J-Daydreaming

A verdade é que eu sou alguém que não perdoa facilmente as coisas, por isso eu não pude deixar de comentar o último clipe de uma dupla. Uma introdução antes. Essa dupla é de dois "atores" contratados para serem dubladores e pessoas em carne viva de uma dupla de cantores famosos de um anime. Ou seja, o cachê é baixo e etc.

mas eu realmente achava que qualquer um, dada uma chance, poderia ser membro de boyband. Digo, é só você fazer uma pose. Os garotinhos do Johnny's Juniors provavam essa minha teoria. Mas............. eu realmente estava enganada... Desde o primeiro clipe, essa dupla, o SHIPS, conseguiu estraçalhar com tudo o que eu falava de boy bands. Me fez ter um repseito novo e muito forte pelos garotinhos do Johnny's também.

Antes de ver mos o clipe, eu tirei uns screenshots. Pois a única forma de aproveitarmos o lixo (e olha que as cenas são boas, deu pra ver que puseram algum dinheiro apesar de o primeiro single haver vendido menos que mil cópias O.O), é pensarmos que os dois se amam. Sim. Esse é um clipe puro shounen-ai.
( Collapse )Clipe de Kimi ga Iru:


Agora um clipe mais hardcore para os fãs xDDD TOKYO FRIEND☆SHIPS

I was watching Matsuura Aya's latest concert, her only in 2008, and I was thinking of how she must feel. All in all, it seems that it was mostly her decision to go all mika nakashima (i mean, normal mika, not that nana mika ^^;), but at the same time she sold so little in her Kizuna single... It went really bad. Her album too and her comeback single too! Aya has been practically put in her place, with the elders.

So, that concert was in a really small venue. But it was full, or so it seemed. Not that it wouldn't be, wotas are crazy about ayaya and they go to like three concerts a day. But what was different about it was the energy. As japanese call it, the tension - do don ga don. XD

I actually haven't watched a single concert of Aya before and I'm sure her 2003 ones were way more than this, the golden days.... Or even more the 2002. Anyway, I was quite surprised and also seemed to be Aya. The crowd was like crazy during doki doki love mail it was really something. I'm always saying how the wotas are a show apart, and I can imagine comic scenes where the artist goes on stage and the wotas are like just watching silently. I'm sure most of the fun in watching haropuro things comes from them, a concert without them is..... nothing @_@ But a concert where they seem to be watching the Golden Era members DURING the golden era is just something amazing. And Aya The Witch is just like that in a small venue. (I've seen Nacchi's graduation and know how it is in a really big one, it's amazing!)

Now, forgetting about the concert, it's strange how ayaya is like the last resort in h!p. She was always something made for tsunku and not by him, since the beginning she brings in her self confidence, which we used to only see in Maki Goto, allied to something Maki doesn't have: a sweet charisma. Maki was always scary, and little maki is even more (Reina, I mean). I'm saying the true thing, think of the elements of each of the greatest ones in H!P:

Nacchi: she's sweet, she's popular, she is charismatic.
Maki: she's popular, she's got a great talent and a strong personality;
Mari: somewhat popular, charismatic;
Ai Takahashi: ....... bets voice in momusu? xD Well, she's go something like a charisma...
Ai Kago: charismatic, funny, popular;
Miki Fujimoto: strong personality, and a good voice;
Ayaya: sweet, charismatic, popular, has a strong personality and is a natural;

Of course, the three greatest are Maki, Nacchi and Aya, and I can't stop thinking of how aya seems like a combination of the two others... And because nacchi was already 20+ when she got solo and Maki was so scary, Aya was the one faired best in the sweet teenager role. (Tsunku even tried with Maki and Miki but they have that killer gaze that............. ahahahaha xDD)

i miss those times... Now Aya says she wants to be a woman, since she saw herself on tv in 2004, she decided she wanted to be a real performer............. ARGH! I want my Ayaya back..... At least I could see a litle of her during the concert,right in the middle of so many boring songs from Double Rainbow album (and some from Naked Songs).

Now, back to the concert xD

I started watching a 2005 hello pro concert. The only absence I actually felt was Mari's, mainly in One for All (...) when it was 2nd gen time to sing and Kei's voice resounded. Mari WAS there but just MC'ing because it was too close to her scandal with Shun Oguri.

Anyway, that was the concert where the 2005 shuffles (the last ones so far) were presented and now that i know about Sexy Otonajan curse, I refused to watch their performance, it was just too sad. Another thing was how much Koharu appeared for her first Summer concert... I mean, she was everywhere! I though that she was only noticed because of the Kirarin thing but even in 2005 when she was just miracle horsey teeth girl she sang! And I miss her real voice :((( It's getting more and more annoying nowadays! Now I know why I liked her, looking like some lost girl with those big eyes and hoarse voice *_* Now she's just irritating!

Back to Otonajan, for those who don't know, it was a shuffle unit mad of Miki Fujimoto (6th gen in Morning Musume, a really good voice), Megumi Murakami (one of the best voices among the H!P kids and probably the best one that time, part of MeguAiri feat. the °C-uties XD) and Miyabi Natsuyaki (Berryz Koubou lead voice). So, the promo photo were all: Miki at the front, Megukami on our left and Miyabi on the right and that single was released in 2005.


-In October 2006, some photos in which Megumi seemed to be having a date with a boy surfaced. She decided to quit to focus more on her studies.
-In May (?) 2007, Miki was caught walking in her boyfriend's apartment. Her agency denied about a day before she alleged the photos to actually be real. Miki was the fastest leader of Morning Musume, she didn't even last a week if I'm not wrong, and GAM's activity were never resumed. Miki was back this year singing an enka song.
-In May/June 2008, a video and dozen photos taken by a stalker appeared with a girl reaaaally similar to Miyabi. The campaign not to let these photos come to the agency's knowledge has already begun and Miyabi's FC event happened with no real trouble. Let's see if the kids' front girl will survive the curse!! You have 2 weeks top, Miyabi, that's about what the others lasted.

Yesterday I watched again the Elders Club concert, or the middle of it (which I had practically skipped before). Wow, I really loved the Momosu OG performance *_* Even singing that happy night,a song I had never heard before, it was amazing! It seems that the group got more interesting without Maki to fight for the lines with Natsumi. I love Maki, but having two line magnets together was just too much. Plus, the fact that they didn't sing Love Machine also helped. It was refreshing *_* And Yuuko's monologue in Happy Summer Wedding was cuuuuute!!! Yuuko is the best!!!

And I loved that Iida was also out so her lines could go to Kemeko. Did Yossie also get some? I don't like Rika but she sining Maki's line was also nice for bringing that new feeling to the music. And there weren't so many lines for em to get fed up with Charmy cuteness XD

Elders Club this year was somehow better than expected. Everyone talked bad about the eggs and there were times when i preferred them not to be there but they were and it made the concert look younger. Plus, I loved seeing Konno and Rika there. Yossie too but she so belongs to that place... How nice would it be if Maki was there to sing with her :((( But yeah, now Yossie can rock *_* A pitty that she doesn't shine as much there, surrounded by so many talents. A Rika does the Maki role, sexy and popular. I never thought I would say anything that way but she did fill it O.o It would be incredible if she had sung baby Koi ni Knock Out XDD

As for Ayaya/Nacchi duo... it's a little bit flavorless :( Much more than i imagined. Too sweet maybe. They should add a Yossie there and spice it up.

To think that yesterday I was talking about the missing members in the winter concerts. I actually didn't miss Aibon, mainly because my first Winter concert was her last so I only got to miss her on Morning Musume and when Nono was still around. Even so, what a coincidence...

Should I speak out loud what I think?

Yeah, the important coincidence here is how Aibon's return to the camera was right after Gocchin's. If they were still in H!P I'd even think of some kind of unit but that's impossible. The real thing could be that Maki's coming back all strong and loved gave Ai some courage. Could be the other way around, I don't know if they could be in touch, I mean, they're both in the US.

If I ignore the whole conspiracy, It's been a year since Kago's last scandal, it was about time if she ever wants to go back to the media somehow. Now, with that haircut and clothing style, she'll only get to be an sports announcer @_@ Really, think of Maki. Has anyone seen her photos? She still has that superstar face while Ai simply looks like a 40-year-old housewife, I wonder what this girl's intentions are...

I just finished watching those three winter concerts.

First of all, i love the Winter concerts: better songs, elders everywhere, less lip-syncing... And the first H!P concert I ever watched was a Winter one that more and more I find out to be of the best year, 2006.

That said, I have watched 4 from those until now: 2001, 2006, 2007 and now 2008, so I think I can say something: this was really similar to 2001, i can't explain it but the tracklist (not the songs actually, the concept) was too similar.

It's strange how with each year that passes there's that last time together feeling for a group, that where's someone feeling, that Yuuko's last year for sure feeling and that when will Nacchi just drop dead feeling. Also the newcomers, the real good voice I never noticed, the really good song i have to download now...

Every time any of them is missing, not only for winter concerts but summer too, I tend to feel that it wasn't that good of a concert.

Well, enough with the random comments, let's have now random thoughts:

-generations from 1 to 5 have two members only. Yuuko and Nacchi, Kei and Mari, Rika and Yossie, Risa and Ai. But actually they have 3!! Except for the second one. Kaori, Nono and Mako. with that, except for 2, 3 and 7 for obvious reasons we have 3-nin gens.

-Yuuko rocks but her and Nacchi make a weird combo. Related: Ayaya isn't Maki, she was good with Maki but she doesn't go with Nacchi like Maki somehow manage to do.

-Biyuuden were at the best even with their worse song, Ja Ja Uma

-°C-ute were the best real group there.

-Athena and the pussycatssomething had a really good performance. Hai, hai, hai, hai!

-Special Generation still rocks.

-Eggs could have had a great performance if their microphones were louder.

My favorite presentation was Morning Musume OG medley. I was tired of OG but now it suddenly became more interesting, probably because with Maki's departure, half of the lines were available for the rest to divide (read Rika and Yossie). But it was wonderful to see Ayaya singing Meccha Holiday though too short, it could have been better :(

Well, stick with the blog for more random thoughts.

Some quizzes I found about who Momusu I would be:

First Quizz
#1Risa Niigaki
#2Eri Kamei
#3Asami Konno
#4Kaori Iida
#5Asuka Fukuda
#6Miki Fujimoto
#7Hitomi Yoshizawa
#8Mari Yaguchi
#9Reina Tanaka
#10Kei Yasuda
#11Nozomi Tsuji
#12Aya Ishiguro
#13Makoto Ogawa
#14Ai Kago
#15Maki Goto
#16Ai Takahashi
#17Natsumi Abe
#18Sayaka Ichii
#19Sayumi Michishige
#20Yuko Nakazawa
#21Rika Ishikawa

Second Quizz:

Which Morning Musume Member Are You?
created with QuizFarm.com
<tr><td>You scored as Kamei Eri

You are most like Kamei Eri! She joined Momusu in the 6th generation, along with Michishige Sayumi and Tanaka Reina. She was very shy at first, but has since blossomed into a funny, sweet individual.

Kamei Eri		63%
Takahashi Ai		44%
Michishige Sayumi.		44%
Tanaka Reina		44%
Mitsui Aika		38%
Yoshizawa Hitomi		31%
Kusumi Koharu		25%
Fujimoto Miki		19%
Niigaki Risa		19%

After a whole day of K-Pop, mostly Fly to the Sky, although what lead me that way was KangTa and I haven't listened a single track from him, I was finally back to J-Pop in the evening. For some reason, I was listening again to Morning Musume's new single and then it hit me: the will to write here.

Anyone got the "we're trying to go back to Summer Night Town" feeling? So far I read comparisons to Shabondama and Roman, My Dear Boy but what I see there is some Ai-Nacchi and Reina-Ayappe with a Koharu-Kaorin struggling between the two. I'm not a huge know-it-all of momusu, I'm not even a tiny, I know nothing probably and wouldn't be able to distinguish Aya Ishiguro but I do think that comparison above is correct... I mean, the whole "dance video" is really like the other ones before Maki, when they had that mature/sexy style.

Considering that this is not just some impression from my part, how do I feel about it? Umm, Tsunku could have made it more obvious. I am not going into the "where are the others" detail as I can't consider that one as the real video. I just think that after the tenth anniversary fiasco, he could have made a video more like the old ones. I didn't like those but if that's the feeling he wanted to create, then do it right. I hope the real version will have what this one lacks, mostly close ups (and members). Before that, thumbs up. Man, was that a relief after Mikan! I actually wanted it to be on the streets and all but I'm happy for having all that light game and the theater.....

The girls are beautiful, by the way. I think Koharu is strange, she's getting too tall and think, unfortunately. I hate her, she gets the lead and now she's looking weird, not a good combination, but excluding that, the others are amazing! I can't say that EYN or KT had any different costumes as what we already saw in concerts. ONSA was too golden and Mikan looked kinda heavy for all that dance (and made them similar to Paquitas, some retarded girl group from my country). Right now, i just didn't like Koharu's clothing although I still have to check the others. Aika is sooo cute and kakkoi at the same time O.o But I suspect that I loved that because her "bright and innocent"-actually-irritating smile was too far away.

As for the song, maybe I'll talk about it later maybe not. As for now, it seems quite forgettable, too poppish, too weak (needed some powerful bridge or something).

I had started making a post about how LALALA Shiawase no Uta and Love Message grew on me but I lost the need to talk about them. So this one will be very quick and about Mano Erina.

It's been something like a week since she was announced as the new soloist who'll be going through training and graduate in the end of March. Natural presumption is that if she really is turning into a solo singer, then it's Maki's place she's taking. Well, in case you're thinking of numbers, yes.

In the beginning we had Maki, Aya and Miki. Then Miki went into Momusu and we got Natsumi. Aya has turned into a one-single-per-year singer and Maki got out. I have my theories that it was almost Miki's turn to do the same but then she got a single, an enka one that will sell the same as Abe's latest songs, and probably gave up. Let's say then that we have a slot occupied by both Aya and Miki, the GAM spot and there's Natsumi, no new single announced so far though. So, out of three there's one resting, which could be Manoeri's.

But I don't think she's go through Maki's path. I can hear her singing some Maki's song but she gives me a Miki vibe. Pre-MM Miki. She'll then sing some dance, r&b songs with that cute feeling H!P always gives us. Try this, if you can picture it than you're probably wrong (only works for H!P related stuff). So I had stopped there and started thinking of Milky Way when today I read Hello Online news.

There it was: Manoeri will be in Berry Kyuu! along with the H!P kids. Well, that's a good way to introduce her and the Kids soloist... But isn't it too soon? She'll have a month or maybe two if we think that she already knew that from before and then be thrown into those who are some five years ahead. It could also be training? Tsunku is training Yuu and (S?)Ayaka and she did have some good training while in OG. All in all, I'm happy for her, fresh face in H!P, has an ok voice and was my favorite egg along with Kanon but there's something wrong even if it's the "Eggs Year".

Final thoughts are: in the beginning of the year it was already predicted that
-there would be a unit with the some Eggs
-an Egg would be graduated
-and a new soloist would be pushed to be Ayaya's successor.

Let's see how it progresses from now one. By the way, three months and no scandal, what's up with them!? I'm joking, really.

You might say my themes in this blog have no originality but whatever, I'd like to add my dissatisfaction with Uta Doki!'s end. I actually waited until the new program was announced to make the post as I had to make sure of my predictions, unfortunately they were right: Berrykyuu is the program to replace it.


It means a lot of things actually. The first one I think of is: Uta Doki! wasn't popular enough because the elders weren't popular. We won't be seeing them as much even though the whole concept of the show is such a good one: old songs usually sung by the elders. They were making use of Ayaka! And a lot. Plus it makes clear one thing I know I have mentioned already: all of H!P marketing will turn to the kids' groups this year. Even Nacchi's single came with a kids attached to it... No one can deny that it was a Nacchi single, the writer etc were all Nacchi's different from GAM that had Tsunku as the writer instead of one of Matsuura Aya's usual. That's one more for our list of no-more-elders.

And this one deserves a whole new paragraph: UFA could pull the strings to make a new time slot for BerryKyuu. I'm sure that if they could, they make a whole new tv channel for the girls. Look at Johnny's Entertainment who have programs everywhere! You just have to turn on the tv on any broadcaster and wait, some Johnny's will appear. Now we have a list: what UFA can't do anymore. One-hour show turned into thirty minutes. The new one with its bestsellers had to substitute another. And what a horrible time slot! They are all after midnight, if I'm not wrong (checked, and I'm not wrong), for wotas only, I presume, as they are weekdays. I just hope the little aces can do something about it and convince the broadcaster that they deserve those thirty minutes taken off of Hello Morning. That could happen, right?