Airi Suzuki: A little of this and that....

 C-ute announced their disbandment back in August, four months have really flown by. It won't be happening until June of next year but have a sad feeling that date is going to be here way too soon. Haven't heard any news yet but would think there will be a final single, perhaps some photobooks from a few members but have heard there will be a Spring tour.
 Airi is way overdue for a PB as her last one was released in April of 2014 when she celebrated her twentieth b-day. Was planning on doing a C-ute post but there always seems to be more things of Airi than the rest of the group combined. Would imagine she'll have the nest chance of becoming a successful solo artist but the members haven't announced what their plans will be once they go their separate ways. These pics are from the January issue of Ray except for the top one, wouldn't mind her seeing her do a spread with Mai in some other mag.

 Few recent Airi cards and while she didn't make the cut for my top twenty list two members have made the top six or perhaps even top five.

 Think those two other members are much better looking than Airi who is certainly no slouch but in concert think she outshines everyone else and these are all concert pics from the year.

C-ute: Few new cards plus Tower Records mini concert pics and video

 Kind of a quiet last few days, that's okay as like some of my faves think I need a slower day too now and again. This is the only post but maybe it'll draw a few more people to view one about C-ute, for as many as I've done for them the group posts don't attract many views though the solo ones for Airi and especially Maimi are always popular.
 The group has been appearing on so many music shows as of late and have done a few promo events for their new single "Mugen Climax". Bit unsure what the actual sales figures are, Oricon after four days has the total at about 55,000 or so copies sold which means they'll sell about 65,000 for week one which is about their usual average.
 However Billboard Japan has the singles total at 96,827 copies sold, seems as though more people are following their numbers as Oricon has become quite strict on what sales they count. Meanwhile Soundscan reported sales of 90,221 and if the official total is 90.000+ it would be a new personal record for the group. The highest selling single for them has been "Arigatou ~Mugen no Yell" which has sold a bit over 73,000 copies, that was their 28th single while the new one is #30. Not many new cards have come out over the last month that I haven't posted but have a few new ones here.

 On November 4th the group appeared at Tower Records in Shibuya to promote the new single, they always do a mini concert for every release along with most other H!P groups. At the mini concert where they performed the three sings off the new single Maimi was asked who does she think will be replacing her as the leader of the Hello Project groups.
 She naturally didn't know but if it was up to her then her choice would be Ayaka Wada who is the leader of ANGERME, they were formerly called S/Mileage. Hadn't thought of her until I read that but it makes sense as she'd be a fine leader though unsure how much responsibility they do have over the groups. Plenty of pics from the mini concert here and following them is a video that all C-ute fans will enjoy from the event which includes an interview along with some of the songs.