So, I haven’t updated in a while… But FEAR NOT!! The activity on this blog is going to increase very soon…

However, before we get to proper Miya posts, I thought I’d share this because it just totally made my day.

I was going through my feeds, as usual, and saw a post by Shirow from Wotaku Now! with a diagram of the words he uses most frequently on his blog. I then went to this site and checked out my word usage for fields of maiZe and berryZ, which I found boring and didn’t bother to post… But then I went to check Last Forever and got this….

Now how awesome is that word cloud? XD MIYA >>>>> ALL!!!!*

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I absolutely adored Miya in the Berryz vs. C-ute battle concert that just released last week (the C-ute version) and today (Berryz version).

However, in order to be as wonderful as she was in the concert, one must prepare before they go into battle. So, here are some fun photos of Miya from the BK/C-ute battle concert memory photobook. These are most of my favourite Miya pics from within and they’re not all full page layouts… Most are just chopped bits with Miya. Enjoy!

Miya looks like she has fangs… XD Om nom nom!

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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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Okay, I had the hardest time trying to figure out a title for this post. Can someone please tell me the proper translation to “Piriri to Yukou!”? Because on projecthello, it’s translated as “Let’s Go” - or the title has been cut off, since there’s no closing quotation. On wiki.theppn it’s translated as “Let’s Go Briskly!”, and I know that at some point (I don’t know where), I’ve seen it translated as “Let’s Be Spicy!”… So any clarification would be greatly appreciated! XD

Anyway, I got a bunch of official UFA photos in a few weeks ago, and within the bunch was a photo of Miyabi in one of the Piriri costumes. I just have to say that I love Miya in that PV so much! Since I find that she’s so pretty in that PV, I thought I’d share some screencaps of the lovely Miya!

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So, I’m not commenting on the explosion that’s been going on all day just yet… However, I really need some good old Miyabi eyecandy right about now… Let’s call it my comfort candy. XD

I know what I’m hoping for tonight…

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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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