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This is Morning Musume's third amazing selling single. They sold over 96.000 on their first day. This is an amazing achievement! Congratulations Morning Musume They had their release event today and Sayumi announced them to be at number 1! Wagamama ki no Mama Ai no Joke/Ai no Gundan sold 96.075 on the first day it was sold. Many shops sold out with their single! (I'm happy to say, one of those 96.075 singles is coming my way!)

Morning Musume will release a new Best of album on the 25th of September. It will contain 15 tracks, which include two new songs.  There will be two version and one will have a dvd. Here is the tracklist from CDJapan:" 1. Love Machine (rearranged) 2. Renai Revolution (rearranged) 3. The Peace (rearranged) 4. Souda we're Alive (rearranged) 5. THE manpower (rearranged) 6. I WISH (9ki,10ki,11ki- rearranged) 7. Auiteru (Sayumi- rearranged) 8. Renai Hunter 9. One.Two.Three 10. Wakuteka Take a Chance 11. Help me!! 12. Brainstorming 13. Kimi sae Ireba Nani mo Iranai 14. TBA 15. TBA It's great to see Morning Musume working hard on letting people know who they are now. There are so many new girls and Japan needs to know them. This album combines their new power with their old songs. I can't wait for more information (cover, previews, dvd contents). Keeping you updated!

Before I start this blogpost: Please sit tight. I don't even know if I got this right. Tsunku just uploaded a video about the 12th gen auditions: There are no winners for the 12th gen auditions for Morning Musume. Tsunku said something about it not being the right time.  He is busy with Juice=Juice and the current Momusu members are great. I'm so suprised and shocked by this news. The whole audition was a suprise and now, not having any new members, it make me really sad.  I always love new girls. Getting to see them bloom and become a really Morning Musume.  And now.. 12th gen won't be around anytime soon.  What a news. 

So Satoyama life has just finished and we only got a little sneakpeek of the Auditions. There were some girls shown, but it's not sure the are finalists. The audition song and dance: Song Kanashiki Amefuri/C-ute Dance Watashi ga Iu mae ni Dakishimekya ne/Juice=Juice Some screencaps:

A very exiting announcement: Today Satoyama Life will have footage on the Morning Musume auditions!!! I really hope it's more than the footage we already have, but I'm so so so so exited!!! It will air around 6 p.m. in the Netherland on TV Tokyo.  I wonder if Morning Musume already saw the footage. CAN'T WAIT!

The MV for Jurin's first single Hotaru Matsuri no Hi was released through UF Licks! I heared the song already, but I still love it. It's very calming and touching. Masaki's and Karin's voice complement eachother perfectly. The MV is also very calming and very very pretty. It gives the whole satoyama feel, with a lot of scenery and Japan. Screenshots after the break <3

Today's Hello!Station featured the MV for C-ute's new Album song Ham and Cheese Bagel! It's the first track for 8 Queen of J-pop. The MV and song are really cute and very fun. There are a lot of shots including a  fun bed shot (which looks like a slumber party), several close-up shots and a cooking shot.  The song is about a girl and a boy. They share everything and have a fun live. The girl wants to be togheter for ever and always.  Screenshots after the break!

Limited A (Left) Simple cover. Just the members, blue background with sparkels and Yellow outlining. It's simple but good.  DVD contents Romance no Tochuu MV and Dance shot Limited B (Right) I love this cover. The outfits are from Watashig a Iu mae ni Dakishimkya ne (Memorial edit). Simple but the colors and everything are prefect!!! Dvd contents Watashi ga Iu mae ni Dakishimkya ne(Memorial edit) MV and Dance shot Limited C (Left) Outfits are from Samidare bijou ga Samidareru (Memorial edit) Simple cover. The members seem to walk in the galaxy? I don't know I like it. DVD contents Samidare Bijou ga Samidareru (Memorial edit) MV and Dance-shot Limited D (Right) A lot of member colors in this one. It looks really good. Simple shots of each member touching their face.  Dvd contents Watashi ga Iu mae ni Dakishimekya ne (Memorial Edit) Close-up and Dance-shot II Limited E (Left) Another simple cover. I like how Yuka and Tomoko have the b

So Juice=Juice has been really busy while I was on vacation!! They release three new MV's. Let have a look at them.  The first one we are going to have a look at is ofcourse Romance no Tochuu, which is their new single. The best thing about this MV is probably the 3 outfits and diffrent settings. The MV has a rich and elegant feel to it and the song is very classy. For what I can count we have: 3 dance shots (promotional outfits, white outfits and colorfull baggy outfits). Diamond shot Chair shot (ball chair) Close-up shot and 2 diffrent solo shots. Screenshots after the break

Watashi ga Iu mae ni Dakishimekya ne (Memorial Edit) Miyazaki Yuka Kanazawa Tomoko Takagi Sayuki Miyamoto Karin Uemura Akari kurokami dakara tte majime na ko to ka anshin shitetara dareka ni torareru zo [ Mim / Ue ] nukedaseru  Friday night [ Miz / Ka / Ta ] saa yukou yo  Are you ready? kakugo to ka nai nara  Bye Bye [ Mim / Ue ] jikan wa macchanai [ Miz / Ka / Ta ] yume kara kite kurenai hoshizora ga konya wa mabushii [ Mim / Ue ] "dakishimete ii yo" [ Miz / Ka / Ta ] "dakishimete ii yo" watashi ga iu mae nara shite ii no ni [ Mim / Ue ] onna no ko no hitotsu [ Miz / Ka / Ta ] onna no ko no futatsu honmono no kakugo ga kyou mo hoshi to naru bunkabu dakara tte otonashii ko to ka kimetsukechattetara jidai ni kerareru zo [ Miz / Ka / Ta ] minna tsudou   Friday night [ Mim / Ue ] oya ni naisho  Are you ready? ashi furuechatteru ko  Bye B

The cover preview   Nakanishi Kana's e-Hello will be Sweet Kana. They also released the cover for the e-Hello and a preview.  Kana looks really beautiful and I'm so happy for her.  Since Yatteru-chan she has gotten a little push and that's just so great. The release date is the 4th of Novemeber and it will cost around 3000 yen (somewhat cheaper). They show us two outfits. A cute pastel colored outfit, a mint/white striped hot pants with high waist and a pink loose fit top.  Usually I don't like this hairstyle on Kana, but as the title says she looks really sweet and with her own charm. The second outfit is a mini dress with flowers. I love her hair like this. She looks so cute. Kana isn't the normal beauty, but you can't say she isn't beautiful. Let's hope for a Rina and Meimei e-Hello soon! e-lineup

The HQ covers for Morning Musume's 54th single were released! Let's again have a look at them! Limited A I like it better now. But still, Riho's head is soo big. Kanon and Eripon kinda fall away in this cover Mizuki and Sakura look amazing. I do like the yellow with black and white.  Limited B I really really like this cover. The girls look amazing and I like the kisses on their cheeks. The pink/red background is a bit boring (I would have liked those trees...) but It looks really good.  Limited C This one is just AMAZING. I like how all the girls look. They have their own spot, same space. Amazing. I like Haruna in this one so much. She is just <3  Limited D I like this cover, although it's really boring. The girls are just photoshopped in a blue background. But they do look good so that's a plus.  Limited E Another amazing cover. They all look AMAZING the spots. Everything about this cover is great.  Regular A I do

Berryz Koubou and Juice=Juice will have a mini-live and handshake event tour togheter this fall. This was announced by Captain and by the FanClub. They will have 8 dates with 2 preformanced on each date. It's almost a mini-tour. This will be a great oppertunity for Juice=Juice to get more fans and to show how they do on other songs. Berryz Koubou will have their Budokan concert this fall, so they are on a roll. I'm so glad to hear this. Juice=Juice will do so great. And maybe there will be another single anytime soon! Captains blog: Click UP FC: Click

On the official site of Morning Musume the cover previews for Wagamama ki no Mama Ai no Joke/Ai no Gundan were released. They also uploaded the MV's to their youtube channel. Let's have a look at each preview. The first one is Limited A. I don't really like it that much. Riho's head is just way to big pictured. It's fine when all the girls have their heads so big, but this is really weird, Limited B is the next one. I like the red. I can't really see the groups that well but let me try. Below we have Riho, Mizuki, Harun, Ayumi and Kanon (or Sayumi) and the upper row has Sakura, Masaki, Eripon, Kudo and Sayumi (or Kanon). This cover is quite nice. Simple but nice. The next is limited C. I like how light it looks, the yellow and the oufits fit toghether really nice.  Limited D is the only blue one. We see Haruna, Mizuki, Riho, Sakura and Masaki in the front row and Kanon, Ayumi, Erina, Haruka and Sayumi in the backrow. I think it kinda weird that ther

Yesterday, after a big delay, the new Hello Station episode was uploaded on youtube! A lot of fans have been waiting for this episode. It featured both MV´s for Morning Musume´s 54th single. In this post I will be talking about Wagamama Ki no Mama Ai no Joke. Let´s start with the song: I really really love it. I like how it's diffrent from Ai no Gundan and how Sayumi got more lines. I also liked that Eripon and Zukki got to sing in the second chorus.  I'll now post my screenshots after the spoiler.