This post is my first guest post, and a post which is not made by me or collaborated by me either. Sarah asked a few other bloggers and myself if we would allow her to post her thoughts on a blog because her own blog is dedicated to solely K-pop and not J-pop. Because I love Sarah's writing, an also curious to know her thoughts on Juice=Juice, I accepted this... that, and I get to promote her! Amazing sauce, right?
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Chimians! Do I have some juicy news for
you! No really, news doesn’t get much juicier than this. After
inconspicuously wondering on his facebook whether he should reveal
the name of the new unit which was obviously an announcement about
his announcement, Tsunku has finally graced us with the name of the
latest addition to Hello! Project’s list of groups: Juice=Juice.
Isn’t it just gorgeous? Now just like me most of you have probably
all had opinions racing through your minds since the moments you’ve
heard it. In my case some are more sensible than others, but in the
end I find them all quite enjoyable. That’s why I’ve decided to
share them with you, and what better way to do this than to ask
Chiima if I can make a guest post on her lovely blog?
So, what was my first reaction to
seeing the name of our new unit? Well, since I read the name as any
other person who has learned the basic signs I couldn’t help but
think: “Well, that’s quite obvious isn’t it?”. If Tsunku had
aimed to learn us something new then I have to say that the results
will probably be quite disappointing since I’m quite sure that most
people are aware that juice is juice. Still, I wasn’t very
surprised since it isn’t the first time they use mathematical
signs, ‘degree-C-dash-ute’ and ‘S-slash-mileage’ anyone? My
only other problem with the name was that it didn’t really roll of
the tongue, but Tsunku was ahead of me with that too. He told us that
it is to be pronounced as ‘Juicy Juice’. Because even though we
already knew that juice is juice, we didn’t know that juice is also
juicy. I do hope that one day they’ll be popular enough to pop up
when google searching them because otherwise it’ll be hard for us
to find pictures of them.
So, do I have any other thoughts on the
name? Well of course! I couldn’t help but wonder what the new name
would be of ‘MoBeKiMaSu’ now that Mano has left and JuJu has
joined us. My personal hope was that it would be ‘Mo be kissing
you’ because I found it funny, but alas, Tsunku once again provided
us with an answer. It will be ‘MoBeKiSu J’. Now I don’t find it
fair that they didn’t just add Juju to the name, why does it have
to stand there all by itself? The J doesn’t even have a letter to
accompany him! Let’s hope that Tsunku might show some pity after
JuJu has left behind its indies stage.
This brings us to the next question.
What can we expect from them as indies? They’ll probably have to do
some kind of promotional campaign just like S/mileage had to do with
their ’10.000 smile campaign’, but what will it be? Will they
have to hand people drinks with their logo on it so that they can
spread their own juices or will they have to make juice with random
strangers on the street? I’m curious and can’t wait to see what
they will come up with. It might be fun since each girl has been
assigned her own fruit so they might actually get to spread their own
juice.
When I heard about them each being
assigned their own fruit along with their member color there was one
thing that immediately popped to mind:
It’s good that Hello! Project is
learning from AKB48 but I think they might want to consider being
more selective in what idea’s they decided to adopt. Still though,
this did help me along when it came to my expectations of their first
indies single, or, their outfits, to be more specific.
You think H!P wouldn’t do that to
their precious girls? Well, say that to our dear Berryz Koubou who
have been strutting around as pineapples, fishes and more.
The only plausible reason I can find
for them not to put the girls though this torture is because they
aren’t in fact fruit, they are fruit juices. Therefore it wouldn’t
be logical to dress them up as fruit, it would make much more sense
to send them on stage with bottle dresses! All I can say is that I
fervently hope that Kanazawa Tomoko (apple) won’t have too much of
a bubbly personality or else she will have to take care whenever she
is near Riho.
Either way, I expect this group to have
many yummy songs. Even though I personally don’t know much about
the girls yet, I am curious to find out more about them. For now all
I know is that Karin has many fans and that I am glad that she will
no longer be mentioned with every new morning musume generation. I
was slowly starting to start to suffer the ‘I only dislike the girl
due to her fans’ syndrome and I am glad that chances are that this
will now be avoided. This is why I’ll just assume that Melon
(Uemura Akari), Lemon (Takagi Sayuki), Peach (Miyazaki Yuka), Orange
(Otsuka Aina), Apple (Kanazawa Tomoko) and Grape (Miyamoto Karin)
will make a nice fruit bouquet together and I will try each out in
order for me to find out which will be my favorite fruit.
Sarah
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(Chiima#s back, hehe)
Guys, do you know just how weird it is to post this on my blog when it isn't my own post? However I have wondered what it would be like to one day ask others to post here too... yes, I have thought about adding other authors, and now thinking about it, this could have easily been posted on The PonPon Wei... XD XD hahahaha
Okay, that's it I guess. I have no idea whether or not I will post my own thoughts later on concerning Juice=Juice... who knows?
Chiima~
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