1: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/09/06(日) 08:55:43.26 0.net
Please tell me which group (or member) will make me the happiest.
3: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/09/06(日) 08:57:34.83 0.net
I don’t think you can go wrong with JJ.
4: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/09/06(日) 08:58:08.67 0.net
The group just oozing with euphoria: Country Girls!!
8: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/09/06(日) 08:59:29.80 0.net
You rarely get any bad interactions with 15 and JJ.
9: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/09/06(日) 08:59:50.80 0.net
Fukuda Kanon (also known as Maro).
Hey guys.
I felt like it was about time I posted an update. I know some of you don’t follow the site on Twitter or Facebook but choose instead to check on updates the old-fashioned way (though at this point I can only hope not many of you continue to do so daily). A majority of you must be wondering if I’m just lazing around with Wota in Translation, if I still have plans for it, or if I’ve forgotten about it altogether. The answer to all three questions is “no.“
I used to have a personal blog. Five years ago or so I made a post on it, titled along the lines of “I’m not a fan of idol music — I’m a fan of Tsunku music.” More recently, I translated a thread on this site that posed the question “would you still be an H!P wota if Tsunku quit as their producer?” It’s been a while, so I genuinely did not remember how I’d answered the question myself. But the other day — in light of recent news — I had a look.
This is what I said on the matter back in February of 2014.
Henkka: As for me? While a wota is something I am not, I’m quite confident my interest in Hello! Project without Tsunku would fade very quickly.
I’m sure you’ve all heard the news by now. Tsunku has stepped down as the producer of Hello! Project as of October 2014, but this information was only made public earlier this month. Looking back, my initial reaction to this now seems a bit cold and uninterested, as if I was saying “meh.“
My 2¢ on this news: it's not really news at all. We all noticed the lack of "Produced by Tsunku" on CD covers & concert VTRs this past year.
— Wota in Translation (@wotatranslation) September 9, 2015
But believe me: I don’t feel the least bit indifferent.
1: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/02/08(日) 16:14:41.67 0.net
Which one do you guys like the best?
2: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/02/08(日) 16:15:11.76 0.net
Taiki Bansei.
4: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/02/08(日) 16:15:38.82 0.net
All of them, but The Matenrou Show the most.
9: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/02/08(日) 16:18:45.22 0.net
I’ve got to say I love Romance no Tochuu the best, though I do like the other two as well.
14: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/02/08(日) 16:20:24.91 0.net
The H!P funk showdown.
1: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/05/06(水) 10:51:47.94 0.net
There’s just something comforting to me about the office and I don’t even know why. (laughs) Like, Kobushi Factory and Tsubaki Factory are both such stupid names, but at the same time they’re so “Up-Front-like” that it just makes me smile. Admit it: you guys actually feel the same way, don’t you?
6: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/05/06(水) 10:55:58.34 0.net
I can appreciate how firm they are in their stance of not forcing the members do anything vulgar.
9: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/05/06(水) 10:57:38.22 0.net
It’s only natural that a talent agency would promote girls who can make them money, but the amazing thing about Up-Front is how they keep pushing girls who won’t sell — I mean, the type of girl anyone could have one look at and just instinctively know she’s never going to be popular. They must be rolling in money.
114: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/05/06(水) 12:00:33.02 0.net
Yeah. No matter how much name value you have, if you stop drawing people, you’re thrown out. That’s the way every talent agency works — aside from Up-Front.
7: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/05/06(水) 10:56:04.76 0.net
I like the mutual trust we have with them; how we both know that we’ll remain loyal fans no matter how badly they look down upon us.
10: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/06/07(日) 20:11:28.74 0.net
The air around her is just so cute.
16: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/06/07(日) 20:13:22.50 0.net
I’m a woman but I love her, too. I went to their Fukuoka event mainly just to see Uta-chan, but Inaba-chan really melted my heart.
17: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/06/07(日) 20:14:44.24 0.net
I liked her hair arrangement corner. I’ve known about her since she was a Kenshuusei and I remember her always doing her best.
18: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/06/07(日) 20:14:49.86 0.net
The fact that she got to do two of them in such a short period of time means the feedback to her must’ve been really positive.
25: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/06/07(日) 20:19:47.33 0.net
It’s great how she’s both extremely girly, and yet, her dancing is on the level of H!P’s elite, right up there with the likes of Sayashi.
1: 名無し募集中。。。2015/06/14(日) 20:38:21.78 0.net
And if so, how many times would you press it?
By the way, this is what would happen to Fuku-chan:
1 press: her face becomes puffy
10 presses: she is forced to step down as the leader
20 presses: she is forced to quit Momusu
30 presses: she retires from the world of show business
That’s how it’d continue to escalate.
13: 名無し募集中。。。2015/06/14(日) 20:41:11.52 0.net
What I would want to see is Fuku-chan herself making the choice to press the button — for us. It would make history.
2: 名無し募集中。。。2015/06/14(日) 20:39:04.12 0.net
What is up with such a dangerous button?!
Better let the most grown-up member, Iikubo-san, take good care of it.
5: 名無し募集中。。。2015/06/14(日) 20:39:42.64 0.net
I love Fuku-chan, so, yeah.
I’m only going to press the button around a thousand times.
6: 名無し募集中。。。2015/06/14(日) 20:39:54.75 0.net
I’m so sorry, Fuku-chan…
(hits button repeatedly)
1: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/04/27(月) 18:54:39.61 0.net
Ten years ago it was all guys. Back then all you heard concerning women + H!P was like that episode of the waitress at a restaurant publicly posting on her mixi about how disgusting she thought all the wota customers at work were.
2: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/04/27(月) 18:56:16.77 0.net
I think it was definitely in large part thanks to them uploading so much material on YouTube. Young girls nowadays don’t watch any TV, they just sit in their rooms watching YouTube on their smartphones.
5: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/04/27(月) 19:00:43.87 0.net
I remember laughing about how they called us all “kibonnu.”
3: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/04/27(月) 18:58:36.34 0.net
Ten years ago I attended a handshake event for v-u-den’s Ajisai, and only about 20 of the 1200 people there were girls.
22: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/04/27(月) 19:05:51.08 0.net
There’s no one left to deny that there really are more female wota nowadays, right? I mean, can we all agree on this point now?
23: 名無し募集中。。。 2015/04/27(月) 19:06:13.22 0.net
>>22
There most definitely are more female wota now.
