I was chatting with Second Blossoming on wotachat yesterday, and we got to talking about live performances of Sakura Gumi’s ‘Hare Ame Nochi Suki’.
This of course brought up the performance from the Hello! Project 2007 Winter concert, where Miya was part of a group that sang ‘Hare Ame Nochi Suki.’ Unfortunately, the girls with her (excluding Maimi, IMO) butchered this beautiful song. Yui makes my ears bleed in this performance… HOWEVER, Miyabi was stellar in her performance (excluding a little blip during her “nee”). Her high part in “nee hare dooriame nochi SUKI” more than made up for it!
Isn’t Miya just so cute?
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Early into my Miya fandom, I came across the picture below on the JPHiP forum, and I thought “Cool fanart!! But… Why in the world would someone draw Miya with energy balls in her hands?”
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I was talking with Ray of American Wota yesterday and he mentioned to me that episodes 19-28 of Berikyuu! feautred a cooking competition between Berryz members Miyabi, Momoko and Chinami versus C-ute members Maimi, Kanna and Airi.
That makes me want to go and watch those episodes, and I will fairly soon, for I have all Berikyuu! episodes ready and waiting to be watched. However, it also brought to mind the last time I saw Miyabi participate in a cooking competition and the hilarity that ensued.
So this post is a tribute to Miya’s silly side. What I love here is that of the four girls involved Miya is the most animated. The screencaps to follow simply cannot do justice to the goofyness that Miya demonstrates here, so at the end of the post, there’s also a video file of the cooking competition. The only problem is that the subs are small and may be slightly difficult to read.
I don’t quite know where this came from, or when exactly it was filmed, but that doesn’t take away from my enjoyment of this video clip!
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In June of 2005, the lovely Miya was a mere 12 (almost 13) years old. At this point in time, I was fully immersed in my Morning Musume and Matsuura Aya fandoms, and really hadn’t given the H!P Kids much of a chance. At the time, I knew of three of Berryz Koubou’s singles - ‘Piriri to Yukou!’, ‘Special Generation’ and ‘Nanchuu Koi wo Yatteruu YOU KNOW?’, and while I didn’t mind them, I also didn’t pay much attention to them.
When the shuffle groups came out for that year, I wasn’t too impressed. Of the three groups, Sexy Otonajan, Puripuri Pink and Elegies, I was only interested in Elegies single, and that was the only one I listened to.
I knew that Miyabi was in Sexy Otonajan, and that she was one of the H!P kids who had been in Aa! (and I have to say that I loved both her and Airi in Aa! from the start), but when I saw the PV for ‘Onna, Kanashii, Otona’, I was completely turned off due to the fact that Miyabi and Megumi were so young and wearing these sensual outfits singing a pretty sensual sounding song. I was so against it that I never really “heard” the song, and just wrote it off.
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Okay, so this post has absolutely nothing to do with lions or tigers, but it definitely has lots to do with Miya’s heels. In a recent post by Second Blossoming, he commented on how much he loved Miya’s heels in Buono!’s newest single, ‘Kiss!Kiss!Kiss!’. Well, the single is now available at Hello! Online, and since I have it on preorder, I got the ‘preview’ since I probably won’t be getting my copy until early June (I’m most likely going to be out of town when my copy arrives).
On the limited edition DVD, part 1 (I’m assuming part 2 will be on the Single V) of the making of is provided, rather than the usual dance shot PV. And as I watched this making of, I couldn’t help but notice that there were quite a a few shots of Miyabi’s hot heels. So, this post is a salute to Second Blossoming and Miya’s heels (with a few other random Miya shots stuck in for variety)…
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Some time last year, all the members of Berryz Koubou were featured in the magazine B.L.T U-17 and answered 100 questions. For those of you who haven’t had the chance to read Miyabi’s answers, I’m posting them here. The translations were provided by DavidZMetal of the Special Generation forum. This was posted in the forum on May 2, 2007, so the questionnaire was answered some time before that.
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Welcome to my new blog which will be devoted solely to the lovely and talented Natsuyaki Miyabi! The blog is named after the 8th track on Buono!’s first album Café Buono! For those who haven’t listened to it, Miyabi sings the opening line “Never end and last forever” and I think it’s fitting for me as a Miyabi fangirl to name this blog after that because I’m hoping for never ending amounts of Miya goodness. ^_^ Hit the little triangle in the side bar under the heading “The Song” to listen to ‘Last Forever’.
For those of you who read my main blog fields of maiZe and berryZ, you will not be surprised to find that I have started this Miya worship blog. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a little while because there are so many worship blogs out there to other Hello! Project members that I thought Miyabi deserved one too. A big thanks goes out to Ray of International Wota and American Wota for hosting yet another of my blogs.
I’ll be posting anything and everything I can find that catches my eye and relates to Miyabi here. I hope you like the layout. I’m loving Miya in Buono!’s latest single ‘Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!’, thus the picture you see in the sidebar. ^_^ That sidebar photo will change as I come across Miya photos that really strike my fancy.
So, to get things started off, I thought I’d post some old school Miyabi pictures, to take us back to where it all started. Just look at these pictures compared to the sidebar. She’s definitely growing up to be one fine young lady.
