(This is gonna be terrible because I already wrote this post and it got wiped. Now I'm gonna kill someone for it. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... >/geof.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':geof:' /> So you guys are gonna have to imagine me giving this review in a tired, puffed out way)
The first part of the concert can be found here on YT.
So the Hello! Project Summer 2009 concert came out that included all the revived groups. ml and I watched it last night and I really liked it a lot. It was refreshing from their other concerts. Here's the setlist:
Hello! Project Chanpuru
01 Guru Guru JUMP (All)
02 Piriri to Yukou (All except S/mileage)
Opening Video
MC1(Inaba/Makoto)
03 Ama no Jaku (S/mileage)
04 Omakase♪Guardian (Guardians 4)
05 Minimoni. Jankenpyon! (Shin Minimoni.)
MC2(Makoto/Mano/Lin Lin/Takeuchi・Miyamoto)
06 Sekai ha Summer Party (Mano Erina/S/mileage)
07 Shochuu Omimai Moshiagemasu (℃-ute)
08 Seishun Bus Guide (Berryz Koubou)
MC3(Makoto/Shimizu/Natsuyaki)
09 Nanchatte Renai (Morning Musume.)
10 Shouganai Yume Oibito (Morning Musume.)
MC4(Inaba/Makoto)
11 Debut! ~Koi Suru Kado ni wa Fuku Kitaru~ (Ice Cream Musume)
12 Yume to Genjitsu (Aa!)
13 Pira!Otome no Negai (Petitmoni V)
MC5(Makoto/S/mileage)
14 Heya to Yshatsu to Watashi (Tanaka Reina)
15 Umbrella (Tanpopo #)
16 My Boy (Buono!)
17 JUMP (All)
MC6(Makoto/Yajima/Nakajima/Okai)
18 Cosmos (Takahashi Ai)
19 ONLY YOU (Zoku Biyuuden)
20 Iku ZYXFLY HIGH! (ZYX-α)
21 Diamond (High-King)
22 C\C (High-King)
MC7(Makoto/Takahashi/Kusumi/Michishige)
23 Special Generation (Berryz Koubou)
24 Tokaikko Junjou (℃-ute)
MC8(℃-ute)
25 Resonant Blue (Morning Musume.)
26 Sono Bamen de Bibiccha Ikenaijan! (All)
27 Koko ni Iruzee! (All)
MC8(Member introduction)
28 Aozora ga Itsumademo Tsuzuku youna Mirai de Are! (All)
Quick review on group songs:
Way too many relentlessly happy one's which were:
1. Guru Guru Jump! – All
2. Piriri to Yukou! – All but S/mileage
16. JUMP – All
25. Sono Bamen de Bibiccha Ikenai jan! – All
26. Koko ni Iruzee w/ call and response corner – All
27. Aozora ga itsumademo tsuzuku youna mirai de are! – All
I feel like Guru Guru Jump has been performed at that last 3 tours. I'm soooo tired of it. Most of these songs are obnoxious happy too! Sono Bamen was not the same without Koharu's sombrero and I did end up liking Koko ni Iruzee because I was forced to sit through it. I forgot the awesome "WOW WOW WOW Lonely boys & girls~~~" part.
Revived group songs + Ice Cream Musume.
MiniMoni Jankenpyon! – New MiniMoni
(LinLin, Fukuda Kanon, Takeuchi Akari, Miyamoto Karin)
Relentlessly happy song again, but I liked this one a lot because they managed to make it not that obnoxious. The girls are wearing pretty much a Minimoni outfit with red plaid and red and white gloves! They were so cute. Karin and Akari are seriously small and young looking and ADORABLE. It seriously almost makes me want to have kids. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... ek3run.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> Linlin did a good job, I really liked seeing this other side of her and it didn't look forced for her at all like it was for Mika Todd.
Yume to Genjitsu (new song) – Aa!
(Natsuyaki Miyabi, Suzuki Airi, Saho Akari)
A cool song which is expected of Aa! I liked the instrumental in the song. It reminded me of My Boy by Buono, but a lot better, I think, a lot less in your face. The girls are wearing pink animal patterned shirts with black shirts with *TWO* sets of suspenders. Really, REALLY cute. How can you fail with 2 sets of suspenders?! I'm pretty indifferent to the girls here. Feel like this is the same side of Miyabi and Airi I always see so not much to add and I'm even more indifferent to the egg here. But overall, I do like this song a lot. The performance was alright though, I didn't feel that much energy or excitement watching it.
Pira! Otome no Onegai (new song) – Pucchimoni V
(Nakajima Saki, Hagiwara Mai, Mano Erina)
Pretty incomplete performance because Mai wasn't here. The song sounds techno-y-ish with lots of RARAruesfWOWO sounds as lyrics and lots of Tsunku in the background. I guess it also sounds like DDR. With such a high energy song and 2 girls, it just didn't feel right. The song also doesn't seem very good, it's just all over the place.
Umbrella (new song) – Tanpopo#
(Kamei Eri, Mitsui Aika, Kumai Yurina, Okai Chisato)
This song pretty much sounds like a lost Tanpopo song. Tanpopo is my favorite subgroup so any material that sounds remotely like what they would have been doing makes me happy so I like this song a lot. I thought the girls did a really cute job too. The girls are wearing pretty much a Tanpopo dress, blue plaid dresses with matching top hats. They look alright, think they could have done cuter. Eri is my favorite and I didn't know she was in Tanpopo#! So it was a surprise for me. She shows off her new cut here along with the top hat which makes it even more cute! I really want to get that cut now. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /ph34r.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':ph34r:' /> Just not sure about the top hat.
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Only You – Zoku Biyuden
(Michishige Sayumi, JunJun, Sugaya Risako)
This was a really high energy performance which made me like it a lot. It makes me want to jump and kick my legs in the air too, yay! These girls are pretty weak vocally, but they made up for it and I somehow think they don't sound that bad. I also have ONLY ONLY ONLY ONLY ONLY ONLY (on to infinity!...) YOU stuck in my head now which must mean something. I also think that this performance showed a different side of Jun Jun we don't usually see in Morning Musume and it's a side I like a lot. If only if they used her more and not for retarded happy songs like Guru Guru Jump...Either way, this is my 2nd favorite performance in the set list.
Iku ZYX FLY HIGH! – ZYX-α
Niigaki Risa, Kusumi Koharu, Tsugunaga Momoko, Tokunaga Chinami, Sudo Maasa, Umeda Erika, Wada Ayaka, Ogawa Saki)
Pretty unimpressed with this performance. It felt most likely any other song they would have shuffled at any other of their concerts, but I guess to be fair, they didn't get to perform a new song, but neither did Minimoni! Risa also gets to sing the WOW part and she wails... and has her arms in awkward positions... which pretty much ruined it for me. But the girls do wear cute dresses, that are pink and flowy on the bottom, with a sequined bandeau and a black strap across. Really cute, but it was very un-ZYX-like so they lost more points for me.
Diamonds – High-King
(Takahashi Ai, ・Tanaka Reina, Shimizu Saki, Yajima Maimi, Maeda Yuuka)
Also unimpressed with this song. I guess this was a major complaint at the release of the cover album, but this song is really boring and doesn't match High-King at all! They also performed C/C right after which only served to emphasize that more. The girls are wearing black outfits with red ruffles all over. It made me think they were supposed to be performing Latin influenced songs. Not much to say about the girls, I feel like I've seen this girls perform like this too many times.
Debut! ~Koi Suru Kado ni wa Fuku Kitaru~ - Ice Cream Musume
(Shenshen, Anchii, Youko, Reirei + Jun Jun and Lin Lin)
I really like Ice Cream Musume. They seem just so charistmatic too me. I find their cheerfulness just refreshing. So I am so glad they haven't been thrown off into obscurity yet, but not sure why not all the ICM girls were here. Hope it does not mean anything about the future of the group. The ICM girls wear pink hoodies with white puffy skirts. It was reallly cuteeee, but then Jun Jun and Lin Lin were still wearing their Nanchatte Renai outfits so it really ruined the mood and was quite distracting. I still liked this performance a lot and look forward to seeing them. CONCERT DVD PLEASE?! <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... ryalot.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
So overall, I really liked the concert. It was super refreshing to me. I hope they do more for the revived subgroups, it really made my interest in Hello! Project go up so much more. Their last few dozen concerts were getting really formulaic. And I'm a strange idol fan, I care so much more about them performing than anything else. I was glad they gave each subgroup their own outfits, it's nice because it really helps the mood of the song and sets it more in stone that they're a group, and not just a shuffle for this particular concert that we will forget forever. Hate to say it, but this reminded me a lot of recent AKB48 concerts since they have units more or less like this too, except line ups are much more flexible. But either way, I like it a lot. Also ZYX-alpha lost 2 members recently, I hope this doesn't change anything...
OK, so everyone watch the concert now, COS I SAID SO! And give me reviews here! <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... >/whip.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whip:' />
(As a side note, ml & I intend on watching some egg concert next if anyone feels like joining.)