Gets post!

A nice gets post here as it rained all day today and I started school again. Aww so depressing! But I was happy to come home and find three different packages of goods from HSUSA. It would have been more but due to back orders somethings are being held until February. Well let's take a look at the goodies!



I got all the 2L sets for every member for the military sets. I thought that these are some of the most awesome concert images in a while! H!P really out did themselves with this tour and the goods. The black outfits are like the ones that look the most out of place honestly but I think 8th generation and Reina look the best. The green color for 8th generation is like perfection! ♥ Gawd I love them so!


Next is the graduation set. This is the only set I got from all the graduation things just because I had to save my money for books for school. But I am happy I got these and kind of wished I would have gotten Linlin's microfiber towel. But what can you do? Yeah but these are lovely. ♥





All the group sets I got. I have to say I love Morning Musume group shots. I don't really much care what they are all from I just love them. ♥ So I have about 4-5 other group shots that are on back order. Two from the making of the calender, 2 from the behind the scenes for the DVDs and goods shoots and then one live set and one military set.

Then the main thing:

Eri PB! Now this was a kind of spur of the moment buy where I was like "Hey I want this PB." And then I got it and was like "I didn't really NEED to buy that. Ah well" So here it is. It is a really nice PB, some shots are a bit too much for me but Eri looks amazing in all the shots. I think my favorite shoot had to be the one of her at the karaoke place. The ones with the tambourines. Very cute! But my favorite part has to be where the making of DVD is that it's a picture from the karaoke place where they were playing "Go Girl! Koi no Victory" and on the TV is a young Eri.

Yes those are my fingers XD
So You can't see it too well but I think it's adorable. ♥♥ Over all I am very happy with the things I got. :)

And then there was a sale!

Well yesterday I had set my alarm for 8 o clock just in time for a HSUSA Black Friday sale. And that hour flew by quicker than I thought talking with Kawbi and looking around at things. Well first order was place quickly as I knew those microfiber towels were gonna go fast. To my dismay however the number order system had messed up and my order had failed. This caused me to loose about 2 of the towels I wanted as well as 3 different photo sets I had wanted badly. Angered but still wanting goods I tried to back track as best I could. First order ended up being:


Well after that I went back through and noticed I skimmed over the C-ute section a bit and went back for some more C-ute and S/mileage goods. I picked up some stragglers as well. Order number #2:

Final count: 32 2L photos, 2 Microfiber towels, 29 L photos

Some of the things I got as gifts and some things I will be willing to give away. I also got a refund from HSUSA for the failed order. I really love the system of customer support from HSUSA. I've had only small problems with some things in the past and it has always been handled quickly and with respect. I love how they will give me money back as if they know I will spend it on there website again (because I always do!). Going through what they have left I am still tempted by some things but it was a non-pay week as it is and I have not ordered the special order goods I want yet I will let the rest go.

An hour to new things~!

I am starting to get my hyper-ness on because the new goodies from HSUSA are going on to buy in less than an hour. YAYNESS~!! I get like such a hyper dork when it comes to things like this. Oh boy, you all should have seen me when it came to getting the Aika poster. My poor Alice ♥. She had to suffer through the madness. And guess who is online again now? Haha~~ Sorry Alice but I love you because you suffer through my crazyness~~♥ ♥ ♥

Now I expect my other goods to come in on Wednesday (shipped on Monday) and I can already tell my mailman is gonna be SOOOOOO happy with me. With 3 different small orders and one over sized one I'm sure he is gonna be confused. Okay so this is my crack post about being excited over new goods! I am sure the site is gonna go slow so I will post about the things I got once it's officially ordered. >3< ♥

Aika at Dinner Show

From Reina's blog Aika went and brought Eri, Sayumi, and Reina a snack before their dinner show. It seems that she stuck around to watch the show. ♥ Reina also said that the mothers of the three girls were also there so I wonder if Aika had fun being with Mrs. Tanaka, Mrs. Michishige, and Mrs. Kamei.

And something unrelated to Aika I want to talk about is the actual dinner show. The playlist for it came out and I was very excited to see Akai Freesia on the playlist! I mean I know a lot of people were hoping that they would sing it for the final concert of Rival Survival (still a chance to sing it) but this truly is the 6th gen song. And Sayumi singing Semi, my favorite old school Berryz Koubou album song. ♥♥ And Reina is singing a GAM song, not too surprised but I can't wait to hear.


Also want to tell you all that HelloStore USA has restocked some photo sets as well as has the Fashionable goods up I got the two I posted above but I think I want the body shots for the one of the right. But for now I got a C-ute set I have wanted and a S/mileage set. I need more S/mileage. ♥

HSUSA Pre-order (Special Order) Goods.

As a fan I love being able to get things! I mean I don't have to be a H!P fan to want stuff right? But I guess you need to be a H!P fan to want H!P things. Ahh.... I'm rambling. But the point I am trying to make is that the HelloStore USA has a preview of the things they are selling coming up soon~! Now there is Seishun Collection goods, which I haven't even gotten the single yet but I am willing to buy the pictures? Oh my fandom is strange. But let us take a look at the Aika goodies:


Well I know for a fact I will be getting the 2L sized group sets. I mean Reina and Aika together? Love ♥ Also Eri and Linlin. That is a must buy! Other than that I am questioning what I should get. I really love Aika's expression in that red photo is amazing so I will probably end up getting that set and the matching Reina one to it.

Those are all the Aika solo products. There are things from the summer concert tour but nothing it really jumping out at me as those Seishun collection goods so I will probably not pick any of those up. Unless they get the live photos. Which on the FB page said they may add that to the special order section. I am hopeful~! ♥

Happy New Year!!

I made an action to make screencaps like that so I hope you guys will like it. I hope to spend another great Mitsui filled year with you all! I am working on Bright Smiles now and am almost ready to open it back up again. I am trying to cite all sources for information on the fun facts section as well as make the site more up to date. All recent updates will be on this blog but for the collection of information it will be on that site.

Also in the news is a new album and single coming out for Musume! Be sure to look forward for previews and also preorder your copy of Nine Smile! It's two dics!!

I would like to also tell you all that the Hello Store USA updated with left over things from the big pre order deal. All Mitsui shirts and microfiber towels are there so I recommend them! Have a Happy New Year all~!

New Layout and Preorders from HSUSA

Hello all! There is a few updates with Musume recently. There was just a Music Japan performance:

It's fairly short and doesn't show much of the song at all, though they do say it features their booties. But aside from that and a live concert for the B-side album it has been pretty slow for Musume. But things are going to pick up a bit when more promotion comes in. Twice this month Mitsui, Kamei, and Junjun will be appearing on a radio show to talk about the single and no doubt about Koharu's graduation. Mitsui also recently appeared with Sayumi, Reina, Koharu, and Linlin on a live Ameba feed. I stayed up and watched but I didn't understand much of it since it was a quiz about Koharu before she leaves.

As for the site I have changed up the layout a bit, still don't like it that much but I am working on it. My top banner graphic skills are pretty much fail right now. So that is all fine and dandy. Updated the picture of the week. From the make your own PB from the 2008 Winter concert. I loved Mitsui in this outfit.

And now for some fun things. The Hello Store USA has added a pre-order section. But since I have been doing spotty coverage to get two Kimagure Princess Limited C's I don't know how much I am going to order here. I have my eye I quite a few photo sets for each group (I'm a photo set junkie). So I will have to talk it over with my bank account and see what we can come up with. Please be mindful that pre-orders end on the 15th. In case any people who work on the Hello Store pass by here I would love to thank you guys for all your hard work! I love everything I have been able to get so far and I love how progress is going so far.

Fans stay tuned for Music Fighter episode on the 6th! It should be an interesting one, Mitsui actually gets to talk on this show.

New Products

Well this is a bit awkward. I was going to do this post before it came out, but oh well! The Hello Store USA has new products in! (But by this point in time most to all of them are sold out) I wasn't going to be able to afford a shirt or anything like that. But I waited till 7 (Eastern coast time, it was at 4 for people on the Pacific coast) and I went crazy on the slowness of the site because everyone bum rushed the site. I myself had add the sets I wanted on my wish list, thus I went straight there and ordered the ones I wanted. It look about 6 minutes for the whole wait (incase of the first time I ordered which took 2 minutes), and I stayed on the site to watch what goes out of stock.

There must be Aika fans who surf the site, because on the sets that I got the only person tagged was Aika. The two photo sets I got are now sold out though. I am extremely happy with my buy and this pulls up my L photo count to 140. The last Morning Musume set I got was from 2007 from Sexy 8 Beat. I am very happy that I was able to get these, though I am curious how I am going to pay for the Kimagure Princess single. I am trying to do something in a contest that may give me 20-10 dollars towards Yesasia. I hope I can get the Limited C version of it, that there is still time.

Well to all of those of you who are still looking: http://www.hellostoreusa.com/index.php?subcats=.....products.search
Happy hunting.

Random updates

I have finally gotten something from the Hello Store USA. Despite the fact I said I was gonna wait to get the cellphone charm I was told to get something useful from a friend. So I figure I would get that. If anything I can add it to my keys. I got that as well as the last set of Mitsui 2L photos from P9D and a set of Reina 2L photo cards from the same concert. (If you knew anything about me it should be that I can't let Mitsui stand alone if Reina can be added) I was kind of shocked to see I had gotten the last set, and a bit proud at the same time. Being a Mitsui fan it makes me feel accomplished. For fans who have questions for the store you can go to this forum to have your questions answered by the staff of JapanFiles that runs the store. I also added links to places where you can buy CDs. I have ordered from all the places linked but HMV Japan. I have heard some good and some not so good things about it. All up to you who you buy from.

I also added a picture of the week on here. I figure most of you all don't have enough space for all the Mitsui photos I have collected through H!O, Aewen's site, and from Yahoo! Auctions Japan. If you click on it you can get a larger picture. This one is from summer 2008. To tell the truth I never really found out where these shirts were meant for but I found the design very cute.

It also seems that I missed a DVD release in November; the DVD for Hello! Project 2009 Summer Kakumei Gannen ~Hello Chanpuru~ will be coming out. Mitsui appears in Morning Musume with the rest of the "gang", as a part of Tanpopo# with Kamei, Chisato, and Yurina as well as Guardians 4 with Risako, Yurina, and Saki. I'm looking forward to this release because she is in so many groups.

And as I am updating the new covers are out for the single Kimagure Princess.

This as big as it is.
It appears that the Limited B cover is the same as the Limited C cover, but the Limited B has a DVD and the Limited C has 10 interchangeable covers. I think I will be getting the regular one and the Limisted C CDs. I am in love with interchangeable covers. So I can't wait to look at the Mitsui solo cover. I will warn the Limited C is sold out on CDJapan. I plan to get mine from Yes asia. Well this should be it for now. I will update when the calender and the Hello store stuff comes in, or if there is a blog post.

Grand Opening of the Hello Store USA

I was going to do this post when the store opened, but I couldn't stay awake till 3 am, sorry I just couldn't. I made it to 2:30 but I was dog tired and I was out! But from what I heard the site was pretty slow because everyone went on when it opened. But I'm on now and surfing fine.


Now just looking at the site made me extremely happy, knowing I can order from there. As a H!P fan who has preordered/ordered things from CD Japan and Yesasia, even from Japan it self from Y!A Japan shipping can get very expensive. Yes there are places on ebay but those have gotten extremely expensive for the items itself. So you could guess my reaction when I saw regular photo sets for just $10. The one ebay seller charges from $25-$30 for a photo set. So there is a lot going for this site right here.

So being the fan I am I checked out the Morning Musume section first (Hello Mitsui!) I was a bit surprised on what they had, some things from last year. Overall a very healthy section of Morning Musume stuff. That being said most of it is sold out already (much to my dismay all the photo sets are sold out). But regardless there are some really awesome things on here to order. And being a big Mitsui fan I will go in for the kill for some Microfiber towels. There are a ton of 2L photos. I like them but I don't really have a holder for those. But I might stock up on Mitsui and Reina ones (Reika love FTW). But I am also really interested in Linlin things as well.

The most recent items are from Summer 2009 Hello! Champloo and for Musume it's Platinum 9 DISC. But there are things from as far back as Bomb Kyu and Sexy 8 Beat times (before Mitsui cut and dyed her hair). But there is only the pamphlet. But if you like that concert tour (I had some other views on it for Bomb kyu) but never the less the things they have a very good. I will not give a 100% just because I haven't gotten anything yet, flat rate shipping is only $5 in America for those of you wondering about shipping in America. But when I do you all will be the first to know.

The coming soon section looks VERY promising with a large collection of Nine Smile products on the list. I will try to order some things soon and I will let you all know! Oops, almost forgot the link to the site: http://www.hellostoreusa.com/

Happy shopping~!