These pictures seems to be previews for Kago Ai’s new photobook, maybe from some magazine. The photobook titled Los Angeles or at least it’s how it was posted in CD Japan where it’s now sold out. Even though this picture above is the only one I’ve seen of her without a single piece of cloth or a sheet on, it’s less revealing than some of Aibon’s two previews photobooks.

I like these previews, much better and… “normal” than those strange, “artistic” pictures before. I’m looking forward to see it complete.

Yesterday was the first date on ºC-ute’s current spring concert tour, ~SHOCKING LIVE~, and as part of the encore of this concert they performed their upcoming single Campus Life ~Umarete Kite Yokatta~. This is ºC-ute 12th single and will be released on April 28, the titled is translated as “Campus Life ~I’m Glad I was Born~” and here’s the concert rip.

℃-ute- キャンパスライフ~生まれて来てよかった (concert rip)

Nice H!O user xNiigakiRisax posted this lyrics with the names of the girls who sing each verse.

ºC-ute -- Campus Life ~Umarete Kite Yokatta~ (Lyrics)

hazukashi ina dakedo ai taina ( Maimi )
tenki yoi kara riyuuduke te sasowa retakedo ( Maimi )
konna chikaku kun ga suwatte iru ( Airi )
isoi deyatta meiku hamou daijoubu kana ( Airi )

iyahon wo katahou zutsu kyoku wo kii ta ( Chisato )
atama gahonno sukoshi butsukatta ( Saki . Mai )

umare tekite yoka ttawa kokoro no soko kara kun to deae ta shinjitsu kami shime teiru
kun no egao no ??? ekubono zenbu suki ??? yoriitooshiino

suki suki suki ( Maimi )

raishuumatsu ae naiyo ima( Airi )
sono fun kyou hatappuri miyo u zenbu ( Airi )
toha itsutte mo maji machi kirenai ( Maimi )
fushizen ??? shashin toka ???( Maimi )

???( Mai )
hari dume teita ???( Saki . Chisato )

umare tekite arigatau ??? genjitsu nimo kanshashi takutemo tari nai kanji
chotto waruso ude honki dase ba tsuyoso ude ??? yasashii ???

suki suki suki ( Saki )

umare tekite arigatau ??? nimo genjitsu nimo kanshashi takutemo tari nai kanji ( Airi )
chotto waruso ude honki dase ba tsuyoso ude ??? yasashii ???

suki suki suki ( Airi )

First of all, I’m finally back, I was away for about 10 days but I’ll resume activities since today. And it’s nice to know that there are people that visits this relatively new blog after even after more than a week of abandon, thanks.

Some days ago there was this news about Bijo Houdan to end this month on Thursday 25, but a while later a (kind of) news about a new program appeared. H!O twitter pointed at another user’s tweet that stated a new show for Hello! Project titled Bijo Gaku to start the week right after that in the same time slot. All girls in Morning Musume, Berryz Koubou, ºC-ute and S/mileage in addition to Mano Erina would participate in this new show like in the previous one.

So, if all this is true, I think it’s more like a new season, or a change in activities or mechanics for the show, because it even has a similar name.

I just hope for this new one to be better, or just funnier than the previous one.

Buono! will release a DVD with their collection of videos titled Buono! CLIPS vol.1 on March 10. This one above is the cover for this DVD and these below are the links to purchase it on YesAsia and CD Japan.

Buono! – CLIPS vol.1

• YesAsia | CD Japan

It’s a great release, be sure you wont miss it.

Berryz Koubou girls, mostly Natsuyaki Miyabi and Kumai Yurina, have made some promotion videos for their new single Otakebi Boy WAO! These are very pointless and random, but they worked, now I know the name of the song, I couldn’t remember Otakebi other way, lol.

There are other two guys, I don’t know who are them but look like the average Japanese comedy duo.

Berryz Koubou -- Otakebi Boy WAO! promotion campaign videos in YouTube

What’s with Momoko, she didn’t have voice or something.

Mano Erina’s first video in Up-Front’s channel in YouTube was uploaded some days ago, it’s just a presentation as many other girls have done, the video is too short =/.

真野恵里菜　on My YouTube

Kamei Eri is releasing her new Image DVD, too sweet Eri today and there’s a preview video uploaded to Dohhh UP! already.

I think these photobook/Image DVD are the best ones ever, they are better every time and this is not the exception, just watching the preview made me fall in love with Eri again.

Here’ the video preview from Dohhh UP!.

亀井絵里（モーニング娘。） ｔｏｏ　ｓｗｅｅｔ　Ｅｒｉ ダイジェスト

Would you like to replay the video or share the link to it with your friends?

Here are a few screenshots.

Tsunku has decided to challenge S/mileage girls with a task of collecting 10,000 pictures of smiling faces of fans of them.For making this they will be rewarded with a Major Debut in May. The challenge don’t seem to be that difficult to achieve but they need the help of as many fans as possible.

In S/mileage’s official home page they have set an upload form for fans to send their pictures. It’s in Japanese but Hello! Online website has translated the page so we all can contribute to S/mileage’s debut.

This is the page with the upload form: http://www.helloproject.com/egao/

This is H!O’s translation: http://www.hello-online.org/index.php?act=helloonline&CODE=article&topic=1032

These videos were uploaded to Up-Front Channel in youtube announcing this challenge.

So you just need to follow these three simple steps to send your picture.

Has been announced a new single for only Hello! Project soloist, Mano Erina and it will be released on May 12. There’s no title for this single yet and it’s two months away, let’s hope she will do better with this than the previous one.

The picture in the post is just for illustrative purposes. =P

Aibon will release a new photobook with the theme of her recent trip to America, the name of this book will be Los Angeles and there are some few previews in this page i-dol.tv (http://www.i-dol.tv/idol/kagoai.htm).

Here are the pictures.

Berryz Koubou’s new single’s PV Otakebi Boy WAO! was aired on Japanese TV in Woodstock Party. Before the PV they give a long comment about it. There are too many special effects in this PV!

Berryz Koubou -- Otakebi Boy WAO! full PV in Woodstock Party

S/mileage’s new single’s PV is on YouTube already. It’s very nice, creative and cute, I liked Kanon and Ayaka specially in this PV. This single will be released on March 14 and it’s S/mileage’s 4th indie single.

【PV[HQ2]】オトナになるって難しい!!!／スマイレージ

S/mileage – Otona ni Narutte Muzukashi!! [オトナになるって難しい!!!]

1. Otona ni Narutte Muzukashii!!! (オトナになるって難しい!!!; Becoming an Adult is Difficult!!!)
2. Otona ni Narutte Muzukashii!!! (Instrumental) (オトナになるって難しい!!! (Instrumental))

Berryz Koubou’s new single’s PV, Tomodachi wa Tomodachi Nanda! was aired today in Japanese television on Space Shower so we have already the full PV in nice qualit, I guess there will be a better one soon.

But… OMG! a good PV! I had forgotten how they were, but this is really cool, it was about time that Berryz had some nice PV.

Berryz kobo -- Tomodachi wa Tomodachi Nanda! [Berryz工房 友達は友達なんだ！] (MV Full)

Morning Musume’s Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikena’s single V was released yesterday February 24, and it contains three videos, the original version of the PV, the stage version of it and the making of video. They are all uploaded on YouTube so I post them here.

Morning Musume -- Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikena Single V Tracklist

1. Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai (女が目立って なぜイケナイ) (PV)
2. Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai (Stage Ver.) (女が目立って なぜイケナイ (Stage Ver.))
3. Making of (メイキング映像)

Morning Musume -- Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikena (Stage Version)

Morning Musume -- Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikena (Original Version)

Morning Musume -- Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikena (Making of video)

READY! KICK OFF!!, Ongaku Gatas’ fourth single and their first after their graduation is set to release on June 3rd. I have posted the cover before but this one is bigger and better. Noto Arisa looks specially cute in this cover, I’m eager to see a PV of this single, and I hope they do release one.

Tracklist

1. READY! KICK OFF!!
2. READY! KICK OFF!! (Instrumental)

Japanese magazine Up to Boy recurently features our favorite girls among it’s pages and this time (I don’t know is this is the first time) ºC-ute will have a minidrama in pictures inside this magazine. The scan above is the presentation of this drama with all the characters played by ºC-ute members, Yajima Maimi, Nakajima Saki, Suzuki Airi, Okai Chisato and Hagiwara Mai.

The picture below is the first episode, you can see it’s like a live action comic or something. It seems to be funny but it would be better if someone would translate it.

Buono! is featured in Daily Sports newspaper… in the paper edition. Well, the scans are obviously not good quality but there are two of them, the picture above is the complete page and the one below is the lower quality close up to the main photo.

More scan of Beautiful Lady Television magazine, this is Mano Erina in Ufufupedia. It seems to be an article about her ongoing web dorama Mano Spy, were she plays an international spy that is an Idol as a day work. In the scan below you can see her as an Idol and a warrior, she’s cute both ways.

Last NINE SMILE concert is the most significant concert for Morning Musume in the last years because it was the last one for Kusumi Koharu as part of Momusue. Being one of the most popular Morning Musume and Hello! Project members it was (and it’s still is) very hard to see her walk away so there’s no way that I can see this videos without droping a tear.

The concert was perfect, the setlist, the performance the outfits, everything was great.

Morning Musume -- NINE SMILE, Kusumi Koharu’s Graduation Concert