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I haven't been posting or even following Maachan's weekly karaoke segments lately. This one however, interested me because she covers one of my all-time favorite singers: aiko.

YoshiKara #57: Aiko Special Karaoke Livestream


2:57～ Koi no Superbowl (2011; peaked at #4 on Oricon)
14:54～ Bye Bye! (2021, album cut from Doushitatte Tsutaerarenai Kara)
26:06～ Soushisouai (2024; #9)
38:18～ Aozora (2020; #6)
45:59～ Boyfriend (2000; #2)

aiko's indie career started in 1997, the same year that Morning Musume began, and her first charting single was in 1998, same as Morning as well.

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Sakura, an Up Up Film

In this 10 minute long video, UUG(2) Honoka is so despondent over UUG(2) Ami leaving for university that she has a psychic break and imagines herself being counseled by two sakura blossoms come to life in the form of two fairies both named Sakura (different kanji), played by UUG(2) Yuria and a non Up Up actress named Takehara Chiyo. After this mercifully brief schizophrenic episode, Hoo-chan resolves her grief and rejoins Amita.

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Young Magazine cover : Sasaki Honoka

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0D7GMY63R

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Weekly PB magazine making : Sasaki Honoka

[Zunu]

Sasaki Honoka with another performance of her Michishige-like theme song, Hoochan Queendom



I don't think we covered this song before. Here's 2 previous performances from her 17th and 18th birthdays (one video):



a livestream:



and was also included in the single for "Yumemiru 18sai"



which has "Hoochan Queendom" as a 2nd track



as well as the song "Ballad Nante Iranai" as a 3rd.