for now. If I missed something – I’m sorry – that’s because new term in my university has started and I’m getting a bit tired… But I’ll keep up with the news as best as I can. Thanks for your time.

Some News

Hello! Time for some news update.

There’s some Berryz Koubou ~5(FIVE)~ album track previews leaked to the net – you can check them, but you will have to find them yourselves – because I don’t give links to such stuff here. I’ve already listened to these. I must say that the eccentric remix of special generation is crappy,  – but when the album will be released – I will listen to this track properly. My first opinion is that I don’t like it – this remix is really of bad quality – bits and parts of Special Generation are mixed with some guitar riffs – and altogether it doesn’t end up to sound pretty well.

The second track I’ve listened to is 2nd track in the album -  Kono yubi tomare! and it’s performed by Tsugunaga Momoko, Tokunaga Chinami and Sudou Maasa. I must say that I like that track a lot more than the remix. Though the total quality of both previews is bad – because it has low bit-rate and it’s recorded of the radio… But I doesn’t matter that much – at least I’ve managed to listen to them.

May I remind you that the album is to be released on 10th of September and if you like it – buy it. You can preorder it at CDJapan.co.jp – that way, you will help the album to gain higher positions in Oricon Charts. Since orders from yesasia.com are not taken into consideration by Oricon. But you can preorder wherever it is convenient for you. Though somehow – yesasia.com don’t have yet neither title nor cover of the album… So click here – and it will get you to all listed Berryz Koubou releases at yesasia.com – for you to be able to choose something…

And if you’d like to help Berryz Koubou new album to gain some more sales at Oricon.co.jp – I recommend you to pre-order the album at cdjapan.co.jp

So click here – for the limited edition version of the album.

And here – if you’d like regular edition.

But that’s not all the news we have at hand. There’s more.

New unit has been announced for opening of Shugo Chara anime during October. And it’s going to be made of Hello!Pro Eggs members. I’m looking forward to this. Though who will be in the unit is not yet announced – we will know this a bit later. There’s some rumored lineups – but I don’t usually post rumors, so I won’t do it now. I will post the official line-up as soon as it is announced.  I found these news thanks to Ayabie from JPH!P forum. There’s also a picture of a leaflet with this news(posted by Ayabie from JPH!P forum) so I’ll put it here too.

But that’s not all yet. Some more news!

jompuan from JPH!P forum has posted information on new Tanaka Reina’s photobook! Now this is something I’ve been waiting! Because I like Reina’s photobooks a lot. And I really like Reina – so these news are great! Anyways – the photobook is to be released on 24th of October. No more info is available but you can check wanibooks site from time to time.

Also – maybe I’ve already told you – Michishige Sayumi’s photobook is also yet to come on 26th of September. And thanks to hanabi‘s post in Sayumi’s picture thread on JPH!P we now have two low-res and gray-scale previews of this photobook.

These look promising(especially the cover one – I just happen to like this kind of Sayumi).

Some more news(this news reel will be pretty long – because there’s been news I didn’t tell you and there’s been some more fresh news).

New Buono!’s single has been announced – it will be released on 12th of November. No more info’s available yet – since it’s November release.

And yet another single release. This time it’s 18th Berryz Koubou single. The title is yet to be determined and it will be released on 22nd of October. Now that’s an interesting release – because this single is being released at the same day exactly as the release of AKB48′s new single – so we might see some competition here – and competition activates wota from both sides – so we just may see some sales boosts on this Berryz single. Personally – I’m not a fan of AKB48, so I’m expecting Berryz to beat AKB48 in sales real good. Though it’s my personal wish – and I do respect wishes of AKB48 fans – so as long as this competition boosts up sales my favorite group’s single – I’d be happy anyway.

And these are all news for now. If something new comes up – I’ll post it right away.

Thanks for your time(and patience – because this post happened to be the longest post in my blog).

Michishige Sayumi’s 19th birthday!!!!

It’s already 13th of July. And this means that my top-favorite Saymi is already 19!!! I wish her all the best! I wish her happy birthday! And I wish her more to get more lines in Morning Musume or even some solo singles ^_^

Yay for her highness Sayu-sama!

Yay! Angel Sayu-chan! ^_^

YAY SAYUMI!!! HAPPY BITHDAY!!!