Buono! 2 Covers Released!

Aren’t they cute? I can’t wait for the new songs! The left is the regular edition and the right is the limited edition!

My Favorite Hello! Project Pictures

The cherry blossoms in the background are really good with Airi’s outfit! I like her hair, too, and the hairstylist did something good for once. Airi’s smile is enchanting and something feels really real about her standing in the middle of cherry blossom trees.

Mai and Chisa look really cute in this picture! Once again, this picture looks so real and so everyday person like. It shows that idols can smile and have fun just like anyone else, and they are real people with their own normal lives, too.

It looks like your Maki’s best friend, and she’s simply saying, “Hey, what’s up?” It’s so friendly and natural looking, and even though it’s a professional photo, it looks like she’s just playing around in the sun on a nice, warm day.

I’ve realized almost all of my favorite pictures are taken in the sun on a sunny, blue sky day. Reina looks powerfully pretty here, and not exactly natural like the other photos. Reina’s not being herself, exactly, either. But she has some kind of aura around her that says, “Hey, look at me!”

Airi acts like herself here in Buono!, whether in pictures or singing or dancing or personality. It’s like she feels at home with her best friends. Her signature makes the whole picture much better than it would’ve have been by itself, too!

It’s really just a close up shot, but it’s still cute to see Ai looking like a ten year old looking for her mother. Okay, not really, but it’s still really nice to see her big eyes up so close to the camera.

It’s Koha riding a bicycle! I have to see it! It’a so cool! Well, it’s nice to see Koha doing something that any other fourteen year old kid would do. Speaking of, isn’t Airi fourteen? Koha looked really different from Airi back then (I’m not even sure if she was fourteen in this picture), and I’m sure if you compared them, Koha would look a lot older somehow. I don’t know, but when she first joined and she was twelve, she was a lot bigger than Mai.

Chisato and Mai just really close together is a big treat. Too add to that, all of °C-ute is dressed in really nice Santa outfits. I think this picture was around last Christmas.

The Lucky Hello! Project Kids

I thought it was really unfair on how Hello! Project Kids is being sorted. Let’s get going (I liked Celestia’s “Some Kids Have All of The Luck“).

1. Agreed with Celestia – Airi Suzuki. Well, she IS a good singer, but still, doesn’t Chisato sing well, too? Although she got her part in Robby, she didn’t get a main part. Airi got a main part in Aa!, and to add to that, she go9t a main role in Buono!, °C-ute, and even when she’s in concerts, she’s a lot more promoted with even Morning Musume. Adding Sayu, Risa, and Aika all up, Airi probably gets more lines than all of them ever had.

But after all, like Celestia pointed out, WHY was Airi left out when Berryz Koubou was formed? Tsunku saw her at the auditions. He did listen to her voice, and she talked with him, too. So why was she a back up while even worse, and even less cute, singers were getting to perform? Is that why she gets so many lines nowadays? Or are her rich parents bribing Tsunku? No, just kidding. That wouldn’t happen. Or would it?

2. Wasn’t included from Celestia- Risako Sugaya. Risa was NEVER one of the best singers in her group, and even when she auditioned, I didn’t think she was the CUTEST in the group, either, while all of the Morning Musume members were shouting, “ICHI, ni, san, shi!! KAWAII!!” or whatever they were calling out. Come on, like Celestia and I pointed out, why was Risa singing while Airi was a backup dancer?

3. Agreed with Celestia- Eggs. Eggs can be good, like Yuu and Saya. On the other hand, they can be horrible, like Ayaka. Some can make it into good groups, like how Yuu and Saya got into Milky Way and get somewhat fair amounts of lines. But others, like Ayaka, can get some really horrible line shares. Come on, while Yuuka gets to sing, “Tamago wa nani iro YEAH YEAH YEAH,” Ayaka gets to sing, “ANROKKU shite,” and almost no other lines? Sure, she’s a bad singer, but I thought looks were everything, Tsunku. Do you have an answer for that?

Anyways, I thought that would be kind of fun.

*~*~Mei Niyoki~*~*

Why does °C-ute overshadow Berryz Koubou?

I…. don’t…. know. That’s the truth. But I’ll be blogging about that anyways.

Why is this blog all about HELLO! PROJECT? Why not AKB48 or Perfume or something? Why not even Karen Girls? I have no idea.

Is it the hypnotizing backstage videos? Or how enormous the whole group is? Well, if that were the case, then I’d be blogging about AKB48. But what is it that makes me so attracted to HELLO! PROJECT? To go even deeper, why are most of my posts about Hello! Project Kids? Even further from that is Buono!. But the farthest away from all of them, the one I blog the most about, the one I say the most about…. is Berryz Koubou.

So the fact that Berryz Koubou is sinking and getting overshadowed by °C-ute makes me say…. WHAT? Because Berryz Koubou doesn’t deserve that. They ARE good singers and they should get just as much as their fellow °C-ute members. In fact, Berryz is the group of older sisters. It SHOULD be getting much more than their younger sister group. To tell the truth, to me, °C-ute is getting even more attention than Morning Musume! Momosu is supposed to be the STAR. But after Mikan, most of their singles were trash. Okay, that’s exaggerating, especially after “Resonant Blue” and “Naichau Kamo”, but still, °C-ute is getting PROMOTION. But why is that? They’re not exactly better than Berryz, are they?

Even the COVERS of the singles can tell you everything! Come on,”Dschingas Khan”was nothing compared to “Koi No Jubaku”. The cover was stunning. It was amazing, and all of Berryz was really pretty (they still are). But now, on the cover of Dschingas Khan, they’re almost so far away from the camera that you can barely see their faces clearly enough to know who they are (don’t look at the hair, it’s ugly, anyways).

So why does Berryz Koubou keep getting overshadowed by °C-ute? In 2006, °C-ute was formed. That was around the time, or somewhat after the time Maiha quit Berryz Koubou, right? It was also when the covers started going bad, and even some of the disgustingly designed costumes, hairstyles, and dances for Berryz. Tsunku’s got his attention on °C-ute, and there’s no doubt about that. °C-ute does have stronger voices, but not many of the good singers are fabulous dancers. Airi never looks like she really tries to push her dancing to the top, Chisato wouldn’t win an award for it, Kanna doesn’t do it, Erika is okay, but still dosn’t shine. Mai is younger, but that’s not exception. She’s an IDOL, and she has to do what she must do, and her dancing doesn’t even look good for her age. She’s twelve, and at that time, after about six years of training, she should look exceptional. Saki and Maimi are the only great dancers on °C-ute, but only Maimi sings very well out of Saki and Maimi.

But yet, Berryz dances better. There’s Miyabi, Momoko, Yurina, Saki, Chinami, and Maasa who look exceptional while dancing. Saki, Momoko, and Yurina are beautiful dancers, as well as singers who improve daily. Especially Saki, although she’s the oldest, she is PROFESSIONAL, and Maimi is the oldest of her team, too. I do have to say Mai is a better dancer than Risako, but after all, Mai’s name means “dance” in Japanese.

Risako and Miyabi didn’t look bad here either! I noticed Saki, of course, because she was in the middle.

Anyways, I’ll continue this endless rant later. I always get off point on rants like this, but I want to do a poll some other  blogger made.

Naichau Kamo Reviews

I thought it would be worthwhile to review Naichau Kamo instead of Koisuru Kado Ni Wa (Ice Creamusume) first. There are a lot of reviews coming up!

Overall, I’m impressed with the results. There’s a better line share than usual, although it could have been better. Sayu got her wish, and she got somewhere around one solo line! Amazing, isn’t it? Not really. At least it was a good sized one, though.

Good:

~I was overall impressed with Ai, Reina, Sayu, and Junjun the most. Especially Ai, who REALLY got the acting done. Reina ALSO got it down, and they both weren’t afraid to really look upset and sad. I wasn’t that great with Risa and Linlin, who didn’t look very sad at all. Junjun looked angry (scary)!

~Koha is slightly improving during her acting roles, too. I wasn’t impressed with her face, but she was incredibly gorgeous just standing there! I think it was the hair. Anyways, her expression was understandable, and she’ll get better at it, anyways.

~Sayu was gorgeous? No, that’s not the word. OUTSTANDINGLY, extremely stunning!

~The song was okay, but I didn’t really like it so much that I wanted to listen to it over and over again. In fewer words, it wasn’t as good as Co. No. Mi. Chi.

~The dance was awesome! I liked it enough to actually get up and try it. It’s not that hard and it’s a little repetetive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s still fun!

~Ai’s hairstyle rocks!

~So does Koha’s hairstyle because it’s cute!

Bad:

~There still wasn’t a very even line share. I mean, it’s better than usual, but still, it’s not ideal, like Berryz Koubou, or even Ice Creamusume so far.

~The outfits were not so good. I can tell most people like them, but for me, they don’t go with the point.

~Reina’s hairstyle is getting old.

Obviously the good wins. I’m not really into writing a review right now, so sorry.

1. Ai (acting+singing+energy+dancing+beauty+personality)

2. Reina (acting+dancing+singing+dancing+beauty+personality)

3. Sayu (beauty+acting)

4. Koha (beauty)

Bingo! Buono! Single One Released

Awesome job, everyone! Liz, you did a great job on covering up for Kohu. But don’t worry, Kohu, you’ll get to do it next time! Enjoy and thank you for watching this and reading this! Renai Riders is the debut single for Bingo!, a Buono! cover group, which is part of Rokku! Project.

Airi Suzuki – Mei Niyoki (SweetMaiHagiwara)

Momoko Tsugunaga – HanniLoree (HanniLoree)

Miyabi Natsuyaki – Liz (Liz9419)

Note: Liz is a Rokku! Project (a Hello! Project cover group) Egg and covered up for Kohu (rach2spoiled). She also did an awesome job on doing Kohu’s lines.

http://z13.invisionfree.com/0RokkuProject0/index.php?

Rokku! Project

Hapi Hapi Sunday Reviews

This song isn’t so bad. In fact, the beginning with the “bump”, “bump”, “bump”, bump” was cool! 7/10

Details: Koha is definitely improving, and so is Tsunku. Well, not Tsunku, bu the chrous especially was awesome! That’s to be expected after “Co. No. Michi”! 6/10

Song: Like I said, the chorus was amazing, and the beginning was very cute. I’d like to get onto the PV, because that’s still the best part. Anyways, Koha had a decent voice now, and in fact, I like it better than Reina in some weird reason. It’s so wonderfully energetic and happy. It almost measures up to “Co. No. Michi”, which I like very much, as well. 10/10

PV: The switching scenes were really well done, and you can see the costume that was used for “Koi Kana” in one of the scenes where Koha is pulling out clothes from her closet. It was so detailed! Koha did so much better than she did in “Papancake” or “Chance”. 9/10

Outfit: Koha surprises the viewers in the end, where she pulls out an enormous pink cape. It’s actually pretty cool, but for a while before that, the costume is rather plain. I still like the outfit she was wearing when she was acting in her scenes with her hair neatly up. Plus, to add to that, Koha’s hair is really pretty! It looks very soft and smooth. But that went way off of the subject. 10/10

Dance: There wasn’t really much of a dance, but for Koha, it was okay. 8/10

Overall: 10/10

It was cool for a Koha single. I hope she releases more singles like “Hapi Hapi Sunday”. But for now, I’m still too much attached to Buono!’s ” Co. No. Michi”.

Co. No. Michi Reviews

Oh, wow. I really like this song.

Song: The chorus was wonderful! It sounded minor, which was very unlike to other Buono! songs like “Rottara Rottara” or “Renai Riders”. The high notes were the best, and I think Airi and Miya deserve a medal there. Momo sounds so nice when she uses her own voice, and I almost mistook her for Airi here, so Momo deserves a gold medal for that.

I also like how Airi gets a lot of attention. Finally! Well, it hasn’t exactly been what you’d call a long time, but I missed her.

Momo: I like how Momo sounds so normal and even cuter than when she usually sings when she’s her normal self. After all, Shugo! Chara is supposed to be about being your true self, isn’t it? Hey, it would be nice if Buono! could be voice actresses in Shugo! Chara, don’t you think? Anyways, go back to the point, and you see that Momo gets 3rd place. It’s not bad, because she did great, but not better than Airi and Miya.

Airi: As good as ever! Miya sounds really alike to Airi and Momo sounds almost the same, too. 1st place here, but it’s kind of unfair becxause she gets a lot of attention.

Miya: I really noticed the way Miya was enthusiastic during the whole song. It was fun to watch, especially the milk part! Miya gets 2nd place. I’m kind of in between with Momo and Miya, but Airi is definitely in 1st place.

Dance: It seems very appropriate to the music, although the dance shot is not out yet. I like the little spinning circles with their fingers! I like the foot stepping as well. I also would like to add the outfits are much more appropriate to their audience.

Line Share: I think Airi just barely got a little more lines than Miya and Momo, but I can’t be too sure.

PV: This is the best PV next to “Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!” and “Gachinko De Ikou”. I like everything about it, especially the strange face Miya makes after drinking milk at 2:40 in the video. I think the title means “The Road”, so that’s the reason the scenes are switched from a beach, to a cold place, to a normal road. I especially like the penguins at 1:14.It’s like a real story, not unlike “Honto No Jibun”. You can see that in “Co. No. Michi” that Buono! is just basically, it looks like, finding their way to future. Hey, it’s a guess!

Outfits: THE. HAIRSTYLES. ARE. AWESOME. Miya and Airi totally rock in theirs, and Momo still has the same one, but she still looks great. The outfits are stunning, especially Momo’s, with the jacket in silver and black lining. I think it’s a little bit similar to “Mikan”’s, by Morning Musume, outfits, somehow. Or it might be “Suki Sugite Baka Mitai” by DEF. DIVA, but it reminds me of something. Maybe even “Resonant Blue” by Morning Musume. Anyways, the outfits and hairstyles were awesome!

Overall: 10/10

I am really liking this single. I hope more Buono! singles like this will be released.

Buono’s Best Songs

The PV:

1. Gachinko De Ikou – I really liked the card playing, Momo hitting down the mosquito, the real band playing, and it makes a lot of a difference when Momo wins the card game and Airi gives an unwilling high five.

2. Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! – However much the name is hard to type, it’s more relaxing to watch the PV. The song is nothing in general, but the PV gives you some revolving scenes. The only thing I don’t like about this one is that Buono! plays fake instruments, and you can really tell.

3. Renai Riders – It’s okay about the bright colors in the instrumental and the silohuettes and everything, but it’s just kind of boring. I mean, try watching it without any sound. You won’t get interested at all. The song is catchy, but the PV definitely doesn’t live up to it.

4. Honto No Jibun – I don’t like how Momo always gets picked on, and the PV isn’t very interesting. Chisa and Maimi only show up ONCE in the whole PV, so it’s nothing to get all excited about. The instrumental part when Miya writes a lot of the numbers of Pi is interesting, and throwing paper balls at Momo is fairly nice. It’s like a story if you put it together. The only thing I don’t understand is that Airi is sitting by the lockers somewhere near the middle, and Momo and Miya come up and give high fives to each other. It’s a little bit messy at times. But overall, it was good enough.

5. Rottara Rottara – It only had close ups and no real PV version, so I can’t really rate it that well.

6. Kokoro No Tamago – For this one, there was no PV version.

Dance Shots -

1. Renai Riders – The white and red background made a big difference to the others. It was easy to learn the dance because there were no zoom ins or zoom outs or anything. The dance was very unique, too, because it was more of a foot stepping focused dance than a hand and arm moving one.

2. Gachinko De Ikou – This is a weird dance, but the chorus is really fun to learn. Once you get the hang of it, it’s fairly nice.

3. Honto No Jibun – It was easy to learn the dance, but the dance shot was really hard to learn from. The background made it very hard to see Buono!, because their outfits blended in with the background. I would prefer the outside version much more than the inside version, because the blue sky and green grass doesn’t blend in as much as the basketball court.

4. Kokoro No Tamago – The chorus was very fun to learn and the yellow light made it easy to see Buono! dancing around. I think this was more of a hand and arm moving one than a foot stepping one, therefore it was nowhere nearly as hard as Renai Riders, which, if you took away the feet, would not be hard at all.

5. Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! – I didn’t really see a reason to post the dance, anyways, because there were more scenes, close ups, and other parts for the dance to really show up. However, I saw the dance anyways, and the dancing around was not fun. It was too easy to learn, and it was a little bit of a mess. But because it was meant to be a main close up snd scene shot single, I’ll put it before last.

6. Rottara Rottara – The same, normal Japanese dance, all over again.

Momoko’s Scenes

1. Honto No Jibun – Not that it’s a good thing. Momo really gets it here, when Miya, Chisa, Maimi, and Airi are all throwing paper balls while she’s sleeping. Isn’t it bad enough that she gets picked on a lot because of her squeaky voice?

2. Renai Riders – We’re sticking with the little tricycle. Momo isn’t a little kid, she’s almost seventeen. She’s can’t ride a tricycle.

3. Gachinko De Ikou – This is a good kind of Momo scenes, where she doesn’t get picked on, but she actually gets more attnetion. Momo wins all of the card games, dart games, the building block game, and she gets a lot of lines in here.

4. Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! – There’s only two scenes where she’s shown with the weird things. For example, Momo is reading a bunny rabbit shaped book at the end of the scenes.

Rottara Rottara and Kokoro No Tamago don’t have any scenes showing a lot of Momo.

Overall Rankins:

1. Renai Riders (3rd place, 1st place, 2nd place) TIE WITH GACHINKO DE IKOU

2. Gachinko De Ikou (1st, 2nd, 3rd) TIE WITH RENAI RIDERS

3.  Honto No Jibun (2nd place, 4th place, 1st place)

4. Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! (2nd place, 4th place, 5th place)

Rottara Rottara and Kokoro No Tamago are out of the rankings.

Best Songs: 1. Renai Riders, 2. Gachinko De Ikou, 3. Honto No Jibun, 4. Rottara Rottara, 5. Kokoro No Tamago, 6. Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!

Buono!’s Cute Pictures

I was checking out Wikipedia’s article on Buono! for their next single, and it looks like Buono! will be releasing Co. No. Michi on January 21st, 2009.

Anyways, when I was looking at that, I spotted the blog of Buono!. Nothing interesting, just a lot of pictures of tasty looking Japanese food. I also took a look of the website, and this is the first thing that I saw that really got me looking!

http://buono-net.com/info.html

To tell the truth, I had never seen these before. How could I? I had almost never been to Buono!’s website, and I never saw these pictures on any blogs or anything. Anyways, I looked a lot more. These are some really cute pictures I found of Buono!. If you try to go to the Buono! website, you’ll find you can’t save these pictures, so just right click on those pictures and select “View As Background Image”, and then save the file quickly. If you don’t want to do that, you can just save them here on “Sweet Wind” right now.

Official Profiles: http://buono-net.com/images/img_profile/photo_airi05.gif

Group Pictures: