Berryz Pairings

Shimizu x Tsugunaga: Oneesanz (おねえさんズ)
Shimizu x Tokunaga: Berryz Boyz
Shimizu x Sudou: SS Combi (SSコンビ)
Shimizu x Natsuyaki: Obaka-chanz (おバカちゃんズ)
Shimizu x Kumai: Love Love Team/ Dekoboko Combi (ラブラブチーム／凸凹コンビ)
Shimizu x Sugaya: Pretty Girls (プリティガールズ)
Tsugunaga x Tokunaga: Naga-naga Combi / Foreverz (永永コンビ／フォーエバーズ)
Tsugunaga x Sudou: M2 Rocket/ Sumomo Love (M2ロケット／すももラブ)
Tsugunaga x Natsuyaki: MM Splash / Momoiro no Ouendan (MMスプラッシュ／桃色の応援団)
Tsugunaga x Kumai: Peach Bears (ピーチベアーズ)
Tsugunaga x  Sugaya: Fruities (フルーティーズ)
Tokunaga x Sudou: CM Network (CMネットワーク)
Tokunaga x Natsuyaki: Chinatsu (ちなつ)
Tokunaga x Kumai: The Tokkuma Black Girls (ザ・とっくまブラックガールズ)
Tokunaga x Sugaya: Dajaranger (ダジャレンジャー)
Sudou x Natsuyaki: Natsu Onna Combi (夏女コンビ)
Sudou x Kumai: Kumaaz (くまぁず)
Sudou x Sugaya: Mama & Baby (ママ＆ベイビー)
Natsuyaki x Kumai: Burning Bears (バーニングベアーズ)
Natsuyaki x Sugaya: Brownout Rose (ブラウンアウトローズ)
Kumai x Sugaya: Futari tomo "Ri" ga tsuku team (Tamori) (ふたりとも「り」がつくチーム（タモリ）)

Extra:
Shimizu x Sudou x Sugaya: Myouji no Saisho ga "Sagyou" da ne Team (名字の最初が「さ行」だねチーム) [Family names are on the s-row of the kana table]
Tsugunaga x Tokunaga x Natsuyaki x Kumai: Myouji no Saisho Gumiawaseru to "Nattoku" ni Naru Team (名字の最初組み合わせると「ナットク」になるチーム) [If you put together the first part of their family name it becomes Nattoku (ナットク): Natsuyaki, Tsugunaga, Tokunaga, Kumai. In Momo's case, it's a small 'tsu')
Tokunaga x Sudou x Natsuyaki: Berryz Monkeys (ベリーズモンキーズ) [All three are in the same grade and born in the year of the monkey. Tsugunaga is born in the year of the monkey, but is in a different grade.]

Sources:
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11111917421
http://ameblo.jp/maa--berry/entry-11528709307.html

Berryz ASCII Art

Shimizu Saki
川´・_・｀川

Tsugunaga Momoko
ﾙ ’‐’ﾘ
ᔚﾙ ’‐’ﾘᔗ

Tokunaga Chinami
从´∇｀从　　
从*´∇｀)

Sudou Maasa
从oﾟーﾟ从

Natsuyaki Miyabi
ﾉﾉl∂_∂'ﾙ

Kumai Yurina
川*＾▽＾)∥

Sugaya Risako
州*‘ o‘ﾘ

Sources:
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11111917421
http://ameblo.jp/maa--berry/entry-11528709307.html

Momochi-sensei: Dreams come true

Picture caption: "If you add up these apples, how many do you get?" Teaching arithmetic since her brother was in kindergarten (Photograph by Itou Yuiko)

Her aspirations come true
"Momochi-sensei"

Tsugunaga Momoko-san (21), also known as "Momochi", the idol aiming to acquire a teaching licence while continuing her activities in the entertainment industry. She announced in her blog that she had done her practical teacher training at a primary school in the autumn of last year. We get closer to Tsugunaga-san's thought on approaching children, through her work as an educator. (Tokyo Metropolitan Area 3rd year Kobana Rumi)

An entertainer that goes to university isn't rare, but we were told that Tsugunaga-san took a month-long break from almost all her work in order to concentrate on practical teacher training. Why, is it due to an interest in teaching?
"From the start, I've always loved kids, and I became interested in working as a teacher after meeting a cooperative homeroom teacher while simultaneously pursuing my activities as an entertainer. Having worked since I was in the 5th year of primary school, I'm really thankful to my teachers. I was very happy being able to come into contact normally without receiving any special treatment as an entertainer," she reflected.

She was put in charge of teaching 2nd year primary students for her practical training. She said that she underwent intensive training to fix her "bad writing habits" before she went for her practical training.
"2nd year students still aren't used to writing hiragana and kanji. Therefore I thought that it wouldn't be good from a teaching standpoint for my bad habits to turn up when I'm writing letters on the blackboard.I bought a hiragana exercise book, and practised writing by following the clean writing style of the copybook. Since I also had problems remembering kanji stroke order, I laboured to fix it."
She was in charge of the multiplication table in her class. "I had to carry out 10 classes, but the first time I ended up finishing in 30 minutes, though it was supposed to be a 45 minute class. Time allotment was difficult. I had to come up with things like making use of the fruit-shaped magnets that the children loved in order to maintain the kids concentration until the end. At the end when the principal and other teachers came to inspect me, I was able to hold a perfect class where the chime rang immediately after I said "class is over." Even if I do say so myself, I thought "I did it!"," she stretched the fact.

During the practice, talk of "Momochi" was a no go. Her trademark "Momochi Musubi" was also sealed. But on her last day of training, she was surprised to hear the children tell her "We love Momochi~." She seemed very moved. "After completing my practical teacher training I've come to like children even more," Tsugunaga-san told us. "The kids in the class I was in charge of are currently in their third year of primary school. I absolutely want to go and see the graduation ceremony for all of them!"she divulged.

At university, she usually hangs out in a group of six girls. "I'm bad when in noisy groups. They've been my good friends from since I entered university," she said with a smile. "We always get excited whenever the topic of currently hot shoujo manga, like "Strobe Edge," comes up.
The most problematic thing was balancing her activities in the entertainment industry with her attendance. Most of her professors knew of her circumstances, and she said that the was assigned reports for her absences. "The conditions laid on me were like, if the other students have to write 2 reports for a topic, I had to submit seven." Since she's bad with computers, apparently while riding on the Shinkansen she writes out the characters in a notebook, and her brother in the 3rd year of middle school types it out in Word.

"In the future, through my work as an idol, I'd like to work doing something related to children. It would be great if I could become an "Uta no Oneesan" (Lady who sings songs on children's shows). Because I love singing, speaking, and children! Be it after 10 years or a hundred years, I still want to be an idol," she made her "lifetime idol declaration."

Profile
From Chiba Prefecture.Member of Berryz Kobo and leader of Buono!. Actively participates in commercials, television shows, as well as radio programmes such as "Tsugunaga Momoko no Puri Puri Princess" (Cho A&G Every sunday at midnight). Her photo essay book "Momochi no Kimochi" (Wani Books) is currently on sale. On November the 29th, Berryz Kobo will be having their first concert at the Nippon Budoukan.

{Japanese after break}

So according to this 2ch thread, KanaTomo's the smartest of the current H!P girls.
No wonder she's so hard to translate XD (me making up excuses)

Strongest Cute Weird Idol

Strongest Cute Weird Idol

Suzuki Airi

Idol points 97/100

Strange movement points 90/100

Pun points 88/100

Suzuki Airi (C-ute)

"Airi" acts as the ace of Hello! Project's number one live artisan group C-ute. 

Style, dance, singing ability, idol aura ... In all of them, she's number one.

However, while having those super idol attributes, during MCs and live events her mumbling~ and strange movements appear.

Those "movements" are her charm. 

Pay lots of attention to it!

In addition, at times gut-wrenching puns will appear!

All in all, check her out.

You'll be charmed!

The Great Pleading Strategy

If you like your idols innocent, pure, and unrelentingly positive; this isn't a song for you.
This is the rare breed of idol songs that takes the alternative view that behind their angelic demeanour, their hearts may be concealing an ulterior purpose. The only other song with that stance that springs readily to mind is AKB 48's Zannen Shoujo.
In this song, the faeries of Babymetal tell of us their great strategy of manipulating their papa to get what they want. Enjoy.

Great Pleading Strategy

Strategy 1
To curry his favour more than usual
Massage his shoulders
And without missing a beat
"Papa I love you!!"

Strategy 2
Thank you for your work
God!!
My favourite type is obviously
"The Papa that I love!!"

Lying is alright (Resistance is futile)
Just praise ceaselessly (Sucking up, sucking up)
I want that (Just one more push)
I want this

(Making the face of an angel
Devilishly whisper)
(If you're gonna give a lecture, give me some dough)
(Making the face of an angel
Devilishly whisper)

" I wanna become Papa's bride"

Let's go! Let's go!
Pleading strategy
Cutely huff up and act a little spoilt!
The strongest!! The greatest!!
Fool him with your angelic smile
Let's go! Let's go!
Pleading strategy
Keep what I got a secret from Mama!
The strongest!! The greatest!!
Gimme! Gimme!
Pleading strategy

Please!! (The strongest) Please!! (As always)
If I have to get married then it's definitely (Papa!!)
Please!! (The strongest) Please!! (As always)
A barracuda-like spoiled brat (BLACK!! BABYMETAL)
Please!! (The strongest) Please!! (As always)
Once in a lifetime (The first and the last)
Please!! (The strongest) Please!! (As always)
I've decided to be a baby devil (BLACK!! BABYMETAL)

But we're girls, you know
We lo~ve  sparkly things!!
We lo~ve cute things!!
We lo~ve yummy things!!

One for the money
Two for the money
Three for the money
Money! Money! Money! Money!

Buy it!　Buy it!　Buy it!　But it!
Gimme!　Gimme!　Gimme!　Gimme!

Let's go! Let's go!
Pleading strategy
Cutely huff up and act a little spoilt!
The strongest!! The greatest!!
Fool him with your angelic smile
Let's go! Let's go!
Pleading strategy
Keep what I got a secret from Mama!
The strongest!! The greatest!!
Gimme! Gimme!
Pleading strategy

Please!! (The strongest) Please!! (As always)
If I have to get married then it's definitely (Papa!!)
Please!! (The strongest) Please!! (As always)
A barracuda-like spoiled brat (BLACK!! BABYMETAL)
Please!! (The strongest) Please!! (As always)
Once in a lifetime (The first and the last)
Please!! (The strongest) Please!! (As always)
I've decided to be a baby devil (BLACK!! BABYMETAL)

See here for Japanese lyrics

An Inspirational Message from Mano-chan

Apparently this is like a 2ch tradition, that this video will be reposted in November. Enjoy~



Were you able to spend every day productively this year?

If you've noticed, it's already November
2 more months until it's 2010
Time passes by in a moment, doesn't it

But you know, I'm always thinking about this
It's no good to just look at the past
You have to live for the present
You need to work hard to realise your dreams

What is your dream?

Those without a dream, find one
Those with a dream, let's work hard to realise it
Just having one won't make it come true
Let's start on realising that dream

Good luck!