Archive for April 9th, 2008

09
Apr

This Resonant Sorrow Is Resonantly Sorrowful, I Guess?

I was reading the S-JIS, romaji, and then English translation of “Resonant Blue”’s lyrics and I sort of realized something startling about the lyrics in their English form, and how they’re applicable to how I feel about Morning Musume. Let’s go over those peculiar similarities!


Don’t you love the small of hierarchy in the morning?

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09
Apr

Musume Overview: Fukuda Asuka Edition

The conclusion of this presentation of the Musume Overview series draws ever so closer, as with the advent of this post, I’ll only have four girls left to write about before a lengthy break, and then I’ll wrap up with the fourth and fifth generations and a little “asides” post about Fujimoto Miki.

The last and youngest girl of the original Morning Musume lineup clocks in at 23-years-old at the moment, but she was really just a cute thirteen-year-old with a lot of talent and potential back in the day. Yep, I’m talking about Fukuda Asuka.

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