Salute to Saitama Super Arena, Part 2

Massive Saitama Super Arena is not quite as intimate as the smaller Yokohama Arena, but remains a spectacular venue for Hello Project's grand joint concerts. (Photo ©2008 by G.A. Carroll)

This is the second of a two-part minisalute to spectacular Saitama Super Arena, located in the northern suburbs of Tokyo, Japan. This blogsite will only allow four or five links per blog (I'm not complaining, though!); hence, this two-parter.

°C-ute's Saki fronts H!P's grand rendition of "Jump!" during the July 29, 2007 extravaganze at Saitama Super Arena.

However, it's worth it to get all this in. Saitama is a Morning Musume shrine, as many a Momusu concert have been staged there. But to many J-pop followers, Saitama is ground zero -- along with Yokohama Arena -- for the huge, logistically staggering H!P epics that are now conducted regularly twice a year, in late January and late July.

Miyabi of Berryz Kobo fronts the second group during "Jump!" Note Saki's group, background right. Separate groups often coordinate numbers while performing football-fields apart in Saitama.

These images are among those showing the whole gamut of Hello Project units participating in "Jump!" which was an inspiring, energy-packed hit °C-ute song throughout all of 2007.

Melon Kinenbi, a long-time unit of Hello Project, rocks during "Jump!" MK has been together since 2000.

This Radicalipton signing off -- for now.