13日の金曜日
Yeah. I always do this on this day. But Saito Yuri is very much a favorite, and also this song. It’s the short version though, but get smashed because of the cuteness that is Nogizaka46, a very young Nogizaka46.
「しあわせの保護色」
Here we are. Nogizaka46’s 25th single. Their first of 2020. Shiraishi Mai’s Graduation Single. Shiawase no Hogoshyoku.
While it isn’t legendary to match the legend of Maiyan, I do like it. It feels like the song over the end credits of a movie in which you want to stay with the characters to continue their story forever. It is melancholy. It makes me sad. I wish Nogizaka46 wouldn’t change… I am a fool for thinking that.
Anyhow, Nogizaka46 still makes me smile. This song does as well. May it bring a smile to you as well. If it does, thank Maiyan for me.
Happy Birthday, Nogizaka46!
Eight years ago Japanese idol group released their first single, Guru Guru Curtain 「ぐるぐるカーテン」! It wasn’t a hit.
Fast forward to now. They are filling up big domes with 40,000 cheering fans. And of course, I am such a big fan, I’m telling you this. Don’t know how I fell in love with them, but I did.
Join me in wishing the members a Happy Birthday!
Link of the Day [2.19.20]
Nogizaka46 Saito Asuka, Umezawa Minami, and Yamashita Mizuki going to star in the live adaptation of the hit anime, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken. I think the anime nerds are against it as the anime is just showing now. Plus, when they find out it’s idols, they’ll be really up in arms.
Me. I love ’em, so I can’t wait.
Maiyan.
Boy did I jinx it this morning. On my way into work listening to my usual Nogizaka playlist, I was thinking of Kazumin. How she’s often forgotten and yet she, Maiyan, and Ringo are the only members left to have appeared in all Nogi senbatsu. As I got out the car, I thought it was a beautiful day, and being such, I thought that this would be the type of day a graduation announcement would drop. I was thinking about Fukagawa’s announcement so long ago. I checked stage48 to see if there was any bad news — usually at this time it catches the night time announcements like Ikoma’s and Nanase’s. There was nothing and I thought we dodged a bullet…
Imagine my surprise to see the rumors then the truth of Maiyan’s graduation. Wow.
For as long as I was a fan, her speculation on her graduation was always rampant. Now that it is here. Nothing can be said. Wow.
It’s not like a punch in the gut like Nanase’s was, but it’s still a surprise. I have been ready for it, here it is, but still. Wow.
She’s gonna graduate at the end of March with the release of the 25th single. I wonder if she’ll be center?
Thank you, Maiyan.
You Get A Turkey Leg! You Get A Turkey Leg!
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you and your family, friends, and significant others have a great and safe Thanksgiving!
I am thankful for… my family and friends. The beautiful idols of Nogizaka46… Yamshita Mizuki… Ikuta Erika… Shiraishi Mai… the whole of them… My MacBook Pro… barbecue ribs… fried chicken… oxygen…
I would like to think that Yamashita’s eating a turkey leg. So she’s celebrating it with us! Yumm!
Mizuki-maru!
Just thinking. This is why I follow idols. Yamashita Mizuki… she makes me happy.
“Well, it wasn’t even jail. It was juvie.”
Link of the Day [9.21.19]
Twenty-four singles and for each they change their uniform. These are just their everyday garb. They also have a costume for when they perform the songs from that single.
I like the later ones than the earlier ones. I’m partial to the winter ones with stockings in place of socks. I like the ones with jackets and vests. The skirt length has gotten longer,
Anyhow, go check out the youngest in Nogizaka as she wears all the 24 uniforms. There’s even a bonus few more representing each successive generation.
“Sir, you underestimate the tenacity of Bill’s beliefs. And what Bill believes above all else is the value of sucking up to famous people.”
Link of the Day [9.06.19]
And here I was just getting used to 4th Gen.
Sony introduces the sakamichi trainees that may be assigned to my favorite, Nogizaka46. Or they may go to the other groups: Keyakizaka46 or Hinatazaka46. Wherever they go, I think it is too early…
“My head is popcorn.”
I’ll always will remember the ending to that NogiBingo! episode wherein she lays asleep behind the scenes trying on the AD role. That’s Sakurai Reika, Nogizaka46’s captain.
By next week she will have graduated. Here’s to our Captain! JOLLY GOOD SHOW REIKA! Well done and thank you…
I still don’t know what Nogi’s captain does. Is she supposedly the task master keeping her fellow members in line? Is she the members’ representative with the management? Is she management’s lackey? Who knows? I”m sure the members do, but the thing I know is that Nogi’s captain is a reliable member meant to be steady and reasonable in the crazy idol world. Reika seemed to embody that ideal. Although it seems like Nogizaka has an abundance of members like that. So Reika was the most representative of the class and style of a Nogizaka member — a leader.
Man, I’ll miss her. She’s been the only Nogizaka Captain I’ve known.
Suddenly, I’m sad that she’s graduating…
THE CAPTAIN IS GRADUATING. LONG LIVE THE CAPTAIN.