Resonant Blue

Morning Musume’s new single – one that appears to have gotten a wide variety of people very excited (positively or otherwise) with a spotlight distribution balance the worst we’ve seen it since Furusato. Not even Osaka Koi no Uta came up to this level.

Koisuru Madori

As of writing I’m about twenty minutes into the movie, it’s half past six in the morning and I should be asleep. But some things about it have already struck me enough that I’d want to write about them. For a few minutes I worried – I mean, is this the sort of thing you put in an idol blog? Does Yui’s album make her an idol rather than just an actress now? Or was she an idol before owing to the whole modelling thing?

But then I remembered; I don’t actually care that much whether someone stumbles across this and exclaims in horror that someone would write about a movie in an idol blog or not. What’s an ‘idol’ anyway? This might not be what you find in an idol blog, but it’s sure as hell what you’re going to find in my idol blog.

Before you click the link down there, let me warn you: here be spoilers.

I always hated those.

So, since I have a fancy pants blog now (you can tell it’s fancy by the lack of a ‘current music’ feature), I figure I’ll go ahead and talk about… you guessed it… Milky Way.

First Thing’s First…

Now I’m not what you or anybody else would call an ‘experienced’ or ‘big name’ fan of anything – I pride myself on only looking at what I want to look at. Being a fan of idols doesn’t mean that by extension I have to be interested in absolutely everything all idols do, or even have an opinion on everything to do with my own favourites. I’m lucky enough to be close friends with one such person, however, who is genuinely interested in most things going on in the idol world enough to point something out to me when I should probably know it… or just show me things I might be interested in. So I’m not missing out on anything I’d really miss not seeing, honest.

That said, I haven’t watched the Shinjin Kouen yet. Partly because I wasn’t interested in the Eggs or the 8th Generation Musume much when it came out, and partly for connection related reasons. I can tell you right from the get-go that the only Eggs I’m really interested in before watching are Noto Arisa, Mano Erina and Furukawa Konatsu – so the others are going to really have to shine to keep my attention away from them. Also, it should probably be said that I really dislike both Aika and Kanna – just so you don’t get confused should I lapse into ranting about either one of them. It’s more likely than you think.

Why am I blathering in here about not having seen something? Elementary, my dear Watson – I intend to watch it, right now. So what you’ll get are my first impressions… once I’ve had a chance to think about how exactly I’m going to word them, of course. So without further ado, here goes nothing.