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!

A bit on Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance…

Yesterday my Internet went down and it was repaired only today. So nothing new downloaded, which means I don’t have any new impressions to share… Oh wait… I do have one! Yuke Yuke Monkey dance single is available at Hello!Online tracker. It’s great. And also, I watched the limited edition dvd and it was great too - it features the close-up version of the PV. I was waiting for this version a lot. And when I watched it – I saw that there’s no monkey suits close-ups in this version! Yay! This post will be shorter then the rest here, so sorry… Wait till I watch something new and be patient. ^_^

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 17th Single ~Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance~ my opinion…

Hi everyone! Yes, this theme has already been discussed a lot of times on many different blogs, forums, news etc. But since my blog  was brought into life only yesterday, I think I should post here my own thoughts about the song and the promotion video, that was published by Dohhhup!

Um… Okay first time I watched it, I didn’t like it at all. It was something like a slap in my Berryz Koubou fan face. Then I watched it again and again and again, untill I started to like it. I don’t like the dance itself, I don’t like the monkey suits(Yurina looks horrible in it…) but nevertheless – I liked the first part costumes and I liked the close-up shots (with no monkey suits). Awaiting for the close-up version. I think I will like it more than the original one.

Also, I watched it again, when on JPH!P forum, someone pointed out that at 1:28 Chinami groped Risako. I laughed a bit. Also someone made a supposition, that this PV came out unedited. I don’t think that’s true, even though the PV does have a look of a bit cheapish, it’s just enough for me that the costumes are horrible. Though it looks kinda funny that way. But I don’t like the fact that my favorite group has became a bunch of clowns. Period.

I’m looking forward to their new album, which is supposedly coming out on 10th of September, and which still has no title, or covers. I think that it should be something awesome, to cover up such mistakes as Monkey Dance and “Genghis Khan Onko Chishin Remix” which will be coming out on 27th of August ans which has no interest, for me at least.

Regular edition cover

Limited Edition Cover

And this is the promotion video itself, it’s quality is rather bad, but you can see and hear something ^_^