OMGaki, this ios the best week for gaki news ever!!! So 2 days or so ago I say on the Hello! Online twitter that Gaki was to release a DVD, so I rushed over to the relavent release thread at the site and got the most glorious information. On the 14th of July this year, Risa will release her 3rd solo DVD entitled Alo Hello! 3. This is great, she always gives us great stuff from her dvd's. Her 1st was awesome and full of fun energetic Gaki. The second one was about how she has become a mature lady as it was to me knowledge released sometime around her 20th birthday. This time I am hoping for more genki crazy gaki with as many crazy reactions thrown in as possible. The DVD was also announced on the same day, this is yet untitled but who cares. Her last photobook was released 25th of April 2008, thats over 2 years ago so she was overdue a new pb, and from peoples reactions around the web, everyone is delighted for her. This means great shots of her in great location, short-haired gaki pics...hopefully with different styles and most importantly....BIKINI'S! Yay I'm so happy. July COME ON!

relavent info:

アロハロ！３　新垣里沙　ＤＶＤ（仮）

商品番号 EPBE-5382
予定税込価格 3,990円
発売予定日 2010年7月14日
ジャンル イメージ/イメージ（女性）

e-hon page

モーニング娘。のサブリーダー新垣里沙が1年半ぶりにソロDVDを発売。元気あふれる新垣里沙のハワイでの映像をお届け! もちろん水着シーンもたっぷり収録。 W購入者特典応募ハガキ封入。 ※写真集 (7月14日発売: キッズネット)とのW購入者特典実施。 (応募〆切: 2010年8月31日当日消印有効)

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Onto the blog...

When Risa was doing some live webcast thing on UStream, Gaki asked if she could have a blog, a while later she was told she could....que REACTIONS!!!



The blog is yet untitled and can be found HERE. She has somesmall entries put in so far, basically saying that she has a blog and how happy she is. These people have translated the entires so far and will hopefully continue to do so for ever and ever.

This is great news. Risa has always said that she wanted to go into acting for drama's and movies and to have a blog. And well now, out baby has a blog. This of course means loads of intimate pics of our angel in various situations with so and so people doing cute poses and hopefully help us to get to know the reaction queeen a little more.

Well thats all I wanted to say. I thought I would let ya'll know and to ask ye to supporther by buying the DVD or PB if ye can, and of course to enjoy the new blog!

oh Risa <3

this is Risa. She thinks she can moonwalk.....



Oh Risa I love you and your spazzy ways <3

Tomorrow [March 17th], Morning Musume will release their 10th Album, 10 My Me. Wow, their 10th album, thats pretty impressive, lets just hope that the music inside is as impressive as the achievement.

Before I go onto the music let mw just say a word or two on the cover. The cover above is the Limited edition and better of the 2 covers. Its a nice simple cover with the girls sitting, kneeling and standing together. The girls looks in the cover are hit and miss. e.g HIT = LinLin. Maaan she is totally hot right now, great outfit. MISS = Risa. Yes I have to admit it, Risa's outfit and hairstle are.....not good lets just say. She had good hair on utaban, and at that modelling thing where she had the hat but here it looks crap, sorry hunny bun. The way she is styled too makes her look a bit like a granny and thats not how I want my Risa, or any of my idols to look like..............

Anyone remember this girl?? No! Well let me tell you about her.

Her name is Jang Da Yeon and last year this 15 year old girl won the Hello! Project Koea audition. Oh yeah, remmeber her now?

Well its nearly a year since she was announced the winner of the auditions, but since then not a word has been said about her....

well before we delve any further, lets look at some facts.

- The winner of the audition [there was to be only 1 winner] would go on to become a member of Hello! Project, specifically, NOT a member of Morning Musume.
- She'll go to training in Japan, and her training will be "Japanese style", taking all the steps that a Japanese entertainer would take for debut.

Now I may be looking WAY too much into this, but I have been increasingly interested in K-pop and so the future of this girl interests me. And so I get frustrated when I see that almost a year later we have heard nothing since she departed from Japan, except for her appearance at the champloo concert in which she came on briefly as a special guest.

Also if you check both the Hello! Project and UFA sites, you will see that she is not listed as an act under them.

UFA artist index
Hello! Project artist index

Maybe I am just being paranoid though as it seems only debuted artists or soloists are shown. But surely the UFA ite would have here there. Now this could also be just an over sight as there are some groups there that are no longer active such as SHIPS and MilkyWay.

This scares me a little as she just seems to have been forgotten about. No one ever talk about her, where is she, whats she at. She just doesn't exist. But It may very well be that she is still training very hard for her debut. I know that in Korean, people can train for years before they debut, this could be no different. I suppose its not unreasonable for her to take this long to learn Japanese to a certain level of quality, and learning to dance could take a long while too, I dunno I can't dance. Vocal training too is important, so all these factors could explain her long absesne. But I dont recall Ice-CreaMusume taking this long to train before their debut. But look at how crap and easy their dance was. Maybe UFA are putting a lot more effort into Jang.

They may also be deciding what to do with her. Will she debut in Japan alone or also in Korea. What style of songs will she be putting out, techno, RnB, pop. What will her style be, cute, hot, indifferent, cool. Will she be a soloist or will she be put as part of a new unit, made up of other girls from H!P or UFA.

This point brings me to the end of my thinkings as I say what I would like to become of her.

As you may or may not know, I have began to listen to a lot of K-pop lately and so have grown a fondness for both japanese and Korean pop music. That said, I would not mind if she became a soloist. If her music was up to the standars of Girls' Generation then I will more than gladly follow and support her.
But what I really want, if it would be a good or bad thing I dont know, but I would love for UFA to put her into a unit as part of a Duo or Group.
Together with some select eggs they could make a great group. I would love to see Saho Akari, Sengoku Minami as well as possibly Kitahara Sayaka and Kikkawa Yuu. As we have seen in Aa, Akari would be great in a pop group that may have RnB type influences, the 2 girls from MilkyWay would be more suited to a more pure pop type but I think the group would be quite interesting to watch develop.
As for being in a duo, you have to have guessed who I would pair Jang up with. Yes of course Risa. I think it would be awesome for Jang and Risa, to debut as a Duo in both Japan and Korean, releasing both Japanese and Korean music. I can just imagine it, and it makes me a happy man.

ok so thats my kind of rant on this mysterious korean girl. Let me know what you think, I would love some feedback.

The green dance version of the Kimagure princess pv were put up on youtube today.


Thia version is basically an imalgumation of the girls so dance shots [which we have never seen before]. Though the cutting between girls can make you a little dizzy at times the whole thing is quite nifty. Also whats great is that if you want to learn the dance, ths will probably be a lot easier to learn from as you only have to look at one person on screen.

May I draw your attention to:

So Morning Musume's 41st Single Kimagure Princess [meaning fickle/whimsical princess] is to be released in a few days and what better way to jump-start my blog than reviewing the song and its pv's.

first the details:

Name: Kimagure Princess [気まぐれプリンセス]
C/W: Aishite Aishite Ato Ippun [愛して　愛して　後一分]
Versions:
Regular
Limited Edition A: DVD (Dance Shot Ver.)
Limited Edition B: DVD (Close-up Ver.)
Limited Edition C: 10 different interchangeable covers (9 solos, 1 group one)
Single V: Making of, Green Dance Ver.
Release date: 28th October [single V. 4th November]
Prices: Limited A & B [1,680円] , Limited C [1,260円], Regular [1,050円], Single V [1,575円]
BUY IT: YesAsia CD Japan HMV

ok now that all thats out of the way, let us continue

Lolli a.k.a Chibilolli a.k.a ganbarori a.k.a madam president a.k.a biggest Risa fan I have ever known a.k.a Lizzie-chan

Ok I know she isn't Risa or an idol but holy crap she is awesome. 1st off if you dont know who I am on about then get your ass over to Omame.co.uk and bask in the awesomeness that is Lolli.

Why is she awesome you ask. Well, 1st of all she is a huge Risa fan, she buys loads of Risa stuff, supports her most of the time, adores the ground she walks on and sends her awesome birthday gifts. Secondly she is my go to person on Risa things as well as a reference to go to, to combat Risa non believers. Thirdly, she buys me stuff!!!! When she was over in Japan for the Nanchatte Renai release event she actually thought of little Liam all the way over in Ireland and bought me Large Risa pics from the event. Not only that, but she bought me a mini Tokyo Tower as well as an Ai cookie [a cookie from fukui.....where Ai is from, for the noobs who dont know]. Then when she got home she sent them to me and made my day.

Next, her blog is like a Mecca for all Risa fans. She reviews all the tv shows risa appears on, pv's, pics and random crap that I know all risa fans appreciate. She is so witty too often having me in tears from laughing. She also shares my dislike for aika, its a weird connection.

I bet ya I will get a message from her now at some stage that she is too old for me and I should stop coming on to her ¬.¬ she has a big head :P

So yay here's to Lizzie-chan, continue to blog and make the world a more Risa filled awesome place

Morning Musume's 40TH!!!! single titled "Nanchatte Renai" is to be released on the 12th of August, and as it is their 40th sinlge Tsunku decided to not just have a reg version with limiteds, there will also be a commemorative single including a second C/W track. The b-side tracks are called "Aki Urara" & "subete wa ai no chikara". The title of song translates to something like fake love or joking romance or something along those lines.

The cover was released as the girls were over in L.A and as you can see, they are SEXYY. Corset type dresses, heeled shoes, white arm shirt things and cute lil hats, not to mention some gloves thrown in for good measure. People also remarked that the cover looks a lot like Daite! Hold on me's cover.

Well anyway, the song was aired on japanese radio today and of course our faithful wota's ripped and it zoomed into our hard drives. At first listen I was pleasently suprised, I also happened to fall in love with the song.





The song opens with a nice piano solo which then breaks into a tune a la SYO. Ai-chan is the 1st to sing, sounds great, sounds good so far. The shockingly Koharu get a solo, quite a long one at that, and she actually doesn't sound to bad. Reina's bit is up next and it is here that the song picks up tempo, he "aa" part in the end is quite nice. Then huh, rapping yup, supplied by the panda's, mitsui [the main rapper in the song] and sayu. Gaki ends that verse off with a powerful performance <3

The chorus then kicks in, dominated by Ai and Reina with breaks with a communal "Nanchatte", sounding good. After a little music break Ai takes another verse followed by Sayu! The second shocking choice. Reina takes over, nice to hear after sayu's pok lines.

After another bout of rapping we hit the GakiKame part of the song.

Risa is first. God she sounds great, powerful, in control and skillful, might have trouble doing it live though. Eri quickly follows Risa with a higher pitched tone. These two always sound great togther.

Ai again........Nanchatte.............Reina again....... Nice one line by Sayu actually.

Final chrous in the rip [could be more after this, you never know] is sang by whats sounds like all the girls. Its great to have that bit of a crechendo at the end. Ai finishes the song with emotional and echoed words that I dunno who to spell. As with SYO we get a musical exit also, sounds lovely though...lets hope we arent 'treated' to 15 seconds of Ai staring at us in the end.

Overall I really love this song and have deathlooped it at least 50 times. Bring on the pv...bring on the sexy gaki in a mini hat ...yum

And here are the lyrics in case anyone wants them :)

Ai, Risa, Eri, Sayumi, Reina, Kusumi, Aika, JunJun, LinLin

Akubi ga hitotsu dechau hodo
Tsumaranai koto ni nattana
Nanpa toka shinaidekureru kana
Shirakechau

Shibaraku wa genki na kyara de
Nantonaku ikitekita kedo
Ki ga tsukeba
Iroke mo detekiteru mitai

Aa nande nandarou watashi
Yuugata ni naru tabi
Nakitai kimochi ni naru aa

[Mic/Mit] Oh baby yume wa zenbu [Mic/Mit]shinkenu
Dakara otona ni naru [Mic/Mit]jouken wo
Oshiete hoshii


[Jun/Lin]Dakedo nandaka mendokusai
[Mic/Mit]Sono uchi terebi wo kai kae [Mic/Mit]naito
Ikenai ne

Nanchatte renai wo shita toko de sabishikunaru dake
Sorenanoni nukumori wo kanjitaku naru
Nanchatte ii yatsu wo enjite mo munashikunaru dake
Sorenanoni tekitou ni aisouwarai

Hanbaagaa kajirinagara
Machi yuku hito wo nagameteta
Honto ni waratteru ko nante iruno kana

Heddohon kara nagareteru
Oki ni no kyoku ga kuri kaeshi
Kono kashi wa watashi no koto utatteru

Aa nande nandarou watashi
Sunao ni amaerarenai
Okaasan ni denwa ga shitai aa

[Ku/Mit]Oh baby ato wa nanisuruno?
[Ku/Mit]Watashi nani wo motometeruno? [Ku/Mit]Ah yeah

ai ga tarinai

[Jun/Lin]Dakedo imi naku gonetari shinai
[Ku/Mit]Datte sonna no mottainai [Ku/Mit]You know?
Ai shitai

Nanchatte renai wo kuri kaesu onna no ko no kimochi
Dare ni demo wakachauwa onna no ko nara
Nanchatte iroiro to iukeredo kagayakitai dake
Watashi de mo nareruka shira
Honmono ni

Nanchatte renai wo shita toko de sabishikunaru dake
Sorenanoni nukumori wo kanjitaku naru
Nanchatte ii yatsu wo enjite mo munashikunaru dake
Sorenanoni tekitou ni aisouwarai

Nanchatte renai wo kuri kaesu onna no ko no kimochi
Dare ni demo wakachauwa onna no ko nara
Nanchatte iroiro to iukeredo kagayakitai dake
Watashi ni mo nareruka shira
Honmono ni

Ok so I just realised that I havent had an entire Gaki entry in ages, but then again not much is happening fer her solo wise, so i decided to post pics of Risa because there are some insanely amazing photo's of her out there at the moment


So these are the Gaki goes to college set. She looked amazing in the PV and that doesn't change here. She is absolutly stunning but the 3rd pic on the right blew me away. It shows a mix of sexyness, maturity and fragility AND I WANT IT!!


And these are the Shouganai Yumeoibito set. These outfits are friggen gorgeous, they are elegant around the torso and super sexy around the legs with that skirt/pants thing. These dont really need any explaination, her poses are perfect, cute smile, and awesome hair.

Hey guys sorry that I havent posted in ages, its exam season and wouldn't you know it, I have exams :/

Anyway ages ago I talked to Dran from Berryz Kyuuden about subbing vids. He said it was pretty easy but it involved a lot of patience....A LOT!! So I just acknowledged it and went about my day. Then a few weeks ago the pv for Morning Musume's "Shouganai Yume Oibito" single came out and after a few watches I got the urge to sub it. I dont really know why, maybe its because its such a nice pv, maybe because I absolutly friggen love the song, and maybe the fact that Gaki looks and sounds amazing pushed me into the subbing phase.

So I went to dohhh up and ripped the video.....then I was stuck XD. I went on to msn and subtly asked dran how I start subbing. Actually it wasn't subtle at all I just out and asked him how to sub haha!

So he explained that I had to go and download a software thing called 'Aegisub'. So I did that...and let me tell ya, you cant work it by opening it as soon as you get it and make a subbed video, oh no you cant! You have to read ¬.¬

So I went online and looked at the manual.....then closed it again and went to Dran on msn ....again ^^; And Dran kindly walked me through the very basics, like the interface, what things meant etc.

Eventually I got the video loaded into the aegisub, now all I needed were the Kanji lines, its romaji counterpart and a full translation. Piece of cake... I just hopped over to Musume-Central and sferris had done all the work for me XD. He very kindly allowed me to use his translations.

So I put the lyrics into the software and timed it...which isn't too bad. But OH MY FRIGGEN GAWD, doing the karaoke timing of the romaji took me flippen ages. But I eventually got it done, and seeing how long it took me to do the romaji, I decided not to do the kani with it ^^;. so that was done, but for some reason I left the project for like a week or so, then I remembered it was there one day when I was bored and put in the english translations.

Then came the encoding part *Que thunder*. I asked Dran (yes him!) how to encode, he said ask SacredCultivor from Hello!Fansubs, which I did. He then said that he was terrible at explaining how to do it, that was fine no problems there [we love you over here at mayuge madness SC]. SC then recommended that ask this other dude that I had never heard of.

So I went back to Dran XD. And I sent him my video file as well as all the subs with the timing to him and he worked his magic and encoded the lot for me. He also gave me a template code thing for the romaji to make the karaoke look better plus....he also did the starting credits because when I did them for some stupid reason they never worked.

So after all that, I uploaded it to youtube and it has recieved over 200 views yay. I also made a torrent out of it [after Dran showing me how XD] and uploaded it to Hello!Online and there it had been downloaded 674 times to this very second. That actually made me go WOW! Then the vid got re-uploaded to youtube a few times by other users, I finally became one of those people. The type of person who does something so great or stupid that other people want to upload your stuff onto youtube.

So finally I once again want to thanks sferris and a huge thatks to Dran for all his help.

Now here is the vid, please enjoy and comment or whatever haha. see ya!

I decided that I would leave this until we accumilated news and previews of the songs as well as pics so here goes.


1 雨の降らない星では愛せないだろう? (Ame no Furanai Hoshi Dewa Aisenai Darou)
2 ＳＯＮＧＳ
3 リゾナント　ブルー (Resonant Blue)
4 Ｔａｋｅ　ｏｆｆ　ｉｓ　ｎｏｗ！
5 みかん (Mikan)
6 私の魅力に気付かない鈍感な人 (Watashi no Miryoku ni Kiduka nu Donkan na Hito)
7 グルグルＪＵＭＰ (guru guru jump)
8 情熱のキスを一つ (Jounetsu no Kiss o Hitotsu)
9 Ｉｔ’ｓ　Ｙｏｕ
10 女に　幸あれ (Onna ni Sachi Are)
11 片思いの終りに (Kataomoi no Owari ni)
12 悲しみトワイライト (Kanashimi Twilight)
13 泣いちゃうかも (Naichau Kamo)

Release date: 18th March 2009

Shame on me for not writing this sooner, but better late than never eh? So the pv was released a week ago or so and there have been mixed views on it....and here is mine. I wont do a whole shot by shot review, instead I will do a quick random shot review of the its I though deserved to be capped.



1st thoughts...OMFG sexy jackets. lol I think the girls look awesome in them..... I know a certain someone who thinks they look like hookers ¬.¬ NO! just no. After a few quick dance steps we finally get a glimpse of one of the eagerly awaited raining scenes. After a series of dance to rain sequences.... I am already hooked. You can already tell this is a pv of substance.

Reina with the 1st solo line...not really shocked by this, it was going to happen eventually.

Ai followed. And instead of trying to give us cutsey poses, we see a sad, deep Ai in a cool shot of her behind glass that is being covered in rain. Love this shot.

Ai again, but in this dance shot she looks super schmexy!!

Speaking of sexy, JunJun suddenly makes one of her brief performances...kinda looks like she is holding her um...chest, while holding her hair back...mmmmm *drool*

Then during the 1st chorus we (yes we!!) are delighted to see this vision of lovelyness popping up. The blurred shiney things are nice arent they?

Then from shiney and nice & sexy JunJun, we are shown a shot of Ai balling. Someone please give her a hug.

Ah!! sexy JunJun attack. Dont be decieved, she aint in this much, mainly just fly-by's in the dance shot and 2 0r 3 rain close ups.

Thought I should put this in for Aika and koharu fans. These 2 aren't featured that much either. Aika's hair is awesome in this pv.

Eri gives a good performance on her solo line, we get a nice close up and a dance shot of her touching her face....mmmmmm

The 1st preoper appearance of LinLin and she too looks so sad, and scraggly. She genuinly looks a bit sad.....

....whereas Aika..well she doesn't really convince me at all. Its like a face a little girl would pull to tey and convince her mother to let her have a lollipop before dinner.....ineffective and a bit silly.

This would be one of the parts I wasn't happy with. I just dont get this double look move with the sticky out elbow.


Gotta praise the cameraman for this shot. loving the fishnets.

Now this is how Reina thinks, a really sad and crying person should look like, scrumpled up chin, curled in lips, and frowning eyebrows. Does it do the job? notch at all.

This is how its done. Soaking wet flowing black hair (yes when girls cry their hair turns black) , slightly open mougth, heavy breathing, and eyes that are filled with melancholy. Reina! take notes.

There she is. Sayu does well vocally in this song, yet you dont get to see her much. The shots she is in though are awesome.

During a music interlude, they do this weird hoola thing. Its not that out of place, but you just wouldn't expect it in a pv like this. One thing for the next Alo hello..... Holla dancing please.

Koharu now doesn't look too bad when wet and dry during the dance shot, but in the up close crying shots her hair is really weird and it reminds me of something from the 70's.

Brilliant clip from Eri here. She hangs her head and shakes it. Its like the guy is trying to give excuses, but she wont listen while trying to hold back her tears.

This shot is funny though. Its like she is grabbing ...er, um...something and going "oooh"

During the last Kamo! Kamo! Kamo! Kamo! bit, LinLin shows up with this thing on her head. Its laughable, its just so random, her hair looks awesome though.

Ending!! Grrrr GakiKame are hidden behind Ai and Koharu (WTF is she doing in front!)