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Now it’s time to reveal which were for me the most stunning H!P dance numbers in last year’s H!P concerts. Stunning here means also breathtaking experience because that’s what these three performances really were.

Wild wild wild

Maimi Yajima is amazing dancer! She is one of the best dancers in H!P today. If even the best. When I saw her movements in Tokaikko Junjou PV my heart skipped some beats and I was mesmerised at once.

Maimi’s solo number in Natsu DOKI Lipstick song from C-ute Live Tour 2007 Aki ~Houkago no Essence~ DVD is really captivating. She proves to have good sense of rhythm, flexible body and hot appearance. You know what I mean when you look how Maimi moves her hips.

Now when we know Maimi’s skills I just hope that UFA does not try to push her to solo career (not yet) and follow the tracks of Maki Goto (never).

Strike a pose

Berryz Kobo’s two concerts at Saitama Super Arena on 1st April were the most remarkable achievements on groups career so far. Memorable concerts with so many awesome moments. You can sense the intensity Berryz girls felt on that evening when watching 2007 Sakura Mankai Berryz Kobo Live ~Kono Kandou wa Nidoto Nai Shunkan de Aru~ DVD.

Every Berryz concert documentary has it’s own very special numbers. Sakura Mankai has at least two stand outs. It’s cool when the whole group performs their first single Anata Nashi de wa Ikite Yukenai with original choreography but even cooler for me is Chinami’s and Yurina’s version of Nicchoku ~Geinoujin no Kaiwa~.

Girls are walking along the catwalk like professional models and looking absolutely stunning with their grand posing & leg movements. Saki or Momo can not do this kind of numbers. You need long legs to make catwalking enough effective. So which one wins then in this model competition? Full points go to Chinami. She just gives much more of herself to this dance routine. Natural born model?

Cat fight

In a fact this last one was performed in Morning Musume’s 2006 concert Aki ~Odore! Morning Curry~ and was released as DVD on 27th Dec 2006. But I bought and saw it in the beginning of 2007 so you understand why it’s here.

My eyes were popping out when I saw Eri and Hitomi doing this Shabondama number. Eri has always been very entertaining in her own personal way but I’ve never before seen her as wild and violent as when dancing this song. Shabondama [Soap Bubbles] is one of the most furious songs MM has ever recorded. It’s about uncertainty in love and life. Love is like soap bubbles. Nothing lasts forever.

Both girls are dancing this piece with strong, rough and aggressive manner. They are fighting against each other. Hitting, kicking and shouting like she-devils. When Hitomi kicks Eri down to stage floor and Eri starts crawling on her all fours, I just keep gasping for breath and thinking how cool and to the point going this choreography actually is. One of the MM’s all time classic dance numbers already.

No, not another year review! Now when all others have already done their 2007 reviews and best of lists it’s time for me to wake up in the middle of January and do my short serie of Most subjective Best Things in 2007. I’m writing only about few things those really did matter to me.

Must be said that I’ve not been following Koharu Kusumi’s progress in her solo career as Tsukishima Kirari closely. One reason for that is because I don’t care so much about Kirarin Revolution anime series.

I’ve always seen Koha as “just another MM girl” with slight interest on her. Tsunku’s Miracle Girl has never been miraculous in my books. She is cute, her singing is developing more decent as it was in the begining and, to be honest, I’ve liked both her solo Photo Books. But Koha, as a whole package, has not convinced me. Not until I happened to browse my downloaded stuff in the end of December.

I was searching some Morning Musume’s 10th anniversary related clips from my DVD archive when I saw there Koha’s Happy PV. Because it was burned on DVD I must have seen it before at least once but I didn’t remember what kind of PV it was. I didn’t even remember how that song goes. So I decided to watch it once again. Hah ha, there I sat and played it over and over again.

Excited about the song itself as it really is a catchy tune. Happy goes straight into your head and makes you almost sick because it’s stuck in your mind like never ending loop. Excited also about Koha’s cheery performance in that PV. She does quite simple dance choreography there but I like it as it is. Happy is a song that makes me happy, what more can you ask. That’s why I’ve been wathing this PV almost daily after I re-discovered it 17 days ago.

As you know, every now and then this kind of surprising awakening can happen to anyone. For some reasons you ignore something and then all of a sudden: BANG! Biggest bang for me was when I fell in love with Berryz Kobo when saw their PV Special Generation few years ago. I’m not yet 100% Koha fan but sure thing is that I’m not going to ignore her any more.

Happy PV @ VEOH: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v405255yEstscNk

There wasn’t a single thing right in H!P’s set last evening. We were waiting for Morning Musume, C-ute & Berryz Kobo to be cool and glorious. But what we got? A poorly composed crappy set that had Love Machine once again as a opening number. Why on earth they chose the same song two times in a row to be performed in Kouhaku?

And what about eagerly waited participations of Berryz & C-ute? They each got roughly 22 seconds air time with their own songs Tsukiatteru no ni Kataomoi and Tokaikko Junjou. Very nice indeed.

Better forget all this and start waiting for the better times. I don’t have to be a prophet to tell you that this spring is going to be a Super Season for all us H!P fans. C-ute’s new smashing album, Berryz cool single, Buono!s rockin’ single, Morning Musume’s single, H!P’s concert tour and the ending climax for spring season we are going to have Berryz vs. C-ute Battle tour. Not that’s what I call nice. Indeed!