New Kenshuusei unit Tsubaki Factory - 1st indies single "Seishun Manmannaka!" 9/6

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

Not only do the two Ogatas have the same last name, but they even look really similar. *^*
But their voices are not at all.

-edit b/c I don't wanna have to make a whole new post-
Also, (as starra mentioned), I do know that they are not related.
'Das all. xD

[Starra]

^Before anyone goes "WHAT IF THEY'RE RELATED?????", they use different kanji. 尾形 vs 小片.

[321BreakinOut]

Their voices

[sada*]

The performance wasn't that bad.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Going only on those pictures of them in-action, I think they work together very well visually. I was pleasantly surprised scrolling through and seeing the pictures. The way they look together definitely gives off a different vibe than Kobushi for me, which will make it even more interesting/fun to see them develop side by side.

The performance didn't seem too bad. I'll be waiting to see if their improvement and further meshing as a group comes as quickly as it seemed to for Country Girls and Kobushi (though they did both have semi-immediate projects/goals to prepare for, which I think helped them along quite a bit).

[Starra]

I assume they went with that song because it was something simple and they didn't have much time to prepare a performance. In the announcement video they were all like "we don't have much time to get ready but we hope to put on a wonderful performance", so they probably didn't want to do anything with an intense dance or whatever.

It does seem weird that they didn't choose some kind of H!P song since all the other KSS were singing H!P songs, but...

[Mixi]

I wonder if the Factories won't just end up like THE Possible. They're an egg group that was promoted in H!P concerts, but never actually debuted in H!P. I know Kobushi appears on the H!P website and all, but you never know.

[forgetmenots]

I like that Tsubaki have this overall "lady-like" image with these girls and voices that do well with pop-y sounds. It's a great contrast with Kobushi being full of "characters" and more rough-and-tumble rock.

And the performance was perfectly fine lol. Especially considering how little they had time to practice. They're at the exact level they should be at, much better than the fresh non-KSS Morning Musume member level, but not yet at the "I am a major debuted band" level.

[321BreakinOut]

It's like the new C-ute and Kobushi is Berryz

[bisuketto]

^Funny you said that because the other day I thought to myself "The Middle Management would have been a great Berryz song." I could totally picture Berryz singing it.