Love at First Sight? (Favourite member stories)

[Sayange]

I saw Morning Musume on a magazine and it had opictures inside. Yuko, maki and nacchi caled my attention but suddenly, the eyes of certain girl took my eyes off the others.... and then I saw the name "Kaori"... the picture wasn't her best picture (indeed, now it is not a good pic of her) but I don't know it just happened! I think it was fate....
This is the pic...

And then, my love began... *sigh*
then I saw my first MMvideo (that live of Say Yeah!) and i identified her inmediately.... she looked so beautiful......   Since then, my love hasn't changed, just grown...

[bot]

I don't know if Mr Moonlight was good for Yossi's popularity.she had to act more boyish than she might be. At first, I think Goto was more boyish than she was (and I still think goto is definitely the most stylish/ suave in boy's roles). before her 'boy of MM' stint, she was as popular or even more popular than rika I think.

[Gimme Dem Junks]

Oh, I totally forgot that I totally hearted Miki from the beginning.  I saw her perform Aenai Nagai Nichiyoubi at one of MM's concerts and I like "   ".  


...That's the whole story.

[shirenuファクトリー]

I know there are lots of new people at the forums just itching to reply to this topic! They just don't know it's here! So *bumps it back to the top*.

[reina's eyes]

Mari was the one who popped my mm cherry. On one of their many heyheyhey appearances some years back where they gave an utterly abysmal performance by any musical standards, she stood out in the interview. What an amazing person! She made me warm to the rest of the whole mm thing, for which I'm now quite glad. And it led to a string of subsequent mm loves...

[Flyp]

I first got into MoMusu when a friend told me about Ayaka's Surprise English Lessons and linked me to some torrents.  It wasn't until a few weeks later that I went and downloaded some MM videos, starting with Mr. Moonlight and Souda! We're Alive.     In both those videos there was this one girl that really stood out in my mind, so much so that she really was the only one I paid attention to.  I screencapped and asked my friend who it was and she told me that it was Ogawa Makoto.  I've been in love with her from day 1 and she'll always be my favorite

[daigong]

Morning Musume Love most definitely Love at First Sight for me. Rolling as a bum in the summer of 2000 in Hong Kong. Tired of the Canto Pop and Brit Boyband bullshit, I tune into the local MTV channel's Japanese hour and they played a pack of MAX's "Magic" ... Ken Hirai, MISIA, and Morning Musume's "Love Machine" .. I was instantly hooked to Maki's gold locks, Ayappe's "body body" Sayaka's giant, Kaori's flailing in the wedding dress, Yuko's sexy moan, just watching the completely cheesy zany video made me an instant fan. Even though I watched like music videos from future singles incl. all the subgroups and shuffles, I had never the benefit of a JPM or IRC so didn't figure out the Hello! Project until over a year later. Never watched any of their TV programs until I got DSL two years after the fact. You noobs are so lucky!! ROFL!

I was a Maki hardcore fan at first, then Rika, and Nacchi got me hooked too. These are my favorite trio and Rika somehow sifted to the top....

Thank god I chose the right bandwagon to jump on. Imagine if I ended up a MAX fan? LMFAO

[Asmodai]

You noobs are so lucky!! ROFL!

But they miss out on the fun of spending 12 hours on Kazaa trying to download a grainy 30 second clip from Hello Morning.  

[ctz]

Actually I don't even remember how Yaguchi end up as my favorite member. At first I kind of didn't like her...

 But I remember that her name was one of the first I learned, because I thought Mari is a weird name for japanese person (Actually I hadn't heard it outside Finland, where it's quite common, before and in the west it's kinda catholic name). This was at the beginning of my jpop-fandom so I didn't know much about japanese names, just something from anime series.

The other name was Natsumi Abe, because I associated "Abe" to "ape" and I thought it was funny

[shirenuファクトリー]

ROFL I'm bumping this again.

Imma write about my favourite Berryz member, Yurina. Well, actually I have two favourite Berryz members, favourites in different ways. Yurina is the one I liked the best when I saw my first Berryz PVs and other videos, so that way it was "love at first sight". Then Maiha is the one I liked before I had even seen any Berryz videos, and I still adore her a lot because she's so weird and reminds me of myself. So I've liked them both a lot from the moment I started paying attention to them. Yurina is just so pretty and awesome that she became an instant favourite; and Maiha just somehow touched my heart (rofl, how corny) from the start. So yeah. They rock.

[ky_khor]

i hate MoMusu. Before i learned more about them, i downloaded Love Machine PV and found it disgusting -> right click -> delete -> empty recycle bin.

altho i've seen many ppl talking about H!P/MoMusu in Bunko, i don't really care about them. By that time i can only recognise Nacchi and Aibon's face.

then i saw 1 Takahashi's pic,    and decided to search more about this girl. That led me into Ai Araba PV, Sakuragumi, and Sakurasaku concert. Sakurasaku concert made me started to like their song and admit Aibon and Aichan's talent.

Fav members discovery summary
Aichan -> Aibon -> Miki -> Maki -> Rika -> Risa

[Jabronisaur]

I remeber cruising through J-list's porn archive and found a video entitled: "Love Machine", featuring Mami Goto. This skinema classic was described as being a cosplay of one the hottest girls in Jpop and was titled after the most popular pop song in Japan. Of course I had to find some pics of this Morning Musume girl (to test the validity of their supposition), as well as an .mp3 of this song. The ammount of pics and info on MM was staggering. In no time I got tons of pics and stats on everyone  upto 3rd gen. (Ironically, I had a pic of the "I Wish" group photo even before I knew of MM...I thought they were so cute and hot!) However finding a copy of  "Love Machine" proved quite challenging (I think I would have had an easier time finding the Holy Grail or the Arc of the Covenent). But in my quest I did uncover quite a few other clips and vids. And like everyone else I succumbed to the adoriblity that is Ayaka's Compulsary English Assaults. Although I was more intersted in finding more about Maki, to compare to Mami (Later however I would find that Mami looks very little like Maki, sadly), I instead found a short stack of dynamite named Yaguchi Mari. Since her attempt to tell me where the "Nyarest" subway station was, to the time she cracked her knee cap on the coffee table, I knew I was going to enjoy watching this girl. And I was right: her Tanpopo vids, DJ Mari, Mini-moni, Utaban and Hello Morning skits were thouroughly enjoyable. It seemed not to matter what she did, whatever it was, it was always entertaining. After the "Otome Pasta" PV and her PBs I never understood how people couldn't see how sexy she was...go figure. Anyhoo, I'll always have a deep spot in my heart for this lady. I miss you Mari...

Next time....Konno!

[shirenuファクトリー]

Your next time is a year late, Jab-honey

I started liking H!P Eggs when I realized that several of them are very cute.

...Well, that was a short one...

OH! Actually, I don't think I liked Momoko at all when I first wrote here. But now she's my favourite in Berryz Kobo. What happened? Well, after Maiha left I found myself wondering who my new favourite could be. Yurina didn't feel like a #1 at the moment. I think I started paying more attention to Momo because certain people I admire were saying great things about her and I wanted to know why. I mean really, I thought there was little good about Momo and she was my least favourite Berryz member at some point. But damn... When I did start noticing her, I realized all the praise she got was well deserved. She's a fricking WEIRD, cute little princess! She's got the whole attention-whoring idol thing going on. She's hilarious and easy to make fun of. Also, love or hate her voice, but it's definitely unique and nobody can take that away from her. I hated her voice at first, now I adore it. That's called Momoko Brainwashing Power (c). Anyway, it took a while, but Momo totally won me over with her charming character. Momo is made of Pro and Win.

[erink]

Back in Feburary or so I was looking for dance vidoes on Youtube. Guess what I found? Nono's suprise dancing lessons. From there I started watching more of the english lessons. Kaori imediately became my favorite with her spacing out and 'comunicating'. Tsuji will always hold a special place with me though for catching my attention. Up untill that point I had heard alot about Morning Musume, but I was never really interested(Kago scandal was going on, so there was ALOT of news.). I didn't like pop music so I just skiped over things relating to them. My how the times have changed.

[ziggurat]

Okay, here is my story. I went to my friends' room at college and saw them playing a pv "Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari" while the title that has been put there is like "emmm". I had heard about morning musume in my old day and the group name flash back to my brain. So i shout, " ZOMG! this is morning musume! So cute, WTF I want to copy this pv now!" So, from that time I have one musume pv that i keep playing on my computer until my roomate call me musume. Then, it is a semester break about 3 month, so I came home and surfing internet everyday downloading stuff. From there i keep downloading new and old musume PV everyday and burn it into 10 cds.


When the semester break finish, i brought all the musume stuff to college and start distributes it to all my friend and other people over my college network. LOL, this is really exciting because now, even I have finish my study there, morning musume is still freshly living in the heart of many friends and students there. ZOMG, I have spread the love of cute japanese girl and really make me glad. Before this, my computer only full with English stuff such as system of a down, linkin park, alizee and many more genre but now, it's all exchange with the musume love. Ok, thanks all folk.

[MyDearYossi]

Well, let's see... Should I start from the beginning?
First I didn't know what is MoMusu, but I knew MiniMoni and liked Marippe the most. But somewhere I get few MoMusu songs(Love Machine and Sakura Mankai) It took long time after that and I finally found YouTube.
So, I started to waching Ayaka's Suprise English Lessons with Marippe. Then I moved to the other members. I get to know that these girls were part of Morning Musume, but since I didn't know their names I didn't have favorite member. Altough I liked one more than the others:D
Next I saw some Hello Morning Skit and noticed a funny and good-looking girl. "Who's that? I kind of like her", were my first thought of Her. I found out that She was Yoshizawa Hitomi also known as Yossi or Yossie.
After that I decided that I had to get at least one music video of MoMusu. And suprise, suprise it was Mr. Moonlight(I didn't know Yossi was main singer before I saw it) I watched the PV. Watced it again and again. On some point I figured that I was looking only one person on the PV, who was YossiXD
I think that's the moment when I finally "decided" who is my favorite MoMusu member:heart:

[YoukaiChica]

I went over to a friend's house one day and she started playing the peace. I was like "What the crap is this?" She explained monring musume to me but without much detail. So I just nodded and pretended to care. Later, I was told that my friends each had a favorite member. So I watched another PV and they all looked the same. Except Yossi stood out. She was funny, tall and had really big eyes. So I claimed her. And then we were watching mr. moonlight and I said if Yossi ever graduated I'd pick Maki as my new favorite. They told me she had already graduated so I forgot about her. Until I found some episodes of Ayaka's surprise english lessons. She was so out there. Telling Ayaka that she wanted to learn english that would help her when she went abroad. And then saying that she wasn't going abroad. So amazing. And that's how I became obsessed with Maki. After that I had to find more and more things with her. I now blame her for my addiction to this forum and anything else H!P related.

[xxbakaboi808xx]

hello eveyone. my first love from morning musume was yagucchan. she was such an outstanding member that it was addictive. i had heard of morning musume from a friend but dismissed it and fell deeper into my old ayu addiction. but then i decided one day to look them up again and after waiting a couple HOURS to download the live performance of Say Yeah! motto miracle night, and The Peace! videos off kazaa lite....(note that this was like 4 years ago...i sadly was one of the late ones to discover the greatness of torrents...and the bunko)...but anyway i totally fell for mari. he energy, voice and size just stood out...apparently being small makes you stand out in my heart....but i eventually forgot them again....until i got hold of the infamous mecha/momusu videos. these brought me in and i have been hooked ever since....seeing the hilarious antics between yaguchi and okamura....such good memories....at the same time however...while accumulating more videos my heart began to split...forming a love for ai and risa...then slowly closing out to focus on risa....her adorable smile...and the fact that she was the same age as me made me like her....shes been simply divine lately but i also miss her old pure and childish self. then during this past year my heart has once again split to add a new up and comer....reina. looking back at her in the kusojo series.....i dont know what made her stand out toe me....but she was always on the radar since then. Watching H!M just reinforced my love for mari and risa, but it also started to raise interest in reina. her style, looks and sort of rough "yankee" appearance was appealing. Once mari left...which totally shocked and saddened me.....it was a tie between risa and reina. both had pbs out and starred in their own futarigoto and other things like that...it just made me like them both so much. however...now that i get to see more reina in the spotlight she is clearly my fave now. risa is a close second and MAY takeover if she gets a boost of airtime like reina has been gettin in the recent singles. so yea thats my story so far...so heres the recap of my MM loves....

mari -> mari+risa -> mari+risa+reina -> risa+reina -> maybe an 8th gen

.........if they stand out...(i dont see koharu as an outstanding person...sorry to those koharu lovers....)

[shadowstar]

You know what, I'm just going to quote myself from The Exotic Disco because I'm feeling lazy right now But, I added in a bit more detail.

I was staying in Japan for a bit back in 1999 (wow, I was 10 years old) and was watching some TV at the hotel room, hoping to catch Sailormoon or another cartoon. But, then the "Love Machine" PV was starting on some channel and I decided to watch it out of curiousity. I fell in love with the song, the video and of course...MAKI!

She stood out to me in terms of appearance first of all, her face (shape) was very different from the rest of the girls in the group, but in a good way of course. I guess I found her very youthful looking compared to the rest of the members (with a more round-ish face). Also, that dyed blonde hair was definitely eye-catching! She then stood out to me next in terms of vocals, again it was different in a good way and interested me because I really liked her singing. Overtime, she stood out (and still does) in many more ways!

And at the ending of the Love Machine PV, that infamous wink (and adorable curious look she gives to the guy in the PV) stole my soul forever and I've been supporting Maki the best I can, no matter what. Even if it means getting in trouble once in a while for the amount I spend buying her merchandise, haha.

[Aioros]

The ringu clip from FUN introduced me to Morning Musume. The one who caught my eye was Reina, who was simply adorable. I googled for MM and landed on the H!P website. There they were, a bunch of cute girls who got the crap scared out of them by Sadako. I thought they were actresses at first but later found out that they were singers which was cool. Also I couldn't believe how young Reina was back then. That was during the manpower days. I had to take a break from surfing the net for I had to look for a job. After almost a year, I found out about youtube an searched for MM. The first ever PV I saw was JKM which was enough to rekindle my interest in them. I checked back on their website and they were just only 10 members, Reina dyed her hair, and Eri cut her's. Reina was my ultimate favorite back then but I started liking the other members when I was able to watch episodes of H!M. Risa, Rika, Ai, Eri, Miki and just recently, Yossi, were easy to love/like. I still like Reina though. I wanted to learn more about this group and I also wanted some of their merchandise, which are almost impossible to find in our country so I joined forums to make me the fanboy I am today. After a few more weeks, I searched for Berryz in youtube and the rest is history...