3 posts from October 2009

No. I'm not talking about PVs. I'm not talking about the number of members. I'm most definately not talking about sales.

Yes, I'm talking about costumes.

The eggs always seem to be the best dressed at concerts and such. Why? They don't get a big budget. If Momusu didn't have such a big budget, we might not have drunk costume designers getting away with putting tons of fluffy crap all over costumes. They might actually get yelled at for the excessive use of materials, so they wouldn't use as much. Now the eggs, on the other hand, barely have a budget, meaning that they don't have to deal with the drunk costume designer dilemma. Recent examples:

 

Now I can handle big sparkles, and I can handle big poofy dresses and sleeves. What I can't handle is how somehow a huge flower was sewn onto it.

Why Money Mattered: If they didn't have such a large budget, maybe we'd get a cool looking spakley mini-dress of the sort in Ayumi Hamasaki's "Dont leave me Alone" PV. Or just something without the poof in the skirt and the rediculous giant flower, which makes it a whole lot worse than it should've been.

I like this dress. I mean, the colors could've been more muted, but crazy prints like this are coming back into fashion, along with the high belt, so who am I to complain? Also, the other fabrics for this set look pretty muted compared to this. The main complaint I have is the HUGE red fluffy thing hanging down from her shoulder. Now what's that supposed to be, exactly?

Why Money Mattered: The drunk costume designers wouldn't have been allowed to have gone on a fluff-loving rampage again.

I like the design for these, so I can't really complain about that, but the fabric is all wrong. Why cow print, WHY? I love cows, but I'd rather see cow print on cows, since that isn't tacky.

Why money mattered: You really think that they could get these girls to wear these costumes if they weren't paying them some huge amount of money?

This dress is just awesome. The chains and the belt, along with the black fabric is just great. I loved this at first sight, but then, I saw it. I saw that heinous jacket. Either Risa's trying to get a new job as a bullfighter, or she's paying tribute to Micheal Jackson in a sad, sad way. In any case, It kinda ruins the outfit for me.

Why money mattered: Well, if they didn't have the extra money to spend on that elaborate jacket, it wouldn't be there, now would it?

I sorta liked these... until someone pointed out that it looks like they're wearing their underwear on top of their pants. And what the heck is up with that big fluffy black thing above her pants? The number 1 rule for making pants look like chaps without having to wear pants and chaps: Make them the right colors, and at least don't make the pants white.

Why Money Mattered: Maybe if they didn't have such a large budget, they would've had to wear their PV outfits, which are actually decent. The only problem with them is that if they're going to put flesh-colored fabric inserts in, it looks really good if the pants are tight, but terrible if the pants are loose.

These are just too poofy. These dresses would've looked so cool without the pink fluff, and if they were tighter mini-dresses. Sparkley black and purple mini-dresses look great on stage. I'm sorry, but they really did this the wrong way with the materials they got.

Why Money mattered: If they didn't have such a costume budget, they wouldn't have so much extra poofy stuff and fluff all over these, and the simpler they were the better they would've looked.

Now to the eggs:

These outfits are cute, simple, and they seem uniform, but not too much so. They work with all their bodies, big and small, and yet they're not too crazy. They seem like something that these girls might wear without being payed to do so.

These dresses are a little fancier, but they're still cute. They're have just the right amount of extra fabric, to where it compliments the outfit without making it look trashy. The colors are also all good for the girls who are wearing them, and they compliment their skin nicely. While they may be a little too cutesy for some of the older eggs, they really work here because the eggs they look best on are right in the first two rows to show them off, and the ones that they look slightly awkward on are further back.

Now, I may not be a fan of S/mileage's songs, but their costumes are so cute! They're age appropriate, not too little kid-ish, but not too sexy, and they all seem like things tweens might wear. I know quite a few of my friend's little sisters about their ages who would wear these outfits for fun, and to school if the skirts were longer. They're not overdone, but they still look really nice in their own way.

While these have gotten a little fancier, they still look good. the shirts are a little tighter, and the skirts are more punk rocker tweenish. While the skirt on the far right is up a little far, these outfits are really cute, and while most tweens wouldn't wear this out, some would, and they wouldn't look too costumey if they had the right accessories. If they were worn right, these costumes might look like a mix between a punk-rock fan and a prep tween, which is a look that's coming more into the mainstream. Even if the majority of tweens wouldn't wear them normally, no tweens AT ALL would wear any of the Momusu costumes mentioned above, except maybe on halloween if they could find some sort of costume to make out of them.

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-Midori

Hello!

This post will be quick since I'm more excited to post the costume review!!!

Kimagure Princess

First, the song is really interesting. Sure, it may go along with the typical H!P song formula, but it still sounds really interesting with all the mixing. I would've liked a more mature sound, but considering that it's Koha's last single, well, you kinda have to go all out and crazy. I still like the song, and it still gets stuck in my head occasionally, but it's not anything special like Nanchatte Renai was.

The PV is one of those PVs that makes me go nuts. I mean, they just sold more copies than they did before Resonant Blue and all we get is this crap?!?! I mean, Mikan sold half of what Nanchatte sold, and we get this? There's no princesses, just maybe cowboy pop stars. Hopefully, this will also be like Resonant Blue, where the original PV was crap, and then the second one that was released was, well, awesome. They said that there will be another PV for this, so hopefully we'll see some princesses, or at least girly girls looking whimsical, 'cause that's what "Kimagure Princess" means.

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-Midori

Hello!

My feed reader's been activity-less, and I haven't been helping much for other peoples' lately, so I decided to contribute a post today.

The eggs have finally somehow, by some miracle started to spark my intrest at some small level. My english teacher asked us what impression we would make on someone if they just saw us once, so I'm wondering what was the thing I saw once in an egg and caused me to start to like them. Why are there finally eggs that I like? I'll go over some eggs that I really like, and one that, well, let's just say I don't think I can ever, ever, ever like.

Miyamoto Karin

I saw this girl's picture on the H!O picboard, and I fell in love. That was one irreversible first impression. While I may sound like a total lesbian pedo here, I'm not one, but she's just SO CUTE that I want to hug her every time I see her picture! Her huge eyes look so cute on her face, and her personality really shines when her picture's taken. The second I saw her picture again, I knew her name. I still don't know any of the eggs by face except for her.

Hirano Tamami

While people are saying she's a little old or she seems boring, I like how cool she always looks. I don't know why, but her calmness and age really makes me drawn to her. While the rest of the eggs generally play off their cuteness or energy, she seems to be really cool, which just by how different it is from the others drives me to her. I think that she has real potential to become a good oldest member of the eggs.

Ogawa Saki

I didn't see this girl first, I heard her first. She's definately one of the best eggs in the singing department. After hearing the potential she has, I don't think that I can ever not like her. Also, she's pretty cute!

And... the one I'll never like...

This girl's voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard. I'd rather hear Koharu, Rika, and Sayumi all singing together in one off-key rendition of my least favorite song ever that hear this girl sing. Sure, she's cute, but SHE CAN'T SING. AT ALL. Singing is one of the things I look for in an H!P member, and if that's the first impression I got of her, well, let's just say I'll never even dream of being her fan. Unfortunately for her, that was the first thing I knew of her: her singing.

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-Midori