15 days to go!

Today I’m going to cover what truly started my Miyabi fandom. Back in October of 2007, I was driving somewhere with my brother and he played Berryz Koubou’s “Munasawagi Scarlet” for me. He spent his time gushing over Risako and how awesome she sounded with her “Yes my love” lines.

I, on the other hand, was immediately drawn to Miyabi’s voice, particularly during her final solo line “Sotto chikazukitai”. This was before watching the PV and realizing that she also happened to be “one of the Aa! girls”. I had watched Miyabi in the Winter 2007 Wonderful Hearts Concert, and loved her performance in ‘Hare Ame Nochi Suki’, but I hadn’t really followed her.

After that, I very quickly started looking up all the information I could find out about the wonderful Miyabi and I haven’t turned back.*

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So, it’s 16 days to Miyabi’s 16th birthday, so let the birthday count down begin!

To start off the count down, I’m going to go over the song that first brought Miyabi to my attention.. And no, I don’t mean when she became prominent for me… Just the first time she caught my eye. It is because of this song that I wanted to learn more about her when I started becoming interested in Berryz Koubou a few years later.

Back in the year 2003, a one-time Hello!Project subgroup was formed. Aa! featured Tanaka Reina of Morning Musume, and two Hello! Project Kids, Natsuyaki Miyabi and Suzuki Airi.

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This blog has been ignored for far too long…. I’m sorry Miya!! XD So to make up for my lack of posting these past two weeks, I’m attacking you all with Miya pic spam!

So, a few weeks ago, I got my yesasia shipment of High-King’s LE, Matsuura Aya’s ‘Zutto Suki De Ii Desu Ka’, and most importantly (for this blog, at least), Buono!’s ‘Kiss!Kiss!Kiss!’ Single V. As the title of this post says, that Single V is Miya heaven (or Airi and/or Momoko heaven, if they are who you prefer… But this is a Miyabi blog, so it’s Miya heave here!). 4 versions of the PV, with Miya looking gorgeous in each of them turns me into a pile of Miyabi fangirling goo.

Here, I’ve got screencaps galore, featuring the wonderful Miyabi in the band version and close up version. I took screencaps of the dance shot, but there aren’t any closeups of Miyabi, so I didn’t add screenshots here. However, the dance shot is available for viewing at the end of this post because Miyabi owns the dance in comparison to her group mates (once again).

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A few days ago, zush shared some audio files of Risako from her solo event on June 5th. After reading that post, I went to see if I could find a recording of Miyabi’s solo event from June 6th, and lo-and-behold, a link to a fan recording was available on the JPH!P forums.

I really was hoping that there would be a recording available, because I had read that one of the songs Miya performed was ‘Masayume’ - the b-side to Aa!’s ‘FIRST KISS’. I absolutely adore that song, and have never heard it live. To get a recording of Miya performing it solo was just… WOW! ^_^ (And don’t mind the random pics I’m sticking in… I just felt like some Miya eyecandy)

Aa! reunion picture time! (or not… XD)

That link to JPH!P I shared has the entire event recorded, but for those of you who just want to hear the songs, I have cut out the 3 songs she performed and have them ready for your listening pleasure. It’s not the greatest quality recording, obviously, but you can hear Miya quite clearly. Hope you enjoy the audio! To listen you can click on the link, or you can wait a bit (depending on your connection speed), and eventually a little triangle will appear next to the song title (much like the play button next to ‘Last Forever’ on the sidebar) and you can play it without clicking out from this page.

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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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