DaBear's H!P Cave

H!P Rankings

Paul over at Hello!Blog has created a wonderful program that allows you to choose your top 10 H!P members. It was created for the H!P 2009 Poll and you can read the results at Paul's site. Many bloggers have voted in the poll and have published their results. I didn't make it in time to vote in the poll but was able to use the program to choose my favourite H!P members. Thank you Paul for making such a wonderful and easy to use program!

The decision was very tough and isn't entirely based on logic :P. Here is my list:

The top 3 girls are my favourites from the 3 main H!P groups. The others might not be in the right order but like I said, it's not entirely based on logic.

Shirow at Wotaku Now! has created a challenge to the blogging wotas to do a separate "cuddle" list. Of course there might be many meanings of such a list, and the exercise of filling in the blanks is left to the reader (hey! they are not necessarily all about that!). As for me, there is a large range of cuddling that I would be interested in, depending on the girl and depending on the situation.

So, without further ado, here is my cuddle list which is definitely not based on any reasoning. If you notice, some of my top choices on the regular ranking list are not even on this one... well... that's the mystery of it! Thanks Shirow!

Introduction to Buono!

Buono! was created in 2007 and is composed of 3 girls from C-ute and Berryz:

Tsugunaga Momoko, Berryz - leader, oldest, kills you with her cutesy mysteriousness
Natsuyaki Miyabi, Berryz - with her mature, beautiful look
Suzuki Airi, C-ute - youngest, with her amazing voice and beautiful cuteness

The group was created for the opening/closing songs of the Shugo Chara! anime. Their music is mostly rock-sounding which is different from the typical pop-y sounds of other H!P songs. They currently have 7 singles, and 2 full albums.

For those lucky europeans, Buono! will be performing on May 24, 2009 at the Japan Expo in Stockholm, Sweden. I wish I could go but somebody needs to keep lighting the fire in the cave!

Picture from the latest single - My Boy - with Airi, Momoko, and Miyabi:

Buono! - My Boy

I was very excited about this song when the short preview came out. It is quite fast and just sounds great. I would classify it as eurobeat-rock :P. The preview (from the Shugo Chara! anime ending) can be found on Youtube (until somebody decides to delete it). It features a really cute cat running away from some troubles:

A few days ago, the PV for the song came out and I just love it! I think it's the best H!P PV in years! It goes away from the normal green-screen PVs that H!P has been producing lately with actual on-site footage! Plus, there is a story to the whole PV! I haven't read a translation of the lyrics so can't say if they have anything to do with the PV story (and probably they don't). The full PV can be seen at Dohhhup:

So, lets start with the picture review!

The PV stars with an image of a curious heart shaped container that is being guarded by military guards somewhere within a castle or something. What could it be? Why is it important? Who is the creepy guy spying on the girls?!

The girls appear (video cuts to dance-shot)! They are wearing so many different colours - it looks very spring-like and refreshing! Of course, the outfits are the typical Buono! costumes with knee-high socks and short shorts/skirt.

A chest!!! Something is coming out!!! It's a MOMO! She looks.. serious? confused? sick of being in a chest? all of the above? She's wearing a dark brown secret agent / scout uniform with a wireless ear/mic set.

Then we see Airi coming from behind a door wearing the same uniform and acting very concentrated on her job.

Finally, Miya appears behind some glass doors trying to break into something. Looking very hot I might add!

The dance-shot part is interesting. The dance is quite simple but they seems to flow quite nicely into interesting formations.

Oh oh... Momo has a gun!!! Everybody should be very afraid! And what is that there... is it... can it be... yes... of course... it's the pinky!