So here we have a new duo created inside Hello! Project. Nacchi Abe and Maimi Yajima. Great Abe and Yajima. Guess it doesn’t work with every group, huh?

So no idea what this group has in store, if it has a tie in with anything, or if it’s pure crap, but for now, it appears to be real.

“Untitled”
安倍なつみ＆矢島舞美(℃-ute)
Natsumi Abe & Maimi Yajima (℃-ute)
2008.1.16 release
Limited: HKCN-50061
Regular: HKCN-50062
Single V: HKBN-50095

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Oh, why hello there blog! Midterms are over, I don’t feel like finishing this paper I have to do, so I’ve decided to revive this thing up again :).

Everyone remember Ai Kago from Morning Musume/W? Smokey?
Well yeah. Her mom, Aki Kago, is planning on doing a nude photobook.

She was rumored about meeting with a man named Motoji Takasu earlier this month, but everyone assumed it was for Ai Kago.
The question is, why? Is she out of money? What would this mean if Kago ever wanted to re-debut in the idol world? Would her mom affect whether or not people would still support her? Who knows.

Oh well. The world will have Kago’s mom’s naked self soon enough!

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As said before, Strike Party!!! was to be used as the 3rd ending theme for NHK’s MAJOR (baseball anime thing.)

Well, someone has finally upped the ending to youtube. And let me say this. I love BeForU.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psTAU1PAjCs

Such a great song.

ALSO, on March 14th, BeForU’s first album with avex is rumored to be released! It’s said to be called “BeForU III” but I don’t think avex would name it that since BeForU I and II were with Konami.

Still excited :).

http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Info/Tommyheavenly6/index.html

Heavy Starry Chain (Limited Edition)
Tommy heavenly6
2007.2.7 OUT
DFCL-1327～8
1500 yen (tax in)
Limited edition: w/ DVD; ticket application(?); sticker
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=DFCL-1327

Heavy Starry Chain (Regular Edition)
Tommy heavenly6
2007.2.7 OUT
DFCL-1329
1020 yen (tax in)
First press: w/ ticket application(?); sticker
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=DFCL-1329

TRACK LIST:
CD
1. Heavy Starry Chain
2. Always Somethin’ New
3. Heavy Starry Chain (Instrumental)
DVD
1. Heavy Starry Chain

Click on the link underneath the picture to preview the song!

So Tommy heavenly6 has yet ANOTHER single. Atleast this one (according to her official website’s blurb about the single) will be the last single before a heavenly6 album. I wonder if february6 will make a come back in this single too? When will she get her own :(?

∞Changing∞ (Limited Edition)
BON-BON BLANCO
2007.2.21 OUT
LTCA-47
1575 yen (tax in)
Limited edition: 20 page photobooklet
http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/2503561

∞Changing∞ (Regular Edition)
BON-BON BLANCO
2007.2.21 OUT
LTCA-48
1260 yen (tax in)
Normal edition: A second b-side
http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/2503562

After Yura Yura Yureru re-debuting Bon-Bon Blnaco last summer (fall?), they have a new single coming out in February :). I am exciteddddd!

For some reason, this single is listed on Neowing (CDJapan’s Japanese counterpart), but not CDJapan. I want it to be listed on CDJapan so I can hurry up and order it!

Strike Party!!! (CD+DVD)
BeForU
2007.1.17 OUT
AVCA-26115/B
1,890yen (tax in)
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCA-26115

Strike Party!!! (CD-only)
BeForU
2007.1.17 OUT
AVCA-26116
1,050yen (tax in)
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCA-26116

TRACKLIST:
CD
1. Strike Party!!!
2. BALA≠BALA
3. Strike Party!!! (instrumental)
4. BALA≠BALA (instrumental)
DVD
1. Strike Party!!! ～MUSIC CLIP～
2. Making of Strike Party!!!

Strike Party!!! will also be used as the outro for NHK’s anime “Major” (It’s about baseball or something)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/major/index.html

Everyone should go buy this and support BeForU in hopes that avex will do something useful with them!!

It was only a matter of time, but the final remaining member of Morning Musume from the Golden Era, Hitomi Yoshizawa, will graduate from the group (still remaining in Hello! Project) at the end of Morning Musume’s Sexy 8 Beat spring tour on May 6, 2007.

Her graduation was announced during the first performance of Hello! Project’s Wonderful Hearts 2007 winter concert.

What does this mean for the group? It will be 8nin again, Miki will be leader, Takahashi will be subleader… But what happens if someone else needs to go to school? Risa and Eri are reaching that point very quickly.

I have a feeling that there will be another audition in the summer. This may or may not be good for Aika Mitsui, Morning Musume’s new member, since it would either place her above new members, making her more recognizable, or completely forgetting that she is even there.

We’ll have to see how everything turns out!

PS Micchi will debut at the Hello! Project 10th Anniversary Tour on January 27th (a day before the graduation date of Asami and Minua from Country Musume D:).

So. I forgot about jankenpyon! for a while due to school and stuff, but since I’m on break now, I can update some more :).

You can expect regular updates from me again soon!

I had to make that the title. I just had to haha.

Anyway, both tracks from Maki Goto’s upcoming single, SOME BOYS! TOUCH have leaked onto the internets. And let me say wow. This is an awesome single.

1. SOME BOYS! TOUCH
This song sounds like Glass no Pumps but is different at the same time. It’s catchy and has a dance beat and is a pretty awesome song. I actually think I like it more than GnP… It seems like the video will be set in a night club or something. With lots of touching. Of some boys. Whatever, no matter how bad the video will be, or how much of a skank Maki Goto is turning out to be, it’s a good song and I will most likely get this single :).

2. ALL OF US
The c/w of the album is a slower tempo ballad and it is good enough that it could have been an a-side itself. It makes me think of Sayonara no LOVE SONG, but that could be just because they’re both ballads. This song is a lot better than Love Kan Coffee or whatever that b-side of Glass no Pumps was. The whole song of ALL OF US is pretty :).

The cover of the single itself is rather scandalous, featuring Maki in… once again… her underwear! Atleast this one is a little more cutesy and a little less skank.

Whatever, like I said, it’s a good set of songs :).

The yearly issuing of calendars has started!

9/27 OUT
Morning Musume
Berryz Koubou
9/30 OUT
Hinoi Team
℃-ute
Maki Goto
Aya Matsuura
Natsumi Abe

Oh god, I’m going to end up buying like. 4 of those hahaha. What do I need 4 calendars for?!