November 6, 2010 by CJ Marsicano
…slightly late. Sorry!
I’m a sucker for pics of my favorite MoMusu with a guitar in her hands. Unfortunately, someone forgot to give her a strap for the guitar before she took these photos, since she is having to concentrate on holding the guitar as opposed to cranking out a few powerchords.
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November 5, 2010 by CJ Marsicano
Earlier this year I was enjoying sharing the episodes of Reina’s more recent anime work, Kaito Reinya, as soon as they went up on YouTube. Unfortunately, the copyright holders of that series called foul, forcing YouTube to pull the streaming videos I was sharing here.
Anyway, in the less recent past I had raved a bit lustily about pictures of Reina in cat ears from HaroMoni@, and lamented when production stopped on the show about how pictures of her in the cat ears were going to be a thing of the past. Thankfully, when Kaito Reinya‘s promotional machine happened there were quite a few opportunities for Reina to get dolled up as her anime doppelganger, complete with – yep – cat ears. As noted in the picture above, one could get their own set of Kaito Reinya cat ears, but I’m personally trying to keep an eye out for those elusive Kaito Reinya stuffies that they advertised on the show.
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November 3, 2010 by CJ Marsicano
Another live Reina shot from the current tour. I hope the Blu-Ray disc of this tour comes out a lot sooner than the one for the Pika Pika Spring 2010 tour. Not that I’m complaining entirely – I absolutely love the fact that I can finally see my favorite band in 1080p. Perhaps a remastering of all the MoMusu PVs for a Blu-Ray set is in order, Zetima?
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November 3, 2010 by CJ Marsicano
Even though I’ve been a bad boy with not updating this site, my adoration for my favorite member of Morning Musume has not changed. And neither has my desire to see Morning Musume make regular visits to the States (and elsewhere) and see their music get released here by a better independent label than JapanFiles’s rather ineffectual (in retrospect) job… (I’d start mentioning label names again but I’ll save that for TGML…)
Side note: Quick website update happening a little later tonight before the Day 3 post, so if you see or saw things not as they usually are here, that’s why… already done. That, as a certain office supply store commercial said, was easy… 
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November 2, 2010 by CJ Marsicano
It’s about that time… and I owe my favorite MoMusu a huge fucking apology!
Sorry, Reina. I meant to start a new commemorative series last night, but a couple of things got in the way and it completely slipped my head…
The reality is two-fold and has only a little to do with my marriage… last night was my laundry night (four months into my marriage and already we’ve got some routines going!), plus I had to do a little maintenance on my laptop thanks to a somewhat annoying little gnat of a virus – thank god for Norton pouncing on that fucker), and then the pre-order of Elvis Costello’s new album was waiting for me to download from iTunes… ahh, just bonk me on the head with that thick retrospective photobook of Reina’s that came out a couple of years ago!
It’s not like Reina was completely off my radar last night, though… NaNoWriMo started yesterday and the project involves a character named after and slightly inspired by her. No, it’s not a fanfic (I don’t write those), but it is a new project centered around a character I created for my first, long abandoned novel project Play It All Night Long. (For those of you keeping track, Here Is The Wonderland is still the priority project – this new novella is just an exercise for my inner Snoopy.)
So… with all excuses and explanations out of the goddamn way… we’ll be back on track with Day 2′s post later today – most likely after I get back from voting (Democrat, of course…).
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May 16, 2010 by CJ Marsicano
The results for Paul Thomas’ yearly H!P fan poll are in, and Her Royal Hotness placed third again (behind Takitty and Gaki) in the poll for individual H!P members, and Morning Musume also placed on top in the group poll that he set up this year. Good to see that the mothership is still on top. I’m surprised that Buono! placed fourth behind Berryz Koubou and C-ute, though.
On a side note, sorry that this blog has been rather inactive the past couple of months (I’ve only been a little more active over at this blog’s mothership). Outside of my impending nuptials, there’s really no excuse for not keeping up with things here, so my apologies to both Reina and to my fellow Tanakachi fans and followers. I’ll try to make up for it.
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November 11, 2009 by CJ Marsicano
While it was a slow year as far as posts to this blog goes, it was certainly one hell of a year for Reina and the rest of the band, especially given that they finally made their American performing debut back in July. I regret not being able to attend, but here’s hoping that there will be many more visits from the band to these shores in the years to come. And since Reina has openly stated in past interviews that she wants to remain in the band for quite a while yet, here’s hoping that I get to witness those American shows while she’s still part of the band.
Reina, here’s to your 20th trip around the sun, and many more to come!
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November 10, 2009 by CJ Marsicano
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November 8, 2009 by CJ Marsicano
Sorry for being a couple of parts behind. I’ll be making it up in the next 24 hour period. In the meantime…
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November 6, 2009 by CJ Marsicano
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