December is here

Well December is almost here and i'm hoping that HelloStoreUSA will get all of our holiday orders in soon. If you remember my original post My First HelloStoreUSA Order, I bought like 11 items and it totaled alot of money lol. I'll be getting my first member's shirts, Koharu's and Reina's, a bunch of photos and other goods.

Also Christmas is coming too, I have to send Christmas cards to a couple friends soon. All of the cards are going to Germany to a couple German friends I have known for a while now, I've known Chris for 2 and a half years, he's been a great friend, runs Morning Musume Fan Club Germany and likes Sayu just as much as I do. Kana is a great friend too, she has been my friend about a year and a half I think. She helps me out with some of my troubles when I feel down and is just a good person to talk to. She likes Sayu too and I hope that one day I will meet Kana in Germany.

I'm still deciding what I want for Christmas, i'm thinking of a Wii, and possibly a GPS device for my car, i'm still sorting that all out.

My New York meetup with Moze is coming up in a week, i'm sure to have a good time with him again. I'll hope to find current titles of Japanese magazines if I can, or i'll have to get them off amazon japan. Maybe i'll show off one of my MM concert shirts too while i'm there.

Guess thats all for now.

Back to New York soon

It so happens that i'm going back to New York City again soon, but with a few changes in store when I get there. The first thing is that unfortuately, Asahiya closed on October 31 and that was the place that kept up with Japanese magazines, I always went there to get the current issues of the magazines I like, mostly tech and games. I guess the second is that there are only 2 major places left, Book Off and Kinokuniya, ok maybe 3 but thats the Japanese grocery store Dainobu which I discovered back in August selling Japanese food, candy, gum, etc. you name it.

Also, if his schedule works, I will be meeting with Mozenator again, if you remember my last post My Day with Mozenator, I talked about the first time I met him and he was one of the MM fans along with Paul, Zac and all the others that went to Anime Expo to see MM. He's a nice guy, the only place he knew about before I tagged along was the Book Off. He knew partially about Kinokuniya, and didn't know about Asahiya or Dainobu. He bought a couple things in Asahiya before it closed and bought some Japanese snacks along with me at Dainobu. Hopefully Moze will see this soon and remember all that lol (i'm sure he remembers).

I guess the last thing is that I hope MM comes here someday, but the New York Anime Festival held it's last convention ever back in September and the second most attended Con is Otakon which is on the east coast in Baltimore MD, but here's hoping they will come to the east coast next.

Koharu

The time is almost near for Koharu's graduation, it takes place on 12/6 at the fall MM concert finale. Koharu goes all the way back to 2005 when she was the only one that won the 7th gen audition. Right from the start she started to become a great singer and also all the craziness since Hello Morning was still on at the time and she did some skits on the show.

For me, Koharu was one of my favorite members alongside Sayu because they sort of became the "cute duo". Sayu was Koharu's mentor in the beginning probably giving her all these pointers on becoming cute and stuff. I guess as a parting item, I finally pre-ordered Koharu's shirt from the Nine Smile concert since it will be the only shirt of her's I will have.

Lets wish Koharu well with her modelling career, do you have a farewell message for her? You can put it in the comments, also other comments are welcome too.

Today's MM item batch from Ohta

UPDATE 4th November: The MM poster arrived today and it looks really cool:



I got my first batch of MM items from Ohta today:





I ordered the concert shirt with photoset, the MM group photoset A and poster (Not Pictured). The poster was sent separately and is not here yet. I'll post a picture of it in this post when I receive it.

My first HelloStoreUSA order

Last night came the big news that I was waiting for, the ability to preorder items from HelloStoreUSA. I woke up this morning to find this out and I immediately went there to preorder lots of items.

$190 has to be the most I have ever spent on MM items. My other friend CatchFiveBats spent much more when it first open, $350. There will be some new items into my collection, not one but two member shirts and a microfiber towel.

You can preorder right now, but ONLY until the 15th of November, please read the info here: http://www.hellostoreusa.com/holiday-pre-order-information.html