This is only one reason… for example: 253th hair from the right on Rii’s left eyebrow.

Oh ain’t she sweet,
Well see her walking down that street.
Yes I ask you very confidentially:
Ain’t she sweet?

Oh ain’t she nice,
Well look her over once or twice.
Yes I ask you very confidentially:
Ain’t she nice?

Just cast an eye
In her direction.
Oh me oh my,
Ain’t that perfection?

Oh I repeat
Well don’t you think that’s kind of neat?
Yes I ask you very confidentially:
Ain’t she sweet?

Oh ain’t she sweet,
Well see her walking down that street.
Well I ask you very confidentially:
Ain’t she sweet?

Lyrics by Jack Yellen (from the oldie song by Milton Ager).

Sweet video from the bonus DVD of Girls! mook vol. 31:

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P.S. These Rii captures plus some more @ our new Kakkoii Gallery 2!

Berryz Kobo 2011 Calendar release date is September 18. I don’t know but I have this feeling that every year they throw out these calendars even a bit earlier than it was done before. Soon next year’s calendars are going to be available in March or something.

This year’s (2010) BK calendar didn’t impress me much. I found that work uniform theme quite boring. I have my fingers now crossed that this next calendar is much more attractive. On the front cover photo some girls seem to have school uniforms. Yes, much better theme this time!

Other BK releases coming out before Christmas are, as far as I know, their 24th single “Shining Power” (Nov 10.) and … wait, this is what we really needed … Alo-Hello! 2 DVD (Nov 17.). Ahh, BK’s first Alo-Hello! was released in photobook and DVD formats so maybe we can expect PB also this time although no release date yet declared.

There is also coming out a DVD from our amazing Buono! “Rock’n Buono! 3″ is of course a live recording from trio’s recent concert tour and the release date is Nov 10.

If you happen to ask “What is the most memorable thing from summer 2010 concert DVD” my answer to you is maybe a bit surprising: “First thing that comes in my mind are those ridiculous pineapple and banana tree costumes they had in the second half of the concert”. But I’m not saying that it was the best part of the show because it wasn’t.

VTRs are those special videos they are showing somewhere in-between the songs. During those minutes girls have a short break to take a breathe at backstage before they jump again to the stage. Commonly a concert has had one VTR plus in the beginning of the concert they have screened introduction video of the girls. This summer there was no intro video because the VTR introduced also the girls running and fooling around on the beach. The song on VTR’s background is Koi wa Hipparidako (from BK’s first album).

Nice VTR. I like it a lot … as I’ve liked all the VTRs they have done so far.

Berryz Kobo Concert Tour 2010 Shoka ~Umi no Ie Otakebi House~ VTR

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MIYABI NATSUYAKI!

We love YOU!
We need YOU!
We can’t live without YOU!

Greetings from zush & B.K.I. members and visitors.

And finally closing this countdown I want to show you 3 live versions of the song that was released on Berryz Kobo’s first album (2004). The song is of course “Today Is My Birthday” and on stage you can see, of course, Miya.

Miyabi solo from Berryz Kobo Yokoso Otakebi Land e 2010 DVD

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Miyabi solo event, spring 2010 Annex (not whole song)

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Legendary Miya’s & Rii’s performance from Concert Tour 2005 AUTUMN ~Switch ON!~ DVD

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As UTB magazine is celebrating it’s 200th issue in October they are offering a special mail order item for their readers. It’s this backbag designed by Momo herself. Besides Momo’s favorite color pink this item comes also in blue and black variations depending on where you get it. Pink one can be ordered from H!P official shop, blue is Wani web store’s item and black is only for fan club members.

Interesting to see what’s gonna be the next item on “Momo Pro” product line. Any suggestions?

Perhaps I find Miyabi to be my favorite girl because she’s really the type of a person I could easily be friends with. We’re same age and we seem to have many things in common. We’re interested in the same things (well, judging from her decorating hobby, style and those infamous extensions). Plus her personality would match greatly with mine; She’s just plain boring. Oh hell yeah. Don’t take that wrong way and be all butthurt. I just love to watch her sit around and be all waste of space. I mean sure she has her moments of insanity too, but she’s mostly ice cold and calm. And oh boy do I love that! Maybe I’m just a weirdo like that, but I truly enjoy her “If only I could lynch all of these bitches” expression more than anything. Well, I might enjoy a fine breakfast a bit more, but you get my point, don’t you?

She can be hilarious at times too, but not very often because of her good jokes whatsoever. No, but because she’s kinda easily upset and admit it, kinda socially awkward at times. That puts together some of the finest BK moments of all time. Like for example what you all have already seen thousand times:

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Also as stated before, I totally dig her voice. It’s amazing. I’m not saying that she’s as talented in singing as Airi or someone else, but I indeed love the sound of her voice. Deep, strong, slightly nasally.. Love.

My newest favorite Miya-singing-moment is from the We are Buono! tour. Nakimushi Shonen and to be exact, right here at 2:11 – 2:15. Just listen to the “SPEED de” part. Hell, I can die in happiness after those few seconds.

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So say, what are your fave Miya moments on stage?

One more thing I’d like to mention is her hair. Yes, hers, and then those other ones she’s been wearing.  I’m not even gonna begin with why I hate people complaining about her extensions. That just makes me rage like nobody’s business. They don’t exactly make her a bad person do they now?

Anyway, I find Miyabi’s hair extremely inspiring. In fact I have lost track on how many hairdos I have copied from her. I’m gonna show some of my favorites here:

Not that she wouldn’t be drop dead gorgeous without them too!

Lastly, I wish Miyabi a happy birthday! I’d love to go and get drunk big time with her, but then again I don’t know how it could possibly happen and how Miya would react to a random Finnish girl pointing at her with a beer can. Right, so I’m getting too deep into my drunken-Miya dream. Have a good day people, this was Jam, your random guest writer.

Life is not all the time sunshine and happy smiles although many of us would like to have it that way. Certainly there are also many who love to have some excitement in their lives. You can for example be into extreme sports or at least go to off-road biking (as I do) or amusement park. One of the safest way to get some tension into your “happy boring life” is watching thriller and horror movies. Or even better: Get yourself some live horror by going to a theme park which can offer you a nice and cosy horror house.

That’s exactly what Berryz Kobo girls did on BK DVD Magazine vol. 20. As a part of their challenge game they had to go through the horror house which in this case was very gloomy abandoned hospital (asylum?). If you watch this part of the DVD alone after midnight with lights off you might get some real nice horror shivers.

Here in Finland we don’t have this kind of live horror houses. Next time I go to Japan I’ll try this kind of excitement by myself.

This part of the DVD is Miya’s challenge. She didn’t knew where they are going. She got her eyes blinded.

Still laughing Saki leads Miya to the destination.

Almost there.

Now Miya sees horror hospital’s front walls.

Miya goes in with Maasa and Saki. It’s very dark in there so vdeio grew uses infrared cameras.

Momo and Rii were too afraid to go in so their job was to keep in touch with the in gone groups (another group was Chii and Yurina) with walkie talkie.

Soon girls find out that there are still many patients in this gloomy hospital. Only that they are zombie patients.

First shock of horror.

Miya wasn’t sure what she saw. Creepy terror booms in.

Rising fright on those faces.

That’s not nice behavior from the patient at all! Screaming lunatic.

I can say Miya didn’t like that at all.

And the panic comes in.

Poor Miya is really afraid there. I mean: Really.

Never before I’ve seen Miya as upset as she was when running and stumbling in this horror zombie hospital.

Tears running down her cheeks. Do you have the feeling that you would like to hug her?

This isn’t relly real but you can see how real it was by watching their faces.

And it’s not yet over. They are still in the house.

Must find the way out. Where’s the back door?

This is quite speedy scene. On the right you can see Miya running fast out from the horror hospital. Well, you can kind of see.

All girls survived and their hearts still beating so fast.

Hugs in the right place at the right time.

VIDEO: BK DVD Magazine vol. 20 – Horror Hospital: part 6 | part 7

Before filming episodes each Sensei went to planning meeting where her show’s script was decided. These following captures are from Miya’s meeting. Why I’m showing you these? Simply because Miya looks so sweet and natural there without heavy stage make-up and colorful costumes. So casual, so simple and so beautiful.

Captures are taken from this segment:

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And here are all 5 episodes where Miya was a Game Sensei: ep. 101 | ep. 102 | ep. 103 | ep. 104 | ep. 105