Petit Best (Pucchi Best) 9 DVD

I believe this is the first Petit Best collection where the "Elder Club" performers are overshadowed by Hello! Project's younger girls. There are only five videos out of the 14 with Elder Club performers in them: "Nanni mo Iwazu ni I Love You," by Biyuden; Aya Matsuura's "Kizuna" solo video; Ongaku Gatas' "Come Together," which is, in itself, heavily weighted with former H!P Eggs; "16sai no Koi Nante," Nacchi's duet with C-ute's Maimi Yajima; and a clip of Melon Kinenbi live on stage doing "Charisma, Kirei." Of those five, there are only three that are exclusively Elder Club--the Biyuden and Aya videos and the Melon Kinenbi stage clip, which shouldn't really count, since it's not a video, just a performance clip. And of the five, only the Ongaku Gatas video is among the best in the collection. I like Aya's song and performance very much, but the video has no imagination whatsoever. I should point out that the Nacchi/Maimi video here is different from the one for the same song that's included on the Special Units Mega Best DVD. Also, a different Nacchi/Maimi song is included on the Petit Best 9 CD and not this one. Morning Musume is represented by one video, the main video for "Resonant Blue," which is basically a dance shot version and the best of the three or four versions of that video they did. MM members are in four other videos in this collection, but two of them are Koharu's anime-themed videos and another finds Risa and Aika with two C-ute members in another anime promo video. My favorite pieces out of the 14 are the first three: "Resonant Blue" by MM; Berryz Kobo's "Mongolian Dance Shot Ver." of the "Dschinghis Khan" video; and C-ute's "Edo no Temari Uta II." MilkyWay's "Anataboshi" is very catchy and has some nice dancing by Koharu and her two partners, Sayaka Kitahara and Yuu Kikkawa. Buono's "Renai Rider" is a lot of fun, too, and gives us Airi from C-ute and Momoko and Miyabi from Berryz. The Ongaku Gatas video has great dancing and nice costumes, plus it gives us Yossi and Rika. Finally, High-King's "C/C Cinderella/Complex" is worth singling out for the cool red-and-black costumes and the chance to see two of H!P's best dancers, Ai Takahashi and Saki Shimizu, in one video, along with C-ute's Maimi, MM's Reina and an H!P Egg. You may want to get the Petit Best 9 CD as well--it has three more tracks than the DVD, including a Miki Fujimoto solo.