hi! thank you for the comment on my blog, forever pommy ^_^
yeah i knew aiku was moving on to cancam, just will be sad not to see her in popteen anymore~ do you know why she's moving to cancam?

oh that's weird, cause yui kanno is already 21? i believe~
so maybe cancam gave aiku a better offer :D
but i can never really think of aiku as gyaru, she feel like more of the cute preppy kind with a wild side XD

oo! thanks for the video!! she looks so cute! <3

and also~ you have a beautiful singing voice! and your japanese is amazing! do you live in japan?

aiku always seem like the type of friend that I would to be friends with, she looks like so much fun lol

i never read a lot of cancam, but now i'll have a reason to look more into it!

do you read other japanese magazines?

oo good luck! i've always loved japan, being able to study there must be so exciting!

haha and i always think she get the better clothes in popteen, but that's just me playing favorites :P

I only got started in japanese fashion through Jpop~ i'm a huge jpop fan, but mostly of Ayumi Hamasaki! (o^_^o)
I love lolita fashion <3 especially victorian lolita~ but I love gyaru fashion too! hime-gyaru is my favorite!

oo i've never heard of that show~ but thanks so much for the link! though i have no idea what they're talking about, at least i know some of the kanji characters lol~ the show is so cute!

The JEWEL PV is absolutely classic! so gorgeous and i loved her hair during that time <3
I listen to Namie, Utada, and alan mostly :D
I also love Cpop too~ grew up with it ^_^
This shows more of who i listen to from most listened to least listened.
http://www.last.fm/user/pommy48/library

Oh! Mary Magdalene's style is so classy and I love ruffles! @_@ Wow, everything in Japan is so expensive! My brother just went to Japan last week and said everything sold for a very high price!

Haha, I always wonder for models like Tsubasa Masuwaka, just how much hair product they use to make their hair like that @_@.

Popteen always have a lot of Liz Lisa clothes on their models! Three of them are models for Liz Lisa right? I only remember Yui Kanno.
TRALALA is also another brand I love!

So do you use any kind of Japanese makeup?

Ayu always have great hair~ I loved her hair during her (miss)understood period
http://www.zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/Ayumi-mags/CDData/mag10_001/03.jpg.html
http://www.zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/Ayumi-mags/ViVi/mag15/vivi_200601_009_original.jpg.html

Oo, I like Kuu too~ I really like some of her songs, but haven't really gotten into them, though I absolutely love TABOO <3

AH! I have heard of the Wonder Girls, I have their album on my computer, but I never listened to them, but I did like Nobody? I think that was the name. I'm not that into Kpop except for Epik High, their music is addicting!

Kamikaze girls, hmm I can't say I have~

Haha yeah, I feel Japan is great when it comes to experimenting new styles, no one will look at you weirdly probably! Popteen is also a gyaru magazine, I believe it's gyaru-kei?

I love Ayu's makeup, seems to be always perfect and her eyes look so big! But I did like her makeup when she was on tour for Asia Tour 2007
http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/live/part03/33.evolution3012.jpg
Just felt really cute, like apple cheeks lol

Oh, I really like Leah's eye makeup sometimes!

Me too, that's why she's so famous in Japan, always setting off the latest trend!

Haha, lately Love Goes Like...is playing on a loop for me, some songs I love, but some I'm just like "...I will probably never listen to it again." JUICY...was umm..scarring haha!

Ah! I have watched the movie version of Kamikaze girls, I only recgonized it by its other name, Shimotsuma Monogatari
I loved the movie, I downloaded it too! I also downloaded Kyoko Fukada's photobook for that movie, so pretty!!!

ViVi is more for people around ages of 22-25, that's how I feel like. Maybe because the model just look older to me? It's more casual mixed in with mature style a bit sometimes. Cawaii is like the non-gyaru version of Popteen, not as flashy~

OO! I love her eye makeup for JEWEL haha, and Ladies night's makeup is pretty cool with all the blue glitter! XD

Haha! that's hilarious!

Oh yeah, I was really surprised when Leah announced she was pregnant, but her husband...doesn't look all that great >_>

AH! Yama Onna Kabe Onna is one of my favorite dramas, it's so funny, I watch a lot of Asian dramas! Do you?

I only buy ViVi for Ayu's Deji Deji Diary, and it's annoying because ViVi overuse their models. Only like 3 models appear in it for me @_@ Not a lot of model-variety

<3 BLUE BIRD is so pretty, the skies and beaches are gorgeous! But some of hers are really freaky like ourselves and Ladies Night

HAHA! I loved everything about that PV, so creative, though the end was extremely creepy with her turning the lights on and off, then a creepy guy appears

Oh I didn't know that, she'll have a beautiful baby hoping the baby get more of her traits and not the dad's XD
Wonder if she'll come back to the music scene?

Ah~ dramas are what I live for! I love all sorts of drama and condor heroes is one of my favorite wuxia drama! I didn't like the older version that much because the people weren't as attractive lol. Hana Yori Dango is absolutely amazing! I've watched the Taiwanese and Japanese version, now I'm watching the Korean version :D
Have you watched Hana Kimi yet?

Haha, Lena is exactly the model that's always overexposed in ViVi, so it gets annoying for me to see her page after page @_@
Ayu's Deji Deji Diary is mostly about 5 pages long and it's basically what Ayu have been doing for that month, like here!
http://www.zyrex.org/gallery/Ayumi1/Dejialbum/Deji95/

Ah! Sorry for the late reply!

I loved GREEN, but just I have a problem with the director, he also shoot many of Ayu's magazine photoshoots, and every time, Ayu always look so weird under his guidance >_<

Yeah I think so too, I can totally imagine Leah just being the gorgeous stay at home mom~

Yeah, I love Arashi! Many Japanese dramas have members of a boy band in it~ I love Arashi's "truth" a great song!
Oh yeah, I think that is the same story! She pretends to be a boy to get to see her crush, a high-jumper
I love period dramas, but I like ancient Chinese dramas, because most of the time, the outfits are rather beautiful!

I bet that Ayu didn't know that she was known all ove rthe world! Maybe that's why she was so surprised! I feel so jealous, many fans got to hug her >_

Happy Chinese New Year, wish you luck and fortune, and may your body always be in great health :D
YAY for Cow Year ;)

Oo! I have watched Kimi no Petto, Matsujun (the..dog?) was so cute in it! <3

Yeah, that's what I love about movies around those times, it's all loose and like you can float in those clothes!

Yeah! But Ayu is so popular everywhere, though I read one time that when Namie Amuro came to Taiwan, that the fans were too rowdy and her bodyguards weren't with her @_@, so she hit her hand on a glass panel..ouch

Oo! Thanks so much for the link! I really want to buy the last issue with Aiku in it~ I'll try to get it in the summer ;)

Lol, you're not nosy at all, but I'm Taiwanese :D, born and raised in Taiwan, but I live in the US now~

Oo! I have a question, haha seems like we're getting to be good friends with our back and forth blog commenting lol, but I was wondering how did you find my blog?

Haha i know, i loved Truth, but really...the dancing just ruins it for me, you should go check out one of their parodies on Youtube, I'm at school right now, so I can't get on Youtube, but just search "arashi parody we can make it", it's really hilarious!

LOL! I loved the pervy doctor~ he's amazing!! Hana Kimi is my absolute favorite drama, I watched it 12 times for like 2 weeks! I fell out of my chair so many times watching it!

I doubt Namie will ever go to Taiwan again without her bodyguards, I really would like to see her in concert one time, though I want to see Ayu a lot more! Her Asia Tour 2008 DVD just came out and I already downloaded the first disc, she's just amazing! I regret that I couldn't see her since she went to Taiwan >_<

Oo! Yeah, I just downloaded the scans and everything looks really great!

Yeah, I was more into Chinese pop, but now I'm half and half with Chinese and Japanese pop, Ayu is the first Japanese singer that I listened to, so she opened the gate for Jpop for me ;). It's a long story, but I heard Dearest in Inuyasha in 2002, but I didn't know who Ayumi Hamasaki was. I heard glitter in 2007, but I only knew her Chinese name, then I went to download some of her songs after finding a video of her on Youtube, but I only became a really big fan between the releases of GUILTY and Mirrorcle World
AH! sorry for my ramblings
So how about you, what got you started with Jpop and the whole Japanese culture?

Ah! I see ^_^, that's what I thought~

Oh yeah, I've been noticing her and she's like the mix between Aiku and Tsubasa with her bubbly personality and her big blonde hair XD

Lol! I think Matsujun is the most talented, but two of the better looking JE guys are over at KAT-TUN, Jin and Kazuya~

<3_<3 I love him! The high jumper dude, I always have a thing for good with very defined facial structure XD

Oh, I belong to an Ayu forum, so I download all my stuff from there. Haha, guess when you were watching CR, you were watching my videos, I uploaded like 500 ayu videos....then one day I wake up, and they're not there @_@ it took me so long to upload T__T

@_@ wow..6 years..such a long time! Haha, took me 5 years >_<

Oh I see, but yeah, every time I want to see news on Aiku, google just give me weird results @_@

Oh! You mean Rola? She's really pretty, I think she's...Bangladeshi? Yeah she's half Bangladeshi and half Japanese, exotic combination!

AH!! super gomen for this extremely late reply!!

haha yeah, i find kame and jin to be extremely flirty!

i haven't seen that many dramas with oguri in~ but he's a pretty great actor!

it's horrible that mostly every site is deleting ayu video, where would new fans found information on her @_@

ah~ my friend loves japanese fashion, so she told me, and i had a copy of the issue where Rola was talking about her life, so that's where i found out :D