Morning Musume '14 is getting more popular!

Hey guys! It's me Shinju :D
I know I've been inactive for like a month but anyway, i'm back! 
I wasn't that busy but i dunno, i feel lazy sometimes lol 

So... I wanna talk about Morning Musume '14's popularity which has been growing rapidly since last year. Actually, i wasn't really expecting this to be coming since everyone loved Platinum Era. Yes, their popularity dropped so much during that time but everyone loved them especially their overseas fans since they're all so talented and they performed really well. Honestly though, i wasn't really a fan of the group during that line-up. Though i was really blown away by Niigaki-san when i watched their Nanchatte Renai MV. She was so beautiful and mysterious on that music video xD But other than that, nothing really got my attention. 

I was a fan of the 4th generation member, Aibon though. She brought me to H!P and she's just so adorable. I talked about it on my other post about how i started to like H!P so if you haven't read it, read it now! LOL 

So, during Platinum Era, i wasn't interested at them at all. If they released a new single, i would just listen for the sake of me not getting left out for new Hello!Pro releases. I respect them for being good performers though but during that time, i was rooting for C-ute and S/mileage plus i thought they were too mature for me. But when members started to leave, i kind of felt a little interest on finding out what's gonna happen next and then BAM! The 9th Generation entered the group, then the 10th Generation and then lastly the 11th.

2013 was a glorious year for us fans. Three consecutive weekly number 1 on Oricon, a normal Nippon Budoukan concert, famous celebrities openly share their love for the group in public and lastly they had an awesome push with their promotions. 

And now, Morning Musume became Morning Musume '14... I haven't shared my thoughts about that here yet and well, i don't care about the name change at all. I don't care as long as the line-up don't change. Everyone's been saying stuff like Sayu should graduate already since she's so awkward being the only 20+ member and stuff like she can't perform like the rest anymore since she's older and she lacks energy already. Like, wth. Sayu is like the new face of the group! I'm happy that she's getting the push she deserves a long time ago! She's a great leader so don't you dare push her out of the group! And FYI, she's 24 not 70! She can still dance and still have the same energy the rest have! And personally, i don't think the group can do good without her. NOT yet. They still need more time to be taught by a senior... Plus, Sayu will lead the new Golden Era! Or much more awesome than the Golden Era! \m/ 

Lol, forgive me for that mini rant. But anyway. Today, Morning Musume '14 appeared for the second time since their last comeback on Music Station 6 years ago. They performed Love Machine(Updated Version) and one of their Triple A 55th single, What is Love? If you haven't watched it. Watch below!

Other than that, they guested at Hey! Hey! Hey too and also, their famous wake up concert prank! You can search it on Youtube or download it at any Hello!Pro sharing sites. It was so awesome that Morning Musume '14 had a great push recently. They also became the olympic ambassador which is so cool! And they formed a new unit too! I hope they'll push other H!P groups too like C-ute or Juice=Juice. C-ute, because they're obviously the most awesome performing girl group in the whole J-idol industry and they deserve a big push too! Juice=Juice, because they are the super rookie. No kidding, this group is amazing too. 

I really hope that Morning Musume '14 will get their 4th consecutive weekly number 1 with their 55th single! It's going to be their first 4th consecutive number one, so they must have it now! So what are we Team Momusu waiting for? Let's support them big time one more time!! Puuuuuuush!!!! Ike ike Momusu!!

~Shinju~

Morning Musume `14's new MV and Dokkiri!

Hey darlings~ It's Shinju!

I'm sure a lot of you have seen the new MV of Momusu which was on Hello!Station's latest episode. I personally love the MV. I love the whole simpleness yet elegantly done MV. I find the girls really pretty too, like all of them! Each of their beauty shined throughout the entire MV. First of all, for those who haven't watched it. Watched it below :)

I know each and everyone of us fans have different views and opinions about the MV. Some said the song wasn't that catchy or wasn't that good. Some said that it didn't really exceed their expectations and some just don't mind as long as they see a new MV. It's pretty normal that people get all emotional about this since everyone's been waiting for their comeback and i totally understand that. But seeing comments like "Oh...I'm pretty sure this is the last Sayu single" and all those "Momusu's going down now, this single sucks"... I can't really stand those comments honestly ;_; I don't know... It just ruins my whole fangirl mode. -_-;; But don't get me wrong! No matter what they say on the comments area, my thoughts and love for the group wouldn't change a bit! ♥

I'll show you a photo from the MV then~ xD

This shot is the first part of the MV. I like this because they showed their 3-4-3 formation. The next part is one of my favorite shots! I can't print screen it cos i want you guys to go and see it yourself ♥ 

Next is... Dokkiri special! ♥ I'm sure a lot of you have heard that they're gonna do a Dokkiri show right? Everyone's been saying that the girls must've known already to make sure they give a good reaction. But Mezamashi released a much more detail preview of the girls during the surprise. Watch it here! 

So... who else can't wait for next year? Cos i definitely can't! >.< The girls appeared in so many tv shows that i can't wait to see. T_T Let's just wait patiently though :) Have fun!

Ciao~


~Shinju~


 

Takahashi Ai's Marriage + AKB48 5th Album cover Revealed!

Hey guys! Shinju here~! <3

 Abe Koji (38) and Takahashi Ai (27)

I heard the news days ago about Ai-chan's marriage to Abe Koji. I wasn't surprised though :/ But I never thought Ai-chan to marry him. But oh well, if she's happy with him, who am i to go against them right? We fans should just support her decision. They are set to marry on next year's valentine day. Congratulations Ai-chan! ♥

 Next we have news from AKB48. AKB48 revealed their cover jacket for their 5th Album as well as the title. It's called Tsugi no Ashiato. Below is the cover.

The girls look stunning on those dresses and them sitting on those tiny boats added difference from them to Morning Musume. I as a big Momusu fan, when I first saw their cover jacket for this album, it made me think of Momusu in an instant. If you guys haven't seen Morning Musume's cover jacket for their Updated Album, see below.

I don't really like putting fire on this one cos really, it's just an album cover. But i'm sure many Morning Musume fans will react on this. But no matter what, two groups are different. They have different music styles. I respect AKB48's side even though i'm too biased towards MM lol. But no matter, both cover jackets look absolutely beautiful and they all look so pretty and cute :) So no hate ok? Just love ♥ 

So to those who are AKB48 fans, save up now cos they'll be releasing this on January 22 next year! Ciao!


~Shinju~

Christmas in 5 days!

Hey guys! It's Shinju! <3

So... in 5 days, it'll be Christmas huh? Have you guys thought on what to do on Christmas yet? Well for me, i'll be spending my Christmas with my family :) It's like that over here in the Philippines. Christmas is the day for families to be together and have party and enjoy all the fireworks and presents! Unlike in Japan, Christmas is for couples as i've known. There's nothing wrong with celebrating with your love one though :) 

Since it's Christmas season, I was browsing Christmas songs on Youtube and remembered that many idols and JPOP singers actually released songs perfect for this season! So, i checked them out and here are the few Christmas songs i've searched :) Have fun!

Aitai Lonely Christmas by C-ute. 

Sweet Jewel by Fairies

 

Santa-san by Momoiro Clover Z

100kai no Kiss by Matsuura Aya

Samui Ne by S/mileage

Oujisama to Yuki no Yoru by Tanpopo

 

Pittari Shitai X'Mas by Petitmoni

Shiroi Tokyo by ZYX

Jin Jin Jingle Bell by Sasaki Nozomi ft. Pentaphonic

There are actually more of them but let me share you guys some Christmas live performances~ :3 

Morning Musume Past Christmas Performances

Berryz Koubou Christmas Medley

Merry Christmas with S/mileage

  AKB48's Christmas Performance

Romeo and Juliet by Hey! Say! JUMP

I'm sure there are more Christmas performances out there! But for now, these are the videos that i'll share~ :D Everyone is so adorable  ^^;;

~Shinju~

Hello! Station Episode 46! and Dream5

Hey guys! It's Shinju (^^)/

So... Hello!Station #46 is out! You can watch it below :)

So, basically they showed us many S/mileage videos. One is a dance shot version for Ii Yatsu, two of them from their live at Takasaki Club Fleez and lastly a comment video after their performance. Next one is from Berryz Koubou's Budoukan concert. They sang Ganbacchae with C-ute. Oh my gosh~ It feels so nostalgic! It really feels like they went all back to their younger years :) Then next we have Hello!Pro Kenshuusei's dance shot version for Oheso no kuni kara konnichiwa or in english translation, Hello from the land of Oheso. They all look so cute and full of energy! :) My Rikako-chan is so cute with her energetic dance. xD Next is S/mileage's Fukuda Kanon-chan's hair arrange video. She looks so pretty as usual *A* Then last but not the least is a talk with C-ute's Yajima Maimi-chan and Juice=Juice's Miyazaki Yuka-chan! A talk between each group leaders! Haha. 

Well, yeah that's the entire episode. I was actually hoping that there will be a cut for Morning Musume :( I was anticipating for more Momusu videos but oh well~ I guess I have to wait again for next week. Speaking of Morning Musume, i am very excited for their next single! Like... I really want to watch their MVs like... right now! It's really vexing because i want to hear their next songs. And i'm hoping that these singles will be their 4th consecutive Oricon weekly number 1! That will be so awesome! A record breaking! Haaaa~ I guess we'll just have to wait then. ;_; 

Next... 
I will be sharing you all about this another awesome group of 5. They are called Dream5 and they are under Avex. I know some of you might know about them because they're really cool. The group consists of 4 girls and one boy. Isn't it unique!? An idol group with 1 boy and 4 girls! If you guys know about AAA, they are like mini AAA but Dream5 only has Akira-kun as the guy member. 

So this is Dream5!

Don't they look cool? with just this picture, i'm sure you'll get interested! Haha. Dream5 is an awesome group of dancers. They are all very skilled with dancing, they dance so great that i fell in love with them. I knew about this group around 2010 or i think way before. I actually forgot. I fell for their charms when i found one of their videos. I have to tell you guys, this group is high level. They only have two vocalist and the rest are dancers. But still...they're awesome! 

So, for you guys to be able to know them... here are the members

Shigemoto Kotori

17 years old. 

Main Vocalist 

Hibi Mikoto

15 years old

Main Vocalist

Takano Akira

16 years old

Dancer

Tamakawa Momona

16 years old

Dancer

Ohara Yuuno

14 years old

Dancer

That's the members! Aaaah. They all look so fresh and young! It makes me jealous how full of energy these teenagers are. I wanna go back to being a teenager again! (im 20 ;_;) 

So, this group has been around since 2009. They also participated just this year's Tokyo Idol Festival and Akira-kun was accepted full heartedly <3 I'm glad. He's the only male idol, i'm sure he was terrified but he did really well :) He still smiles so widely and happily. Aaaah~ Akira-kun <3

By the way, I wanna share some of their videos to you guys. I'm sure you'll love them too! 

There are more of these videos in Youtube, so if you guys wants to watch more of them... just searched their group name and videos will appear :) I hope you guys will turn to like more and more of these talented groups. :) Ciao!

~ Shinju~

Morning Musume in Oricon 2013 Yearly Charts: Single! What!

Hey guys! Shinju here <3

Oh...my... gosh! Morning Musume is freaking back! 

So... Oricon released their yearly ranking and in the singles chart, Morning Musume got a place in the top 50! Check out the TOP 50 singles below. (credits to Oricon and Tokyohive for the info)

[Oricon 2013 Yearly Ranking Top 50 : Singles]

01 - "Sayonara Crawl" - AKB48 : (1,955,162)
02 - "Koisuru Fortune Cookie" - AKB48 : (1,479,036)
03 - "Heart Ereki" - AKB48 : (1,260,792)
04 - "So long!" - AKB48 : (1,132,853)
05 - "EXILE PRIDE ~Konna Sekai wo Aisurutame~" - EXILE : (1,012,407)
06 - "Calling/Breathless" - Arashi : (881,192)
07 - "Choco no Dorei" - SKE48 : (671,623)
08 - "Utsukushii Inazuma" - SKE48 : (661,557)
09 - "Bokura no Yuriika" - NMB48 : (557,802)
10 - "Endless Game" - Arashi : (557,217)

11 - "Sansei Kawaii!" - SKE48 : (496,124)
12 - "Kamonegikkusu" - NMB48 : (457,435)
13 - "Girl's Rule" - Nogizaka46 : (452,310)
14 - "Barrette" - Nogizaka46 : (423,417)
15 - "Joy!!" - SMAP : (395,087)
16 - "My Resistance -Tashikana Mono-/Unmei Girl" - Kis-My-Ft2 : (377,055)
17 - "Peace to Highlight" - Southern All Stars : (339,575)
18 - "Hesomagari/Koko ni Shika Nai Keshiki" - Kanjani8 : (334,632)
19 - "Kimi tono Kiseki" - Kis-My-Ft2 : (309,762)
20 - "SNOW DOME no Yakusoku/Luv Sick" - Kis-My-Ft2 : (306,433)

21 - "Seifuku no Mannequin" - Nogizaka46 : (306,430)
22 - "Kimi no Na wa Kibou" - Nogizaka46 : (306,202)
23 - "Melon Juice" - HKT48 : (295,967)
24 - "Suki! Suki! Skip!" - HKT48 : (291,876)
25 - "BURNING UP" - EXILE TRIBE (Sandaime J Soul Brothers VS GENERATIONS) : (287,874)
26 - "Namida no Kotae" - Kanjani8 : (286,657)
27 - "Ki • Su • U • Ma • I ~KISS YOUR MIND~/S.O.S (Smile On Smile)" - Kis-My-Ft2 : (262,737)
28 - "Come On A My House" - Hey! Say! JUMP : (242,314)
29 - "Mistake!/Battery" - SMAP : (235,076)
30 - "Jiyuu e no Shingeki (Guren no Yumiya/Jiyuu no Tsubasa/Moshimo Kono Kabe no Naka ga Ikken no Ie datoshitara) - Linked Horizon : (230,810)

31 - "Mystery Virgin" - Yamada Ryosuke : (219,871)
32 - "Mada Namida ni Naranai Kanashimi ga/Koi ha Nihohe to Chirinuru wo" -KinKi Kids : (202,409)
33 - "Kokoro Sora Moyou" - Kanjani8 : (192,573)
34 - "Dance My Generation" - Golden Bomber : (177,565)
35 - "Preserved Roses" - T.M.Revolustion × Mizuki Nana : (175,828)
36 - "EXPOSE" - KAT-TUN : (173,400)
37 - "Real Sexy!/BAD BOYS" - Sexy Zone : (168,580)
38 - "Bye Bye Du Bye ~See you again~/A MY GIRL FRIEND" - Sexy Zone : (167,946)
39 - "Shiosai no Memory" - Amano Haruko (Koizumi Kyoko) : (161,554)
40 - "OCEAN" - Tohoshinki : (159,163)

41 - "Wagamama Ki no mama Ai no Joke/Ai no Gundan" - Morning Musume: (158,915)
42 - "Catch Me -If you wanna-" - Tohoshinki : (156,537)
43 - "Tanjoubi ni wa Masshiro na Yuri wo/Get the groove" - Fukuyama Masaharu : (154,120)
44 - "GIVE ME LOVE" - 2PM : (152,781)
45 - "FACE to Face" - KAT-TUN : (150,310)
46 - "WORLD QUEST/Pokopon Pekorya" - NEWS : (148,348)
47 - "SCREAM" - Tohoshinki : (145,628)
48 - "Eien Pressure" - AKB48 : (133,370)
49 - "SUMMER NUDE '13" - Yamashita Tomohisa : (130,870)
50 - "Hirihiri no Hana" - Not yet : (127,855)

My beloved Morning Musume is at number 41! I know they will still have a long way to go to reach top 10 but who cares, i'm too happy. (*A*)/ 

As usual, Japan's National Idol... AKB48 ranks at number 1. 

Congratulations to them! As usual, the 48 family is awesome huh? Even though i'm not a fan, but their hard work and perseverance is too awesome. Even though i really hope for Morning Musume to gain back the Top Idol title, i really believe it will be tough to climb back again but i'm not giving up! I know someday, we can reach the top again!


My favorite JE group, Hey! Say! JUMP is at the list too! 

I'm not sure if everyone knows about this but i'm sure those who personally knows me and those people who i am friends with at Facebook and other online friends i met through dubbing and forums probably knows about this but i used to be such a huge JUMP fan. Like... i was head over heels crazy over them. Chinen Yuuri was my ichiban. lol I remember his photoset i bought online, it was 800 Philippine peso for 4 photos! That was expensive for me and i remember i used to carry it a lot at school, placing it on my binder and you know what the terribly sad part is? Someone stole my binder so i lost the photos T_T I was super sad. So, yeah~ that was my JE fangirling days. It ended around 2010. I don't know how it happened, i just lost all the interest suddenly and i stopped getting updates ._. But there are times that i look up for them online, getting all curious about them and stuff... but yeah, not how i used to be. xD And oh! I heard this before though but it seems like JUMP fans are called Tobiko or Tobikko~ xD that's cool! 

Also, as usual, EXILE's on the list and the other popular artists as well~ and other JE groups such as Arashi, Kanjani8, Sexy Zone, Kis-My-Ft2, SMAP, Kat-tun... and Yamapi as well. Well~ I'm happy with the results :) Congratulations to all the artists and idols who placed in the TOP 50. That's really amazing :)

I wish other idol girl groups will have a place in the yearly TOP 50 too. There are lots of great and talented young idols out there, i just hope they can climb to the top too :) But for now, i'm good. Haha~ but really, I want all H!P groups to have a place in the list! >_< 


~Shinju~

Tokyo Girls Style is awesome!

Yooooo~ Shinju here! :)

Omg~ I totally fell in love with Tokyo Girls Style. I knew them way before when they just debuted with Kirari. A lot of dubbers that time were all curious about them and made many groupdubs with their single but I wasn't interested about them at all. But...I feel bad for not noticing their charisma! Gah. They are an awesome group of teenage girls *A* Aaaah. I really admire cute young girls~ <3 

So... They recently released the short ver + spot music video of Partition Love. They already released some cuts before and OMGOSH, I LOVE IT. Like seriously. I love it! <3 I love the MV and the song, the girls are so cute and the rivalry between Hitomi and Ayano was priceless. (*///*) I like the Sensei-Student kinda romance. Kyaa~ such forbidden love. Aaaaah >.<

Watch the MV here~ :3

Arai Hitomi is definitely my Oshimen. She's so freakin' cute with her huge bambi eyes. Omggggosh. Hiichan! ♥♥♥ 

 But... is it just me or Hiichan and Kuduu of Morning Musume looks so much a like? o_o

Let's have a comparison then~ :33

Hitomi Arai

I'll use photos of Kuduu with her longer hair~ :3 since her hairstyle now is in boy cut :D

Kudou Haruka

Haha, I don't know about you guys, but they look similar to me~ :D I think it's the eyes. Both have beautiful large eyes :)

By the way, check this out! :D

And this!!

Aaah~ Hiichan is so cute ♥♥♥


~Shinju~