Zassou no Uta Event V, Seishun no Serenade Single V

The Buono! Event V contains six PVs - a "Solo Beauty Ver." which is just a slightly zoomed out close up, and a "Live at the Garage Ver.", which is similar except the girls have old fashioned mics (as seen in the original PV) and a band behind them.

Airi Solo Beauty Version
Airi Live at the Garage Version

Miyabi Solo Beauty Version
Miyabi Live at the Garage Version

Momoko Solo Beauty Version
Momoko Live at the Garage Version:

And also Mano Erina's new single Seishun no Serenade Single V, which contains the normal PV, a close up version, and the making of.

Normal PV
Close Up Version
Making of

As always, you should buy the singles if you want to support these artists!

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10,000 views? Epic!

Between last night and today my blog has reached 10,000 views, yay!

I honestly never thought that I would even come close to reaching that mark when I first started. Originally this blog was just a place to store my random thoughts but I like what it's become.

To anyone reading this: what do you like the most about this blog? What do you want to see more of? Is there anything you don't like about it?

Here's to 10,000 more views!

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Buono! DVD Magazine Vol. 7 is awesome

Once again Buono! proves to me why they are one of my favorite Hello! Project groups of all time.

In this DVD magazine, Buono! spends the day doing various things in an amusement park before they head off to someone's house for a waffle making sleepover party.

Their first game is

Attraction 1: Laser Athletic Check!

The rules are simple.

You have 2 minutes to get through an obstacle course full of green lazers. Touch one and you get a 30 second penalty, which of course means if you touch four then it's game over.

It's harder than it sounds.

But of course Airi has no problem clearing it without touching a lazer and with plenty of time to spare. As expected of Airiiin.

I won't spoil the results of this game, but lets just say that this isn't a game for short people. It looked really, really fun though.

Next up is

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The nuances of PC building

It's been about six months since I built this computer and ever since that day, things have gone surprisingly well considering I'd never done anything as complicated as building a PC from scratch.

But still, problems existed.

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Chisato solo live goods coming soon to a store near you (kinda)

Just got an email from HelloStoreUSA (you know, that America based UFA sponsored online H!P store) mentioning that they will soon stock some new special order items - including stuff from Chisato's special solo live!

Who knows exactly what they will be selling (probably just photocards, though I can hope!), but if they stock Chisato's Romantic Ukare Mode solo CD I will seriously scream. I came so close to just giving in an paying like 3000yen for it on YJA, but if I can buy it from HSU then I am glad I waited.

HSU ships to most of the world, so no matter where you are, you can more than likely help support Chisato. They will begin selling the goods on Friday February the 11th at 9 PM US Eastern Time.

Do note that special order items (like Chisato's solo live goods) takes about 8 weeks to arrive to HSU's location and then takes another week or so to get to your house.

Happy shopping!

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S/mileage - Short Cut PVs + other single news

First let's get the "other single news" out of the way. It's been a week since Buono!'s Zassou no Uta single was released to the public, which means the first week sales are now published.

Zassou no Uta sold 13,390 copies, which is a little over a hundred higher than Our Songs's first week sales (13,220). It's not much of an increase, but it's an increase nonetheless so congrats to Buono! If you want to help Buono!'s new single in a year sell well, you can buy it here.

Now onto S/mileage.

Recently I made a couple of modifications to this custom PC I built to make it faster (more on that in a later blog post) and wanted to test it out.

The result are some nice looking encodes of the PVs from S/mileage's new single Short Cut. These encodes are not the same as the ones that I uploaded to Youtube - these look significantly better. And thanks to the tweaks and additions that I made, they were done in half the time it normally would take me.

So, if you like Short Cut then download these PVs and tell me what you think about the quality.

Short Cut Dance Shot Version (from the Limited A DVD)

Short Cut Image Scene Version (from the Limited B DVD)

Short Cut Salon Dream Version (from the Limited C DVD)

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