Kouhaku 2005If I remember correctly, it happens late December every year. And I just downloaded the Kouhaku 2005- or at least, the H!P part of it. It was a medley or something of that sort, with Aya Matsuura singing Ki ga Tsukeba Anata, DEF. DIVA singing Suki Sugite Baka Mitai, then Momusu singing LOVE Machine. Er, well, not Momusu exactly...but I'll get to that later. ^^
First off, Ayaya's performance. First it was just Ayaya singing, then a bit into it some members of H!P Kids started dancing- I believe it was 4 Berryz and 4 C-ute? With Berryz in blue outfits and C-ute in pink. Or maybe it was the other way around, I'm not very familiar with H!P Kids. Farther into it, all of a sudden the rest of H!P Kids came out along with....um...figures?...
One of them was Domo- you know,
. All in all, pretty good performance. I absolutely love the song. ^^
Next is DEF. DIVA's performance. DEF. DIVA is Aya Matsuura, Natsumi Abe, Maki Goto, and Rika Ishikawa. I don't really have too much to say about this one; just a pretty normal performance, nothing really special.
Last. LOVE Machine. Homg. This was awesome. It's not just Momusu performing. It's Momusu + all past members that are still in H!P. MARIPPE~!!!!!!
Lemme do a quick run-down. There were 19 members in the performance, and there have been 22 different members of Momusu. If they aren't still in H!P, the name will be in italics. Format is this:
Name (Current group/whatever)First generationYuko Nakazawa (solo)
Natsumi Abe (solo, DEF. DIVA)
Kaori Iida (solo)
Aya Ishiguro (----)
Asuka Fukuda (----)Second genMari Yaguchi (solo...I think.
I hope.)
Kei Yasuda (No clue, really. I suppose solo. She hasn't released anything yet, though she graduated back in 2003. She's still in H!P though.)
Sayaka Ichii (----)Third genMaki Goto (solo, DEF. DIVA)
Fourth genHitomi Yoshizawa (Morning Musume)
Ai Kago (W)
Nozomi Tsuji (W)
Rika Ishikawa (DEF. DIVA, v-u-den)
Fifth genAi Takahashi (Morning Musume)
Asami Konno (Morning Musume)
Risa Niigaki (Morning Musume)
Makoto Ogawa (Morning Musume)
Sixth genSayumi Michishige (Morning Musume)
Eri Kamei (Morning Musume)
Reina Tanaka (Morning Musume)
Miki Fujimoto (Morning Musume; used to be a solo artist but put that on hold while in Momusu)
Seventh genKoharu Kusumi (Morning Musume)
Kinda sad that I know all that, actually.
So anyway. First they start off with Kaorin, Kei, and Yuko rising from under the stage, and then they show Marippe, Aibon, and Nono doing the same on the other side. That's the beginning part, with the 'oooohhh's and stuff. Then they go behind the ball that's in the back, and as the music starts going faster, the ball kinda drops down to reveal all of them, plus Gocchin, Charmy, and Nacchi (they kinda had to change from their DEF. DIVA outfits.
). So they sing up to the end of the first chorus, then the rest of the girls (Yossui, Mako, Risa, Takitty, Konkon, Sayu, Reina, Eririn, Mikitty, and Koha; basically the current Momusu) come in behind them in these red outfits. They look really pretty...I think Hitomi looks especially pretty.
HitomiThat isn't to say the others aren't, though. So then, the current Momusu does the second verse and chorus. Then they perform a chorus with two members singing at a time- one past and one current.
Reina and NacchiGocchin and Takitty (they don't appear at the same time, though, so I needed two screenshots.
)
GocchinTakittyMako and Marippe (my favorite, for hopefully obvious reasons.)
Mako and MarippeThen, confetti bursts out, the H!P Kids come running out, the characters all come out, and basically it's just cuteness. ^^ At the very end, the last line, 'love machine', is said by Koharu. ^^
Y'know, I thought I'd never get a chance to see Marippe and Koharu perform together. Seeing as Marippe left in April, and Koharu didn't come in until later. But hey! It happened!
More screenshots! (Ayaya deserves a few. ^^)
AyayaAyaya and KidsCuteBerryzAyaya and Kids (2)random charactersJust kinda saving as a halfway point.
It's almost midnight and I need to get to bed; I'll finish the screenshots later.
