Ichigo ichie 8/27 - Hello! Champuru

By: Zabel

A brief summary of this week's show.


Ichigo ichie 8/27


Aichan likes to eat lotus root candy (れんこん飴), which is good for the throat, and rusk, which she recently ate with her curry.

Having just finished reading the Harry Potter series, she went to see Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. To Aichan, Hermione has become a beautiful lady, Ron has become muscular, and she particularly enjoyed a confrontation between Harry and Draco Malfoy.

A listener asks Aichan how she watches Takaraduka. Now when she watches Takaraduka she studies their acting, but to the listener she recommends just taking in the magnificence of it; the aura the top stars convey, the clothes they wear, how they enter the stage.

She reports on the summer H!P Concert. Aichan says it was good for Morning Musume to have a feeling of rivalry between Berryz and the others. It had been awhile since High King performed Cinderella Complex so it took her time to remember how. They also sung Diamonds, a cover of a song by the classic girl rock group Princess Princess. And Aichan's mom loves the song which Aichan covered as a solo, Yamaguchi Momoe's Cosmos. She worked hard to prepare for it, Tsunku guiding her on details as fine as which angle at which to hold the microphone. The song is sung at a difficult low pitch, so she was relieved when fans complimented her on it at the handshake event afterwards. Unlike the dance songs MM performs, a song like Yamaguchi's calls for more subtle motion; the expression on your face, the movement of your hand. Aichan thinks she could do better if she had more time. Her satisfaction with the concert was 70%.

English phrase... "What's new?" Her English teacher begins lessons by asking her this.

In the Tettekete corner she gives advice on gymnastics, which can be scary if you're just learning how. There was a time when she was trying to learn backwards somersaults. Also, back in elementary school she took a bad fall playing on the horizontal bar (I think) and needed five stiches below her lip.

Aichan recently changed her hair black, and then brown again. It seems she has been told that brown is better on her, but she is aware that there are fans who prefer her hair black.