In the beginning I didn't really pay much attention to A-rin as well, since the princess-like character is quite common among other idols but after a while she did grew on me the more i watch their shows. Her family relationship is just... unique and interesting. Plus she's pretty good in her MC skills too.

But the song Datte~ A-rin nandamon just blew my mind away. /jump That's is just one level higher than anything else I have ever seen. It's just so freaking adorable and the call chants are just so unique!

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You're not the only one, MTE /yup

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yeah, she's so out of key when performing that song. But she's good when singing Hashire at the beginning. Lack or practice + nervous. Even Kanako missed the timing.

At YokoAri Panorama the stage was symmetrical so they had trouble orienting themselves, especially in the dark, like during their own glowstick waving in Hashire. Aarin got the idea that while the whole room will be full of glowsticks, the left center will have a dark spot where the audio engineers put up their consoles. This became the reference point. The middle guy just can't get over how awesome her thinking was.

How moe can Ahrin get? /rofl

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Compared to what she used to look like /nyahaha

I don't know, probably the costume

Ahrin is probably my least favorite member, but that doesn't mean I don't like her. I simply don't care for her princess persona and cutesy singing style. When she steps out of her "idol" character she's pretty nice with a beautiful rich voice. She also has a lot of self-confidence. I watched some videos of her in her pre-MomoClo years and even at age 10 or 11 she was already "Ahrin dayoo!" For a girl who is now just barely in her late teens I admire the total command she has over a large audience of primarily older men all shouting her name.

She seems to be turning into a big art lover. Her latest blog mentions a couple of museum exhibitions she visited this year. Google made its usual mess of the translation, but this line made perfect sense to me:

"The moment I saw, I drank the breath."

This upon viewing Vermeer's "Girl With A Pearl Earring." That painting had the same effect on me.

asan said:

I'm not sure what that effect would be. The correct translation is "took my breath away".

Come on asan, lighten up a little and use your imagination. That's exactly the effect I mean, and I knew that was what Ahrin meant. "I drank the breath" may be a poor translation, but with a little poetic application it captures the feeling quite vividly. But I view the world artistically rather than literally anyway, so something like this would catch my attention. Anyway, never mind that, it's nice to learn that Ahrin has such an interest in art.

A long interview of A-rin is placed in the released magazine next week.
「力が足りてないから理想のレベルを落とすんじゃなくて、
揺るがない理想に向かって、進んでいかなくちゃいけない」


http://www.ohtabooks.com/quickjapan/backnumber/vol104/2012/10/02161603.html

【ももクロ新ユニット誕生！その名は『あーりんやす』】


A-rinyasu /rofl