Kamei-sama

 ~[ Day 26: Idol with the best personality? ]~

Eri.

Even though she's not with H!P anymore, she's still considered an idol if you ask me.  I chose Eri as the idol with the best personality, because she is damn random and hilarious.  A lot of times, she's also rather slow, but in a cute way.  She's spontaneous and out of control backstage during concerts which can be seen in making-of clips, and other times, she's just giggly and freaking hilarious.

For someone with a skin condition like hers, i'm surprised how well she coped with it, and didn't even really bring the seriousness of the illness until her graduation was announced.  She had the positiveness and the genkiness to push through all of that and make the best out of the situation and that's why I love her.

One of my favorite Eri clips ever.  You would think she was either drunk, or high on something, but NO, she's just being Kamei Eri.  <3

Fresh Meat

So, Morning Musume 9th Generation Auditions are nearing its end, and the fat is being trimmed off.  All the girls who weren't good enough got sent home, while the ones that were Tsunku worthy stayed.  By the looks of it, there are only a handful of girls left.  Maybe...less then 10 i'd say.  Makes me really excited whats in store for Morning Musume.

They better not suck and ruin everything.

Caption: "You better not suck and ruin everything"

Hmm...NEXT

Looks alright.

Not doing it for me

Please.  Don't even bother looking into the camera.

No mirrors where you come from?

We don't need another Fukuda Kanon, thanks.

Melody-sensei telling the girls they got to get their act together.

Dance-sensei mentioning that Morning Musume isn't for the weak

That means you, little boy.

"What have I gotten myself into." - Tsunku

The Graduation to Remember

Yes, so I stayed up till 4a.m reading live reports of the graduation concert.  It was worth it.  Hello!Online was buzzing with fans who were crying / enjoying the concert as much as they could.  There were a few fans who attended the concert who uploaded pictures to the web literally every minute which was great to see.

It looked like Linlin, Junjun, and Eri had a lot of fun during the concert actually.  There were tears of course, but all in all, it looked amazing.  The crowd was awesome, seeing as like 20,000 people attended.  Surprisingly, there were a lot of female fans, and many (pretty) female Eri wota's so I've heard lol.

So literally after waiting months, the graduation concert finally begun.  I wonder how nervous our graduates were tonight.

P.S - Major picspam ahead

Graduation thread was a paaarrrtttaaay!

The party got kinda crowded:

The concert begins with the much approved military-esque outfits

FIYA!

Outfit change: Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai starts

Later on the medley came with Aika's spotlight of the night:

Mid concert, the graduates solo's began: up first - Linlin, singing Watarasebashi

Next: Junjun, singing Furusato

Last: Eri, singing Haru Beautiful Everyday

Orange everywhere for Eri:

After a rather solemn moment, girls come back with great costumes:

High energy returns to the stage!

Apparently, snow does too:

After a few awesome performances like GuruGuru Jump, its time for Lullaby Game:

Time for the graduation speeches: I wont cry!

Aika is so sweet:

Aww Junjun you're making me cry...

Awww Eriii

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww LINLIN!!! *sobsob*

2nd to last song: Ai Araba, It's All Right

K maybe not so many tears:

After almost 3 hours, goodbyes are said:

Oyasuminasai~

Last song: Namidacchi then good night

I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

Hello Covers

So it seems like, the newest gossip on the block is that Kamei Eri is going to release covers of older H!P songs on iTunes.  Well I think that's just darn cool.  Since she got to pick her own songs, she must be really excited to do this.  From what I read, each month, a new H!P member will release their own sort of mini-album on iTunes with their personally selected songs.  I think this is a great chance for underdogs like everyones favorite Aika, Maasa, and Nakky to get some well deserved attention.

Even though I think this is a great idea, it's just another thing to add onto the list of projects thrown Eri's way before she graduates from H!P.  I really do like her, but throw the underdogs a bone or two won't ya Tsunku?  Don't get me wrong, everything that Eri is getting is well deserved, and I have no issues with that, I just feel that Junjun and Linlin deserve do diligence, and they should be respected as well during all of this.  It kinda makes me feel that this is all a KAMEI ERI GRADUATION with a small side order of Jun / Lin.  I bet, too, at the grad concert, they are hardly going to be given the spotlight.

What was I talking about?  Oh yeah, Hello Covers or something.  It sounds like a great new project!  What I would absolutely love to hear, is maybe singing outside of their own groups.  For example, I'd love to hear Sudou Maasa sing something like Sakura Mankai.  That would be great.  Aika would sound so good singing Very Beauty if you asked me.  I should write a list and send it to Aika.

What do you guys think about this new Hello Cover idea?