NEWS: hANGRY & ANGRY (Yoshizawa Hitomi / Ishikawa Rika), the Harajuku fashion based duo, will make their USA debut at next April's Sakura-con 2009. The event, held in Seattle, Washington, will see Yossie and Rika perform at their first non-Hawaiian USA event - how very exciting for the both of them! :D

The official USA hANGRY & ANGRY myspace site released the following press statement:

Sakura-Con to host Hangry & Angry premiere US performance!

Seattle, WA- 12-16-2008 ANCEA is pleased to announce the final headlining performers for Sakura-Con 2009. "Hangry & Angry" will make their US premiere at Sakura-Con 2009, April 10-12 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

Hangry & Angry is a collaboration with a Harajuku fashion store which goes by the same name and is the brand of popular Japanese designer h.NAOTO . Illustrator GASHICON draws the gurokawa (grotesque-cute)-style characters "Hangry" and "Angry". What is Hangry & Angry? Hangry & Angry represent a potent synthesis of fashion, illustration, fantasy and music.

The characters "Hangry" and "Angry" are said to come from the H44 Star Nebula in order to save the world from global warming. They arrived in the present in their time machine dubbed "LOVE MACHINE."

NEWS: Shocking news this afternoon as the official Hello!Project website announced the mass graduation of every Elder Club member on the 31st of March, 2009.

Graduating Members


Nakazawa Yuko, Iida Kaori, Abe Natsumi, Yasuda Kei, Yaguchi Mari


Ishikawa Rika, Yoshizawa Hitomi, Tsuji Nozomi, Konno Asami, Ogawa Makoto


Fujimoto Miki, Satoda Mai, Inaba Atsuko, Maeda Yuki


Melon Kinenbi
Saito Hitomi, Murata Megumi, Ohtani Masae, Shibata Ayumi


Miyoshi Erika, Matsuura Aya, Okada Yui


Ongaku Gatas' Eggs
Korenaga Miki, Noto Arisa, Sengoku Minami, Sawada Yuri

While the girls are graduating from Hello!Project, they will apparently still remain part of UFA and continue as artists without being idols. Whether this refers to all members is unclear at this point. The Eggs will likely remain within the Hello! Pro Eggs, other than Korenaga who graduated as an Egg since joining Ongaku Gatas.

I gotta say... This is just horrible news. To me many of these artists are who I think of when I think of H!P. How can you have H!P without Yuko or Nacchi? Mari or Kei? Crazy Johnson? The incredible 4th gen? All the soloists? Ahh, it's gonna take a bit to get my head around this. Just the other day I was ranking my fav members in H!P with a friend and they were surprised I had so many of these Elder Club members so high. I really do respect and adore these girls. They will be missed.

PREVIEW: Yoshizawa Hitomi and Ishikawa Rika's new unit HANGRY & ANGRY has their mini album Kill Me Kiss Me released on the 19th of November and the track list for the album has been released.

The album will contain the title track Kill Me Kiss Me as well as 4 other songs and will be sold though the HANGRY & ANGRY store. The album is said to come in a steel box with HANGRY & ANGRY merchandise included.

HANGRY & ANGRY 「Kill Me Kiss Me」
1. Kill Me Kiss Me
2. Angelia
3. GIZA GIZA
4. ロマンティックにバイオレンス (Romantic ni Violence)
5. WALL FLOWER

NEWS/PREVIEW: Some kick ass news tonight as a new unit is announced: Yoshizawa Hitomi and Ishikawa Rika are HANGRY & ANGRY! (images can be clicked for larger pics)

The duo take on the role of HANGRY (Yossie) and ANGRY (Rika) for HANGRY & ANGRY, a Harajuku based clothing store specializing in Punk and Gothic/Lolita styles. HANGRY prefers Punk fashion while ANGRY likes Gothic/Lolita.

HANGRY & ANGRY

The girls already have an official myspace site where you can preview their first release. I recorded a rip off of it so you can just take a listen here to their debut song Kill Me, Kiss Me.

Kill Me, Kiss Me is very different to the usual H!P song, it's pretty much unlike anything H!P has done before. I really like it, straight from the first listen. The chorus is addictive especially the Kill Me, Kiss Me bits. I love these two girls and I'm so glad that this unit has been created. I hope it isn't just a one shot and actually has some legs.

HANGRY & ANGRY's mini-album Kill Me, Kiss Me is released on the 19th of November. I cannot wait! I even redid the blog's banner for this awesome duo! Hope you all like it ^_^