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I have not seen Wasamin this excited — since I found that coupon for the discount of 50 yen off wax paper!

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A song? Of course we cannot end without a song. Remember this great moment from Halloween?

Starlight: (gulp)

Iwasa Misaki’s 5th single “Gomen ne Tokyo” will release January 6th.

Kimonos on Friday? Yes! … nothing pulls me out of a blogging rut like the lovely and talented Miss Iwasa Misaki-san! You can read more about the details on the AKB48 Daily post below.

Source: Iwasa Misaki’s 5th single ‘Gomen ne Tokyo’ MV | AKB48 Daily

I am very happy to hear about the new Iwasa Misaki CD + DVD to be released on January 6th. Here is a look at the music video. Don’t worry, I already pre-ordered the CD + DVD.

Better watch it today!

Those are some grand landscapes!

Those are some great kimonos!

This will be Wasamin’s 5th solo single. She will cover the classic Enka-song “Kawa No Nagare No You Ni” (川の流れのように).  The CD + DVD edition will also include a “Making Of” video.

My oshi will also cover AKB48 41 single song “Halloween Night” and another  song “Ippome Ondo”on the special edition.

Order from CD-Japan linked here. I have your image right here CD Japan.

I also found some YT video of Wasamin’s recent “one woman show” performed live last Halloween. She sings “Halloween Night” here (now it IS interesting to hear a solo-version), but she cracks up laughing during it, so you can expect that the real coupling song will be different.

Also, you can view more of Wasamin’s intimate little one-woman show here.

Better watch it today …

(Gulp) … My heart is filled with happiness now …

Starlight: Forget “Star Wars” … I’m standing in line for Misaki-san!!!

Wasamin: I still can’t help but “fanboy” all over her…

The wind has been knocked out of Denny’s sails, so he has not posted in several weeks.  I have not even logged in for a couple of weeks (sorry). The weasels in the Japanese music industry have made it extremely hard to be a fan.

I don’t blame the artists, I don’t blame the girls – just the management dickweeds. (Well, that would describe 99% of the music industry in America too).

Thus, this is the dream I had: … as I approach the Japanese islands in my Black Ship … a lone Samurai (who looks a lot like Toshiro Mifune, by the way) is waving his sword on the beach and shouting (in English, oddly).

I know, I saw “Red Lion” too.

GET AWAY FROM HERE!!

THERE ARE NO “IDOLS” HERE!!!!

THERE ARE NO IDOLS … ONLY MULES!!!

… THAT’S RIGHT — WE ONLY HAVE MULES … GO AWAY!!!

IF YOU TRY TO LOOK AT ONE OF MY MULES I WILL CUT YOU DOWN!!!!!!

Ahem … needed some coffee after that…

Still, I can’t help but “fanboy” all over the delightful Miss Iwasa Misaki-san. Here she is on that Japanese variety TV show. I don’t know the same of it, all I know is that she is a frequent guest, and often sings “Enka” ballads while she wears an amazingly beautiful kimono.

Well, she is not wearing a kimono here, but she sings this wonderful “traditional” Japanese song.

Note the junior high kids from that popular anime about the junior high school band “Hibike! Euphonium” are there — IN REAL LIFE!

http://myanimelist.net/anime/27989/Hibike!_Euphonium

Well, there will probably not be a Christmas song from Miss Iwasa, so this will have to do. I think it has a very “holiday” feel. Please enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWH8VGWN3pM

Happy Holidays if I don’t see you …

Starlight: Lots of parenthesis!

See more Misaki-san on my Pinterest board for her linked here.

Also see more Mifune-san on my board for him here !