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'Up to Boy' Vol. 185

°C-ute appears all grown up in this 'Up to Boy' layout graciously supplied via a nice Hello! Blog scan.

YO's rating: A | Paul is always adept at digging up all this material and turns out a wonderful, visual analysis that is, in this case, enrapturing. It appears than much more than mere photobooks exist detailing the fashion sense and breathtaking photogenic caliber of Hello Project's units. Yes, Hello! Blog has done it again with a splendid report. Though not a big backer of photobooks, we still feel these magazines offer a much more palatable set of photos and, hopefully, informative text, unless one is as weak in Kanji as we are. This kind of lavish treatment, however, does little to lessen the impression that all the Hello Project units are over-commercialized. "Up to Boy," from the samples Paul presents, is an eyeful graphically, a keeper to be sure!

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