The End of An Era

Michishige Sayumi

 With the recent announcement that Michishige Sayumi was graduating from Morning Musume, I feel like the book has finally closed on one of my more favorite J-pop artists. Shigechan was the last member still in the group that I knew of, once she's gone, the group will be completely made up of members I don't know and they will be 100% a "new" group to me...
   I got into Morning Musume roughly by the time the "Generation 2" was in full swing (about 1999) and though the members would routinely graduate and get replaced, there were always members I knew and liked no matter which incarnation was current, but I have to say that after Kusumi Koharu joined, I really didn't pay that much attention to the various new members joining. I still liked their songs and would occasionally download a few of them, but the days of me maniacally watching all of their shows and learning all the members and their personalities were long gone.
 There was a time there when Shigechan was my favorite member of Morning Musume, taking the place of Ishikawa Rika when she graduated, who took the place of Goto Maki when she graduated, who took the place of Ishiguro Aya when she left, LOL. Her cute and adorable antics  simply killed me, (especially in the Hello Project News Segments) and in fact, until very recently Sayumin's recorded voice soundbites were still the sounds for all my computer alarms! Sweet Shigechan, she'll be missed!
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Oh, Shigechan, You So Funny

Okay, Okay, I don’t really know if Shigechan was the one filling out these hilariously cute “guesses" at how to spell numbers (I see Reina and some other girl at the podium who could also be culprits), but when I saw this screencap up on a forum, I instantly smiled and thought “That’s Classic Sayumin!”
 Ya gotta love the guesswork that went on here- there IS a certain logic that if 10 is written TEN, then why couldn’t 100 be written TEEN and 1000 written TEEEN?  And I love that Eight is spelled the way Kanjani Eight spells it in their EITO RANGER movies! Hahaha, Just Adorable!

*Thanks to the original poster of this pic!

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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

A Cute Reminder

Watching the sassy and adorable antics of utterly narcissistic Michishige "Shige-chan" Sayumi on Himitsu No Arashi reminds me of why I liked her so much back in the day...choo kawaii