1 – Sorry I didn’t approve comments or pay attention to my site for about a week. I could make excuses but it basically comes down to: I’m a lazy shit when I’m not at work.

2 – The only reason I’m not registering at nihongogo.com is because my online life is already fairly active, and how am I supposed to hang around a message board AND write filthy homoerotica at the same time? I can’t. I just can’t, and it pains me.

3 – ENUMERATED LISTS.

4 – I’m seeing a lot of vlogs popping up now. Side-eyein’ y’all for real.

I grab my own boobs at one point in here, talking about Yuko Oshima.

I just DO that, okay?

Two separate takes. The first was made of shakycam and dreadful hair. There are a couple of clips from that take at the end.

The whole Dom-beard thing is over now. He shaved. Thank god. I love how if he goes one day without looking impeccable the entire fanbase freaks out.

Possibly, Ayumi Hamasaki did something this week, but I’m taking a short break from her. :/

OBLIGATORY DOM HOWARD PIC:

CAN I JUST.

OK, guys. I love Kamei Eri. You know I think she’s super-beautiful, even though in the early days of her tenure with MoMusu I gave her the (loving) little nickname “Fraken-chan” (gurl was scurry back then, I’m sorry).

Nevertheless, there’s this:

ST-ST-ST-STUNNING.

TURTLE POWER IS ALL IN THE LEGS.

ULTIMATE TOP OF BEAUTY

But am I I the only one who does not find this beautiful?

Ew. Just…ew. Apparently I’m the only (languishing, and admittedly getting-too-old-for-this-shit) wota who isn’t creaming his/her pants over this. I’m late to the party, I know, but for posterity’s sake I feel the need to point out that this picture is pretty much the opposite of sexy, for me. I am getting no eye contact, this whole white bikini/sloppy hairstyle/dark background thing indeed makes her head look about three times too large, and then there’s the diaper bottom.

But to make matters worse, it’s the bones. This isn’t just the lament of a fat girl wishing stick-thin girls weren’t worshipped (it could be) – hell, I’d hump 9/9 of SNSD, and have you SEEN how skinny those girls are? More to a current fixation of mine, have you seen 2/3 of Muse? Those boys could give K-Pop girls a run for the money. This isn’t a point of “bony skinny = not a good body image blah blah blah politics” contention. Nah, bony skinny just happens (sometimes. Sometimes it is forced, but a lot of times it is genetics). No, I just don’t see how it’s sexy for a girl to look like a starving third-world child. I’d send her pennies a day if presented with a photo like this.

It’s all in the lighting, it’s all in the choice of wardrobe and the angle of her head, I know. But damn, that is one very unattractive photo.

Now THIS:

*phew* Kamei is still beautiful. I was scared.

Did I want to make a point with this? Not really. I just wanted to offer a counterpoint. But maybe I’ll make one anyway: bad photos happen. Sometimes they even become photobook centerpieces. It doesn’t mean we all love it, and it doesn’t mean we love an idol less because that one photo seems sort of…creepy, maybe? Yeah, I’d call “starving pasty Eri in a diaper” creepy.

I STILL LOVE HER.

But let me tell you, that piece of crap bikini didn’t make me put in a pre-order for SWEET or anything. JUST SAYIN’.

And now, a fantastic H!P bikini body to counter that:

Sayumi in a bikini is never irrelevant.

Before even stepping foot into this mess, I need to thank the following people: wincy of iloveayu.com, misa, and walking.proud. I decided to take the influx of photos pouring in, chronicling this new and as-yet-untitled or even announced album’s promo materials, and make a picspam from the eyecandy. I also really like staring at these photooooosss.

I hope that by providing some commentary, I’ll get some of you up to speed where you might not otherwise necessarily know what the hell is going on in Ayu-land.

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What is there, really, to say, argue, or critically analyze about an SNSD song? Sure, until the MV comes out we can talk all we want about how it sounds this way or that way, but in the end, ‘OH!’ is just as catchy as anything we’re wont to hear from the SME ennead.

The thing that really matters here, let’s face it, are thighs and dance moves. In other words, a great MV.

I think this is a great MV.

But don’t trust me on that. Let’s go to the screencaps. I took…too many. I want to share them. You can click on each screenie for the HUGE VERSION. I just wanted this post to look nice and neat as you scrolled through, because I can understand how 75+ caps at over 1000px wide can seem sort of daunting, especially with my layout that loves to fuck up margins and squish up photos.

Sorry about the screencapping program watermark on top of most of them. I know how to turn that off but by the time I was finished capping I realized I hadn’t. You can deal with it. >:|

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...for little girls get bigger every day!

A PICTORIAL RETROSPECTIVE ON

THE YEAR IN DELICIOUS CAKE

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Arena Tour 2009 ~NEXT LEVEL~ came to an end last week at Yoyogi, and as a tribute to that I thought I’d have a go at the MQ photos taken from the event. All I can say after having seen week after week of new photos from the tour is that it had better rock AT 2008 out of the water, because that was perhaps the most unsatisfying Ayumi concert I’ve ever watched. The costumes don’t bode well, but that’s sometimes a promising thing where actual performance merit is concerned.

Let’s get started.

Hi, The 80's. Come right in and make yourself at home.

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…sounds like the title of an old poem. I’d make a reference to an obscure-yet-tragic-yet-campy figure who may have written said poem, but I’m not going to kid myself that anyone would want me to do that. Actually, it sounds more like the title of a Snow Patrol song. Tell me I’m not right. And, just as I typed that, my iTunes began playing ‘Wow’ by Snow Patrol, as if Snow Patrol were specifically responding to my statement. Hey, you guys deserved that.

So, I’ve been holding out on reviewing pretty much anything Morning Musume related, as I’ve made my feelings on their recent songs all too clear and figured I should just stay out of it and let everyone enjoy things. That said, I still very much enjoy looking at them. So, in the grand tradition of Not Writing Anything of Intellectual Virtue (which I am all for – I consider it a blogging version of punk, somehow) begun with its first few entries, Pink Wota will now sink its teeth into the promo images for Morning Musume’s ‘NINE SMILE’ tour…paying specific attention to the elements of the sets.

Best Tour Logo EVAR, btw

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OK. Here’s what I’m going to say before we even get into this: I have never listened to ‘THE Possible’. I just didn’t see the point. To me, it would be like deciding I liked hockey AS WELL AS football AS WELL AS basketball and then trying to keep up with all the stats and players and games and whatnot. I was like “okay, they’re cool, you do that, Tsunku” and moved on.

The the picboard sort of hit me over the head with this photo:

Beach Blanket BOINGU!

To paraphrase a recent comment on an Ogawa Mana photo on picboard, Nice Girl Project suddenly got all relevant. I’m sorry, I’m that shallow. I’d never noticed how cute and luscious all these girls are. The problem is – I HAVE NO IDEA WHO EVERYONE IS, YET. D: D: D: Picboard isn’t helping, because almost all their photos are either group photos or photos from years ago.

All I need is someone to help identify the young lady with the bodonkadonk and luscious thighs on the far left, and I’m satisfied.

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LET’S ALL GET DRUNK, GET CRUNK, AND BREAK OUT OF THIS KOHA-GRADUATION FUNK!

Whoa, I’m sitting down two write this at 9:19 pm on 9-19-09. I just…wanted to point that out. Kinda cool. Anyway. I proposed this idea to Shirow over chat a while back, and I’m not going to go back on it. Why not a rundown of who won at H!O Picboard this week? A quick little yummy list of eyecandy. I call to my fellow eyecandy-loving bloggers to share their favorites, as well!

Below the cut are my Top Ten Picboard Photos of the Moment. WARNING: May induce nosebleeds. Also may not be “new” pics, so to speak, but they’re new to my HD. OKAY!?

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So. I’ve been holding off on a pre-order of the Ayumi Hamasaki 2010 calendar until I see the cover. As if I’m fooling anyone. I hated the cover of ‘Sunrise/Sunset’ and it ended up being my favorite single of hers in years.

As someone on AHS astutely put it, it shouldn’t be “in” to put Ayu down, especially considering the decline of her career since 2006. So, I’m going to be very generous on this one. Here’s the cover:

Mouth is normal, nails are pretty, hair is great, but whose eyes are those?

I sort of like it, I’ll be honest. I suppose that I can’t be satisfied, so I’ll take that and try to look on the bright side. Compared to last year’s cover, and even 2008’s cover, this is an artistic coup. Considering that the thing was (supposedly) shot on location in Bali, I’m hoping for a more laid-back, hippie-ish, “Madonna-in-her-last-good-period” feeling to the photos. There will be a white dress somewhere, there will probably be bad wigs. But I am just full of optimism because I’m sick of having to be down on everything.

Well done, *er…augh…this is going to take some effort to force out…* Kazuyoshi Shimomura… I feel like Stewie in the episode of Family Guy where he bids the Bandit farewell with the forced cheer: “Good luck on tapping some of that … hot…Sally Field…tail…” “Hey, I don’t like it any more than you do!”

And really, I can’t complain too much about the photoshopped eyes. They at least look like real eyes, albeit not like Ayu’s. She doesn’t look like a space alien. I guess we’ve regressed a little bit and Ayu is trying to go back to the 2001-2002 days of NAILS NAILS NAILS IN YOUR FACE FACE FACE instead. I’d say that’s a good move – she’s got awesome nail sense.

Meanwhile, I’m looking at the picture for the current two-month stretch on my Ayu 2009 calendar and, frankly, I can’t wait until November so I can switch it out. I remember waking up on September 1st and going “…..oh….eww….” I believe I even mentioned to Shirow that I might just cut off the date strip from the previous picture and pretend that July and August were just coasting me through the Fall. Now I’m thinking of printing out a big awesome.jpg and putting it over her fishlips face. In fact…wait. I have that technology.

(ten minutes later…)

HELL YES I LOVE THIS CALENDAR AGAIN. And no my wall isn't that yellow, it's just crappy flash on my Blackberry camera. My walls are pink. QUELLE SURPRISE.