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Date Night

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Learning to draw specifially so I can give Orihime dragonfly wings created from her Shun Shun Rikka

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Our first performance of Daite Please Go On by the original herself comes from H!P Summer 20th anniv.

I mentioned how pre-Kpop H!P came from the SharanQ rock origins, and that's the group that Gocchin auditioned for (with her entry inadvertently heralding H!P's turn away from it). She also eventually became an Avex artist after chasing that Avex image as a soloist within H!P, but mind you that "Avex soloists" even with EDM is yet still more aggressive and forward than Kpop ever is. Koda Kumi herself was in Gocchin's MM 3rd gen audition.

You see all of that background displayed here, in how Gocchin has always performed this song. That energy that is so forward that it drags all of her back dancers in her wake trying to catch up is the mark of a true ace.

With this and the Takahshi High King perf, you can see that a mark of a truly good perf of this is that the hair should get wild.

(The closest we ever got to a Kishimon perf ;_;. smh again at how far Reirei has fallen)

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[magicmorningmeteora]

Who is your birthday oshi? ~Week of July 16~

Birthdays & Anniversaries ~Week of July 16~

The following members, ex-members, and single releases have birthdays and anniversaries this week.

July 16

Maeda Yuki - Tokyo Kirigirisu (2003)

Kusumi Koharu - Papancake (2008)

℃-ute - The Power / Kanashiki Heaven (Single Version) (2014)

July 17

Kimura Asami (ex-Country Musume; 39)

Inoue Rei (Kobushi Factory→Juice=Juice; 22)

Ichii Sayaka in CUBIC-CROSS - Shitsuren LOVE Song (2002)

Kobushi Factory & Tsubaki Factory - Hyokkori Hyoutanjima (2018)

July 18

Tsubaki Factory - Date no Hi wa Nido Kurai Shower Shite Dekaketai / Junjou cm / Kon'ya Dake Ukaretakatta (2018)

July 19

T&C Bomber - HEY! Mahiru no Shinkirou (2000)

July 20

Nakayama Natsume (OCHA NORMA; 18)

Buono! - Natsu Dakara! (2011)

July 21

Taguchi Natsumi (ex-Kobushi Factory; 23)

July 22

Kitagami Ami (ex-Sheki-Dol; 43)

Morning Musume - Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari (2004)

Melon Kinenbi & New Rote'ka - Pinchi wa Chance - Baka ni Narou ze! (2009)

ANGERME - Nana Korobi Ya Oki / Gashin Shoutan / Mahou Tsukai Sally (2015)

Happy birthday/anniversary week!

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Tokyo Riai (24.08.04)

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25th Anniversary Event♪ Onoda Saori (23.11.20)

🍋She who has been looking forward to Mao's TikToks recently、I'm Saori♪

Yesterday's blog comments、I read them all！

Thank you very much 😊

Our individual event、was so much funー！！！！

Talking with you all、really boosts my self confidence！

When you call me cute、it makes me so happy！！

I'm so happyyyー

Today was、「Hello! Project 25th Anniversary Special FC Event vol.1」！

To everyone who came、thank you very much😊

An event with an unusual combination of members！！

I've been nervous about it for ageーーsssss。

This event and live show was looking back on 1998 to 2004✨

Saori、was able to sing 「Dokki Doki！LOVE Mail」 and 「Ne～e？」ー

What did you think？？

Your 「Saoーri Ippaーi！」 calls、made me so happyyyyy🤤

And、I performed 「Ne〜e？」 with Inoue Rei©！

Our first time performing together since KOBO！！！！！！

I felt super nostalgic、and I'm so happy that we were able to sing together again after so many years！

Thanks😚

What did you thinkー？？

I'm waiting for your thouーーーghts！

To everyone who came、even though it was a weekday、thank you very much🥹

If it gets livestreamed or released on a DVD、please be sure to watch it if you only sent your power todayー！！

It was a fun day！

Thank you very much！！！

Since you all need to work hard this week、so hope we were able to give you the energy to do your best🤤

Today too、is a Saori selfie♪

Todayー I did a bunbunbunbunbun

(T/N News and information has not been translated)

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Today I posted a TikTok、did you see it！？

Chara Chara Charaーn

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Bye bye♡

#saori #ishungryー#iwannaeatcake

[theshotsheardacrossworlds]

Comfort

Day 2 of WolVrtra Week: Comfort. Mild spoilers for 6.4.

Vrtra hummed to himself. How lucky am I? How blessed? That she, despite her own needs, is tending to mine. Providing such comfort after… He pushed thoughts on the events of the previous day behind him. We shall rescue my sister. We shall save her and bring her home.

“Almost finished, daarin. This ointment will help with the irritation, and it smells so nice.” She said, rubbing the ointment from Kugane where skin met scales. After a few minutes, she put the lid back on the container. “All done.”

At least I can see her now. Her hair in a neat bun with flowers. Her favorite sandals. The dark purple top that contrasts so beautifully with her skin and scales. Those trousers that she says are comfortable but don’t appear so. And a smile on her face. Such warmth and happiness in my beloved. “Excellent timing, my dear. Your supper should be here shortly. Until then—”

She placed the container of ointment on a table and giggled. “Until then, Vrtra love, open your claw and let me hold you.”

“As you wish, beloved.” He opened his left front claw (tis her favorite) and watched her kick off her sandals to climb into his claw. Tsubaki curled into a small ball, her lean but muscled arms hugging a talon. The same one. Always the same. “Art thou comfortable?” I know the answer. Tis the same. Always the same.

“Of course, anata. Why wouldn’t I be?” She sighed happily, her glorious and most beautiful tail wrapping around a thigh. “Tis not only comfort you provide to my heart, Vrtra. I feel safe and happy with you.” Nuzzling him, Tsubaki closed her eyes and sighed again. “Would you like me to stay tonight?”

“Tonight and every night, beloved.” A wave of panic suddenly tore through him. Nay, I should not pressure her to stay. “Only if you are—”

A slightly annoyed noise came from the small auri woman in his claw. “For Kami’s sake, I am comfortable. As if I would want to sleep anywhere else?” A small smile tugged on her lips. “Silly dragon.”

What was it Estinien hath said the other day? “Love makes fools of us all.” If loving her has made me into a fool, then I shall gladly puff out my chest in pride. “If I am silly, dear one, then what are you?”

“The silliest.” She snorted before laughing, her tail thrashing. As she laughed, he chuckled a little.

As the ointment you hath given me is a balm to my skin, so has your very being been a balm to mine, dearest Tsubaki.

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Orihime Inoue 🧡💐

Shun Shun Rikka…I Reject!!

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[recurring-polynya]

Orihime gives Chad a manicure to see if it powers his arm up and also because she thinks it would be a nice thing to do for a friend. Chad is always doing things for other people without a second thought and I think Orihime would pick up on that.

I was rolling this around in my head, trying to decide when I wanted to set it and who else I wanted to be in it, when I got punched in the face with this mildly angsty idea, which ended up twisting the prompt around a little bit. (I feel like I always do this to you 😂. Maybe I do this to everyone.) Anyway, I hope you like it! I love them so much!!!

Takes place in the early Blood War, around the time when Ichigo goes to the Royal Realm, shortly after the first set of battles, while Orihime and Chad are still in Hueco Mundo.

(read on ao3)

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Orihime didn't know what she was thinking when she grabbed the nail polish off the shelf in her bathroom. It was a 16-in-1 gel palette set (with 4 metallics!) that she had won last fall as a fifth-place prize in a contest they were holding down at the shopping district last fall. She hadn't yet taken the plastic wrapping off. She had been saving them for a special occasion.

A war was not a special occasion.

Orihime had to admit that she probably panicked a little. Mr. Urahara was opening Garganta back to the Living World twice a day so that Mr. Tessai could bring various supplies that he needed to Hueco Mundo. Orihime had been shooed through so she could pack some clothes and whatever else she needed, and to let Tatsuki know that she wasn't going to be around for a bit. It had made sense at the time, but once she was actually in her apartment, her vision narrowed down to a dark tunnel and she had to gulp big deep breaths of air because it was all too much like the time Ulquiorra had given her twelve hours to say good-bye to just one person.

She got it together eventually and did manage to find Tatsuki and Keigo and Mizuiro, too. (Ishida wasn't around, but he had known where they were going.) Still, though, she wondered what she had been thinking when she got back to Hueco Mundo and found her bag packed with every pair of underwear she owned, her winter coat, a jumbo-sized box of Hello Panda that she must have stopped somewhere to buy, and the nail polish.

There had been a lot of waiting around, once she had finished healing everyone who needed healing, so maybe she had been thinking it would be a nice way to pass the time. Maybe she had thought the Tres Bestia would like it. They probably would have, but Urahara had already sent time off on some errand. Nel wasn't interested, although she was very interested in the Hello Panda.

So Orihime painted her own nails. She painted her pinkies and her thumbs with the metallic silver, and then drew on the six-petaled flower of her hairpins on top in teal. She painted the rest of her nails in teal. She had planned to paint a flower for each of her Shun Shun Rikka on each of the remaining six nails. The left hand actually came out pretty good! The right…

"Is something the matter, Inoue?"

Orihime blinked rapidly and looked up. She'd been staring so hard at her own efforts that her eyes had gone dry.

Sado had been sitting nearby, reading a book, with a massive set of headphones over his ears, things he had brought back from his own whirlwind trip home. Sado hadn't had much to say since Ichigo left, but Orihime had noticed that he preferred to stay within eyeshot of her. Tatsuki's cat did that with Tatsuki's mom, who had rescued her from a sewer grate as a kitten. Now, Sado was peering down at her, the headphones slung loosely around his neck.

"Ohhhh, I was just wishing I had put the camellia on my left hand," Orihime sighed. "Ayame and Hinagiku will understand if their flowers are a little shaky, but Tsubaki is going to be so mad."

Sado frowned thoughtfully. "Would you like me to help?"

Orihime's mouth dropped into a soft 'o'. She supposed she shouldn't be surprised. She'd seen the doodles Sado did in the margins of his schoolwork. It was usually graffiti-style Spanish words, but sometimes (usually when class was particularly boring) he'd draw out an entire lion, all rippling muscles and fangs, or a sleek motorcycle with highlights and shading that made it look like it made of chrome and leather and rubber, even though it was really all just pencil.

"The brush is very small," she said stupidly.

"It's fine," said Sado.

Barely a minute later, a miniscule camellia graced her right index finger, perfect right down to the lacy stamen.

"How did you do that?" Orihime gasped.

"I don't know a lot of flowers," Sado admitted, "but I know how to draw camellias. Abarai and I used to have a lot of time to kill while we were recovering from throwing boulders at each other. He can only draw about three things, but one of them is camellias."

"What are the other two?" Orihime asked shyly. The idea of big, tough Abarai drawing anything was very cute to her. She wondered if one of them was bunny-people.

"Skulls," said Sado. "And Zabimarus."

The last they had heard, Abarai had been very badly injured and so had Rukia, but both were expected to make it. Orihime pressed her lips together. Of course they were going to make it. They were both very, very tough. Next time she saw Abarai, she would ask him to draw a Zabimaru for her.

"Do you want me to do the other two?" Sado asked.

"It's a daisy and a hibiscus," Orihime said. "Do you know how to draw those?"

"I can manage a daisy," Sado agreed. "I am actually pretty good at hibiscus." That made sense, of course, given Sado's collection of tropical shirts.

"Thank you, Sado," she said, watching him work. He was very good at using pressure on the brush to get little petal-shaped blobs of paint. She wondered if he ever painted, in addition to drawing.

Sado sucked in a breath. "Do you think…" he started, and then started again. "Do you think we could do mine next?"

"What? Yes! Of course!" For a moment, Orihime was so excited to have finally found a taker that it took her a moment to be surprised. "I didn't know you liked to paint your nails, Sado-kun!"

Sado finished the hibiscus before speaking. "I don't. I mean. I haven't ever. Before."

"It'll be your first time, you mean?"

"Yes." Sado paused. "But I've wanted to. Ichigo and I went to a punk show once. A band he liked. He painted his nails black. I was…I mean, it looked…well. It's Ichigo. You know. He's braver than me."

Orihime started to argue with that, then stopped herself. "Not many people are braver than Ichigo," she said instead.

Sado gave a curt nod. "That's why I want to do it."

They did his left hand in white and red and black, with bold stripes and zigzags and a slightly melty-looking skull on his ring finger.

"Should we do the right in black and bright pink?" Orihime asked, eying the same beautiful fuschia Sado had painted her hibiscus with.

"No," said Sado. "My right hand is the one that protects. I want to paint it with the things I want to protect. So for the first one, I want you to paint it silver, with a teal flower, just like yours."

For a second, Orihime couldn't breathe. "Sado-kun," she finally said, "shouldn't Ichigo be the first one?"

"Ichigo is the first person I want to protect," Sado agreed. "But you were the first person I trained with. You're the person I've always trained with. So you should be first."

She couldn't argue with that, so Sado's thumb got painted to match hers. Orihime wasn't very confident in her ability to draw Ichigo's substitute badge, but Sado believed in her, and they both agreed that Ichigo wouldn't mind if it was a little wobbly. They did the background in sparkly gold, which they also both agreed that Ichigo would approve of.

They were going to be fighting Quincy--they had already been fighting Quincy--but they decided to paint the middle finger white with a blue cross anyway, because Ishida had it first. Just because the rest of the Quincy were turning out to be jerks didn't change how they felt about him. The middle finger felt somehow appropriate for that.

There was some debate over disrespectfulness, but they couldn't bring themselves to do it the other way around, so the ring finger was for Abarai (a black lightning bolt on a red ground) and the pinkie for Rukia (a silver snowflake on purple).

Orihime looked down at Sado's hands resting on the table. They were wide and powerful, with thick, knobbly boxer's knuckles and traced with silvery scars. His fingers were long and elegant, though, slightly tapered with square, even nails, now covered in bright colors and sparkles.

Orihime placed her own hands on the table, spreading her fingers wide to mirror his.

"I'm glad I brought the nail polish," she declared, to herself more than anyone else. "They don't have enough color in Hueco Mundo."

"Mm," Sado agreed.

It occurred to Orihime that both the shinigami and their enemies favored black and white, at least officially. But when she thought of her friends, she could only think of splashes of color--the wrap of a sword hilt, the flutter of a scarf. Eyeshadow and bright hair and the lining of a haori.

"Do you like it?" Orihime asked.

"I do," said Sado.

"It might chip," she warned. "Just let me know. I'll fix it if it does."

Sado smiled down softly at their colorful, sparkly, not-quite-matching fingertips, nearly touching. "I know you will."

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GU x Hello! Project collab shirts & accessories

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2024 list of 20 H!P vocalists

Tsutsui Roko (OC) Nishizaki Miku (OC) Yofu Runo (TF) Fukuda Marine (TF) Yagi Shiori (TF) Kasai Yumi (TF) Nishida Shiori (Byonz) Yamazaki Yuhane (Byonz) Matsunaga Riai (J=J) Inoue Rei (J=J) Dambara Ruru (J=J) Matsumoto Wakana (Anju) Hirayama Yuki (Anju) Kamikokuryo Moe (Anju) Yamazaki Mei (MM) Kitagawa Rio (MM) Oda Sakura (MM) Hayashi Nina (KSS) Goto Hana (Anju) Kawashima Miju (J=J)