Matsui Jurina International Fans’ Support Project is Complete! (and sent)

Stuff happened, some unexpected delays took place, but I finally sent the finished album yesterday. With some luck it will arrive by the end of the week! People asked for pics of the finished thing and I said I’d post them, so here you go (only took a few ’cause I had to rush to [...]

[Update] Extending the deadline for the Matsui Jurina International Fans Support Project

Yep, just as the title says, I’m just writing this post to inform that I’m extending the date for the submissions. I figured some people might have been away on Easter holidays and whatnot, plus Aki-P’s post about giving Jurina an indefinite rest makes me think there’s probably no need to rush (I do wonder [...]

Matsui Jurina International Fans Welcome Back Project

So I got this crazy idea earlier today, after knowing about Jurina’s admittance to the hospital. The basic idea is to send her “welcome back” messages once she’s discharged from the hospital. I originally thought of “get well soon” messages, but we wouldn’t want to put any more pressure on her would we? (And anyway [...]

[Translation] Shinoda Mariko’s letter to Jurina + Jurina’s speech during her seitansai

Translated from this video Letter: One day, suddenly, when the 11 year old you appeared from Nagoya as an Oogoe Diamond senbatsu, to be honest we didn’t know what to do. But despite you being just a kid, you hated losing, and desperately caught up with us without voicing a single complaint. The truth is [...]

Matsui Jurina Wiki – Part 4 [2009]

Original. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. *March, 16 1st generation members get selected, SKE48′s first “Team S” is formed. She started performing at the theater as a Team S member thereon. *March 4th, she was selected again into AKB48′s 11th single “10nen Zakura” senbatsu. Since then, she was selected as a senbatsu member for [...]