I'm back, if anyone cares to know that =P
Here's a cute Nacchi photo so you can't say this post is completely useless:
(Henkka, does this photo remember you of anything?)
07/04/2008
Hey there!
06/06/2008
05/14/2008
05/12/2008
Ojamarushe Intros (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KONKON!! - Part 2)
Today I'm sharing some videos I chose from good old H!M News segments. These were taken from a period when the segment was called Hello! Pro Wide and included the obligatory Yuuko (sometimes other people got most of the spotlight - like Kamei - but Yuuko will always be the best part of this segment for me), Ogawa and Konkon. Ogawa was the one who read the news (announcements of H!P products), Yuuko commented on them and Konkon was the reporter, supposed to interview whoever's merchandise was being announced. But for this post, I've decided to choose the best Ojamarushe (the name of the character Konkon plays in this segment) introductions from all the 40 and something episodes. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
Let's start...
I just had to put some extra scenes in this one... It's from three different episodes where she kept the same "rebellious high school girl". Love how the poor girl gets embarrassed. And I've thrown in an Ogawa introduction too, because it's awesome and it makes me laugh XD even Yuuko entered the mood... Here, this screams for a screencap.
Just look how happy Konkon is with her shiny new personalized uniform, with Ojamarushe Konno written, and how jealous Yuuko is as she says "Why are they putting so much effort in this?"
And to finish the three first places that are also coincidentally the three most unique costumes, here's the "Yakuza" or "bike gang member" costume, I'm not sure which would describe it better...
Konkon has some fun with filming equipments, and then goes visit Gocchin, whose 18th birthday was just some days before this show aired (2003.09.28)...
Cute <3
Poor girl T_T I admit I laughed though. Bad HarimaKenji... >_<
05/07/2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KONKON!
Konkon is now 21 years old, and I'll obviously use this chance to fill the blog with Konno-love. However, I'm having some problems with my connection right now, uploads are extremely slow... So instead of doing a single post like in all other birthdays, I'll make this in several parts, and put them up as I finish uploading. This first one is a selection of images I took from Hello! Online, since it's a small upload. But before that, some words about Konkon. Let me quote myself from my Morning Musume members ranking:
"Her being my favorite makes it difficult to write something about her... I like
Now, the images...
04/27/2008
04/22/2008
There's hope!
Those who gave up on Haromoni@ to avoid the boring streetwalking from the first episodes and the silly animal tricks from MouTube, this might be a good time to try it again. At least that's the feeling I get from this episode and the small preview of the next one. Why the optimism? Every segment on this one features a Morning Musume member. No random people and no animals. That makes me very happy. So much that I thought I'd upload some of the segments. Maybe I'll start reviewing Haromoni@ if it keeps up like this.
Then comes LinLin's segment... Well, not really, since it's a video of LinLin supposedly taken in secret by someone hidden inside a box or whatever, and the segment is presented by Aichan and the cabbage guy. It's a little experiment with emotions and a Chinese lesson at the same time, as it ponders the question: Would a Chinese person in Japan forget her current location and scream something in Chinese when confronted with a surprising and quite disgusting situation? Turns out the answer is "Yes", and then we see the cabbage guy and Aichan repeating what LinLin said sometimes, what I believe is the "Chinese lesson".
Screencaps don't make justice to this segment, so here's the video.
By the way, is it just me or is this episode the official introduction of the Pandatachi to classic H!M-style suffering? This LinLin segment is very much like those old H!M segment where they would be blindfolded and had to guess what a certain object was while screaming like crazy. Like this:
(someone, I think Yuuko, says in 00:13 "It's alive, be careful =P)
And while JunJun didn't have to go through any penalty game when she lost in the memory battle (something I'm sure would happen if this were H!M), she did cry, so I guess that count
There were some other stuff too, but the last interesting segment was this GakiKame one, with NG scenes from previous episodes. No comments on this one, since everyone should watch it. Really, if you haven't, go watch it.I'm always amazed when they do these things
And some Ai-chan screencaps to finish...
By the way, is it just me or is this episode the official introduction of the Pandatachi to classic H!M-style suffering? This LinLin segment is very much like those old H!M segment where they would be blindfolded and had to guess what a certain object was while screaming like crazy. Like this:
(someone, I think Yuuko, says in 00:13 "It's alive, be careful =P)
And while JunJun didn't have to go through any penalty game when she lost in the memory battle (something I'm sure would happen if this were H!M), she did cry, so I guess that count
Oh, about this last screencap... Although Ai-chan's segment was pretty boring, this was funny. When it ended, she looked quite disappointed, and then she said that: "I thought we had filmed a lot more..." Looks like her segment had some cuts =P maybe there's some good editor in there that noticed it wasn't good as the others? But still, it was better than Sayu's, which if anyone noticed, I didn't talk about. That's one segment that should end.
Long live this new member-only MouTube-style Haromoni@!
Long live this new member-only MouTube-style Haromoni@!
04/12/2008
Happy Birthday, Yossie!!
Today Yossie turns 23 \\(^o^)// I was thinking what I should do for her birthday, but I figured there are a lot of Yossie worship blogs out there that will already say what a great personality and leader she is, so why repeat everyone else? Let me be simple and sum everything up: I <3 Yossie
I had planned to post the H!M theater episode I subbed in here, but since I've already done that, I had to get creative and think of something else. Hum...
Childhood photos! How creative is that? Oh well, at least it fits with a birthday post. We've seen the current members' photos through Mikan, and then there were those Furusato versions with some other members, but there are a lot missing. Thankfully Yossie had these published in a PB. *tries to imagine baby Yuuko* o.o'
LOL, look at that the first photo o_o the caption just says "This is from the time of their musical Love Century", no word about the blackened teeth... Weird photoshop work or result of a bad scan?
And here she is looking more recent.
Also, I've uploaded 3 Yossie dance moments in H!M episodes..
First one also features Ogawa, second should be familiar to some (Yossie as John Travolta) since someone else had already uploaded to YouTube, third is Travolta again with Reina and Sayu =)
03/29/2008
Something to share...
Up until now I've only seen the first Hello! Morning Theater skits available online with subtitles: the "Until the Bus Comes" series translated by HPS. Unfortunately, as good as they were, that series was before the introduction of 2 of my favorite characters: the Yossie one you see in the screenshot up here and one from Ogawa that maybe I'll do something about in the future... Truth is, I don't know, there might be a video online somewhere with one of Yossie's appearances as the devil subtitled, but I can't find them. So, I supposed these videos don't exist, and I decided to make one.
Watch or download Hello! Morning Theater 2004-04-18, which I believe is the first appearance of this character, here. I'm not embedding it here because when I do so, the video gets a little smaller and the subtitles look ugly.
There were some sentences I didn't understand - one by Kamei, one by Yuuko and a quick talk between Yuuko and Yaguchi. I left them unsubbed. Actually, I've been hesitating to upload this video for a while because I didn't know those... But now I thought it was time to give up and post the way it is. If anyone gives me a translation of those sentences in the comments, I could finish it. So please help me =)
03/25/2008
Which MM Member Am I? x2
While I was reading some H!P blogs today, I came across two posts on semified's blog with results from two distinct "Which Morning Musume member are you?" quizzes she took. I decided to do it too, and I thought my results on the first one were pretty strange...
So, I'm Kamei... I don't know what to think of that. I was expecting Yossie or maybe Mikitty. Well, but Kamei on first place is still OK, the weird part is that Tanaka is after that. And then there's Koharu, what is she doing tied with Yossie? I don't like this quiz.
Still, there's no point in thinking too much about this because there were some questions I couldn't really answer. Like "You are a tomboy". Well, I'd have to be a girl to agree or disagree with this... In doubt, I answered in the middle. That's probably what made my Yossie rating end up lower than Kamei. Yeah, let's blame the quiz.
Oh, and loved how there's a "You have a tendency to grope your friends." in the quiz XD I miss Mikitty.
Then I tried the second one. It's more complete, I think everyone up to 6th gen is here. Results seem a lot better in this one, probably because it didn't have questions like "You like to eat meat" (that was probably what gave Reina a high score in the other one)
#1 Hitomi Yoshizawa
#2 Asami Konno
#3 Eri Kamei
#4 Kei Yasuda
#5 Aya Ishiguro
#6 Kaori Iida
#7 Makoto Ogawa
#8 Yuko Nakazawa
#9 Ai Takahashi
#10 Risa Niigaki
#11 Asuka Fukuda
#12 Nozomi Tsuji
#13 Sayumi Michishige
#14 Ai Kago
#15 Maki Goto
#16 Natsumi Abe
#17 Reina Tanaka
#18 Sayaka Ichii
#19 Mari Yaguchi
#20 Rika Ishikawa
#21 Miki Fujimoto
If anyone finds a Johnnys quiz like this, post it somewhere covered by intlwota so I'll see it ;)
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