Goodbye 2017, Hello 2018
If I had to describe the year of 2017, I would describe it as me being a failure. I failed a blogging, writing in general, failed a good couple of my classes during the autumn semester (which was not great.. made me pretty depressed this month). The year has been both physically and mentally exhausting/painful for me. I won't go into to much detail about that, maybe I'll talk about it in my diary blog. I'll have a new year's reflection of myself personally published either later today or tomorrow. But the main point is, I may be a failure but I will not stop blogging. /whacked;
Usually, this is the part where I share my page views or something to show my gratitude towards everyone who has visited my blog either only once simply for the large amount of gifs I used to post or for others who are devoted follows.
So what else should I say about the new year? Oh right, Genki Pika Pika! ☆ turned five years-old this year! Mind. Blown. My blog is completely out of the toddler stage now. I've been in this blogging thing for five years now and it's really great~ I'm not the best blogger out there (maybe I'm one of the worse /shrugs; ). However, being able to have this blog was really fun. It helped me with my writing, I'm able to share my thoughts on something I love so much, I get to know other blogs. Here's to five more years of blogging! Whoo!
J-pop as a whole this year isn't technically good nor bad. It's a very good in-between. Granted, there's been some pretty boring songs. However, there were a lot of songs that I really really loved this year. For the longest time, I've been kinda stuck in this Johnny's-Hello! Project sort of bubble and rarely ever reaching out to other artists (let alone, outside of the Jpop-bubblegum pop genre as a whole) aside from certain ones like AAA or Da-iCE and occassionally the 48/46 family. However, I really wanted to go outside of that whole idol bubble and listen to other artists. This year I listened to a lot of Yonezu Kenshi, Suda Masaki, Namie Amuro (the queen), and others.
I'm still within that idol bubble, but I made progress and I feel proud of myself.
So now comes the part where I talk about last year's wishes and the like!
Please note that I essentially copied and paste from last year's entry.
Wishes;
- For the B-Sides in H!P music to COME BACK. (still waiting for it)
- For Kudou Haruka to become center in Morning Musume (I'm biased, I love her).
- For Morning Musume to actually release an album! It's been awhile...
- For ºC-ute to release another album (not their final best album) before disbanding!
- For Sexy Zone to release some GOOD music as 5 members only.
- For Matsushima Sou to star in a drama.
PLEAAAAAAAAAASE. I BEG YOU. GIVE HIM A DRAMA.
- Less graduations and less auditions for Hello! Project this year
- More good Japanese dramas! I need to watch mooooooore.
- For Houkago Princess to release a full-length album! I really want it!
- Just for a lot of really good J-pop music to be released~
B-sides in Hello! Project still aren't back. There were a few singles that had B-sides like Morning Musume, but there were songs that were already released? It felt more like a triple A-side single in a sense. I think it's time to finally admit that they're never going to come back in Hello! Project. Those are the days of old. By anyways, Morning Musume did finally release a new album after like y e a r s and right before Duu graduated from the group-
Oh yeah, that also happened. She graduated. I'm so sad and I'm more pissed off at myself for never finishing appreciation week. I will finish it in the next year, I will! She was my ultimate bias in Hello! Project as a whole and I'm doing this for her. Speaking of graduations, damn- Hello! Project has had a pretty shxtty year with so many departures especially in Kobushi. I pray that those girls are able to pull through and become the next ºC-ute.
Some other wishes didn't really come true like ˚C-ute releasing a tenth album before their final best album prior to disbanding or Sou starring in a drama (it didn't have to be a drama where he's the main. Even one of those school dramas could work!). Yet, my son did get another solo song and it's in my top 20~ Ayy~ Houkago Princess did released their debut album this year and there was a lot of good music that was released. Hell, I even watched a lot more Japanese dramas this year like Doctor X 5, Peach Girl 2017 live-action, Gintama (which was pretty damn good), Chihayafuru! And I also watched a lot of Kamen Rider Exaid. I will never be able to have fun with Kamen Rider like that ever again. /cries;
Now, I'm just gonna list my wishes for 2018~ Please come true.
☆ Wishes for 2018 ☆
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ Suda Masaki to release more music! He has potential!
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ Houkago Princess to release a Rapunzel/Sleeping Beauty theme single!
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ Hey! Say! JUMP to continue with the streak of amazing singles!
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ A brand-new Johnny's group to debut! Or debuting Six Tones!
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ At least less than 5 departures from Hello! Project for the year overall.
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ More beautiful songs from Kuraki Mai!
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ To get into Keyaki46 and Nogi46 more! Music is good!
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ Matsushima Sou to star in the drama, no matter what role (please)
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ Kudo Haruka to star in a good amount of works! Or be in Lupinranger???
Those are my wishes for the year of 2018. But what about my own goals??
☆ Goals for 2018 ☆
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ Starting blogging more! Post a variety of entries like rankings!
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ Listen to even more Japanese music outside of pop music genre
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ Watch even more Japanese dramas!
(੭•̀ω•́)੭̸*✩⁺˚ At a minimum of 18 entries for the year overall. Let's do it!
I think this will be enough for the year of 2018. I can't wait for the new year to start, I know for sure we are all done with 2017 as a whole. Let's just hope the upcoming year won't be too bad. That's all for this post. Happy New Year! Until my next post, jyaa ne~
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