Familiar Faces on Himitsu No Arashi-Chan

Mikitty, Tsubasa, Shigechan, Christina and Ai

Just watched another hilarious episode of Mannequin Five from the fine folks over at AnM Fansubs, and it was nice to see the return of two Morning Msume girls, Miki "Mikitty" Fujimoto and Sayumi "Shigechan" Michishige. Along with them came Masuwaka Tsubasa and Ai Haruna, as well as a pretty young girl I never saw before named simply "Christina", who reminded me just a bit of Namie Amuro back in her early days.


Thought it was cool to see the two mature girls Mikitty (who's turned into a fine lady) and Tusbasa kind of gavitating towards each other, clucking their tongues like den mothers while evaluating the bad clothing...

Tsubasa and Miki

 while the two young'uns Sayumin and Christina huddled  near each other, giggling together, while Ai Haruna acted as genki coach to the mob of gaggling girls.

Cuties: Sayumin and Christina

Was even MORE hilarious to see the outspoken Mikitty's sharp- barbed comments going off at some of the guys' wackier outfits.  Every summation brought forth gales of laughter from the other girls as well as the guys!

Quips from Mikitty

 When one guy shows up for a Blind Date in a BASKETBALL Uniform, Mikitty takes one look at the ensemble before snapping, "What's with HIM?!"Leave that Basketball at HOME!! To the roars of laughter from everyone else!

Miki gives scathing remarks to would-be goukon attendee

Himitsu No Arashichan is stil one of the frickin' MOST entertaining shows out there, and the Mannequin Five segment has GOT to be its crowning achievement, SOOOOO FUNNY!!!! Just take a look at the below screen cap, it's obvious how much FUN everyone is having on the show!

Tanoshii!

Was also pretty cool to be reminded of how much I love Sayumi- for a while there, she was my favorite MM member (after Aya Ishiguro and Ishikawa Rika had both departed for greener pastures) and she really had that "cute" thing DOWN! Still highly adorable!

That's my girl: Shigechan