Eternity

As mentioned before, during the time of the Church's Revolution, The Church of Maasa does not only support Maasa anymore, but also her fellow Hello! Project comrades and close friends. Also, one of our main goals is to spread the love for her and Hello! Project - which brings Eternity into it. Eternity is a Fangroup founded by ArielSoul and Risa/Misa on Hello! Online, with their main goal to spread the Hello! Project Love over the world. 

Now they have invented this wonderful website Eternity, to make information and news accessable for everyone. Like the members of the Church, they use their own spare time to make Eternity work, which is why they needed help. I, among others, have lately advanced from a member to a member off the Emergency Staff, meaning that I have access to the News section etc.

The fact that I am an Eternity member as well as a fellow Maaist, I thought of the possibility of the two organizations to work together, the main reason for this post. I ask everyone to pay Eternity a visit, and think of becoming a member (it's free). Our current Goals are to spread News and gain members, but we also want to make Hello! Project more known international. Certain projects to do that (e.g. handing out leaflets) are currently being planned.

At this point I want to apologize for the inactiveness of the Church and will present you with another picspam♥

Bestieeeeees!

July / August -2011 Calendar Bikini Picture ♥

Again from the Calendar, in different Seifuku

Calendar Yukata Outfit (not from the Original Calendar) sooo lovely. Although I would have prefered her with bangs, the color of the Yukata suits her, feminine as well as strong, cute hairstyle as well. Thank you, stylist. 

24th Single "Shining Power" Group Artist picture.  Why did they give the exact same hairstyle to our holy one as in Tomodachi wa Tomodachi nanda? O__O

Again the Calendar's Seifuku. Isn't she lovely?

May Maasa be with you.

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Maasa in Berryz' new set

This latest picture set of Berryz has caused a lot of picture comments, bumps and fascination on Hello! Online, which made me think of sharing it here, because I personally am also very fascinated by this beauty. So please enjoy this picture in two versions:

May Maasa be with you, bringing light into darkness. And I'd like to ask a question which can easily be answered in comments: Which of the two versions do you prefer? The first one, with a mild light added to it which makes it glow softly, or the second, natural one (which was probably photoshopped too).

Love, Keksi*Choc

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Berryz Koubou Summer Concert Tour 2010 ~Umi no Ie Otakebi House~ Ground Demo Rouka Demo Medatsu Kimi Performance

There it is!  Maasa's and Yurina's duet song, latest performance!

The costumes are... well. I think the designer didn't work very hard on that, they should've made better ones! But what do costumes matter when it comes to Maasa and Yurina? The plain outfits make themselves shine even more!

They do make a nice appearance on stage, clapping along with the crowd!

Look at Maasa's shining face at 0:17! She's having so much fun, its obvious. That's not a fake smile, guys!

I really like the "Background noises" Maasa and Yurina make while the other one is in center!

0:44 is definitely a nice scene, too! It looks like Maasa wants to poke Yurina? That would be a funny thing, right?

Now that Maasa has a lot of lines to sing, it's easy to hear that she improved again lately! She sounds very strong and more constant than before!

Love their smiling faces while doing the end-pose!! ♥♥♥

Also... here is something I made for JuuIchi!

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Regarding the Light Novel Translations

 

It was never my intention from the start to have those translations permanently hosted here alongside the rest of the Church of Maasa entries. It was far too messy, and just a temporary set up until I came up with a more efficient solution.

I have played around with various ideas over the last couple of weeks, most of which didn't work anywhere near as well as I'd hoped. 

I had, for example, toyed with the idea of hosting them on the Church blog like they have been, but to provide the option to either choose to only see Church entries, or only see Ranobe translations. Or failing that, the ability to at least toggle the visibility of the translations on and off. In an ideal world, that would probably be the feature I'd be unveiling to you right now, but unfortunately I couldn't come up with a design for it that worked the way I wanted it to.

In the end, I have decided to move over all of the entries to a new blog, loosely modeled after the official blog.

The new blog is still entirely affiliated with the Church (think of it as a subsidary company and the Church being a parent company), but by actually having two seperate blogs instead of the one, it seemed to me to be far tidier and far more efficient. 

To those who have been reading the translations and commenting on them, don't worry, as your comments have also been carried over to the new blog. In fact, I'm hoping that this will help reduce the number of spam comments recieved as well.

You can find the new translations at http://ranobeblog.blogspot.com/. I've also added a list of links at the top of the right sidebar here on the Church of the latest 5 entries on the blog.

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Light Novel no Tanoshii Mikata

Once again, big news on the movie front. We have both a movie trailer, and an official release date. All our previous information on the movie can be found in these posts. But this entry is about this great new footage we have. Interesting to note that we haven't actually had any footage whatsoever from the movie or the making process. So this is our first taste of the movie.

Maasa is looking very cool throughout the trailer. An awesome scene at the very start shows her making her way through a school hallway with all of the other students moving out of her way. Then followed by a clip of her beating someone up with (what would appear to be) a Kendo Bokutou. A very cool character. Contrasted by the way she appears in the other half of the trailer as she dates the classmate in order to gain inspiration for her book and, at times, looks quite awkward, but others you really see the Maasa we all know and love in her character.

Maasa of course looks great in all the costumes we see her in. Not to mention how well acted it seemed to be. I know some people had doubts as Maasa wasn't exactly known for extraordinary acting ability, but if we are just going off the trailer, I reckon that this will be a performance to remember.

The movie, featuring our own Maasa (as well as former H!P egg Noto Arisa) will release in theatres across Japan on the 4th of December. If you are in Japan for that week, I implore you to visit a nearby cinema and watch our Holy Mother on screen!

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Birthday Pictures

As my dear friend Garlix requested, I will give you another PicSpam!

Since I am not at home I have to search for all the pictures on the Internet, and may not be able to upload my favorite selection. My apologies for that!

Now, please enjoy!

(Symbolizing the alliance with the Captainist Party. Maasa obviously approves.)

Once, again, Happy Late Birthday!

They may not be rare, but they are still beautiful.

(This is not a question)

May Maasa be with you, bringing light into darkness.

Keksi*Choc

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Happy birthday, Maasa!

Brothers, Sisters, Comrades, the day has come! The greatest day of the year where kindness is given unto your fellow man, and you are rewarded with beauty given unto you by the Great Sudou Herself!

This day, July the third is the anniversary of the corporeal incarnation of the Maasa.

On this exact day, July the third, in the year of our Mama, two thousand ten, Maasa celebrates the 18th anniversary of Her birth.

At this time, I would like to lead a prayer with quote from the Maasaist Scripture, Genesis 1:1-1:6:

In the beginning Tsunku created the Hello! Project and the Kids.

And the Kids were without form, and a great mass. And the Spirit of Maa moved upon the face of the Workshop.

And Maasa said, "Let there be dvds!" and lo there were dvds.

And Maasa was in the dvds, and the dvds were good: And Tsunku divided the Workshop from the Kids.

And Tsunku called the Workshop Berryz, and the Kids C-ute. And the third of March was Berryz day.

And so it was so.

Happy birthday, Maasa!

May you continue to shine brilliantly, whether from the sidelines, from the back, or in the front.

I will end with a link to one of the greatest videos ever made: The Maasa version of Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance (uploaded to youtube by our own Dran).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggSBoWtwNlU

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