30 Day Idol Challenge Day 12

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Day 12: Your favorite Hello! Project member.


Now, this one’s a BIT tougher, because I haven’t been into H!P for a while and my tastes have changed since I started to follow AKB over H!P. I COULD say Rika, and that would be true to an extent, but she’s not a current H!P member. 


However, I’ll have to go with…



The lovely Mitsui Aika.


I know that she has a lot of haters out there, but I have no idea WHY. She’s one of the sweetest members ever, very kind, has a fun personality and isn’t a bad singer at all. In fact, the relentless hate of Aika from both the non-Japanese and the Japanese fan community is part of why H!P isn’t my main deal any more. I love Aika, and her Nine Smile muffler towel on my wall is one of my idol treasures.


Runners up to Ikuta Erina (I LOVE her) and Yajima Maimi. These three are really the last bits of current H!P I love.

30 Day Idol Challenge Day 11

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Day 11: Your favorite solo Idol.



Ayaya’s still the queen of soloists. Aya has a perfect voice, hilarious personality, good looks, everything. Honestly, even though she’s been off my radar for a while (though I do have her newest album on my iPod), I still listen to her stuff like crazy just because her voice is that good. It’s kind of disappointing that she’s currently not all that popular and not doing that much. UFA is wasting all kinds of talent, especially since Ayaya used to sell as much as MM.

Matsuura Aya is definitely still my favorite idol soloist. <3

30 Day Idol Challenge Day 10

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Day 10: Your favorite “undebuted” Idol (Hello! Pro Egg, AKB48 Kenkyuusei, etc.)


Just because, I’m going to name two!


The first for Hello!Project fans is the (former) H!P Egg Sekine Azusa. Now it looks like Sekkii is going to get some work in Up Front Girls and UFZS, but since the group is mainly doing KPop dance covers at the moment I’m still counting her as undebuted. 

She’s a GREAT performer. She has oodles of stage presence in addition to being one of the most skilled singer and dancer of the H!P Eggs and possibly of current H!P despite being relatively young; she gained some good recognition when she did a duet of Romantic Ukare Mode with Kikkawa Yuu at only 12 years old! In my past idol rankings I’ve always said that I’ll push Sekkii up higher when I get more stuff with her in it, and it looks like UFZS/Up Front Girls might do that. She is such a sweetheart and I love her. 
And now, my other favorite undebuted idol…

I like her better than Sekkii, which I never would have thought about an undebuted idol, especially an AKB48 Kenkyuusei. Since the whole concept of the KKS is that they have to keep reauditioning and might leave at any time, I’ve been hesitant to get behind an AKB48 Kenkyuusei.

And now she’s pretty much tied with Oota Aika for favorite AKB48 girl and second favorite idol. What.


I just love Natori Wakana that much. When I first saw her perform Romance Kakurenbo (the   solo song that a kenkyuusei performs before a performance of the Team B 5th stage) I was immediately interested. She has oodles of stage presence ALREADY, and this was her first ever performance of everything! That voice, that performance. It was amazing. Then I saw her performing with the Kenkyuusei the song BINGO during the Request Setlist 100 2011 and she was just so cute and energetic in how she performed it. 


Finally, I saw her in the 11th generation Kenkyuusei special on the show Ariyoshi AKB Kyowaku, where they all competed in various tests. One of them was picking up snakes (there were three of them) and putting them in boxes. In the previous challenge, Wakanyan had shown her fear of lizards (by having one mess up her dancing). However, she braves through it and the snake BIT HER. Instead of freaking out and throwing it off her, she takes the snake that’s biting her and puts it in the box. And then goes for another snake. That’s bravery. (However she did get either last or second to last in the running competition because that was too much XD). It shows a really strong personality and I just found that amazing.


Yay Sekkii and Wakanyan!!

30 Day Idol Challenge Day 9

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Day 09: Which Idol’s voice do you dislike?


Like I mentioned in my previous post, I honestly don’t have an issue with most voices. However, I do have my limits. 




Koharu Koharu Koharu. I have no issues with her personality, but her singing. HER SINGING. I don’t mind it OCCASIONALLY; I like Happy enough as a song to be able to ignore this. But guh. just. GUH.

30 Day Idol Challenge Day 8

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lol I’m late.

Day 08: Which Idol’s voice do you like best?


This is a bit controversial in American idol fandom, but I REALLY don’t care about voices that much. If a voice is annoying I’ll dislike it, but it’s not 100% necessary for an idol to be really skilled at singing. I love voices that are traditionally seen as “bad.”


I guess I have two examples; the first is of course, Ishikawa Rika. I LOVE her voice to pieces. Some people hate it, and I just think a couple things. First off, singing live IS a bit tougher on her, since she does have a pretty low lung capacity and asthma; she has some breathing issues, so when she’s dancing around singing live isn’t so easy. However, I love her voice ESPECIALLY in non-traditional things, like Dekiru Onna and in As For One Day. That’s where her voice shines; it’s so hauntingly beautiful. 


I LOVE Rika’s voice as the first line here. She’s good enough to be a soloist, IMO. If she sang more things that sounded like Dekiru Onna I would love everything.

However, my current vocal love is AKB48’s Natori Wakana. Wakanyan is ridiculously talented, even for being a research student, and I want nothing more than for her to get lots and lots of solos with this voiiice. I normally don’t care about vocals, but when they’re as beautiful as Wakanyan’s she MAKES me care about hearing her more and more.

30 Day Idol Challenge Day 6

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A bit late, but I’ll do two days today.

Day 06: Your favorite subunit


And the answer is definitely, absolutely….

The lovely Watarirouka Hashiritai (7).
No matter what lineup: The original four, that group plus Ayarin, and Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 which includes Komorin and Wasamin, I love them all.
They really are a great match, all seven of them. They’re all really cute, singing and dancing to really cute songs, and all of them do so with such enthusiasm and energy (and yes, I include Komorin in that count). They’re the type of group I’d 100% follow even if they weren’t all associated with AKB48. They fit so well together, that I just love them. 


30 Day Idol Challenge Day 5

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Day 05: Your favorite Idol group.

Oh man, oh man, it’s so easy. It’s…

The lovely Momoiro Clover, or as it’s now known Momoiro Clover Z (I’ll miss you forever, Akari).

This group is just nothing short of amazing. I love all the members like crazy, so even though Shiori is TECHNICALLY my least favorite, I still love her like crazy and consider her to be one of my favorite idols. They all have such natural, fun personalities that watching them in concert is always really fun. I remember that I really grew to love the group when they got the daily results for their indies singles (vids are online) and they’re SO excited to get these low daily results, and Reni starts sobbing uncontrollably.

They’re also the most fun group to watch perform live. Their dancing is king, with cartwheels and spins being hallmarks of their performances. But even without that they all perform with such energy and life that it’s hard not to really love watching their performances. They all give off such energy and enthusiasm that it’s fun.

I also love their producers/promotion XD It’s weird, but when their staff twitter started to follow me I was hooked, and was even more hooked when they replied to my private message on twitter.

Finally, even though they have relatively cheaper production values than some of the idol giants of the day, they use them perfectly. If you’ve ever complained about Hello!Project PVs looking cheap, I direct you to MomoClo. For some of their PVs I wonder how much budget they had, but they always manage to make things interesting. The jumping around in Ikuze! Kaitou Shoujo is always fun to watch, and the weird storyline of Mirai Bowl (Kanako and Akari are Sandy and Danny from Grease, but Danny has to beat evil Ayaka and her henchman Reni, with the help of newsies Shiori and Momoka in a bowling competition to win Sandy back? Uh, yeah!) can’t be beat. It’s a lot of the girls’ work, but the production team behind MomoClo is simply genius.

Every time I see MomoClo lauded as the next big thing, I’m SUPER happy because I hope it’s true. Just now they’re starting to get more and more press and more and more notice with the idol boom, so I just have to wait and hope that Momoiro Clover Z gets more and more fans, because I LOVE them.

30 Day Idol Challenge List of days

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So, since I’m not as into H!P as I have been, I was a bit stuck. I wanted to talk more about AKB, MomoClo and other idol groups as opposed to JUST H!P in this challenge. So, my friend Dani (who’s doing it too, on her Tumblr Quagsirechannel), edited this to be more generic idol stuff:

Day 01: Your favorite Idol.

Day 02: An Idol you hate/dislike.

Day 03: If you were a guy, who would be your girlfriend?

Day 04: If this Idol were a boy, who would be your boyfriend?

Day 05: Your favorite Idol group.

Day 06: Your favorite subunit.

Day 07: Your favorite Idol pairing.

Day 08: Which Idol’s voice do you like best?

Day 09: Which Idol’s voice do you dislike?

Day 10: Your favorite “undebuted” Idol (Hello! Pro Egg, AKB48 Kenkyuusei, etc.)

Day 11: Your favorite solo Idol.

Day 12: Your favorite Hello! Project member.

Day 13: Your favorite AKB48 member.

Day 14: Your favorite Idoling!!! member.

Day 15: Your favorite Momoiro Clover member.

Day 16: Your favorite Idol from a group not listed above.

Day 17: The first Idol you noticed.

Day 18: Favorite Idol concert.

Day 19: Which Idol would you like to be for 1 day?

Day 20: An Idol you admire.

Day 21: An Idol who has charisma.

Day 22: Favorite outfit an Idol has worn.

Day 23: Your favorite ex-Idol.

Day 24: An Idol that is not one of your favorites but you admit that they’re good.

Day 25: Your favorite Idol who is NOT Japanese.

Day 26: An Idol whose character you like.

Day 27: An Idol you have a particular appreciation for.

Day 28: An Idol who reminds you of someone special or that was special.

Day 29: In your opinion, who is/was the best leader of an Idol group?

Day 30: Why do you love Idols?

30 Day Idol Challenge- Day 4

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Day 04: If this Idol were a boy, who would be your boyfriend?


Why this question; anyone who knows my idol tastes knows that I go for the girliest of girly idols. I like my idols covered in frills and pink, dammit.

However, I could definitely date…

Yajima Maimi.

She’s not exactly SUPER manly, but she’s not the girliest of my favorite idols. She’s really nice, a great leader, and just a really fun person, I think. If she was a man, I’d totally go for Maimi.