oh thank you Stryfe!
i couldn't get in and started watching genki+ instead... that was pretty good!
EDITxxx: dohhhup is behaving now

koharu is looking good... and really okada yui!
niigaki looks different but good different... especially in the shot with mitsui.
linlin looks good as i remembered
i sometimes mix her up with eri in the dance shots
speaking of whom, i love her line. it should go into the best lines thread.
she also has my vote for most heartbreaking 'baka'
junjun looks better than i remembered. bwhahaha
reina is totally hamming up the baka parts
they're barefoot!
the 'simple simon' part with koharu is so cute and cool in an H!P way
with this choreo i'm quite glad fujimoto's not here.... can just see her mangling the circa 1:49 dance move and making it look really geriatric
people like to complain about how koharu's singing hasn't really improved and i have to agree. however, it's plain as day that her dancing is leaps and bounds better. she doesn't look half as frazzled as she did when she started out and she has tons of energy. in fact i think tsunku took in 62% aika to balance out koharu (simple calculation suggests that koharu is therefore 138%)
1:13 Please admire Takahashi's facility of movement.
i don't like the cutting at the ending.
junjun looking possessed --> dance shot --> jarring Takahashi shot ala Risako in very beauty
takahashi's delayed 'baka' .... i can see egos withering!!!
she even has a personal secretary sayu (stolen from eric kamezou???)
and there is the return of the takahashi profile into dark expanse shot from irojire.
in conclusion, glory glory takahashi!!!!