Hellooooo! and welcome to BEYO-UP! MOOOOONTHLY, a series dedicated to quick recaps on BEYOOOOONDS’ activities, happenings, and events. This time: release season! Could it be the last time this year? Who knows! Let's just enjoy it while we still have it.
*A blog post covering the March release and all release details will be out... soon!
FEBRUARY 2022
This February was identical to last year, release season on full blast! It was a big month for BEYOOOOONDS with important announcements, reveals, and the biggest thing of all: Ichioka Reina Day.Take a look at this month’s timeline:
February 4 - OMAKE Eiyuu Waratte Chopin Reaction
February 7 - Hamkatsu Mokushiroku MV Release
February 9 - Kiyono to be absent from Hello! Project concerts
February 10 - Nishida to only participate in Hello! Project concerts as a singer
February 25 - Ichioka Reina's Birthday: Icchan comes into conflict with geography
February 25 - Nippon BUDOOOOOKAN title and date reveal
The official reveal for BEYOOOOONDS first solo performance at the venue that they've always dreamed of: Nippon Budokan! BEYOOOOONDS' first concert at Nippon Budokan 「BEYOOOOOND1St CONCERT TOUR どんと来い! BE HAPPY! at BUDOOOOOKAN!!!!!!!!!!!!」will be held on April 25th.
February 26 - OMAKE Hamkatsu Mokushiroku MV Reaction
Watch it here:
LimiSta Internet Signing Highlights
For those unfamiliar, LimiSta Internet Signings are free online signing livestreams held for lottery winners of signature purchasers. Purchasing a signature from LimiSta guarantees a signature and the opportunity to write a message to the chosen member, but a lottery is held to determine which messages are read live. Just like last year, BEYOOOOONDS' sessions are lively and bursting with new trivia! We compiled some of our highlights for this year.
Ichioka Reina & Takase Kurumi #IchiTakaShinkonSeikatsu (IchiTaka Newlywed Life)
Last year, Ichioka and Takase got married on Limista’s YouTube channel, live, for the entire world to see. We already know that a livestream is going to be good when it has to start off with a really blunt “No we haven’t divorced” declaration.
Last year, Ichioka and Takase got married on Limista’s YouTube channel, live, for the entire world to see. We already know that a livestream is going to be good when it has to start off with a really blunt “No we haven’t divorced” declaration.
Newlywed life, entailing:
Takase “This is a Ikemen Ichioka moment. When I told her that I wanted to go see this movie on this day, she casually went and bought me a ticket~”
Ichioka “I can pull stuff like that off”Fan “Please give us a recent IchiTaka episode
Takase “It might be a better idea to ask the other members rather than us. There could be times that we’re IchiTaka-ing when we don’t realize it”Takase wants to sing “Futari wa NS” with Ichioka. “I want to sing it when we reach a milestone.” What do you mean by “milestone” ?!
Kobayashi Honoka & Satoyoshi Utano #HonoUta
Context: Satoyoshi started learning to play the bass and Kobayashi suggests... Kobayashi “Let’s hold a session!”
Satoyoshi “Hold up”
During the MV shooting, Biyo managers were playing “school” with the members.
Satoyoshi “I wanna be cute… I wanna save the world…”
Kobayashi “When was Brahms’ birthday again?”
Satoyoshi “Oh no use in asking me, I only know the birthday of my beloved Suzumura Sango-chan!!”
Shimakura Rika & Hirai Miyo #RikaMiyo
To be honest, this one is really difficult to watch for any hardcore fans of Shimakura or Hirai. Their chemistry is almost too good, too real. Many things have been purposefully excluded from this highlight reel.
Ideological Conflict
- Fan: If you could buy anything in the whole wide world what would it be? Shimakura "probs an island or something" Staff & Hirai "LOL" Shimakura: "well they said we could buy anything!" Hirai "As for me, I’d get a massive bean bag" Shimakura "Huh?! But you can buy anything? You’re just gonna go with that?" Hirai "well" Hirai "Then I’d get land maybe" Shimakura "See!"
- Fan: What kind of role would you like to act someday? Shimakura (vaguely gesturing) "Something evil!" Hirai "Like a villain" Shimakura (vaguely stabbing air) "Yeah a villain! Then I’d like... Beat up one of the village people who’d be like Uu or something" (Satoyoshi Utano)
- Hirai "I still listen to your Slow Motion cover sometimes, like when I go walking." Shimakura "Oh really?" Hirai "Yup!" Shimakura "I think that your Umi no Koe was lovely too!"
Nishida Shiori & Eguchi Saya #SayaShio
Nishida"Cabbage rolls are the culmination of girl power."
Saya was forced to make a poem “While gazing at the sky, I listened to music.” (空を見ながら、音楽を聴きました)
Context: they’re both learning tennis
Eguchi “Rika also told me she’s learning”
Nishida “I wonder if we could play tennis as CHICA#TETSU”
Eguchi “Reina-chan probably can’t though? Well she can do it in her own way”
Maeda Kokoro & Hirai Miyo #TsumuHika
Kokoro is sometimes called “Kokoro-tan” ! Typically, only Takase Kurumi calls her by this nickname.
Fan: What do you like about Britain
Kokoro "..the flag is nice!!"Miyo “Koko-chan smells good!!!!!!!”
Okamura Minami & Kiyono Momohime #MiiMomo
Best friends from day one, #MiiMomo is the loudest livestream yet!
Momohime has obtained Kanazawa Tomoko's contact info
Okamura “Okay that’s scary”
Kiyono “Oh but it’s legal”
Kiyono “I told her ‘I’ll do my best on BeyoDoyo!’ but she didn’t see it. Tomoko-san if I’m in your ‘You might know’ list please add me!!!”
MiiMomo Misc.
Kiyono “I want to meet up with [Kanazawa] Tomoko-san. I got her contact information
Okamura “I also like my smile when I’m with Hime”
They want to do a MiiMomo FC Event! And they also want to sleep on the stage…?
As of 2/21/2022: Okamura is 162cm tall. Kiyono is 158cm.
Ichioka Reina & Nishida Shiori #IchitoNi
They did a goat and sheep pose for screenshot time. Icchan’s take on “sheep” is amazing.
Ichioka “I wanna go to Hong Kong! There’s that thing, right, the Merlion~” and yet she thought goats were just sheared sheep. Maybe she thinks it's real.
Nishida “Apparently there’s also a Tsubaki Factory livestream going on at the moment. Please follow along with two devices”
Icchan has been abbreviating “screenshot” as “shukusho” (instead of “sukusho”)
Takase Kurumi & Satoyoshi Utano #KuruUu no Amai Hitotoki (KuruUu's Sweet Moments)
The atmosphere when this pairing together feels like a fairy wonderland. Kudos to the staff, really.
- Something we can confidently confirm. Uutan makes a lot of weird noises in this one.
- Their Mukatsuku! Moments:
Takase “I can’t decide how to style my bangs”
Satoyoshi “The Earth. It’s too dry.”
Shimakura Rika & Yamazaki Yuhane #RikachunNigete (RikachunRunAway)
This one is the must-watch for all fans. Watch Yamazaki be creepy for an hour. Watch Shimakura be uncomfortable for an hour. A guide on how to not treat your friend of many years.
Date (?) planning
- Shimakura “Let’s go somewhere with everyone!”
Yamazaki “Let’s go somewhere with just the two of us.”
Shimakura “Let’s go to the convenience store.”
- Shimakura, imitating wota “Since the day I met Yuha I’ve been Yuhappy everyday!”
Yamazaki “I’m so happy~ Guys I think she likes me now.”
Pan to Shimakura. Smiling. But eyes completely dead.
- Shimakura “I get LINE texts from you in the middle of the night that don’t really mean anything. Why?”
Yamazaki “Because I’m experimenting.”
Shimakura “That’s scary!!!”
Eguchi Saya & Okamura Minami #SayaMiimi
Live on Cat Day, Saya and Miimi join forces to create the cutest livestream ever recorded in history!
If BEYOOOOONDS were to go to USJ...
- Okamura “I wanna go to Harry Potter with everyone!”
Eguchi “I wanna do that too!”
Okamura “And then split everyone into four houses~”
Eguchi “Oh.. And only Rika would be Spiderman”
- Eguchi “I’ve been learning the piano since I was little. I mastered all instruments at elementary school music concerts. Xylophone, rebar, organ, synthesizer, and accordion. In junior high, I played clarinet in the brass band club. I also have a guitar at home that I practice. It’s pretty unexpected, but I can play a lot of things”
Maeda Kokoro & Yamazaki Yuhane #YuhaKokoChojoKessen (Yuhakoko's Ultimate Battle)
The Ultimate Battle between the two total airheads! There was a lot of trouble reading kanji during this one. We didn't expect anything less. Their efforts are really endearing.
Koko thought that the 2nd R of RFRO (the abbreviation of their group name, by the way) stood for “Roger”
- The best food they had on their Asakusa Date
Yamazaki “Cheese menchi katsu!”
Maeda “Scones!”
Kiyono Momohime & Kobayashi Honoka #HonoHime
The musical super duo! This one is pThe musical super duo! Momohime is a big fan of Honoka, the greatest fan of them all. While the admiration always seems to be one-sided... That might not be the case! What Kiyono likes about Kobayashi
- Always cute and probably will be for the rest of her life
- Can do everything with ease
What Kobayashi likes about Kiyono
- Always cute.
- Is always able to think for herself
- Always thinks about the fans
A pianist she recommends
- Kobayashi “Martha Angerich.” Kiyono “She told me that everyone should listen to her because she used the Heroic Polonaise as a reference!”
In response to someone who has never been to a BEYOOOOONDS concert
- Kobayashi “You should definitely come see us. If you aren’t careful, you’ll fly away.”
Closing
We're closing off now, so here's what to look out for in March..
- Space Shower TV PLUS BEYOOOOONDS Special will have its first airing on March 12th! More details here
- Yamazaki Yuhane Hello! Project 1001 Nights Talk Event to be held on March 24th. Send in a question to Yuhane and receive a large photo as a purchasing bonus! More details here
We hope that you enjoyed this issue! We'll be back pretty soon to cover the release season and the contents of the Space Shower Special! Best of luck to those participating in WithLIVE Online Talks in the coming week.
pssst author here. everything is crazy. thank you for the feedback on last month's issue!
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