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Currently I'm having some VOX issues and it won't let me post my rankings. Anyone know how to stop this?? It says something about scripts causing internet to run slow :/

Well, I guess it's not really news but Maki Goto has been nominated for Yahoo! Japan Music's 2007 Music Awards for Most Photogenic! You can show your support by voting for her using the link below. She currently is winning by far by having 26% of votes whilst her main contender, PERFUME, only have 18%. I'm also suprised by how bad Koda Kumi is in the polls as although I'm not personally a fan I thought she was quite big in Japan? The important thing is, however,  that Maki kicks everyone else's ass ;)

Vote for Gocchin!!!

Yup. Thats right. It's official. I have grown. I am now a whole 151 cm! No no, theres no need to congratulate me I...Oh..wait..This is a Hello Project based blog. OK...Moving on...It's been almost a year since I discovered the world that is Hello! Project. In the past year I have started to build up a collection of H!P goodies. Now don't get me wrong, it's not near as good as other fans but I think for my first year of H!P fandom I have done quite well. To commerate almost a year I'm going to post my collection so far and make a note of what I'd like to get in the future. Sorry for the craptastic photos, I am in no way shape or form the world's best photographer.

First's things first: The first merchandise I ever bought. It's strange when I was starting to get into H!P I always thought I would start of with a CD, but somehow, I ended up buying this accidently instead. I say accidently as I was browsing through ebay and clicked on 'buy it now' when I wasn't concentrating :/ No harm done though as I got this awesome wristband out of my silly mistake :D Maybe I'll start of a collection of wristbands from H!P tours as it sounds like something fun to collect XD.

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Next we have the next 2 CD's I bought. The Berryz album I bought just after the wristband (although it actually arrived first) and I preordered the C-ute single after watching the video many times. I was actually suprised by myself ordering this single as even before H!P I had only bought one single previously as I tend to buy the albums instead. However, thanks to this C-ute single, I has realised how silly I am for not buying both the single's and albums when they can be afforded. Both of the CD's are limited edition.

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Finally, we have the the stuff I got for christmas and what a collection! I was quite suprised when a parcel arrived and it was filled with H!P goodies! This year I was hoping for a white christmas and although it didn't snow my chirstmas presents were Berryz related. :D Well, we have W & Berryz High score 2005, Natsu Natsu!-Anata wo Suki ni naru Sangensoku 2006, Sakura Mankai 2007, and their latest DVD, Welcome! Berryz Kuuyden. At the moment I've only managed to watch the W & Berryz concert as the parcel arrived just before school started and I've been slightly busy with exams to watch the others, but hopefully I'll get a chance soon.

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As well as Berryz DVDs, I also got 3 Hello! Project concerts; 2006 summer, 2007 winter and 2007 summer, and the Morning Musume all singles complete 10th anniversary DVD which was the first item to enter my DVD player and after watching every PV back to back you can really see the changes Momusu have been through. Their music styles, line ups etc. My dad walked in to my room when Go Girl Koi no Victory started. He took one look at the TV called me weird and walked back out again. I think it's going to take a while for J-pop to grow on him.

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Now for the CD's I got; Berryz Koubou - Tsukiattrononi kataomoi (limited ed.), Mini Moni songs 2, Morning Musume All Singles complete (regular ed.), Morning Musume - Mikan (limited ed. B), Petit Best 8 and W - double U&U. Although it's not Hello Project, News single weeeek also managed to find its way into the photo. Out of all the CD's Mini Moni's album is probably the most played. I love the first half of the album which are mainly R&B style tracks. And thats not all. The album also came with a poster which is currently hanging proudly on my wall :D

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The last H!P gift I recieved was rather suprising, It was the Welcome Berryz Kyuden photobook, Now looking at the girls in bikini's don't really suit my taste so I've never really thought about getting a solo member's photobok before. Yet when I opened the parcel I was curious about this product so I looked and Oh my! It's full of funny and cute (but mainly funny) pictures of the girls. I would scan some but I'm not sure if photobooks are scanner friendly. Yet here is a picture from this photobook I found on the web.

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Now imagine a book filled with hilarous pictures like that. Cool isn't it?

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Wow, looking back over my H!P collection I've only just realised how much I've got. I've only been collecting since July too! Perhaps 2008 will see this collection double in size. As you can tell, my collection is seriously deprived of MoMusu concerts. In this year I'm hoping to get round to buying Odore! Morning Curry as I ahve heard this is one of their best concerts, and also their latest tour with my current favourite member, JunJun. Another must for 2008 is more JunJun merchandise. It's just sitting on the webpages waiting for me to buy and I know I'll probably not be able to resist. So have you got any concert's or DVD's or whatever to recommened? If so then feel free to tell me and maybe I'll look into buying it in the near future.

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P.S You may notice that this blog post is slightly longer than others and that there is less grammer mistakes than the others (although there is bound to to be some lol). This is because this is the first post that has actually took more than a day to write. Normally I just write off the top of my head and don't bother to spell check or anything and it really annoys me (and others no doubt) when I read back through and I have made stupid little errors. I think in 2008 I will also take more care whilst writing in my blog so as not to annoy myself with those mistakes.

Also I'd like to wish a happy belated birthday to Aika, Rika and Mari, whose birthdays were on the 12th, 19th and the 20th of January. Hope they had a great birthday! 

First things first, I haven't been posting on my blog much and thats down to mainly my exams. I am about to recieve my first set of GCSE results next friday yet before that in the next few weeks I have so many exams, essays and coursework that needs doing that I may not be able to post too frequently.

Although I haven't had the chance to post myself I have been reading some other blogs and lately people have been wondering whether H!P could make it in the western music scene. Whilst I still think they won't be accepted here in the UK and in the US because of the language barrier, it has been reported that Buono! will release honto no jibun in the US. Whilst I understand that this is purely to promote the anime's release in the US, could it be a sign that H!P may expand into the future? Personally I'm not to sure, yet I am hoping that they will release the single in the UK too as when I went to purchase the limited edition it had already sold out. I'm not going to hold my breath though. The single will be released in the United States on 2008-02-19 on the Interscope-Geffen-A&M label. The American Single V version is set for release on 2008-03-11.

Well that all for now I'll post again when I have time or when things have calmed down a bit. :)

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to say happy new year! For H!P I think its safe to say that 2007 hasn't been too kind. With countless scandals and the disappointing sales of Mikan people have even been questioning if H!P was going to go bust. With 2007 being so bad, surely 2008 will be better? Well, thats my hope in anyways. As a matter of fact I'm almost certain that 2008 will hold much better oppurtunites for the groups, especially with Tsunku's taking-over-Asia plan in action.

I hope that everyone's 2008 will be filled with happiness and good fortune! :)

OK, first things first, I'm sorry I haven't posted on here for so long. With the holidays and exams I was away from the computer for longer than I anticipated.

For months I have looked forward to christmas day for a entirely different reason than the holiday itself. So what was the reason? Two words. Doctor Who. For those who don't know, Doctor Who is a science fiction series based on a alien creature (a time lord) called the Doctor. If you've never veiwed this series before but are intrested in sci-fi I definatly recommend this show. However, make sure you veiw the more recent series' as in the older ones the monsters look a bit naff in my opinion lol. 

Apperently, there is to be a new berryz album released on the 3.19.08 to be titled 'Very Berryz Best 1'. There will be three versions released. Now, I use the word apperently as I'm not sure how reliable this information is as of this moment but I thought it was worth mentioning as its seems quite likely that it will be released.

I hope everyone has a awesome christmas and that everyone gets what the wished for. :)

posts may be a little scarce for a while around here and theres a few reasons..

The first being that I'm currently ill. I hate British weather.

The second being that Im up to my eyes in coursework, resit essays and just general exams. At the moment I have 2 french essays to write (a 1000 word one and a 200 word one) about 2 or 3 ICT coursework modules to finish, some maths homework, history essay, a RE exam, psychology notes to study and some media thing which I need to play around with photoshop for and I think thats about it. Of course not including any more that I get in the next week.

The third reason is that because I have so much work to do and I normally spend all my time on my laptop my parents have decided that it will be best if I stay of it for 2 weeks, even though most of my stuff is on here. T_T Im currently writing this post at quarter to six in the morning as I'm officially banned. Hopefully the next few weeks will fly by and before I know it hopefully it will be Xmas. Well, thats what I'm hoping for in anyways...

This is why I haven't updated in a week even though when I first started this blog I was hoping to update every few days at least.

Before I go though it might be worth mentioning that the title of Nacchi's and Maimi's single has been announced: 16sai no Koi Nante. There was a voting contest where fans could pick the title of their single and this title won. The other choice was Watashi no Koibito na no ni and will probably end up being the B-side to the single.

Lately I've been reading a lot of comments from a lot of different random sites and amongst them I found a lot being fired towards Musume's leader. Why? Well according to the comments she ''hogs all the lines'' or ''she doesnt have a personality'' and even ''She wont be a good leader-she should graduate so Risa can take over''.

OK, first things first. Takahashi has the strongest voice in Musume. It may not be your personal favourite style voice but from any perspective its pretty obvious she is the strongest singer. Yes, I do realise Morning Musume are a band and not just Ai with backing vocals but her voice really makes up for those members of lesser vocal talents (as much as I like their voices..) Belive it or not Takahashi doesn't actually decide which song lines she sings so you can't really blame her if the producer picks her for the lead. I must admit, in Onna ni Sachi Are I was a bit disappointed by how much of the song was Ai but I didnt mind as at least it sounded good and as long as the producers made up for it later (Mikan's lines were more evenly distrubted)

Now whilst Ai doesnt have a overly cute, hyper personality that doesnt mean she doesnt have one. To me I've always thought of Ai being quite strange and she proved that in her futarigoto with Risa (Ai: Isn't man smart? You know..inventing the wheel and stuff LOL) Of course Ai has got a personality she just doesnt play on it as much as other members do.

Personally, when I heard Miki was leaving and Ai was becoming leader I was really pleased. I always thought Ai-chan would make a awesome leader and to be honest I was kind of scared that Musume would turn evil with Miki as their leader (joke lol) Throughout Morning Musume I've always thought that Ai was one of the most respected amongst them and thats why I think she'd make a good leader. I can imagine her being the sort of leader that people would turn to if they had problems and I'm sure she's helped make the pandas become accustomed to life within the group. Also her and Risa are a awesome pair and I'm pretty sure they would both work hard as leader and sub leader for MM. However, Risa without Ai-chan? I think if they dont have a double graduation than Risa will probably leave before Ai. I dont know why I think this but I just cant see Takitty graduating in the near future-or caught up in a scandal either.. 

Whilst I respect people's opinions and how everyone may not like Ai as much as other people (i.e. me) I think that people should give her more of a chance. Its not fair to critise her for things she has no control over. So lets sum up some of Takittys most lovable aspects. 

Ai Takahashi: current MM leader, kick-ass voice,  weird personality, cool new hair and manly screams.

More love and less hate towards Takitty!!

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C-ute has won the New Artist Award from the 49th Japan Record Awards (Nihon Record Taishou) along with three other artists. Unfortunatly they did not win the Best Hits Kayousai Newcomer Award but they received a runner up prize. They will also compete for the Best New Artist Award on a show that will be broadcast on December 30th 2007. Ganbatte C-ute!

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Tsuji has finally given birth and all you who guessed it was a girl are correct! Im so happy for her XD!

She gave birth at 12:45 am on Monday 26th November. They have named the baby as Noa, 希空, and she weighed 2730 grams. Both child and mother are doing great. Im so happy for Tsuji and now maybe her daughter (and Iidas child, hopefully a girl) can form some sort of baby unit xD!