Suzuki Airi – “Natsu Karada” DVD Cover Released

The DVD cover for Suzuki Airi’s 5th solo DVD titled Natsu Karada (Summer body) has been released.

The cover seems to have an opposite theme of her 4th PB Kibun Tenkan since it features Airi in a school uniform while holding a bad on her right shoulder, and she seems to be standing in front of a train station since there are rails on the side of the road.

Even though I would have liked to see the covers being permuted since the cover for Kibun Tenkan fits more with this release since it featured Airi in a calm pose with a bikini next on the beach (mention of summer body), I still like how this cover looks since it’s different from usual school uniform PB covers thanks to Airi’s amazing smile and her cute pose that seems natural (like if she’s taking something from her bag).

Overall, I really like this cover since it shows us a different side of Airi, and I really like the matching tite with the word Natsu in blue just like her name in the bottom, while Karada is in light pink, so it doesn’t clash too much with the overall look.

Hopefully every Airi fan can reserve a copy!

The release date is set for 8/3.

H!P official discography page about product

Kumai Yurina And Suzuki Airi To Appear In A Horror Movie Titled “Oosama Game”

Berryz Koubou member Kumai Yurina and C-ute member Suzuki Airi will both star in a new horror movie titled Oosama Game (King’s game).

From the tokyohive translation of the article about the movie, the movie is basically a reproduction on film of a cellphone novel from the same title, and the story is mainly about 2 mysterious high-school students and a cell-phone.

Kumai is playing the lead role of Honda Chiemi, while Airi plays the role of Honda’s mysterious classmate Iwamura Ria.

I have to say that when I first read the description of the movie, I immediately though of Airi’s recent straight-to-DVD movie Keitai Kanojo which also had something to do with cellphones, and even though Airi has appeared in Keitai Kanojo and her most recent movie Vampire Stories – BROTHERS,  I’m really happy to see that she will be appearing next to Kumai in this movie since the main spotlight will be on Yurina, with the accompanying role going to Airi, which is always great to see since we never had the chance to see those 2 interact together in a real movie.

Another interesting mention in the description of the movie is that many other artists will be appearing in this movie, such as Yoshizawa Hitomi, as well as small appearances from every single C-ute and Berryz Koubou member, which is something I really didn’t expect, and this makes me really impatient to see what the final result will be like since the producer of the movie who picked both Airi and Kumai himself  is positive about the release saying that “it wouldn’t be exaggerating to say that a masterpiece of high-school horror has been made”.

Overall, I’m really excited about this release since it will be an interesting mark in the year of 2011 for both groups, and specially to Kumai since it will be her first leading role in a good movie for a while, so hopefully more details will be out soon!

The movie will be released next winter.

Tokyohive article about movie (English)

Oricon.jp article about movie

Barks.jp article about movie