Calendars!

[matataku_hoshi]

Hankyu just made an announcement about the release of the 2009 calendars, which will be on October 10th.  Along with the usual suspects, Kimu will have her own personal calendar this year.  She also makes it onto the star calendar along with the top stars and nibante.  This fact, along with a lot of other little things, only confirms my hunch that Hankyu is treating Kimu like a second nibante in yukigumi.

Kimu is on the short list of my list of favorite otokoyaku, but at the same time I hate the idea of Yumiko being passed up.  I'd like to see Yumiko get at least one show as top post-Mizu.

700 yen per personal calendar isn't bad.  Obviously I need the Kiriyan calendar, but finances depending I may need the Kimu and Touko ones too... *plots in an evil manner*

P.S. Based on the timing of the 2008 schedule release this time last year, I'm expecting an announcement about the 2009 schedule any day now.  As I've whined about before, yours truly doesn't have internet at home, meaning I can't stalk the internet every second of the day.  (I can get to Gmail and even Live Journal on my cell phone, but my phone's inability to display Japanese makes looking at the official page useless).  In any case, I expect one of you lot to e-mail me if any announcements are made :P

Comments

[caithion.livejournal.com]

Suddenly I have this vision of Kimu as Kiriyan's nibante. It's... it's just bizarre. She seems the most likely suspect to get shuffled in, though, and the lack of an Ahi calendar seems telling....

Then again, Chie was nibante for a whole year before she got her own calendar, wasn't she?

[quinquin]

But isn't Kimu the only sanbante to get a calendar? The one missing from the Tsuki line-up isn't Ahi but the non existent Top Musumeyaku.

As for Chie, since she became nibante in the spring of 2007 that was probably too late to give her a calendar that year. On the other hand Sou didn't get one this year and look what happened there...

[muffin-song.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it probably had to do with the timing of Chie starting as nibante that she didn't get a calendar. I'm interested in seeing where things go with Kimu...

[caithion.livejournal.com]

I guess I don't really feel like any alarm bells should be going off. There have been other sanbante who have gotten calendars in the past, even if they're not getting them now. And I haven't felt like Yumiko is being *passed over* for anything. I think they're just taking advantage of the AQUA5 popularity and Kimu's popularity. She's graced the back cover of Graph for a long time as an ad girl -- I think she's just well known. As a 13-ken, they certainly haven't been rushing her as they have others. ;)

....I certainly feel like Hankyu had their plans for Chie in place a long time before that spring..... XD

[quinquin]

Oh, I was reacting more to your comment about Ahi than about Kimu. From what I've seen of Yumiko the last year she is doing very well and not exactly looking like she would be passed over by anyone.

What, plans for Chie, nah ... ;-)

[muffin-song.livejournal.com]

*grins in an evil manner* I've been hoping for Kimu to be Kiriyan's nibante for a while now. I feel like she has the right energy for tsuki, and I love the idea of yet another future top star being a former Lucheni.

Poor Ahi isn't even being treated like a sanbante.

I'm wondering if we're going to see some transfer announcements with the 2009 schedule...

[caithion.livejournal.com]

I just... really can't see it. I guess I'm really not very familiar with Kimu, all things considered, but it seems like a very odd match to me.

I don't know about Ahi. I feel like there's certainly still time. How do you feel she's being mistreated?

I'm always excited for transfer announcements! Maybe soon, or maybe for next winter?