Kirarebo+, Rock'in Buono!, & No Sleeves VS. Buono!

Hello!

You may be wondering what these three things had in common, and the answer is abousolutely nothing except that I wanted to write a blog entry about all three and decided to pile them together.

Kirarebo+

I was looking up Hello!Fansubs' newer releases, and I saw this.

As many of you know, I'm an anime fan. Recently, I marathoned Blood+ (Note the one word title and then the "+"), a series about a highschool girl (Incedentally Koha's age) who goes around bloodily murdering monsters. The titles reminded me of eachother, so, as you might imagine, I thought that it would be hilarious if it turned out that this was Koharu going around slaughtering monsters in a cheapo version of the anime. Actually, I quite enjoyed the anime, but when I think of Koha and her usual annoyingness/cheeriness/bubble-gum pop persona, I can't help but laugh thinking of her cheery self going around swinging a bloody sword while still acting peppy and hyper. (You know I need some way to make fun of Koharu besides her singing.) But, I got something better to make fun of her with: the stupidity of the drama. It actually made me feel terrible for her because of how bad it was.

Plot:

Kirari gets a magic gemstone from her dad, and it hits a doll she puts up to wish for good weather. The next day, the boy group and Milkyway goes out for a picnic, and it "rains" (actually extremely fake CG) because an extremely fake CGed little boy (actually the doll) wanted it to. This little buy can only say "Do you like rain?" which is excessively annoying. Then the boy keeps making it rain, and when the gang figures out that he's causing it, the girl that Kikkawa Yuu  plays has a "psychic vision" saying that his powers will go away when they take off his raincoat. While they're [Milkyway] in their practice room, the little CG boy shows up. They decide that they can make him take off his raincoat by dancing, so they do their dance and lipsync "Tan Tan Tan," and the poorly CGed little boy starts to do his creepy little dance, the girls do a Mahou Shojo Henshin (Think Sailor Moon; Lit. "magical girl transformation") into their outfits for the song, and the creepy boy becomes even creepier after taking his coat off, and they all live happily ever after.

That was probably the stupidest drama ever to come out of H!P. Ever.

Rock'in Buono!

To keep my fangirling to a minimum, this was just simply awesome!

I worship the man, woman, or god who thought Buono up.

Not only does Buono! Have their own all-female back-up group (who gets solos, and plays the background music for most of their songs) but they also got to play the instruments themselves a little! All the singing was live and fantastic, and the girls had awesome stamina throughout! There was even a short little VTR of the girls learning how to play the instruments!

Momo on drums FTW!

This was just too insanely awesome!

I LOVE Buono!

I will stop now before I fangirl myself out.

No Sleeves VS. Buono!

I know I've said that Men-dol has become my guilty pleasure show, but after seeing snippets of the promo group, No Sleeves' PV, I became slightly suspiscious of the PV. Where had I seen this before?

That's right! The Gachinko de Ikou PV!

And from there, I just saw more similarities.

• The group is made of three girls.
• The costumes are rather similar in some ways. Namely, the main color being white and the two not as promenent girls' shirts. (Miyabi's and Momo's, anyone?) The main girl's shoes with Airi's. (I believe.)
• For the dance shots, both were filmed in empty, white rooms.
• Also, both groups were formed to go along with an airing TV show. (Men-dol & Shugo Chara!)
• There's speaking parts during both choruses.
• There are probably more similarities, but I can't think of anymore.

Comparison of the dance-shots:

Why Buono is better:

While I like No Sleeve's version, Buono still owns them. Here's why:

1. Buono! just owns all other small female idol groups. This cannot be disputed.
2. Buono! has the far superior singers. Buono! live is 100 times better than No Sleeves live.
3. Buono's dance is harder. (Self explanitory.)
4. Buono's dance is executed better, and it's much more in sync.
5. Gachinko de Ikou is just better. It doesn't sound like bubblegum pop like Relax! does.
6. Buono! has their own back-up band, and therefore owns all idol groups who use back-up tracks.

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Happy new year!

-Midori