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Not even gloomy~overcast weather could dampen Riichan's spirits~ for her already 4th shashinshuu release titled "Risou."

Riichan also remains as the youngest H!P member to have released a solo pb~ and here in her fourth effort her image is being touted as a bit more mature...through wardrobe as well as the overall styling employed throughout~ "Risou."

True to her nature~ an open playfulness appears in numerous shots....that being mixed with *sexy~* at times...and that house which opens the photo book is so so surreal~looking (・o・)！！It's so odd and tiny looking and I imagine it could be made out of gingerbread....somewhere in a parallel universe~ ＾　＾。

A~h! ever since reading CK♥'s take on those....omg! 'flying nun' photos which I've held back from seeing until now......I've been quite apprehensive of them~...and they are quite quite...(・c_・;)？puzzling??? as to why the wardrobe director chose those for Riichan to wear~! So, my one promise* here~ definitely no 'flying nun' photos in this entire post anywhere~ っo(*´∀｀)o!♥♥♥

And on that final note.....I've scanned 37 of my favorite♥ photos from "Risou", so many *kawaii* ones to choose from~ (*´∀｀*)！！。。followed by just a few screencaps~ from the accompanying 20 minute "making of" DVD...some of which has a bit of a haze happening in it~. Was it the weather??...or perhaps a *fuzzy* camera lens?? ＾　＾。。。。。

Sugaya Risako's shashinshuu can be ordered here at Amazon Japan.

Sugaya Risako's "Risou" shashinshuu can be ordered here at YesAsia.

Credit goes to HF Blade from SRK.

Fans of the 2007 sleeper hit "Tales of Agriculture" (Moyashimon in Japanese) will be glad to know that a live action TV drama has been announced sometime next year.  The announcement was made on Kodansha's online web magazine "Evening".  No word on whether or not the story will remain true to the manga plot or on which actors and actresses have been announced for the roles, but they better put in those gosh-darn cute SD germs. 

The TV drama will appear on the popular late-night Noitamina slot and will be the first live-action show to do so. (By the way, Noitimina is "animation" spelled backwards.) 

So what would this show look like?  Well if you tuned in back in 2007, the opening sequence for the anime was done in live-action sequences, offering a glimpse of what could have happened had Moyashimon not been an animation work. 

Even if the production staff decides to rewrite the series from scratch, the show definitely holds promise.  The anime ended prematurely, with only 11 broadcast shows compared to the usual 13 episode season.  Hopefully some more news will break in the coming weeks; we'll keep you updated!

Looks like Hori is shipping out their new line of sticks before Christmas -- a few of them are popping up on eBay, but they're being snatched up very quickly.  It was rumoured these sticks were coming out next year, but at any rate good news is good news!

The new Hori stick costs 12,800 yen and is only available at the Japanese online store.  Hopefully Play-Asia will update their stocks soon with this hot new item!

B.L.T.....? bacon, lettuce &...no~! It's "Beautiful Lady & Television~"…(^q^) It's Japan's version of TV Guide only that this publication is solely focused on highlighting programs for you to watch which feature B.L♥~! っo(*´∀｀)o!

The latest issue which arrived in convenience stores~ on November 24th has a little feature on AKB and if you're really new to them as I am then this feature is really quite informative~ ＾　＾。 I'm seeing that it's actually the third part in their 3 part series which began two months ago~ so I'm just catching the tail end here but this feature~ being member/unit profiles it's still most wonderful to see~!

The scans may look really *fuzzy* right now~ but if you click on each one twice to display them on a clear white background screen and then a third time using the tiny magnifying glass which will then be your mouse pointer on screen.....they enlarge quite well and all of the text is then clear enough to read~♥ (*´∀｀*)。I just noticed that my hair was on the scanner...gomen nasai~ (*´艸`)！

~Near the center top of the first page above...there's a tiny legend for all of the information on each of the girls and translated it reads: 1= Birthdate  2= Shusshin ("hometown")  3= Shinchou ("height")  4= "Three sizes"....and really I'm not seeing these measurements for the girls here and it's rather a gravure♥ thing to have them displayed which would explain it, although from reading CK♥'s recent live report on SDN48 they surely do sound "gravure♥!!!!" (・o・) to me!!!!! I wonder how many girls do measure themselves this way??...."B, W, H"  (・c_・;)？A friend and I measured each other recently which resulted in me having a bit of body envy!!! (;´□｀)...however that's for an entirely different post~ (。ーωー。)♪！ 5= Seiza ("Constellation")  6= Ketsuekigata ("Blood type")...something which is really important for couples in Japan wanting to get married....even more so than anywhere else I think as favorable matches of blood types is highly regarded there~ ＾　＾。 7= Shozokujimusho ("the office in which they belong to...")  8= Fan letter no atesaki ("Fan letter address").

I love that even AKB's units are featured here~.....really helps the clueless ??? in me to understand more~ (*´∀｀*)。

Mano♥Santa immediately caught my eye~! too and it being the holiday♥season...one can never have too much holiday~attire on their blog~ o(*´∀｀)o゛～♥。。。。。。

I love this indie craft show in December every year

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