According to Sports Nippon, Yaguchi Mari and her boyfriend Nakamura Masaya will be registering for marriage tomorrow.
There were some rumors back in December that Yaguchi was going to get married to her boyfriend Nakamura (that she quickly dismissed saying that the plans weren’t finalized) but they made it official today, which is great news since we finally get a confirmation and we can celebrate another marriage.
It has been a while since a UFA member got married (the last time I think it was Saito) so I was really surprised to hear about the news but I am really happy and I wish the best for the couple.
Congratulations to Yaguchi and Nakamura on their marriage and I hope we get to hear their future plans soon.
EDIT: Here is a quick summary of the content of the article thanks to Tokyograph:
According to Sports Nippon, they had originally planned to register their marriage in mid-March, but due to the Tohoku earthquake, they decided to postpone it until May. Nakamura has been active with his agency’s “WAE Charity Project” and with volunteering, while Yaguchi has been participating in charity events and fundraisers as well.
The newspaper says that the two of them have already privately notified their agencies of their coming marriage. However, neither agency has publicly confirmed this news. If true, more details should be learned in the coming week.
So even though it hasn’t been publicly confirmed it seems that they will get married, but I will update this post once a confirmation by Yaguchi, Nakamura, or their agencies has been released.
For now Yaguchi has at least already confirmed that they will get married (she hasn’t denied the marriage when the rumor started in December so there are definitely plans for it), but the official date has yet to be confirmed, although we will find out for sure in the coming days.
EDIT: Confirmed, Yaguchi is already married, she showed off her ring and announced the news to the press yesterday, here is some footage from the event as well as a picture of the happy couple:
Site News: Stage one of updates for the site is complete!
Before going into detail about what was updated I wanted to mention the header is getting its final touches so it will be up by tomorrow morning, there were a few details that were improved so that the banner would look its best but for the most part it’s done and it will be up tomorrow.
That being said the profile section has been updated and I moved the profiles to their current location, here is a small list of some of the corrections:
Ice Creamusume members have been moved to the “Ex-Hello! Project” section
Kamei has been moved to the Ex-Hello! Project section (I placed them in the M-line section by mistake)
Jun Jun and Lin Lin have been moved to the Other graduated members section
SI*NA members have been moved to the Ex- Hello! Project section
I added a UFZS section to the Graduated page
Kikkawa Yuu and Kitahara Sayaka have been moved to the “Other Graduated members” section (yes, they aren’t part of UFA anymore but they are there temporarily, I plan to add an “Active” section to the ex-H!P section tonight)
Aoki Erina, Tanaka Anri, Sainen Mia, Komine Momoka, Okai Asuna, Maeda Irori, Hirano Tomomi, and Kizawa Runa have been moved to the Ex-H!P section.
All Melon Kinenbi members are now Ex-H!P (Megumi was still listed as active)
The Ice Creamusume and SI*NA group pages have been moved to the Group page
There are also a few updates I plan to finish by tonight but for the most part they are quick and I will probably have them done in a few hours (even less since I only have to add a few sentences for each):
Update a few profiles (so far only Ai-chan, H!P Egg, UFZS and their members, Kikka, Sayaka, Shibata and Megumi)
Add a UFZS group page
Correct the dates of the graduated members history in the group
Add an “Active” section in the Ex-H!P member section
Despite those few corrections I have to do the Profile section will be updated completely by tonight!
I wanted to update the profile pictures of each member but due to many problems I had while trying to repair the image software I usually use I didn’t get a chance to do them, although I finally fixed the problem (I uninstalled it and I got Photoshop instead) so I will try and get them done by the end of this weekend (I have to set up the template and find pictures for each member).
My next planned update will start with the Upcoming Releases section and I will start on it this Monday (that should take a day or so) after that I will finish by updating the Discography section (adding a few singles I haven’t added yet, updating lyrics, adding sales info, etc) so everything should be done as soon as possible (I’m aiming for as soon as next weekend).
Sorry for updating until now but I had a lot going on in the past weeks (my brother is graduating from high school, I had to prepare for exams a few weeks ago, among many others) but most of that is taken care of and I will finish up the profile updates by tonight for sure (it will only take a few hours) and I will start doing the updated images for some of the profiles (mainly 9th generation, UFZS, Kikka, Sayaka, etc) which will be done by the end of this weekend.
Please look forward to the updates in the next few days!
Polls: The winner for this poll was Hagiwara Mai with 349 votes (38%), congratulations Mai! Tokunaga Chinami came in second with 323 votes (35%), and Ogawa Saki came in third with 243 votes (27%).
There was a total of 915 votes for this poll.
Congratulations Mai!
Mai has finally won her first Member of the week! I was glad to see that Mai finally got a chance to win since she is among the few members that hasn’t had a chance to win (there are now about 5 members left that haven’t won yet), but that all changed today and she finally got a close 1st place.
Unfortunately Chii was very close to winning for the first time, but in the end Mai got about 26 votes more and won, although I am glad to see that Chii got 2nd place since she usually places in 3rd. Saki got 3rd place, although for the most part she got about 30% of the votes, which is still pretty good.
The results were a bit more evenly spread out than usual which is great since that means that each member got almost equal support from their fans, but like always there can always be one winner (or two if there’s a tie) and that was Mai.
Good luck to Chii and Saki in their future poll appearances, I hope to see Chii win her first poll sometime soon, although for now congratulations to Mai!
Next poll will feature Natsuyaki Miyabi, Yajima Maimi, and Okai Chisato and it should be interesting to see the results since Chisa has recieved pretty good results in her appearances (she has placed 2nd against Gaki, the overall winner for 2010, quite a few times and she has won a fair share of polls) as well as Miyabi who has won the majority of the polls she has been in.
I am excited to see who will win in the end since Maimi might be at a disadvantage, although she still has a chance to win since there is no clear winner in this weeks poll, but I hope everyone votes so we can find out who wins in a week!
Just a reminder for those who don’t vote: If you do have a chance please vote since it only takes two clicks and you help your favorite member appear as member of the week!
To make it easier for fans I will provide the direct link to the poll HERE.
Please vote!
Shuukan Yoro: It’s the 3rd day of Sudou Maasa’s week about “Ping Pong”.
Today is the next part of the tournament with Captain and Miyabi battling it out first after Momo, Kumai, Risako, and Chii got a chance to play last week. Their match is pretty interesting since we get to see Miya hitting too hard and Captain hitting the ball pretty cutely, although in the end one of them wins with a pretty big lead.
After that we continue with the first match of the semifinals to determine who will go against the other finalist and we get a chance to see Kumai and Chii show of their skills, although in the end one of them does a pretty good job of serving and ends up winning the match with a big lead.
Hopefully everyone can check out the episode since it is pretty interesting to see how Captain and Miya, as well as Chii and Kumai’s matches turn out, and even though the action is pretty slow it was interesting to see Captain’s cute poses.
Next week we get to see Captain go against Maasa and the winner will go against the other finalist, so I hope everyone can check it out next week, but for now please enjoy this episode:
HQ covers for Morning Musume’s 46th single titled Only You have been released.
I like that the song and cover is a bit of a contrast of each other. The song has a dark sort of feel to it while the cover is very bright. However everyone’s expression, a serious pose, brings the song and cover all together.
Limited A features all the members in their own little frame from the shoulders up doing their own pose. Everyone looks amazing in this pose and for me Erina and Kanon really stand out for me since it’s a different feeling from what they usually have. Kanon in particular has such a upbeat personality and it’s really different seeing her do a serious pose. Even though this is one of my favorite covers I want to mention that in Reina’s and Riho’s frame it’s hard to separate the two frames. First all the members except Riho are shown posing with one hand or none in Sayu’s frame. Riho is shown with two and in that area it’s just sort of hard to separate the two. Also in Reina’s pose part of her shoulder seems to fade in with the background and it looks as if it’s someone else’s arm in the shot. Regardless of that everyone is amazing.
In Limited B the first thing that stands out to me is Gaki’s hair. It’s a new style that we’ve seen her in and I absolutely love the bump and all. In this cover Riho, Reina and Ai are in the front, while the rest of the members are in the back and it looks as if they tried to split the group in half in the back. So 3 members, Erina, Mizuki and Sayu on one side and on the other is Risa, Aika and Kanon. For me this cover is a little unbalanced because of Reina and Ai’s hair color. Ai and Reina are positioned together and both their hair color stands out quite dramatically but Ai’s new hair style is fierce and looks fabulous.
Limited C for me is hard to see since they all blend in with each other or the background. For example Reina laying down across the cover and then Riho in the front of her. Towards the end on the right bottom corner Reina’s shoes seem to be coming out of Riho’s body. Then Gaki, Mizuki and Kanon are a little to close and their outfits collide into each other. The only member who stands out here is Erina. Her outfit doesn’t fade into anyone else’s or the background.
The Regular edition features a full body group picture of Morning Musume. I like this cover because it shows everyone’s full outfits. If you compare the member outfits, 9th gen received different outfits. Their outfits are short sleeved and are two piece, exposing their stomachs. They are also in shorts and have a large belt buckle on them. While the other members are in long sleeved outfits with a corset type outfit on. They are also in skirts and have a larger necklace than 9th gen. Even with this small difference in outfits they still look uniform and beautiful.
Overall the covers are elegant, beautiful and bright. It somewhat hints that the PV might be using the same color scheme and hopefully that will be released soon too.
Please support Morning Musume and purchase a copy when it’s released on 6/15.
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