…ManoEri Gets A Calender? August 28, 2009
Posted by keystoeverything in Berryz Koubou, C-ute, ManoEri, Morning Musume.Tags: Berryz Koubou, C-ute, Mano Eri, Mano Erina, Morning Musume
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Yep, the covers for the 2010 Hello!Project calenders have been released and there’s a couple of things worth noting about them.
Morning Musume’s is nothing to really write home about. Just like last year they’re going for the simple, elegant and generally more mature look.
Black = good. Aika’s hair, however, does not. That would be my only flaw really. I’d be interested to see what’s on the inside but, really, it holds no thrills if it’s anything like the 2009 one.
Unsurprisingly, the girls look amazing… when is that new? But the staircase is not made for nine people.
Berryz Koubou’s confuses me.
They are in penguin suits, which look to be ill-fitting… yet there are rainbows. Someone please explain the connection here.
I mean, there’s a bit of a clash between the mono-chromatic clothing and the arc-en-ciels.
I dunno, I’m still interested in buying it, but I think that’s because my Berryz fandom has resurfaced quite strongly in the past few weeks.
Right. This is the fun one.
The first thing worth noticing is the 5-nin lineup taking effect. And I feel a little bit saddened by that.
Then we get to the WTF?-ness. Sports Festival? Ah, now they have an actual theme, which by no deductive reasoning I can see in the other two.
Then the clothes. They look like they might be serving ice-cream and then having a jolly good old tap dance with Mary Poppins. Hmm…
And then my worst nightmare.
A massive Mano-face staring at me. Needless to say, I won’t be buying this one.
Why I Don’t Like ManoEri August 24, 2009
Posted by keystoeverything in ManoEri.Tags: H!P, Hello!Project, Mano Eri, Mano Erina, ManoEri
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I’ve never really liked Mano Erina.
She struck me as being overrated in Ongaku Gatas, I didn’t (and still don’t) like her voice and… I really don’t care how “cute” she is. So why do I get the inexplicable feeling that I’m going to like her in the end?
I’m sitting here watching Elder Club and while Mikitty’s dancing around in a rather improbable skirt to Boogie Train 03 I’m writing this and you can probably guess how this post was sparked.
ManoEri is now all over H!P.
Why she was performing at the Elder Club concert, beyond obvious promotion reasons, I don’t know.
This girl is getting stupid amounts of promotion actually what with each of her singles coming in four different versions. Are wota actually buying all these? I can see the appeal of buying a couple of versions of Nanchatte Renai, what with the commemorative 40th single edition and all… but even if I had all the money in the world, I still wouldn’t want to own four versions of Sekai wa Summer Party.
I’m happy to be proved wrong, but to me this girl doesn’t have a huge amount of personality… in fact – she’s a really bland idol. I think her bland music doesn’t help and the fact that she’s stuck behind a piano for most of her performances. She doesn’t really get much chance to be visually interesting.
Her songs suck too. Hajimete no Keiken was the only one I’d say was alright, everything else is boring and samey, or bad vocal-wise. I’m just not thrilled at all.
If want to try and prove me wrong, go ahead. I’m not stopping you, but I think Mano Erina is totally overrated.
