Ayumi for me as well. I didn't like her all at first, but her personality is so oddly appealing that I was won over.

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Farrah" data-cid="190188" data-time="1437990565"> They uploaded the promotional edit of Oh My Wish.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDw0rmCAZL4 I know that parts of it are incredibly generic digimusume (and even...

Seems okay. I need a higher quality recording to get a good feel for it, though. 
 
[quote="Valerie"]
Riho is screamy and grating as usual, but it actually kind of works with the song.
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I thought Riho didn't sing in this song at all? 

I... really don't get how Eripon could possibly be considered a good dancer, lol. But I still find the differences between the girls' dancing to be really noticeable, almost painfully so at times. (It depends on the dance, of course.)   I'm hoping the Maa/Miki-led song will somehow involve piano pla...

Eripon on a dance team?  Although, it's not surprising considering the bizarre dancing spotlight Rina got in the Angerme single. But it'd be so much better if the dance team was Riho/Ayumi/Miki with Mizuki and Sakura as the lead singers. That would actually make sense. 

Hello! Station #123   MCs: Kudou Haruka and Murota Mizuki   00:20 ～　ANGERME  「 Gashin Shoutan 」 MV (Hello! Station Edit Ver.) 06:33 ～　ANGERME Audition Announcement from Wada Ayaka 09:28 ～　Hello! Pro Kenshuusei 「 Natsu LOVE Romance 」 (Zepp Tokyo) 14:08 ～　Wada Ayaka  ・ Yamagishi Riko Idiom Corner 19:...

That was rather hard on the ears. Rika and Konkon sang more than they should have, and Ai still sounds really shaky and strained. :(

Meh. I actually love auditions and getting new people, but it's no fun if you don't add people with a reasonable amount of talent, and they don't seem to want to do that anymore. Also, I really don't like very large groups. 

I'm really looking forward to this. They better add good people. No KSS, please.     Angerme auditions are stupid, and I hope that they aren't really going to happen. The only way it will be okay is if it ends up being a one-member generation and that member is awesome. And you know that's not going...

Miki has a lot more tension and strain in her voice than Meimi ever had. Miki is more comparable to Riho or Masaki, and they still have the same problems. However, she seems stable enough that she could handle a few short, easy lines. I personally wouldn't give her much just yet, but I'm trying to t...

I know that she's well-liked already, and she's really pretty, so I think she'll be pushed visually for sure. But with regard to getting lines and that sort of thing, they (usually) don't push weak singers in that area unless they are good dancers or at least good performers with a lot of confidence...

[quote="Saya"]
I could watch Manakan do nothing forever.
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I'm really starting to like her a lot. She's so cute. 

『GREEN ROOM』#6
 
04:13〜 ANGERME Starting Live Tour Special @ Nippon Budokan - Taiki Bansei rehearsal and comments from 3rd gen
17:37〜 THE POSSIBLE Never Never Give Up dance lesson 
26:56〜 LoVendoЯ MV stuff 
39:41〜 ANGERME Murota Mizuki voice training 

[quote="Anderei"] Yeah, that's odd. Mostly because I wouldn't put Rina in a dance group, the choreo isn't that different like you said, and Rikako could use the singing practice even if there's no solos. Hopefully they don't try to do it often or for other groups. [/quote]   I agree with a...

Some random musings that have nothing to do with each other:    After watching the dance club performance from a while ago (which was a mess, but that's... not what I'm going to talk about), now I want Riho and Manaka to form a new dance unit. They don't sing live (so they don't have to worry about ...

I like it. From the fan recording, there seemed to be very few Kanon solo lines (or maybe none at all; it's too LQ for me to be sure). So it's like a preview of the future.

It sounds like all of the solo lines in Sally were 3rd gen (except for some talking lines by Dawa and Kanon). Maho sounds a little like Kana did when she first joined. Anyways, it's my favorite of the three songs so far, haha. 

I guess Murota will get most of Kanon's lines when she's gone. Looking on the bright side, her singing will go better with Meimi's than Kanon's cutesy S/mileage-style singing. They're both so melodramatic. It should be... interesting, lol. 

[quote="Madara"] I don't get the "zero effort" put into performances comments. What are you guys referring to?  [/quote]   People can interpret facial expressions very differently. What looks "laidback" to you looks to me like someone who isn't really trying. She puts o...

I'm always surprised when someone announces that they're going to graduate (even when I shouldn't be), but not this time. If anything, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. She has been putting zero effort into performances for a very long time now. It's been frustrating for me because I do like he...

From Amped at jplop: <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"> Music-ru announced that Angerme will be performing an anime song at Budokan on 5/26 for the first time called "Mahoutsukai Sally" (Angerme version) 「魔法使いサリー」アンジュルム ver. from the anime Mahoutsukai Sally / Sally, the Witch. T...

I'd like a Yasuda-Yaguchi collaboration album, lol. 

Another one?   I hope they'll be better vocally than KF and CG. Yumeno is decent-ish, Kisora and Riko are pretty bad, but I don't know anything about the other three. 

Musubu was awesome in that KSS performance. They really should have shown more of her.   
 
 

Morning Musume  <div> <div>Favorite member: Haruka </div> <div>Favorite past member: Miki</div> <div>Least favorite member (past or present): Aika</div> <div>Best looks: Haruka</div> <div>Least favorite looks: Nonaka</div> <div>Favorite voice: Mizuki</div> <div>Best singer: Sakura</div> <div>Worst ...

You're always so positive, Saya.

[quote="Farrah"] Yuka is honestly probably a lost cause but Akari has come such a long way.   [/quote]   This is dumb, but I'm really happy to hear someone else say this. I'm so tired of people lumping them together and saying that they're both decent now. Akari has improved a lot, but Yuk...

It's really strange how much Karin there is. I like Karin, so I don't mind that much, but it's just... completely bizarre.   Putting that aside, I'm pretty disappointed that Haruka hasn't been pushed into some sort of secondary vocal role with this single. Sayumi leaving opened up a spot, so I thoug...

Haruka actually sang Yuujou ~Kokoro no Busu ni Naranee!~ already at her birthday event, if you want to hear it. The performance with Murota should (hopefully) be better, though.   
 
 

^^ I agree that Riho ranges from meh to awful and Mizuki is usually meh, but I really do believe that Sakura is meh-to-good (lol), which is what I would say about Ai and some of the other strong singers when they were at her age and level of experience. I mean, there's plenty of performances where A...