Random AKB TV Pictures

AKB also seems to appear on TV quite a lot.  Here are some interesting moments.

Tsunku was one of the guests on this TV show where people try to imitate famous artists/actors/etc.  

The funny moment was when a guy was trying to be AKB48's Acchan - he looked rather similar - quite scary!  Then the AKB48 girls themselves jumped onto the stage and they all performed a song medley - the guy along side Acchan.

 Don't they look similar? :P

At some point there was some confusion as to who the real Acchan was - hilarious!

 Quite similar! :P

After that, a few of the AKB girls were sitting in as guests.  The funny thing was that they were sitting right next to Tsunku.

 Tsunku (or rather つんく♂) + AKB48 (Yuko + Acchan and Sae and Minami in the back) :P

 Minami (or Takamina) - the strong, tiny AKB48 leader.

A little later in the show was a girl impersonating Acchan.  She was also quite similar looking :P.

Aww, that must have been dream come true for her. 

Acchan was on some show where she tasted some foods (very typical Japanese variety show).

Random H!P TV Pictures

I've accumulated some H!P related TV shots over the last 2 months or so.  Sorry for the bad quality.

Yaguchi seems to appear on several TV shows.

There was an old Momusu plus current Momusu collaboration on some TV show.

 Tsuji joined in later... she didn't participate in the dance - I think because she is pregnant again

Yaguchi looks sad!

 Some s/mileage:

 Hehe, I am on that picture somewhere!  I did actually find myself on one photocard of the girls in front of this picture.

Yossie on some TV show:

I found Koha on a CM for bread:

And finally.. Reina singing solo on an oldie hits show:

2010 H!P Calendars

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I recently bought two H!P calendars.  I found them randomly at a bookstore so I got so excited that I bought two.  Since I just have a small one room apartment - they are hanging on the opposite sides of the room (looking at each other? :P).

First off, the Morning Musume calendar.

 The girls are looking quite lovely in the front picture.

 So it looks like the pics are by generation.  Here is 5th:

 6th gen:

 and 8th gen:

 The obligatory swimsuit picture!

 Pretty cozy.

 and the back page with some lovely closeups.

The MM calendar is OK but the Berryz one is amazing!

 Starts off with an awesome picture with various flavours.  Captain looks amazing!

 Momo looks very good (and serious) as an office worker in this picture!

 The schoolgirls looks great too!

 Hmm... I wonder if I can hire them to do my laundry!

 The very unique Berryz swimsuit picture.  There aren't many of them around - especially of poor captain who doesn't even have a PB.  ... and Chinami... !!

 Kimonos are always pretty!

 So cozy!  Brings about feelings of fuzzy on cold days.

 And the last page - a mix of offshoot pics I guess - some pretty funny.

I didn't buy the C-ute calendar since well.. I already have 2 - I really really don't need 3! :P  Plus, besides a few pages maybe, I wasn't too interested in it.  The Berryz one is really really pretty!  A little bit sad that it is the last Momusu calendar with that makeup since 3 of the girls are leaving.  But the next one will have gen 9 members which could be (or not) interesting!

AKB48 Beginner

I managed to buy the new AKB48 single - Beginner on the release day.  They had tons of them still at the local HMV.  I bought the version A limited edition.

Here are some shots of the package:

 back (staring the two girls from SKE48):

 inside looking at the CD:

 the DVD:

 Inside booklet:

 Plus, I also got a Maeda photocard from HMV:

The single is quite good... a little bit different style but executed in a nice way.  Sadly, the PV is horrible!  There was a controversy with the original PV for the single so they decided to create a new one which is a mixture of the making off and the dance version - ok but doesn't hold up against the previous PVs and the original one.  Why was it controversial?  Well... it featured the girls playing a computer game (Matrix style) where they are hooked up to some machine.  What was bad/interesting is that they kept dying in really bad ways inside the computer (i.e. head cut in half, body crashed..etc).  And once scene had Maeda bleeding and screaming in real life from her damage inside the game.  However, the PV was done very well so I would like to see that released at some point in time!

The single sold close to 600k copies on its first day which even surpassed the previous single record sales.  On the MUSIC STATION TV show, AKB had both the 10th place (for the previous single) and the 1st place for Beginner.  They performed it well starting off and ending with hoods.  Here are some bad quality pics from my TV: