Current mood:	excited
Current music:	Umbrella - Tanpopo #

WHEE OPPOSITE END OF THE ROLLER COASTER XD
Omg the Hello Project Summer concert coming out on DVD totally made my day <3

OMG I've been waiting for this to come out for FOREVER. Lots of good things and bad things about this concert. Let's start with the good!

At this point, I am a fan of EVERY active act in Hello Project. So, I was VERY MUCH anticipating this concert. Guardians 4, Buono's live My Boy, awesome Morning Musume songs, newly a fan of C-ute and Berryz Koubou, the new shuffles, s/mileage, AHHH there's so much awesome contained within XD Personally, I thought Morning Musume sounded AMAZING. That stage was seriously BUILT for Nanchatte Renai. It's not that they climbed the stairs a lot and stuff, but rather the backdrop and the lightning fit Nanchatte Renai SO well. Personal camera splits throughout the concert of the main screen was really nice though :)

Good shuffles imo were Zoku v-u-den and Aa! (even though I am a little bitter that it's just Miyabi+Airi AGAIN, I have to admit they sounded great with Akari). Tanpopo # was pretty good. Their song + outfits seemed a little weird, but they sound amazing with that song. Shin Minimoni I was really excited for, but I kind of had the same reaction as the audience when I heard Minimoni Jankenpyon playing. I was just like, "... Wait... that's not..." but they did a great job nonetheless!

I think because of the anticipation though, I was a little let down XD I know it's just the wonderful hearts now, but I was hoping for a giant arena. Maybe the winter one will have a giant arena? I'm not sure, but those concerts were always a lot more exciting and felt, on the whole, much less crowded. Of course that does create problems like we saw in H!P winter 09 where Berryz Koubou couldn't make it to the platform on time, but that's usually not that big of a deal.

Major problem though, 5 person C-ute. If this is what C-ute sounds like with only 5 people, I'm a little worried. They really sound so... whiny right now in their unisons O_o They used to get such a full sound with all 7 people. In fact, that's what I considered their edge over Berryz. I didn't know Mai and Kanna pulled so much in that factor. Even Tokaikko Junjou sounded really weak... That especially makes me worried since Erika is leaving.

Another bad thing... the new Pucchimoni O_O None of them seem to have very strong voices. I know Saki and Mano don't have that edgy voice the original Pucchimoni girls have, but it made Pucchimoni seem more cute than I think they should be.

Buono "My Boy" live wasn't bad by any means, but I think I was anticipating it WAY too much because I felt kind of let down, by both the girls and the audience. Usually the group-audience interaction for Buono is SO amazing but it went down QUITE a few notches since the winter concert and ESPECIALLY from Hybrid Punch.

High King has such great singers in the group, but Maeda Yuuka really is the weakest link of the group by far, despite probably being one of, if not, the strongest singer in s/mileage. Her voice sticks out SO much. I never even noticed this in the 2008 summer concert with High King. Still, I love her Kioku no Meiro a lot (even if she did kind of mess it up in the 2008 live ^^;;; )

I haven't listened to any of the songs where all of H!P sings together except the beginning two, so I can't really pass judgement on that yet... but Koharu's high note at the beginning was =DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Overall, good concert. Very enjoyable to the H!P fan. For those who aren't, I would just suggest watching Morning Musume's Nanchatte Renai and perhaps Shouganai Yume Obitou (spelling?) because it's right afterwards. I think those are the performances of the concert, despite intonation mistakes here and there. After that, if you're feeling ambitious, watch Buono's My Boy. Buono just flat out has awesome songs maybe they're tired or something because their voices seem weaker than usual. I know they probably used auto-tune at their hybrid punch concert though

And NON-H!P stuff. RPs... RIGHT I NEED TO GO CHECK TAGS XP Test Thursday. Orchestra concert Thursday. Scholarship banquet Thursday. Orchestra dress rehearsal Wednesday.... I think you guys get the trend though XD