Because I don’t always get to catch them and probably you don’t either, here’s what the blogosphere had to say and display about Her Royal Hotness this past week:

A MoMusu fan happened to be in the right place at the right time when he discovered that Reina and her mother were a few feet away from him/her in Tokyo’s Sibuya district last week. Nakane at hello!musume shares the pictures, which she calls “stalker” photos, but these are more like photos of a normal music lover thinking, “Holy shit! It’s Reina Tanaka! Where’s my camera phone?”. I have to agree with pengie at IW when she takes note of Reina’s early November outfit: 

The thing that’s bothering me about these photos is the way she is dressed. Everyone else is wearing coats, scarves, long pants, what have you. It’s cold in Japan right now, you know? Reina is wearing a coat and fuzzy boots. And that’s… about it.

Reina, honey, you know we love you, but put on some damn pants. Sheesh.

Hello!Island caught wind of some ads for a Japanese pizza chain featuring members of Morning Musume and company. Apparently the ads are catching on with H!P wotas, as a couple of the other photographs suggest. (How come the TV ads only feature Buono! though?)

Reina’s new photobook Very Reina (yeah, I know, why didn’t I mention it sooner?) is (not surprisingly) getting a lot of notice around our part of the blogosphere. The latest to have to pick their jaw up off of the floor is MorningBerryz, who shares scans of the entire PB for your viewing pleasure – or if you’re Photoshop-inclined and want to start working on some new wallpapers and LiveJournal avatars (hint, hint).

If you have the companion DVD (or a torrent thereof) to Reina’s photobook and, like me, know very little nihongo outside of words like “kawaii”, “ganbare”, and “zakennayo”, Hello!Fansubs already has a subtitled version of the entire DVD out (they had it ready for Reina’s birthday), and Hello!Online’s tracker has it up in H264 (iPod/PSP) format here and in Xvid format here.

Of course, the commencement of Reina’s 19th trip around the sun (as my good friend, punk legend Mike Watt puts it) had its fair share of notice. Sasaki at Sasaki’s H!P Weblog almost forgot but posted in time, while Morningtime commemorates the occasion with a few favorite shots from Very Reina and Reina’s live-in-studio cover version of Country Musume’s “Iroppoi Onna ~ Sexy Baby” (which we also posted here last year). Chris of CK’s H!P Blog fame (who missed seeing Reina and her mama by one day during his recent MoMusu/AKB48 hajj), meanwhile, commemorated this blog’s first anniversary at International Wota while looking at Reina’s birthday as a national holiday – or at least falling on the same day as one!

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