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.

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.