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Blog appearances, “Hello! Station #48”
▪Berryz Koubou’s Saki Shimizu and former Hello! Project soloist Erina Mano posted 2-shots with Maimi from the Hello! Project “COUNTDOWN LIVE” in updates on their official blogs.
▪”Hello! Station” episode 48 has been uploaded to the Hello! Station channel and includes New Year’s comments from ℃-ute as well as a clip of the Hello! Station Dance Club practice and a comment about the group from Maimi.
Maimi Sightings for February 3rd
Fellow ℃-ute member Suzuki Airi shared this ℃-ute group shot in an update on the official ℃-ute blog.
Morning Musume’s Michishige Sayumi uploaded these pictures that happened to feature Maimi in a post about Mano Erina on her official GREE blog.
“Idol Hour Hello! Project” host Okamura Yuriko attached this 2-shot with Maimi to an update on her official blog. Miss Okamura wrote that she thinks Maimi is really, really cute and reminds her of the artist “Priscilla Ahn”. When she told Maimi this, Maimi responded that she had played some of Priscilla’s music on her radio program before.
Check out blog!project for full translations of the other ℃-ute and Hello! Project members’ blog updates.
Maimi Sightings for January 15th
Fellow ℃-ute member Suzuki Airi shared these 2-shots with Maimi in her update on the official ℃-ute blog today, and wrote about the two’s misadventures when they tried to find somewhere in Shibuya to eat during their downtime.
Hello! Project soloist Mano Erina shared this 3-shot with herself, Maimi, and Nakajima Saki in an update on her official blog.
The futsal section of the Japanese Adidas shop updated with a header featuring Maimi along with Up Up Girls member and Gatas Brilhantes H.P. teammate Sengoku Minami.
Check out blog!project for full translations of the other ℃-ute and Hello! Project members’ blog updates.
Maimi Sightings for January 7th
Hello! Project soloist Mano Erina shared this 3-shot with the two people who she loves, Maimi and Tsugunaga Momoko, in an update on her official blog. Mano explained that she was expressing her gratitude with her pose, and Maimi and Momo were expressing their sadness that it’s Mano’s final Hello! Project concert tour.
Check out blog!project for full translations of the other ℃-ute and Hello! Project members’ blog updates.
Maimi Sightings for November 20th
Hello! Project soloist Mano Erina shared this 2-shot with Maimi from their earlier “UTB” photoshoot together in an update on her official blog.
The GekiPro blog uploaded this picture of Maimi in a report from the play’s practice hall the day before its opening.
Check out blog!project for full translations of the other ℃-ute and Hello! Project members’ blog updates.
Maimi Sightings for October 15th
Hello! Project soloist Mano Erina uploaded on her official blog this 2-shot with Maimi from their photoshoot for the magazine “girls!” today.
Articles on the Cinema Today and Crank In websites on the long-delayed opening of Maimi’s comedy/horror movie “Zomvideo” came with a new still from the movie featuring Maimi’s character covered in blood and disapatching a member of the undead legion.
Check out blog!project for full translations of the other ℃-ute and Hello! Project members’ blog updates.
Maimi Sightings for August 16th
Fellow ℃-ute member Hagiwara Mai shared this 2-shot with Maimi in their “CAT’S♥EYE” outfits in her update on the official ℃-ute blog, and wrote that she was impressed with how quickly Maimi finished her drink when the two of them went to see “Umizaru”.
Graduating Hello! Project soloist Mano Erina posted this 3-shot with Maimi and Berryz Koubou’s Shimizu Saki from when they went to see her play “Usani” in an update on her official blog.
Shimizu Saki also posted a version of the 3-shot in an update on her solo blog.
The following shots of Maimi from the practice for the play “CAT’S♥EYE” were featured in an entry on the Gekipro blog.
Check out blog!project for full translations of the other ℃-ute and Hello! Project members’ blog updates.
Maimi promotes “Hello! Channel vol.9”
Maimi and Hello! Project soloist Mano Erina promote the 9th volume of the mook “Hello! Channel”, to be released on 7/18, in a video uploaded to the TheTelevisionCH YouTube channel. In their segment together, the girls spend time in Edo Shitamachi dressed in yukata, and make things, eat various food, go various places, and as Maimi jokes, make it rain. A second video, which can be seen here, was uploaded where the girls announce that photos from their shoot together will also be made into an “Ugoku!! Shashinshu” app, similar in nature to Maimi’s solo photobook app released a short while ago, “Awa Awa, to“.
Maimi Sightings for 2/27
Hello! Project soloist Mano Erina uploaded a 2-shot with Maimi in an update on her official blog. In the entry titled “Date”, Mano wrote:
Today I had my first date
with the person my heart desires℃-ute’s
Yajima Maimi-chan(*´艸`)Finally
The two of us
talked a lo~t
while eating yakinikuWe’re the same age,
our mindset’s the same,
and our conversation didn’t stop, didn’t stopIt’s the first time
we could talk this much~I was happy(*^ー^*)
Maimi-chan,
thanks(｡･∀･｡)ﾉ
Maimi Sightings for 2/16
Hello! Project soloist Mano Erina uploaded this 3-shot with Maimi and Nacky in an update on her official blog yesterday.
Check out blog!project for full translations of the other ℃-ute and Hello! Project members’ blog updates.
Blog update: “Moved”
Here’s the translation for Maimi’s 1/10 blog update, titled “Moved
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The update was written in the afternoon.
I apologize for the late update.Good afternoon
It’s MaimiThe comments congratulating me on the coming-of-age ceremony made me really happy
As soon as I posted the blog, the number of comments increased with amazing force, so I was surprised
When I read them, there were a lot of messages of congratulations
There were also people who posted for the first time who said “Because it’s the day to congratulate you on the coming-of-age ceremony
“
There are a lot of people like this who read my blog…
When I read the comments, there were people who wrote they were as happy as if it was their coming-of-age ceremony… and people who wrote they were happier
and I was moved by everyone’s kindness
Thank you so very much
Ah, I’m happy(*^^*)
I’ll be 20 in one more month
There’s only a little time left I can be a teenager,and while feeling various emotions and treating every day importantly,
though I’ll occasionally I’ll really worry,
and I’ll feel down,it will be nice if I can pass the days brightly and happily… I feel
Everyone, please continue to take care of me
Now then, today are pictures of everyone in the same class (those who took part in the coming-of-age ceremony)
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First is Mano Erina-chan
Of the members I’m attaching today, Mano-chan is the oldest
As expected, there are a lot of times I think “Even though we’re the same grade, she’s an adult~(
Next is Berryz Koubou’s Shimizu Saki-chan
This is one of my favorite pictures of Saki, and though I’ve constantly thought “I will upload itI will upload it
Her level-headed but needy character is cuteIt feels like she’s saying “Fight
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Last is Berryz Koubou’s Tsugunaga Momoko-chanLike me, Momo also participated in the coming-of-age ceremony at 19~
She’s a strong girl with resolveEveryone, everyone
We’ll always be the same grade
My precious friendsWell, at 7:00PM~
at the Fukuya Shoten Shinjuku Subnade store,
the release commemoration handshake event for ℃-ute’s 3rd photobook “Cutest” startsWell then, I’m off
Blog update: “Cramped… I think!?”
Here’s the translation for Maimi’s 1/4 blog update, titled “Cramped… I think!?“:
Good morning
It’s MaimiToday there is a Hello! Project concert
Yesterday there were three performances,
and I got a massage and slept, so I’m considerably refreshedDuring the night, I felt like my leg cramped and I woke up, but before I realized it, I had fallen asleep again
Though I had just finished talking about
“My legs don’t cramp while I’m sleeping~” in the dressing room with Mano-chan yesterday
Though, I slept again, so it wasn’t that painful, right
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It sounds like when Mano-chan’s leg cramps while she’s sleeping, it hurts so much she can’t even yell
There was a time where she called her mother on the phone and asked for help saying “My leg cramped…”…
I’ve never had a leg cramp that painful~
When you get a lot of moisture, it seems it’s difficult to get cramps
Changing the subject, my mom made me nori-maki this morning~
I ate it during the driveIt was delicious
Well, it’s almost time to stretch
I gotta go soon
It seems there’s a lot of people starting work from today
Let’s go and tanobaru
Maimi Sightings for 12/31
Hello! Project soloist Mano Erina uploaded a 3-shot of herself with Maimi and former S/mileage and H!P member Maeda Yuuka in an entry on her official blog.
In addition, Maimi’s profile picture on the website for Gatas Brilhantes H.P., UpFront’s futsal team, was updated along with the rest of the site.
Full translations of the other members’ entries can be found at blog!project.
Blog update: “Thank you”
Here’s the translation for Maimi’s 12/31 blog update, titled “Thank you“:
Good evening
It’s MaimiIt’s New Year’s Eve
The weather was really nice today
Good weather for the end of the year… It made me happyActually, today I went to see S/mileage’s event with Mano Erina-chan
I also met Morning Musume’s Fukumura Mizuki-chan at the venue
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Today Maeda Yuuka-chan will graduate from Hello! Project.
Today was her final performance.
Yuuka has been active in Hello! Project for about 7 years,
and finally at the end of today, the curtains will close on Yuuka’s life in show business…
At the event, they showed a video from her activities as an Egg up until now.
There were also parts where she overlapped with ℃-ute,
and I couldn’t stop crying…In addition, there was also an indies song medley…
It brought back various memories of myself with Yuuka.
Though I think there were a lot of happy things and difficult things for her, Yuuka said
“Because all of the fans, I could do my best
Though she’s graduating, surely all of the fans will continue to cheer for her,
and because she’s carrying that support,
Yuuka has gotta be happyI hope that the Yuuka who loves her family will make a lot of time with them,
and always laugh…“Let’s go and eat together someday
” we promised, and surely we can meet again
Yuuka, thanks for everything
Absolutely, absolutely be happy
Last is a picture with Yuuka
(Well, in 3 hours it’ll be the new year
There were sad incidents in 2011, and it became a year where I again thought about the preciousness of life.
Naturally, more than ever, I found happiness and value in trivial things,
and so that I wouldn’t have any regrets everyday,
the feeling of “I want to have a wonderful day today tooEach and every day this year, a lot of people supported me
The other members, all of the fans, the staff, family, friends…
I have a lot of gratitude for everyone who has supported me
Everyone always says “Thank you
Like Yuuka also said, the cheering power from everyone is amazing
It gives me the power to work hard,
it makes me feel happy,…hmm… I can’t convey this feeling of gratitude in words
I will reciprocate these feelings of gratitude to everyone with full-power
And then, we had the chance to work with various groups the second half of this year
I talked about it with everyone in ℃-ute too,
but because they were experiences like we don’t normally have, new discoveries were made, and I thought “I won’t loseand though there were a lot of things I worried about, I think there were a lot of things I could do because I worried
In 2012 also, I will worry a lot and grow a lot
Please continue to support ℃-ute and Yajima Maimi next year too
Because of everyone who cheered for us in 2011, I was really happy
Thank you so very much
Let’s have a wonderful year together next year too
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Maimi, Mano to perform “Real Etude”
Maimi and Hello! Project soloist Mano Erina will be the latest members to perform in the “Real Etude: Minna no Ie” series, as announced on the Hello! Project fanclub site. “Real Etude” are a series of improvisational plays where the girls act out a real story from their household, and Mano and Maimi’s performances will be on 11/10 and 11/14, respectively.
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