Maasa's Christmas

Merry Christmas

Every year Maasa looks a bit forward to Santa's visit.
But he never comes.

Santa hasn't visited her for whole 10 years, since the 6th year of elementary, however, now he appears again for her nephew.

For Maasa, the best Christmas gift is that she gets to spend it with Berryz members.

She asks all the papas and mamas not to show the blog text to children (lol.)

http://ameblo.jp/sudou-maasa-blog/entry-11968439419.html?frm_src=thumb_module

The best condition!!

Maasa asked if all the little kids got presents from Santa yesterday.

She wishes every elementary, middle and high school students good luck with their homework.
For college students she wishes an enjoyable winter break, since there are challenges and such.
She cheers for the adults to do well in their jobs.

Berry-chans will run through these remaining 6 days of 2014 with good spirit.

Maasa will do her best in rehearsals and shootings!

http://ameblo.jp/sudou-maasa-blog/entry-11968796535.html

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Event

Berryz Koubou had a Christmas event today. It was quite a free event and there was a karaoke set on the stage for the members. Maasa had a lot of fun in the event. She'll have fun and be happy everytime she can.

For everyone that couldn't come, she says there might be a DVD release of the event. They sung a lot of songs that weren't from H!P.

http://ameblo.jp/sudou-maasa-blog/entry-11968117430.html

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Rehearsal

Today was another rehearsal for H!P's upcoming tour.

For the first time in a while Maasa is a bit confused with all the moves, since there is a lot.
She thinks the power of the children is great and doesn't want to lose to them.

Maasa also loves the t-shirts she and Yurina are wearing today.

(Photo is a mirrored version to show the awesome t-shirts!)

http://ameblo.jp/sudou-maasa-blog/entry-11967795341.html

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A Ponytail can be Cute too

In today's news, Maasa continues to be beautiful. 

I'm sure bondskizuna won't be happy that I stole such a fine post opportunity from her, but well I saw the pictures and decided to post them anyway. Bwahahaha!

It comes from her blog from yesterday where she mentions that she decided to tie her hair back for a handshake event. 

She also asks "I wonder what my hairstyle will be tomorrow? ♡"

Who knows, but I must admit that I'm sort of glad to see her start to grow her hair back out. Ikemen Maasa still looked cute, sure, but for 5 years she was the long-haired yamato nadeshiko of the group, and it took a long time to get used to that not being the case. Now that her hair is starting to grow out a bit, I can't help but wonder if she will keep the short hair she sported for 2014, or whether she'll go back to being our long-haired Maasa-hime in 2015?

Watch this space, or something...

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Tour rehearsing

In her yesterday's blog post Maasa talked about rehearsals of the H!P tour that begins on 2nd January. The tour will be Berryz' last full-H!P tour : ( Since Berryz is the senior group in Hello! Project now, with 9 years of experiencing by watching her seniors, Maasa wants to do build up a good Hello! Project for her kouhais.

http://ameblo.jp/sudou-maasa-blog/entry-11965828172.html

Photo is from Captain's blog.

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Shooting

In her recent blog post Maasa says she was in the middle of shooting for something that will be released in Hello! Shop! (most likely goods and photos)

Also said that her hair got messed up because of rain... lol
In the photo she is having her make up done.
http://ameblo.jp/sudou-maasa-blog/entry-11965337274.html

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Back to business and a new member

The Church blog seems to have been on hiatus for more than 2 years. But with a new author we hope to get this a bit more active again.

Hello everyone! I am bondskizuna and I'll be writing in this blog too from now on. I came to like Hello! Project back in 2008 but first I listened to pretty much only Morning Musume so Maasa didn't catch my eye until at around March 2011. I remember that day very clearly. While surfing through the internet I happened to find some photos from her photobook and her beauty was something extraordinary. I looked for more information of her and the rest is history. I hope to translate some of the main points from her blog texts and add them here. My Japanese is not that good so feel free to point out any mistakes!

A lot has happened in these 2 years. For example, Berryz Koubou and of course Maasa's first time in Europe, at Japan Expo on July this year. Also the unfortunate announcement of Berryz Koubou's indefinite hiatus.

Happy announcements have taken place too! Maasa has been announced to be a playing manager for Engeki Joshibu, Hello! Project's acting group.In the summer of 2014 she was the first and so far only Berryz Koubou member to get a driving license.She also revealed that she is an aunt to a 2 year old nephew, a son of her younger sister.

Let's hope that our precious Maasa stays in the spotlight even after the 3rd of March and we'll get an occasional peek at her : )

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