Thursday, February 24, 2011

[2011.02.23] AKBINGO!バトルバーガーショップ REVIEW

I havn't watched "AKBINGO!", AKB48's weekly variety show, in over 6 weeks!!! So I'm goping to review it :)

Watching "AKBINGO!" is always a learning expirence. I get to pratice reading katakana, learn members about I don't all ready know and relax and watch AKB48 do stuff. It's really fun for me so I don't see why I took such a long break before it!

Overall this was a good episode. It was a battle burger shop episode(Which is my favorite AKB48 game). Whenever I see the teams go up I ALWAYS try to see if I can match the member's names with their faces, so I see all 6 and name them all and then go to generasia and match up the Kanji. Iv'e relised that now I know all the front girls, it's just RS and some girls in the back I don't know.

It pretty much didn't understand anything they said, I just understand the game X]
 
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Dear J: The Missing Theater Cover!!!

When Dear J's covers were first announced the only picture for the cover of the theater edition was a very tiny image and I was upset! I honestly thought the Theater Edition cover would just stay like, always stay like that forever and ever. And I would never get to ee it in it's full form. It would never go down in Tomochin history it would just like dissapear.

But someone uploaded it on to generasia in it's full size!!!

Here it is:

Thank you Lambchopsuey@generasia, even if the picture wasn't originally yours, you uploaded it to generasia and I never would have seen it, so thanks!!!

It's a really nice picture, kinda reminds me of a Christmas ortament!

Dear J sold over 200,00 in 4 weeks!!!

IT HAPPENED!!!

In one week she sold 162,871 copies of Dear J!!!
In four weeks she sold 202,079 copies of Dear J!!!

I really can't believe that my Tomochin sold over 200K in such a small amount of time!!! It really means something to me that this has happened. THE TOMOMI REVOLUTION HAS STARTED!!!

I really want to thank everyone who bought it because every purchase counts!

Even with all the Tomochin hate going around, at least we know she does have loyal fans, ALOT of loyal fans!

Now, this time lets try to get 200K first week ;)

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P.S. Didn't she look so cute when she was little X]
 

Friday, February 18, 2011

Tomochin's second single!!!!

Since Tomochin's first single was such a sucess she is going to release her second one!!!

On April 27th Tomomi is going to release her second currently untitled single.

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHH~



It's going to be released in 3 editions again, Type A, B and C! Each with a DVD.

Here are the Yesasia links if you havn't allready pre-ordered.
Type C: http://www.yesasia.com/us/title-to-be-determined-single-dvd-type-b-japan-version/1024043021-0-0-0-en/info.html


This time I'm going to wait a bit before I pre-order, so I'll probably do it sometime in the middle of April


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AKB48 Are Amzaing Role Models!!!

I never relized how good role models AKB48 are to little girls. They don't date, smoke, or do other bad stuff. They are dedicated to ehat they love and work hard!!!

I'm sure every little girl dreams to be...

As fashionable as Tomochin
As good of a singer as Aachan
As charismic as Takamina
As fun as Yuko
As pretty as Harunyan

The list can go on!!!

As AKB48 gets bigger and expands I hope they inspire Junior Idols everywhere to work for it, because that's what AKB48 did!

Friday, February 11, 2011

Febuary 9th Blog Translation by Kanki@Stage48

Press - 2011-02-09 23:40:42
Today I had lots of stuff to do like, a press event and radio ^^ <3
It was fun~
By the way, these are my shoes today *_*
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Doesn’t it look like a bear? <3
Tomo.


Translated by: Kanki@Stage48
Source: http://ameblo.jp/xanadu11

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Dear J Arrived in The Mail!!!

After like 2 weeks of waiting Dear J arrived in the mail!!! I bought all 3 types and they came with 6 bonus photos and a mimi Pretty Cure keychain for my backpack!!!

I'm going to review all the content for you know:

CD:
Dear J: Dear J is a really cool dance song. It sounds SO much better on the CD then it does on the radio rip!It's like Koda Kumi/Namie Amuro-ish with a little bit of idol-ish sounds. It is a dance song and like most dance songs it has autotune. All in all its AMAZING!!!

TUNNEL: This is R&B song. It reminds me of Girls by Koda Kumi, whihc is also a really good song. There is a lot of English parts in this which sounds cool, its my favorite C/W

Stay by my side: This is a ballad. Ballads are nice sometimes and I liked this one :)

Thank you: This was a cooler ballad than SBMS and another really good track. I like how in the chorus you can hear her say Thank You after like every line XD

DVD:
Dear J Music Clip: AN AWESOME MUSIC VIDEO! Perfect for her debut. You can tell they put alot of time and effort and money into this. The room with the big sparkley jewels on the wall is cool, same with the room with the cage and like 32875627083561895678325781743983 purses!!!

Tomomi Itano Collection: This was a fashion show. Tomochin is so sexy and is running down the runway dancing and stuff. She looks like shes having a fun time. It really seems like a music video for TUNNEL, and I kinda consider it like thta. It looks like shes singign it in some parts and the music to it is TUNNEL. If she ever releases a PV collection I hope this is on it because TUNNEL is a great song and this is extremley well made for a bonus feature. anyways, she dresses up in a bunch of fun outfits like club outfits, lolita stuff, and girly rocker stuff.

Tomomi Itano Interview: This is where theres like 8 questions and someone off camera asks them and Tomomi anserws. In one question part all she answers is "Dear J" to like 5 questions and another time she say's "IT'S EASY!" I think it was scripted and there was outtakes at the end. She also has a big black bodyguard in this one XD

Making of Tomomi Itano: It shows the making of the music video and all the bonuses, its pretty much a basic "making off" but the quality is fantastic, like everything else on the DVDs. It seems like her dancers can speak english because you hear them say in clear english "1 2 3", so I really doubt they are Japanese.


I am so happy with her debut and will continue to support her as she grows as an artist! I also hope her really cool dancers come back XD, It's kind of a joke but they were funny and I love them (I even love their cheesey dancing)

When I played this the car my mom aksed "Is she the Japanese Britney Spears" and I'm like "Umm, no, well kind"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~~~

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Tomochin at the hospital

At the Chance no Junban handshake event Tomochin felt sick and was taken to the hospital after the first 3 events. She was scheduled to appear at all 6 handshake's but she could only attend the first three. She was diagnosed with acute gastritis. I googled what it was and I really dont understand it, PLEASE GET BETTER TOMOCHIN!
 
 
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Febuary 6th Blog Posts

Event - 2011-02-06 08:59:09
Good morning!
I’m sorry for worrying you all yesterday TT
I’m coming back today
I’ll definitely be participating in the event <3
Tomo.



Dear J Event - 2011-02-06 21:34:34
The event is over~
5,000 people came, thank you so much *_*
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I sang 3 songs at the event ^^
It was really fun ^^
Thank you so much to everyone who came today ^^
Tomo.


Translated by: Kanki@Stage48
Source: http://ameblo.jp/xanadu11

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Febuary 5th Blog Translation

To Everyone - 2011-02-05 21:31:00
To all the fans who were looking forward to today, I’m so sorry that I had to leave suddenly during the middle of the handshake event.

Tomo also wanted nothing more than to meet all of you guys, but suddenly my health got poor. I wasn’t able to stand up…

I went to the hospital and they said I have acute gastritis.

Tomorrow there is also a “Dear J” event at Pacifico Yokohama, so I took some medicine today and want to be prepared for tomorrow.

Since I want to be healthy and see you all tomorrow, I’m going to rest ahead of time this evening.

I am so sorry to everyone who came today.

Tomo.



Translated by: Kanki@Stage48
Source: http://ameblo.jp/xanadu11

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Young Women Want Plastic Surgery to Look Like Tomomi!

There have always been rumors circulating about Itano Tomomi having plastic surgery. I personally believe that she hasn't, the picture on top has a picture of her when she was 13 and a picture when she was 19. Comparing a 13 year old girl to a 19 year old girl is very unfair because betwwen that time your body changes and you mature.

When she was little she deffinatley wasn't the hottest one, she was the cute/ugly little girl. You can deffinatley see how she matures into the beautiful woman she is now by watching all of AKB48's music videos in order of first to last. You can tell she matures alot in Aitakata, Boku no Taiyo, and Namida Suprise.

According to Takasy Mikiya women want to look like Tomochin, and it's very easy for them too because she's had her face done before, so it's easy to mold.

Personally, when I look at pictures of her when she was younger I see the same face as I see when I watch her now.

I'm sure most of these rumors are made by people who hate AKB48 and this is all just tabloid stuff, the only reason people print these stories is because they want to make money off of Tomochin for being so beautiful and popular! As long as we "stand by her side"(cheesey Dear J joke) she'll always be happy!

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Febuary 3rd blog post

Glasses - 2011-02-03 15:37:34
I don’t usually wear glasses buuut
I used these cute glasses for photographing and decided to buy them <3
They’re dazzling glasses


















They’re my favorite~
Today I had shooting and after this I have a radio
Tomo.


Translated by: Kanki@Stage48
Source: http://ameblo.jp/xanadu11

Tomochin's new rival... YOU!


Kikkawa You is going to be Hello!Project's new solo artist, much like Mano Erina before her. She is about 18 years old. Her first single,  Kikkake wa YOU!, is coming out on the 30th of March with a documentary film to accumpany it. I also found out that You was the orange tambourine girl in Milkyway!!! Thats like the best HP unit EVER!!!(But they're nothing compared to Tomochin!
Considering that we are living in a time with so many "idol battles" over sales and fans, these girls are considered rivals.

I used to be a H!P fan but not anymore, they got boring and AKB48 just seemed more my type. I really don't like Mano Erina. Shes hot and all but her music is boring. It really isn't my type so I don't buy her singles or stay up to date with any of her news, I just know she's here. If You's singles are going to turn out like Erina's I'm not going to pay any attention to her. There is a chance(no junban) that she will have good singles and that I'm going to love her, but I doubt that.

In the end I see why they can be considered rivals but I really doubt that Kikkawa You's sales will be anything like Tomochin's so they probably shouldn't be considered wivals anyways.

So as long as miss little "Tan Tan Tan" stays in her place and knows who the real boss is, we won't have any problems :)

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Dear J Ranked #2 on Oricon Weekly

Dear J ranked #2 on the Oricon weekly selling 162,871 copies!!!

She's really selling alot! She surpassed Koda Kumi, Ayami Who-masaki?, and SKE48 :)

She is the new top solo idol queen!!!

 I bet she could take over the world if she wanted too

And for this week she has been placed #1 on the daily charts, it seems like this single might haunt the charts forever like Heavy Rotation and Beginner

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