Sugai Yuuka at Saturday's handshake event...and afterward with Tom

At Saturday's handshake event in Yokohama, a fan gave Yukka a great flower arrangement based on sunflowers:

She took it home for her famous cat Tom to enjoy, too:

Moriya Akane goes full-on cat costume at handshake event

Moriya Akane did the Saturday handshake event in full neko mode, featuring both cat ears and cat paws:

 

My favorite photos:

Imaizumi Yui's brother lines up to shake hands with Suzumoto Miyu

In her blog, Zuumin says it seems that her brother lined up at the handshake event on Saturday to shake hands with Suzumoto Miyu.

Zuumin (left) and Miyu-chan, at the handshake event.

 Zuumin thanks Miyu-chan for doing it, lol.

The handshake event was in Yokohama, which is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, where the Imaizumis live.

Imaizumi Yui quashes a rumour

A tweeter claimed Saturday that he and Imaizumi Yui talked at that day's Yokohama handshake event about communicating by text-message.

Apparently alerted by staff, Zuumin immediately blogged that it was not true and more or less threatened to stop doing handshake events if this kind of false claim continued to be made.

The tweets claimed that in two visits to her line on Saturday, he gave her his handle and they talked about texting each other. She replied in her blog that it never happened. She said the report shocked and saddened her, and apologized to her fans for it.

Age-chart of Members in Nogizaka46 and Keyakizaka46

Keyakizaka46 members are generally younger than Nogizaka46 members, but there is a lot of overlap between the two groups -- as well as between generations of each group.

Sugai Yuuka (K46) is a month older than Ikoma Rina (N46). Nagahama Neru (K46) is only a month younger than Saitou Asuka (N46).

I found a chart on a Japanese site that made all this visually clear and have created a romanized version of it, for the information of anyone interested. Click here or on the image below to go to the chart.

More on Nijika's Corpse Party

Ishimori Nijika says more in her blog today about her role in the film Corpse Party: Book of Shadows.

She thanks Ikoma Rina over and over again for being so nice to her, and with a smiling face helping her to relax:

She thanks model, talent and actress Maeda Nozomi, who plays her sister in the film. She praised Maeda-san's acting and said she learned a lot about breathing from her:

Does Kobayashi Yui read 2channel?

In her blog today, Yui-pon refers to the two weeks during which the Keyakitte, Kakenai? TV show has been bumped for tennis as a "Keyaki deficiency" (欅不足 keyaki fusoku).

This expression comes from 2channel, but is widely seen on Keyaki news sites. So using it doesn't prove she reads 2channel, but maybe.... I wouldn't put it past her.

But an idol has to be mentally strong to read 2channel, where she could easily come across some pretty nasty stuff about her (not in Yui-pon's case so far, though, as far as I have seen).