My baby sister, aged 10 (11 in April), is the perfect example of the typical American 5th grader: her favorite movies are High School Music and High School Musical 2, her favorite artist is ALY & AJ, she thinks Nick Jonas is the the cutest thing alive, and one day she wants to be just like Miley Cyrus or Ashley Tisdale… Oh, and she is going to be my key to introducing Morning Musume to other Americans.
See, what I’ve noticed by watching my sister and her friends is that they LOVE little Asian dollmakers–like the eLouai Candybar Dollmaker. Mainly, these games are Korean, and I refuse to let my sister get into DBSK or Super Junior, but… I can give her a little taste of Asian culture with Hello! Project. I know, the H!P Kids+Kanna seemed like the more natural choice, but I thought that since my sister likes older singers… maybe she’d like MoMusu a tiny bit better.
I gave her a small taste of Morning Musume/Hello! Project: the PVs for Kanashimi Twilight, AS FOR ONE DAY, Onna ni Sachi Are, Mikan, Tanaka Reina’s Memory Seishun no Hikari and C-ute’s Tokaikko Junjou for starters. A basic summary of her thoughts are as follows:
