Rival Survivor! And more goodies~

The Rival Survivor poster came out and I am so excited over Aika:


SO EXCITED~! Like I don't like Aika's hair as much but she is sure showin' some skin. Now the first thing that came to my mind was Destiny Child's Survivor:

And I do remember hearing that Ai likes this song so I wonder~ But I think this looks amazing. I can only wonder what the towels will look like! Oh man I am so happy I am hopefully gonna be getting paid soon so I can afford all the goods. ♥♥ And aside from picking up Aika and Reina goods I think some Sayumi goods are going to be picked up as well. Ah man~

In other exciting pic news:

Apparently these are the outfits for the new MM single, which will be the last single for Junjun, Linlin, and Eri. And I guess it holds true that it is gonna be a sushi theme because little cartoon characters close to sushi items where made for each girl. Meet Aika's:


So her character is named IkaIka (Aika) Ika meaning squid, thus the dress and hair piece. I think her character is the simplest and most boring out of the 8 girls but I think hers is the closest to the food it's related to. But for the actual single outfits I am a bit on the fence at the moment. I kinda almost want Reina in green and Sayu in the pink as I think the green is pants and the pink is a skirt and Sayu is just so cute. But as for the picture can't complain on anything Aika wise. But I love her and Eri next to each other. ♥

And in the last bit of news

THE NEW CALENDER COVER HAS COME OUT~!! Aika looks amazing on the cover and I think they shot it at the same place as the last calender but I don't care. It's a bit simple but I think I like it like that. Last years was very basic on the outside as well but the insides was all nice and colorful. I will be getting this calender as well. I really didn't rip off the months on last years calender so that is just hanging in my room. Ah well, I can roll it up like I did with Nanchatte Renai when I got the Aika signed poster. Ah but this year I am hoping for a page with Aika and Reina again! I still regret not getting the 2009 calender. (>_<)||

And I guess that is all for now since this is imagine heavy I will be making another post soon for a possible goods give away.

Clendar and Rank your PVs

So I was sitting around waiting for the mail to come (as I do every day lol jk) And in walks my brother with a tube

Being that I got my Nanchatte Renai promotional poster is a close tube as that I freaked and did a happy dance.

What could it be you all may be wondering? What would put me in a down right tizzy of excitment and joy....

That's right! Morning Musume of course! And so we have the Morning Musume 2010 calendar. When opening it up I was right to guess it to be poster size. And if you include the binding that holds it together than it is a big larger than the Nanchatte Renai poster, but without it's a bit smaller. Some things I noticed was that instead of having plastic binds they had before this one is bounded much like a book. Also it has a nail hole in it to hold it up. And there is also perforated edge on it for easy rip ability for those you are done with whatever months, or fans like me will use them for future posters.


Now we have the cover. Seeing as I have this up close you can see it all. It's so pretty. All the girls look so classy. I know some people were questioning the hair choice for Mitsui and some for Niigaki but when you have it in your hands it's not even a problem. I have a close up of Mitsui and Linlin from the front, I tried to get a close up for Mitsui when I could. (Pardon the glares, it's hard to take one without it)


The close up for this one didn't come out too well so I left it out till I could make it nicer. Well this is for the month of January and February. I added on the side with the calendar part in it the dates to show that it has the girls birthdays decorated on it as well. Some people were mad thinking that they didn't do that this for next year's calendar. Well they did~! So now you know Mitsui's birthday is on a Tuesday next year.


Next Mitsui page is May and June. Pardon the super glare on the close up of Mitsui and Eri. Mitsui was on the far left, prone to glare. So this one is really cute and it's really bright. I love it! This one I was questionable on this one just because it wasn't one of my favorite outfits from this calendar. But I think it's the shock and awe of having it in person that is winning me over.


This is the back cover with my top three Musume's together in the top right corner. Hello Mitsui, Linlin, and Reina. So this calendar is really nice and well put together. I am in awe of the beauty of Musume in a calendar. I think the only thing that would top the calendars are the life size cutouts and meeting them in person/watching the concert live.

So now I have counted and have seen that with Kimagure Princess it is Mitsui's 10th single as a part of Morning Musume. Congrats Mitsui! So now I have 'Rank Your PVs'!!! This is basically taking what you believe the ranking for the 10 PVs Mitsui has been in Musume and how you like them in comparison to the others. Here is mine in order from 10 to 1.

10. Resonant Blue

Now the only reason why this one is really low is just because in the original PV there is no Mitsui in at all, she has no lines, and it's so frikin' depressing to me to sit and watch all Ai, Reina, and Koharu. I don't see how all the other girls didn't rise up and argue this. I mean the only one who mentioned it was Sayumi who asked for more lines in the next single. And ya know what happened? She got those lines! Not saying I don't like the song, when I first had my other computer this was in an epic battle to be #1 on my itunes. It's just not my favorite.

09. Onna ni Sachi Are

Now this one is a good song as well just not that good of a delivery. I mean you have your first single with just 5th gen in there and the new girls, and you dress up like a sexy big bird? Mitsui does look so little going back to get the screen cap for it though. Nothing too bad, PV is not that great. But I can deal since the song is awesome.

08. Pepper Keibu

I love the song, I love the dance, I love everything about this song, I mean the PV too, that dance break is killer. But I just can't rank it up higher. But it's a very good cover and a solid song from 2008.

07. Naichau Kamo

The first song of this year, wow it feels like so long ago. My favorite thing about this video is the close ups, I mean they are so nice and pretty. I think they used a filter in the editing stage, but it's so amazingly pretty. One of my favorite close ups. Plus the tears were a nice touch.

06. Mikan

I don't care if people say this is too over played, or it didn't sell well. This song and PV are really cute and they are awesome! I love how we see the girls when they were younger, I love seeing the scene above, the girls on the earth with each other. You can really see the connection from Mitsui to Koharu in this video. Also the making of is really fun.

05. Kimagure Princess

I know this just came out but this PV is a really good one despite what you might have read. Some people take other people's thoughts as truth. Think for yourself. This PV is really artistically interesting and I can't wait to see the photos Mitsui took of the place they shot the PV at. I also want to see what the other PVs are gonna look like.

04. Kanashimi Twilight

This is another great song and PV. I love the punk rock style and I love the song. It's just a really good PV, not as good as Kimagure, but it's got a better song.

03. Egao Yes Nude

For the bronze we have Egao Yes Nude, Mitsui's first single with Morning Musume. It's got a nice message of being yourself and natural and the dance is fun and the song is amazing.

02. Shouganai Yume Oibito

I've never seen such a following for a song like this. I love it, fans love it, and I think you should love it as well.This is the PV fans dream of, has near equal lines for all members, has a little bit of a story time, and has a theme in it. I really love how this PV was presented, the colors were washed out a bit and they have a sad look about the girls. It's a great PV and it really fab.


01. Nanchatte Renai

Yes, that leaves Nanchatte Renai. I'm not even sure why I like this one so much. I mean the song is awesome and yeah there are 22 versions of it so it's crazy but I just love it. The contrast of black and white is great and I like the near equal lines again.

So there you have it! The 10 singles Mitsui has been a part of as a member of Musume in my rankings. Feel free to snag images and do your own. Seeing as this post got really image heavy I will do a review for the B-side collective album on a different post in the future.

Reviews and things to come

I have yet to make my first purchase from the Hello Store USA, this is due to many reasons. One being the virus on my computer causing major problems; in fact the blog post last time was posted during that time. So pardon any errors in spelling or grammar. Two, I just had to spend over 100 for the guy to just erase everything on my hard drive and install the important things back on. But what can ya do? I plan to buy a few photo cards; I was gonna get the cell phone charm but I will wait. Something I noticed though, a lot of the Mitsui stuff is now sold out compared to yesterday. You all gang up and buy without me? Just kidding. But this post will be looking ahead to future releases with Mitsui in them.

I think we will go down the list. So I shall start up with the calendar. I ordered this one and it has acutally been shipped already.

These photos are edited versions of LQ photos found on H!O, credits to Schizophat@JPM. Now looking at it I know some fans are disappointed with this calendar from last years. Sadly enough I was not able to get the Musume calender, despite my large love of Reika. But I am excited for this calendar. I mean, yes Mitsui doesn't do a photo shoot with Sayumi, Reina, Koharu, or Linlin (Sayumi which I suspected her to be paired up with this year) but each member missed 4 other members. Kind of sad actually. But from the looks of it this calender is going to be really pretty, plus the calendar is the size of posters so it's a plus.

Next we have "Morning Musume Singles Coupling Collection Best Album"

Over all I find both covers very creative, I scaled them down to fit better for the site. The first one if you can't tell is all 25 members of Morning Musume, in the first single they took photos for. As you can see Mitsui is in her school uniform from Egao Yes Nude. The other cover is Musume as they are now and the graduated members in the outfits from their last Musume single. Very nostalgic looking back on all 25 members, thinking how they changed in all. Now being that I have all the B-sides I will most likely will not picking up this album any time soon. The only look up is the Limited Ed one comes with a booklet. I am curious to see it but not worth $30 plus off Yesasia. That is the only bad thing with albums, they are always so darn expensive. But for fans who don't have all the singles and only have the single collection CDs will be interested in looking into the B-sides. For most of 2005 and 2006 the B-sides for Musume singles were more fun than the singles.

Now is time for the big boy: Morning Musume's 41st single Kimagure Princess.

Yes this throw back song to Musume yester years sure had the fans stirring up with some playful comments on the opening "Alvin and the Chimp monks" opening. I find it creative and very fun to listen to, with it's mature lyrics and it's crazy outfits. I mean, I don't know about you all but when I think Princess cowboy hats don't come up often. And today a 10 sec preview came out for the PV. And I have complied the Mitsui that can be seen:

Don't see her? This may help:

Now remember this is a short preview. So I wasn't expecting a lot of Aika from it. But I am impressed with the butt rub, nice job Linlin.

Now we have the Guardians 4 3rd single Party Time

Now when I had come back from being off line for the whole night and till about 4 today (seemed like forever), when I came back the new Shugo Chara show is out. And it looks like they pulled a Kirarin Revolution and had parts of the PV in the opening. So of course (after I got an editing program I could work) I compiled some screens for you all:

Yup! They're green~! The one I got was actually sub titled so I got a peak at translated lyrics. And despite being called Party Time the lyrics are kind of up lifting. We start with a few close ups, then an actual set! They are outside running around, the dance shot is actually outside here. Seems to be a party inside as well. A lot of Mitsui and Saki love in this PV.

Then we have Risako standing in the middle of a baby pool and poof, she's in a bubble! And not even like CGed her into a bubble fake stuff you could recall from Mini Moni. They do this with all the members, it's actually pretty cool! And we party some more! This song is actually really catchy and I could see how it could catch on with kids.

And our final is the Fan Club tour that was Reina, Mitsui, and Junjun; but Koharu was added on to be her last fan club event.

Now since I have no Japanese skills what so ever, don't have enough money to be a fan club member, and never have been to Japan I have no idea what this will entail but I am curious to watch the DVD, with these 4 it will be really fun no matter what.