Buono! [2008 / Music Videos]

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Before Baby Metal there was Buono!(who admittedly were never nearly as huge as Baby Metal) a pop punk-inspired J-pop group I fell in love with waaaaaaaaaay back in 2008 and I've occasionally gone back to when I need a pick me up.

My 3 favorite videos:







The three performers are Airi Suzuki (youngest), Miyabi Natsuyaki(middle), and Momoko Tsugunaga(oldest), and they were around 14-16 when the group began. Miyabi and Momoko were from a goofy/up beat group called Berryz Koubo and Airi Suzuki was from a more cool/serious group ℃-ute who were both under the umbrella of Hello Project, an idol agency that was absolutely enormous in Japan in the late 90s and early 2000s, but were ultimately surpassed by Akb48 in the later part of the decade.

I actually ran a (non-monetized)Hello Project clip channel on YT back then where I clipped short meme-able/cute moments from their shows/dvd magazines/etc, but the (imo) backward-thinking company behind the groups was notoriously hardcore for hunting down fan channels and it was ultimately perma-banned.

Anyway, just wanted to share a group I loved, I actually still have all three of their photobooks stored somewhere around my house.