Hello! It’s time for news batch. And first news here – on official C-ute discography at up-front-works.jp a small sneak-peak of covers for C-ute new single ‘Forever Love’ have been posted. And I think I’ll put them here, though the picture is very small, but you can get the idea of it.
Top left is limited edition and bottom right is regular edition. As you can see – this time it’s something new. Costumes now are not just simple tops-and-skirts we usually saw(that’s excluding Koero! Rakuten Eagles special release) – now it’s black jackets and trousers, with white shirts and black neckties to topple this all off. Overall – these are great. I like this new style, but I’d like to see PV costumes and these covers a bit larger to judge whether I like them a lot or not(though I like them all – but some I like a lot and some I just like – that’s all the difference there…), but this will come a bit later.
On to next news. Kamei Eri photobook has been announced it will be released on 23rd of December(which is her birthday date). And also DVD for this photobook which has temporary name ’20 Dreams‘ will be released on 14th of January 2009. Nothing else is available at this moment.
Also – Alo-Hello! DVD vol.3 has been announced with Morning Musume in it. It will be released on 24th of December.
Hello! Somehow I missed this one out – but I’ve found a full radio-preview of it. And I think I’ll share it with you. It’s posted on youtube – it’s not a pv, just a static image with a song attached. So please listen to it.
And this is yet another song I like – it’s a great November really. With three marvelous songs from three of my favourite units(Berryz Koubou, C-ute and Buono!). I’m really looking forward to it. This single is to be released on 26th of November. As soon as the PV comes out – I’ll post it up here.
Hello! As usual – three-four days and I post. Ah well…
Anyways some news arrived – first of all – Covers are now available for Berryz Koubou new single, which is to be released on 5th of November. This covers are pretty good, but nothing outstanding – simple, yet attractive.
This possibly will be next artist profile picture at H!P official site.
And now on to covers – regular edition(preorder it here, here or here)
As I said – these covers look good, though they are pretty simple. I do like them more than 5(FIVE) album covers.
And next on – Buono! new single “Lotta’ Love Lotta’ Love” now has it’s own commercial. It’s been uploaded on youtube by someone and I’ll embed it here.
You can see covers at the end of it, they look interesting. And here we can see that Buono! changed it’s style to something different – now it’s plain dresses with white dots and cute hair bands. I can’t say anything more judging from the commercial – but the dance probably will be interesting.
I remind you that this single is to be released on 12th of November.
Hello! I’ve been somewhat busy and also I’ve been waiting for a lot of news to come. And so there is already a lot of news and I think I will share them with you.
Today, on 4th of October – C-ute’s new DVD magazine was released. It’s volume 7 and I’m really looking forward to it, because I enjoyed the last one.
You may already now this, but on 11th of OctoberHello!Project Calendars for 2009 will be released. These include Berryz Koubou calendar, C-ute calendar, Natsumi Abe, Morning Musume and Matsura Aya. These are available for pre-order at different places, and I will give you links to HMV so you can pre-order them there if you wish.
Matsura Aya 2009 Calendar – here.(it’s already released)
Mano Erina’s second single is to be released today. It’s called “Lucky All Right ~Sorette Ureshii desu~” but unfortunately it’s an Indie single and so it will be released at fan events – so no oversees shipments… You can see its cover though…
Long awaited by me DVD “Hello!Project 2008 Summer Wonderful Hearts Koen – Hishochi de Date Itashima Show”(yes, long title as usual XD) will be released on 22nd of October. Preorder is available here(yesasia.com).
Second single of MilkyWay will be released on 29th of October. Both limited and regular editions are available for preorder.
If you want to preorder regular – click here.(yesasia.com)
But that’s not all. This winter will be full of releases – and I really think that later there’s even more announces to come.
Berryz Koubou 18th single is to be released on 5th of November. It’s title has been already announced and it’s “Madayade” which is supposedly Kansai-ben(dialect) word standing for “Not yet”(thanks to Ayabiefor pointing this out).
On 12th of November we will see two releases at once. First is DVD with concert footage from C-ute’s concert “Wasuretakunai Natsu” and second is Buono’s new single – “Lotta’ Love Lotta’ Love”
As for Buono single it’s an ending theme for new season of Shugo Chara, which is called “Shugo Chara Dokii” first episode of it was aired today, at 9:33(Japan time) and so there we could already hear both – new single of new unit “Shugo Chara Egg” and new single from Buono!
It has already been posted at youtube, so you can see and hear it. As always, I’ll embed it here.
Shugo Chara Dokii opening
Shugo Chara Dokii ending
I really enjoyed these both – I hope you will enjoy them too. I’m looking forward to the releases.
May I remind you that Shugo Chara Egg’s new single will be released on 10th of December.
But let’s get back a bit to 21st of November. Tsugunaga Momoko’s new photobook(which still has no title…) is to be released at this time.
Later on – 26th of November, only recently announced C-ute’s new single is to come. No more information available at this time…
Also on 26th of November – cover album from Morning Musume will be released. It’s titled “Cover You”
DVD with Morning Musume’s musical collaboration with Takarazuka “Cinderella the Musical” will be released on 3rd of December. You can preorder it on cdjapan.co.jp
As I’ve said earlier – 10th of December is the release date for Minna no Tamago – Shugo Chara Egg’s debut single.
Concert DVD with Berryz Koubou concert “Berikore” will be released on 17th of December.
And also on 17th of December - new Kusumi Koharu’s album is to be released.
That’s almost all news for today. Though I probably missed something – but it’s either too far away, or somehow slept past me. As soon as something new comes by – I’ll post it here immediately.
Hello! I’ve been away for a bit and now I have some news to share. First of all – you may already know that Berryz Koubou new single is to be released on 5th of November. You may also know that its first supposed title was “Sakura” but we now know that its real title will be “Madayade”There’s no more information on this since it’s pretty far away for now.
Next news – there’s already a full PV version of MilkyWay’s Tan Tan Taan. It was made available at Dohhh UP! You can click – here and watch it from Dohhh UP! But if you prefer youtube more – I’ll embed it here for your convenience.
As I’ve said – I like this song and I like this PV, though they are less catchy than MilkyWay’s previous single, but it’s great nevertheless.
Tsugunaga Momoko‘s yet untitled photobook has been announced a while ago. No new information available. There will be two releases – photobook+dvd making of(on 21 of November) and a separate dvd(on 3rd of December).
Hello! New article about Morning Musume and their upcoming single “Pepper Keibu” has been released today on Sanspo. This time – it has some quotes from Takahashi Ai. I’ve translated it, so you can read it too.
Momusume. Takahashi Ai “Pepper Keibu is something you should dance to with your family”
9.22.2008 17:45
Takahashi Ai, leader of Morning Musume,
who covered Pink Lady’s
mega-successful song “Pepper Keibu”.
Morning Musume covered a big hit song from Pink Lady “Pepper Keibu”(Pepper Police Inspector). And this cover single will be released on 24th of September. “The arrangement of the dance is left as it was in the original, so I want you to dance to this song together with your families.” – says Takahashi Ai(22) leader of Morning Musume.
Takahashi Ai, as well as other Hello!Prohject members appeared in a dorama called “Hit Maker Aku Yuu Monogatari” so that became the cause for this new single. “It was the song, which everybody knows, so I was very glad, when it was decided to make a cover of it” – Says Takahashi smiling.
Takahashi’s mother was a big fan of Pink Lady back when they were popular. “Even now children and parents dance to this song, when they see videos of those days.” A bit later, in November, another cover of Aku Yuu’s song will be released. This time Takahashi Ai will sing “Izakaya”(Tavern) together with Hiroshi Itsuki.
And that’s all of the article. The most interesting point of the article are news that Ai-chan will sing yet another song by Aku Yuu – “Izakaya”. And it will be a duet with Hiroshi Itsuki. Now I’m looking forward to this, as well as the release of “Pepper Keibu.”
Hello! I’ve been away for a bit and we already have some news, regarding postponing of Berryz Koubou new single and Abe Natsumi’s single. This is something unpredictable, but at the same time I can’t understand why Berryz’s single was postponed – because it could’ve been released at the same time as AKB’s one(I already talked about this) and now it will probably have to deal with more serious rivalries(which are even can’t be considered as such…). But anyways – we have what we have.
And now to some details. Abe Natsumi’s single was to be released on 15th of October and it has been moved to 3rd of December. Single V was also moved – from 29th of October to 17th of December.
Berryz Koubou single was to be released on 22nd of October and now it’s 5th of november. Single V was moved too – it was to be released on 5th of November and now it is to be released on 19th of November.
These singles are yet untitled. Credits for the information go to tinyfrom JPH!P forum for Abe Natsumi’s single and to KrO.Chan~also from JPH!P forum for Berryz Koubou single.
Hello! I decided to write up some news on this. So the name of this single is “TANTANTAAN” which is even more odd than Koharu’s “Papancake”. There is already a little sneak-peek at costumes, that MilkyWay are going to be wearing for this.
Special thanks go to hanabifrom JPH!P forum. This picture is rather small, but you can see the costumes perfectly. I must say that I kinda like these costumes a bit more than previous MilkyWay ones. But it’s only picture – let’s see what they will be like in PV.
The single is coming out on 29th of October, so It’s a bit long wait – but in between we still have a lot of interesting releases to keep us busy for some time.
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 October2nd 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.
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.
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 Ayabiefrom JPH!P forum. There’s also a picture of a leaflet with this news(posted by Ayabiefrom JPH!P forum) so I’ll put it here too.
But that’s not all yet. Some more news!
jompuanfrom 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).
