Winter 2009 Costume Review Part 1!

Hello!

The first two concerts of this year's wonderful hearts winter has come and gone, and the first pictures have come up! That means that I'll start my costume reviews here!

By the way, since SCE wore there single costumes on stage, and I think I've already expressed how cute they look to an adequite level, I will skip them.

 

Berryz's costumes for Madayade

Key points:

• These look exactly the same as the ones from the PV, except with added rhinestones.
• Miyabi's new haircut is channeling Ai's.
• These costumes have those annoying, hideous collars that just bug me.
• The company didn't even bother to remake these. It seems rather cheap.

Overall rating: 3/5; A cheap, easy concert costume, but it doesn't look too good.

Blood Alcohol Level: 0.00, but they may have been having bad hangovers, and decided to be lazy about designing and making the costumes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Berryz Koubou Opening costumes

Key Points:

• These actually look nice if you don't look at the leg warmers.
• That poof of fluff on head is actually a semi-reasonable size. But, I'd prefer a simple green headband.
• I like the "B" for Berryz, so those who are new to the fandom, or who only know Morning Musume can know the difference between the kids groups.
• If the dress was less shiny, and there wasn't those weird see-through leg warmers, and maybe boots instead, I might like these a lot better.
• It appears that there was another drunk tyrade around the fluff/boa store.

Overall Rating: 4/5; It's the fluff and the leg-warmers' fault.

Blood Alcohol Level: When designing the dress: 0.00;

When putting the fluff on: 0.08

 

 

Morning Musume Opening Outfits:

Key Points:

• Good design shape-wise, but the stripes make these horrid.
• Too... Many... Feathers... (Why costume department, why?)
• They also have fluff. Fluff and feathers together = automatic annoyance.

Overall Rating: 4/5; The stripes and the feathers/fluff just... umm...

Blood Alcohol Level: When desiging: 0.04, accounting for the stripes

When adding fluff: 0.09; fluff and feathers anyone?

 

Buono

Key Points:

• Again, reused PV costumes.
• They're cute, but they're not on a level of awesomeness or coolness that I'm used to seeing from Buono.

Overall Rating: 4.5/5; Too cute for Buono

Blood Alcohol Level: 0.00

 

 

 

 

C-ute

Key Points:

• What is it with these reused PV costumes?
• I like these so much!
• They may not be the best costumes to wear on stage though.

Overall Rating: 4.9/5; The pants, jackets boots, and ties all blend into the background, which isn't a good thing on a stage.

Blood Alcohol Level: 0.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reina and Aika (Meguru Kisetsu)

Key Points:

• C-ute is still in their Forever love costumes... They aren't really apropriate for this song.
• What the hell is up with Reina and Aika's costumes? They look like British elementary school boys.

Overall Rating: 2/5; cute, but unflattering and a weird concept

Blood Alcohol Level: Whatever they needed to want to dress them up in old fashion school boys' clothes.

 

ManoEri

Key Points:

• Looks suspisciously like the dress she wore at the summer concert...
• Also looks like a kid's piano recital dress with more rhinestones. This is a pop concert, not a piano recital, costume department!
• Give her costumes more variety. I'm getting bored of white dresses.
• Cowboy boots? What's up with the costume department putting cowboy boots with perfectly good dresses?

Overall Rating: 3.5/5; Good, but the cowboy boots and the non-original costuming concept brought this way down.

Blood Alcohol Level: 0.00, but again, the costume department has reached new levels of lazy with this concert. >.>

 

 

 

Milkyway- Tan Tan Ta~n

Key Points:

• Koha looks like she's wearing a really-weird, fetish drivin cosplay. It's just trashy. Also, for some reason those colors with the angel wings remind me of Victoria's Secrect, which doesn't help. I still like the idea because the jacket's kinda cute.
• The other two girls were victims of more laziness.

Overall Rating: 3/5; Victims of laziness and fetish-filled minds of designers of Koha's part.

Blood Alcohol Level: 0.00 for the eggies, 0.12 for Koha

 

 

ManoEri Finale Costume and Eggs

Key Points:

• Mano eri's head piece looks like a shower cap from here. Otherwise, the sleeves are way too poofy. And that cape! I can't handle that cape anymore!
• The eggs look like they just reused old costumes from the 2005 winter concert. Really. They do. I know they didn't, but I think that they just took one of the sweater vests, some skirts, and shirts, and made enough for the eggs.

Overall Rating: 3.5/5 (Mano) the sleeves and cape are so annoying and look bad. 4/5 (Eggs) Simple yet effective, but they seem to be another group of victims of laziness.

Blood Alcohol Level: 0.10 (Mano) Arabian nights/superhero cape/idol? What?

-I should really change this to laziness level.

 

 

Other girls finale costumes

Key Points:

• All the costumes look way too big. Either all the girls went into an unneeded fast acting weight-loss program at once, or these weren't fitted before they went on stage to preform!
• I like these designs, but the fact that they're huge just ruins it for me.
• The things on their heads are distracting yet again. Why can't they just go for a normal old headband or hair clips?
• The boots also look huge on the girls. Boots are supposed to be tight.
• Why does it seem that the superhero capes just ruin these for me?
• Someone has already pointed this out, but none of the groups are in their normal colors: Morning Musume is is Pink, which C-ute usually wears, C-ute is in blue, which Berryz usually wears, and Berryz is wearing yellow.

Overall Rating: 4/5; The idea was there, but the hideous superhero capes and unfitted look looks trashy.

Blood Alcohol Level Laziness Level: Off the charts. These could've been so good, but they didn't even bother to fit the costumes before the girls went out on stage. (Or at least it looks that way.)

 

For the concert outfits, the designers have reached a new level of laziness. Before this post is over, though, we have an early review of the Nai chau Kamo costumes, which are sizzling hot!

 

 

Nai Chau Kamo:

These are pure perfection. I just love them.

Key Points:

• They fit the song, and the cool feel of it. These really look somewhat like I was hoping they would.
• The colors, Red, white, and black just look great together. I don't know why, but they seem good for this song.
• The jackets and glovlets are just badass. They look amazing with the black under them.
• The boots are awesome. I want a pair now.
• The fishnets and short skirts along with the high lace-up boots are pure win in the eyes of all male wotas that see these.
• The sequins on the black aren't overdone, and they're placed in good places, so they complement the costumes nicely and don't look like they've been placed on last minute to make the costume department not seem lazy. *cough*Madayadecostumes*cough*

Overall Rating: 6/5; These are love.

Blood Alcohol Level: 0.07; They had to be slightly drunk to even think of getting these on ready in the midst of a lazy streak.

So, the costume department wasn't drunk this time, but they were lazy. I can't wait to see the Nai Chau Kamo PV now. These costumes just kick ass.

-Midori