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Some time ago Morning Musume '14 announced their upcoming  autumn tour.  This tour will also be Michishige Sayumi's last tour as leader and member of Morning Musume and Hello!Project. The title was released some time ago: Morning Musume '14 Concert Tour Aki GIVE ME MORE LOVE ~Michishige Sayumi Sotsugyou Kinen Special~ And now we have the outfits and logo for the tour! Such a beautiful logo! I love the arrow and the hearts! And the gold looks really beautiful. I love how the background is a concert, this gives the logo some extra umpf. The outfits make me think of Rival Survival meets Queen of J-Pop. Anyway I love that they are all in Pink! Perfect for a graduation tour for the Pink girl! The jackets may be a bit weird (because some have only one sleeve), the girls look amazing.  Overall I love how this tour is coming togheter! I adore the outfits and the logo. It looks perfect for Sayumi.

It's pretty hard for me to keep up with news on the Akb groups, but when I find something on time, I jump onto it. This time it's the preview for Kokoro no Placard, Mayuyu's general election song.  Eventhough the song is a diffrent than their normal songs, It's really cute. It makes me think of Koisuru Fortune cookie, because it sounds like something from 30 or more years ago, but fits perfectly with the girl in front.  The dresses are terrible. They make me think of a dress I once saw in Disneyland. It was like a Clam dress. The girls kinda make it work though, they look unbelievably cute. Still the clip looks like a total copy of the Koisuru Fortune Cookie MV. The same idea, with the same sort of shots. Well it worked last year, why not this time?

Very good news for our little Juicy butterflies! Their 4th single has ranked on the Oricon Chart!  And not just ranked, NO! They got the second place with 29.134 copies sold!!!! Congratulations Juice=Juice!! I'm really happy for them and this is a great result! I can't wait to get my own copy.

Hello! Station this week had a big suprise: Both previews for S/mileage's new single: Aa Susukino/ Chikyuu wa Kyou mo Ai wo Hakugumu I have to say I'm really suprised with how amazing both MV's look. I love how everyone has their moment of spotlight and I love both settings. Aa Susukino looks really promising and fresh and Chikyuuu wa Kyou looks very cool and awsome. 

This is not a drill! S/mileage finally got their new profile pictures!!! The pictures are for their new single Aa Susukino/ Chikyuu wa  kyou mo Ai wo Hagukumu.  The light outfits are foor Aa Susukino and the red outfits are for Chkyuu wa Kyou mo Ai wo Hagukumu.  Overall I really like wat I see. I love the Aa Susukino outfits a lot. They look fresh and very cute. The red outfits look pretty good, although some hairstyles... This will be a pretty long post because we have 4 pictures of each girl, so I will putt my comment under the spoiler! Be sure to read it. 

At the lastest H!P Concert the Kenshuucuties preformed yet another new song! It is called; Koishitai Shintou There is no further information on this song or the other two new songs.

The H!P kenshuusu-Cuties preformed a possible new song on the latest H!P concert!  The song is called: Seishun beat wa 16 There is no further information about this song (nor about their other new song Crying). I love the fact that the Kenshuusei girls are finally getting more songs. Some of these girls show so much potential it makes me want to debut them right away. Oh if I had the power to choose who got to debut, H!P Kenshuusei would be so much smaller.

Finally, FINALLY it's here! Bitter & Sweet, the duo of Tasaki Asahi and Hasegawa Moemi are going to release their second dvd single! It will be released on the third of september and it's called: Darenimo Naisho/ Gesshoku It was about time they got another single! They released their last single in March!! Anyway I'm happy they will be getting more songs, because Asahi is just <3. Moemi still has to grow on me but Install was just amazing! I loved that song so much, I hope I will love one of their new songs 2.

S/mileage will soon release their 17th single Aa Susukino/ Chikyuu wa kyou mo Ai wa Hagukumu! For some reason we don't have any profile pictures yet, but the covers were released! Let's have a look at them! Limited A Limited A has such wonderfull soft colors! I really love the minty color, it's really fresh and the girls look really cute. I wish they would have smiled more, but I love how their group name looks like it's writen in crayons.  Limited B Ohh Look at that Dawa! So sensual. I like this cover eventhough there is far to much red. I like the way they did the name of the single and how they did S/mileage in the back. If it was less red I would have loved it. Kana looks beautiful btw. Limited C   Such a colorfull release, Mint, red and now lemon yellow. I like how everyone is positioned (LEGS), but I would have done the name of the group really big below or something. I quite like how simple it is. Limited D   Really Dawa stop i

Girls beat!! released their first single yesterday and already announced their second one! Their second single will be released on the 10th of september and the name is: Mada, Yareru With as b-side: Todoke! Todoke! They also released the short MV's for both songs: Mada, Yareru Todoke! Todoke!

Above we have the preview of Girls Beat!! first single Seikai Seifuku.  The song is very upbeat with a lot of Kago-chan! The video also shows a preview of the PV which is animated or at least drawn pictures. I really like the song and I love Kago's voice. I would have loved if the other girls got more to sing, but I guess they are really trying to get as much attention as possible, so using Kago as their leader, center and ace is pretty logic.  Girls beat!! also has their own site now: http://girls-beat.com/ And they have profile pictures! Kago Ai Kita Remi Himeno Ryona

Dear readers of my blog, I have been thinking about writing this post for some time now. Things have happend here and these things have left me with so many thoughts that I wanna write about it.  A few days ago a plane crashed in Ukraine. It was a dutch plane, with a lot of dutch people in it. These people: mothers, fathers, daugthers, sons, grandparents, friends, teachers, everbody, they all died there. Lots of people lost their beloved ones and it's a disaster.  My family and friends were  not harmed. Everbody is fine and I feel truely blessed. But there are so many people who lost someone, so many families ripped apart. So many futures unlived. I can just not believe this happend and that this is real. How can something so horrible be real?  I didn't know any of these people well, but some of these victims were students at my old school and the school I teached for a year. One of these victims was my colleague for a year. I didn't know either of them wel

C-ute released their new single this week and these are their positions at the Daily Oricon Chart for now: First day Second day Third day For now they are selling really good! Let's hope they will be in the top 5 for the weekly chart!

C-ute will finish their fall tour in Nippon Budokan on the 11th of November! This is really great news for C-ute, because they already have a Budokan concert on C-ute day! Their fall tour is called:  C-ute concert tour 2014 Autumn ~Monster~ For some reason I have the feeling this tour will be Lady Gaga inspired, but that must be just the title. I'm really happy for C-ute that they get another Budokan concert! 

Fukumura Mizuki will release a new solo dvd on the 6th of August.  The dvd will be called: Pancake Yeah for more Mizuki goodness! And I really love the title, it sounds very cute! 

Juice=Juice released both Promotional Mv's for their 4th single Black Butterfly/ Kaze ni Fukarete.  Black Butterfly is a bit of a dark MV in which the girls make a butterfly during the dance- shot.  Kaze ni Fukarete has a little bit of a story in it, so look forwards to that.  Black Butterfly Kaze ni Fukarete Both songs are pretty good in my opinion. They didn't grab me like Ijiwaru or Hadaka no, but after listening to them a bit more I can honestly say I love both songs. They are still going for the fresh and cool feeling and I really love it. The only thing that annoys me is H!P Jesus. Karin is EVERYWHERE. I know I know that's what an Ace does, but still... I can't even enjoy her singing that much anymore, but who knows maybe I wouldn't feel the same way if it was Tomoko standing in her spot, or maybe it's the hair.. Anyway please give both songs a listen! (I do not hate Karin, I do not hate the girl at all! So don't get me wrong on

The Morning Musume 9th gen auditions, I remember them so incredibly well. It was the first time I got to see auditions and I was so exited! I was really sad about the triple graduation, so new members were just the thing to get my mind of things. I remember loving Eripon and Rihoriho right away.  Ikuta Erina Eripon was so cute with long hair and eventhough her dancing and singing weren't good, she still smiled and worked her way through everything. I totally understand why Tsunku choose her. When Eripon smiles, everyone wants to smile. She doesn't do a perfect job, but she does the job while working hard and still smiling. I think he made the perfect decision to putt her in Morning Musume, because today she is not only awsome at dancing, but her singing has gotten good and her smile became even more prefect. Sayashi Riho RihoRiho was so adorable during the auditions. So young and already so well trained. I really loved her curls during the dance audition an