Yume no Kawa

The Day Before Tomorrow is the day. I can not believe we are here again.  C-ute is ending their last full day as a group and tomorrow they will all start their new lives. Time went so fast. When they announced their disbandment I was in shock, eventhough it had been long coming.  Seeing a group that has been in H!P for so long disband is so hard. I haven't been posting this last few days due to migraine, work and the fact that making these posts is hard. I just ramble on about nothing and end up with weird posts. I am really sorry for this. C-ute might have had a smaller impact on my life than Berryz Koubou, they are still so precious and important for me. I adore them so much.  Tomorrow will be a hard day. For them, for the other members of H!P, for Tsugunaga Momoko, for Tsunku, for the other H!P Kids, for Megumi, Erika  and Kanna, for their managers and staff, for their fans and for me.  I hope from the bottom of my heart that they...

Yajima Maimi Yajima Maimi, the leader of C-ute and one of the oldest H!P Kids. Maimi has been one of the centers of C-ute and was also the leader of H!P for quite some time. Ah, Leader, beautiful Yajima Maimi-san. I love Maimi. I think she is really pretty and her voice colors so well with Airi's. I am a big fan of her leadership in C-ute and with H!P. She seems to be quite firm, but friendly and she really teachers her juniors well. I adore her smile and gosh does she have an amazing body.  Maimi has been centering C-ute songs with Airi since the very beginning of C-ute. She was always infront and even had both colors that are populair for front members (pink and red). Maimi always has this easy-going, relaxt aura around her, but she also sometimes seems a bit of an air head?  I am such a big fan of Maimi as a H!P leader. When she announced to members that they would be joining a certain group or that a new group was formed with them, she beamed with joy. S...

Nakajima Saki Nakajima Saki, also known as Nakky, the girl who always looked way younger than she actually is.  An amazing dancer and a girl who can put a lot of emotion in her facial expressions.  I think Nakky might have been the first C-ute member I actually knew. She was, ofcourse, a member of Guardians 4, which is the first H!P group I was a huge fan of. I love Buono!, but Guardians 4 was a whole other thing. Nakky was however the member I liked the least out of the group.  While Nakky was not my favorite in Guardians 4 nor in C-ute, yet I always saw her appeal. Her voice might not be everyone's favorite thing in the world, but there are some songs that she sounds soooo amazing in. I love how she looks, as she has this adorable innocence over her, which for some reason actually is sexy?  Saki also has some of the most beautiful lips in H!P. They are so beautiful! She is also a great actress and it does not suprise me that she wants to do somet...

Suzuki Airi Suzuki Airi must be the most popular and succesful member of Hello!Pro Kids. She has been in a lot of Sub-units, she has a lot of (amazing) solo songs and she has been the main lead vocalist of C-ute since they started. And she is also a succesful model! Airi is my favorite C-ute member. I love Airi. I think Airi is one of the most beautiful members of Hello!Project, past and present. She is super funny and such a dork. Her voice is one of my all time favorite voices and I love all her solo songs.  When C-ute announced they were going to disband, I was so afraid Airi would stop singing. I love her voice so much. However, Airi announced she will be going solo in the spring of 2018! So we do not have to worry about not hearing her beautiful voice anymore! Yet I also understand how hard Airi's time in C-ute must have been. Every member of an idol group always wants to be the center/lead vocalist, but with Airi... She was the lead from the beginning and h...

Meeting C-ute In 2014 my dream came true of meeting Berryz Koubou and C-ute. When Berryz was going on Haitus I talked about my experience meeting them, so I will now go on with that post by telling you guys about meeting C-ute.  It has been 3 years since meeting the girls, but it is a memory I will never ever forget. I went to Paris with my boyfriend, my brother and his friend, non of them are H!P fans. First thing I did was buying the BerryzXC-ute cd, so I could get a ticket for the handshake event. I actually was more excited for this, than the whole concert. I wanted to meet the girls, tell them how much they mean to me and all the things they did for me.  In reality I was a mess. I didn't cry, but I was STAR struck. The girls were tiny, but so beautiful and radiant.  Let me tell you about what happend during the handshake event when I got to C-ute. Berryz Koubou was first, after which we moved on to C-ute! Yajima Maimi (Girl in red is me. ...

Okai Chisato Okai Chisato, once a background member now a lead vocalist.  Only 8 years old when she joined Hello!Pro, yet such an important member. Chisa has had her own solo releases and events, her own dance cover group (Team Okai) and she got to upload a lot of dance covers of C-ute's youtube channel.  Like said before, Chisato was always a background member. Even when the group was losing members, she was still in the background. Fans did notice the potential Chisa had, yet she had to wait a long time to be pushed. In 2010, Chisato finally started to get time to shine and before we knew it she got a lead position in C-ute! Chisa is one of my top Hello!Pro members! I adore her energy, her dancing and her voice and gosh is this girl beautiful! Chisato has such great humor and is always such a pleasure to watch preform! When your eyes aren't draw to Airi, it will be Chisato for sure! When I just started to become a fan, I never understood why Chisato didn'...

Hagiwara Mai Next up is the youngest member of C-ute and the youngest Hello!Pro Kid.  Hagiwara Mai was just 6 when she passed the audition for Hello!Pro Kids and only 8 when she joined C-ute. She was adorable then and she is adorable now.  I have to be honest with you guys, Mai was never a favorite member of mine. I mean she is cute alright, but I just never really enjoyed her voice or her persona. Even her solo song Yuke Genki-kun wasn't my cup of tea.  I think, however, that HagiMai is a really important part of C-ute. Some of her "main" songs are the best ones C-ute ever had! Just think about Adem to Eve no Dillema. Mai always brings a bit of youth to the C-ute mix and I really am happy she was there to put that kind of energy in the group. Yet these last few years she has became a really sexy young woman!  These last few years Mai's voice has been getting more raw and live she hasn't been sounding her best. I actually felt so bad for her, as...

Umeda Erika Umeda Erika was the oldest member of C-ute and the only member to have a graduation concert. Ume graduated from C-ute in october of 2009 to become a model. Umeda Erika was not only the oldest member of C-ute, she was also the oldest Hello!Project kid. It is no suprise that she was/is good friends with Shimizu Saki and Yajima Maimi, who were also in the group of the oldest members. Due to her age, Ume-chan was offered the leader position in C-ute, but she didn't think she could do a good job and the position went on to Yajima Maimi.  In C-ute, Erika had a background role, while she did have some solo lines in song like Massara Blue Jeans, FOREVER LOVE and Bye Bye Bye! She also had a solo song called  Do Don Ga Don Ondo on C-ute's third album. Erika's graduation had been rumored around August and was soon confirmed by management. In october she graduated after a tearful concert and is to date the only member of C-ute to officially graduate and h...

H!P Kids When Berryz Koubou went on Haitus, I did a big post about H!P Kids.  I talked about their history and groups they were in. Now that C-ute is disbanding, I could ofcourse make a post like that again, but wouldn't that be really boring and repetative?  I have been breaking my head over what to put in this post, as Hello!Pro Kids is such in important part of C-ute's past. So let's just talk a bit of History anyway.  As we all know on the 30th of June, 2002, 15 children entered Hello!Project. Umeda Erika, Shimizu Saki, Yajima Maimi, Tsugunaga Momoko, Tokunaga Chinami, Murakami Megumi, Sudo Maasa, Natsuyaki Miyabi, Ishimura Maiha, Kumai Yurina, Nakajima Saki, Sugaya Risako, Suzuki Airi, Okai Chisato and Hagiwara Mai became Hello!Pro Kids. These kids would be supporting acts to the already existing acts of Hello!Project.  The kids were put into different groups, but non of them had a long life: Aa!, ZYX and 4KIDS. Until in 2004 Berryz Kou...

Arihara Kanna Arihara Kanna is the only member of C-ute that never in Hello!Pro Kids, she was also the only member to ever be added to C-ute after the group was formed.  Kanna-chan was a first generation member of Hello!Pro Eggs and was added to C-ute 6 months after the group was officially announced The addition of Kanna-chan made a lot of die-hard Hello!Pro Kids fans angry, as she was never an "orginal" member. Kanna did get some solo lines in Massara Blue Jeans, but faded into the background of C-ute soon after.  In 2009 it was announced that Kanna would be going on a haitus, due to a problem with her feet, which made it hard for her to preform. C-ute went on and preformed as a 6 member group for a while and even released some singles. After 4 monthes Kanna officially left the group with her medical condition given as the reason. However there were rumors about her dating a Johnny's entertainment member, which led to Kanna being suspended. Kanna is...