1: おちんくん 2018/10/08(月) 15:41:20.88 0.net
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Sayashi Riho pretty much made the current H!P.
6: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 16:56:41.06 0.net
I only learned who Sayashi was and became a fan in 2018. Sayashi is the only idol I like, so I don’t quite even get the whole “oshi-hen” thing of idol culture.
13: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 17:26:05.46 0.net
>>6
I, too, discovered and became a fan of Sayashi in the fall of 2017. Up until then, the only H!P artist I’d properly listened to was Matsuura Aya. Sayashi’s appeal to me is how she just puts her everything into her performances — both in her singing as well as her dancing.
In the current Morning Musume, the person who feels the closest to that for me is Ishida Ayumi-chan, so I think I’ll remain a dedicated fan of hers until her graduation… because I don’t think Sayashi is ever going to make her return to the stage.
8: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 17:12:09.18 0.net
The king of idols. The ultimate form of the modern idol.
7: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 16:57:44.58 0.net
Her solo angle DVD’s are too expensive.
11: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 17:20:25.42 0.net
Yeah, Sayashi’s solo angle DVD’s are still the most expensive ones even to this day.
14: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 17:31:59.80 0.net
Her solo angles are all stupidly good.
They drag you by force to that Sayashi Swamp.
12: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 17:23:27.25 0.net
I really do consider myself fortunate for having been able to watch over Sayashi from her debut all the way to her graduation.
19: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 18:14:20.35 0.net
She was always so overwhelming live and yet if you took that one thing from her, she’d be completely hopeless. She’d always just be sleeping or falling over or eating all by herself.
But that’s what was so good about her.
4. カラフル名無しさん 2018年10月09日 11:13 ID:2jbF3R.B0
Negative Sayashi
Positive Michishige
20: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 18:15:14.85 0.net
Sayashi has the same personality as us otaku.
21: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 18:16:10.67 0.net
She was confident yet humble.
22: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 18:17:06.06 0.net
She was the fastest marathon runner of her grade in school.
24: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 18:18:24.85 0.net
Skills that went beyond that of idols.
Cuteness that went beyond that of humans.
A personality that wota could sympathize with.
She was someone who had all these traits in one package. A true miracle.
26: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 18:20:58.25 0.net
I liked how she would always be so serious about everything.
27: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 18:22:49.21 0.net
She’s a daddy’s girl.
32: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 18:59:19.40 0.net
Even Matsuko probably wouldn’t have come out as a fan had it not been for Sayashi.
38: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 20:32:11.53 0.net
Rather than Sayashi’s dancing it’s her talent for cuteness that’s amazing to me.
39: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 20:52:26.26 0.net
Honestly, I never thought much about her dancing. For me, it was that voice of hers — though I know that she herself didn’t feel the same.
40: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 21:46:06.27 0.net
I mean, when we’re talking about Sayashi and her performing…
There are simply better singers and dancers out there who she’d never win against.
But when it comes to her cuteness?
She seriously doesn’t lose even to like kittens or lesser pandas.
41: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 22:21:32.43 0.net
The personification of cuteness.
That’s Rihosshii.
22. カラフル名無しさん 2018年10月10日 19:52 ID:7HAax0Wt0
I used to think Sayashi was the center because of how skilled she was.
But I was wrong.
It was because she was a genius at being cute.
13. カラフル名無しさん 2018年10月09日 15:21 ID:2nuzvBI.0
I had a dream yesterday in which Sayashi made a comeback.
My dreams have been known to come true.
8. カラフル名無しさん 2018年10月09日 12:04 ID:KwWZDJbC0
Simply being good at singing and dancing won’t get you fans.
You also need charm to be able to amass fans.
And Sayashi? She was the embodiment of charm.
Henkka: In my mind, she was one of the most misunderstood members of the group. No one was a bigger critic of Sayashi Riho than she herself. But you’ll learn all about that in the next post…
Source: http://colorhello.blog.jp/archives/1072563252.html
I never understood the appeal of Sayashi. But that gif with the volleyball… I think I get it now.
I didn’t really like her at the beginning. Didn’t really hate her either. She was just there. You could tell she was acting like what she thought an idol should be for the camera, when scared, when surprised, when happy, or whatever. I mean, they all do that to some extent, she was just terrible at it. By the middle of her career, I think she kind of just gave up on it and was more herself. That’s when I started liking her.
Yes, exactly! That describes her in the first few years.
“19: 名無し募集中。。。 2018/10/08(月) 18:14:20.35 0.net
She was always so overwhelming live and yet if you took that one thing from her, she’d be completely hopeless. She’d always just be sleeping or falling over or eating all by herself.
But that’s what was so good about her.”
This comment right here perfectly explains the Idol that Sayashi Riho was. She was an absolute monster on stage, that combination of singing, dancing, looks, confidence and just overall idol aura backed her stature as the absolute center of Morning Musume. Yet offstage she was completely hopeless as a functional teenager lol, the only things she were good at were sleeping and eating. She couldn’t even light a lighter and somehow managed to kill a cactus she was raising.
P.S. Kamozaland
Man, you’re right on the money. When I was translating this thread, that was the comment that to me felt like the one that best sums up this girl. At the risk of putting words in people’s mouths, I do feel like a lot of Western fans seemed to think Sayashi Riho was this stuck-up bitch type who was stealing the spotlight from all the members who were more deserving of it. And to be completely honest, I kind of used to buy into that thought as well — it’s so easy to go along with what everyone thinks, you know? It was really only when I translated the first part of Loitering (which was heavily focused on Sayashi) that I went… “Oh shit. Oh fuck…”
I already said this in my thing above, but Sayashi Riho was the biggest Sayashi Riho critic that there ever was. You think you hated Sayashi’s singing or whatever? Pssh! That young woman fucking tormented herself for her inadequacy.
Sayashi Riho was as good at performing as she was at finding fault within herself.
As someone who watched the 9th gen closely since the beginning, I was never able to like Riho again since uStream Musume… I was a massive fan of her before the first episode aired since she just came off as so cool and skilled in the auditions and Bijo Gaku, which she was of course, but it immediately became obvious the kind of person Riho had developed into in that actor’s school. Riho definitely wasn’t the type to make friends easily since her awkwardness often had her behaving in a way that could be misconstrued as bullying. I really like to root for the underdogs so being an Eripon fan was fate and seeing Riho copy some of Erina’s cute KY mannerisms for laughs rubbed me the wrong way. The more that I watched her the more it seemed that Riho didn’t have much personality herself so she’d mimicked the others like trying the mannerisms on for size. I think it had taken Riho a long time to come to understand her character within the group because she was always so very conscientious.
Sayumi is my ultimate idol so i’m really surprised when I watched my 1st and only Morning Musume concert(MM14) when 50% of my attention goes to Sayashi Riho. Seriously. RIHO IS SO GOOD. Like black hole. Just can’t help but watch her performance.
After watching YT vidoes I decided that Riho is real life anime girl.
Riho was boring, untalented, and ugly just like most of the rest of the new gens in mm
Oh man, you do deserve all your thumbs down.
Yes, riho circlejerk thread, fun-o
*looks at all the down-votes*
Pretty much…
Thanks so much for these threads. I came into the fandom right as she was leaving, so I never got to pay attention to her, I suppose I can go back and watch those old concerts!
No hate on Riho, but I don’t get all of this praise at all… She just never was an idol I was immediately drawn to in any way, I think there are better performers and cuter girls. I mean, it’s okay if people like her, everyone deserves their fans but saying all of this? Cannot comprehend it. Those gifs are cute tho.